Lord, give us strength: will this never end?

5 Lumber Court figures throughout Songs of Seven Dials. I thought it was worth spending more time there, though - to think about the real #DopeGirls, how London was made modern, and how a cosmopolitan working-class community tried to resist the onward march of gentrification in the 1920s and 1930s.

He was deconstructed by an enemy shell

I mean Harold Macmillan, of course. The more recent ex-classicist in No 10 rarely finished his construe

The last PM we had who could do this was a great success

Incompetence-squared

Cancel that I was getting confused with 1965 and Haiti 1915-34

Dominican Republic?

If they really wanted to improve our productivity they’d give us AI to answer all their daft questionnaires

We are replacing our Department meetings with Round Tables.

What’s a career?

1) people like chocolate
2) there must be a lot of comparison of oranges and apples going in dataset (eg can we expect similar economic effects from multi-decade civil wars and short sharp border clashes and what sense does it make to average them out?)
3) I don’t understand some of the numbers

Congratulations. I have no doubt it will make a major contribution to our understanding of the Second World War and history of Great Britain

Another one of mine blown

There’s no way back from telling Tora! Tora! Tora! at a teenage cashier in 7-11

I do that with 6 June and a few others. 7 December could be problematic when I lived in 🇯🇵

Can’t recommend trying a Diet of Worms

If only ‘a top shelf password’ were like ‘a top shelf magazine’

Do you have a Standing Desk?