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A decade of progress
I was quietly tutting at the seemingly inevitable misogynistic slant to coverage of a bright young woman doing well at University Challenge. (Even in this relatively balanced story the choice not to include Lauren Schwartzman in the photo speaks volumes.) And I was struck by déjà vu:
Sarah Fitzpatrick, the captain of Magdalen College, Oxford’s University Challenge team, attracts [...]
What do you mean?
Unless I’m very relaxed, I don’t take things at face value. I’m rarely very relaxed. So when I see the instruction ‘list 25 random things about you’ my first thought isn’t ‘I own an expensive TV set I hardly use’ or ‘I have read the Bible cover to cover, even Chronicles’ or ‘my late mother [...]
When I grow up
I want to write image captions for the Guardian. It seems such a fun job!
Here’s a perfectly loopy wire story (apparently “experts said the spirit could be the ghost of a Roman soldier”, rather than “experts said this was bollocks”), perfectly subverted by a cheeky caption:
from the Guardian via the New Humanist blog
