Dr Jo Kershaw

Ooh!

Same pattern in UK polling. YouGov's last big poll on trans issues also indexed respondents' views on other social prejudices, and what do you know - pro-trans respondents were much more likely to recognise misogyny and see it as a problem, anti-trans respondents more likely to dismiss it!

I mean they let you have TVs in the DDR, even though they knew half the country was using them to watch West German programmes. And I’m not a big fan of the DDR!

I knew that, despite what is sometimes asserted, that Apartheid South Africa was not in fact an idyllic place to live even if you were at the top of the racial hierarchy, but today I learned they didn’t let you have a TV until 1975, and while that was hardly their greatest crime, ?!?!!

That would do it.

Yeah, fair.

It does, sadly

make me ready, Lord, for whatever

Robert Burns wrote some lovely nature poems and I’m sure meant them, but he still grabbed the first chance he got at work that wasn’t being a small farmer (and died young of a lung condition and rheumatic fever anyway)

That’s the thing, a lot of farm labour is just really hard on the body where it’s not mechanised (or is only partially mechanised). And it wouldn’t stop being hard on the body if it was better paid!

Once smelled, never forgotten

There was also the teenage burglar who was prosecuted for felony murder because his fellow burglar was shot dead *by the householder*

Similar but worse (obviously the Bentley case was a dreadful miscarriage of justice but he was at least physically present at the scene of the killing!) And there are instances of people being done for felony murder when all they did was lend someone their car…

Stumbled upon this Quaker Meeting House in Wanstead. Designed by Norman Firth and opened in 1968.

Right? Or, if we’re going to de-industrialise, have you ever smelled blood fish and bone?

I confess I have never harvested Brussels sprouts in January in the sleet in Fife, but I've seen it done and it didn't look like anyone was having a particularly nice time.

This is very important and a major pet peeve of mine. If you don’t know what you’re doing- and if you learned on the internet, then sorry, you don’t know what you’re doing- please leave old gravestones well enough alone.

The number of people who really enjoy full time agricultural work is of course not non-zero, but it's not large either. And it's very hard work, even with a nice big tractor and a modern plough and a combine, or for that matter an automated milking parlour.

"When the working conditions are good," yeah, you presumably also mean when the weather's nice and temperate and it's not too hot/ too cold/ too wet, which is about twenty days a year in most of the UK.

And when you're young, don't have arthritis, and haven't knackered your back lifting spuds.

I don't think so? I don't think the gunman should have been executed, either.

(I'm opposed to the death penalty in pretty much all situations but this was particularly egregious)

The gunman's death sentence was commuted some time ago, so it really would have been an extraordinary injustice if a less culpable man had been killed.

Good (this was the case of the man who had been sentenced to death under "felony-murder" charges - he admitted taking part in a robbery, but not only did he not fire the fatal shot, he wasn't even in the building at the time, and he did not order to encourage the shooting).

Yeah, that story’s both distressing and baffling.

Good grief that's uselesss

Oh dear

I can probably get them back into my wardrobe quicker, but what's mostly been saved is money.

I don't think my shirts are actually looked after to a higher standard than my great-grandmother's - they might be slightly worse - but there's undoubtedly more hours in putting them in the washing machine, taking them out and hanging them, and then ironing them than in packing and unpacking them.

Permanent DST: there’s a great Darrell Scott song you may know as a cover/from Justified called “You’ll Never Leave Harlan Alive,” in which “where the sun comes up about 10 in the morning” is intended to convey how bleak and difficult things are in the area. Don’t do it on purpose.

Though it is overlooking the fact that not all of the work was necessarily done by "mother." Used to be much more common to send laundry out, for instance.