Chris Stokes

Much like "crab", industrial music is constantly re-evolving from first principles basically anywhere where there's a bunch of metal and plastic laying about

YouTube video by Lorry Yan Tan Tethera (Opera) - Poor VHS Quality

Is it time yet for a new production of Harrison Birtwhistle's almost forgotten opera Yan Tan Tethera? Maybe even a recording? In honour of the librettist, another Harrison—Tony Harrison.
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Part of a screenshot from https://www.ukvocation.org/consecrated-virgins. It reads: 'To become a Consecrated Virgin, Widow / Widower, or Hermit, you need to contact your diocesan Bishop.' Statistics

In case you were wondering

I have no trouble believing there were enough fellows against expulsion to block a move in that direction in March. No trouble either believing there are easily enough now too. It's the advance announcement of the council meeting that boggles my noggin.

How did this happen? Was it a miscalculated bid by Smith to mark the end of his presidency next month by boldly reversing the decision in March to bottle it? Why on earth would you trail a meeting of council that could possibly reach this conclusion? Could it have been the aim all along? Could it?

His successor is Paul Nurse. This will be his second term, having been president from 2010 to 2015. Prince Andrew was elected FRS in 2013.

Snippet from D. H Lawrence, Women in Love. It reads: 'strange, crooning noise of unaccountable excitement. 'Now he's still!' she cried, seeing the rabbit settled down in a far corner of the hutch. 'Shall we take him now?' she whispered excitedly, myster-iously, looking up at Gudrun and edging very close. 'Shall we get him now?' she chuckled wickedly to herself.'

Women in Love:

On the local patch, a woman feeding the ducks told me she'd just flushed a sparrowhawk from the footpath, where she'd seen it dispatch a woodpigeon. I walked on & found the pigeon lying on its back, headless.

This side?
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A search for an odd phrase in the memo like 'English populist revolt' will locate the article below, which has a deal more in common with it. The author happens to lead a Policy Exchange programme called 'Future of the Left' that when 1st announced was led, says PE, by Glasman.
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Blue Labour's Jonathan Rutherford Is Helping No 10 Find Purpose, Energy And A Story To Tell Can Blue Labour help Keir Starmer’s government develop a clear direction and sense of purpose? Sienna Rodgers talks to Jonathan Rutherford, a polit...

Sienna Miller (3 May): 'In particular, he is understood to be helping with storytelling, in a way that will enable Downing Street to craft a narrative that holds everything together, giving it energy and the clear sense of direction many think is badly needed.'
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'Tables join people together but they also allow them to be separate.' Am racking my brains trying to think of a contraption that makes it possible for even just two people to engage with one another without the option of remaining separate. I need to read more sci-fi.

Search elsewhere for choice phrases in the memo & you find other stuff by the self same author. For example 'English populist revolt' takes you to archive.ph/c66jG, which shares much else with the memo besides.

My classroom policy on AI is: this is the only AI we will be using in the classroom.

This was in the Commons debate on Methylated Spirit on Thursday 14 February 1924, exactly 10 days before Kate hit the meths.

'towards the adoption of measures intended inter alia to make the liquid even more unpalatable than it is at present,' Samuel asks:

'Could not the difficulty be got over by reducing the duty on whisky, so that one can have wholesome stuff to drink?'

'attention has been drawn to the increased drinking of methylated spirit, and to suggestions recently made by the Liverpool justices in regard to the matter; and, if so, can he say what steps he proposes to take?'

After Mr Davies, presumably the under-sec in question, says, 'progress was made

Just because of its laterality of thinking on the problem of meths drinking, how's this from Arthur Samuel, Tory MP for Farnham (later first Baron Mancroft)? He's replying to a question in the Commons from Sir John Pennefather to the Under-Secretary of State for the Home Department—'whether his

Screengrab from pdf archive copy of page 10 of the Hull Daily Mail of Friday 7 March 1924. It shows one needs item. The text reads: 'DRANK "METHS." 'Appearing to-day for the 77th time, Kate Leonard was charged with being drunk and disorderly on February 24th. When asked where she got money from with which to get drink, she replied that she took methylated spirits.—She was sentenced to 30 days' imprisonment.'

One Kate Leonard was the subject of the earliest, on 7 March 1924, after making her 77th appearance in court. Drank meths she did.

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Is this a new first for Hull? Got distracted looking for earlier use of 'meths' than the earliest quoted in the OED, viz. 1935. In the online British Library Newspapers archive, the first seven, from 1924–28, appear in a single organ—The Hull Daily Mail!

The reason, of course, is that we have methylated spirits for our model. Meths and maths in BrE are virtual homonyms for the poshest RPers. Usians have to put up with denatured alcohol, five extra syllables of wind.

Unlike Samuel Johnson, who thought it was mathematick.
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Obie, the idiot dog, managed to surprise a lizard on our afternoon walk. Irish lizards shed their tails when surprised to distract predators as they make their escape... It will grow a new one but it does take a while... In the meantime, here's a wiggly lizard tail... #IrishFauna #Lizards

Anywhere except your garage, like, coz that's for storing other stuff in.

I found it in this paper:
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List 3 things you can talk about for 3 hours with no prep

1) Rainfall in Denley Moor
2) Spear & Jackson shovels
3) The colour of black pudding

Writing a novel— actually picking the words and filling in paragraphs— is a tremendous pain in the ass. Now that TV’s so good and the Internet is an endless forest of distraction, it’s damn near impossible. That should be taken into account when ranking the all-time greats. Somebody like Charles Dickens, for example, who had nothing better to do except eat mutton and attend public hangings, should get very little credit.

These very true words from Steve Hely have given me tremendous comfort over the years.

Love the story in a 2006 paper that in 2002 the OED entry credited a 1969 article as the ur text. On learning of this, one of the authors, Andrew T. Young, said he was 'mildly horrified' to be identified with pixels origins because 'I thought it was a vile neologism, and tried to avoid it myself.'