Semi-serious response: Looking at when and why the personal pronoun was dropped in social media posts. As in: "delighted to announce" rather than "I'm delighted to announce". I don't think it's just a character limit thing, think it's also about footing/distancing, but I'm not sure...

Yep, very much a process of burying the lede a lot of the time :)

Yep, and as expectations, buzz-words and zietgeisty concepts from funders change, you can be pulled down roads that a) don't interest you and, worse b) are not a specialist in.

Agreed, there's a lot of pressure to 'get money' but my research rarely needs it (time to research is another matter).

Seems like everything has at least the potential to make people cross nowadays.

what would be the modern day version of this?

Comes around earlier and earlier each year.

Looking back at both books, what's clear is that Labour today has nothing new to say about immigration. The shadow of Blair's 'third way' has hollowed out the party of any strongly held set of ideals, and on immigration in particular they are reactive to media narratives of confected crises

I would also recommend @kamrank.bsky.social's book, which looks at the ESOL part in more detail. www.bloomsbury.com/uk/becoming-...

I mean, superb work for a Friday morning.

Also, 'Treyf Sandwich' sounds like a US pro golfer.

There's a probably a joke about New Labour not being Kosher in there, but I honestly don't have the strength to think about it.

Oh god, I've been using that story in my classes since it happened. If this indicates nothing more, it does imply I need to change my PPT slides...

He had the temerity to eat a sandwich.

The Norwich one, from a few years ago was also nicely done. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sd2n...