There are currently 6 permanent full time history jobs in the whole UK. 500+ PhDs being produced a year - not all of whom will want to pursue an academic year but likely most, and of course years will stack up onto each other. What a sector.
There are a lot of reasons we need to stay up next season but Spurs (A) and the long awaited return of league Black Country derbies are two very good ones
New dream employer alert - the British Egg Industry Council. There's an office with an omelette bar
Protein/gym culture I suspect
It's incredible to see a PM working very hard to convince the voting public that he has not actually done anything wrong, he's /actually/ just bad at his job and that's fine
The blunt truth is that if Karen Pierce had been a man, then she would still be US ambassador now and Keir Starmer's government would not be on the brink of death.
The thing about the Mandelson scandal (Scandelson) is that it has been blindingly obvious since day one that Keir Starmer would not survive this to everyone except Keir Starmer.
Shout-out to the Crofter's Kitchen in Scourie who produce a phenomenal menu including a lobster thermidor loaded fries I think about most weeks
I yield, I yield
Fair cop - I guess I associate it moreso with Kinrosshire/Perthshire than I do with its actual place in Clackmannan hence my surprise, but that is ill placed surprise
Unrelatedly, it does my nut in that *Dollar* has a Labour MP
Intriguing intervention on the defence v welfare debate which is serious about what the welfare-side costs actually entail...
"If there is to be a true whole of society approach to defence, and younger people could be expected to die, what are older people willing to sacrifice?" is quite a question
One can only hope
Tottenham could feasibly be relegated to the National League before the next election!
There are times when it seems ACH actively resents being leader of the Lib Dems specifically
In the OfS' perfect near future there will be no universities (all of their funding will have collapsed) but every one will be legally obliged to host a gender critical speaker
Is the SNP's Goodlad candidate a relative of the author John Goodlad, written on histories of Shetland, Fish, Salt?
Free marketers sewing vs reaping
30k folk in for a national record. Rugby is Scotland's women's sport. (now for Scottish rugby to fund it as such)
Four ball carrier knock ons by Scotland isn't helping though
Kicks making the difference so far
Time to get serious now folks
I'm not NS cheerleader, but if you think all of her time as FM was a failure because she somehow cheated - as JC says she somehow "saw [Salmond] off" - your brain is absolutely cooked!
The thing that makes revisionism dangerous is that it warps your ability to process new information because you filter everything new that happens through a factually incorrect understanding of the universe and when the two inevitably clash you are forced to reject the evidence of your eyes!
No more powerful a drug than revisionism. GMS.
Banning U16s from social media is a spectacular example of how the simplest and least politically costly policy decision is often, also, the worst.
Also fascinating to see which workplaces get to be acronyms and what gets to be spelt out
Calling Patel's behaviour "erratic" in the same way Eden was "pretty interested" in Nasser
*smart voice* you see we simply can't threaten the tech platforms people use to foment race riots, they might run away scared. If that happened, where would people foment race riots?
How many more outbreaks of violence before the govt accepts that their fingers-in-ears strategy is not a sustainable response to tech companies cultivating communities which produce racist misinformation and incite riots for profit, and realise it is corrosive to society and putting lives at risk?