Malcolm Quinn

Oetker is the name of the monster

He should be struck off.

I never want to meet Dr Oetker.

This is correct, I think. And it's also the case that lots of voters always believed taxes would go up. Because the *public are not fools*.

Voters resigned to tax rises, despite Labour and Conservative pledges | Ipsos share.google/7kg2JnLmBPN3...

Conservatives have today ditched their Mass Deportation Bill, 5 months after Chris Philip tabled it in the Commons, but a week after it was dubbed the Idi Amin Tribute Act, as it proposed Deportations of settled & legal migrants on a scale never seen since 1972 & never proposed in a democracy before

Addison - not a recipe for more pleasure, just a licence to slack off.

Daniwah!

This could be the second act in his American life.

They have a fondness for that old Hovis advert, obvs.

Walks into Commons Chamber, sucks in teeth dramatically: 'you've got open racists in here ... who was your last government?'

Musk predicts the ruin of the state. Openly racist MPs bring it about.

I did. You may be interested in the link to Dan Priel's 'Bentham’s Public Utilitarianism and Its Jurisprudential Significance' that I posted afterwards, which is both a refreshing take on Bentham and offers an argument on public philosophy.

(2/2) 'Instead, he is suggesting that you can take liberties in another way, because reading Homer will help you achieve pleasure in moderation, as an alternative to ploughing through that difficult chapter in Aristotle.'

On Addison's introduction to his ‘Pleasures of the Imagination’ essays, from my talk at Hogarth House 6 June 2025 (1/2):‘When Addison says, in this introductory essay, that a description in Homer is more charming than a chapter in Aristotle, he is not telling you what will give you more pleasure.'

Bentham’s Public Utilitarianism and Its Jurisprudential Significance One of the ways by which Gerald Postema’s Bentham and the Common Law Tradition revolutionized the study of Bentham’s jurisprudence was by challenging the idea, made popular by Hart (both in his juris...

'As I see it, Bentham did not think of utilitarianism as a moral theory. Rather, he is best understood as advancing utilitarianism as a public philosophy'

"on my view liberalism was founded by Adam Smith and in his wake Constant and Bentham (as well as Humboldt and Grouchy) as a reaction to Locke’s influence on the political theory of mercantilism and nationalist imperialism that in the late eighteenth century mutated into Bonapartism, too.'

Walks into Commons Chamber, sucks in teeth dramatically: 'you've got open racists in here ... who was your last government?'

No but seriously. I’d love to see the BBC do a programme on the effect that its platforming of Reform has on actual ethnic minorities in UK.

Minority representation on TV causes outrage

From the new Private Eye, in shops now.

Musk predicts the ruin of the state. Openly racist MPs bring it about.

Defeating racist politics is the most important thing that needs to happen in UK right now.

This is absolutely right. It’s about creating a permission structure for violence, whether that violence is conducted by the state directly or simply permitted by the state.

It is way past time for the UK government & the BBC to get off X & for Musk to be treated as a threat to national security.

The world's richest man is using his site to promote civil war, ethnic violence & the overthrow of an elected government.

You won't win him over with another conference on AI

They have a fondness for that old Hovis advert, obvs.

Michaelina Wautier: portrait of a lady on fire An exhibition at the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna confirms the baroque artist’s status as a great painter, writes Luke Uglow

Huge fan of Wautier - would love to see this show: apollo-magazine.com/michaelina-w...

Chart showing slowdown in productivity growth across rich democracies

Just need to keep repeating this point. Stagnant zero sum economies create political ungovernability. Productivity growth has collapsed in many rich countries since the financial crash on.ft.com/4hwRuoB

This could be the second act in his American life.

There ought to be multiple AI versions of an enlightened Trump repenting the error of his ways. That might annoy him.

What Zohran Mamdani Learned as an Africana Studies Major at Bowdoin The mayoral candidate has said his education was formative. But critics say that his degree exemplifies how colleges steep students in leftist dogma. Listen to this article • 12:37 min Learn more

By Jeremy W. Peters Oct. 28, 2025 Updated 3:17 p.m. ET It wasn't so much what Zohran Mamdani said. It was how he said it. "We're going to stand up for Haiti, because you taught the world about freedom!" the Democratic nominee for mayor of New York exclaimed to an elated crowd at a Haitian music festival in June, fresh off his upset victory in the primary. Mr. Mamdani pronounced the island nation's name "AH-ee-tee" - near-perfect Creole elocution. "When I heard him say that, I smiled," recalled Brian Purnell, one of Mr. Mamdani's former professors at Bowdoin College. He also noted that Mr. Mamdani's reference to freedom was a nod to Haiti's status as the first republic founded by former slaves.

Jeremy W. Peters identifies the tell-tale sign of “leftist dogma” in @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social: pronouncing Haiti’s name correctly

London's Best Christmas Theatre for 2025: The Capital's Christmas Theatre round-up for this year: What’s that I hear? Is it the distant ringing of jingle bells? In what feels like no time at all, it is once again time to start thinking about ...

Our daughter @tacitaquinn.bsky.social has made a list of London’s best Christmas Theatre for @londonunattached.bsky.social Fill your boots.