Thought I’d give it a year and check back in. . . anything much changed on here (apart from the big black and white ‘X’)?
How’s everyone been? Hope you are all surviving/thriving etc.
Bye, Book Twitter, you were fun, (for the most part) and I learned some useful things. But no-one is talking much about books anymore. I might come back but not for a good while I think.
What would we do without James O Brien, Jack Monroe, Martin Lewis, Peter Stevanovic, The Good Law Project & Led by Donkeys ? These people & organisations are shining lights in a dim world. Thank you all of you.
Any of you lot any good at B2B marketing? Want a job in the tech sector? My dayjob folks are looking for a marketing manager. Small company, nice people. And me.
@straycarnivore either of the two cinematic montages played out over Lynyrd Skynyrd’s Freebird: in Kingsman and (hilariously, at least to me,) in Elizabethtown
Bletchley Park was run by historians (Hinsley, Briggs), classicists (Knox, Adcock), musicologists, papyrologists, pure mathematicians (Turing, of course) — people whose degrees would fail Sunak’s test, yet who did more for this country than any number of well-paid City analysts
If you’re up at the Edinburgh Fringe, go catch this while you can. A young, all-female cast depicts the workings of the teenage brain and what science can tell us about it. Fun and fascinating.