Ian Rapley
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Ian Rapley
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Historian of modern Japan, part time shepherd, clueless beekeeper, forensic cricket scorer.
Dumb question: do the publications need to be, err, published?

Because I have serious reservations about linking a degree awarding process to the vagaries of academic publishing (about which I have even more serious reservations).
November 30, 2025 at 10:13 AM
Also vote in the next senedd elections.
November 25, 2025 at 6:56 PM
What about now!!
November 21, 2025 at 6:45 PM
Just woke up. Why did they bat first?
November 21, 2025 at 6:58 AM
I agree this first game is very important given the line ups. But on the other hand this England team is more capable of dealing with losses than some have been.
November 20, 2025 at 3:12 PM
Cautiously positive. I think Australia start as favourites, of course, but England should be able to compete.
November 20, 2025 at 1:33 PM
Tokyo Trial (miniseries) - Wikipedia
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November 19, 2025 at 8:41 PM
There's a netflix show, Tokyo Trial, that achieves the improbable job of turning the concerns of the Dutch judge in Tokyo about the legal principles underlying "crimes against peace" into a quite entertaining drama.
November 19, 2025 at 8:40 PM
There was a bit of boilerplate about his friendship that Forsythe used to say on the Spectator podcast (iirc during the leadership election), I'm not sure he used to mention it when Sunak was chancellor, and I don't recall him ever mentioning his wife.
November 19, 2025 at 12:21 PM
If it's not too late, we were really struck by the mappa mundi. The whole cathedral is very nice, in fact.
November 16, 2025 at 4:45 PM