“Give [Harrison] a barrel of hard cider, and settle a pension of two thousand a year on him, and my word for it, he will sit the remainder of his days in his log cabin by the side of a 'sea coal' fire, and study moral philosophy”
@Birdyword The SuperEnaBonus! Chart misses the lottery aspect, where the paperwork was so Byzantine that the chance of you/your accountant/your builder screwing something up was quite high, adding a pleasingly random elements as to whether you'd be able to claim anything at all
@si_rubinstein@theo_nash Imo an underrated factor in stem is wage compression + mass layoffs in entry level industry roles means there's much less of a material downside to sticking with academia
Even as his winning shot pierced the bullseye, Parag Patel had no idea he had just won the world’s most prestigious prize for marksmanship
@GazTheJourno has more on the event and the battle between the RAF and US Army for target-shooting bragging rights⤵️
https://t.co/0OOPOFbUFm
@si_rubinstein I was in and around the university most of the time I was there, but we really liked the Baltic art gallery + walking up the river in that general area, and at the weekend we took the metro up to Tynemouth and walked along the coast to Cullercoats and Whitley Bay, which was great
@ericesheng Born to early to experience the Tescalator
Born to late to experience the big branch on the ring road
Born just in time to experience the Cowley road Tesco
@elladorn_ Think his reputation is helped by his name/foundation appearing in the titles of major restoration projects
Also quite tellingly funny that his best recent film is pure pastiche of several OOP directors
THREAD: The collapse of higher education in the UK is misunderstood by almost everyone involved. We are told it is because of volatile international student markets. The truth is more to do with real estate and capital investment. Here is what is going on: in places like the US