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Prof Bob Davis
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Prof of Religious & Cultural Education, University of Glasgow. Chair of Philosophy of Education Soc. Religion, Myth, Arts, Humanities, Music, Education, football, birds. We’ve 3 sons—‘the crow makes wing to the rooky wood’—all posts etc personal
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Prof Bob Davis @rokewood.bsky.social · Feb 23
On the seemingly ruinous 2025 moment in which we live. Walter Benjamin & the Angel of History.
‘Awaken the Dead’
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#FergusKerrRIP
A great Christian, priest, Dominican, theologian. Passed away aged 94
November 27, 2025 at 8:50 PM
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jowolff.bsky.social
“What is analytic philosophy? A vexed question indeed. Whatever it is, it gets a thorough bashing in Christoph Schuringa’s new social history, an unremittingly hostile survey of the subject.”

The opening of Sarah Richmond’s superb review of Schuringa’s new book.

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What they mean
What is analytic philosophy? A vexed question indeed. Whatever it is, it gets a thorough bashing in Christoph Schuringa’s new social history, an
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November 27, 2025 at 8:30 PM
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mrdissent.bsky.social
Imagine waking up this week thinking, “what primary school shall we terrorise today?”
November 27, 2025 at 7:11 AM
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mrdissent.bsky.social
Wim van Hanegan, Johan Cruyff, Robin Van Persie, Pierre Van Hooydoink and Van Bronkhurst.....your boys took a helluva beating!
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November 27, 2025 at 7:41 PM
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princetonupress.bsky.social
Wonderful to see @arnoudvisser.bsky.social reviewed in the latest issue of @thespectator1828.bsky.social! Learn more about this fascinating history of the pedant here—
The pedant’s progress through history
No one likes a pedant. But over the past few millennia, people have shunned pedants, bores and know-it-alls for a wide range of different, often conflicting, reasons. They have been accused of…
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November 26, 2025 at 8:10 AM
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deathofbuckley.bsky.social
Is Dream Phone Conscious? Many users feel they're talking to a real person. Dumb fucks say it's time to consider whether they're onto something x
November 26, 2025 at 9:22 AM
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lauriestras.bsky.social
@elliechan.bsky.social is very impressive!
November 25, 2025 at 8:25 AM
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lundieeducation.bsky.social
Privilege to be at @uofgeducation.bsky.social with @tedpal.bsky.social and @rokewood.bsky.social to give an overview of our @erpioe.bsky.social Teaching for Digital Citizenship research project. Data justice and the genealogy of citizenship as response to social crises.
November 26, 2025 at 3:56 PM
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vintage episode of BBCFreeThinking where @drmatthewsweet.bsky.social navigates transformative thinking afforded by geology, deep time, & OOO. With @peterfrankopan.bsky.social, Rosemary Hill, @anjanakhatwa.bsky.social, @objectoriented.bsky.social
Sarah Jackson
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BBC Radio 4 - Free Thinking, Rocks
How can earth sciences like geology transform our understanding of history and society?
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November 26, 2025 at 12:26 PM
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generalboles.bsky.social
There will come a day when I tire of reading about the Your Party uncivil war.

Today is not that day.

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It’s been reported that Zarah Sultana plans to hold her own separate rally in Liverpool ahead of Your Party’s conference, and even that she could launch her own faction. With next to no hope of a united front at the conference, the question now is whether Your Party’s founders can remain civil long enough for it to survive much beyond its birth.
November 25, 2025 at 10:40 AM
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leedon1982.bsky.social
He’s basically Draco Malfoy.
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New: Three new ex-pupils come forward, on the record, to say Farage's racism as a teenager was targeted, persistent and nasty. Farage has denied targeting any individuals - but two of the men tell us they recall Farage abusing Peter Ettedgui.

w/ Dan Boffey, @drblacklock.bsky.social
Three more ex-pupils at school with Nigel Farage reject ‘banter’ claims
Exclusive: Dulwich college contemporaries ‘rubbish’ Reform UK leader’s suggestion alleged racist taunts not intended to hurt
www.theguardian.com
November 25, 2025 at 9:39 PM
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jkaconductor.bsky.social
But those of us who study cultural history ( hopefully!) can’t avoid it. None of Mozart, Haydn, Poulenc, Dvorak, Morales etc etc make any sense without understanding the religious-political-cultural assumptions that underpin their creations
November 25, 2025 at 6:25 PM
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robertsaunders.bsky.social
Yes, this is a big problem for historical writing today: fewer & fewer students have much awareness of or sensitivity to the central cultural system of the periods they study. It's not a conscious bias, more what Weber called being "religious unmusical": they can't hear/recognise the tunes playing.
November 25, 2025 at 6:22 PM
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How the US affordability crisis became a political liability for Trump on.ft.com/3M9Dwxf
How the US affordability crisis became a political liability for Trump
Also in today’s newsletter, Ukraine indicates support for US-brokered peace deal
on.ft.com
November 25, 2025 at 6:10 PM
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samfr.bsky.social
Good to see HMT has finally relented on the tourist tax. Important that mayors are allowed to keep all of the income and choose how to spend it without central interference. And that it's the beginning of fiscal devolution not the end.
November 25, 2025 at 1:14 PM
rokewood.bsky.social
A very stimulating & important episode of BBCRadio4 #bbcstw at the frontiers of the life sciences. @adamrutherford.bsky.social
with @matthewcobb.bsky.social, Alison Bashford & @virologyhouldcroft.bsky.social
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BBC Radio 4 - Start the Week, Genes and hands: mapping character and health
Alison Bashford, Matthew Cobb and Charlotte Houldcroft with Adam Rutherford.
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November 25, 2025 at 1:12 PM
rokewood.bsky.social
Whoever doubted that #NigelFarage is a terrible person?
November 25, 2025 at 1:03 PM
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I wish I didn’t have to share this. But the BBC has decided to censor my first Reith Lecture.

