Everard Vanderplast

[Everard Vanderplast @oconick1]

@BarbaraRich_law @thevicarswife @moveincircles @solange_lebourg There may well be a case for doing this once our court system is no longer falling apart. It is a symptom of the appalling dysfunction of our governing institutions that this is being proposed now.

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@MaxJeffery_ @spectator His decline has been depressing. Evident already in the ending of the otherwise good From The Holy Mountain (1997). The romanticisation of the Mughal as opposed to British empire is just bizarre.

One of the class who feel betrayed that people like them no longer rule the world.

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@Barristerblog A curfew is not a custodial sentence, and if the judge is correct in referring to them being treated as being equivalent, this should be reversed immediately, and there should be career limiting consequences for those who made this decision. Jesus Christ.

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@SimonMagus Everyone needs to recognise that our personal preferences are irrelevant, and that we all need to lie to each other about what we care about. The outward form the shared culture takes doesn't matter, and means very little.

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@WyattGwyon1711 @davewingrave Not sure I could have read the whole book, but by the end of the play I was crying with laughter (silently, I hope). The introduction of the German is the funniest thing I've ever seen in a theatre

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@AntigoneJournal It's entertaining, but while no one likes defensive academic writing, there's a dispiriting contempt for his audience shown by its being studded with obvious nonsense

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@cjsnowdon Also appalling AI slop

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@labourball @LadelaBackup Cromwell did not commit war crimes in Ireland. Killing other Englishmen after they had refused to surrender was not a war crime.

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@rorysutherland Having milk delivered saves me a fair amount of money - a small increase in the cost of the milk, more than cancelled out by the cost of rubbish I used to buy when I went out to get some.

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@ManOfManyKeks @kunley_drukpa I'm currently reading an edition of Slaves of Solitude which starts on a right hand page. On the opposite page the last few paragraphs of the introduction tell you what happens at the end. I had to cover it with my hand.

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@peterrhague I used to live and work in central London 20 years ago. There were so few children around that when I saw a large family getting out of a car one day, I clearly remember thinking "that's a surprising number of dwarves".

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@le0nardpoetry I get the sense when I read Butler that she has started with a comprehensible first draft, and then worked on it to make it impenetrable to non-adepts. Not true of other theorists accused of being unreadable. Would fit with your point about her syntax.

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@fitzfromdublin Every now and then, as an Englishman with Irish relatives, I am tempted to respond to them on certain subjects with something other than the blandest platitudes.

And then I remember how irritated I am when Americans have opinions on those subjects, and I don't.

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@residentadviser He behaves as if he is a barrister acting for a client called Keir Starmer. His beliefs don't enter into it. Cab rank principle, what can you do?

I wonder how he would have felt if his hard work had made Corbyn PM. Just another case, probably.

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@echetus A lot gets cut/de-emphasised because Hamlet is generally treated as a vehicle for the lead actor. He murders Polonius and laughs about it, explicitly confirms that he pointlessly murdered R&G, and is, in general, an arsehole. You wouldn't need to cut much to make him the villain.

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@shashj There's not much difference between paying a President (or PM) a vast amount of money while they're in office, and paying them the same sum shortly after they leave office, conditional on them having not upset you. Staggering levels of corruption have already been normalised.

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@10DowningStreet No it isn't

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@zacspiro What was actually going on with Gove? I'm sure he'd still describe himself as a fervent supporter of growth and building things - and believe it, too. Had he lost interest? Was Education just Cummings with a light Gove frosting? Were his Housing Spads being bribed by the CPRE?

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@wanyeburkett As a tall but physically unimposing guy, it definitely isn't happening to us. Very weird seeing how much hassle big guys get.

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@ovchinnikov @balajis Cultural/language similarity, and intertwined elites (see Churchill) also had something to do with it; but ultimately the only British foreign policy priority was preventing any power gaining control of continental Europe, and that meant supporting the US.