Jeremy Noel-Tod

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Poetry critic and editor. Norwich is my New York. Writing about poetry here: https://someflowerssoon.substack.com/

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I'm trying to recall too! But I share the general sentiment (I'm also still waiting to actually read JHP's last poem, having placed an order months ago, which apparently is held up by the need to hand stitch the hand made paper or something...)

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Dear tv and radio producers. Thankyou for the invitation. But, no, I do not want to appear on your show to defend the idea that I am English, after 50 years of living and working here, because the increasingly feral right want to turn this into a "debate" and you cannot see how you're being played

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'The intention from the goverment of the time was that most universities would charge around £6,000' > I'm an English Literature lecturer, but I could have told these PPP geniuses that wasn't going to pan out because: money

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What everyone forgets about the introduction of student fees is that they were supposed to be on a tier system, with the top fee charged only by the 'best' providers. But everyone immediately went to the top and got stuck there... So the competition element of the system *immediately* failed.

Wikipedia: Tuition fees were a major concern at the 2010 general election. The Liberal Democrats entered the election on a pledge to abolish tuition fees, but had already made preparations to abandon the policy before the election took place.[14] The party entered into coalition government with the Conservatives, who supported an increase in fees. Following the Browne Review the cap was controversially raised to £9,000 a year, approximately treble the previous cap; this sparked large student protests in London. The intention from the government of the time was that most universities would charge about £6,000, and that the £9,000 rate would only be charged in "exceptional" circumstances.[15] In practice most universities immediately began to charge the maximum £9,000 fee.[16] A judicial review against the raised fees failed in 2012, and so the new fee system came into use that September.[17]
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So the argument here is: 'the unit of resource' (money) has suffered 'real-terms erosion' (underfunding), but allowing some already-wealthy universities to expand massively and take a larger share of that underfunding isn't the problem?

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In the spirit of sharing some of my unaffordably-published research on social media, here is why T.S. Eliot would have run a mile from being called a 'public intellectual'

Eliot as Public Intellectual 5,367 words Was T. S. Eliot a public intellectual? If we are to avoid anachronism, no. The compound was not in common use when he died in 1965; the earliest OED citation is from the New York Times in 1967, and in The Public Intellectual (2002) Helen Small dates its currency to the Nineties in America, and the Noughties in Britain. Moreover, as Stefan Collini has shown, “intellectual” as a noun did not enjoy a securely agreed usage in English in the early decades of the twentieth century – and it was a label that Eliot, at the heart of Anglophone intellectual life, actively resisted. “Let quacks, empirics, dolts debate” (1953) – a piece of light verse inspired by a photograph of a cat on a park bench – is the only poem he published which invokes “intellectuals” as a category, and then with Noël-Coward-ish asperity: “Let intellectuals address / The latest Cultural Congress”
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Holy shit. Someone has decompiled the Adobe suite, rebuilt it in Rust and released it as open source.

Either all software is dead or the US copyright laws are about to receive an update.

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