Barry C Smith @smithbarryc Twitter profile

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Barry C Smith

@smithbarryc

2 years

One of the best contributions in a day of good speeches was that of @RhonddaBryant . Pitch perfect in tone and strong on principle. Important to remind the public: they are not ‘all the same’

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EU statements by @vonderleyen and @MichelBarnier are generous, gracious, reconciliatory, showing respect but regret. UK Gov statement all about our red lines respected, our sovereignty. Narrow view, self-serving, lacking in grace and generosity. Our little Englanders country now

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Once again, @maitlis and the team on @BBCNewsnight say what we are all thinking. Excellent analysis and coverage. Thank you for keeping it real

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Chris Witty: “In answer to your direct question about what I’ll be doing [at Christmas], I’ll be on the wards’ Respect!

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4 years

Could we just play this clip at our UK press briefings. So much more informative

Benjamin Alvarez

@BenjAlvarez1

4 years

This is how Angela Merkel explained the effect of a higher #covid19 infection rate on the country's health system. This part of today's press conf was great, so I just added English subtitels for all non-German speakers. #flattenthecurve

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That’s a try! #SCOvFRA

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1 year

Superb. Can almost feel the vibrant air, the faint sea smell and the cool of the tiles on bare feet. Wonderful composition, calm yet full of anticipation

Olga Tuleninova 🦋

@olgatuleninova

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Matteo Massagrande Balcone sul mare “Balcony on the Sea” (2016).

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“we’re treated to the grotesque spectacle of watching him pretend to care about Ukraine so that he can escape from the humiliations he is facing at home.” Rightly unsparing from ⁦ @IanDunt ⁩

Boris Johnson is using the Ukraine crisis as a human shield to protect him from partygate

Ukrainians deserve better than Boris Johnson's superficial interest

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2 years

Respect to Justin Welby for that reminder to Johnson: those who give service will be remembered forever just as those who cling to power and privilege will be forgotten

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Precise quote, those who serve “will be loved and remembered when those who cling to power and privileges are long forgotten”, Justin Welby, the Archbishop of Canterbury

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3 years

Love this

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2 years

Relentless and hilarious line of questioning by @bbcnickrobinson of @nadhimzahawi on @BBCr4today on what ‘implicitly believes’ means. He had repeated Johnson’s precise phrase but cannot say what ‘implicitly’ means

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4 years

Oh I don’t know but my guess is that the money is going to keep university staff in jobs so that they can put in even more work in converting their teaching to online versions while devising innovative ways to ensure good educational experiences for their students

The Guardian

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'Where is the money going?': students demand tuition fee refunds

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Clear and compelling reasoning @BBCr4today from @globalhlthtwit that GPs should be involved in test, track and trace for a reliable and trusted systems since they know their patients and may treat their contacts. This would be world beating, not car parks & call centres

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10 months

Saw Oppenheimer. Beautifully made. Fiercely intelligent script and deeply emotional. Academic scenes not caricatured, realistic locations, credible feeling of intellectual straining. Relentless soundtrack maintains intensity and, as Nolan predicts, wrung out at the end. Stunning

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2 years

The alternative Christmas message to the nation. Thanks for everything you’ve been doing @Femi_Sorry !

Femi - REGISTER TO VOTE BY 18 JUNE

@Femi_Sorry

2 years

🥊 Boris Johnson VS Brexit Reality 🥊 Let's compare what Boris Johnson said about his deal when he presented it last Christmas Eve, with what the British people have experienced in the year since.

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Careful worded but damming judgement about Johnson’s character and conduct from @RhonddaBryant

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1 month

I do wish politicians like @SuellaBraverman would stop talking about ‘what all British people want’. She doesn’t know what they want but it’s a safe bet that they don’t share her ‘dream’ of seeing flights take off for Rwanda #r4today

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3 years

And yet Ruth Davidson called for Nicola Sturgeon to resign before even hearing her evidence. Breathtaking hypocrisy!

