Ah, yes. That famous detainee at the Tower of London: HAMLET!!!!!!

And what is that diagonally up from it? Is it an attempt at the Doge’s Palace in Venice?

I’m so glad I made it down — what a lovely time!

Oh no! Sorry to hear this 😔

From talking with civil servants, the lead times for implementing some things are wild: it might be that it will take years to set up the system/ensure the policy has been properly rolled out. If this is so, this doesn’t answer the question of what interim measures will be put in place, though.

I’m slightly embarrassed by my writing generally, but I feel the stuff I’ve written more recently has a fluency my earlier writing never achieved.

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Sending reinforcements!

I mean, if it was Shakespeare, I’d certainly be amazed! 🤪

[yes, I’m harassing @anitaanand.bsky.social again, but this time not about her & @willdalrymple.bsky.social doing an @empirepoduk.bsky.social series on Wales & its complex relationship with colonialism. Btw, loving the fascinating current series on Palestine]

Shakespeare?
😱😱😱😱😱

_ducks_

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Also: I love the tone of the automated acknowledgement replies — so much warmer than the usual non-descript botty tone!

It’s tricky, isn’t it? Not being centralised, I imagine, gives much more autonomy; it’s a pity there can’t be a way of keeping this while reducing the inevitable duplication that comes from it.

Yup. I’m astonished at the amount of work it must be to put together all the different selection committees — especially at the same time of year as the UCAS applications are coming in.