Chris Smith

I see @markstout.bsky.social has liked this. Any idea who I'm talking about, Mark?

They aren't a conservative party anymore. They are a radical ethno-nationalist party with disturbing authoritarian tendencies.

Just had one of my students contact me, a first year, who has been reading about Kim Philby. He has even been reading the KV files when Philby was confronted by Nicholas Elliott in Beirut!

Students never cease to amaze me.

I dont know, it seems that the public are not backing Trump on this and are not buying the obvious lie that this is about undocumented immigrants.
So this goes two ways, Trump digs his heals in, in the face of bad numbers. Or he panics and tells his poodles to back down.

Is that true, though? I think it is the other way around. I think he understands full well reality but says what the racist, elderly base of his party wants to hear and to capture headlines.

Jenrick is a modern-day Enoch Powell minus the intellect.

Yep. A couple of years ago I read an excoriating critique of my work in a PhD thesis. Unfortunately the (now Doctoral-minted) candidate alleged of me arguments I did not make.

In that case, if a foreigner comes to the US and commits a murder, they are not subject to the jurisdiction of the US courts?

What a ludicrous position.

I was literally just in Birmingham. It was full of people of all religions and skin colours minding their own fucking business.

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Maybe they would have done better mass producing more of what they had without pissing away resources on massive white elephants like the Tigers or rocket programme?

I think people think of the Second World War in the way they do Dreyser Rifles or Long Bows. But the war was won not even on the strategic level but the logistical and economic. It doesn't matter what advantages a Tiger ace had, still dead in a broken down tank against six Allied tanks.

All of this kind of missed the point. Arguments over the finer points of which tank or whatever had 'x' tactical advantage don't really matter. Sure, the allies could have built amazing kit at great expense that could travelling a few miles before breaking down as the Axis did.

I mean the central claim is wrong, but forget that. The exception "save the atomic bomb" is so disproving of the entire claim as to make the whole thing hilarious.

"They had better tech, save our ability to build a super weapon"

Yeah, works for the Long Piddle Examiner.

Pretty sure this might be treading dangerously into libel territory here.

Does he? He spent a years peddling anti-vaxx bullshit. Has he ever acknowledged he and the Eye were completely, dangerously wrong?

This doesn't make sense. The text of the fifth reads all persons.

Also Harry Cole pretending he knows why the Kirk shooter did what he did. Fucking ghoul.

I think the tutee system itself is outmoded. Students increasingly see it as an imposition. I think that increasingly, this kind of work is on module leaders and course directors (I do both).

I agree, it is very hard to understand how this happened.

It's astonishing. The University's excuses ring hollow. There surely must be a system flaw here.

I dont think that is universal policy. I think it should be.

We've had some mad errors with various systems. What shocks me is that nobody noticed. Presumably the student knew and made it clear to lecturers and no resolution to an error by the University was implemented. That is mad to me.

Glasgow student took his own life after 'tragic' university error Ethan Brown, 23, of Coatbridge, was told he didn't have the grades to graduate in December 2024.

As a module leader and course director, I struggle to see how this can happen. Except that the RG over-recruit and there are so many students on courses nobody can monitor them.

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Terrible framing. An entirely belligerent GOP put forward a budget there was no was the Democratic Party could accept and then refused to negotiate. They, not the Democrats shut down the US government.

It isn't as if aggressive squatting like this is a new phenomenon.

I find the race now by those on the democratic side of US politics to paint the two recent shooters as MAGA or motivated by rightwing ideology as distateful as the MAGA gleeful efforts to label Kirk's murderer as a "leftist".

The fact is nobody yet knows their motive.

The spinelessness of Labour to concede the argument on racism is surely the end of any moral legitimacy to the Starmer project. He has to either turn the ship 180 degrees or go. He will cost Labour the election as the left of the coalition departs and he never wins back the once Lab Reform curious.

Can those prosecutors bringing frivolous cases against individuals to punish the President's enemies be disbarred? There need to be consequences.