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If the most significant event in my life was an extramarital affair with Britain's least successful prime minister, I would simply not write an autobiography.
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nerdish marketing chap. Planning Director at @digital_whiskey. There are very terrible people on both sides.
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A friend texts: “This literally reads like one of the diplomatic scripts from Sid Meyer's Civilisation II”
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@TheOtherFilms @dieworkwear Note that the Prince of Wales was actually playing polo when he wore that jumper. He played for professional teams after he left the navy — teams that might well have had commercial sponsorship.
Note, too, the appropriate advertisement on the back of the programme.
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@dieworkwear And in the example of then-Prince Charles, I think the polo logo (or the IZOD alligator) were signs of Yuppiness. They were tacky back then.
Mel Brooks even mocked the Louis Vuitton pattern in High Anxiety.
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@Samfr Reminded me of ANOM — en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation… (but with hardware). There’s always a man in the middle somewhere.
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Re the Lebanon story: How would they have been able to put explosives in all those pagers? I guess they would have needed to get to them to prior to distribution?
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@david_h0s Team very much spreadsheets. Still can’t believe that people will pay me to use Excel. My teenaged self is proud of what I have become.
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@timoconnorbl @twlldun I’m disappointed to find that searching for rabbit on Ocado merely brings up rabbit food. Not rabbit _as_ food.
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@twlldun Tbh, I’ve eaten everything on the poster except dog. I have no plans to eat dogs but I wouldn’t categorically rule it out. I’m pretty sure they would eat me in some circumstances.
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EUR/GBP.
Though regularly used as an alarm call to justify underlying political priors, it's really been remarkably dull for the past 15 years.
Jason Crawford@jasoncrawford
Hmm… what are the most interesting charts that are interesting by virtue of being “boring”—that is, by showing *no* upwards or downwards trend?
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A reminder to journalists covering the Pavel Durov arrest: Telegram is NOT an "encrypted messenger". WhatsApp messages and groups are fully encrypted. Facebook and Instagram DMs are encrypted by default. Telegram messages are not usually encrypted and groups can't be at all.
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@londonette She clearly enjoys being controversial. I’d think simple audience capture explains much of this — like a child, she knows she gets a reaction, and approval.
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Q: What was the first Dickens character that stuck in your head as a child?
A: Oh Fagin, without question. Jewish and vile . I didn't know Jews like that then, sadly I do now.
Really, @BBCFrontRow?
This is plain and ugly racism, from a woman who’s given a pass because apparently she is a "national treasure". The fact Margolyes is herself Jewish is not the get out of jail free card you think it is.
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The offending bits now seem to have been edited out online.
It does slightly beg the question- why do producers put Margolyes on live any more? We all know what she tries to do. And god it’s tedious.
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Just because you’re loud doesn’t mean you’re popular. The thugs on Britain’s streets last night tried to shriek and bully us into thinking they had a majority on their side, when the only thing they had on their side was bricks. The rest was noise. They’re a tiny fraction of a country that’s much bigger and more generous than they’ll ever be.
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@blagden_david I did humanities undergrad and masters at (then) top 10* university in early 90s. Went to Oxford for my DPhil. Was absolutely astonished by undergrads’ workload. Also by what was expected of me. Categorically different.
* poss even top 5 — who can remember that far back?
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But when it comes to “why do Oxbridge graduates get the best jobs/scholarships/etc?”, demonstrated ability to turn content into output is the main thing. Yes, you know they’ll be fairly bright. Yes, they’ll likely be quite engaged. But demonstrated graft under pressure is #1.
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As someone who’s taught at both “Ox” and “bridge” - and also at two other Russell Groups - can confirm: this is spot on.
Yes, there are a few other variables at work. But this is the biggest single thing.
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James 🇬🇧 👑@TypeForVictory
A friend did her Masters at UCL and was just blown away by how easy it was / how low the workload expectations were. They actually told you which pages to read. I'm convinced that most of the "oxbridge dominance" thing is just massive undergrad humanities workloads vs peers.
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@pswidlicki @youngvulgarian Am not sure that Chris Williamson makes a good benchmark.
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@pswidlicki @youngvulgarian Being seen to be tough on unrepentant Corbynites may have been a signal to party & electorate.
newstatesman.com/politics/2024/…
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A brief thread while we wait for the exit polls. In 2001 I worked for the BBC and doing all the constituency research used by the team on R4/5 on the live overnight broadcast. That night I was seated at the right hand of James Naughtie, handing him info as the count came in
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1/4 My favourite Alison Uttley story comes from Gwyn Headley regarding Miss Uttley's one and only 'meet the author' event. To paraphrase: "She stood on a curtained dais, and on the dot of 12 the curtain rose. A howling crowd of excited children stormed the stage...
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