Charlotte Lydia Riley

“The Tories did open borders” is such a wild line. It’s impossible to answer any follow-up questions without immediately getting tied up in massive lies. And yet that is what they are choosing to do, with their historic majority.

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Reminds me of Swift’s Modest Proposal.

Congratulations Hannah!

Working on the difference between ask and tell atm which means I often hear D saying “I can’t *tell* mummy to eat that but I can definitely ask if she’d like to” etc.

In Singapore and had a 10 min conversation where I tried to convince the 4-yr-old I really didn’t know what a green button in the metro did. Thought they’d finally accepted it. Two minutes later: mummy, can I tell you something? (whispered into my ear) Do you know what the green button does?

okay, Ill bite.
What do you think the point of reading for and writing a literature review is? The process of reading and writing is crucial for THINKING. Your ideas are shaped by all of this, offloading it to gAI, no matter how "good" you think gAI is at it defeats the purpose entirely.

Some quick back-of-the-envelope arithmetic indicates that this "cash boost" will support the National Year of Reading by giving each public library enough money for a one-time purchase of two (2) additional books for their collections or cover approximately three (3) man-hours of staffing.

Oh this is a literal curfew?!

Nigel Farage lied multiple times at his press conference today - including saying no-one who voted Green in Gorton and Denton has a job and he's "certain" Reform won most British born voters in the by-election, based on zero evidence, and yet not a single journalist there pushed back on them

Yes, the salary difference is a real thing — there’s this assumption that we have some sort of pay agreement across the sector but a job at Cambridge that would have been an on-paper demotion for me would have wildly increased my salary. Even without the threat of redundancy!

Yes! “Speaking to chatbots as if they are real people and taking their advice” is posited as something that parents worry their children might be doing and… yes, but I’m also worried that the parents are doing that too?!

“whether mandatory overnight curfews would help children sleep better and what age they should apply to” is a real bullet point on this consultation

I know so many immensely talented people who are just not going to get jobs in academia. The number of post-docs and job openings is so much lower than just a few years ago. The conditions are brutal.

When assessing threats from fascism, the most important thing is not to assess how ridiculous those threats seem, but to assess the scale of the resources - both military and financial - that the fascists can use to carry out those threats. What seems ridiculous today can be executed tomorrow.

This but for economics: the quicker migrants become citizens the less the risk that employers can exploit them to lower wages (both migrants’ wages and natives)

If anything the reforms should go the other way: make the qualifying period for settled status/ILR shorter, and try to disincentivise people living in the UK for longer periods and *not* becoming citizens (especially if they are rich but paying their taxes elsewhere).

I know I keep pointing this out but: if you want immigrants to contribute to British society, integrate across community lines, become engaged civic actors, you actually *want* them to get citizenship, and as soon as possible in fact!

🧡🧡🧡 sending tonnes of love, Julia and hopes for a swift recovery xxx

Ahhhh: was I right that the Democracy Volunteers coverage on the day was vaguely suss? Because this picture on their website made me pause.

Very clear that for Starmer, 'sectarian voting' is when British Muslims don't vote Labour, and for many others, it is just when British Muslims vote.

Yeah, he was. He was the best. (And I bet your dad is super proud of you, too. Dads!!!!!)

I wrote a thing about “dead cats” a while ago and concluded that people love saying this a) because they think it makes them sound sophisticated and street smart but also b) because they crave the feeling that there are people somewhere in control of what is going on, rather than simply chaos

god Sophie my dad died a year ago today and this is: too much!!!!!! (I love that bowl)

Congratulations!!!!!

'Because council tax is included in rent you can't register to vote' (which is nonsense) actually means 'please don't tell the council or HMRC that the property is let out'.

Basically a confession that the landlord is iffy, in the Rightmove listing!

Even in a very contemporary context, I think 80 per cent of British people lived in an urban environment after 1880 so even modern British industrial cities are: very old

I don't think calling the people who voted for the nice woman who thinks working hard should grant you a decent life unhinged extremists is going to work out brilliantly for Labour.

‘Coalition of socially Conservative working class voters and with middle class social liberals cannot survive an election campaign’. What does Keir Starmer think the Labour coalition is, or has ever been?

Yup, LLMs are so woefully bad at history, so I'm never trusting them with anything else... but I keep meeting smart people who "ask ChatGPT" for so many things, and it's driving me to despair

In a statement to The Crimson, Summers wrote that the decision to leave was “difficult” and that he remained “grateful to the thousands of students and colleagues I have been privileged to teach and work with since coming to Harvard as a graduate student 50 years ago.” “Free of formal responsibility, as President Emeritus and a retired professor, I look forward in time to engaging in research, analysis, and commentary on a range of global economic issues,” he added.

When academia's stars mistreat people, they're "punished" with relief from teaching, mentoring, and service responsibilities. This frees them to spend more time on the more valued work of research. And dumps less valued responsibilities onto colleagues, making it harder for them to become stars.