In 2005 UKIP were described as ‘BNP in suits’. Nothing about today’s announcement is surprising. What’s worrying is the inevitable paraphrasing of an absurd, unworkable, cruel policy to be offered by the Tories and a tweaked version to be offered by Labour….

Off we go

Wine hike

1 hour into a 24 hour journey from Messina to Dresden

Errr what is this???

UK Universities used to be so well respected you had people from all over the world to come to cold, rainy England and getting them to settle in random places like Loughborough. A genuine success for regional development and soft power. But whatever, I didn’t start a business so what do I know

Makes Change UK seem competent

Highlights of Italy

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The food in Bologna is amazing, the food in Florence is amazing, the food in Naples is amazing

Appeasing fascists is UK Government policy then….?

And is it just me or is there a certain intellectual laziness in how the UK is analysed and treated - as though it is a part of the US and all US developments are the same as uk ones. Plus not even bothering to check when elections are to be held.

Yes a completely bot and scalper-proof system…

Day two of a ‘no stress’ holiday. Thom Yorke better not let me down. Tomorrow is a wedding….

Finalmente in Italia

You give up almost your entire summer to write a research proposal and then on the ‘it’s finished and passed to admin for submission’ message only 2 of 12 partners respond, one of which is a thumbs up emoji

When the other cat is getting more attention…

When I say I like cricket I mean proper test cricket and none of this silly costume stuff

Farage is a traitor

Absolutely deep in proposal deadline stress but decided to add a few extra days to my Athens conference trip. 10 hour days from Tuesday….

In 1996 a similar experiment happened (not for a Top 5 team though) when Southampton signed Ali Dia. It lasted about an hour

Two weeks ago cat 1 swiped at a bee and ended up with a boxing glove paw. Today cat 2 decided that would be a fun thing to do too. I‘m never going to get this proposal done…

and not for the first time Lufthansa reschedule one leg of my journey so want me to cancel the entire itinerary...

JD Vance is a [redacted]

This should be a question on the citizenship test…. www.saechsische.de/lokales/dres...

Dresden by night. Seemingly the only person in Saxony not seeing Roland Kaiser.

I’m sick so here is my medical team

Nearly 3 hours past the deadline for evacuating and the bomb cannot be diffused yet because people are *still* in the restricted area.....

Once again people continue to drive cars in the evacuation zone so we cannot go home...

Evacuation due to bomb disposal. What is the best option for cats?

25 days of test cricket comes down to whether a partnership of three functioning arms between two people can get 8 more runs...

A gig in Dresden! On a Sunday…

Watching the Test Match with my buddies

😡

Agreed

After “England’s greatest sports team was the 2010-13 cricket team” I’m running on empty

On the one hand it would be great if Germany became a rugby nation. On the other, if they ever did become good at the sport we’d have to pay to watch it

This is us, guys, or rather me now that Lady Almagro has a grown up job. If you're an academic I'd ask you consider whether it's a good idea to use AI for translating/revising your work, bc a) it's not reliable for complex texts, and b) I'd like to keep working 😀 cregannatranslation.com/home.php

Test cricket is the best sport. Day 5 of the test match and still don't know for sure who is going to win. Probably won't be a draw now.

Amazing!

Italy are on the verge of qualifying for the World Cup…. …of T20 cricket, Forza!

My flagship paper showcasing 3.5 years of painstaking analysis and writing has had three desk rejections and now a confusing and conflicting rejection (one reviewer had minor revisions, the other outright reject). Luckily my job isn’t reliant on getting this published but it is becoming a chore…

Aww you guys! I have paper revisions to finish!

Will Italy beat England at top level cricket or rugby first?

Spring is back