Morgan Jones

I wrote this in May 2024. All of this has been very predictable for a very long time.

www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...

Femi, mate, buy some bednets. You'd save more lives in expectation, and the risk of assassination is negligible

(From @morganj0nes.bsky.social book on the anti-Brexit campaigns)

"I had bullets through my door and I was attacked in the street, but broadly it was great"

MPs are another species

as you say:
bsky.app/profile/lizz...

Featuring me, questioning whether the Queen really was signalling pro-EU sentiments via the medium of headwear:

as I breeze past the christian nationalism... I take time to admire the 13 men on one cover : )

far from the main issue but admirable gender balance on show here

my god has forsaken me

maybe i should worship the sun

“the sun delusion”….
Not likely mate have you felt the first sunny day of spring ???

imagine being a Neolithic pagan worshiping the sun. spring would hit so hard you’d be feral with delight and also ideologically vindicated

Enduring relevance you say ?

Reform don't want to regulate your landlord.

They don't want to regulate your employer.

But they do want to regulate your sex life.

a year is a long time in politics

the tourettes at the BAFTAs thing, with its lack of clear baddie and its need for sympathy for all and a bit of saneness and restraint, is perfectly designed to send a specific type of (usually american) ultra liberal mental

James Butler · ‘Need a lord on the board?’: Mandelson and the Lobbyists Why​ did a man whose political expertise was acquired in the departed era of broadcast television maintain such...

I wrote on the fall of Peter Mandelson for the next issue of the @lrb.co.uk

Online early now:
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

watched and enjoyed shattered glass. hard to escape the feeling that these days he'd just pivot to substack, maybe convert to catholicism, come up shining 18 months later

Discernible among my friends and colleagues who remain heavy X users: affects both their sense of issue salience and the intellectual framework (i.e., usually race and migration) through which to understand them. Many think themselves exempt through critical thinking skills. You are what you eat!

it's a new country to me I've yet to find out the norms and divides. I have started taking supplements for my knees though

but we were younger

we absolutely weren't the future once

same but the titanic series banged. I also seek recs

Tbf, “become a Roman Catholic” is quite a common move for the (justly) cancelled

(on mini break instead of in the BL to be clear not reading my own book)

god i wish that was me

#FBPE

I’d say he’s sweating now

Remaining, remoaning On an autumn day in 2019, hundreds of thousands of people marched through central London. Wearing bright blue-and-yellow berets, singing Brussels-themed

Very pleased to see my book reviewed in the TLS:

www.the-tls.com/politics-by-...

Dennis nedry jurrasic park "see nobody cares" meme reads Hey everybody, this guy still posts on X! See? Everyone is horrified and disappointed. They feel it speaks directly to your values.