"I have accepted Keir Starmer's resignation as my chief servant and have invited Andy Burnham to lay out details for how many meals a day he'll give me"
I remind everyone that Oxford has yet to publish a Very Short Introduction to Vonnegut, and I am a struggling academic willing to do whatever is necessary to make this happen.
We should breed dogs for intelligence in case mankind goes extinct. I’d much rather they replace us as the sapient life on Earth instead of monkeys or, God forbid, birds.
I am. It’s as hot as a witch’s cauldron here 🇬🇧 and I still have two winter-thick NASA frozen-level tog duvets. And a blanket on them.
Seemingly nobody else is doing this right 🥹
Huh?
How about, “I was hit by a truck which broke my back ergo need fit note but yay I can simply mobilise to a yoga class and live on thin air whoopee doo”???
Is that what it translates to?
Is it?
‘GPs will no longer issue "sick notes" under a government trial. People will be directed to social prescribers instead. This is peak neoliberal governance: a structural refusal to allow people to be ill, rest, or temporarily step outside a certain model of productivity.
@alexklaushofer It’s being covertly smuggled in to monitor everyone. As you warned.
Need anything?
DWP. Want to check a pension and/or…pretty much anything else.
What could possibly go wrong
Mine closed the exceptionally good philosophy department. I was told “justify your teaching in terms of the market economy” by a Tory with a suit and clipboard.
We all knew the decision was already decided