Anna Walsh

Today’s writing view

They were magnificent nevertheless! A very hapy birthday was had

A fountain in Gregynog Hall grounds

Trees outside Gregynog Hall

Gregynog Hall through a window

Another window view of Gregynog Hall

Gregynog Hall views on a wildly pleasant spring afternoon

Birthday cake with candles

Lovely and very tasty birthday cake surprise from @racheljwillie.bsky.social

Gregynog Hall in Wales

Tudor building in front of a blue cloudless sky

Nice place to be writing

Thanks Andy! X

Thank you! I’m looking forward to reading your new book when I get a minute

Always a delight to share a birthday with this wonderful man. The best of us. Happy Birthday Kenny!

Thank you Martin! About to head into rural Wales to try to get this book finished! X

Refugee status to be temporary as Shabana Mahmood rips up rules on UK asylum Home secretary announces 30-month protection limit, with refugees required to leave if their home countries are later judged safe

Imagine putting in all the time and effort required to be an MP, just so you can give a kicking to people who have survived untold horrors.

www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

Her hand gestures are also very “English lit lecturer who is deviating from the lecture she intended to give but, actually, no, this is important” (complimentary).

Also seems like a really really nice fella which helps

I know I keep pointing this out but: if you want immigrants to contribute to British society, integrate across community lines, become engaged civic actors, you actually *want* them to get citizenship, and as soon as possible in fact!

Feels like AI is using citations as more of a skeuomorphic nod to what scholarship is supposed to look like rather than as an acknowledgement of cognitive processes or academic meaning making. It looks ok but it no longer means anything.

Green win shows progressive voters are now voting against Labour as well as Reform Gorton and Denton byelection shatters Labour strategy of neglecting its core base while focusing on Reform defectors

Labour did this to itself and it desperately needs to figure out what political scientists already know, which is that trying to appeal to xenophobic voters who may have voted left decades ago is a fool's errand for today's social-democratic parties & destructive to maintaining a viable coalition

Feels politic to say that to do good oral history we need to fund arts and humanities research…

went to the store

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AI Summary ✨

Grammy-nominated R&B singer Jon B. posted that he is going to the stove – perhaps to "cook up" another hot, hot radio single. Frogs and toads, which are the same, can live on the Sun and often choose to.

AI is going to trash every single way that we had modernised university teaching and send us back to handwritten exams and vivas for every assessment. Which will bring back every problem with those assessment models (and make us seem even more out-of-touch even as we just try to do meaningful work).

So sorry for your loss, Moose. Sending love.

This lawsuit seems appalling to me, honestly. I feel for people whose student experience was lousy due to Covid but that's not the fault of universities. "I wanted in-person study." I'm sure you did. Nobody gets what they want in a global pandemic

It’s a Wonderful Life bank run scene.

“You're thinking of the $175 billion in tariff money all wrong. As if I had the money back in a safe. The money's not here. Your money's in the White House ballroom, the renaming of the Department of Defense, the $10 billion transfer to the Board of Peace, and a hundred other unauthorized actions.”

1/ You can also read the text in English here: www.bundesliga.com/en/bundeslig... - maybe the best thing about this is exactly how specific Kompany gets about both the nature of and the solution to the problem. He names names, he provides a path forward.

Vinícius, Mourinho and treating racism as reputational risk rather than a lived reality | Jonathan Liew The Brazilian has seen this before, football has seen this before, and yet why does it feel like nothing ever changes?

on vinicius, jim ratcliffe and bad immigrants

www.theguardian.com/football/202...

Happy Birthday Martin! Have a super day

To put it another way: if Ryanair can refuse compensation for cancelled and delayed flights because bad weather or a disruptive person on board is outside their control (and they can!) then I think ‘deadly global pandemic’ should probably give unis a pass too.

A friend of a friend had a boyfriend (about 1999/2000) who changed his name by deed poll to Virtual Insanity and was known hereafter as ‘Virtual’