Peter Wasson

Kicking off Monday at Labour Party Conference with a breakfast panel on mental health with @manmetuni.bsky.social’s Deputy Pro-Vice Chancellor, Prof Deborah James

Lots happening this year for Man Met at Labour Party Conference!

Anyone at Lib Dem conference this year? Give me a shout if you fancy a pint and a chat!

It’s reported that Starmer, Macron, Von der Leyen and Rutte are going to the White House with Zelenskyy. Genuinely curious about what happens with if they refuse a meeting with Zelenskyy because he is ‘not in a suit’ with them in tow

One day, Finsbury Park will be dry!

It’s VJ Day so Im guessing it might be a gun salute?

I’ll drop you a message to sort a time

Is this you and your water leak reporting ways Mark? I’m actually going to be at conference for the first time in quite a while. Would you like to meet for a coffee at some point?

Omg! You’re here! NGL you helped me get through lockdown!

Though most Zoomers have parents who are Gen X. Purely anecdotal but in the conversations I’ve had with Zoomers, they have little compunction re Boomers. Millennials are angry but I don’t think anyone is fully prepared yet for how angry Zoomers are

Despite the fact GM has existed as an administrative region since the 70s

'Are we becoming an offshoot of Manchester?' The project has been supported with a £5.7m grant from the Greater Manchester Combined Authority.

There's a whole 'thing' where the other parts of Greater Manchester that aren't Manchester get a bit snippy about being part of Greater Manchester cf: www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/greater...

I seem to remember there was Mock the Week episode around the time of the financial crash when they phoned the Treasury to ask if they were using British billions. The press officer said yes of course to which the researcher asked ‘really? A million million?’ And the they had to back track

Isn’t there that whole thing about London being the 6th largest French city?

I love this salad. I also recommend black olives with it!

I prefer him in his guise as patron saint of lost things. I still sometimes mutter “St Anthony, St Anthony please down, something is lost and cannot be found” when in extremis while looking for something.

The Miracle of the Mule – A Corpus Christi Reflection A blog about the history of art, specifically about Christian iconography.

It’s St Anthony of Padua! imaginemdei.blogspot.com/2020/06/the-...

But what on earth has he done to earn such ire from them?

The world "Habemus Papam?!"

The chorister who's nicked off with the thurible:

I realise this isn't the story (Habemus Papam!) but I was suddenly reminded of the social media fame that a seagull garnered during the last Conclave

The People’s Republic of Greater Manchester! Really!?

Sharing this because so much nonsense is written about Eostre. This is a great article, and the blog is great. (And - name dropping - I sat next to Ronald Hutton at a conference once. Lovely man. His books are the gold standard.)

I think it looks closer to the SDLP green, who are a sister party - hostile takeover coming from Derry and Belfast South?

Not to mention trade marks and patents…

It’s been a while since I worked in health policy, but then question of what is going to happen to ICSs in the latest revamp of the NHS has been bothering me. Interesting to see discussion of it here

In any case, we were about 27 when I did that tour. So we were looking at folks in their early 20s. I was also one of the young researchers before that - straight of uni. Nearly everyone around me at the time was also straight out of uni

I mean, I am. But thank you for the endorsement in any case

Not just SpAds. Years ago I was able to give my now husband a tour of the Houses of Parliament. Towards the end he leaned over and whispered “who are all these children?” referring to all the parliamentary researchers walking around. To which I responded “they run the country”

I’m just sat here minding my own business on the bus and unbidden into my head pops the memory of the weird part of the lockdown when there was a debate *among Government Ministers* about whether a scotch egg constituted a substantial meal

Having worked on a few, the run up to the planning app and the whole consultation process (often with vigorous opposition from small but very vocal opposition groups), I think a lot of developments collapse before they even get to planning