Holly

Ex-academic, current wonk, inveterate complainer

[Holly @Withsuchgrace]

@20thcenturymarc @PC100052 I was really hoping to see Captain Tom tbh

[Holly @Withsuchgrace]

@parcelforce and the SW London depot I wanted to say a huge THANK YOU for your exemplary customer service. You went way above and beyond to make sure the @eBay_UK vintage ballot box I bought for my wedding got to me during the festive season. You are all WONDERFUL. Happy 2024! 🥰

[Rebecca Buxton @RebeccaBuxton]

This senior professor thinks that a ban on sexualised behaviour between students and staff "would be more or less a ban on life as we know it."

A piece written with deep nostalgia for a time when he used to sleep with his students. https://t.co/QtFlTC4A2h

[Holly @Withsuchgrace]

@AliceAvizandum I dunno if this makes you feel any better, but that feeling is like, the most feminine thing going. You’re not a woman unless you have felt that every other woman in the world is better than you in some implausible and intangible way.

[Rory Cellan-Jones @ruskin147]

I’m so excited! This reminds me of when Royal Mail rebranded as Consignia and never looked back

[Holly @Withsuchgrace]

One final thought: if you’re a woman working in politics/IR/philosophy and want to know the identity of the person concerned to keep yourself safe from advances at conferences etc, you’re welcome to message me.

[Holly @Withsuchgrace]

I knew ‘Elliot’ from university and he was an absolute creep. The fact that he’s been allowed to continue his predatory and manipulative behaviour to this day is an absolute indictment on U.K. HE.

[Holly @Withsuchgrace]

There is literally no way this would have continued anywhere other than the HE sector. The other institutions I’ve worked for would have dismissed him years ago, but universities act like it’s 1970 and groping your secretary is still a perk of the job.

[Holly @Withsuchgrace]

I knew ‘Elliot’ from university and he was an absolute creep. The fact that he’s been allowed to continue his predatory and manipulative behaviour to this day is an absolute indictment on U.K. HE.

[Holly @Withsuchgrace]

I knew ‘Elliot’ from university and he was an absolute creep. The fact that he’s been allowed to continue his predatory and manipulative behaviour to this day is an absolute indictment on U.K. HE.

[Times Higher Education @timeshighered]

Opinion: Five years since sharing their story anonymously, higher education’s attitude towards student-faculty relationships is very different, says a UK-based researcher
https://t.co/vsAjhSgtCZ

[Holly @Withsuchgrace]

@MmeGuillotine @20thcenturymarc @HRP_palaces CAMP CORNER CAMP

[Holly @Withsuchgrace]

@MmeGuillotine @20thcenturymarc This is even cheering ME up.

[Holly @Withsuchgrace]

@miss_kts @20thcenturymarc Hello. I don’t know you, but I DO know Marc and…this is so bizarre? Why would you say something so spiteful and public to a friend, for no reason? Wish you well, but seriously, this is not right and you should take a hard look at yourself, for your own good.

[Holly @Withsuchgrace]

@ajvgriff1987 Ahhh. I’m very lucky in that I’m in an extremely ugly 1960s Tower block so my bills are about £100 a month max. Did I mention it is extremely ugly?

[Holly @Withsuchgrace]

@ajvgriff1987 220 quid a month?! Are your windows made of cling film?

[Holly @Withsuchgrace]

@ajvgriff1987 Well obvs

[Holly @Withsuchgrace]

Welcome to my latest absolutely nonsensical conversation with @vueling, where I explain that none of the contact options work (phone is entirely automated, email isn’t answered) and receive completely duff advice in return.

[Holly @Withsuchgrace]

Thanks so much to the staff at @LondonWaterloo - it can’t have been easy working today but they went out of their way to find my prized Christmas jumper after I idiotically left it on a train. Very much appreciated! 🎄

[Holly @Withsuchgrace]

Alternatively, you could just make arrangements to pay me the €500 to which I am legally entitled (which is less than I spent rectifying the whole mess, by the way), before I take you to the small claims court in Jan. or you could not. Be warned, I’m very petty. Feliz Navidad!

[Holly @Withsuchgrace]

Hello @Vueling! I’m posting this because you won’t respond to emails or answer your phones. I’ve made a claim under EC261 for a cancelled flight. You responded saying that the flight fell under ‘exceptional circumstances’ for ‘operational, technological, meteorological’ reasons.

[Holly @Withsuchgrace]

Even better, @vueling admitted liability by explicitly saying flights would be cancelled because of the strikes! So, if you could respond to one of my four emails with a picture of the plane with its wing hanging off and a newspaper with the day’s date, that’d be great.