You jest, but…

giving it the big one to those losers Toibin, Saunders, Lanchester, what have they sold this week, eh?

I mean he's pretty good at automating stuff these days

that'll be his legendary attention to factual detail

That's 3 quid off the Toibin, Matt, you'd learn something

Someone a bit trigger happy with the sub head here

Oh Spurs, you do bring joy

I prophesized to save a man, but no one gave a damn
For my nation, the seed of Abraham
Blessed with the tongue of Hebrew
Now we're strung on needles and some are plunging evils
So study and be wise in these days of darkness
Peace to my nephew Marcus

At £1.35 a throw it's like seeing the Beatles reform to play the wedding of an oligarch's daughter

One of the worst things about an election in which the incumbent loses is that you then have a week or so of people using the word "ouster" wrongly on social media

a we-are-doing-something policy, perhaps?

bunch of posh gets

As someone who grew up in the north east of England in the 1990s, I find the countrywide reach of lips’n’arseholes purveyor Greggs morbidly fascinating. This was the stuff we thought you southerners could afford not to have to eat.

It's a wider CEE thing, I think. He and Romina Power turned up at Polish TV's most recent NYE concert to mime their way through "Felicita". This is also regular pension top-up time for the more orange of the Modern Talking guys.

Just the most execrable edgelordery

That opinion reads exactly like the sort of thing someone would write without asking anyone who belongs to those marginalised communities how they feel about the matter.

Also, tin ear.

Jimmy Glass-tastic

a man and a woman are standing outside of a house ALT: a man and a woman are standing outside of a house

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those white railings give St James' Park the air of an enormous communal zimmer frame

"Get your free Prince Polo!"

they've had it their own way for the last 15 years in Warsaw

massive communal barbecue on the riverfront, who loses?

Oh look, more reaping. Good.

Colm Tóibín

Also repeated by Jarosław Kaczyński when explaining his reasons for refusing to congratulate Magyar

Is the Postliberal International just a bunch of niche magazine columnists roaming Europe in search of the people with the money jar?

Probably ran out of tokens

If you’re a tenured scholar in a decently-paid post who can afford to invest the time and effort to make a decent job of a popularly-accessible version of your latest article, that’s great for you. But there are post-docs and junior scholars who could really use that money.

And the argument that academics are already getting paid by their institutions to write this stuff is increasingly tenuous as casualisation proceeds. A good proportion of academics “getting their ideas out there” are having to do so to try and get noticed for the next job.

We don’t write in a vacuum; we write in an economy where the idea of writing being something of value is eroded from both sides: by the expectation that writers pay bills with exposure and by the increasingly prevalent belief that there is something inherently objectionable about “paywalls”.