quite the sentence, might memorise it

Lorenzo Musetti reaching the 2025 Roland-Garros semifinals ensures this incredible stat is still alive: Someone with a one-handed backhand has reached the semifinals of a Grand Slam every single year since tennis began!

I’m hosting Bijan Omrani (BijanOmrani) for a discussion of his excellent new book, ‘God is an Englishman: Christianity and the Creation of England’ on June 26th in the Old Library, All Souls. Be there or be square! eventbrite.co.uk/e/god-is-an-en…

Reposting since X doesn’t like tweets containing links: do come along to All Souls on June 26th at 5pm for my discussion with Bijan Omrani on his excellent new book, ‘God is an Englishman: Christianity and the Creation of England’!

My most stable view of Yarvin is that he (being a casualty of the once high-status Oxfordian conspiracy theory) is wrong about Shakespeare.

Many thanks to everyone in SERRC who published this piece so quickly. 🙏 social-epistemology.com/2025/06/04/pro…

This by Jane Cooper reminds me of a point I make over and over again—reading Shakespeare's sonnets in isolation from the English tradition that preceded him (to say nothing of his contemporaries and successors) is a comparatively impoverished experience, even for formalist critics.

this is something “great books” courses often fail to do on principle, which really diminishes their integrity. In the extreme, “great books” pedagogy abhors history.

Perhaps Crassus a better comparison w Musk. Trump inevitably Caesar. Pompey is Vance; Pope Leo is Ptolemy

I haven't finished it yet (its very long) but its so far one of the best books I've ever read.

Worth a read

This is our actually existing international reputation btw:

as I think Jane Cooper once said, 'if equal online[ness] cannot be, let the more online one be me'