Gardening: I am virtuous, hard-working provider of delicious fresh vegetables.

Brewing: I will not waste the housekeeping money down the pub.

Jazz composition: Let me tell you about the sexiness of major (minor 7th) chords.

Oh FFS. Any colleagues in ancient philosophy planning to claim this as research impact? Or too busy clawing off your ears?

Whereas Mr Neil speaks perfect, accentless Swedish.

New blog post to wrap up this Eurovision year: between disenchantment, queer solidarity and artist activism at Eurovision 2024 bakercatherine.wordpress.com/2024/05/12/im-…

#DecadenceKlaxon

I’m sorry, Estonia. My support is, as always, the kiss of death.

🇨🇭 Switzerland

This act already has me wishing no one had found Nemo.

It says something about Eurovision over the last decade that Norway’s entry feels a little generic.

This programme has repetitive flashing images and massive unresolved geopolitical tensions.

I had forgotten how deliriously strange The Crearures’ Miss The Girl is - and on TOTP!

[starts writing op-ed on analogies with post-Constantinian Christianity, the church as a community of saints versus the church as a school for sinners, development of hard-line asceticism as response to perceived compromises of the mainstream etc.]

Rumour-based policy continues apace.

specifically, she's prepared to overlook absolutely anything and sacrifice any principles whatsoever for the tiniest and most temporary advantage

Very much looking forward to visiting Zürich for the first time and celebrating an excellent new publication on populism in classical Greece.