Dr Katherine Schofield 🇬🇧🇦🇺
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Head @kingsmusicdept Historian: Mughal India & Hindustani music. Act justly, love mercy, walk humbly. Musicians at risk. Afghanistan. Views mine #azadi
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VERY excited to announce that the international paperback edition of my
@CambridgeUP
book Music and Musicians in Late Mughal India will be out on 22 August, at the very reasonable price (for an academic book) of £24!
PREORDER 👇👇♥️♥️🙏🙏
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My 12 year old has fallen asleep on my bed with his overgrown, adolescent fingers entangled in my hair, just as he did when he was a tiny scrap of 12 weeks.
I lie still, barely breathing, in case it is for the very last time.
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Husband is in a very high powered 6-hour international scientific zoom meeting with no break (wtf!? 🧐).
I have just brought him a G&T in a coffee mug.
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I want to live in a UK where the likes of Johnson, Hancock, Braverman, Rees-Mogg, Tice, Oakeshott, Farage and their worst media enablers have faded to a bad dream. I am so sick of them.
They have destroyed and diminished this country and made it a much poorer, nastier place.
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My child’s impression of parental zoom meetings...
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My child has prepared a speech, with powerpoint presentation, for his dad.
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What to do when you're attacked by a tiger at an inopportune moment.
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@MattHancock
My god, man, you're the Health Secretary. THEY ARE NOT SMEAR TESTS. They are simple swab tests for HPV — if you test positive, you still have to go to your GP and get a smear test.
Delete this dangerous piece of misinformation.
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Theory: you don’t get Michelangelo’s Pietà until you have a child, and then you can’t bear to look at it.
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On that tourist couple beaten up and gang raped in India:
It is not safe to travel in India solo as a woman of any nationality. In the course of my work as a historian of India I have been sexually harrassed more times than I can remember, and badly assaulted several times. 1/2
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What is happening to India’s Muslims right now is truly terrifying and escalating, but nobody on my TL apart from Indians appear to even know.
There are 150 million Indian Muslims. You think Ukraine is an emergency.
The title of the song being played at a Hindu festival in Jharkhand state is “Miyan Madarch**d hai (Muslims are motherfu**ers).”
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“nobody really knows why” It’s called O R I E N T A L I S M
The Chronicles of Narnia are strewn with Turkic references, but nobody really knows why: CS Lewis did not speak Turkish, nor did he ever visit the country
For
@EngelsbergIdeas
, I wrote about the mystery that has preoccupied me for years
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@VictoriaCoren
You know, there are times when you stand up for your friends in public, and there are times when you go, wow, that was absolutely not OK in any universe, and if you love your friend, you tell them so; privately if you like.
Guess which kind of time this is.
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@GretchenTG
@matthewcobb
For future reference, use your ironing board to rest your laptop on - you can adjust to the right height and it's much less precarious than a chair on a coffee table!
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So despite having been extremely cautious since the end of February, I have Covid.
On the up side, NHS test and trace seems to be working fine; there was no problem getting a test and I got my results back in under 24 hours.
I confess to being really quite frightened.
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Dominic Cummings’ wife wrote a column in the Spectator about how appallingly ill—unable to get out of bed—he was during his bout with Covid. It gives the distinct impression that they were in self-isolation in London the whole time. We now know this was not true.
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@credenzaclear2
Well this is a take. Not every woman’s body is “wrecked” by childbirth but PLENTY are left with permanent disability/pain and in previous times it was the leading cause of death for women.
Don’t. It’s the opposite of feminist to dismiss childbirth injuries and trauma.
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Just thought I’d point out that all that incredible world class music being performed at the coronation right now - the players, the singers, the composers - all of it is under significant and ongoing threat from the anti-arts policies of His Majesty’s Government.
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The bombing of Dresden is now widely considered a war crime, not something to be emulated or set as some kind of gruesome yardstick.