Mike Galsworthy

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3 years

Oof. What a piece. 🔥 "If Conservatives care about the ministerial code, at least 11 cabinet members should resign." This article goes through, one-by-one, all those 11 cabinet members, what they did and how it breaks the code. Do read & RT.

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Some good news

BBC suspends proposed closure of the BBC Singers

The group, which is the UK's only full-time professional chamber choir, will now perform at the Proms.

www.bbc.co.uk

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3 years

‘Everything you see, taste, smell and touch isn’t real but an illusion. They are just electrical impulses.’ ?? Woeful BS from neuroscientist David Eagleman @BBCRadio4 Th Life Scientific who confuses perceptions with what they are perceptions of. Leave the philosophy to the pros

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2 years

The defibrillator

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4 years

Street art in North London. Posted on a bus shelter in Stoke Newington

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1 year

Bullseye!

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1 year

Nadine Dorries is living proof that you don’t have to come from a posh background to have a distasteful sense of entitlement.

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Riveting listen as ⁦ @campbellclaret ⁩ and ⁦ @RoryStewartUK ⁩ discuss the UK’s decision to support US invasion of Iraq. Stewart’s experience and perspective brings depth & detail to his forensic interviewing of ⁦Campbell. Brave by both to do it

‎The Rest Is Politics: The Iraq War on Apple Podcasts

‎Show The Rest Is Politics, Ep The Iraq War - 14 Mar 2023

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9 months

All he had to do was apologize to Hermosa, ‘I got carried away. What was I thinking? It was inappropriate. I’m sorry. It won’t happen again’. Instead, we had the arrogance, the defiance, the doubling down and the victim blaming. He deserves his fate

Spanish football federation leaders demand resignation of Luis Rubiales

Embattled president increasingly isolated in World Cup kiss row after urgent meeting between chiefs

www.theguardian.com

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1 year

Richard Sharp helps Johnson secure an £800,000 loan before Johnson appoints him Chairman of the BBC. @GaryLineker suspended when he notes accurately, on Twitter, similarities between Braverman’s language and language used in 30’s Germany. But the BBC is impartial. #r4today

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4 months

Strong job by a rightly indignant Ian Hislop not willing to let Jake Berry spout guff without being immediately upbraided

Best for Britain

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4 months

🔥 @PrivateEyeNews ' Ian Hislop vs Sir Jake Berry.🔥 IH: "Why didn't you act sooner? You kept saying 'this is too difficult'. Suddenly you can do it all in one day." JB: That is manifestly nonsense. IH: Why did you give [Vennells] a CBE in 2019? JB: You keep talking over me. ~AA

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Re-united with my laptop 16 days after I left it on @British_Airways flight to Heathrow. I would never have got it back without persistence and the essential intervention of @HeathrowAirport - thank you, thank you, thank you!

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1 year

Very grateful that @HeathrowAirport are now following up. Some hope still

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Buffoon

Rising temperatures ‘likely to be beneficial’ for Britain, says Lord Frost

Rising temperatures are “likely to be beneficial” for Britain as more people die of cold than heat in this country, Lord Frost has said.

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5 years

When out drinking with friend @giles_fraser we decided to have a serious, civilized conversation about Brexit and identify the roots of our different opinions. He is pro-Brexit and I am anti-Brexit. We managed it and here’s what we concluded

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5 years

@Docstockk @TheTab Your dignity and clarity in the face of such intolerance and hostility is remarkable. Hard to believe that it comes from those who insist on sympathy and understanding. Not the way forward. There are delicate issues on all sides. Be okay

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5 years

Great comic turn from @jessphillips who also took courage to back #PeoplesVote

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1 year

“Gullis' politics are driven entirely by spite, self-loathing and some inner unresolved hatred of clever people and good things”. As clear as day

Otto English

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1 year

Nothing about making Britain better for the people in it. All about "upsetting the right people... the Islington lefties.." And there you have it. Gullis' politics are driven entirely by spite, self-loathing and some inner unresolved hatred of clever people and good things.

