Bart Crisp
@crispybart.bsky.social
Aspiring Renaissance dude, special interests include education, politics, history, heavy metal, tabletop roleplaying, being a massive nerd in general, and a bit of rugby here and there. Views entirely my own* (subject to conditions)
Hello there, The Explanation For About 98% Of Boris Johnson's Career Success
One thing that I don’t think we can ignore with Nuzzi is something I realized long ago - there is tremendous social and cultural capital to being blonde. It changes the way you interact with people and how people interact with you. Seen it from both sides.
November 25, 2025 at 1:59 PM
Hello there, The Explanation For About 98% Of Boris Johnson's Career Success
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Sometimes wonder if what the UK needs is a thinktank that doesn't do any new research, it just repeats obviously true statements that people try to ignore because they're inconvenient.
International students cross-subsidise home students. Your pension is paid for out of general taxation.
International students cross-subsidise home students. Your pension is paid for out of general taxation.
November 25, 2025 at 1:01 PM
Sometimes wonder if what the UK needs is a thinktank that doesn't do any new research, it just repeats obviously true statements that people try to ignore because they're inconvenient.
International students cross-subsidise home students. Your pension is paid for out of general taxation.
International students cross-subsidise home students. Your pension is paid for out of general taxation.
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BREAKING: This is huge news, the EU's equivalent of the 🇺🇸Supreme Court's 2015 Obergefell v. Hodges ruling.
🇪🇺Court of Justice just ruled all 🇪🇺countries must recognise same-sex marriages granted in other member states.
This effectively legalises gay marriage across 🇪🇺
🇪🇺Court of Justice just ruled all 🇪🇺countries must recognise same-sex marriages granted in other member states.
This effectively legalises gay marriage across 🇪🇺
www.reuters.com
November 25, 2025 at 10:10 AM
BREAKING: This is huge news, the EU's equivalent of the 🇺🇸Supreme Court's 2015 Obergefell v. Hodges ruling.
🇪🇺Court of Justice just ruled all 🇪🇺countries must recognise same-sex marriages granted in other member states.
This effectively legalises gay marriage across 🇪🇺
🇪🇺Court of Justice just ruled all 🇪🇺countries must recognise same-sex marriages granted in other member states.
This effectively legalises gay marriage across 🇪🇺
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I’m a big fan of Liberal Currents, whose work I’ve found particularly invigorating over this last year.
To fight fascism we need opposition media with a backbone. 𝘓𝘪𝘣𝘦𝘳𝘢𝘭 𝘊𝘶𝘳𝘳𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘴 is that. Help us grow our voice. www.gofundme.com/f/the-libera...
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November 24, 2025 at 11:36 AM
I’m a big fan of Liberal Currents, whose work I’ve found particularly invigorating over this last year.
This is all bang-on, especially the VAK twaddle. Worth noting that this is a persistent issue with edtech, which generally focuses on identifying an easy-to-deploy tech solution and then seeking out an educational "problem" for it to solve. Texas Sharpshooter Fallacy as teaching support
Why ChatGPT for Teachers Might Make Things Worse
I've spent the morning with the this new product and I have concerns...
carlhendrick.substack.com/p/why-chatgp...
I've spent the morning with the this new product and I have concerns...
carlhendrick.substack.com/p/why-chatgp...
Why ChatGPT for Teachers Might Make Things Worse
OpenAI have just released ChatGPT for Teachers which I have just spent the morning looking at it and I have concerns.
carlhendrick.substack.com
November 24, 2025 at 4:42 PM
This is all bang-on, especially the VAK twaddle. Worth noting that this is a persistent issue with edtech, which generally focuses on identifying an easy-to-deploy tech solution and then seeking out an educational "problem" for it to solve. Texas Sharpshooter Fallacy as teaching support
If the rule you followed brought you to this, Charlie Brown, of what use was the rule?
That's right. I've killed women and children. I've killed just about everything that walks or crawled at one time or another. And I'm here to kill you, Charlie Brown, for what you did to Ned.
Deep down, in places you do t talk about at parties, you NEED me on that wall, Charlie Brown.
November 24, 2025 at 10:14 AM
If the rule you followed brought you to this, Charlie Brown, of what use was the rule?
