In considering how rich families try to control who their progeny marry, I found it interesting to see if this mapped on to Pride and Prejudice<>/cite> at all. Only if if you stretch things quite a lot. “Darcy” and “Elizabeth” are already together at the start, after all.

It’s a fun enough romp if you don’t mind the fantastical displays of fabulous wealth. Interesting too, to see Michelle Yeoh as a controlling mother rather than a kickass starship captain.

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I just got a text from the government about the new regime. I assume everyone did. I didn’t know they could do that. It just has this link.

Oh, here’s The Guardian talking about the government’s mass text:

UK mobile firms asked to alert Britons to heed coronavirus lockdown

As I imagined, it’s not like there’s a massive database with everyone’s numbers. They just asked the operators to send it to all their customers.