Especially not those who were his biggest supporters.

Due to staff shortages, wizards are developing bad backs.

It's the biggest grouping. Of that 64%, the next biggest group are the 21% who think the Conservatives best represent them, the 17% who don't know, and then the 16% who think it's Reform.

Even though this year's prize covers a period before Trump was in office, they're probably right.

Same deal asking for a copy of the candidate’s PhD thesis. You want to see a candidate for full professor’s first ever piece of research? Why?

I don’t generally like laughing at people for their appearance, but every one of the people pictured in this article look exactly as you would imagine. A mix of eccentric weirdos, would-be stock-brokers/estate agents, and Hitler youth lookalikes.

Most pandered-to demographic in electoral history, no party represents them, pfft.

I note that the essay itself doesn’t claim to be co-authored, but rather ‘written in collaboration with Professor Waldinger’, which suggests something much more ambiguous. It also isn’t a research paper, just a think piece summarising academic research. Unless there’s another piece I’m missing.

And while the #EU is confronted by numerous serious crises, this - using state power to prohibit people from calling a burger a burger unless someone is killed for it - is the issue European right has focused on.

If you aren't failing you aren't trying. Grad students and new faculty: the most prolific scholars are also the most prolific at getting rejected. Rejections suck but they are a big part of the publication process.

This was not a sample of academics.

The only other answers I've got are: do other things badly, and make yourself ill.

Reposting because I too need the answer.

If Goodwin asked his own polling company the answers would be: yes 97%, no 38%, jack of hearts, maybe eleventyfive%, sausages 3%.

Kemi insists that cheating the system is bad and the Tories will put a stop to it, which will alarm a considerable number of Tory peers, donors, and MPs.

I’m watching a Conservative Party political broadcast. Kemi is lauding British values of hard graft and putting the work in. Which is a strange thing to hear from someone famous for being slapdash and winging it.

Sky's Jon Craig just claimed Badenoch has had a good week & is improving. Joke of a political editor.

All clear, not about to have a stroke, hurrah.

“A beef tomato doesn’t contain any beef … Ladies’ fingers are not made of actual ladies’ fingers. Let’s trust consumers and stop this hotdog populism,” says Austrian MEP Anna Stürgkh

Ditto Shepherds pie

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Hopefully the next doctor chat will reassure me that there's nothing to worry about.

A routine eye test has seen me referred to the local hospital. I've had five scans of various types today, things blown and dropped in my eyes, and had three hours of waiting around. I'm very, very bored. I also regret thinking I'd grab lunch after going to the optician.

BBC4 is repeating Bryan Magee’s 1987 series, The Great Philosophers, and I introduce it next Monday 13th at 22.30. I remember being very impressed when it went out that my wonderful PhD supervisor, Myles Burnyeat, was in the very first episode!

355 MEPs voted today to ban the use of meat denominations like burger & sausage for plant-based products.

This is a manufactured issue. Consumers are not confused.

If there was ever clearer evidence of political decision-making being heavily influenced by the animal agriculture lobby. This is it.

Something grimly predictable about the way that the conversation about 'ripoff degrees' in the UK is always about degrees that aren't rip-offs, but are instead fairly obvious 'this student has chosen something unlikely to pay off economically' rather than the short tail of crap business degrees: