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Grumpy. Associate Professor of Political Philosophy. Animal rights, ethics of activism, political philosophy.
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I haven’t argued that nonhuman animals are political agents (I’m sceptical), but you can add Eze Paez and @pmagana94.bsky.social to that list, as well as Angie Pepper and Richard Healey (arguing against).
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I’m pretty sure there’s a way to escape the former problem without resorting to the latter.
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When the Trump regime finally falls, Americans should really consider starting this whole democracy thing again from scratch, because what they have right now is neither democratic nor secure.
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I use Microsoft To Do for these lists (honestly good, one of a tiny number of their products that I like), and realised that having 'Write book' sat on my own list was just harming my mental health, so I removed it.
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Very helpful, I can now tell my local bike shop that I’m having a problem with my biches.
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One of the worst parts of social media is having to read political opinions from people who appear to be suffering from concussion.
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“Sorry, you have less of a stake in the future, so your vote counts for less.”
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We have shared calendars, so that when a date is picked people can see who is busy. Nobody seems to ever use them.
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Argh! Clearly, I need more coffee in my life.
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Looking for stuff on relational autonomy would also probably throw up critiques.
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The Quong book includes a lot of discussion of Raz, as well as disagreement.
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Impeachment.
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Quong’s Liberalism with Perfection & Raz’s the Morality of Freedom would be good starts, I reckon.
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Corbyn will be 80 by the time of the next general election, so can't see this having any legs. Hardly likely that there could be a party trading on his name if he's not going to be leading it into any election.
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Cool story. The Tories commissioned a report to discover how much visa overstaying was happening and found that it was an almost nonexistent problem. www.timeshighereducation.com/news/review-...