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You have to think about the colors you're using, keep the tension the same for all the stitches.

You're learning history at the same time, studying the Bayeux Tapestry literally stitch by stitch.

The finished article is a third of the length of the original, but depicts the same detailed events.

I was commuting into work in London on the train.

Took two and a half hours door to door each way.

I wanted to do something that felt useful.

But it's just relaxing.

And with Romello height, how do you feel about the pass rush situation going into this game?

Well, with Romello, I'm a little hesitant to really talk more about him because he is a rookie.

He's coming in trying to get his feet wet.

So for a guy like him, I would love to have seen a little bit like probably 15, 20 more pounds on him.

He looks very, very skinny out there.

I think for right now, he's going to be a situational pass rusher.

That doesn't help Nick Bosa because Nick plays all three downs, and sometimes he's going to need a spell here and there, and I can't trust Romello on first or second down.

Would you rather have done the 10 days before, and you know how you feel now, or would you rather be the Rams coming in like a day before?

So I would have figured that was a very smooth transition.

Yeah.

I mean, for those unfamiliar, I had a career prior to going to get my doctorate writing about James labor a little cultural criticism and a lot about pro wrestling I was vices weekly wrestling freelance featured writer for seven years or something like that, so I was on the grind on pro wrestling and I was ready for something else yeah and then I I. I had taken, because I did not get my undergrad until I was 39, right? I didn't finish it.

I flamed out of college at the proper age twice, and I thought I was done.

So this writing career preceded going back even to undergrad.

And while I was there, I took a class with a really wonderful professor named Jean Goodwin.

And, you know, she took a shine to me, and you always end up with these undergrad mentors.

To merely have the opportunity to think about withdrawing in that way under present conditions.

But that wasn't the real election plot that we should focus on, according to your piece in The Spectator.

No, I think there's a far bigger picture here.

I think the question of who's the Chinese government wanted to win the 2020 election is more open to interpretation, really.

If you looked at the debate that was going on back then in Beijing, I mean, there were some arguments for supporting Trump because they thought they could do a deal with him.

They thought there was somebody who they could do business with.

But I think the bigger picture is that around that time, China changed the way it did its disinformation.

It became far more Russian.

Can you describe sort of how this campaign was prosecuted?

Do we need to say any more?

Yeah, we always need to say more.

He's very well in, or very well in on his best form in his previous two years.

He likes the track.

I was concerned he wouldn't get into the race proper and was a little bit obliged to run him two weeks ago.

I just hope running him in that race two weeks ago doesn't cost him being at his very best for Saturday.

It's always been the plan to go here.

Will they finish in the same order this time, do you think? I see Baylor Bay's in the same race.

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It was like, this is a really great opportunity to think about something deeply for a high-pressure period of time, right? To set yourself that challenge, right? If I've got a year to sort of work at my position and my ideas on something that's important to me, what would I say? It's important for us to talk about conversations at this particular moment for several reasons.

reasons.First, we need to address the deterioration of civic and civil discourse.

On the civic side, we speak to each other as if we have all become two-dimensional profiles without history.

My name is Ian Williams.

I'm a writer, and I was the 2024 Massey lecturer.

Those le- lectures were called What I Mean to Say, and it was all about conversation.

There was something about the fact that it was going to live in these different modalities that made it really unique and I think special and, and shaped the writing and shaped the thinking.

This has been the subject of quite a lot of debate.

Yeah, I have ...

We, we read a lot.

There's been a lot of hype about Chine- China's technology, about its AI abilities.

You know, I don't belittle it.

I think they are there.

I think they've made great strides.

I mean, Iran was an important proxy state, and by extension, their terrorist proxies were important tools for China, and a lot of that is, um, very much imperiled at the minimum right now.