When the Spectator promptly comes out to hammer a Conservative manifesto commitment…

Covid sacrifices, house prices, uni tuition fees, boomer triple-lock and final salary pensions, the child benefit threshold….this proposal is politically tone-deaf.

The good thing about single-authored papers is that you get to indulge yourself without collaborators to restrain you.

That feeling every time you want to defend universities, and the extraordinary, life-enhancing value of education and then they go and shoot themselves through the kneecap.

The key to understanding an early general election is that MPs losing their seats can then stand to be Chancellor of Oxford University.

In principio erat Hagoromo

Whenever I read about students moving into /abandoning a subject based on comments from faculty, I feel a temporary weight of impossible responsibility for every throw-away / uninformed / misinterpreted thing I have ever said to a student.

And then I move on :)

For those who like (writing) poetry and science, and want to enter a competition

thebrilliantpoetry.com

Happy to be the 42nd interviewee on Hassaan's podcast.

42 is the answer to life, the universe and everything.

Just saying.

Great fun today chatting physics, string theory, writing and popular science.

A dog bites man story, as far as I can tell, of 'publisher does not offer book contract for non-fiction current affairs book by undergraduate.'

Not time to give up yet. #googlegemini

And I say to you, there is more joy in heaven over one academic dean who repents than over ninety-nine academic deans who need no repentance.