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Posts by dr joshua phillips

All Starmer needs is the ankle-grazing trousers

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iirc, this is just a reheated Sunak policy and it was just as unworkable when it was painted blue

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no Cloudflare, I'm not a malicious bot, I'm just a big old nerd who's crawling his way through 200 items from an online finding aid by hand and transcribing them for big old nerd purposes.

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saving up my Tesco clubcard points for a family trip to World of Lentils

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All British universities are connected by a series of underground pneumatic pipes.

These lead to a vast catering centre beneath Bradford that churns out questionable sandwiches for distribution to conferences and meetings up and down the nation.

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Speaking as a professional homework-doer in a profession of people who enjoyed their GCSE coursework so much that they never stopped, it’s too much homework.

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I always bring something, never manage to actually read it because of the aforementioned pelting, sweating and swearing, no matter how early I try to get there.

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Counterpoint: I always try to get to the airport early but circumstances always, ALWAYS conspire to see me pelting through the terminal, sweating and swearing and barely making my flight. Always.

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Today was the day that Kier Starmer truly because Prime Minister

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yer maw and yer da at Parents' Evening

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Don't be shy to take on a little two-week side project. These five months will be the most precious three years of your academic journey.

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They had someone who could work with Trump already! Karen Pierce was an actual diplomat who'd been in post for years and Trump 2.0 actually requested that she stay on!

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Hey Siri, what is chutzpah?

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Most of the people who *teach* at universities steer clear. The constituency for these talks is edgelord Debate Bros and their professional contrarian funders.

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I am shocked, shocked, to find that the obvious wrong’uns were in fact wrong’uns

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a cartoon of homer simpson talking on a phone with mr. simpson saying is it about my cube Alt: a cartoon of homer simpson talking on a phone with mr. Burns saying is it about my cube
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Now we shall be free.

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I’ll do it for 1750

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I give it ten minutes before this gets hacked and all requests for a flat white get met with a barrage of 8chan-level white supremacist memes.

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😬😬😬

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'We've found a duffel bag making a suspicious ticking sound but don't want to alarm passengers'

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And here I thought the public yearned for glue pizza.

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How about orrery making instead?

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Feel the rhythm!
Feel the rhyme!
Get on up, its Beowulf time!

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Tired: Conference bios
Inspired: Conference walk-on music

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Strongly worded letter time???

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That's an absolute steal, especially considering it's the Easter hols.

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More the latter. I imagine he's probably very competent at following a brief, and the cab rank principle ensures that you just take the first brief provided you regardless of your personal feelings about it – which isn't a very good trait in frontbench politicians

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I guess the cab-rank rule can absolve you of the need to actually have convictions and act accordingly.

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For me it's the roundabouts and giant concrete cows

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