@FurtherOr

A barrister. Catholic. Read PPE once upon a time.

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Joined June 2020
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New post! It's about China - in particular three observations about China that I made and haven't seen elsewhere. Come for the yogurt, and stay for the trains and silk. furtheroralternatively.blogs…
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Seriously?
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Ah, the joys of LinkedIn. "Someone from Wiltshire" has looked me up. Real "Person from Porlock" vibes (wrong county, I know).
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So it seems that developing LLMs has persuaded very clever people that there is one true language which is derived from the structure of reality. Which is nice.
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All our pomp of yesterday is now pants
Athanasius
@Athanasius_45Oct 9
The Nobel Prize in Literature 2026 vs 1907:
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High speed internet for rural homes? This is the train to, um, Richmond. (Richmond zone 4. Not Richmond in Yorkshire.)
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I suppose we all need internet in our second homes
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I was today years old when I found out that Suetonius, the inventor of suet, was also a famous historian. Why don't they teach these things in school?
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"You don't have to call it rape to get mad at it." @helenlewis expresses much of what I feel about The Cornell 7 case. See also this on the differences between the sexes, often conveniently forgotten in commentary on incidents like this. See next tweet for gift link. 1/2
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London looking nice this evening
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Yawn. Here we go again
Further or Alternatively@FurtherOrSep 25
The tedious 'Englishness is an ethnicity' discourse has surfaced again. Sigh. Well, here is the definitive thread on what we're talking about and why it's tricky. It even mentions the butler from the Fresh Prince of Bel Air, so it's pretty comprehensive.
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"Alex who works in the Professional Service". Hmm. I'm not sure Alex is really is all that genuine.
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Barbara Rich
@BarbaraRich_lawSep 30
Not even Transport for London, in all the profound banality of which it is all too capable, would rename a Tube station on the Central Line as Business and Property Lane
Yuan Yi Zhu
@yuanyi_zSep 30
Today is the last day, for now, of the Chancery Division of the High Court. Lanyardists are renaming it to the Business and Property Division tomorrow.
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Best take on this issue that I've seen. Floating the idea is a great way of keeping the liberal left middle classes interested in Labour. It's maybe even a kind of pat answer to long term economic policy questions. But it's a pose, not a policy.
Obadiah Mbatang@residentadviserSep 30
Floating Rejoin is good for the Labour Party in terms of vibes and strategy in short term. Brexit divide essentially defines British politics now. But as a policy, it’s a bad idea if you really mean it. And it’s an unpopular idea too. I also think 43% is too low.
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He knows - of course! - that the true analogy is between membership of the EU and the Commonwealth: two brief interruptions of an alternative model of governance into British history; in each an alternative model respectable enough in itself, but somehow unBritish.
Ben Judah
@b_judahOct 1
Quite conceivable, though far from guaranteed, that Brexit will eventually be memory holed like Cromwell’s Commonwealth, as an exceptional and out of character mistake, before the country returns and becomes the most pro-European nation state in the Union.
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I'm hearing an insane rumour that Andy Burnham has been shown an internal Claude model that has answered the West Lothian Question! Apparently, it was trained on the Schleswig–Holstein Question and the Eastern Question. More as I get it.
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I'd forgotten this passage. Thanks to @Madz_Grant for reminding me of it. Now I'm going to remind you too.
Madeline Grant@Madz_GrantSep 28
We can learn a lot from Puddleglum’s response to being told by a demonic creature from the underworld that the world he inhabits never actually existed
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This is true. Jerusalem is: (a) a banger; (b) completely bonkers; (c) a socialist anthem; (d) also a conservative agrarian lament strongly associated with the WI; (e) not in England; and by embracing all those contradictions, a window into the English soul.
Gray Connolly
@GrayConnollySep 25
NB: very hard to understand the Anglo mind without understanding the hymn "Jerusalem" - which was Blake's poem put to music during the Great War & sung all over the British Empire
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In a way, it would be a bit of a let down to find out that those feet really did, in ancient times, walk upon England's mountains green.
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Not sure "Jerusalem" is English enough for you? Well, we've got "Nimrod" and "Jupiter" too.
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I was trying to enhance the pleasurable suspense attendant on the enharmonic change, so that I could get to the full dreamy freedom bit in good order, but I was pretty pathétique at it.
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