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Agree that Labour is gradually placing the UK in the EU's geopolitical camp. But this can't be done by stealth indefinitely. After a while strategic choices of this magnitude need to be explained to the public in order to sustain a stable voter consensus backing them

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Wouldn't it be nice if, just occasionally, AI might say 'I don't know, I've not come across that before'? It's a bit like going to a GP - do you want someone who diagnoses incorrectly with total certainty, or someone who acknowledges they're unsure and looks something up or asks a colleague?

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It’s not often that new biographical details for Shakespeare are discovered. The fragmentary remains of a letter puts him living with Anne Hathaway at a previously unknown address in London. www.theguardian.com/culture/2025...

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Hahaha

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Trump wants to end media freedom in the US, he wants to end academic freedom. The birth of an authoritarian state.

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I am sure Labour’s single focus group of one Reform voting Red Wall pensioner will be very pleased.

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Lineker is so incisive in this interview. Wonderful stuff

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We once stayed in a teeny tiny studio flat in Rome overlooking Santa Maria Maggiore, where Pope Francis will be buried. A lovely ancient place.

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Such terrible, superstitious nonsense

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So now Trump's regime wants to set up a database to "track" autistic individuals, including accessing highly personal data. Autism is not a "disease" and we definitely don't need to be tracked by any government, historically that doesn't end well for the group being tracked.

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Funded PhD opportunity for qualitative work on health inequalities and factors affecting health outcomes at University of Aberdeen, in partnership with Aberdeen City Council Please share! www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

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Taxing those who can afford to pay more is A Good Thing

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Academia isn’t perfect, but it offers a rare space to pursue knowledge for its own sake. If research were fully privatized, only profit-driven questions would get asked. Yet many of the most transformative discoveries began as curiosity-driven inquiries whose value wasn’t clear for years.

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Yes. Absolutely loathe this mimsy euphemism. If someone died, much better just to say that plainly. Death is a fact of life.

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Ah, Pope Francis has died. May he rest in peace, and god help the church anoint a successor who is worthy and capable for this dangerous, febrile moment in the world.

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It feels fitting that Pope Francis died at Eastertide. www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cr...

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As the Mayor to a city of more than one million Catholics, I want to express my sadness, and the sadness of all Londoners, at the passing of His Holiness Pope Francis. He was a man of courage and humility who demonstrated how cooperation between faiths was a force for good.

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An event which is quite literally put on by the Mayor of London. This year Sadiq said: "The Passion of Jesus welcomes thousands of Londoners of all backgrounds to Trafalgar Square to enjoy a live reenactment of the story of Jesus’s final days and resurrection." Who's losing?

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The origial of this lovely portrait of the Earl of Southampton and his loyal cat Trixie is at Boughton House, Northants. Incredibly unusual for a man to be painted with a loved cat rather than a hound or a horse. harleyfoundation.org.uk/explore/entr...

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It isn't trans and non-binary individuals who are a threat, it is men like Tate leading a rise in misogyny. It takes unity to combat that toxicity. Discrimination against trans and non-binary individuals feeds the division they need to twist young people's minds. 1/ www.bbc.com/news/article...

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Burne-Jones' magnificent paintings of the Briar Rose legend (Sleeping Beauty) at Buscot Park.

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A memorial window in St Laurence Church, Appleton, to Basil Blackwell (he of the bookshop) and his wife Christine. What are those cats doing to Laurence's gridiron? Turning the instrument of a terrible martyrdom into a bit of feline fun...

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Looking forward to reading this critique of positionality statements from @nikkinewhouse.bsky.social and colleagues. Findings show they are often a box-ticking exercise (fancy that!) Authors argue they can be valuable but not as markers of methodological rigour. discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10...

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So if anyone has some good recommendations for equally immersive and complex novels, send them my way. And thanks to @theneweuropean.bsky.social for recommending Perspective(s)

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I just finished Laurent Binet's Perspective(s), a murder mystery set in sixteenth century Florence, featuring Vasari as the detective assigned to solve the case by Cosimo de'Medici - and find out who has painted a scandalous picture of his daughter. Brilliant, and I'm missing its immersive world

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What happens when a bunch of people who have no idea what they’re doing crash into the already overstretched world of local government? It isn’t going to be fun to watch or live through.

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One of the worst effects of successive govts' rhetoric on Higher Ed is that it's 'training for a job'. So 18yos get themselves (and are pressured) onto narrow technical courses. Yet employers are crying out for ppl who can read, think, write, speak! I've never met an employer who said different.

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A simple poem of solidarity from the seaside

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Books are worthless which is why Meta needed to steal more than 7 million of them

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My husband has taught human reproduction and development to the Cambridge medics for over three decades. When people start banging on about "only two biological sexes" he starts with "which sex: genetic, hormonal, or gonadal"? Biological sex is not binary. www.scientificamerican.com/article/sex-...

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Parliament, not the Supreme Court should have decided today. I've written about why that's so problematic and why I fear today's judgment will be used to further delegitimise trans people, even though that is not what the Court intends. goodallandgoodluck.substack.com/p/why-i-worr...

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Spare a thought today, too, for lesbian women, overwhelmingly trans inclusive, but who the Supreme Court has presented as exactly the opposite. Sorry but the heterosexual judges on the Supreme Court know better than you what you really think.

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Excellent thread from @andrewprlevi.bsky.social. I'd put some of it slightly differently, but the basic framing is right IMO.

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Soooooo bad

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