Lizzie Seal

My daughter today: ‘It was fun but also quite boring’

Who says language has to mean anything

Routledge International Handbook of Historical Criminology | Lynsey Black Call for titles and abstracts! The Routledge International Handbook of Historical Criminology edited by me, Esmorie Miller and Lizzie Seal If you’re interested and would like to submit a chapter abst...

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Obvs I was at school decades ago but this stuff is always framed so weirdly. When I learned about ‘other cultures’, it was to learn stuff, not pass judgement on whether they were good or bad. I assume it’s still the same

The crisis in HE means thousands of Labour voters are losing their jobs and the Labour government can’t be bothered to pass comment

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The reliable rudeness of the British Library

Imagine being right wing in the way that you have to pretend Peter Thiel is a ‘thinker’

I don’t know much about Jim Ratcliffe, but can’t a billionaire afford a haircut?

The whole policy towards HE belies it

A mistake people make in relation to Matthew Goodwin is to attribute any seriousness to him. He realised he could position himself for a particular kind of public career and did it. That’s it

One the amazing things about this piece is that the author mentions a bust of Bari Weiss in the library as if it’s not deeply weird

Was Jenrick defecting to the Greens?

2026 a joy and no mistake

Ebooks, please let me hover on footnotes/endnotes as standard

It’s ‘kidnapped’, not ‘captured’

The Divine Comedy one is really nice, fao gen x indie fans

Peter Buck of REM swiftly looked away when he realised I had noticed him

What Your Favorite Author Says About You (Behind Your Back) Agatha Christie: “I bet I could murder them and get away with it.” Ernest Hemingway: “For sale. Two testicles. Never used.” George R. R. Martin: “H...

Mary Shelley: “Definitely not a real goth. SMDH.”

Ralph Ellison: “Oh god, not them again—quick, hide!”

Jack Kerouac: “Even I think this guy is a bit much.”

Just had to sit down and take some deep breaths. Bought a book of first class stamps

Impressed by the superhero like confidence of people who book one half of a sofa at the cinema

Appreciate Booking dot com asking if I’m ‘excited’ to stay in a hotel just outside Birmingham (for the purposes of visiting my Mom’s grave)

Have ‘No More I Love Yous’ by Annie Lennox stuck in my head. It’s been stuck there since 1995

Thank you! I wonder how often the police used mesmerists

Ooh, details

I feel they are ahead of us on that score

One teenage boy to another on the train ‘You shouldn’t talk to your Mum like that’

Then

‘Or you won’t be able to get what you want’

Fish and chips included. Wonder if she’s ever had a pizza

Sass

Not sure I’d make a version of me? Like why not Sabrina Carpenter if the idea is just a deepfake to deliver content (I realise this might not be the most pressing issue)

It’s undoubtedly a strong mixture of