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History, cricket, TV shows.
My generation just had Eddie the Eagle breaking every bone in his body by essentially falling off the end of the ramp.
February 16, 2026 at 8:44 PM
Honestly this is transforming my view of the Winter Olympics.
February 16, 2026 at 8:41 PM
I think I have a new favourite sport. no idea what is happening but pure entertainment.
February 16, 2026 at 8:40 PM
Did they seriously just describe Eileen Gu as the Luke Littler of skiing?
February 16, 2026 at 8:36 PM
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They should make a biopic about when young Gene Hackman and Robert Duvall shared a cheap apartment in NYC (with Dustin Hoffman living nearby) as struggling actors in the fifties, it could be called DUDES ROCK: ORIGINS
February 16, 2026 at 8:05 PM
The commentary on ‘big air‘ ski events on BBC is just so funny. I barely understand a word of it.
February 16, 2026 at 8:19 PM
The funniest thing is that without Athenians* writing about them nobody would have had given the Spartans any thought
*OK Herodotus is just a resident foreigner. But basically…
And then Spartan Oliganthropia enters the chat
February 16, 2026 at 5:43 PM
Shipping LNG to one of the most remote places on earth that has massive capacity for hydro, solar, wind AND geothermal must count as the ultimate in ‘anti-woke’ lunacy.
Government’s plan to import LNG for electricity generation would cost households and businesses up to $8.3bn

Same volume of electricity could be delivered through a $2.5b investment in rooftop solar panels and hot water heat pumps

evsandbeyond.co.nz/solar-heat-p...
Solar, heat pumps ‘lower cost’ path than LNG for electrification, says NZGBC
A new report argues New Zealand can meet its looming energy shortfall by accelerating rooftop solar and electric hot water
evsandbeyond.co.nz
February 16, 2026 at 8:47 AM
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It *literally* does.

Thats what it is. A document which says youre British.
February 15, 2026 at 1:38 PM
For those sceptical of human progress these three brilliant artisan cheeses were created within the last thirty years.
Cheese course: Lord of the Hundreds, Cornish Kern, and Baron Bigod
February 15, 2026 at 4:06 PM
Good enough for Thomas and Allito. ‘Pragmatic originalism’.
February 15, 2026 at 3:54 PM
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ICE using the same ruse that Ted Bundy used to kidnap people should tell you something.
CCTV footage appears to show DHS agents posing as people having car trouble in order to lure a target out of his house before arresting them. The target comes out and starts helping them before 3 vehicles surround the scene. The car "experiencing" trouble then drives off with them.
February 15, 2026 at 1:51 AM
My brush with cinematic greatness - as an extra who is very far in the background. I did get my hair cut by Helena Bonham Carter who was hanging out on the set.
Evening viewing recommendation? Watch James Ivory's sumptuously romantic adaptation of E. M. Forster’s MAURICE (1987) in our Yearning collection! ❤️‍🔥
February 14, 2026 at 5:57 PM
That’s Starmer f….inished then.
February 14, 2026 at 3:25 PM
There is some very weird atmospheric disturbance going on in Botley right now which is preventing water from falling from the sky and causing light to shine in my eyes.
February 14, 2026 at 10:25 AM
Seeing an esteemed colleague publishing a no doubt excellent history book on New Labour is a reminder of how I subjectively have trouble seeing that as history. Leading to my theory that we all have trouble believing history continues beyond the time when we started our first job teaching it.
February 13, 2026 at 4:54 PM
It is how you learn to recognise certain esoteric things overtime. Like the group of women sat outside the cafe with babies of roughly the same age being obviously an NCT group, which would have been a mystery to me 20 years ago.
February 13, 2026 at 4:38 PM
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The Dow is over 50,000!
February 13, 2026 at 4:26 PM
There are four basic plots:
What if man big?= Jack Reacher
What if man small?= The Hobbit
What if man sometimes big, sometimes small?= Antman
What if one man big another small?=Knight of the Seven Kingdoms.
February 12, 2026 at 10:58 AM
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Our next PGR/ECR event, “How to write a book review” with guest Dr. Daniel Steinbach, will take place on Wednesday, 18 February at 12:30pm EST/ 5:30pm GMT/ 6:30pm CET.

Any member wanting to register for the event can do so here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/how-to-wri...
How to write a book review
Learn how to write a book review from Daniel Steinbach, book-review editor of First World War Studies.
www.eventbrite.co.uk
February 11, 2026 at 5:49 PM
Coal power for the new battleships! Make America 1890s again.
February 11, 2026 at 9:22 AM
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Age verification?

Do you know how many poor souls I saw die of dysentery on The Oregon Trail?
Age verification?

Horace just went skiing.
Age verification?

It is pitch dark. You are likely to be eaten by a grue.
February 10, 2026 at 10:21 PM
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Of course crosscountry skiing should really finish with the competitors blowing up a Nazi nuclear plant ⛷️ #WinterOlympics
Skiathlon one of the small group of sports practiced solely by IT consultants and folk who work for the Big Four Accountancy firms
February 7, 2026 at 12:35 PM