Agree with this: again, the @englishassociation.bsky.social and the Common English Forum will be working on this too

This will be in the @englishassociation.bsky.social ‘s response (due Monday)

Oak mentioned 9 times in all. Mostly in that ‘advertorial’ way.

Based on this @russellgroup.bsky.social analysis which shows industry needs a wide range of skills - eg 40% of high-tariff graduates working in defence studied humanities and social sciences
www.russellgroup.ac.uk/policy/polic...

Do ya think ra-ra-Rasputin is sexy, caramel bunny?

It is!

Great piece!

Preface to the golden notebook?

A thing that very much annoys all members of my family is that whenever we see dog prints (eg in sand at beach; mud in park) I stop and say, in a tone of awe and surprise, “look, Holmes, the print of an enormous hound”

So in fact, it’s the opposite of dehumanising: it’s recognising the members of the body as the policy making body, and addressing them with the proper term. = democracy (however creaky) in action.

But that form of address is because the ‘conference’ is the final, highest policy making body of the party. It’s not a rally (like the Tory party) or a festival, it’s a huge, democratic committee meeting (with all the complexity+polticing that implies), so it’s like saying ‘members of the committe

Old men should be explorers!