We can all agree that I'd look fantastic on a £5 note
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We can all agree that I'd look fantastic on a £5 note
Liz Kendall calls on all PhD funders to give paid maternity leave.
Science secretary pushes research funders and institutes to commit to better working conditions for women. #PhDsky #Academicsky
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As a physicist, observes Prof Sheila Rowan, when you measure you perturb the system.
Science Sec of State Liz Kendall, announcing launch of women in tech project, says govt will be investigating evidence of increased sexual harassment in the sector.
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Thank you both this is all the recommendation I need.
No probs, thought I was missing a trick there.
...ft edit has its own app?
Honestly, anyone not answering reform to 39 just wasn't paying attention.
Should replace the TV licence with a levy on internet service providers )phased in over time). Also fund a reformed OfCom, give the BBC a mandate for online content creation, public service duty to major streamers and social platforms.
No, access to a thesaurus makes one a competent, skilled, accomplished, clever, talented, enjoyable, kind, moral writer.
Gloaming?
This morning's Desert Island Discs is totally compelling. Not aware of ever having clocked Dwayne Fields, but what a journey.
That is extraordinary on BBC radio 4 PM just now - over the past 10 years CPI has increased by 39% but house prices have increased 43% so house prices haven't actually increased, really. Totally mind-blowing.
Although, obvs. wage growth hasn't kept up.
Five-sixths of people don't know that immigration fell from peak levels. There is much more coverage of asylum.
The BBC coverage does include these figures - very briefly - but the framing/summary is dominated by the asylum numbers.
White space, page breaks, section breaks, tables, diagrams - there was a reason why typesetters didn't create docs that were just a single continuous stream of text and sub headings.
Controversial. They are often very bad for accessibility. But I personally find long HTML documents hard to read or retain. I would be less committed to PDF if W3 had better guidelines for long form or technical writing.
Lego catalogues were *the best*. The kids these days don't know what they're missing.
Generational too? We try to do a couple of meat free meals a week and err towards certain meat free options (meat free pizzas, veggie chicken nuggets, veggie mince for some meals). None of which involves us sacrificing anything really.
Class is about consciousness: it's a social construct, not the same thing as socio-economic status.
So what class you are is as much about what class other people think you are, or who accepts you for what you are.
Which makes it all rather fiddly.
Such a bourgeois comment.
Honestly I only really tweeted that because I like quoting Pirates of the Carribbean.
If you write more on it, the piece will definitely be even better of you quote Captain Barbosa too.
Generally if you're next in line to the throne there's quite the incentive to present it as actual rules... perhaps not in this case.
The hereditary principles has always been more of what you'd call guidelines than actual rules, no?
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This episode explores rock art left by our Neolithic ancestors 5,000 years ago, and how it's bringing communities together now:
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Proportion of non-pensioner below-middle income families in different tenure types: GB/UK
We’ve seen a *massive* swing away from homeownership into expensive private renting.
Mortgaged families dropped from 30% to 17% of Unsung Britain, while private renters nearly doubled. Almost as many people live with parents (15%) as own with a mortgage (17%).
I sometimes ponder whether, in the long run, we carry on as now so eventually a freddo costs £50 and on, or else what the point is that the government goes "righto, time to start over".
