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Ian Rapley
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Historian of modern Japan, part time shepherd, clueless beekeeper, cricketer reborn.
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For comparison, I love to use the white board as my students talk, but those notes are more like that photo of a web when you give a spider crack. I recall a student saying "I love how it makes total sense at the time, but any one coming into the room would have no idea what the class was about"

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I was once at a workshop in Japan & this guy stood up, pulled out some chalk, and proceeded to simultaneously give an amazing 15 minute conference paper while also drawing the most beautiful supporting visuals. It was like one of those YouTube videos illustrating a talk, but live.

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As I see it, the last time the MPs sent two really qualified (& not disqualified) candidates to the membership was when they elected Cameron. That's not a great record.

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Say what you like about the Tories, but they have the best leadership contests.

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Last I heard, Badenoch was a clear favourite with the members over anyone. If so, the argument is that there's no point crushing the MP stages only to lose to Kemi?

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I've definitely found that watching half marathons requires overcoming my British middle class reticence. A slightly embarrassed applause didn't really cut it.

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It's not like the resignations were a natural disaster from outside of politics. They _were_ the Johnson government.

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I've not looked into whether it's got better or not recently, but when I tried it, chatgpt made up a series of events in Asian history. Plausible sounding, but nonexistent.

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It is a rainy day and one is feeling bored. To pass the time, one starts looking through some old papers. And then one comes across the letters of a man one used to love.

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Ian Rapley
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Historian of modern Japan, part time shepherd, clueless beekeeper, cricketer reborn.
185 followers291 following386 posts