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New cookbook helps people who lost taste and smell due to covid - The Washington Post The work of ⁦ @RyanRileyy ⁩ ⁦ @Kimdukee ⁩ ⁦ @LifeKitchen ⁩ with the help of patients ⁦ @AbScentUK ⁩ and ⁦ @AlteredEating ⁩

People are losing their taste and smell to covid-19. Now there’s a cookbook to help.

The recipes include sensory flavors such as cinnamon and wasabi that might stimulate a long-hauler’s dulled senses.

www.washingtonpost.com

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4 years

Excellent persistence by @bbcnickrobinson interviewing the self-satisfied & utterly evasive Minister Edward Argar @BBCr4today Asks him 3 times: If quarantine stops people from high risk countries coming to a lower risk country, which EU country is a higher risk? No answer

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1 year

In a world where print media is run by self interested right-wing proprietors, The Sun tries to whip up fury among their readers that not everyone shares their outlook

Britain is being run by 'New Elite' of radical woke middle-class liberals

HERE are three mind-boggling things that happened in Britain in the past few weeks. First, the charity Oxfam advised its staff to avoid using the word “mother” in favour of “gender neutral” languag…

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5 years

Delighted and honoured to become an Hon Research Fellow at Birkbeck Philosophy Department

Birkbeck Philosophy

@BBKPhilosophy

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We are delighted to announce that Professor Barry C Smith ( @smithbarryc ), Director of the Institute of Philosophy, School of Advanced Study has been nominated for an Honorary Research Fellowship in the Department of Philosophy, to commence October 2019.

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1 year

The new Surrealism

jamie

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There is a lot going on in this video.

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4 years

The death has just been announced of Roger Scruton. My ex-colleague from Birkbeck, and whatever you thought of his politics (very different from mine), his personal politics were exemplary. Interested in others, original thinker, true intellectual. Sad to learn of his early death

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3 years

Thank god for ⁦ @IanDunt ⁩ saying things we were thinking but no one else is saying. Tabloids & public lapped up Bashir interview they now deplore. Their hatred of BBC & infantilization of Diana, who wanted media attention but was increasingly hounded

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3 months

Sir Robert Buckland on Broadcasting House @BBCRadio4 commendably calls out Tory colleagues who are stoking racial hatred and division. Questions to him about Anderson, Braverman and Truss crisply put by @bbcpaddy #BBCBH

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3 years

You have to love the French sense of priorities:

French wine experts ask to be prioritised for COVID vaccine

France's wine tasting experts say they are particularly impacted by COVID-19 due to the risk of losing taste and smell.

www.euronews.com

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2 years

Consummate phrase maker, Lord Peter Hennessy sums it up: “The long experience of Brexit so coarsened our politics that we learned to shout at each other as the preferred mode of exchange. We used to be subtle, quite funny, self-ironic and forebearing to each other 1/

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9 months

For heaven’s sake! Read the room!

The Guardian

@guardian

9 months

Financial support to double for MPs who lose seats in UK election

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4 years

Fintan O’Toole in ferociously good form. Trump “caught between authoritarian and anarchic impulses is incapable of coherence.”. Have a listen

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4 years

Well, it is Burns night!

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This is a wonderful book, weaving together the philosophy, the surrounding politics and the personal lives of this extraordinary group. And it’s beautifully written

David Edmonds

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The Murder of Prof Schlick - next book - just arrived in bulk. Thanks to @robtempio @MattRohal and the @PrincetonUPress team

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2 years

New article with Ann-Sophie Barwich where we provide an overview of the philosophy of smell:

From Molecules to Perception: Philosophical Investigations of Smell

Theories of perception have traditionally dismissed the sense of smell as a notoriously variable and highly subjective sense, mainly because it does not easily fit into accounts of perception based...

compass.onlinelibrary.wiley.com

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Finishing birthday with this rare thing. Pale crimson, woody sweetness on the nose, lacking a bit of concentration typical of the vintage, still showing Chambolle elegance. Remercie la nature

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Some feedback ⁦ @lindayaX ⁩ “One of the benefits of Twitter was how it created a sense of community for scientists, particularly for those from under-represented groups.” ⁦⁩ Now they are leaving

Thousands of scientists are cutting back on Twitter, seeding angst and uncertainty

Nature - A Nature survey reveals scientists’ reasons for leaving the social-media platform now known as X, and what they are doing to build and maintain a sense of community.

