Jonathan Liu

Utter woke nonsense decision

I’ve found it a little sad how many young people I speak to view Remembrance Day as militaristic and colonial. To me, it was always linked with the tragedy and sacrifice of the world wars, not at all celebratory. My friend was criticising the uniforms, does he expect veterans to be in casual dress?

This is what Karl Popper was warning us about with the paradox of tolerance

Wait, Sam Bidwell is working for both Katie Lam and Robert Jenrick…

Why Wikipedia editors have deleted entries from the “List of unusual deaths”: “hippos are extremely dangerous and very aggressive and there is nothing unusual about hippos killing people” “the man was working on the toilet, making his death inherently less strange than if he had been using it” “no longer an unusual or unique occurrence” regarding impalement by beach umbrella “being hit by multiple motorcycles in a race is not an unusual death” “fatalities involving objects or animals being launched into oncoming traffic are considered commonplace” regarding a Canadian couple’s fatal collision with a “flying bear”

recently discovered that wikipedia volunteers have a hilariously high bar for what constitutes "unusual death"

Losing the best deep professor of the ball in the world is an underrated aspect of why we’ve been so poor this season.

The cancellation of HS2 to Manchester the one big bad blot on his tenure. Incredibly shortsighted.

Or living somewhere like Japan where there are hot spring baths everywhere and a big part of everyday culture

I remember when they were renovating Big Ben you’d occasionally get posts like “they’ve got money to repair a clock, but not money to replace cladding after Grenfell”. But “dragging feet on actions to prevent tragic fires” is something MPs are consistent on, even when they’re the ones at risk

Basically the thesis of this brilliant book.

To read Katherine Rundell’s The Golden Mole is to stop every page to marvel a beautiful turn of phrase or to double check some unbelievable fact. It’s easy to laugh about the ancients for their bizarre beliefs about animals but knowing how remarkable they are, those claims don’t seem so unreasonable

Putting an exhibit about St Paul in Athens’ most historic surviving mosque seems a little too much like revenge for centuries of Ottoman rule.

It’s pornography. Whether you deem it as a net positive or net negative, it is undeniable that it has an enormous cultural impact on one of the most important and intimate aspects of human life.

Basically what created Louis Theroux’s career

A paragraph that patronisingly describes what a party conference is.

Maybe - just a crazy idea, but bear with me for a moment! - the reason why the Lib Dems should not “get serious“ is that the UK’s most important media organisation covers politics in babytalk so much of the time?

The BMJ should introduce a personals section even if it’s only for my own bemusement as I skim over it over breakfast.

What’s been strange for me is seeing random British Christians who I didn’t think were political
reposting memorial posts to him on Instagram. Didn’t realise he had such sway amongst evangelicals over here.

If I were the BBC political editor, I would, maybe, mention some of the things said at the conference.

Quick, before the yanks see this and start bringing up the tired old clichés about British food

Feel like you could also include Goodbye, Lenin too. I’m guessing the last one is referring to Anatomy of a Fall?

Really great piece. I feel that ultimately artists can’t help but want to see how the world reacts to their work. Why else would Sanborn change the interview from being released posthumously to not and make sure the cipher’s secret is out there before his death?

I honestly can’t see us winning the league, it’ll take too long for our new players to bed in and our defence has been shaky for a while. Hoping for a PSG in that we turn it round second half of the season to become pretty much unstoppable for the champions league.

The art of persuasion: how top AI chatbots can change your mind Research shows large language models have developed the ability to powerfully influence users

So is this because people just love flattery and all these AI are sycophants or is there something deeper in innate trust of a machine over humans who we always hold a small degree of natural suspicion of? on.ft.com/47t8SYb

‘We’re not just storage’: inside Cambridge’s museum collections Jonathan Liu takes a peek behind the scenes of Cambridge’s museums to explore their hidden collections

My last final foray into student writing here:

www.varsity.co.uk/features/30039

Met a leftist corbynite who was also a massive Singapore fan and was trying to defend their political structure excluding Malays from the ruling elite. Just felt there was a tad bit of cognitive dissonance there. Lee Kuan Yew has the best PR of any 20th century historical leader.

Martin Scorsese drew these storyboards when he was 11 years old. They are for a Roman epic entitled THE ETERNAL CITY.

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Commentators: 'Labour's wasted its first year in office'.
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