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by pmyteh 4y ago
An undergraduate degree, a masters, and a PhD is completely normal for an academic. The latter two are often picked up while on a studentship with a stipend. Although it is possible to self-fund graduate school it's normally not a gr
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It's certainly stopped in the case of the Caledonian Sleeper; the new Mark 5 carriages have retention toilets like all other recent stock. I think the Mark 3A sleepers on the Night Riviera to Cornwall also came fitted with retention
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The Conversation[0] tries this. It aims more for 'accurate news stories written by/with academics' than 'simplified research papers' but definitely is trying to be credible yet accessible. Sadly I've never writ
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There are wide variations in price: some advance purchase sleeper only fares are cheap; at the outside a full-price Anytime ticket plus a room supplement to use the sleeper could cost a fortune. And pricing is not straightforward once you
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District councils (so the second 'lowest' of the possible tiers) but yes. In practice, they've all deferred to the judgement of the British Board of Film Classification (née ...Film Censorship) for nearly every film since it
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[Be aware that your comments appear to be default-dead. I've vouched for this one, but you may want to contact dang to ask for your account to be unflagged: I can't see anything objectionable in your post history so it's prob
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Yes - he's drawn based on a specific kind of tank engine from the London, Brighton and South Coast Railway (E2 class). There's not a huge similarity with the engine in the photo except that they're both small and painted in a
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That NHS data collection recommendation says nothing about "wrong body", though. They're trying to elicit accurate information about something potentially medically relevant (assigned biological sex). Their concern is that if
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I've had a look to see what's in the Bodleian and the British Library from there, but it doesn't look like 1978 is online. Post-1998 is on LexisNexis, and the BL's (paid) online service has up to 1950, but there's a
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These panel surveys are reasonably good. The better pollsters (like Ipsos MORI) spend a decent amount of effort recruiting a broad sample of people for their panels, and results are statistically adjusted for non-response bias etc. That s
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Yeah, that's true. Expect that will change with the next set of new trains, as with the newish S Stock on the subsurface lines. Not all mainline trains have AC either, though I think it's been nearly universal on new trains from t
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Space in the deep tube tunnels is really tight[0] (making it tricky to fit on-train air con radiators) and there's insufficient air circulation in the to clear the extra heat emissions in any case. They're working on both, but (
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Sadly they've reedited Timmy Time to have commentary by a child narrator. Which seriously undercuts the programme's charm in my view.
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...and the 'Elite' disc seems to be in the drive by default!
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You're both right. The Home Secretary's statement that no action will be taken can form the basis of a 'legitimate expectation' which is enforceable by judicial review if a future government changes its mind. Would I ris
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This is especially true of PhD/DPhil programmes at places like Oxford: their intake is massively international, unlike their undergraduate provision which hews to (a small slice of) England.
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They're not resigning because they've suddenly realised he's a wrong 'un, they're leaving because he's become an electoral liability. But I suspect you know that - it's how politics works essentially every
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Policy disagreements, sure. And you can certainly read those as questions of honour/morality. Robin Cook over the Iraq war, perhaps, or Michael Heseltine over the Westland affair. As for 'resignations' on the grounds of minis
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I mean, Thomas Dugdale is famous for resigning when he thought an honourable norm had been violated (he took responsibility for the maladministration of his officials, which is the essentially theoretical responsibility of a minister) but t
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Resigns as leader of the Conservative Party, not (yet) as Prime Minister. He's hoping to extend his term to the autumn, while the internal party election to replace him goes on. It's not clear he has the support to do so. In the m
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In Britain we 'queue', or 'join a queue'. So wherever 'stand on line' started, it wasn't us!
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That makes sense! If the QR codes or whatever are on the faces and only encode information already printed there (suit+rank for standard cards, the title and text for board games) I can't imagine there would be any cheating/unauth
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My perspective is perhaps coloured by being a political scientist: we have always (unlike the law professors) seen the supreme court in particular as a deeply political institution. The present incumbents have made clear that they're o
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Duplicate bridge cards are often printed with barcodes on the card faces, to facilitate automated dealing machines with computerised hand records. I've never seen a system which reads the barcodes for a blind player, but I'm sure
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They don't have the votes to break a filibuster in the Senate (on nearly anything; Republican party discipline is really strong) or to break the filibuster itself (a handful of Democrats refuse). So almost all votes are just messaging
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FWIW the trend in the vulnerable 'red wall' seats has been towards the Conservatives for decades. This is partly as a result of partisan and class dealignment, and partly because the Labour-leaning forces of the organised working
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It does, and did: Article 50 of the Lisbon Treaty[0]. It says that "Any Member State may decide to withdraw from the Union in accordance with its own constitutional requirements" and sets out a procedure for negotiating an exit ag
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They can (and often do, at least for deportations from the UK) demand to see evidence that the deportee is , in fact, one of their citizens. Which can be difficult to prove without a passport. We have people who have been in immigration de
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The shares give you a claim on the profits. The rules are a combination of the corporate bylaws and the law. The latter does not let owners set all the rules: it imposes health and safety restrictions, taxes, and (yes!) unionisation rules.
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This short clip of people running from one of Dibnah's chimney demolitions going wrong is quite instructive. None of the bystanders should have been allowed anywhere near! https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=DMCSSMoPELU More

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