This has now become a meme.

Cut to Soviet sailors standing to attention and earnestly singing the Pokémon theme song.

That is, where you lose, and where you lose worse

This was when the Big Annual Discipline Conference (which for Classics they always held in the first week of January despite people getting snowed in) also doubled as Job Market Central because everyone was in the same place.

Strictly a North American thing, I believe.

So would it be fair to call it a fascist *project*? An incomplete one, to be sure, and which might go either way.

The end of the Fat Pizza movie, where the immigration cops finally arrest everyone and then loudly announce “It’s okay, we take bribes.”

Nah, you’re better than that. 😉

A separate question, and this is the point to be hard-headed: now that they’ve defected, do they bring anything? Influence? A base? If not, thank them and shove them away from public life forever.

Tom, you have better things to do with your time than argue about whether an inherently contested concept (in the technical sense) exists in *this* case.

You’re an historian with a platform. Start with “they will never give up power *willingly* - so what follows from that?” Go from there.

This is a great set up to a film. The next step is that the contract is taken over by a group of high school girls seeking vengeance.

The Age, 2042: “Older readers will remember that Red Vienna used to be known as Brighton.”

I think it tickles something deep in the Old Etonian brain: “Bossy Nanny”. Better do what she says.

It’s our equivalent of coals to Newcastle/owls to Athens.

Is this true, though? Set aside American fetishisation of constitutions and law more generally - what of the French or German attitude to their constitutions (historically)? Is it not much more malleable?

Don’t call Terence Stamp a giant wild pig.