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There are two new versions of my book coming out this May -- a lovely pink paperback in the UK, and a lovely blue hardback in the US
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Incredible work by gmail here on the suggested replies to a professional email.
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STOP MAKING ME WATCH VIDEOS JUST WRITE DOWN HOW TO DO THINGS
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Turnitin has carefully noted that it thinks a student has submitted an essay that is 11 per cent plagiarised. It has come to this figure by highlighting every time they have used the word "this".
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take it from someone who’s had 21 days of strike action this year: when you’re in quarantine you’re not going to get all those jobs done around the house that you’ve been putting off. you’re going to invent a new breakfast cereal by combining 3 existing types of breakfast cereal.
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people talking about “as per my last email” as being an act of hostility but I just had to crack out an “I’m not sure how I can clarify this any further”
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“his creator” strongly implies that this journalist does not understand the difference between Daniel Radcliffe, a real human person, and Harry Potter, a fictional character he depicted in a film series that concluded more than a decade ago
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Michael Phelps has an unusually long torso, a wingspan that is longer than his height, double-jointed ankles and size 14 feet. But his "abnormality" compared to other male swimmers is lauded, rather than penalised.
BREAKING: Caster Semenya loses her long legal battle against track and field’s rules limiting female runners’ naturally high testosterone levels.
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babe I work in academia
you ever meet a man and it’s so obvious that no one in his life has ever told him to shut the fuck up
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Noam Chomsky is a crazy name like you sound hungry as fuck
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gender neutral toilets include: the type of toilet you have in your own home, most small cafes and restaurants, most (good) baby-changing, almost every disabled toilet
The government has confirmed it is working to reverse the "rise in gender-neutral toilets" as part of its wider efforts to protect single-sex spaces
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As a historian, I would like to say: THIS IS TERRIBLE ADVICE. My evidence is: ALL OF HISTORY.
Rage does not work as political opposition. Moral high ground, peaceful engagement, asking respectful questions of opponents. These work.
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this phrase being coined by Jordan Peterson is almost as destabilising as when I realised “face god and walk backwards into hell” was a dril post
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When men say that Greta Thunberg doesn’t look 16, it sounds like she’s insufficiently sexualised for them to find her attractive. Sixteen year olds are children and look like children, dudes. If you’re expecting something different... have a think about why that is.
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Loving Alex Scott and Ian Wright refusing to rosetint the history and the present conditions of women’s football in this country tbh
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apparently an unpopular opinion, but: I don't hate that I say 'does that make sense?' all the time in a professional context, it lets other people into the conversation & gives them the chance to ask questions. maybe sometimes feminised speech patterns are... good? helpful?
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My mum worked in a care home, until a couple of weeks ago, when she was asked to resign because she complained on Facebook that they didn’t have PPE despite having had a number of COVID deaths, and I can assure you that this is not true.
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the men’s team are inspiration for a country but the women’s team are only inspiration for girls
For my daughters, and for every girl in this country, you have made football something for them; you have made them feel they belong on the pitch.
In a way, you’ve already brought football home.
All that remains is to bring the trophy home too.
Let’s do this
#Lionesses
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In Blair's resignation speech, given in his constituency in May 2007, one almost throwaway line was 'Ask when you last had to wait a year or more on a hospital waiting list, or heard of pensioners freezing to death in the winter unable to heat their homes.'
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the discourse on weight and nutrition in pregnancy is so fucked up (I will write, one day, my feminist analysis of the NHS language around food and pregnancy) — but one thing it entirely ignores is that many women are eating freely in pregnancy for the very first time
girl how much does your doctor weigh because that’s how much you need to lose
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the idea that the police "do not view" Couzens as a police officer is just a way for the Met to disavow responsibility for his actions and to resist any root and branch reform. it's the opposite of accountability.
“It’s something that will stay with me for the rest of my life.”
A senior investigator on Sarah Everard's case, former DCI Simon Harding, says police officers “do not view” Wayne Couzens as a police officer and he “should never have been near a uniform”.
