Chris Luke

A long time ago I did a PhD in maths. For many years and in various settings, I've taught maths. I'm a fan of Liverpool Football Club. I'm a British European.

[Dan Davies @dsquareddigest]

the causes and roots are simply "it's a hot boring summer and some people, who are technically known as 'arseholes', think it's fun to smash things up and intimidate people of a different race to themselves"

[Chris Luke @DrCJLuke]

@Cshearer41 @diegorattaggi Any triangle with side lengths (2n-1), (2n), (2n+1) satisfying the Pell's equation n^2-3r^2=1, where r is an integer will do. The incircle radius length is r. It's well known that Pell's equation has infinitely many solutions in the integers.

[Chris Luke @DrCJLuke]

@Cshearer41 @diegorattaggi It's certainly up there with the 193-194-195 and the 7300801-7300802-7300803 triangles.

[Helen Lewis @helenlewis]

They did. They sacrificed their education to keep their grandparents alive.

[Chris Luke @DrCJLuke]

@TorstenBell Meanwhile the Government spends all its time and energy on trying to move a hundred people a year to Rwanda.

[Chris Luke @DrCJLuke]

Meanwhile the Government spends all its resources trying to move a hundred people a year to Rwanda.

[Office for National Statistics (ONS) @ONS]

GDP was flat (0.0% growth) in the three months to October.

In the month of October, GDP fell 0.3%.

➡️ https://t.co/k1USftqo5r

[Chris Grey 🇺🇦 @chrisgreybrexit]

Of the many things to say about this, one is to note the absurd and dishonest idea - but one central to NatCon populism - that the 2016 referendum vote gave a mandate to all kinds of things apart from leaving the EU. It didn't. Its mandate was fully discharged on January 31 2020.

[James O'Brien @mrjamesob]

This is very good. The best articulation I’ve heard.

[Dmitry Grozoubinski @DmitryOpines]

1/ I like people and think they're overwhelmingly good and decent.

My default assumption is that whatever the slogans, or extremist elements, the vast majority of the people on the streets are just appalled by the images coming out of Gaza, and are calling for peace.

[John Burn-Murdoch @jburnmurdoch]

Short-changed graduates are just another symptom of the British economic disease.

If you have low investment and low or zero productivity growth, then when your grads enter the job market, they’ll have fewer and weaker opportunities than grads in a country that had higher growth

[John Burn-Murdoch @jburnmurdoch]

Other countries have the same rise in graduate numbers without the same decline in graduate earnings, because they’ve created good jobs.

When people say Britain sends too many people to uni, they’re saying we’re not a country where skilled people can expect to find skilled jobs.

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

Climate change: a timeline

[source, credit: Brendan Leonard, https://t.co/wSiKkasdZd]

[Daniel Finkelstein @Dannythefink]

This is my Aunt's contemporary description of the Sabbath evening in the concentration camp.

[Uni of Nottingham #WeAreUoN @UniofNottingham]

It is with great sadness that we confirm the sudden and unexpected death of two of our students following a major incident in #Nottingham city centre overnight.

We are shocked and devastated by the news and our thoughts are with those affected, their families and friends. (1/2)

[Edwin Hayward @edwinhayward]

Nadine Dorries, a tragedy in 4 acts.

The lights dim as our play begins...

1) Calls out cronyism in how jobs in the Lords are given out.

[Jack Pardoe @pardoejw]

Floating solar! ☀️💦

We could put solar panels on raw water reservoirs. The UK could steal a march on this industry if we got rid of some of the (frankly ridiculous) supply side barriers like burdensome planning regulations.

[Chris Luke @DrCJLuke]

Recruitment is a huge problem in maths teaching in England. It should have a much higher profile.

[Robert Saunders @redhistorian]

How quickly things change.

Thatcher was the first PM in a century to give her name to an ideology. No one talked about "Attleeism" or "Asquithism", though both led radical govts.

When Thatcher said "we must have an ideology", it was thought strange & alarming. Now it's expected

[Chris Luke @DrCJLuke]

The central lies of Brexit.

[The News Agents @TheNewsAgents]

“We ended up buying this shit from non-dom, publicly educated people, with German wives, trying to get German passports.”

@maitlis on the lies that propped up the Brexit campaign.

Listen on @GlobalPlayer

[Chris Luke @DrCJLuke]

Great opportunity.