They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
November 25, 2025 at 9:26 AM
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rokewood.bsky.social
I saw these enigmatic so-called ‘Music of the Spheres’ MSS at Edinburgh’s Blackie House Library & Museum. Their tantalising history of ancient Coptic-Egyptian music, hermetic interpretation, & likely fraud is painstakingly reconstructed here BBCRadio3
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
BBC Radio 3 - Sunday Feature, The Great Egyptian Music Mystery
Ellie Chan traces the story of a set of unique and puzzling manuscripts
www.bbc.co.uk
November 24, 2025 at 9:19 PM
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casporleder.bsky.social
I love his blue collar stories of (an affordable) NYC while he established his work.

(also a relation of This American Life’s Ira Glass)

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urbanwastrel.bsky.social ‪𝚞𝚛𝚋𝚊𝚗𝚠𝚊𝚜𝚝𝚛𝚎𝚕‬ 🇺🇦 @urbanwastrel.bsky.social · Dec 7
Wonderful account by Philip Glass of his parallel existence as struggling composer / taxi driver in that febrile era of New York City so familiar from Carpenter and Scorsese films.

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The Documentary - Philip Glass: Taxi Driver - BBC Sounds
Musician Philip Glass revisits his life in '70s New York as a taxi driver and composer
www.bbc.co.uk
November 25, 2025 at 8:02 AM
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lauraphillips.bsky.social
👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻to GarethLewis77 #BBCWales political editor. You can hear his extremely revealing interview with #NigelFarage #BBCr4today 7.14am.

No one who was racially abused at school forgets who abuses them. And if the words are offensive enough, they remain sealed in the memory.
November 25, 2025 at 7:59 AM
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Bossy headline from The Times letting Farage insist his “Hitler was right” racism was just ‘banter’.
If that were true, his politics now would be different and he’d apologise. He’s defensive because this is what he is and always has been and he’s angry with us for knowing that and for minding.
Farage: Teen comments were banter, not racism Extract: However, he added: "I've never directly racially abused anybody. No." Suggesting the motivation behind the claims was "political disagreements" with some of his private school peers, Farage denied having "ever been part of an extremist organisation or engaged in direct, unpleasant personal abuse, genuine abuse, on that basis". Pressed on whether he would say categorically he did not racially abuse fellow pupils, Parage said: "I would never; ever do it in a hurtful or insulting way. Asked whether he had said things to fellow pupils that he had not intended to be hurtful or racist, but they took it that way, he said: "I hope not. And asked whether he had said things at school that people might have taken offence at, he replied: "Without any shadow of a doubt. He said he would not apologise to anyone because he did not think that he had done anything that hurt anyone,
November 25, 2025 at 7:53 AM
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dannyrobins.bsky.social
Come with me back to my hometown of Newcastle for a truly chilling poltergeist case. It's 1997, and a house of disaffected goths are about to experience something that really will make their hair stand on end😱👻😱

Uncanny | Listen on BBC Sounds
November 25, 2025 at 8:01 AM
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gkt-wales.bsky.social
I’m BBC staff covering news in Wales but I sort of think of The Briefing Room as “In Our Time” but for current affairs. It’s old school Reithian stuff to get a great panel together to give their perspectives with a good chair presenter.
November 24, 2025 at 10:42 PM
rokewood.bsky.social
I saw these enigmatic so-called ‘Music of the Spheres’ MSS at Edinburgh’s Blackie House Library & Museum. Their tantalising history of ancient Coptic-Egyptian music, hermetic interpretation, & likely fraud is painstakingly reconstructed here BBCRadio3
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
BBC Radio 3 - Sunday Feature, The Great Egyptian Music Mystery
Ellie Chan traces the story of a set of unique and puzzling manuscripts
www.bbc.co.uk
November 24, 2025 at 9:19 PM