Ah, Liz Truss, an awful, awful prime minister, who was a Thatcher wannabe (which shows how bad her motivations were), racist, stupid, crashed the economy, blamed the chancellor she talked into doing it, sacking him for implementing her plan rather than for the tax avoidance he should have been sacked for, weak but talked tough. I was thinking she was the worst prime minister we’d had in a while, but the Conservative Party really has done a number on the country with the awful prime ministers it has foist upon us.

The country elected “stability and prosperity” with David Cameron instead of “chaos with Ed Milliband” and we got the Brexit referendum, endless turmoil, economic calamity, and frankly Ed Milliband would have been a far better prime minister than anyone we’ve had since.

Next, having promised to see the result of the referendum through either was, Cameron promptly resigned, leaving us with Teresa May, and whilst she had a sense of duty and fairness, she considered it her duty to try to find a compromise position between remainers and brexiteers, but the brexiteers wanted nothing and chaos and disruption and no compromise, and trying to satisfy them by moving in their direction was not just a fool’s errand, it was an idiot’s cause. She also thought that it was fair to write “immigrants go home” on the side of vans to drive through London, so her sense of duty and fairness didn’t get us anything good.

After that we got Boris “moral compasses are for weak people” Johnson. It’s not so much that he was a liar, it’s that truth or falsehood were completely irrelevant to him. He partied while banning parties and while the Queen mourned in isolation 2 metres from her family, and that did for him in the end.

Then we had useless car crash Liz Truss, and finally Rishi “tech bro” Sunak, who wasn’t all that great either.

Unfortunately they’ve now got Kemi Badenoch, who is as stupid as Truss, but is allowed to be more racist because she’s from an ethnic minority, and of course she’s allowed to be misogynistic because she’s a woman, but actually all the racists and misogynists have deserted the Conservatives for the Nigel Farage Shit Show because she’s a black woman and he’s a white man. When will they ever learn?

Unfortunately, Labour have Keir “personality free zone” Starmer as prime minister, and whilst they’ve done some good stuff for workers rights and tenants, they’ve done it painfully slowly and are being beastly to the immigrants, so no one likes them much any more.

If they could replace him with someone with a bit of likeable personality and the common touch, who would actually make things better for ordinary people, build a vast amount of good-looking council housing, increase minimum wage, tax billionaires and multinationals, train, recruit and retain more doctors and nurses, bring social care under the nhs and fund it properly, invest in renewables to bring energy prices down, nationalise water again (leaving the debt firmly on the profiteering shareholders door - you leave with nothing, you vultures), then people can start to feel a bit more positive, and nobody needs to be deported for having the wrong colour skin.

Arrives unelected

Kills the queen

Deletes the economy

Refuses to elaborate

Leaves

What did she mean by this?

PI? Private Investigator or π? Or both?

My PI taught me I don’t want a career in academia. Fuck that. Now I’m a capitalist slave :(

PIs are trained on science that is likely outdated by the time they become professors, rewarded to churn out as many grants as possible, and never given a day of managerial training. Switching to industry after my PhD was a breath of fresh air.

Left is me during the job interview, Right is me the moment onboarding ends.

Ive had some of the first encouraging moments in my career during my advisor meetings this year. Ive been doing this for 8 years 😔