"When Britain bombed Dresden, 35,000 people lost their lives"
Defence Secretary Grant Shapps says "we've sort of forgotten that in war, very sadly, people lose their lives" when asked about the scale of Israel's retaliation strikes on Gaza
#BBCLauraK
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@enbyinjail
There was the most beautiful man opposite me on the tube last week. I reckoned he was a professional dancer - beautiful compact physique and posture, and dressed in neat clothes worn and torn non-artfully. Beautiful hair and a face like a Greek god.
I said nothing.
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My husband’s conversation with Prince Philip. Cambridge College SCR.
HRH: What do you do?
Husb: I teach anatomy.
HRH: Ah, my ghillie has been teaching me how to disembowel a stag. Why do you have to tie the intestines up with string?
Husb: So the shit doesn’t fall out, sir.
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Gen X or older, how many of you were hit by your school teachers as a form of punishment? Metre ruler, 30cm ruler, blackboard erasers thrown at you, or if you were really bad (and a boy) off to the head teacher to receive 6 of the best ("the cuts")?
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@SoVeryBritish
Plastic washing up bowl in the sink.
Having to register for a specific GP.
Completely rubbish showers in an infinite unrepeating plethora of designs that all require an engineering degree to operate, and even then they produce a tepid, freezing, or scalding dribble.
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And we have a book cover! Beginning to feel real now 💃
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This is not a parody. This is real. The Minister for Disabled People effectively saying to disabled people “we will hunt you down”. Words fail. Big hugs to everyone affected by this vile rhetoric.
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Just for the record, for freshers' week my husband, Director of Studies at an Oxbridge college, has just bought pizza and had it delivered to all his students' individually, and they are now eating pizza together via zoom and getting to know one another.
The media can do one.
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My god. I’ve just been on the phone with a PhD student in India. She’s been counting: 52 of her local aunties & uncles have died of Covid in the last 10 days due to lack of oxygen. The elders she is doing oral history research with are dying daily. It’s too much. 💔 Om shanti.
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Thrilled to let you know my book, Music and Musicians in Late Mughal India, is out TODAY!
It's £££ but you can get it at 20% off from the CUP website with code MMLMI2023, or 10% off via Amazon.
And it's available in Rs via too:
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It’s got easier as I have got more senior, more connected (= protected) & wealthier, so can opt for trustworthy private drivers & fly instead of taking trains.
But the past trauma and the future threat remain.
I love India with all my heart. But this part is truly dreadful 2/2
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People brought up in Britain: did you have to learn handwriting with a fountain pen at school, and if so, in which half decade? I know this was still done in the late 80s.
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Seriously wondering if I have been exiled to the shadow world by whatever the hell is going on at MuskHQ.
If this pops up in your feed would you mind giving me a like or a wave?
Here's a fabulous portrait of the Rani of Jhansi, 1857 warrior queen, to strengthen your TL ❤️💪🙏
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This is the most moving find - a Regency-period diary written by an ordinary farmer who “argued, from a religious perspective, that punishing a gay person for how they were created was equivalent to saying that there was something wrong with the Creator.”
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@Baddiel
You know why, don’t you? It’s so insurers don’t have to pay out for cancellations, and civil society and companies have to shoulder all the responsibility and risk. All about the £££
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This is horrific—a year and 40% of their reserves before we can use
@britishlibrary
collections again, and the cyber attack has received zero coverage??!!
I wouldn’t have a research career at all without
@BLAsia_Africa
— all my work relies on their manuscript and art collection.
At last some coverage of the major cyber attack at
@britishlibrary
& the impact this has had on researchers. It is a critical piece of national infrastructure. Worrying if they will have to spend 40% of their reserves on rebuilding their digital services
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I can’t keep up with all the beautiful responses, but I am so glad this has reached and resonated with so many people. Connecting with others in our humanity is everything; it is all we have against the darkness.
But it is a great thing.
Love is stronger than death.
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Let these singers and their hilariously reluctant donkey brighren up your morning!
Uno de los grandes hallazgos en esta selva que es Twitter. El trío georgiano Mandili.