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3 years

@Philosophy_Mark David Wiggins was asked this when the Philosophy Dept was asked to produce its research strategy to senior management . He said, ‘We read books and try to understand them’. He told them he preferred the term ‘scholarly leisure’ to ‘research’. We were not given extra funding

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4 years

Very, very touching from recent widower @RevRichardColes . Good to see you back, Richard!

BBC Radio 2

@BBCRadio2

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"Its flashes are flashes of fire, a raging flame. Many waters cannot quench love, and neither floods drown it." @RevRichardColes returned to the Breakfast Show with some touching words for #ValentinesDay . 🧡 @zoetheball | @bbcsounds

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Vaxxed AF, as the kids say

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Practical application of metaphysics at Glasgow Airport

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We were wrong. We thought we were living in a time of progress, where science would sweep away ignorance, where attitudes were improving, where society was more tolerant. It would always be this way. But far off the sounds of conflict, angry voices, telling us we were wrong

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Philosophical wisdom ;)

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Once more into the kilt, dear friends, once more. It’s Burns Night!

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One of the most gracious concession speeches you are ever likely to hear. Changed times

Dr. Jennifer Cassidy

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John McCain’s concession speech from the 2008 election. Listen when the crowd “boos” Obama, he says stop and settles them. America, you are unrecognisable. #ElectionResults2020

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Populism 101

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4 years

Stuff of nightmares. Last night I took the last sip of water and put the glass down. It shattered. This morning In the kitchen all the (new) water glasses were broken, except the one with water in it. A clue! I can hear a high pitched sound from the boiler. Resonant frequency

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2 years

Dear @Jacob_Rees_Mogg can we please have bananas again?

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So good to have a beautifully illustrated physical copy of What Makes Us Social by @cdfrith and @utafrith Also possible to download it since it’s open access:

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6 years

For a quick introduction to David Hume on taste today just after midday news: A History of Ideas - Barry Smith on the Philosophy of Good Taste - @bbcradio4

BBC Radio 4 - A History of Ideas, Barry Smith on the Philosophy of Good Taste

Philosopher Barry Smith on David Hume's ideas about cultivating good taste.

www.bbc.co.uk

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In case you missed it, a wonderful piece on smell in history and in people’s lives, highlighting the value of collaborations between art, science and the perfume industry feat. ⁦⁦⁦ @ucqbbem ⁩ ⁦ @katemclean ⁩ & ⁦ @4160Tuesdays ⁩

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Loathing that adolescent boy X logo more and more

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Saul Kripke speaking @IP_SAS on Naming and Necessity Revisited. Don’t worry, he still stands by the main theses of the book!

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On a mission this evening. Canary Wharf. Regular updates

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4 years

This work from home - we can arrange meetings online! - is getting out of control. Calm it people

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More signs of the easing of lockdown

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1 year

By far the best suggestion

Armando Iannucci

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How about something like ‘These views are my own and not those of the BBC’ from @GaryLineker and a ‘Sorry if we over-reacted’ from the BBC? The BBC tearing itself further apart is the sort of thing that gets anti-state fundamentalists on the Right out of bed in the morning.

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Morning in Liguria. Not a sound. Perfect

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You have to love Italy!

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One for the philosophers of linguistics

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Trump: People who don't speak languages. We have languages coming in to our country, nobody that speaks those languages. They're truly foreign languages. Nobody speaks them

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@jamesdgcook @AGallcobhair @oliyoung By any one's standards, this was astonishing - and given the political context, remarkable

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@RoryStewartUK @JacksonYale We owe so much to the persistent intelligence, scholarship and sheer commitment of @TimothyDSnyder on all matters Ukrainian

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@Sathnam As Bill Hicks once put it, about sitting in a diner in a similar situation, they said menacingly, “Oh look, I think we’ve got ourself a reader”

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The Moral Maze has ended on @BBCRadio4 and we can all be thankful

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Really sad news. In the world of academia, he was a rare thing. Worldly, curious, human with wide impact beyond his field of research. Be took real pleasure in life and lived to to the full

Daily Nous / Justin Weinberg

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Philosopher Daniel Dennett has died.

