Plashing Vole

Maybe.

Same for me. They’re a joy and good for the younger students to be around.

I encourage my students to do this too. Hopefully some have a go.

Book: A Very Vexing Murder by Lucy Andrew.

I’ve had so little time for private reading this week that all I’ve managed is Lucy Andrew’s Austen-world crime thriller A Very Vexing Murder. Enormously good fun, a bit cheeky, deeply knowledgeable about JA’s work and a great character in Harriet Smith. Perhaps a tad lengthy.

I feel for those students’ successors at UoB now, knowing their VC thinks they shouldn’t be there.

The more of them the better for everyone.

I’m sure you can plead something in micturation.

No longer wanted on board.

Anyone remember the news stories about Trump meeting oil companies, demanding massive donations and promising them whatever they wanted?

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Very glad you are. I wanted an Ireland win but not a walkover.

Tells you a lot about their imagined audience.

An in-game ad. About PDFs. With a faux-soul song about PDFs.

Never mind the wokies, the hipsters or whomever else has been accused of hastening the end of civilisation. *This* is the low point.

#IREvWAL.

Admirable work.

I always fancied teaching there. We scattered my old English teacher’s ashes in the garden of the law school - he had a heart attack just after starting a PhD in children’s human rights.

I suspect lots of the staff do. It’s just him and his team not wanting to do enough work.

Very relieved on your behalf.

Ha ha ha no.

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It’s difficult but good for my soul.

Agreed.

Absolutely. He probably hasn’t noticed the existence of the several widening participation universities near his campus either.

Actually that was a wise decision.

Damn right.

Absolutely. Having them in the room is great for everyone.

Good idea. I’m hoping the Guild of Students have a stern word with him on behalf of people who’ve been publicly written off as undeserving of a place.

I am not feeling a scintilla of schadenfreude at the news that the senior manager who passionately defended doing business in dictatorships is stuck in one dictatorship while another dictatorship’s drones rain down explosives on his location. That would be deeply uncharitable and unworthy.

You’ll never get to be a VC with that attitude.

And they’re the ones who actually meet prospective students. He’ll never have an uncomfortable conversation for the rest of his career.

That’s him.

I do feel sorry for UoB staff, saddled with this embarrassment as the public face of the institution. Mind you, that could be said of a number of universities.

FFS. Idiots.