This is a fabulous piece on a very technical issue

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It’s all here
Bloke who just happened to have his pads with him, as wickie
Bloke with two crutches as ump
The batsman’s walk, bat under folded arm

This my friend is England at its finest, most invincible and most silly

God's work

Whatever happened to the canongate myths series?

I would find this harder to deal with than angry protesters

Scott Wortley Kirsty said it on Newsnight last night as well. Had me spontaneously muttering at the telly.

Gender/queer studies may be broken, but that’s for those fields to sort themselves out.

Universities should not create a hostile environment for gender studies academics, in the way it was created against gender critical academics.

Principles are principles.

Universities UK should do no such thing, since academics should have the academic freedom to argue otherwise.

‘Universities UK states that EDI policies should not enforce gender ideology, and protect academic freedom’

would be good though.

The bbc news this morning said that after the statement from the first minister yesterday the snp has 28 days from yesterday to fill the vacancy. That is wrong. Yousaf has not stood down as first minister yet.

Sewage spills etc do our own jokes thetimes.co.uk/article/21e786…

This thread is helpful for thinking about the scottish bill too

Looking forward to finding out what progressive is meant to mean from the snp leadership contest.