Professor Peter Matthews

Lasse Halstromm's greatest directing skill: smearing the lens with vaseline #TOTP

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My brother's nickname for Shania Twain was "Shite Twat" which is a tad cruel but also extremely funny #TOTP

I'd agree. There's enough dregs of Presbyterianism in Scottish culture to make it slightly less pronounced up here. Although as a working class PhD student of mine described, you're still the crab in the bucket when you get yourself educated

I think there's an inherent anti-intellectualism in British culture against being educated. If you're working class, you're getting above yourself; if you're rich your education should be narrow and train you to be a leader. I think it's why the OU was dismissed as a housewives uni in its early days

JFC. That's coercive control 😬

The return of Grammar schools made *some* sense as a populist policy 30 years ago, when parents could remember what they were like as some of them went to grammar schools. It makes NO SENSE now that virtually all parents went to comprehensive schools

That's the thing with Reform - they're a party made up of the group that used to be the fringe of the Tory party, where when they advocated stupid things like this, the sensible Tories then said "that's stupid and electorally unpopular" and ignored it

Exactly! And we can keep TEC's money 😜

This is actually just Canadians being really passive-aggressive to the survey fieldworkers...

As someone who's very pisky adjacent, GAFCON can just fuck off. The liberals in the Global Anglican Communion have spent decades trying to appease them and, sorry, the whole point of the church is it has no dogma

I'm not an AI refusenik. I've started using CoPilot quite a bit. But of all the potential use cases of AI in the office, this is not it

Microsoft Places | AI brings new life to flexible work YouTube video by Microsoft 365

Great, Microsoft have created an AI tool to help you avoid everyone else when you go into the office:
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Wealthy Dubai residents race back to UAE to avoid tax bills Some risk spending too few days in the emirate and too many in the UK

Tax exiles stuck in London desperately trying to get *back* to Dubai to avoid becoming tax resident in the UK? Just great stuff. giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...

my relationship with the Charltons is similar!

Although I loathe football, I'm related to the brothers Charlton

Even the postwar stuff in Bradford is very high quality. Some absolutely stunning examples of Festival modernism and Brutalism

Same story for Bradford!

yeah. My PhD co-author in this one did some research for journals, so we're hoping it will land more positively at the next one. But we shouldn't have to do this?!

thanks. It's the innuendo in it that is the worst

Looking afresh at these reviewers' comments on our paper on trans disabled people, it's even more obvious that the paper was rejected because of transphobia

There's probably an interesting wee critical policy analysis to be done on Dame Louise Caseyism and English public policy

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Reminds me of Swift’s Modest Proposal.

Restoring order at the border speaks to Labour values. Without that, we won’t be able to do anything else at all | Shabana Mahmood Our approach, unlike that of the Greens and Reform, is in step with the British people. They don’t want extremes – they want a system that is managed and fair, says home secretary Shabana Mahmood

Proper pant gnomes logic here.

I didn't know about the proposed changes to student visas. That'll have an interesting impact on university admissions 😬

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£100 in today's money, which seems to be the price of Eurostar too

Yeah, you'd just need to get yourself one the tagging guns and you're away.

Although I think today's shorts were definitely not worn because they're an interesting colour. Guessing they picked up the smell folk being in a drawer 🤷🏻‍♂️

🤣 what makes it even more puzzling is I tend to go for "new with labels"...

The stuff I buy from Vinted always seems to smell the same. Does everyone in the UK apart from us use the same washing powder?

Democracy Volunteers ‘Family Voting’ and how to prevent it in Future Elections Democracy Volunteers has been observing elections in the UK for 10 years. We have seen ‘family voting’ across the UK and we think it is important to explain more about it and how it should be possi…

I've been asking Democracy Volunteers, the organisation who said they saw family voting in the Gorton and Denton by-election, if they would give details about evidence or methodology. They have now released an updated statement - which is still quite vague.

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I just got an Instagram advert for Adidas knitted crochet shorts AND I NOW HAVE SO MANY QUESTIONS