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buying a book by hobsbawm: fuck yeah let’s go, this guy rules reading a book by hobsbawn: even after 1820, barley production on the island continued to rise, reaching an annual average of 40 tonnes per year by 1832, and this in a period when trade conditions greatly incentivised wheat production

Gotta shut down the factory that makes this kinda guy

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These are not the values of Skeletor

A sentence that simultaneously makes no sense and perfect sense

As did Dizzee Rascal I recall

To the DMs

Blair was known as "Call me Tony" in the Tory papers for a while!

You're at the club and you see EV Rieu, prose translator of Homer and founder of Penguin Classics, checking you out. He's wearing a low cut black dress and earlier you heard him saying he and the other hot classicists were off to an after party on a yacht. How do you open?

"Guards! Seize him" No guards appear. The song goes on

You'd definitely miss having supreme power at moments like this

I watched this recently, it's not much cop sadly

She's not made any public pro brexit statements

The John Cleese stuff is just very sad, and while it’s possible he’s still in full possession of his faculties at the age of 86, I’d note that there are similarities between childhood and dotage.

(Still on Saint Augustine)

With the help of their what now

At least the Nolan/Wilson debate has brought classical literature back to those who it really belongs* *privately educated English people

Okay that's my cue to log off for the night