Matthew Coates

But enough about your own life, tell me about Stanley Baker

BBC Four - Remembers..., Professor Angie Hobbs Remembers... The Great Philosophers Professor Angie Hobbs gives a modern view on Bryan Magee’s highly influential 1987 series.

On BBC4 tonight, Angie Hobbs on Bryan Magee's series the Great Philosophers, first broadcast in 1987, followed by the first three interviews: Myles Burnyeat on Plato, Martha Nussbaum on Aristotle, and Anthony Kenny on mediaeval philosophy: www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

Reading Thiel, Yarvin, Peterson et al. makes you realise what passes for intellectual iconoclasm these days is all absolute bollocks. Why anyone gives any of these people the time of day let alone credibility is baffling.

What policy themed visitor trail would you do upon retirement? I would pilgrimage to visit the 100 Rishi Sunak outdoor chess sets around the country. I genuinely think it would be one of those fun random things that would take me to places I’d never otherwise go to

playing D&D for the first time and I have been discouraged from naming my character Captain Tom

He’s losing his touch. Classic Peter Hitchens would have managed to find a way to blame the clocks changing as well

Socrates, 399 BC

I love it when they have the Nobel Prize for literature and they say so and so was the bookies favourite because I just picture Betfred employing the board of the LRB to give them the breakdown of the runners and riders

It was two OUP books.

If I were the leader of the opposition a year after an election, facing an unpopular government, I would simply focus my energy on criticising the current government's policy record rather than constantly bemoaning the last fifteen years of policymaking, in which I was intimately involved.

If you have an inkling you might win a Nobel prize, do you feel some urge to ensure you’re in a really noteworthy inaccessible place when it’s announced so you’ve got a good story about getting the news. ‘So, it was as our submersible rose from the Mariana Trench when my phone started pinging…’

I’m doing something completely unheard of. I’m a philosopher on the job market designing a syllabus for a class about AI.

been reading about the glorious revolution and it’s funny that this event that looms so large in the history of British parliamentary govt and thus world liberal democracy was straightforwardly the Dutch doing a regime change as part of their geopolitical struggle against France

Sea Lion swimming in the ocean

Sea Lion swimming in the ocean

A Sea Lion

I sang Jerusalem with Robert Jenrick at school — he’s wrong about race The Conservative MP has complained that, visiting Handsworth in Birmingham, he didn’t see ‘another white face’. You can’t judge whether someone is integrated by skin colour, argues fellow Wulfrunian S...

I've responded to Robert Jenrick's vile comments in @thetimes.com

www.thetimes.com/life-style/c...

Its 25% Indian, 25% Pakistani backgrounds, which actually makes it 80%, they just worded it a little confusingly.

Four parties within a 5 point swing of first place and five parties on 12% plus.

This would be pure chaos under first past the post.

Somebody help me, my electoral system, he is very sick

I'll bite. What is the benefit we gain from politicians being able to 'thoughtfully' say in private 'blacks, British Bangladeshis, British Pakistanis, British Indians, mulattos....all the same, and clearly from the look of them not-integrated?'

Silent Hill has a terrible healthcare system who trained these nurses

Monterey was really cool, and this was the highlight

Sea Otter swimming in ocean

Sea Otter swimming in ocean

Sea Otter swimming in ocean. Holding a sea urchin

Sea Otter swimming in ocean

I saw a sea otter!

“In the schoolyard, I’ve picked fights with people I knew would beat me up. That’s the kind of person I am.” - I mean, this fits with his management style, I just don't get why he thinks this is a *good* thing.

Two years in a row now that I’ve spent my entire birthday on planes!

Her husband gets a mention before any of her achievements too.

Please join me in congratulating Woman on her appointment

My son recently found a swastika drawn on the pavement at... The Manchester attack didn't come as a shock. The only surprise is it hasn’t happened sooner

I wrote a short piece for the Observer on the attacks in Manchester.

observer.co.uk/news/opinion...

Sad to see yet another high profile celeb joining the Harry Potter franchise

"Mr Pope"

I think it becomes even weirder when my brother became a tradesman, bringing people back round to calling him working class because of the job, accent and background, despite his background being exactly the same as mine, and him making more money than me