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Academics will either reply to your email within the same minute it is received, or in eleven months.
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you are a HUMAN RIGHTS LAWYER, surely you have heard of the Geneva Convention
“I think that Israel does have that right.”
Sir Keir Starmer tells
@NickFerrariLBC
that it is acceptable for Israel to withhold power and water from citizens in Gaza.
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do you really, genuinely believe that if the law were changed then hundreds of people would voluntarily carry a baby to almost term and then have a traumatic and medically dangerous abortion? really, do you really believe that???
Stella is arguing for people to be able to kill a baby the day before it is due to be born and face no consequences. This is an incredibly extreme and bad proposal.
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why the fuck are the men's football team on there when the women's football team won the Euros
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right, okay, and who is going to protect us from the plain-clothes police
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This is all a huge mess, but my heart especially goes out to people who obeyed the guidelines, and didn't see dying loved ones, and now feel like maybe they should have bent the rules too.
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A photograph from the first Reclaim the Night protest in Leeds in 1977.
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I am sure that other people have indeed submitted essays including the word "this". I'm quite surprised that they haven't used the words "the", "and" or "Britain", though.
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When starting a lecture:
Ladies and Gentlemen:
- boring
- gendered
- eww, class hierarchy
My pretties:
- gender neutral
- makes audience feel pretty
- makes you sound like witch
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I absolutely remember being a teenager when Kylie’s Spinning Around was released, and the whole media narrative being “isn’t she BRAVE doesn’t she look GOOD for her AGE aren’t those hot pants really DARING for a MATURE WOMAN” anyway she had just turned 32 when that video came out
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Excited to see the new British Museum slogan, We Didn’t Steal *All* Of It.
'Not everything was looted': British Museum to fight critics
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I think the point that you're deploying mounted police against schoolchildren might be an 'are we the baddies' moment
Mounted police now pushing forward to try and push the children back into parliament square
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Everyone always mocks the bit in a Bond film where the villain explains his evil plan in full just before he executes it, but: apparently it happens!
Trump says this like it's a mission statement: "You're not gonna know [the election results] for months or for years. Because these [mail] ballots are all gonna lost, they're gonna be gone.
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The British Library and now Oxfam have both now deleted Pride tweets after pile-ons by transphobes. “Gender critical” activism is a deeply conservative movement that seeks to limit speech! Organisations need to take strong positions against this!
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do we think my university press office will clip this one
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I mean of course the Met Police is frightened of rape alarms
We received intelligence that indicated people were planning to use rape alarms to disrupt the Coronation procession - with concern from the military that this would scare their horses and cause significant risk to the safety of the public and their riders.
Read our full…
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Government slogans were criticised continually and a lot of government propaganda was confusing or ineffective. People were absolutely asking questions about why Britain couldn’t stop raids or why there wasn’t enough military hardware. Vegetarians had special ration books.
Perhaps if World War 2 happened today the questions would include:-
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Adulthood is trying each of the same six passwords that you use for everything and complaining that you're tired.
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Got quite emotional listening to Alex Scott talking about previous generations of womens footballers working in factories whilst playing for England, and really just rode that emotional wave to the final whistle
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famously, women never urinate
More excited than I should be to see the temporary toilets in
#soho
this evening. Pushed hard to get these in place for this weekend through to the end of September as we see how
#pubs
#bars
#restaurants
reopening goes
@sohosocietyw1
@planforsoho
@CityWestminster
@clarelynchred
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Ah, the five year anniversary of the time a university rejected me from a job with an email addressed to another applicant, and when I pointed this out, replied with ‘I’m sorry, I clearly typed the wrong name. However, the substance of the message, I’m afraid, does apply to you.’
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Feels like “former” police officer is a bit misleading here and in the multiple other reports that use this language — Couzens was a serving police officer when he did this, he was sacked once he was arrested.
Former police officer Wayne Couzens in court for sentencing. Court hears he had police handcuffs, arrested her & used his knowledge of police Covid patrols to detain her.
