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I do hope Austria v Spain is known as the Habsburg Derby. Whoever loses, I’m sure they’ll take it on the chin.

"That's was Vomiting and the Tube of Flesh there." #SSHM2026

Venus and Serena, or as they're collectively known, the Tennisy Williams

Labour can threaten a £10k charge on migrants and still it’s never enough for the hard right. Perhaps there’s a lesson here? 🤔

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It's hard to express how little you must care about the social, intellectual and cultural history of the world to be earnestly calling for the humanities to be "depoliticised".

Will be playing Candy Crush in the John Snow tonight by way of tribute

YES. This is what the word pragmatism means. So many use it as a euphemism for negative. e.g., Frank failed at Spurs because he WASN'T pragmatic. He didn't adapt to the hand he'd been dealt.

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Well, that's the first time it's ever taken me 30 minutes to get through passport control to *leave* Denmark through Copenhagen Airport. Plan your passage to the non-Schengen gates accordingly, non-EU-passport-havers.

And so, Penelope Keith goes to her grave having never faced justice.

I am glad the extended World Cup might give African nations a better chance to develop even further. It's a competitive confederation that didn't have enough slots to build momentum. (Just maths in a 32-team tournament. Reducing UEFA and CONMEBOL slots would have created other issues.)

It's actually very bad that nominally left Americans have settled on the idea that "Europeans" signifies a politically suspect category of people about whom one might legitimately say any old shit.

This would be a wonderful precedent to see Princeton UK (and other presses) emulate in the UK.

A few days left to apply for this. As the thread notes, this is the starting level but open to more senior people too.

I spent years on my university's IRB. 98% of researchers are basically ethical, and the IRB process is a frustrating layer of bureaucracy. 2% of researchers are war criminals, and what they're prosing to do is *shocking*. The bureaucracy exists because there's no way to tell in advance who's who.

Yes, I’m pretty sure we all use exonyms. There’s nothing inherently disrespectful about them. On a case by case basis what one calls any place is aesthetic and political. I’m not especially inclined to submit to Erdogan’s insistence on “Türkiye”, because I’m not inclined to submit to him on anything

Wait 'til you hear what different countries (and cities) names are in French, German, Spanish, Hungarian, Italian, etc, etc. I know there is a lot of English exceptionlism but this is not a peculiarly English phenomenon.

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Related to this - I do believe that a bachelors academic education isn't for everyone. I do think everyone should have the opportunity to give it a go. And they should have those same opportunities after they turn 20. And that our education system is much better with a diverse student base.

'It would be impossible to envisage a system where we could guarantee every graduate would see a premium, and the government would win on every investment in higher education teaching. Life, and risk, does not work like that for anyone.' 3/3

If you asked me, off the top of my head, to name a non-Oxbridge university in England synonymous with excellence in the Humanities - I would probably think of Exeter first. This feels like a very deliberate, targeted and ideological Bonfire of the Humanities

There is ONE thing I am looking forward to this heatwave: Pictures of paschal candles that have melted in churches. Here's an example from a few years ago. It's my favourite phenomenon. Because, well... Look at it.

Relocating the capital to Manchester would, regardless of the merits, be extremely funny

"Centrist" is only a thing in the current political imagination because they are the actual conservatives. You know, from when the word conservative meant someone who wanted to conserve, rather than members of a radical far right project looking to destroy the post-Second-World-War order.

as a committed centrist, it saddens me that both parties are falling captive to their extremes - the right to insurrectionist cultists who want to invade american cities, and the left to socialists who want better bus service

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Why does planning an essay feel like you're doing all the work before doing the work, Grammarly? Because learning the subject, figuring out what you want to say, and planning out of the structure of how to say it *IS* the vast majority of the work of writing. Any writer knows this. You do too.

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My caveat to this - which is not disagreement - is that Brexit was a symptom of a broken system propped up by a political class (politicians, media, etc.) that refused to acknowledge the world had changed since 1994. They can't reverse it because they can't see they've done anything wrong.

I mean, this is why people to the left of centre cannot have nice things. To frame 2019 as the "peak of success" is absolutely moronic. These people have a kink for losing.

So... since I left the country, Britain has had 4 Prime Ministers resign and a monarch has died. Only conclusion: I was keeping the place together.

I’m not a proportional representation nut but it is worth noting today that the only prime minister recently to last a full electoral term headed a two party coalition government Objectively, the first-past-the-post gives you stability and strong government argument has gone out the window

I would say, if it were the case that all the people on the left that he fucked over and threw out of the party were in fact able to bring down the prime minister, maybe he shouldn't have done that?

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It does seem massively different when the request comes from previously occupied places to drop the colonial names (e.g. Mumbai) than when the authoritarian president of a large nation tries to do it as a rebranding exercise.

To do some exonym discourse: it's quite funny how only English-speaking countries even slightly worry about a request to call a place Türkiye.

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Game 1: OK, that's probably Sweden through with that goal difference. Game 2:

As Dutch fans slowly make their way into the pub, it's time to ask the audience: Which is uglier? Danish or Dutch?

*laughs in C21 historian*

Miguel Almiron becomes the first player ever to get sent off for covering his mouth when speaking on the pitch AND the first to receive an overturned yellow card for mistaken identity after diving. HISTORIC.