@acgrayling.bsky.social
Author, philosophy prof., European.
We've gone from teaching Latin in schools to teaching remedial English. - One thing studying Latin did was to make us conscious of history. Compare an outlook equipped with Latin & history with one ignorant of both.
10.06.2025 07:23 โ ๐ 19 ๐ 2 ๐ฌ 2 ๐ 0Question: the vindictive & childish bullying by Trump: are there really not 6 Republicans in Congress who can call a halt to the madness?
27.05.2025 11:58 โ ๐ 23 ๐ 11 ๐ฌ 2 ๐ 0We must give the Harvard Finger to the bullies in Washington. While they squat in its desolate halls, the US should go into purdah from the perspective of the more civilised world.
17.04.2025 07:40 โ ๐ 25 ๐ 5 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0Go Harvard.
16.04.2025 11:29 โ ๐ 58 ๐ 10 ๐ฌ 2 ๐ 1Labour gov continues in the exact opposite direction from sanity on Europe. EU citizens to pay for a permit to come here? Lunatic. Burden on tourism
& hospitality is the least of
It - we should be rejoining EU not increasing barriers.
Did David Attenborough - forbidden by the BBC to speak on Brexit (he told me so himself) smuggle in an opinion in the opening remarks to 'Our Planet II' when he says 'All life on earth depends on our freedom to move' - ?
28.03.2025 20:55 โ ๐ 67 ๐ 23 ๐ฌ 2 ๐ 1Greenland should follow Trump's example & deny visas - to US citizens. This would stop the Mrs Vance 'unofficial delegation' in its tracks.
25.03.2025 07:40 โ ๐ 34 ๐ 12 ๐ฌ 3 ๐ 0I hope Starmer reads the NYTimes, reporting how Hesgeth 'loathes helping Europe' - time to Rejoin the EU.
@nytimes.com today 25/3/25
Scraping the BTOM of the barrel - Brexitland's ruinous separation from the EU descends further into inanity.
24.03.2025 18:02 โ ๐ 18 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0Yes and yes again: we must rejoin the Single Market:
kellnerp.substack.com/p/how-labour...
When will Labour finally give up on the stupidity of Brexit?
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
bsky.app/profile/ksla...
01.03.2025 17:09 โ ๐ 82 ๐ 20 ๐ฌ 3 ๐ 1Eric got itโฆ
01.03.2025 13:07 โ ๐ 1574 ๐ 298 ๐ฌ 16 ๐ 4Never forget this day, February 28, 2025, when an American president abused and betrayed a democratic ally in the midst of a barbaric war with Russia. This grotesque stain will never wash away.
28.02.2025 22:08 โ ๐ 42680 ๐ 10898 ๐ฌ 1017 ๐ 368Disgusting in every way
01.03.2025 11:31 โ ๐ 21497 ๐ 4968 ๐ฌ 363 ๐ 194After the Oval Office disaster, letโs remember :
Europe is wealthy,
Europe is strong,
If it wants to, Europe can deal with this.
Demand EU leaders take action! How? ๐
โIf Roosevelt had told Churchill to sue for peace on any terms with Adolf Hitler and to fork over Britainโs coal reserves to the United States in exchange for no American security guarantees, it might have approximated what Trump did to Zelensky.โ www.nytimes.com/2025/02/28/o...
01.03.2025 11:11 โ ๐ 3805 ๐ 1196 ๐ฌ 59 ๐ 32What a disgusting display of bullying & stupidity by Vance and Trump in the meeting with Zelensky. Shameful - & the US betrayal of Ukraine is even more shameful.
28.02.2025 23:12 โ ๐ 39 ๐ 12 ๐ฌ 5 ๐ 1โTrumpโs America has started its own cold war against liberal democracy. His weapons include the withdrawal of military support, the elevation of Vladimir Putin from pariah to partner, propaganda attacks, & subversionโ
Superb read from @nickcohen.bsky.social
nickcohen.substack.com/p/trumps-tru...
Rejoining the EU would be pretty beneficial as well.
Given the current situation with Trump, Ukraine and Putin, it's now essential to fully realign with Europe and the EU as soon as possible.
Starmer's red lines need to go. Now.
Oh dear.
11.02.2025 11:16 โ ๐ 9 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0Someone hacked my Twitter a/c @acgrayling & is posting pro-Musk tweets on it. Disgusting. I can't get into it to change the password. Any tips? I haven't left Twitter because I don't want to yield the terrain to the Illegitimi.
09.02.2025 23:34 โ ๐ 10 ๐ 7 ๐ฌ 11 ๐ 0More Britons would rather have the EU than the US as Britain's closest trading partner
The EU: 53% (+2 from 2 Mar 2020)
The US: 21% (+4)
Neither: 7% (-3)
yougov.co.uk/topics/inter...
Donald Tusk: "I am aware this is a dream: that instead of a #Brexit, we will have a #Breturn. Perhaps I am labouring under an illusion. But I'd rather be an optimist and harbour these dreams in my heart. Sometimes they come true in politics." ~AA
17.01.2025 17:47 โ ๐ 2363 ๐ 629 ๐ฌ 116 ๐ 153Only in America.
16.01.2025 08:52 โ ๐ 2645 ๐ 892 ๐ฌ 95 ๐ 33This is a good description of the GOP:
The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest, best financed, most applauded and, on the whole, least successful exercises in moral philosophy. That is the search for a truly superior moral justification for selfishness.
~ John Kenneth Galbraith
Jimmy Carter in 2015 on the role of money in American politics.
Spot on.
There is nothing normal about a company that helps define what almost half of humanity sees on their screens explicitly promising to support a far-right leader, writes Joรฃo C. Magalhรฃes.
08.01.2025 16:39 โ ๐ 225 ๐ 49 ๐ฌ 5 ๐ 6I think the best, & only sensible option, is for the rest of the world to just say no to Trump for the next 4 years, and just let the dementia take him.
Heโs a convicted felon, rapist, insurrectionist & utter melon, nobody owes him their sanity.
Let him & his techbro sideboobs eat each other alive.