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no particular desire to get into this because honestly I’m exhausted, but I can’t be the only cis, female feminist who is creeped out by the hysteria around puberty blockers because they *might* lead to treatments that *might* reduce fertility
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Listening to In Our Time and a historian just said “I just wanted to push back a little bit against that idea”, which probably sounds like nothing to anyone who isn’t an academic, but is basically the equivalent of smashing a pint glass and trying to take things outside.
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It literally says in the article that the person in the picture finished a degree in rural business management.
🐑 Turned off by student debt, Gen Z turns to centuries-old professions to pay the bills.
Read more here👇
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it wasn’t and he didn’t and you’re not and they haven’t
(2/2) It was a close contest and
@realDonaldTrump
fought hard. Looking forward to working with the new administration – the UK 🇬🇧 US 🇺🇸friendship has always been a force for good in the world.
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hearty laugh at the idea of British train companies lecturing people on responsibility
@jackfifield
Hi Jack, it is your responsibility to ensure your device is charged and ready to show your ticket. We are unable to print off E-Tickets and wouldn't be able to access your account to do so anyway. ^SC
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these people are going to kick themselves when they realise the one weird trick that can save you £5,155 per term
If Labour win at the next general election private school fees could rocket by up to 20%
One mother says she is "sick and nervous" about what could happen to her children's school fees, which are £5,155 per term
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Thank you to the person who told me that my child’s bare feet are probably cold. I stupidly believed that carrying his shoes and socks would keep him warm and obviously hadn’t tried to put them on his feet ten times already. Thank you for making me a better parent and person 🙏
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Genuinely hilarious thread as a journalist goes thorough UKRI grants and demonstrates her complete lack of reading comprehension or basic academic curiosity
Always wanted to know more about this. Sound £879,525 taxpayer investment.
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I mean, the context makes it *worse*.
Boris Johnson says his comments labelling black Africans as “piccanninnies” with “watermelon smiles” have been "taken out of context."
Here’s what he wrote.
#PMQs
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“If only we had been allowed to hear more from Hitler” is not the take I expected to read this morning, but here we are.
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do you know what else is in my bio? a link to the book on free speech that I edited that got great reviews
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It’s such an anti-choice trope to say “but I was born early, would you have given my mum the choice to abort me at that point” and they think it’s such a gotcha. but like, you’re being very annoying in my mentions, I’d give her that choice now tbh
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I can’t even convince my students to double-space their essays, I doubt I have any influence on how they vote in referendums.
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not to be alarmist but this is definitely 100 per cent connected to the octopuses crawling out of the sea last week
BREAKING: Scientists discover new hidden chamber in Egypt's Great Pyramid, say its purpose is unknown.
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Your female academic name is your full name without the prefix ‘Dr’, even though you have a PhD.
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“Men must be given everything they want or they will become violent misogynists” is not quite the defence you believe it to be, Tim.
"Money drives this sort of extremism"
"If Laurence Fox were appearing in Macbeth in the National Theatre, he wouldn't be on GB News... he's doing it because he's been driven out of the mainstream," The Daily Telegraph's Tim Stanley tells
#PoliticsLive
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I literally wrote a whole PhD on Britain and the Marshall Plan (they got $2.7 billion! More than any other European nation!), this Bad Brexit History is feeling more and more like a personal attack
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they literally aren’t, literally like ninety per cent of the time I’ve heard ‘trigger warning’ or ‘safe space’ it has been from the mouth or pen of an aging spluttering commentator who hasn’t been on campus for forty years, and I am an ACTUAL LECTURER
Why is it that students on both sides of the Atlantic are embracing the language of trigger warnings and safe spaces? Watch the fierce debate with
@JonHaidt
@jowilliams293
Lord Macdonald
@epkaufm
@David_Goodhart
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I will never not be jealous that Finnish PhDs get a SWORD when they graduate
My doctoral insignias arrived today. Ready to defend truth and science with my doctoral sword
@helsinkiuni
#phd
#feminism
#gender
#eugenics
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I really hope that’s the last ever Line Of Duty so that the message is: nothing ever changes, corrupt organisations destroy even the most principled people, power will always exert itself to protect itself, no reform is possible of fundamentally broken institutions
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Daniel Radcliffe seems like a sweet, thoughtful, quite softly spoken person and the idea that he is CANCELLING someone by expressing an opposing opinion is a very weird free speech gyration
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It hasn't been Tesco Value for ages: they use tertiary brands like Creamfields and Ms Molly and Nightingale Farms to stock their budget range now. Which you would know, if you ever had to buy the cheapest option.
