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All my blog posts ever, in chronological order…

• The First Post
• Wise words from the lecturers…
• Sussex graduate becomes Vice-President
• Countdown to 2113; or, Peace, Politics, Pinner and and Plagim
• grama skools
• Old MacDonald had good luck, E-I-E-I-O
• Plagiarise – let no-one else’s work evade your eyes!
• Are you trying to ’ave a cado?
• Strike while the iron’s hot…
• End-of-term statistics
• Channukah commercialism
• Things will Brighton up
• The Graduate
• If you want to know the time, ask a policeman…
• Where Politics meets ‘The Matrix’
• Election Night Special
• The Adventure of the Tenancy Agreement
• Prayer silence for the Mayor
• The BBC and Jaunty Genocide
• Britain’s Best Bits
• End-of-term statistics (2)
• It’s as essay as pie
• Yes, it’s the Pesach Special!
• Back for a historic third term…
• Data day life in Sussex
• A Party Political Broadcast on behalf of the Liberal Party
• In the beginning there was Sussex…
• What a shower
• Exams ahoy!
• Levity at Leveson
• Diamond Jubilee Special
• House of Cards
• Are you done yet?
• Leaving Lewes Court
• Lovely spam, wonderful spam
• We live in Olympic times
• A life on the Ocean
• What a flaming nuisance
• £30 million well spent I think
• The silly season endeth
• An apology from the Liberal Party
• Voo terg yappety yap
• Twenty Thousand League Tables Under the Sea
• The First Amendment [second draft]
• Cannabis doesn’t grow on a busy street
• Not much cop
• A minor wobble
• GabrielSquats
• PCC gone mad
• Sussex up to date
• To be or Maccabee
• Is this a Jägerbomb I see before me?
• Following the paper trail
• Heads, shoulders, NGO, NGO
• Knock knock. Europe.
• Keep Out and Carry On
• This little piggy went to prison
• We are not a mews
• Under the influence
• Putting the demo back into democracy
• A paragron of impartiality
• Thank you doesn’t butter my bread
• Sussex takes on Strasbourg
• The 5773 Pesach Special
• Panorama: Undercover
• Safe for now
• ‘Occupy Sussex’ eviction: university legal fees revealed
• ‘Doctor Who’ latest: the Abu QaTARDIS ain’t going nowhere
• By the waters of Budapest we sat down and wept
• Cops and cockups special: PCCs – the first six months
• In-person assessment ftw
• Way out of our league
• Savoury connections
• Autumn all ye faithful
• Compass’ Café Conundrum—and other catering capers
• Cannabis, shmannabis
• A room with review
• The University of Dotheboys
• For hardworking eyes only
• The (second) Great Sussex Results Scandal
• Eats, texts and leaves
• Ich spy mit meinem kleinen Auge
• ‘The King of Beasts shouldn’t be a coward’, said the Scarecrow
• Let the spy fall, when it crumbles; we will stand tall and face it all together
• ‘Cowardgate’ concludes: not guilty
• Ooo-eeeee-oooooooh
• Whisper words of wisdom, Maccabee
• Tartan themselves up
• Mid-week Sussex Human Rights Round-up
• A Sussex Christmas Carol
• Sussex’s two-day week
• Why does the Left insist on belittling true British heroes like Officer V53?
• I’m Sussex, I Haven’t a Clue
• Aubergines are wrong and bad
• NO to better buses!
• The Falmer Gravy Train
• #sussexelections – universal suffering
• Right on Schedule A
• Some people are foreign. Get over it.
• 100 glorious posts!
• Proceed with caution
• Forging a new Britain
• So. Farewell then, Sussex lectures and seminars.
• Pesach special: continued p5774
• Lapelgate
• From Russia with Dove
• Bye bye, everybody, bye bye*
• Election day: EU decide
• Many happy Returning Officers
• Black Rod (no don’t giggle)
• Results Day cut-out-and-keep special
• Clearing the moat: Sussex’s expenses scandal
• Playing away
• Graduation degradation: a mortarboard special
• The many flavours of Christian Brodie
• Another Fine Ness
• The United Grand Blog of England
• Supporting the Conservative Party
• And then it was November
• Maccabeen there done that
• Twenty Fifteen already
• Flog this
• The Edgware Marbles
• Trying it on with the Tribunal
• Pesach Special 5775
• Charlotte Elizabeth Diana
• Cameron in control
• What a burqa
• While I was out…
• Hair today, gone tomorrow
• Corbyn blimey
• Morley Academy, Pyongyang
• The shop who loved me
• Crime-wave at Zoo Lane
• The World Zionist Congress: day minus-2
• The World Zionist Congress: day minus-1
• The World Zionist Congress: day 1
• The World Zionist Congress: day 2
• The World Zionist Congress: finally, closure
• Tax credit where it’s due
• Anger at new passport design
• Negging the Bedouin
• Burglar Phil
• Best of latke: it’s the Channukah Special!
