There's quite an interesting piece in the Guardian about it - basically, Eurosceptics have been growing in power, way more of the 2010 intake were sceptics, Cameron thought he had to hold a referendum to quiet them down, never thinking a) Tories would get a majority so Lib Dems wouldn't be there to shut this terrible…

I had someone on Facebook saying the same thing: 'I thought loads of intelligent people would come out and vote Remain, I didn't think voting Leave would actually matter'... words just fail me

Already behind France, so we're 6th. In a matter of hours. Morgan Stanley has said they're taking 2,000 jobs out of London. It's starting...

God I am so depressed. I can’t believe how starkly the country is divided. To look at the breakdown, young people, Scotland and London voted so overwhelmingly to remain, and Scotland will get a referendum and win it. I want London to cede but they obviously won’t. It’s so horrendous, this ugly campaign ending in such…

Yeah, echoed from the UK. I am mainly just really sad, and then relieved we don't do guns too

I’ve been listening to ‘You Must Remember This’ podcast’s series on Charles Manson (it’s v good you guys, I binged it all in about 3 days) and had no idea that part of his ideology was from Scientology. It’s given it an (even creepier) gloss for me!

This. My aunt has learning difficulties, and the whole ‘retarded’ thing is just not acceptable, or saying ‘I’m a bit bipolar today’ etc. People can say it’s just words, but it’s contributing to an entire culture, especially one that still struggles with and fails to appropriately support those with mental problems.

It’s like Samantha Brick (ridiculous click-bait idiot from this side of the pond who wrote in the Daily Mail about how she has no female friends because she’s too beautiful and they can’t stand it). She’s very plain, but clearly just went to the editor and was like ‘you watch the traffic you’ll get from this’. And it…

Nail on head. Teenage girl mentality, exactly. No one past 16 thinks it’s cool anymore

Yessssss especially the beauty box reviews, which I could read one after another for hours on end. Why oh why did it have to go...

Oh god absolutely. And I sort of hated myself for this weird spiral I got in of being like ‘this girl clearly needs some help what is going on’ and just hitting refresh and re-reading her articles multiple times. I think it’s the teenage girl lurking deep inside who still thinks this kind of thing is cool, around 2am…

This is true and I won’t say anything against it, but St. Ives specifically I thought used shell bits/other organic matter rather than microbeads?

GOMI is get off my internets, which is a site where they tear down popular bloggers who are disingenuous etc.

I thought that was Laurence Olivier on the set of Marathon Man

I just went to one at lunchtime. A dress made out of one piece of cotton; no tailoring, lining, difficultly in assembly, high quality material etc. - £85. It's completely unreasonable. I only shop there when the sales bring it back to sense - about 50% off

In a totally selfish way though, I'm happy the dad wasn't brought out, only because I'm watching this at work, and only thing I can't cope with more than little kids being separated from parents who are in the army is when they are reunited. I would be bawling right now in my open plan office

“This is not America's Next Top Best Friend"

And on top of that, you know, she assaulted someone but that's cool cos there was a 'billion dollars in the elevator', so shit is obv going to kick off right...

My friend’s sister diagnosed with lung cancer, my partner with bowel cancer. And these are people who are in their 20s! Can I echo your sentiment - fuck this fucking fuck of a year.

Thank you for writing this, and being much more eloquent than I could hope to be! It’s personally been a shit year for me too - partner diagnosed with cancer, the tone deaf responses making me feel even further from humanity sometimes. It’s weird, I never usually feel all special snowflake, but when people even do try…