I can take many personal insults but I will not stand for being called a yank

"get beyond being in hock to the bond markets" is genuinely disqualifying stuff from Burnham

2 hours in the same room as freshers and I contract TB (a sore throat)

I've been to ONE lecture with students and I'm already ill

The "negotiations" in question

Political Science B.A. @InternetHippo (realizing I was wrong) Perhaps I was right in a new and unusual way

tenured academics writing their second/third/fourth books be like:

"making efforts" is an enormously load bearing phrase given that clean water in the occupied Donbas has been a problem since 2014

It might be a skill in the sense that I've definitely failed at it before. But that might just be my obsession with "use by"/"best before" dates. I sometimes get home and find that what I thought was a 5-6 day shop was, due to the dates, only a 3-4 day shop.

Journalists need to get on board with solving the housing crisis If we can’t build 170 houses in Flitwick without a media freakout, what’s the point?

I wrote something about those houses being built in Flitwick that made it to the Telegraph last weekend. Rage is a great antidote to writer's block, it seems. I'll write something Classics-related soon...

He's also a regular Spectator contributor (admittedly only in the Life section)

Now, if only I could wrangle some research connection to help me along

Canada has risen massively in my list of hopeful holiday destinations. I'd either like to see the Toronto IndyCar race or drive the length and breadth of Nova Scotia

Corbyn when there's an opportunity to make Labour lose another election:

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A group of over 30 MPs have written to the EHRC with their concerns about the draft code of practice and the consultation period.

Names of signatories in the thread below - if they’re your MP, send them a thank you message!

Thank you! I certainly will!

Upgrade? Passed! Now to replace the fear of failing the upgrade with the fear of actually doing the rest of the PhD

I'd question their definition of "splitting the bag" nowadays - especially in London

A source has just given me this photograph depicting Elon Musk stepping out onto the balcony of the SpaceX launch center.

please explain

One word review of the most recent arc? "phwoar"

It's a mixture of impressing my parents by pointing them out and then bonding over Cambridge winning (they're both alumni)

>bonds, stocks, oil, and crypto are all now tanking at the same time now

"Why would they want to absorb Ukraine," man asks as Russia marks 3 years since launching a war to annex portions of Ukraine

Olaf Scholz mocked British railways over “broken tracks and bad trains”, claiming that "nothing works any more” in the UK. Turns out: Germany rail problems have become so bad that Deutsche Bahn long-distance service is less punctual than even the worst operator in Britain. www.ft.com/content/d3b6...

UK housing market debt falls as older generations pay off mortgages Fewer first time buyers have been able to get on housing ladder, Savills data shows

"We must never repeat the mistakes of the 2008 financial crisis"
"No new homeowners, got it"
"wait"
"got it"

russia invading a country and getting what it wanted is a huge banner on the international arena reading ‘NUKES WORK! GET NUKES’

One of the first gigs I went to was to see Ichiko Aoba in the basement of a Turkish restaurant in North London in 2019. We all (maybe about 30 people) sat on the floor and listened in complete silence. Sad to miss out on the Barbican :(