Waterlogged Oxfordshire.
22.02.2026 13:07
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Waterlogged Oxfordshire.
Oxford buses have a reading light.
Not what we saw on the Beeb!
Everyday is a school day. I didn’t realise coverage was so restricted for that reason. Grim.
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Always! Just the absolute minimal time given & the hours of ice hockey & curling & waffle!
An absolute delight. Trying not to get too agitated by the BBC’s woeful coverage!
As laughs go, this ranks pretty high!
And in the running for the Least-Likely Jeremy Clarksonite on Bluesky is…
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@gabyhinsliff.bsky.social Agree with your argument, of course, but not sure about the claim universities have cut back on teaching. If anything, direction of travel opposite, & increasing under pressure from OfS.
I want to go on X so I can shout at @BBCSport
But I won’t
Dear BBC,
Team GB golds are great but all this waffle when live competition continues is really frustrating.
Yours etc.
Indicative of a) how communities can come to rely on universities as provisioning community services b) how a prestige project can become a liability c) how positive heritage narratives don’t pay the bills d) abt what constitutes legit use of student fee income
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Joan Wallach Scott piece, historian friends
Full of entertaining excesses, thoroughly enjoyable essay about an author the literary heroes of my youth told me I should read, but I never really did.
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Finally gone back. Appalling editorial decision.
Balding drivelling on.
What is the BBC doing?!
Have you read Frank Zelko’s ‘Make it a Green Peace!’? Some interesting material on exactly this theme…
Utter disgrace that 2012-2022 student cohort being shafted in this way. Other cohorts pay RPI on the loan (bad enough), they pay +3%.
To think that all of us who work in the sector had a substantial proportion of our salaries financed through this system is deeply troubling.
Whoop. Brilliant to see this out, Jay. Congratulations!
At seat screen on Spanish train showing speed - 304kmh.
Sitting by the window, arm and leg against the side of the train, can feel the flex in the structure of carriage as forces load and unload at 300 kmh. An expectedly physical experience.
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Sky was bluer & pinker than the image suggests.
Posted a couple of dodgy iphone pics on here.
Not all drystone walls are created equal.
Long wondered about the significance of the oak woods at Manaton Rocks. How much of Dartmoor was once like this?
Yes, I wondered if ’Ran’ will ever face a reckoning; also, further evidence of how posh the high spirits of ‘the 60s’ were. Good time to be just down from Oxford. Touch of ‘Marquis’s Son Unused to Wine’ about the court case.