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It’s some sort of unwelcome marker of my Oxbridge Reject identity that I *do* know (contra this piece) of one extremely eminent (literally) reject: Roger Penrose, who only won the Nobel

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Re-reading Smiley’s People, which is just not as good as TTSS is it? But there’s that long passage in the middle, when Smiley is having a little breakdown in Bywater Street; an unending, circuitous, anxious, drunken night. It’s a perfect invocation of mental and physical unease, and I hate it.

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We’re considering the social effects of social media this week, so it’s worth brushing up on the history of the medium with Tess Dixon’s piece on how we got here https://buff.ly/4eYW3FJ

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Immensely interesting piece.

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I wrote about website flame wars, being mad online and the obstructiveness of young children, and I only mentioned Bluesky/X a couple of times: open.substack.com/pub/metropol...

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I wrote about Paul Simon’s 1986 album ‘Graceland’ this week and was slightly surprised to find, forty years later, that I am still a fan. I was even more surprised to find, judging from the response, that everyone else is too. open.substack.com/pub/metropol...

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The problem with the TV adaptation of Wolf Hall is that all Cromwell’s interior dialogue has been dumped into direct speech, meaning that he maunders around various National Trust locations offering unasked-for opinions like an early modern Billy Bleach

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New post on Dividing Lines: on taxing farmers, and saying things are wars when they are not wars dividinglines.substack.com/p/apocalypse...

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