HeyJaredThe Stiff Upper Lip
English life and culture through the eyes of two Dutch journalists. Patrick van IJzendoorn en Joost van Mierlo are correspondents for Dutch media, living in the UK. This is the English translation of their substack, De Stijve Bovenlip.
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The Prime Minister (opens the original)
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It has been one hundred and fifty years since The Prime Minister was published, the fifth book in the six-part Palliser series by Anthony Trollope. I wandered past my bookcase and discovered that I own three copies of the book, although one of them was bought by my wife.<source ty
Punch Tavern (opens the original)
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The Punch Tavern, a pub on Fleet Street, has always captured my imagination. Not enough to actually step inside, but almost always with the intention in my head to do so soon.<img alt="" class="sizing-normal" height="736" src="https://substackcdn.com/ima
The most polite sculpture (opens the original)
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I would like to apologize to Prince Albert. I must have met him dozens of times in recent years, while he greets me, sitting high on his horse at Holborn Circus, with a tip of his hat. I have ignored him all this time. Not consciously, I simply haven’t seen him all these years. Apparently I was too busy with something that was more important than simply using my eyes.<a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!3zEk!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive
A Stubborn Castle (opens the original)
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A friend of mine has two stickers on the back of her Tesla: one from English Heritage and one from the National Trust. These two heritage foundations have millions of members, more than political parties. When asked about the difference between the two, she gave a simple answer: 'If it's a ruin,' she said with a laugh, 'it's probably from English Heritage'.<a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!wSFi!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/http
The punk of British journalism (opens the original)
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Fifteen years ago, Rod Liddle, the renowned journalist who died on Sunday at the age of 66, put on a fluorescent yellow vest. In this outfit, he began telling people on the street in an authoritarian manner where they were and were not allowed to walk. Virtually everyone obeyed. Liddle wrote about this experiment in The Sunday Times . ‘It has become a symbol of sham authority,’ he wrote. ‘I find it utterly bizarre and depressing that people do what you say, as long as you are wearing a reflectiv
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