I am so sorry. Awful.

This is the same as Oxbridge cf pretty much everywhere else in the UK

A book talk we'd all go forth to... 🤣😂🤣 #Egyptology

A very good thread about aspects of being a woman...

1/6 🧵The Pope has put his finger on Trump’s greatest weakness on foreign policy. With his narcissistic delusion of omnipotence, he doesn’t understand how Great Powers maintain hegemony. Along with Hegseth he thinks it’s all a matter of brute force. Alliances, diplomacy & soft power are ‘woke’.

🏺🦴💀🧪

👉 Deadline approaching!

Funded PhD position in The Netherlands on medieval representations of disability

Absolutely.

A sobering read

A poster for free girls taster cricket session at Sparsholt SO21 2LU on Saturday 25 April With pictures of women & girls playing cricket Primary age girls 2-3:30pm Secondary age girls 3:30-5pm Contact me for info

#Winchester people! We're running a free taster session for women and girls to try cricket 🏏 Lots of fun (and cake) to be had! Saturday 25 April at Sparsholt Cricket Club. Places are limited so book on tinyurl.com/girlscricket...
#cricket #thisgirlcan #girlscricket #TrySomethingNew

Ah, Saints as in Southampton Football Club - our local team.

Yeaaaah! Very happy son here! And I'm happy for him too. #Saints

🏺 Lithics people...! Help needed here.

Management consultants are ruining UK universities Relentless off-the-peg commercial rewiring has undermined British higher education

It's me in the Financial Times, detailing the deep and pernicious influence of one-size-fits-all management consultancy in our universities... Take a look! 👇
www.ft.com/content/5032...

Awesome! Can't wait for that!

I had missed that. Great to hear. Will have to sort out family logistics. Thank you.

Gutted you're not headed Hampshire-wards...

Donald Trump's Calendar of Chaos A monthly cycle of inevitable consequences

New Substack from me about Donald Trump's 'Calendar of Chaos'. I just looked at my calendar and apparently it's still only March, despite Trump having created a decade's worth of chaos since Jan 1st. This post walks us through the rest of the year 1/n

benansell.substack.com/p/donald-tru...

Am not an energy analyst but why does seem every interview with a U.K. minister this week included a pointed question about why not drilling more in North Sea and almost none about renewables/net zero as an energy security imperative?

It’s bizarre, frankly

Madeleine Sumption (MAC) highlighted something that is largely missing from the UK media + political debate.

The most likely reason why claims are going down in Europe & going up in the UK is that asylum seekers can't now make a second claim in another EU country - but the UK is outside that

Vaccination

Harmful anachronism: World Athletics reinstates gene testing to participate in women’s competitions In advance of the 2025 World Athletics Championships in Tokyo, World Athletics (WA) announced that passing a genetic test, specifically for the absence of the SRY gene, is a prerequisite for competing...

Here is the British Journal of Sports Medicine's consensus statement after the World Athletics announcement: a "harmful anachronism" bjsm.bmj.com/content/60/7...

Where in Queens? Some is well connected by train... but TBF, we tend to stay with the family in town, or at least Long Island City, and only occasionally venture beyond Flushing (and definitely only when full of Chinese food!)

Good luck with that!

Wish I could join in person. I am definitely there in spirit. #together_alliance

Think everyone I know is trying to work out their next career or how to cut their current living costs so that they might be able to survive financially if they retire/give up early (or TBH are made redundant)

I was going to start and run and hands on museum for kids

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How Trump revealed Iran holds all the cards in the war he started | The News Agents Donald Trump says successful peace talks were held between the US, Israel and Iran. The only problem with his claim is that no one else seems to have any knowledge of them…

"We are dealing with a guy in severe cognitive decline who doesn't make sense from one moment to another"

Trump says "in-depth" peace talks with Iran were a success. The problem is that no one else seems to have any knowledge of them taking place.

www.thenewsagents.co.uk/article/how-...

Awesome! Those sound great.