Nicholas Cole @quilldir

British Historian of American History. Director of the Quill Project at Pembroke College (https://t.co/1Y5jRhzds7). quillproject.net Oxford, England Joined November 2016

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Legal Style Blog @legalstyleblog

a day ago

Congress ex abundanti cautela eventually retroactively confirmed things in 1953 but the real issue is trying to pinpoint down if this Act or some kind of self-execution of the enabling act's conditions did the actual admission

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Nicholas Cole @quilldir

2 months ago

The great dilemma - is it really sporting to win the cricket? Especially after such an excellently close match?

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Nicholas Cole @quilldir

3 months ago

I'm finding that Apple's uncanny valley fake backdrops and robotic Teleprompter readings make the WWDC videos almost impossible to watch.

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Dan Hitchens @ddhitchens

6 months ago

“One consultant said she could foresee a time when ‘20 to 30 patients with anorexia access assisted dying in this country every year, because of the contagion effect’.” Hadley Freeman in today’s Sunday Times on the committee’s “unforgivable” rejection of anorexia safeguards:

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Federalist Society @FedSoc

6 months ago

Where do the ideas come from that formed our nation? 🇺🇲 @josh_hammer & @quilldir join us on March 10th in Miami, FL for a special event examining the influences and contributions of Jewish, Greek, and Roman cultures on the American form of government. fedsoc.org/events/jewish-…

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Nicholas Cole @quilldir

2 years ago

Broken encryption has always been a very bad idea that will put people at risk, and insisting on it will harm the UK as a place for business and cloud services. The UK government is full of experts that know this. Why does this issue keep coming up? apple.slashdot.org/story/23/06/27…

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Big Brother Watch @BigBrotherWatch

7 months ago

Keir Starmer in 2015: "[Surveillance] shouldn't be general and it shouldn't apply to the public in general" The UK Gov't must cease attempts to break #Apple encryption before the privacy rights of millions are eroded.

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Dan Hitchens @ddhitchens

7 months ago

“A gross misunderstanding.” Devastating from @doctor_oxford, one of the witnesses who—Kim Leadbeater claims—inspired the idea of assisted suicide panels. Clarke confirms that the multidisciplinary teams she recommended are *completely different* from the Leadbeater proposal:

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safia aidid @safiyaaaay

7 months ago

York University is suspending admissions to over a dozen programs in the fall, likely planning to shut them down completely in the next few years. Faculty member shares this list that went over the YU Faculty Association council email list. Astonishing

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Dan Hitchens @ddhitchens

7 months ago

Last week four Labour MPs warned their colleagues they weren’t being given the full picture on the assisted suicide bill. If anything the MPs understated it. Here are 10 things we’ve learnt from the committee stage which Leadbeater and allies have studiously avoided mentioning:

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Dan Hitchens @ddhitchens

7 months ago

It’s been said that the next UK political scandal is probably already happening in plain sight. And it is. It’s been happening all this week at the assisted suicide bill committee. A thread:

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Yuan Yi Zhu @yuanyi_z

7 months ago

This is what a leading proponent of assisted suicide is saying in the open. Ask yourself: do you want to live in a society that makes such a tradeoff?

Rajiv Shah @RajivShah90

7 months ago

This is what a leading proponent of assisted suicide is saying in the open. Ask yourself: do you want to live in a society that makes such a tradeoff?

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Alexandra Wilson @amwilson_opera

7 months ago

How can a Vice-Chancellor not understand the nature of a subject taught in her own university and use her misunderstanding of the situation as grounds to close that subject down? Yesterday, the VC of @cardiffuni was on the Today programme. I have transcribed her words. /

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Yuan Yi Zhu @yuanyi_z

8 months ago

2024 has been a good year for me professionally. I did a lot of interesting stuff, only some of which I can talk about publicly here.🧵 But I have become very discouraged by Western societies' growing callousness toward human life, epitomized by the push for "assisted dying".

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The Culturist @the_culturist_

9 months ago

Did you know the Mona Lisa has a twin? You don't realize how bad a state it's in until you see the two side-by-side. And it shows why restorations in art are a major problem… (thread) 🧵

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Philip Murray @philipmurraylaw

9 months ago

I've asked a colleague who teaches stats in the University to run constituency deprivation scores and assisted suicide votes through some independent statistical analysis. The results are quite interesting. Here, for example, are how Labour MPs split on assisted suicide:

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Grace Mallon @GraceMallon3

10 months ago

I am so grateful to the many scholars with whom I've discussed this work over the years, most importantly @quilldir; to the @RAIOxford and @MUDemocracy, who supported me through the process of producing this article;

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Nicholas Cole @quilldir

11 months ago

Thread posted without comment.

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Yuan Yi Zhu @yuanyi_z

11 months ago

No matter how bad you think the euthanasia stories coming out of Canada are, there's always a worse one.

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Steve Campbell @Historian_Steve

11 months ago

@joshshepperd It's a game. Contingent faculty who wish to keep their customers happy will supplant hard-won expertise with entertainment. They will inflate grades to win those glorified popularity contests. If they don't, they'll be replaced by those who do play the game.