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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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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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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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I'd recommend it too. The first couple of episodes are a steep learning curve (don't try them while using a forklift...) but it's rapidly overcome and it's really practical.

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Back in the day we used to get: 5: Member of big 4 implicated in major financial scandal. Is that no longer a thing?

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You only have to see the pull of tote bags given away at conferences to realise that free stuff can be very alluring. Also richness is a very elastic thing and there's always something just out of reach.

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