When my kids are not well behaved I point at them and I say 'naughty, naughty, very naughty' like The Shamen in Ebeneezer Goode.

lol and she's not even part of the hard right party! well the wiki editors move fast

Your clue that this is a resignation speech for American donors is the line about the fact that people can't wear watches or jewellery in London.

Now this is a blast from the past…

“Gentlemen, this is democracy manifest! What is the charge? Receiving a bung? A succulent five million quid? Get your hand off my penis!”

Le Guin on the idea that there is a secret to getting good at writing.

The destruction of UK Higher Education is still being treated as a niche concern, not front page news like where Prince Harry will stay on holiday and what Trump said about a football match. Universities matter. The expected closure of smaller institutions will hit whole communities.

‘But you must believe me when I tell you that I have found it impossible to carry the heavy burden of responsibility and to discharge my duties as I would wish to do without the help and support of the money I love.’

That statement in full:

DEAR ITALY. ENJOY THE PERIOD WHEN YOU COVERED YOUR FLATS WITH THESE COLOURED TILES. REGARDS.

Oh and finally! The aim back in 2012 was for individuals to bear 60% of the cost of a degree, and the state 40%. Anyone want to guess how much of the burden is estimated to fall on individual graduates now? Any guesses? 95%. www.newstatesman.com/politics/edu...

Becoming versed in the laws of physics or the experience of reading Great Expectations is not something that shows up on a resume or that meets some mechanical learning objective, it is the generous sharing of the confused wonder our cultures have painstakingly cultivated over time.

Employment, income, competencies, and test scores are not learning. They're sometimes vaguely correlated outcomes that happen alongside learning. Learning is something almost instantly recognizable between students and teachers, and it's marked by developing an appetite for curiosity.

Bologna opens a new library containing more than 32,000 books from Umberto Eco's private study - arranged exactly as he left them - a decade after his death.

It’s the 112th anniversary today of the first public performance by Douglas Byng, who went on to enjoy great success as a drag act, become the first person to sing Cole Porter’s Miss Otis Regrets, and introduce George, Duke of Kent to a lot of “pretty boys” 🧵

NEW at The Empty City On FIFA overturning the Balogun suspension A parable of a clever lawyer and a wise lawyer emptycity.substack.com/p/on-fifa-ov...

One thing that I suspect is now going to happen is that universities will realise how many academics have been self-funding research when less of it starts to appear.

Burning thoughts? Fresh perspectives? Ideas for a cluster? Send them our way!! We welcome submissions and queries from scholars of all ranks and institutional affiliation status. #Modwrite

Carnival in Southend-on-Sea, England “Der Querschnitt” magazine, 1936 digital.slub-dresden.de/data/kitodo/...

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Every lifelong football fan I've ever met is like "I think players are supposed to serve their suspension" and every adult convert is like "the Archon of Constantinople's epistle on the Pentacostine rites of the eucharist clearly states handballs are mandatory."

The Space Between Journal is establishing a "centenary celebration of literature" as part of the Book Reviews section! We are currently collecting short 1926 reading recommendations for the November issue. If you are interested in writing a contribution, please contact us for more details!

The thick plottens

Just realised it's graduation season so I should probably share these cool pins I make again. They make great gifts and help to fund my transition canopyrobin.etsy.com/listing/1841...

"print is a rent strike" @mattseybold.bsky.social

Please spread the word on this - it’s an incredible initiative! @modernistudies.bsky.social @moderniststudies.bsky.social

What is the Resource Exchange? A way for scholars in the humanities (or beyond) to locate scholars adjacent to local resources and scholars to share local resources, without just *knowing a guy who knows a guy*. We can do better. Maybe this is getting there? I don't code, so ... (contd..)

🚨🚨🚨 SCHOLARLY RESOURCE MUTUAL AID ALERT She said she would make the humanities resource mutual aid relay device herself. Hosting it because I've got the hosting capacity for now and it was the easy button. Presenting: The Resource Exchange! www.meganfaragher.com/resourceexch...

Either starting a mutual aid scholarly revolution or suffering from jet lag. More news at 5.

It has been! 🍾 bsky.app/profile/webs...

Yes... it was part of my PhD and am currently editing his writings for Lloyds Bank for the Complete Prose.

If this is going to take off… This is basically the thru line of my next book on professional managerial cultures by/ in the creative and intellectual classes, which is currently without contract because higher ed is collapsing faster than I can write.

I'm in favor of a FIFA schism, all national federations opposed to the Infantino disposition decamp to Mexico, declare the current tournament anathema, and play their own World Cup with a final in the Azteca

This will in fact remain my chief claim on posterity’s attention…

“By G–d, he drinks like a man!” Manliness, Britishness, and the Politics of Drunkenness, c. 1780–1820s yale.imodules.com/s/1667/image...

On this occasion I do in fact have to support this kind of silliness

Kafka in the insurance business....

More of this sort of thing. Was Einstein a GOOD patent clerk? How well did Philip Glass do as a taxi driver?

Deceptively genteel psycho-thriller of the classic era. Celia Fremlin always possessed a devilishly sharp eye for people and places but here piles on the tension and terror. Witty as hell but deliciously dark too. Rises steadily to a nerve-tautening climax and a killer twist.

MORE CHIMNEYS WITH SWIFT BRICKS PLEASE. TA.

"Remember" High on a hill, overlooking Padstow is a monument to those who fell during the great wars. #Photography #Cornwall

La FIFA fa chiarezza sul cartellino rosso con l'elastico per Folarin Balogun: pare che il calciatore sia nipote di Mubarak.

I have a theory that hangovers can be a good and valuable thing in this respect: they train you to do what you don’t want to do but should when it’s your fault you feel awful doing it. Giving oneself a hangover is thus on occasion even a moral thing to do as part of becoming a better person.

If someone hasn’t studied this, could they please?

Would now like to see reports on TS Eliot's competence in banking! (has this ever been studied?)

Henry Luce started Fortune magazine with poets because it was easier to teach them everything about business than to teach business folks to write. Anyway, let’s all tap the sign while they shut down humanities globally, shall we?

Thank you @modernistudies.bsky.social for this wonderful collaboration!

In the UK this is all considered a matter for the Parliamentary Commissioner for Standards. In Italy the Guardia di Finanza would be crawling all over his financial affairs and antimafia magistrates would be closely following his activities. They would quickly wipe that smirk off his face.

I have never seen a photo of someone before and decided immediately I’d follow their banner into battle, but there’s a first time for everything.

Splendid footnote