'Buy the Tesco value one.'
Tory MP
@Bren4Bassetlaw
offers up a solution for soaring food prices.
@IainDale
|
#CrossQuestion
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Leopold has fallen!!! This is extraordinary.
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“Host is open to people of all ages and from all walks of life… unlike other coffee houses, we do not insist on people buying coffee to stay here, so we are opening up the church as a public ‘third space’ and for everyone – all day and every day.”
Is there a more depressing trend than churches becoming coffee shops?
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Her legacy is welcoming at least 800,000 refugees to Germany. Yours is inciting a Nazi to murder a woman who advocated for refugees.
Terrible news from Berlin but no surprise. Events like these will be the Merkel legacy.
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In the phrase "a lack of", both "a" and "of" have been highlighted as plagiarism. When journalists start wanging on about putting things through Turnitin, this is why academics raise an eyebrow.
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@deansmele10
@OwenJones84
since when have men needed a certificate to assault us in bathrooms????
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@tomescritt
the only time we'd have handwritten essays would be in closed exams, and we currently don't have any closed exams on the degree, so no!
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Article 3 of the European Convention of Human Rights, which is enshrined in UK law as part of the 1998 Human Rights Act, forbids the deportation of people to countries where they will be tortured or killed. Those “activist lawyers” are just... lawyers. Fuck the Home Office.
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Incredible to see, whenever Sadiq Khan is mentioned on twitter, the number of white blokes from provincial towns with 43 followers who are *absolutely convinced* that Sadiq Khan is Mayor of a city overrun by “gang culture and knife crime”.
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Quite apart from how deeply infantilising this is to people who can get married, have kids, join the armed services, take on thousands in student debt, work as lawyers, doctors, teachers, but still not understand their own gender identity: Shamima Begum isn't yet 25 years old.
I stopped paying attention for an evening and missed The Times announcing that the British government has decided to define anyone under 25 as a child
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I am so tired of women being asked to split themselves open and perform their pain and trauma publicly over and over and over again to prove that we are telling the truth.
Join us in using
#wheniwas
to share your first experience of sexual harassment or assault and prove how prevalent the problem is and how early it starts
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“Cambridge teaches accurate history” is not the sick burn you seem to think it is
Cambridge teaches students that Anglo-Saxons did not exist as a distinct ethnic group as part of efforts to undermine “myths of nationalism”
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idk, I'm uncomfortable with the idea that 'masculine' approaches to the workplace are always the right ones and that women need to adapt to less 'feminine' responses. maybe sometimes collaborative and consensual working is better! I dunno, does that make sense?
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We should be deeply ashamed of these statistics, as a nation.
Almost half of Britons (49%) say they have little (22%) to no sympathy (27%) for the migrants who have been crossing the channel from France to England
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A squirrel once stole a baguette literally out of my mouth as I tried to eat my lunch in Russell Square, but I still mostly blame myself because I was very hungover and too weak to resist.
Have you experienced a petty crime in London? Click to tell us your story.
(Your submission may be selected for publication.)
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On the plus side I played Patriarchy Chicken on the train platform this morning, and a man in a suit was so confused that I didn’t step out of the way for him that he stopped dead in front of me and flapped his mouth like a fish
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Academics should really be speaking out about this. It’s bad research!
