Tanaya Sarkhel

I propose to make universal the old policy of the Blackfriars conference at the American Shakespeare Center:

If you do not end your paper on time, you will be forced to exit, pursued by a bear. Literally, a bear will come take your paper from you.

So what’s the secret here? Kevlar pants? Steel-plated quad guards? Why is he not screaming in lacerated agony? #WinterOlympics #BladesofSteel

Torvill and Dean Gold Medal ice dance Bolero 1984

“Torvill-and-Dean-1984-Sarajevo” is the #TeamGB ice dance equivalent of 1966…
#WinterOlympics

Just straight up boycott Ray Bans and all who wear them

Curling Team GB down 3:8 to Sweden 7th end

Watching curling from behind a cushion
Yes, CURLING #anxiety
#WinterOlympics

YouTube video by TheSaucersApprentice Dudley Moore LIVE "Beethoven's Colonel Bogey"

Listening to the Beethoven piano concerto on R3 reminds me again how brilliant Dudley Moore's Colonel Bogey was.

Court upholds return of Oxford surgeon who harassed colleagues James Gilbert, who was based in Oxford, was previously suspended for sexual harassment.

Reacting to the Court of Appeal judgment in the James Gilbert case, our VP, Prof Vivien Lees said: “Staff targeted by James Gilbert’s behaviour will feel disappointed by today’s Court of Appeal judgment.”

More from the BBC: https://ow.ly/MM1q50Y9WsN

Opening Ceremony Milan Winter Olympics

BBC playing the sound so low … or I’m going deaf… yikes no Hazel Irvine at massive volume #WinterOlympics #OpeningCeremony

Doing well.
2 out of 2 justifications for some of my established rituals which drive the Child mad:
1) build in at least one extra train ahead of the appointment time and
2) brown people *always* need the protection of a receipt at self-checkouts

Have they washed it in coffee?? 🫣

Doctors’ strike helped forestall NHS winter crisis, say health leaders Senior medics who covered for younger colleagues said to be more confident and quicker to discharge patients

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Good luck to anyone starting the year with a new health regime. Here’s how mine always goes.

Don't say 'I told you so' Stuart, it's unedifying.

'Superflu' looking very much like normal flu.

Worst flu season since... last year.

The word Perilous

Hmm… 👀

Citation from New Years Honours List for Scarlett McNally OBE, for services to Medicine, Surgery and the NHS

🎉Huge congratulations @scarlettmcnally.bsky.social OBE!! #NYHonours @collegeofsurgeons.bsky.social

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Letter summoning for jury duty

Marvellous. Another week of cancelled operating. Suppose kinda glad they’re not abolished yet though… #JuryDuty

Thank you - it’s no joke at this age cranking the brain up again but hey, the rage was strong

I hear you. Have just* submitted dissertation entirely fuelled by rage. Powerful motivator

*4pm today

Struggling with this quite a lot tbh #jurytrials

😂

The Child has asked me to desist in my commentary on Danny Mac as apparently I’m ruining the what’s left of her childhood… #Strictly

H from Steps

Hmm. H in his Jedward-era…

#Strictly #Steps #Blackpool

A former UK prime minister held responsible for tens of thousands of deaths while the US president calls for elected politicians to be hanged.

A jolt of a reminder that law and policy are ultimately about life and death.

And politicians are often not up to dealing with such things.

Here's my plea to the government, media and everyone else to stop treating NHS administrators as a problem to be eliminated, rather than the glue which holds the whole organisation together.

This really the cracking of speeches: a banger.

Worth reading in full.

Two from four couples in the bottom two for the dance-off

Nope. Still don’t like this.
Feels brutal #Strictly #SCD

Christmas present, wrapped

First Christmas present bought, wrapped and labelled

Now to hide it somewhere impossibly safe, never to be found again…