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@carolecadwalla
Oh Carole. He may have millions in cash, but there are literally millions of people behind you and your brave work. Chin up. Fight on. We've got this.
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@RestoreTrustNT
Do we think that dark-money funded right-wing reactionary Tufton Street outfits should stop pretending to be grassroots campaigns, and leave
@nationaltrust
alone?
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Delighted to announce that I’ve just signed a contract with
@CambridgeUP
for my book “Music and Musicians in Late Mughal India: Histories of the Ephemeral, 1748-1858”! God willing, it will be out in 2022.
I may have to crowdsource a slightly more racy title...
@BLAsia_Africa
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This is wonderful news - on the day of our letter to
@thetimes
100 musicians of ANIM & Zohra Orchestra were evacuated because the Portuguese govt gave them humanitarian visas.
If the Portuguese can recognise the threat to musicians, so can the UK.
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Well I've signed my contract now, so there's no turning back.
As of 1 July I will be the Head of the Department of Music
@KingsCollegeLon
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I've been complaining a lot about
#Heeramandi
Turns out I've written quite a lot about India's great courtesans and the culture that sustained them. If you're interested, here's a short list. 🧵
[Malagir, great Delhi courtesan 1815, Lalji or Hulas Lal
@DalrympleWill
]
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@RogerJStoneJr
Yes dear, every single one of us, the good, the bad, and the ugly, was a child once. Including all the alt-right fascists.
Your point?
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@BenBGDalton
Oh…not a joke; you’re serious.
I’m not talking to student X about her sexual assault or student Y about his plagiarism case, or indeed writing my book in an open-plan office full of people walking through.
I share a closed office and that’s fine. Anything else is ruinous.
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I would like to know which A Level teachers are telling their students it’s a good idea to start essays with “The Oxford Dictionary definition of X is Y.” Because it’s not. It’s a dreadful way to start, and I now have to squish the optimism of 60 freshers by telling them so.
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As it's
#WorldMusicDay
I thought I'd do a thread on the animals whose cries give voice to the 7 swaras of the Indian scale, accompanied by paintings.
We begin with Sa, the system tonic, whose sound is the cry of the peacock in the monsoon. This lovely one's from the 16C Deccan:
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A reminder for the easily led that this is not REMOTELY impressive. Most classicists can do this. He’s like a performing seal.
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I am retweeting this twice because this is one of the most powerful acts of musical resistance I have ever heard.
May God protect these women, and may their cries be heard.
#ProtectAfghanMusicians
Afghanistan's Burqa girls have launched a singing movement against the Taliban, resisting & criticizing the Taliban's atrocities against women by singing.
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This RIDICULOUS. The Mughals ruled over much of India for over 200 years (technically over 300) and left behind an enduring legacy.
Love them, loathe them, or really not care — leaving the Mughals out of school history textbooks won’t magic them away.
NCERT removes chapters on Mughals from their textbooks, watch to know more
#ITVideo
|
@poojashali
#NCERT
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@ManonGarciaFR
Big hugs. I had a nasty reviewer 2 recommend rejection of an article because they got hugely offended right from the start that I appeared to be plagiarising Katherine Schofield’s work.
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Heading in to chair my first meeting as Head of Department! Wish me luck!
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Oh great, back to lazy university lecturers and we want our money back.
I've never worked so hard in my life to produce teaching of equivalent quality online to that I would deliver in person. I have HUGE sympathy for my students. But we're not in the business of killing people
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Absolutely thrilled to get my book cover and to be made FRHistS on the same day!
@RoyalHistSoc
@CambridgeUP
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They thought they could get away with it in Ukraine because they did it in Syria and nobody blinked an eyelid.
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Do the prople behind this vile nonsense not realise it repeatedly makes Kate look like a petty bitch and Meghan the epitome of dignity?
Kate 'reluctantly missed final goodbye with the Queen so Meghan wouldn't come - on King... - LBC
Neither Kate nor Charles comes out of this well.
Utterly graceless and full of spite.
