Matthew Bailey

Aspire harder..?

Very much a weasel word.

What is ridiculous is to conclude correctly that Brexit is the source of economic pain and then do nothing to reverse it.

It is laughable to think that you can neuter the far right with minor tweaks like this.

How many Conservative or Reform supporters even know that immigrants have to pass a language test? They object to immigration on emotional grounds, not because they have dry objections to eligibility criteria.

Archie Norman to stay at Marks and Spencer until 2029 Veteran retailer extends term as chair by three years amid ongoing turnaround plan

A great illustration of the non-transferability of skills required in business and politics? The same guy had a stellar business career before trying and failing to help turn around the Tory Party in the Blair era, left politics and--what do you know--went back to having a stellar business career!

"The same procedure as last year?”

Putin sat at one end of a very long table.

“YOU WANT ME TO ARSE THE PARLOUR MAID???”

A digital dark age? The people rescuing forgotten knowledge trapped on old floppy disks From lectures by Stephen Hawking to the letters of British politician Neil Kinnock – it's a race against time to save the historical treasures locked away on old floppy disks.

@foone.bsky.social This sounds like the kind of thing you would be interested in: www.bbc.com/future/artic...

A timely re-release of 'We All Stand Together'? @eggpod.bsky.social

The Great Philosophers is very good and well worth your time.

BBC4 is repeating Bryan Magee's series The Great Philosophers Good news. BBC4 is repeating Bryan Magee's 1987 television series The Great Philosophers . The first three programmes – on Plato, Aristotle ...

This is just the sort of television that they don't make any more - there's now a strong aversion to "talking heads". But if the heads are interesting enough, there is nothing more riveting. #philsky

A reminder: people say "guru" because it uses fewer characters than "charlatan". But still, do come along...

I believe her husband isn't talking to his brother...

Because when you feel like shit, or are having a mental health crisis, what you need is some cunt with a clipboard asking you why you've not been working and how many jobs you've applied for this week...

Friends have started to send me photos of it in the room for which I had intended it to be read...

If the government really wants to scrap degrees which deliver no value to the UK and indeed have led to £ billions in damage to the economy and culture of the UK then it just needs to scrap the Oxford PPE degree and arrest everyone who has taken it.

And lastly for now, Clement Attlee could have heard the first week of Radio 1.

Just the latest way in which technology is enabling people who don’t actually like reading to diminish the cultural relevance of those who do.

Rob whistle | Robert Hutton | The Critic Magazine The day had begun with Robert Jenrick accused of racism. This is of course quite unfair. Racists believe in something. Some of us remember Jenrick as a chubby-cheeked fan of David Cameron fighting…

"The day had begun with Robert Jenrick accused of racism. This is of course quite unfair. Racists believe in something." Absolutely fantastic sketch by @roberthutton.co.uk. Every line is a banger:

UK Universities: Work until you drop. Publish or perish. Wanna research? Get a grant! Oh, and btw, we’re downsizing “our community.”

Also UK Universities:

Time for a glass of Wincarnis to ease my "brain fag".

"I see gangs of masked thugs roaming the streets rounding up anyone the wrong colour, and I think: *this* is what Britain needs."

Opening sentences of the pitches from the two deputy leadership candidates writing in @thehousemag.bsky.social. This is not the time for subtlety.

YouTube video by TheFullMontyPython Four Yorkshiremen- Monty Python

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I have voted, you can too!

A printed poem which reads: I hav for breakfast Weetabix I hav for lunch some meat I have for tea 2 sosajis and thats enuf to eat Peter Hazel, 5

On National Poetry Day, the greatest poem I have ever read

The University of Glasgow groundspeople are going to be quite annoyed when they come in to work tomorrow...

So come on, did anyone else - apart from @britfilmmelanie.bsky.social - try to bounce off the sofa cushions in a bid to emulate the opening titles of Jamie And The Magic Torch?

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feel like everyone just repeats "oh Jenrick just got more right-wing at the Home Office" as a mantra without really thinking about it so I spoke about it with someone who used to work there, and huh: www.thenewworld.co.uk/marie-le-con...