Good innit! 😁

Right! No idea it had been around for 10 years before I found it too 😁

She taught me Russian Literature: I learned a lot about the country, its history and culture from studying those authors.

No doubt some of those books are on the banned list now: Solzhenitsyn, Nabokov, maybe even Dostoyevsky.

/6

College is such a valuable and important time and chance to encounter other perspectives. Erasing them erases lived history, philosophy and experience...

This week, one of my professors passed away.

/5

Put it this way: uni didn't 'wake me up' – it didn't need to. I'd not come from a soft, affluent background, had already lived its effect.

But it did facilitate my ability to question, to think critically.

/4

And the best Department of Government, with the UK's leading experts on Thatcherism and elections at the time, very much in demand in academe and the media.

/3

I was taught by Oxbridge-educated Marxist professors. Doc Martens-wearing, Smiths-listening types who rated Brecht and worked with Brenton and Hare...

...But there was an active Conservative Society on campus.

A vibrant international student body.

And incredible, sometimes heated debate.

/2

Not brutal, but an excellent class war putdown from a guy crossing the road to a posh, rah Cambridge student on a bike braying at him to 'Get out of my way!':

'Oh shut up, you plum' 😂

Calling someone a fartleberry is savage (see Grose's Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue)

And just for fun, this 👇😁

Gillian, talk to a lawyer about misrepresentation and defamation. Right of paternity could be an issue here too, if ChatGPT has stolen your work and regurgitated it under your byline. People have already brought cases where AI has hallucinated and libelled them.

See also this 👇

😬 That looks like the aftermath of a medical procedure!

Very nice!

Excellent choice!

😊 The atmosphere in bluebell woods is so serene and special 😍