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Two weeks of term left. After pulling an all-weekender and upsetting my family, I have got both weeks' materials up. Here are some marvellous courtesans from Abbas Ali's 1874 Beauties of Lucknow to represent my final seminars: gender & sexuality; and sovereignty & decolonisation.
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This is INSANE. Who would NOT want their grocery shop, GP, child's school, pub, and local park within 15 minutes' walk of their house???
Back in the old times I thought that was called a village or a high street, no?
Somehow it's now official Government policy to stop my Council making sure I have a GP, dentist and shop too close to my home.
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@HesterBlum
This is really not a good idea if the reason they are being weighed is because they are about to undergo surgery under a general anaesthetic or any other procedure where the medical staff need to know exactly how much your child weighs so they don’t kill them.
FFS.
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Incredible thread wih respondent after respondent pointing out they got instrumental lessons, instruments, and bands & orchestras for FREE through school & council in the 70s, 80s.
And how incredibly valuable and enriching it was to everyone.
THIS is what this country has lost
What working class kid in the 80s was playing flute and in a youth orchestra? Sorry lessons for instruments that require classical training COST MONEY.
Being comfortably lower middle class and comparing yourself to very rich kids does not make you working class.
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@Policy_Exchange
@JonHaidt
@jowilliams293
@epkaufm
@David_Goodhart
Watching the 6PM TV news: “Some viewers might find the following scenes distressing.” That’s literally all a “trigger warning” is. FWIW I’m a lecturer and I’d never heard the term trigger warning until the reactionary media manufactured an issue out of it.
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@clhubes
I'm 2 1/2 years older than my nearest sister, and when she came along I really resented her (apparently). We ended up being the best of friends. Hang in there.
Better than my mother who aged 2 literally broke her sister's neck! (not irreparably thank god)
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1. The BM’s collection is unimaginably vast & old; much has lain uncatalogued for CENTURIES.
2. Govt funding is insufficient to fund cataloguing.
3. External funders won’t fund it as it’s meant to be core activity.
Catch 22. It’s just not that simple.
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Male academic publishes productively, enjoys grant writing, and still has time for the gym three times a week and a monthly marathon because
<checks notes>
WIFE.
These researchers tell us Why they love the academic life
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@Peston
Thank you for picking this up. Both Donelan's and UKRI's behaviour were egregious, and she and the UKRI CEO should resign.
They won't, because there are no "standards in public life" anymore for such people....
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Men in academia, whom society enables to hold your qualifications so lightly — can we please just not have to have this tedious discussion again?
Just believe women for once.
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Now THIS, from 18C Udaipur, is now my current favourite painting of the monsoon!
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Apparently my 25 years of scholarship in Islamicate languages on music in Muslim societies doesn’t count because I’m a woman and not a Muslim. I’m not sure putting PhD back in my name can fix those obvious defects.
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It is not illegal to enter the UK to claim asylum. The reason for the rise in small boat crossings is that this government has made it impossible to apply for asylum from outside the country—there are no asylum visas—and you have to have a visa to arrive by a regular route.
EXCL: Suella Braverman will today announce plans for a new law to bar anyone who crosses the Channel in small boats from claiming asylum:
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From JRF to Head of Department in 20 years. Apart from being dramatically fatter 😉 I am still myself
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And in East India Company news...
(for a man with supposedly such a privileged humanities education his historical illiteracy is really something)
Boris Johnson says, ‘The UK rose to greatness because of our championing of global free trade. That was how this country first became prosperous.’ So that’s the relaunch of the East India Company confirmed
#BBCBreakfast
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I see; they arrested Washington Post journalists rather than insurrectionists. Excellent.
With
@wleaming
, still rolling the camera while we were being arrested for filming protests outside the Capitol.
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Babies, children, women, men who worked for us, Farthing’s own staff — left behind, because there are only so many person hours in a day and there was a horrendous hard and fast deadline.
I’m going to block everyone who says “but” with no skin in the game. I just can’t any more.
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@David_Cameron
@thetimes
The best thing you can do now is to go away and be quiet for the rest of your life.
