paodonnell.bsky.social
History, Ships, Manufacturing and Trade Policy. Attempting a PhD (the left and the navy in early C20/interwar Britain) twenty years later than is traditional.
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Oh, this is a fantastic example of not knowing how much irony is being deployed and being very entertained anyway
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I was (briefly) at a Middle School in Northampton, which is now a Primary. It had previously been a CofE foundation for poor girls to fit them for domestic service.
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Village Colleges, Cambridgeshire’s unique contribution to the patchwork
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About 20 years ago I used to work for an exam board. Then there were 11 types of school plus assorted one offs. Then it was mostly organised by funding structures, now I think it’s more to do with how much freedom they have (but mostly don’t use) to vary the curriculum
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The Cruel Seat
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Hoarse. And I was just singing in the pub
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Yes, very heavy drops for about 3/4 mins over here in Bushwood
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Brontë Country is a place, or a thing
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Theory #2 never seemed to account for the fact that it implied that the only German officers who died in the Great War were the rubbish ones
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Enguerrand. We both loved Distant Mirror but, yeah, well, no.
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They always fly straight over my house in Leytonstone. I think they firm up somewhere in Essex and then come down the A12
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Oh, God.
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The Third Pope
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Since the Stevenage game, which was the most boring win I can remember, it’s been a bit of a rollercoaster. We’re absolutely not doing this the easy way…
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I suffer the whole Tree Pollen thing largely through my eyes. Does that make the image worse?
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I’d love to give a flippant answer but I’m not sure if Jan is on here
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Thinking, probably, the night before…
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Is it always a rival though? When bananas were being established as a ‘Fair’ product I think there was a lot of soft marketing around ‘small’ Caribbean producers Vs US mega corps, some of which would have fitted (with tweaks) into the later Buy Empire campaigns
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What a goal.
But, after the last few games, I’m not quite prepared to get back to believing yet
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China into a remoulded CPTPP then? That would be interesting for a certain recent joiner
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Celebrates the escape of Charles II after losing the battle of Worcester by hiding in an oak tree. Was big in the late C17, since then, not so much
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Someone is looking forward to celebrations as enthusiastic as those for ‘Oak Apple Day’? Has he got AI to tell him the names of some traditional English festivals?
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Surely that’s a lost character from the Fast Show
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Tough watch, too many mistakes and outmuscled too often. We looked a bit better when we actually tried to play on the ground, but they, helped by the ref, managed to stop a game of football breaking out
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Ffs. Outed.
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‘Can you demonstrate the relevance of your research questions?’
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Try to write a PhD on the Labour Party and rearmament in the 30s.
Oh no, maybe don’t do that
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Yes, although Glasgow much more than Edinburgh
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I seem to remember that when he was in the European Parliament he spent capital distancing himself from Jean-Marie Le Pen on the grounds that he, Le Pen, was an outright racist
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The Bethnal Green memorial is better in real life than it seems in the picture in the original post; it’s prominence is, I think, a reflection of a belief that the incident had been ‘covered up’, but yes the name is awfully judged
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Blair and Assad, I think in 2002
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For the bonus you have to work in Ramsay MacDonald
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No, genuinely beautifully apposite
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Beautiful use of the word ‘fictions’👏
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There’s something really interesting that happens in the 90s about the formalisation (and commoditisation) of that sector
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If it includes pre-primary education, as @gavinjackson.bsky.social implies, then it’s going to effect a much larger proportion of the child population than the 7% or so that use private ‘schools’
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Ineligible for that refund I think… turned out to be decent seats for a view of the winner
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Brilliant first half hour. Goal of the month for February is already shaping up nicely…