Erm, yeah, everyone assumed that David. Did...did you have to check?

So he admits they were taking the piss?

life when the PhD stipend money hits

Indeed the main reasons that most academic publications are not read are that (1) there are far too many of them, and (2) they are mostly mediocre or bad. Publishing less would solve the first problem, and help a great deal with the second.

BREAKING: Hamas militias are attacking and besieging the Dughmash clan in Gaza City. According to the family, Hamas is killing anyone bearing the family name “Dughmash,” and has already executed one person who was unarmed and not involved in the clashes.

Israel if it was one of the least religious countries

Ffs he shat himself in Israeli prison & smeared it all over the walls didn't he

This is absolutely ridiculous. I worked in a visitor-facing role at Westminster Abbey for a year and I can tell you that you’re allowed and even encouraged to walk on the memorial slabs. In fact, there’s no way to avoid it! (With the exception of the Unknown Warrior, of course.)

I dislike the way Lennon sings ‘and of course Henry the Horse dances the waltz’, like how the hell was I supposed to know?

So good

I wish I could say ‘not my circus, not my monkeys’ but unfortunately it is my circus because it’s my country’s established church & custodian of so much of its heritage.

Like the Online Safety Act, it’s a shame people only really notice this stuff after it comes into effect. I don’t really know the solution to that.

Chant doesn't rhyme, Brookes surely?

>pass retarded law >it doesn't take effect until the next govt >your opponents take all the blame for it Masterful gambit Tories

A scathing indictment of Britain’s current place in the world. Thankfully we’re handing the Chagos Islands over to Mauritius, so we should be able to recoup some of our soft power reserves soon.

John Searle arriving at Heaven and discovering it's Chinese.

Wow, incredible! Mokyr is awesome - he’s the father of the “ideas school” of the Industrial Revolution, which is one of the inspirations for Works in Progress, and the author of the best book I’ve read on the Irish Famine. So exciting.

This is a huge practical issue for most scholars at least in the UK. Editions and translations don't "count" or are strongly discouraged as PhD projects, for first books, for research assessment, for promotion etc etc.

An encouraging image at the start of term: the hare and the tortoise in Oxford’s Examination Schools