The Guardian informs me that Suella Braverman has resigned, stating:

Earlier today, I sent an official document from my personal email to a trusted parliamentary colleague as part of policy engagement, and with the aim of garnering support for government policy on migration. This constitutes a technical infringement …

Plato's Republic can come across as naïve, and I find that fact tragic.

Broadly, the book climaxes with a plan to make a state ruled by Philosopher Aristocrats. While Plato calls these rulers "Philosophers", we shouldn't picture modern Philosophy students, but academics.

I find the failure tragic because all …

I'm getting real sick of the 'I am not a lawyer' everywhere. Everyone's not a lawyer, nobody's not a doctor.

I get that people think their suggestions may have legal consequences. I don't think mine will though. I'm an internet lawyer - go murder someone, it'll be fine. This is legal advice.

I just can't picture …

Little things annoy me that nobody else in the world could possibly care about. One of them is E-Bay's message at the end of every sale:

"You have bid £3.40 for the item. Hope you win".

Who hopes I win? E-Bay the corporation? The browser? Clearly I'm the only one inferring meaning here, so maybe I mean …

My basic education included 11 years of French classes, and I don't know any more French than 'le chat'. Those lessons could hardly have failed harder in Britain's schools.

I recall the counting in Maths, and most people can square something, and understand what, roughly, Maths can do. I still read well, so evidently …

1     When you're eating bacon...
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4               I don't each bacon.
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7     Right, but when someone eats bacon...

I find this sort of thing happening routinely. I suspect everyone else feels more comfortable with waiting for the meaning of a sentence to emerge later.

Whatever happened to saying 'one', …

We're not all in power, by definition.

(Ricky Gervais)

Pouring the rest of my soup into a Tupperware container, my girlfriend-at-the-time asked me to stop.

"That won't fit", she said.

"Obviously it will", I replied, pointing to the remainder of the pot.

And it did, with a millimetre to spare. …

I like half-listening to brainless YouTube videos.

A good chunk of people complaining about the world dumbing with YouTube click-bait no doubt saw the kind of nonsense I watch and thought 'the BBC showed much more enlightening and informative content than this modern drivel'. This comparison doesn't work.

We shouldn't …

Native English speakers commonly muck-up every sentence thrown at them in a way one doesn't normally find with Spaniards, Serbs, Finnish, or Germans.

This cannot come from the same reasons that few Europeans can pronounce Cantonese words - that we simply don't have those sounds. We have 'con', but cannot say 'pivo'. …

The most efficacious piece of Philosophy written this century was buried in a software licensing agreement, and the Philosophy faculties of every major university have missed it.

While clicking 'I agree', to all those licences, everyone will have come across this piece at some point.

 1## Preamble
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 3The GNU General …