“High Planes Titfer- A Transatlantic Straw Pole of Leavers” Part I I’ve got issues with inflight Panama hats wearers. In-airport wearers, too. The ‘leavers-on’ contingent also get on other peoples wicks, it seems. Written some notes to work through this resentment, & they’re up on TheRowStance.co.uk Link straight to it in bio of @therowstance “On a New York to London flight in business class sat a man in with a wooden spoon sort of face, wearing a large Panama hat. Plain yet distinct, his simple features looked like they were applied from an identikit. A small, straight slot mouth, & his fixed expression evoked a character from Camberwick Green, with faint smirk, spectacled-raisin eyes & dense, short eyebrows set just below the curled brim of his Panama, worn as confidently as a John Wayne wears his cowboy hat in True Grit.” “A decade has passed, but the spectacle of cabin hat pomposity remains vivid. Somehow a sun hat worn with such innate impudence illustrates the complete right of passage certain types feel. A sheer impunity from shame. In shirt-sleeves, club tie & slacks this Englishman was holding a small baby. Arms almost straight out in front as if suspiciously inspecting a submission on the The Antiques Roadshow, while displaying similar affections usually applied to reading a road map....“His aloof countenance struck me. Studiously blanking his struggling wife, harassed & wrestling three tantrumming toddlers, he remained oblivious to her struggles. She was hot & bothered, generally bedraggled & stressed, modesty abandoned due to practical nursing demands. He showed zero engagement with anything else on the plane. It was a showcase of self containment & thick-skinned composure, & no doubt a prerequisite of wearing a conspicuous sunhat on an aircraft. And in an airport. To not give a jot is the trick... “This high planes titfer was none other than the pantomime evil Tory MP, Jacob Rees Mogg. Lord Straw-Haw himself, sat bolt upright in his business class saddle with a massive homburg-like panama on his head holding his own baby with detatched distain. Behold the poster boy for the leavers campaign”... Full story @therowstance #panamahatexperiment