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Spademashie

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Retired. Golf, Liverpool FC, history, archaeology, astronomy, climbing, hillwalking, family, social justice

  1. That passage reads like a lot of Americans I've met in business talk, which is in a sequence of recursive digressions, each moving the speaker further from the original point of the discussion. Not all Americans by any means but enough to make me think death by verbiage must be common over there

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  2. Snow is, in the public's eyes, a trusted conveyor of historic information and this latest info will get far more traction with the public and be much more troglodyte resistant, than if it came from (with due respect) a random academic. Given the significance of the data I think this is a win

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  3. Read this and you realize nothing has changed from the days when the jeunesse doree at Oxford referred to Non U people as northern chemists www.theguardian.com/politics/201...

    When Ian Jack was commissioned to write about Oxford’s most privileged students in 1981, he didn’t hear anything about dead pigs – but he did find a splendidly unguarded group of youths getting ‘hog-w...

    Bright young things revisited: how Cameron’s generation made Oxford their playground

    When Ian Jack was commissioned to write about Oxford’s most privileged students in 1981, he didn’t hear anything about dead pigs – but he did find a splendidly unguarded group of youths getting ‘hog-w...

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