The thesis is right up your street. You'll like it a lot, including the gentle critique of Hopkin and Rosamond (2018)!

I once overhead two old ladies discussing the nights drawing in: “it’s getting late earlier now”, said one to the other.

3 per cent margin of error; 5 percent ‘too bloody right is is!’

We are moving ever-close to the singularity where all devices will resemble Eddie the shipboard computer from the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.

Scratchy memories of 1972, but 1975 is the proper starting point for me.

VCs all over the UK be like

In which case, repair to the poop deck forthwith.

If you have any hatches, they should be battened down.

There's that amazing passage in Fever Pitch about Gus Caesar, which illustrates how someone - who is generally regarded as a failure in top flight football - must have been truly exceptional talent to even get close to being on Arsenal's books in the first place.

So now he wants to slash the funding of the social sciences by a mere 40%?

It seems to have stopped

The Open University … but not that open.

We have now reached that singularity, but the avalanche is ongoing.

This is going to go on all day, isn’t it?

Perhaps check the actual numbers before posting (see www.ukri.org/wp-content/u...).