There is no public rehabilitation for you after what you did to us. You may find redemption in silent, private acts of service. I hope you do.
But none of us ever want to hear from you again.
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Why you don't want to get Covid. Thread.
Husband now has my cold. I was under the weather. He can't breathe, racked by the most devastating cough that rends my heart. Last 2 times he's had a cold he's ended up with pneumonia.
12 years ago, he picked up a bad cold in Japan. 1/
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So, I did a rabbit/hare thread, and then I did a dog thread. Now it's time for my favourite Mughal animal of them all: the hunting bird.
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If Sadiq Khan does win a historic third term as London Mayor, it really will be a victory for decency over the stupid, venal, toxic, made-up, right-wing culture war.
It doesn't work chaps. We actually do care about each other and what matters to all our communities.
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@AAWoodfields
@MrDavidScales
Welcome to periods, endured by over 50% of your students. It is horrific to make a girl who has bled through her uniform wait until break time to get changed.
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Very excited that I now have a date for the publication of my book Music and Musicians in Late Mughal India: Histories of the Ephemeral, 1748–1858:
it'll be out in time for Christmas with
@CambridgeUP
!
Funding thanks to
@ERC_Research
@BritishAcademy_
@KingsCollegeLon
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I came to Hindi films late, in my 20s. It took a long time for me to warm up to
@iamsrk
but as my TRULY TERRIBLE Hindi improved (only
@DJLdistraction
knows how bad) he began to dawn on me.
I know I’m 1 in a billion fans but he truly is the greatest global star of the late 20C.
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@JolyonMaugham
It was absolutely a choice, and it was NOT on the referendum. And it is a disaster, as predicted.
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Bloody hell. Sky paid the man arguing there was no gender inequality in the workplace but not the woman arguing that there is.
You couldn’t make it up.
My word the rampant public misogyny over the past couple of weeks has been tiring.
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@EasterbrookG
@WSJ
You were wrong then, you are wrong now, and that article, wow....I don’t think I’ve read such ill-informed, condescending, misogynistic drivel in quite some time.
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Literally the last thing anyone wants — British meddling in Suez again.
SUEZ LATEST: British Government "stands ready" to help free ship and is in touch with relevant authorities 🚢🇬🇧
Boris Johnson's spokesman: "We are ready to provide any assistance that we can but have not been asked yet"
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I can confirm, this is a lie
@CamillaTominey
At
@KingsCollegeLon
we have all been teaching in person, in the classroom, since the beginning of Semester 1 in Sept.
In fact, practical subjects have been in person since March 2021.
Paul Wiltshire's son has been telling him porkies
This is a straightforward lie from
@CamillaTominey
. I and most of my
@KingsCollegeLon
colleagues have giving in person lectures since last September.
If she has any integrity she'll correct and apologise..
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@ShalnevaE
@illi4141
@thenitinsawhney
@KingsCollegeLon
I’m King’s College London permanent faculty, and I am asking the same question. No serious philosopher would believe let alone say something so factually wrong.
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Not being in possession of any patriotic accoutrements, we have hung one red, one white, and one blue Indian dupattas over our front balcony to commemorate the hundreds of thousands of South Asian troops who fought and died for the British Empire in WWII.
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I am not sure there is anything more 2020 than this.
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Happy Diwali to all those celebrating! May there be light in the darkness; may we light up the dark.
(Provincial Mughal, c.1750-60, last sold
@ChristiesInc
12 Jun 2018)
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I promised you all a mango in Indian art thread. 1/
(This one is Sita Ram, 1814, Calcutta, via )
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I think the Tories may be in the process of rebuilding the red wall, chaps.
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Oh here we go.
#SewellReport
was rewritten by no. 10 and the commissioners did not see it nor sign off on it.
But why did they not repudiate the report written by others in their names as soon as they discovered that that is what was done?
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@_marc_clark_
Because it’s magical, Marc, and because it is about human connection, and that deeply resonates with people. I hope you have someone in your life who holds your hand and never expects anything back, just loves you.
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