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Associate Professor, SWPS University. Welsh by birth. English by upbringing. Irish by design. Polish by choice. I am a lineman for the county.
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Something along these lines
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The baller move would have been fluorescent Comic Sans and a Care Bears montage
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I’m not even sure her ultimate motives are political. She strikes me as one of those people who quite enjoy being petty and unpleasant, and politics can be a rewarding outlet for such energies. I see this a fair bit in Poland. People who went into politics simply to lord it over others.
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Astounding indeed if it’s only one. What confluence of circumstances is needed for only one to survive?
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Bloody woke censorship
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I’m sure King Heterodox was immediately on the phone to the editor to complain about this woke bowdlerisation of his careful research
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A friend of mine interviewed him and said that you could not wish to meet a lovelier fella. Nobody should have to suffer an injury like his, but if I had one wave of the wand I think he's the footballer I'd most like to give back the playing time he lost.
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Very much in “give it Big Sam until the end of the season” territory now.
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So going to use this at conference…
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I can’t get along with them precisely because they are harder work than reading a book. I don’t have to try to concentrate when reading, but I quite easily lose the thread when listening to an audiobook if I’m not trying hard to maintain my concentration.
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He’ll still insist he’s right, and that you’ve simply misunderstood him.
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I’d recommend putting a good couple of days’ distance between that trip and anything you want to cherish. I went to the salt mine (strong recommend) the day after going to Auschwitz, and something about the unfamiliarity of those surroundings helped me deal with what I’d seen the day before.
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A sort of visual equivalent of nominative determinism?
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Nothing says “I remember our special day” like…
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Except instead of donning a mankini she’s stolen a Victorian child’s pyjamas
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I don’t want to get all essentialist but if five minutes ago someone had asked me to close my eyes and imagine a French antiques fraudster I feel confident that this is exactly what I would have conjured up.
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There’s a clip doing the rounds from the mid-70s where he’s being interviewed by Bob Harris. He doesn’t look in great shape physically, but he’s lucid, engaged and expansive. Whatever Eugene Landy did, it stayed done.
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Now *that* is something I hope prompts an email from news broadcasters...
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You do wonder sometimes. It can be disconcerting to realise that there is an adult version of the moment when toddlers venture out into the social setting of kindergarten: some potty-trained, others not so much.
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You've done him proud on the melody front, Ron.
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A hugely underrated album. If Brian had written The Trader it'd be among the lists of classic Beach Boys songs that'll do the rounds in the next few days.
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Well, maybe I just had the wrong family or something. Depressing, I know. Whatever.
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Given that whenever I have felt at my worst I have always been able to get the solace I needed from listening to his music, that’s the only thing I can recommend. Heartbroken but grateful to have had everything I love about music shaped by his genius.
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Atheist that I am, I hope he’ll meet the God he wrote those teenage symphonies to.
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“Analogue fridges: they’re just cool”
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I think there is still a residual surprise that an African team might actually be more than just a handful of flair players that nevertheless don’t amount to anything much as a team. And that’s rooted in racist assumptions about “naivety”, even if unintentionally.
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They do this for all their worldwide audiences.