The tanker skippers are getting past the blockade with an FT subscription?

And it’s not hard to think of circumstances (eg Philby) where there’s a good case for appointing someone who is a security risk.

“Eat a financier!” would have sorted that.

Equine puns: just say neigh.

My podcast debut.

Could raise funds by selling tickets to its ceremonial destruction.

If you listen to this (excellent) programme on BBC Sounds, at the end you’ll hear a disconcerting news bulletin about a government resignation, from Rishi Sunak”s government!

I remember a distinguished professor (FBA no less) complaining that two visiting faculty were preaching free-market economics to “my students” and demanding they be taken off the course.

Especially since he doesn’t believe UK should produce its own vacuum cleaners.

Read, and admit you had to look up the meaning of “oneiric”

Very appropriate. Could have their office next door to the Adam Smith Professor.

“Eat Out to Help Out” was nicely placed in August to fuel the second wave.

With a soundtrack from a 1951 Rodgers and Hammerstein musical?

Plus (1) before Brexit English universities were happy to take EU students at (high!) UK tuition fees, (2) reducing EU fees from extortionate foreign level to merely high UK rate would help many universities to recruit students. But the “top” universities are cashing in.

A paradigmatic example of the mistaken prioritisation of “research” over teaching. Cross-subsidise research from student fees, and penalise academics who prioritise teaching.

Sussex VC warns of ‘profound consequences’ from study visa ban - Research Professional News Sasha Roseneil appeals to parliamentarians over suspension of visas for Afghanistan, Cameroon, Myanmar and Sudan

“Restricting access to UK universities for outstanding students from these countries risks undermining this legacy and diminishing the UK’s standing as a trusted partner in international development.” (Sasha Roseneil)

The 2010 Browne report advocated an academic threshold for access to fee loans but the Cameron government caved in to pressure from universities. (As well as disastrously departing from the central Browne recommendation of uncapped fees and uncapped numbers.)

A rebuke of Laski by Attlee comes to mind.

A bigger challenge?

Just needs a candidate called Angus Glen.

See also

See also

Another Louisiana purchase?

I like the idea of getting a priest to forcibly enrol him into the Catholic church. Confession might be quite prolonged.

Is there a connection with increased inequality in graduate salaries (high rewards in law, financial services, consulting; lower in public service, NHS, business) and heavy concentration of the high-paid jobs in London?

What does speeding up delays mean?

It was a v good occasion, though not quite a match for Toibin’s account of seminary life. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v3...

Also iPhones now on USB connector

It’s a very oddly worded statement in this and other respects!