@jepyang
Sounds more pretentious than "devastating" or "astute". I hate it when people move the goalposts to justify everything as long it bashes what or who they dislike or comes from someone they adore.

"Ethnically mean-spirited" is a good description, however; but goes on the account of not just the author but 90s/00s Britain as well.

@ekes no idea what goalposts you think are being moved or what that would even mean in this context
@jepyang
The goalpost here is what qualifies as astute, devastating or even casual - just I described...
@ekes yeah, not sure that idiom means what you think it means?