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One of the best matches in the world: the salty tang of Roquefort and the burnished golden sweetness of Chateau Climens. A kind of heaven

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Feels good to be back in the land of blue and white 🇬🇷

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He was Swiss!

Oxford Philosophy

@OUPPhilosophy

4 years

Who was Jean Jacques Rousseau? A fascinating collection of his letters sheds light into the French philosopher and writer's life, and can be read on 'Electronic Enlightenment'. EE is an online compendium of historical correspondence. #LettersAndLives

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‘Are we to beg?’ asks Mick Lynch pinpointing the social consequences of growing inequality

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2 years

This take down of Rees-Mogg is not to be missed. Take a bow @13sarahmurphy

sarah murphy

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@JMPSimor Everything Rees-Mogg does is done to wind people up. He’s a desperately inadequate dogmatist who’s learned everything by rote since childhood. He bought shares in daddy, nanny, the church, the Tory party. But he’s nothing in himself. Soulless and stunted.

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Wonderful essay on ghostwriting. Well worth a read, or a listen

Notes from Prince Harry’s Ghostwriter

Collaborating on his memoir, “Spare,” meant spending hours together on Zoom, meeting his inner circle, and gaining a new perspective on the tabloids.

www.newyorker.com

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@AdamBienkov Sounds like a claim given to her by US companies who have failed to get NHS to buy their products. Given her connections with US special interest groups I would not be surprised

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It was worth patiently working through these fundamental points of difference, identifying shared values but recognizing different views of how to promote them. Both of us prone to visceral reactions but care and willingness led to better understanding

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4 years

Time to open some of the favourites I liberated from the cellar. This evening, Rolly Gassman 2005 Riesling which balances richness with a clean, lean finish

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2 years

Birthday done right. A bowl of fun, synergistic umami, precise cooking and Ken Forrester’s F-ing Magic Chenin. Thank you to Riddle and Fynn for the consumer cooking skills and perfect service

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I have a panpsychist joke, every tiny bit of it is funny

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Dry January Force Majeur. After a festive season burglary my wine cellar and whisky collection have gone. The wines are irreplaceable. I wish they were at least being enjoyed by someone but I expect they are not

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Streets of Edinburgh at 10pm. How I miss the light of Scottish summer nights

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Interesting how your brain won’t update as the trick is performed again and again

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We shouldn’t laugh but...

The Poke

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BREAKING: Panic in White House as scientists confirm loss of taste could be symptom of COVID-19

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Exceptional essay on Kafka’s thought On the space between waking and dreaming in Kafka’s diaries | Aeon Essays

On the space between waking and dreaming in Kafka’s diaries | Aeon Essays

By day an insurance official, by night he was an incessant, insomniacal scribe of the space between waking and dreaming

aeon.co

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Monday morning and time to get down to work reading and writing

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Think I’m getting the hang of The Apprentice. Enthusiastic but naive people are given impossible tasks, which they do badly. They then get criticized and bicker with each other, and one of them gets fired. Have I got it?

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Barry C Smith

@smithbarryc

3 years

I think your answer should have been, No

BBC Politics

@BBCPolitics

3 years

#Marr : Do we need 80 new nuclear weapons? Defence Secretary Ben Wallace: "We need a credible nuclear deterrent"

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Barry C Smith

@smithbarryc

3 years

@Docstockk Dear Kathleen, I am so sorry to hear what’s happening to you. Whatever disagreements there are about these sensitive matters there is absolutely no place for threats of violence against women or attempts to disbar those we disagree with. I hope @SussexUni make that utterly clear

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