Representative of what? Of the 2024 electorate as a whole, or of the voters for each party?

Meanwhile, YouGov is biased against the Green Party, Plaid, and the SNP.

Yeah, it is awful. But it used to be awful in an attention-capturing way...

You sound like my ex.

Oh dear. Kemi made Katie Lam out of line with party policy retrospectively...

My view: treatises on the sphere came to be seen as cosmographical texts in the sixteenth century, but there's little evidence to suggest that that category would have been applied to Sacrobosco's text when he wrote it. De sphaera was considered an astronomical text.

I like the source on the social ills of cochineal farming in Tlaxcala, 1553, in the Taylor & Mills anthology on Colonial Spanish America. There are some fun illustrations of the business of brushing the beetles off the cactuses in some later digitised manuscripts that can be used alongside it.

The novels in the trilogies all work as standalones, so not necessarily.

Have you read any Robertson Davies?

So... The link between teaching and research is so important that we're going to break the connection between them across the sector except we want the research specialised institutions to also deliver the best teaching too. Uh huh.

That is distressing just to read about... We are going to need even more kindness, respect, and empathy in the sector as it is pummelled by hostile forces, not less.

I am sorry to hear this, Laurence. I hope you find that way forward.

Academic rule of conduct #79: if you publicly pose a question to which there is yet no good answer, or identify a gap in the literature that needs to be filled, it is your responsibility to carry out the work required to remedy the situation.