• The Channukadvent Calendar: Day 1
• 24 times we reached peak Jewish Chronicle (Channukadvent Calendar Day 2)
• Jobs I’m not applying for, Episode #3 (Channukadvent Calendar Day 3)
• The Uxbridge Book of Channukoid Jokes and Gags (Channukadvent Calendar Day 4)
• Seasonal TV… (Channukadvent Calendar Day 5)
• MaccaBBC News (Channukadvent Calendar Day 6)
• Eight candles up on top (Channukadvent Calendar Day 7)
• Teletubbies say Shalom! (Channukadvent Calendar Day 8)
• Strawberries or BDS? A Limmud sketch
• Sweet Twenty Sixteen
• What do pints mean?
• Asylum seekers see red
• Evolutionary throwback becomes primary school headteacher
• AirbnBDS
• The best laid plans
• Sussex University slammed by judge yet again
• Bed and Brexit
• A Purim special: The Book of Jeremy
• Give us a Chuckle
• Call of Public Duty: Black Ops
• A man, a plan, a leak: Panama
• Emergency Exodus: Pesach 5776
• Students speak out for Leave campaign
• A name to strike fear
• Driving ambition
• Too cool for school
• No smoke without packaging
• Track changes
• Talkin’ ’bout a referendum
• See EU later
• Yes we May
• Fireman Islam
• Continued on article 50
• An Election Day Prayer
• Mordechai ben-Arkush condemned for Haman statement
• Ambassador Nigel, we’re very upset
• What will vegan kidnappers do now?
• So here it is, The Channukah Special
• No queues please, we’re Jewish: a Limmud sketch
• The very White House
• Introducing: Just William’s Year
• Trump’s grudge at the judge
• Our top story: KKK-endorsed President does racist thing
• Introducing our new editor, an MP called George
• The Legs-odus: Pesach special 2017
• We need strong and stable blog posts
• Theresa and the Magic Money Tree
• What a noisy place to be-leyn
• Of Mice and Menorah: the Channukah special
• Every Limmud panel discussion that you missed
• Who has the biggest button of them all?
• Vashti and the crisps (a Purim special)
• The plague’s the thing: the Pesach 5778 special
• I’m getting married (subject to Acts of God)
• Channukah 5779: bringing sovereignty back home
• Limmud: the updated code of conduct
• Leave means kerfuffle
• 2 Jeremy 1:13 (a Purim special)
• The Egyptian backstop: a Pesach special
• Golders Green is changing
• Nob off
• Gabrielvotes: an election special
• Institutionally antiochus: the Channukah Special 2019
• Welcome to Historic Birmingham Hilton Metropolis (the Limmud sketch 2019)
• I’m fasting on Thursday
• A departure from the royal family (the Purim special 5780)
• Crimestoppers: Easter egg edition
• Persons, things and premises – a Levitical reflection on lockdown
• Insert plague joke here (the Pesach special 5780)
• Is God self-isolating?
• Barnet’s parks: a review
• The Daughters of Zelophechad take on the police
• I like to move it move it
• Going undercover
• 12 things the Mishnah has to say about Covid-19
• This isn’t the first socially-distanced High Holy Days
• All the Pfizer to heal you with: a vaccine special
• This land is shrunk (an accidental sermon)
• Magen Covid: the Channukah special 2020
• Preparing for Limmud at Home
• Some unstructured thoughts on having a baby
• Tzom Hillel v’Shammai: we need to bring back nidui
• A Purim special: The Book of Whitty, 1:1-12
• The Health Protection (Plague of Boils, Restrictions) (Salty Tiers 4) Regulations 5781
• ‘The Apprentice’: the lost lockdown series
• #NoSafeSpaceForJewHate… except at the ‘Jewish Chronicle’
• Hillel and Shammai decided to settle it all with an arm wrestle
• Dibarti dofi: I defamed a dead man
• Racism at the Board of Deputies: who will bring them down to earth?
• Channukah gets earlier every year
• In praise of cancel culture (which doesn’t really exist)
• Racism at the Board of Deputies (again) – “Desmond Tutu is a true black coward” 🤮
• People who expose racists are not the bad guys
• The Book of Boris: Purim special 2022
• The Pesach special 5782
• My Pesach is only six days long
• I’m officially sort of a rabbi now (in a way)
• The Anne Frank Trust and the cities of refuge