The gathering held last June at a park in Irvine, California, was not a standard toga party. Instead of undergraduates downing beer from Solo cups, the attendees were graduate students drinking champagne from plastic jeweled goblets. Crowned with laurel wreaths, wearing togas and Roman-emperor costumes, they honored something that rarely gets commemorated: rejection. More than 100 rejections. Grants, journal articles, fellowships—you name it, they’d been denied it.
This party was one component of a larger project devised by the cognitive-science
Former top adviser Dominic Cummings today branded Boris Johnson a ‘joke’ in the wake of the first Covid inquiry
Dominic Cummings today criticised his old boss Boris Johnson and branded the Prime Minister a ‘joke’ in the wake of a devastating report which laid bare the string of failures the Government has made throughout the Covid pandemic.
Speaking to Sky News outside his home, the PM’s ex chief adviser labelled No10’s system for dealing with crises a ‘disaster’.
He said:
