Feel notable that the OBR 'leak' led to a push notification to my phone that the government were raising taxes - presumably the exact thing that the entire budget was designed to avoid being the first thing people hear.

I think I now understand why they talk about modernisation!

Out of interest - will some journalists already have it under embargo, so they are now posting the reactions they had drafted and ready to go?

Spoilsport :p
[Also love your work on pretty much everything. So nice to have a good local newspaper for my home city again.]

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Marler is still a quin. He's not a former quin.

Once a quin, always a quin.

You have no idea how I feel hearing that we have the oldest civic university in the UK, founded by the burghers of Edinburgh. Every time it just makes me hungry.

Yes, and we have Edinburghers. :)

Interesting, I probably wouldn't. I might say a London Scot though, because again there's an identifiable singular form.

Those teams have singular forms though. You wouldn't say a Bath-ite.

They're also responsible for one of the best emails I've ever received, when the college office sent out a plea for sightings of Professor Biscuit while conveniently forgetting to mention that he was a cat...(I won't comment on how often a similar email might have gone out about human Professors...)

No Cook?

Bonus guest star in the talk...

Do come along if you are around this evening - the talk will start at 7:30 pm, with arrival from 7.15pm. The series is non-ticketed, free, and all are welcome.

Assumed knowledge: that atoms are a thing - I'll try to assume nothing else.

Part 125 of 200 in historically interesting things to inspire your ttrpg dnd

A 3770 year old Babylonian clay tablet written in Akkadian, containing the oldest known cooking recipes. The tablet includes 25 recipes for stews, 21 meat stews and 4 vegetable stews.