Also this follow-up from a member of the body. x.com/drsaraebrown...

I came across this critique of the report, in case it’s helpful x.com/elliotmalin/...

Didn’t Victoria Brittain at The Guardian get into trouble after she allowed a Ghanaian figure to use her personal bank account? I remember when it was first reported, back in the 1990s, and it’s in her Wikipedia entry.

Thanks, but sadly no one is paying my conference travel costs any more! Will send separate email…

I still have a stash of Look and Learn.

I learned to draw a frog very quickly for Biology O Level. Used it a few times as a motif. Then, everyone got me frog merchandise for birthdays etc because that was supposed to be my ‘thing’. Eventually had to issue a stop edict. I still have the frogs (in storage), can still draw one very quickly.

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I think there’s another newsagent further down Junction Road that still sells all the Irish papers.

Thanks, Melissa! Mutual respect, hence comment here (rare for me). Was worried OP minimised concern about kneecap content (“what was there to be scared of” etc). Re speech, BBC makes editorial judgements all the time, in this case legal. I often disagree but not necessarily censorship. Anyhoo…

In case of doubt, Kneecap posted ‘Solidarity with the Palestinian struggle’ the very next day after Oct 7, 2023, and only doubled down since then. Meanwhile, here’s their heroes doing some actual kneecaping of Gazans the other day. Hamas have less support in Gaza than they do in the UK, it seems.

I’m surprised to see you amplify kneecap. Among other things, they praised Hamas for Oct 7. Glastonbury has felt like a hate fest this year.

There you go, assuming you know what’s in other people’s minds, and certain that you alone are right. Don’t you get tired of it?

This may be a factor?

‘When you’re a Jet, you’re a Jet all the way, from your first cigarette to your last dying day…’

People really aren’t very good at thinking about abstract categories, as in, ‘these things are all alike in x way, but differ from these other things in y way’. It first struck me after a few years of undergrad teaching.

I remember reading him in the 1970s; I still have the books.