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The British Doom Loop

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Ben Sixsmith
May 02, 2026
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There’s a kind of minstrel show that British people can perform — especially for Americans — where they talk as if you can’t set foot in the UK without being stabbed twenty times and converted to Islam. London, in this scenario, makes Mega-City One look like Tolkein’s Shire.

I don’t want to do this. Quite apart from being rooted in hyperbole, it is just …

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