Auden (and thank you @petersbeaumont1.bsky.social ) capture the mood
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Auden (and thank you @petersbeaumont1.bsky.social ) capture the mood
More high-minded than the desire to tax letter-boxes, growing with every round delivered. Graded according to position, size and hindrance to effective use. Top rate for bottom-of-the-door, vicious spring and brush-bristle draft excluder.
#callforpapers 📯
15th Atelier Héloïse (#Ferrara, 3-4 December 2026) / Remembering and Representing: Universities and their Historical Sources
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👉 deadline: 30th May 2026
#historyofuniversities #highered #historyofeducation
Two of these panellists lost to the Greens after young voters did exactly the opposite of what this panel claims
Another fragile ego.
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“We thought opportunist chancers would be loyal to us”, laments offshore tax shelter.
"Because he dresses like a cartoon Englishman of the counties, the extent to which Farage is a creature of the US has been overlooked by the public. No longer, perhaps."
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Greatest honour of my career so far. As founding editor I'm proud to announce @edinburghup.bsky.social Studies in Late Roman History. The world's first book series exclusively dedicated to the core domain of Late Antiquity. Like to discuss proposals or manuscripts? Reach out!
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Something in this - though I doubt the ‘all’.
Despite all its national troubles, & Westminster soap operatics Labour is doing concrete, positive things under the radar of the likes of Chris Mason et al.
This is a fantastic tour d'horizon. An absolute must-read for anyone interested in British politics.
Follow @taniel.bsky.social for running commentary on US elections at all levels.
Would really love an anthology of your tea posts - to read alongside my early morning mug(s).
The Greens want NIMBY votes and they want votes from people who want massive renewables investment and they want votes from people who want cheaper housing and lower rents. They can dodge the obvious contradictions of this for a while - luxury of insurgent opposition - but not forever.
"Achieving the UK’s net zero target by 2050 will cost less than a single oil shock and bring health and economic benefits while insulating the country against future costs, the government’s climate advisers have forecast."
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
📌 ICYMI — Nigel Farage’s Humiliating Iran U-Turn Should Be a Lesson for Keir Starmer
By sticking to the correct and popular position on Donald Trump's Iran war, the Prime Minister has now forced his political opponents into an embarrassing reversal, argues Adam Bienkov
It comes from a particular debate, but it's a useful sentence in general.
#R4Today
same as it ever was
The latest "Early Medieval Europe" podcast is out now! Catch @samottewillsoulsby.bsky.social talking to Holly Miller and Christina Lee about their new article on animals and early medieval medicine: rss.com/podcasts/ear...
Yes! This captures a lot with elegance & economy.
'... to notice the difference between productive discomfort & unproductive stuckness.
'The discomfort is the thinking. Suppressing it is often the same as stopping thinking.'
One for the Course Handbooks: thanks @patthomson.bsky.social.
It is absurd to say that I feel I am not yet grown up. I am not laying claim to perpetual youth (though 89 is something of a surprise), and youth I was never much aware of when I had it. What I mean is, there has never come a time when I could be thought to have acquired dignity, common sense, still less worldly wisdom, qualities that supposedly come with age and get lost with age, too. One doesn't look for common sense from someone over 90.
counts. When I enter a room full of people (these days a rarity) I am 16. Except in the even more rare occasion of entering a room of 16-year-olds, when I am 90. I have the credentials but I don't seem to have the baggage. Once upon a time, I think I imagined age itself as an eminence, years were a plinth, it had prospects even if the end was clouded in mist. A virtue of age is that it emancipates one from class. The old are in a class of their own. It also bestows a privilege of plain speaking.
Alan Bennett on feeling 16 when you are 90
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/.... Evening stroll soundtrack: a reading by Tony Harrison of his epically powerful V almost has me in tears as I walk @bbcsounds.bsky.social
Laurent Theis - Les reines carolingiennes
À paraître en mars chez Perrin
The gulf between what people think of Tony Blair commenting on war in the Middle East & what Tony Blair thinks people think of Tony Blair commenting on war in the Middle East is positively Badenochian.
Cupich: “A real war with real death and real suffering being treated like it’s a video game -it’s sickening. Hundreds of people are dead, mothers and fathers, daughters and sons, including scores of children who made the fatal mistake of going to school that day.” www.archchicago.org/en/statement...
Trump and the UK have much in common - both avoided getting involved in the Vietnam War.
A great thread, on evidence for viking pillaging and destruction of holy sites.
