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Ethics consultant (IDEA Leeds) who likes disco, as well as all other music. Host of ethicsuntangled.bsky.social.
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From Chris Heath's book.

submitted 16 hours ago • 1 comment

Annual reminder that being uninterested in Glastonbury - like anything else - is not an interesting trait; nobody’s eulogy goes ‘and of course, he never once played crazy golf’.

submitted 2 days ago • 22 comments

Someone needs to set up a pro-joy, pro-success pressure group, that goes around telling people who write this stuff to get a better job and go out and do enjoyable things.

submitted 2 days ago • 114 comments

From today's Times. That Truss line is never not hilarious

submitted 3 days ago • 10 comments

Conspiracy theory NIMBYism. You love to see it

submitted 4 days ago • 5 comments

Skip to 4:45 to the end for one of the best things you’ve ever seen x

submitted 4 days ago • 5 comments

The problem for the government now is that it has to justify to its own MPs why it could u-turn for a household on £30,000 a year losing £200-£300, but not for a disabled person losing £10,000 a year, at once, because of the government’s choices.

submitted 9 days ago • 7 comments

This is brilliant

submitted 10 days ago • 1 comment

It's Eric Bristow/pint of Carling but I've done that one before, so, Jarvis Cocker outside my local greengrocers looking pensively at the veg.

submitted 16 days ago • 0 comments

www.newstatesman.com/politics/202... 💥 EXC: For my first edition of the New Statesman as editor, I went on the road with Keir Starmer, discovering a man far more emotional than I expected, struggling to articulate his deepest feelings — and those of the country he leads👇

submitted 17 days ago • 32 comments

Brian Wilson has died. I painted him as the moon once

submitted 17 days ago • 14 comments

So the Chancellor is on her feet making some kind of statement. Worth listening in. The most striking claim is that real wages have grown more in 10 months than 10 years of the Conservatives... One of the reasons I'd fail as a politician is that I would struggle to take credit for that...

submitted 17 days ago • 4 comments

Is this true?

submitted 20 days ago • 1 comment

This is the core of it. In the 20th century, verification happened inside institutions. Now, it has to happen in us. A short thread on what that shift really means, and why it has to start in schools. 🧵

submitted 21 days ago • 26 comments

It's like Alexander Hamilton and Thomas Jefferson all over again.

submitted 23 days ago • 4 comments

This analogy doesn't work because it compares a case in which property rights are clear and uncontested with a case in which they are unclear and contested. This feature of the drone example explains why the action in that case wouldn't be allowed, as easily as does the implied explanation...

submitted 31 days ago • 1 comment

Sunder is, as ever, bang on, and elegantly polite with his thread. "Global majority" is a ridiculous phrase dreamed up by activists that serves only to flatten hugely diverse people into one homogenous "not white" group.

submitted 31 days ago • 4 comments

"University: A Good Idea". Excellent piece by @patporter76.bsky.social, reasserting the humanist idea of the university as a place to think, grow and argue; not as a consumer experience providing employable skills. thecritic.co.uk/university-a...

submitted 33 days ago • 7 comments

don’t worry guys, bluesky can be perfect so long as we all get along. first things first, we just need to agree on the exact kind of communist we’re all going to be

submitted 33 days ago • 92 comments

KNOPFLERIAN LYRICAL INSPO KLAXON

submitted 33 days ago • 1 comment

Eno diary, 24 May 1995: "Bono ends up filling every available space and singing over our bits as well, which I keep saying doesn’t sound so good, but which he just can’t help doing. Singers abhor a vacuum...a vacuum is defined as ‘when I’m not singing’."

submitted 36 days ago • 4 comments

News coming out that Alasdair MacIntyre died today…

submitted 37 days ago • 1 comment