I don't think you are over-reacting. I do suspect this perspective of Starmer's isn't vanishingly rare, but that doesn't make it any more palatable.

Trixie Gardner in a Lords debate on 'Women: Economic Crisis' in 2009:

'It is very appropriate, as it has never been more important for women to play their part in the economy.'

hansard.parliament.uk/Lords/2009-0...

I blame the spider. Knackered it is.

A major contender but delve began to decline in March 2024 according to aclanthology.org/2025.finding...

And they were harmonized across research councils by UKRI a couple of years ago, which will probably surprise a lot of reviewers. For EPSRC proposals, for example, the change raised the bar for a score of 6 quite some way.

Or ask the author, by email or via:
www.researchgate.net/publication/...

You could almost believe that someone thinks the point of grant peer review is the reviewer scores.

No-one expects the Spanish Inquistion.

Three Song Thrush singing at the same time in Highbury Park, Birmingham at 7.45am yesterday.

I haven't visited every day to check, but one of these birds has been singing from the same location for two weeks now.

Early p.m. a mistle thrush was singing at the same place too.

Came looking for this! I heard song thrushes singing in 2 spots 2 miles apart in Coventry on Fri a.m. & thought it odd. Today I heard 3 in full song all at once in the 2nd of those (didn't revisit the 1st). This time they didn't have the excuse of unseasonally mild weather; it was cold and foggy.

Anyone had any luck tracking down this 'open' letter expressing 'profound concerns' said to have been signed by, ahem, Cheri Blair, Philippe Sands, Geoffrey Robertson, Robert Buckland and Dominic Grieve?

The reason? The accent. 'It sounded as though somebody like the Queen's first cousin had decided to moonlight for pin money and was doing Hannoverian PA announcements on the side.' And it sounded like that to Germans! (Course, the RP was replaced pronto with southern standard British.) 2/2

Mixed flocks of rooks and jackdaws approaching in their hundreds—or thousands if you're lucky—their communal roost half an hour after the sun has set on a winter's afternoon. If it's pouring with rain, that's a plus. Not too hard to find, either.

I’m continually disappointed by how forgotten Burgess is. He was a unique figure and deserves more recognition. (I’m desperately scrolling my timeline for the story from Martin Amis about going out drinking with him.)

How would it have been made? Is it a compilation of daily recordings made separately first or could entries have been made day by day on a single tablet?

Wikipedia has this Northern Ireland variant:
Ip dip sky blue
Granny sitting on the loo
Doing farts, playing darts
Out goes you!
O-U-T spells Out!

The quote made him sound like he was pining for a time when professors were few and male and had secretaries, who weren't, to deal with the little things.