Why does she look like an archetype of the substitute teacher from hell

I subscribe to the @theguardian.com . Why does it feel the need to harass me with pleas for donations every time I click to on a news story on its website. How is this effective marketing

Is it that academia is dangerously underfunded?

it's hard not to think that the reason we are failing as a nation is down to the fact that the civil servants running the government are just not very bright

I hate to be a pedant but...

Oh I love the Gerloczy so much, it is the only place to stay

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I see montgomerie has been reading his Douthat

No, we can all agree that Matt Goodwin watching his sinecure end in real time is an objective good

It's all the hungarian islamists at it again

They have a very endearing in house band sometimes

Kacsa? Duck restaurant more than French, but it is amazing. There's also a great bistro in the Jewish quarter, will look it up. And the gellert is the best baths

the moment something is described as 'quietly' happening you know it's going to be vacuous bilge

But why?

How can you put these two quotes next to each other and claim one is a misquote

Is there a recording of the event/a related paper?

What is an elephant seal doing *down there*

Actual brain worms?!

do love how he is a walking repudiation of his own prejudice

Because catering to each person as a special snowflake ultimately reduces us to atoms occasionally bumping into each other and destroys society

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I am sympathetic to the Bingham side of things, but this is little more than a precis- calling it a speech is really rather aggrandising

pretend this was AI gone rogue and delete it, Ed

Daniel Hannan lost his mind some time ago

If I was Zak Asgard (who wrote that piece), I'd be having serious words with the headline writers

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He's perfected the sad daily mail eyes of utterly predictable tragedy

Mixed metaphors coupled with some botched ones for good measure

Great piece from @daniellalock.bsky.social on why the High Court was right to find that the Home Sec had gone beyond the government's own policy in proscribing Palestine Action

Incredibly i thought this was real for a moment