God.

I have an edited collection with them, which apparently has a paperback that they never told us about. I can only assume it's a print on demand thing.

Though one important part of making politics intellectual is that when you host a podcast called "Political Thinking" and somebody comes out with guff like Badenoch did, you really do have to challenge it. Right now there's no reward structure for deeper thinking or self-reflection.

I know.

Yeah the worst HE stories tend to come out at a weekend.

Anyway, I have just bought a toaster with a bagel setting and this makes me much happier than it has any right to.

We should be encouraging foreign students to come here and spend their money in our university towns and cities, not penalising them for doing it.

You are very brave. It's beyond hard to do this but it is the only way to better days.