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you’re going to eat it at 4pm, in the new mealtime you’ve invented. wearing your pyjamas and five cardigans.
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The awarding of U grades in all this has been one of the most pernicious unfairnesses. Deciding the lowest student(s) in a class would have completely flunked an exam that DID NOT EXIST because a kid in that school did two years ago is inhumane.
Essentially, several years ago someone got a U at her school for maths.
She was ranked bottom of her class for maths. She was still predicted a B or a C but was at the bottom.
Ofqual decided, therefore, someone from the school needed to get a U and it was her.
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On another essay it has highlighted, in red, every footnote and in-text reference to
@GabeMoshenska
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I GENUINELY used 'a WW2 plane bombs the White Cliffs of Dover with poppies' in a seminar years ago as an imagined example of possible future bad-taste jingoism. I can't believe someone found my notes.
It is 100 years since the first two-minute silence was observed on Armistice Day on 11 November 1919.
Today, an original Second World War Dakota dropped 750,000 poppies over the White Cliffs of Dover.
Read more on
#RemembranceSunday
commemorations here:
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(It's important to note -- for the nervous students QTing the individual tweet in particular -- that I definitely don't think the original essay is 11 per cent plagiarised and I'm ignoring the score. Turnitin is a robot but your lecturers are humans!)
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Statues are not neutral spaces of “history”, statues of individuals can pretty much only be read as positive depictions in the context of what statues are for and how they function, leaving a statue standing is as political as pulling a statue down.
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small brain: make-up is anti-feminist
big brain: make-up is empowering!
galaxy brain: the demand that women should question every little aspect of their lives in a desperate audit of what is or is not a tool of the patriarchy is, itself, a tool of the patriarchy
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yes it’s madly terfy but it’s also the sort of a mistake that a six year old might make???
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not saying the Overton window has moved but Rory Stewart literally ran to be leader of the Conservative Party five years ago
On what planet is this a balanced panel to discuss politics? I know it’s Channel 4 but this is something else.
5 people who are openly left wing activists or Labour Party commentators and then the poor Clare Balding who will have to listen to them all night.
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yes yes Isaac Newton, but he didn’t have the internet or coco-pops.
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people keep saying Dominic Cummings is a political strategic genius like Bismarck but Bismarck once shut himself in a cupboard when he was trying to flounce out of a meeting and then stayed there because he was too embarrassed to come out
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At this point, there’s basically an inverse relationship between how much someone is wanging on about the Second World War and how much they actually know about it.
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Genuinely fascinated by how much centrists hate Shelley’s poetry when they think it was written by Corbyn. It says a lot about cultural capital, and about who is allowed to enjoy The Arts, I think!
Rise, like lions after slumber
In unvanquishable number,
Shake your chains to earth like dew
Which in sleep had fallen on you -
Ye are many—they are few!
Pre-order your copy of 'Poetry For The Many' here:
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“white” is not a category of oppression. If white working-class pupils have been neglected, all working-class pupils have been neglected.
The use of terms including "white privilege" may have contributed to the "neglect" of white working-class pupils in the education system, a Commons committee has found
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“But this person, I believe very strongly, so do a lot of people… is an open secret, is a perpetrator of sexual assault… I, in front of loads of people, in the format of the show said to this person’s face that they are a predator, again and again."
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Only ONE PERSON can write about gas masks, and we must never mention him again
@GabeMoshenska
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oh my loves, it is possible to have a conversation about the gendered inequalities of domestic labour and still not require working class women to visit multiple houses and use public transport during a pandemic
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"Operation Save Big Dog", this government is run by a sentient team-building paintball weekend called Olly who goes to the rugby at Twickers, does coke at the weekends and believes he works BLOODY hard
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L is for legs / L is for legs
Ryan Giggs trial, day 10.
Another poem.
Gushing messages between Mr Giggs and Kate Greville continue.
During which, he called her “the jam in my doughnut, the salt in my tequila, the truffle in my pasta”.
And, more Ryan Giggs poetry.
Live here -
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