Does she really work from home though, or is she paid to do as Nigel does - absolutely nothing. Pretty shaky ground for a man who is famous for never turning up to Parliament or his constituency to occupy.

Off-the-charts corruption. Billions. www.forbes.com/sites/zachev...

just a fucking weird statement on it's face but also highlights how filthy rich and completely out of touch trump's whole cabinet is. a private boat for a family vacation? stopping by a billionaire's island for lunch? nannies, plural?? the epstein class, indeed.

Do you know who has footed a higher proportion of the bill for the immigration system & contributed more to the tax system than the average Brit? Yup, it's migrants. The immigration system is definitely unfair, but only to migrants. Shabana Mahmood is a disgrace.

Glad to see that Zia Yusuf has tacitly admitted that he represents a party of racists though. Progress!

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This is what we're up against. Bangor University, that fine and noble institution where I've spoken twice, nearly 150 years young and still going strong. The sheer hatred they reserve for us shows what could happen after 2029, but also that they're frightened of knowledge and learning.

Reform's Sarah Pochin (the one who complained about brown people being in adverts) wrote to Bangor university's student debating society asking to be hosted. They said 'no thanks, you're a bit of a racist, we don't like those' & now Reform are threatening to shut down the entire university!

can't remember why I opened all these tabs about frogs

I just want to say, if there are any other AI companies out there looking to pay a tame philosopher a gazillion pounds to pimp their product: you can absolutely do one you bunch of horrible, weapons-grade wallopers.

I'm convinced AI is our generation's radium - a discovery with genuinely useful applications in specific, controlled circumstances that we stupidly put in everything from kid's toys to toothpaste until we realised the harm far too late where future generations will ask if we were out of our minds.

It's World Pulses Day! Do yourself and the planet some good with beans, peas, lentils or even lupins apparently

The UK *is* losing a generation of scientists. I know lots of brilliant people who have left their jobs / the country because of the limited jobs & funding. Once lost, they cannot ever be replaced. The UK government is overseeing the death of UK academic science, and it doesn't seem to care.

What, and I cannot stress this enough, the actual fuck?

My opinion tonight is that people authors of fiction should generally stop writing in the first person because 99% of the time it’s awful.

Wow, she’s unremittingly awful. Part of the job description of Home Secretary has always seemed to involve being a terrible person, but Mahmood is really leaning into the role hard.

There is a special pleasure when the chance comes along to do a bad turn to someone who’s horrid. Having a lovely evening.

Remind me: was this the company that stole my work? And the work of thousands of other writers?

We’ve switched over to the Winter Olympics. I cannot watch the ski jumping anymore without wondering if the competitors have injected acid into their junk. The wife just shouted ‘Show us his dick!’ as a competitor pushed off. Ruined.

I’ve just watched Jamie Oliver cook a noodle dish and now I need to stop myself going on a claw-hammer spree. Jamie Oliver seems like a lovely guy, but he should be banned by the UN from cooking Asian food, my blood pressure can’t take it.

Man who doesn't turn up to do his job, tells a room full of retired people that working from home is bad.

Policy by Pub Bore. He's just that spittle-flecked Hate Guy in the corner of your done-up bar saying that modern beer is horrible and anyone under 50 is lazy and a loser. As beatable a politician as there'll ever be.

It's hard to pick the one maddest element of British politics, but the tradition of committee room table-banging noise assessment before a leader is destroyed surely has to be in the running.

Every day, an unprecedented corruption scandal that would immediately end any chief executive's tenure in any actual democracy, let alone any presidency since Truman.

If everyone apart from the person who appointed them all leaves then that will sort it.

Someone on Polymarket has just placed a $100k bet that the US will strike Iran today. $4m payout if true. More money than sense or insider information, you decide.

This image also once again reinforces my idea that we need philosopher trading cards.

A reminder that Jeremy Kyle isn’t so much interviewing Reform MPs as promoting them: he works for Reform & is likely to stand for them at the next election. This is a little misogynistic love-in between two repulsive men.

