Mark Robson

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True, and thank you.

Applications are generally fine - it’s how we cope if we find people are leaving without notice just as teaching starts …

Somewhere there’s an algorithm that thinks ‘ad Vance’ equals progress

Depends on the model for delivery, but basically, yes for big cities. Nottingham did this well, Manchester less so (lived in both). Needs partnership where overspend / delay is built in to bid costs so that every partner has interest in making it work on time and in budget.

Almost?

Dear @bbc
Perhaps when you screen stories apparently supporting victims of sexual abuse, you could mention that the government has just welcomed an adjudicated sex offender, Donald Trump, without any comment

FT Editorial: "Unless the Israeli government agrees to an immediate end to the war and a surge of aid into Gaza, western countries should be sanctioning Netanyahu and his government." www.ft.com/content/69d5...

Has she not done a cybersecurity awareness course? Does she also have a tattoo depicting the plant pot under which she has hidden her front door key on her left buttock?

Have none of these people watched Bond films?

He thinks I am, and I quote, Magnificent.

Our then management used exactly that phrase when things were at their worst in Dundee

Great idea to have a direct London-Berlin train, but until they offer cheaper, reliable and more comfortable trains within the UK, it won’t be an alternative to flying for anyone north of Leicester or west of Reading.

Cut off. As with monarchs.

Never found a better way than pressing a clove under the flat blade of a big knife. Whack, peel, cut of its head.

Still love that he was once turned down for a job on a broadsheet- can’t remember which- because, his rejection letter said, they had a policy of only hiring people who could spell their own first names

If this is accurate, WeTransfer is unusable for professional creative work. Would violate most work-for-hire contracts to share copyrighted material with a third party like this.

And look at the invention of the Blur spin-offs compared to the Gallagher Bros pubrock stagnation

AI as the route to ‘competitive dominance’! What could possibly go wrong?

Senior Israeli official says all Palestinian adults in Gaza 'should be eliminated' Deputy parliament speaker Nissim Vaturi also called for the destruction of Jenin, warning that it will soon be turned into Gaza

There are many, many recent moments that I'd like to see all the people professing to be deeply outraged by Bob Vylan comment on. From columnists & politicians to the Chief Rabbi. (Perhaps they have but I can't find any...)
I'd probably start with this one.
www.middleeasteye.net/news/senior-...

Smells like Octogenarian bigot

Theologically, there is a problem with Prada

Worth holding out for the Papacy?

Apropos of something very specific to my tenuous hold on a profession: in what universe does someone presented with a choice between declaring themselves incompetent or corrupt by a failed Scottish Tory not say ‘I reject the premiss of the question’. Who qualified how as a university principal?

In a turbulent world, good that some things remain reliable: another predictable delivery failure from @royalmail.bsky.social

This is the approach to mathematics that allows people to think that thoughts and prayers compensate for school shootings

Sometimes a quiet point of resistance to the simplifications of politics might lie in the deceptive simplicity of art.

Is there a less ‘poetic’ word than suboptimal?

And yes, I know the rhyme scheme is suboptimal