What? You did a theology degree Yas Rana? Why did I not know this?!?

This is why I don't like camping.

To Oxford today, city of beautiful dreaming spires and mildly irritating dreaming tourists, to have some conversations I have been very much looking forward to having.

Dear colleagues,

As we vote to send some of the most desperate people on the planet to an unsafe country rather than seeking to offer them refuge and safety, let's all drink champagne and chortle.

Saturday night viewing decision is a dead heat b/ween Oppenheimer and an episode of Hornblower, and my guess is that we might be the 1st people anywhere who have ever found themselves having to choose between Ioan Grufford on an old ship or Cillian Murphy inventing the atom bomb.

Thoroughly recommend couch to 5k. It's turned someone who at age 15 chose golf for PE and then snuck off to eat cheesy chips in the clubhouse into someone who just ran 5k (like, actually willingly, without being chased).

Delighted that we're celebrating SwintonFest this month.

Off out to that thar west coun'ry this morning to sell books and generally say hello at Trinity College. 👋