Ah yes, 'if you don't like a woman, either (a) call her a slag; (b) call her ugly.' Classic stuff from the 1970s manual for men. This is what going back to The Good Owld Days™ actually looks like.

This is an interesting thread because that little wrong-sounding note, *so* many people brush over those, in all kinds of decision-making, and there’s no obvious correlation with intelligence. Doesn’t immediately compute, ignore. And then you’re bought in to whatever grift/horror it is.

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a reminder that Tim Allan, who quit Starmer's Downing St today, previously spun for....not only Kazakhstan and Qatar but also Vladimir Putin’s government www.ft.com/content/a0a8...

Are these libertarians in the room with us now? Are they different from the libertarians who voted for him, donated to him, told everyone he was the peace president who was going to cut taxes & increase free trade, & who claimed Kamala & Biden were coming for their guns etc.? Pfft.

Quite surprised by this given that Ratio, to my knowledge, has published one paper on animal ethics ever (arguing that it's not wrong to eat meat, 2008) & its editor is hostile to animal rights. The one time I tried to submit there my paper was desk rejected as 'inappropriate'. Progress perhaps!

Out of curiosity, I have plotted the time taken by an editor to desk reject all of my papers. Not included, the two I withdrew after 40 weeks and 72 weeks of silence respectively. I've rounded up all of my rejections from JPP/Bob Goodin to 1 week. Average wait has doubled to 6 weeks since 2018.

I’m all for philosophers getting paid but let’s be serious.

I’m glad for this policy, but don’t understand why Mahmoud is claiming, “the British people will always welcome those in genuine need of sanctuary.” That’s untrue, as the UK doesn’t provide humanitarian visas to most people in need. Why not just be honest? www.theguardian.com/world/2026/f...

Watching a - tbh not very good - documentary about whale scientists trying to decode humpback whale communication, and I remain convinced to that one of the undervalued glories of modern civilisation is that it allows people to earn a living (or at least a research grant) doing crazy shit like this.

This is a nice read. Nagel describes Schaeffer's claim: 'the fact that valuing involves emotional investment and a distinctive practical orientation means that one cannot value everything.’ This seems true in a trivial sense, but I don't see how it's true that we can't value everyone.

Just learned that the testicles of sparrows increase in size by over 100 times every spring. I hope everyone has a nice day.

It's biopsy results day. No sign of anything cancerous or otherwise life threatening. Phew.

The solution to not understanding a language widely spoken in your country, native to more than 43 million of your fellow citizens & one of your country's territories, is to learn some Spanish ffs. You can't complain it's not an official language because neither is English.

Being asked to detail who's going to be teaching on my modules next semester when: a) we're going through a period of mass redundancies; b) we've just redesigned our curriculum; c) I have no decision-making powers over teaching allocation; d) & I'm on research leave, all seems a bit much tbh.

I really enjoyed having this opportunity to talk about a lot of themes in my work on romantic love: being in love as a practical identity w narrative structure, existential feeling, love at first sight, falling in and out of love, disorientation, and of course, good break-ups— all in 25 min!

The next session of our transdisciplinary (biology-philosophy) seminar on Agency will take place next Wednesday. Marek Špinka will talk about play in nonhuman animals, and I expect it to be super cool ! 😎 More info here : www.animalinventiveness.com/post/seminar...

It's been clear for some time that sustained use of AI for knowledge work de-motivates and de-skills. Even among academics, the last population I'd expect to allow such atrophy, folks are now reduced to playing cynical games with the language machine and justifying it via the grant hamster wheel.

Why would people want to take on leading a university when the entire sector is in free-fall? You aren’t going to be able to make a university successful. The only people taking on the job are going to be those who just want the money & don’t much care about the anger & despair.

And yet, day after day after, an incredible number of our academic colleagues, every university, & ~every civil society organization & prominent politician/celebrity/businessperson/public intellectual/etc. continues to stay there, at the Nazi Bar, anyway. It's been incredibly revealing.

Mandelson is corrupt and ought to be charged. Andrew is corrupt *and* a rapist nonce, so triple that.