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Going to end on one of the most beautiful commercials ever made with the reminder and a call to remember the small things. They make a big difference to others.
Love all, help all.
Go Jackets.
Love all, help all.
Go Jackets.
November 21, 2025 at 4:35 PM
Going to end on one of the most beautiful commercials ever made with the reminder and a call to remember the small things. They make a big difference to others.
Love all, help all.
Go Jackets.
Love all, help all.
Go Jackets.
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a significant reason Mamdani can get away with this and other Dems can’t is less that he’s charmed Trump and more that he’s charmed you, dear reader, which is why you’re not yelling at him for being a collaborator or an appeaser right now
November 21, 2025 at 9:46 PM
a significant reason Mamdani can get away with this and other Dems can’t is less that he’s charmed Trump and more that he’s charmed you, dear reader, which is why you’re not yelling at him for being a collaborator or an appeaser right now
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Nathan Gill has been sentenced to 10.5 years for endangering national security and taking Russian bribes.
Nigel Farage and Reform are a danger to national security, the Liberal Democrats will continue to hold them to account and defend our democracy.
Nigel Farage and Reform are a danger to national security, the Liberal Democrats will continue to hold them to account and defend our democracy.
November 21, 2025 at 1:26 PM
Nathan Gill has been sentenced to 10.5 years for endangering national security and taking Russian bribes.
Nigel Farage and Reform are a danger to national security, the Liberal Democrats will continue to hold them to account and defend our democracy.
Nigel Farage and Reform are a danger to national security, the Liberal Democrats will continue to hold them to account and defend our democracy.
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one thing i want to emphasize is these "illiberal" and "postliberal" authoritarians are just thieves and crooks! trump is thief. orban is a thief. putin is the biggest thief of them all.
wrote about the president’s flagrant and destructive corruption in a column that references street fighter, the simpsons, machiavelli, and a host of revolutionary-era americans (gift link)
Opinion | The White House Gold Rush Is On
www.nytimes.com
November 19, 2025 at 4:25 PM
one thing i want to emphasize is these "illiberal" and "postliberal" authoritarians are just thieves and crooks! trump is thief. orban is a thief. putin is the biggest thief of them all.
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Why is it so hard to run the BBC? Is impartiality possible? Is it even what polarised viewers even want?
An essay for the Weekend FT: www.ft.com/content/7124...
An essay for the Weekend FT: www.ft.com/content/7124...
November 15, 2025 at 9:15 AM
Why is it so hard to run the BBC? Is impartiality possible? Is it even what polarised viewers even want?
An essay for the Weekend FT: www.ft.com/content/7124...
An essay for the Weekend FT: www.ft.com/content/7124...
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Tuition fees were not the *reason* for LD poll collapse, which came before the decision was made. But they subsequently became a *rationalisation* for switching among voters who had already turned against the party. The broken pledge didn't drive the slump, though it may have made recovery harder.
November 14, 2025 at 10:42 AM
Tuition fees were not the *reason* for LD poll collapse, which came before the decision was made. But they subsequently became a *rationalisation* for switching among voters who had already turned against the party. The broken pledge didn't drive the slump, though it may have made recovery harder.
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The Browne review reported in October 2010, and the govt adopted its recommendations in Nov 2010. The vast majority of the LD fall in the polls happened *before* this. The Lib Dems paid an electoral penalty for forming a coalition with the Conservatives, a party much of its 2010 electorate disliked
November 14, 2025 at 10:42 AM
The Browne review reported in October 2010, and the govt adopted its recommendations in Nov 2010. The vast majority of the LD fall in the polls happened *before* this. The Lib Dems paid an electoral penalty for forming a coalition with the Conservatives, a party much of its 2010 electorate disliked
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"What is certain, and felt instinctively by almost everybody, is that things cannot go on in their present way" – The Times, May 1975
“It is difficult to imagine a previous period when such an all-pervasive hopelessness was exhibited at all levels of British life” – Professor Stephen Haseler, 1975
“It is difficult to imagine a previous period when such an all-pervasive hopelessness was exhibited at all levels of British life” – Professor Stephen Haseler, 1975
November 14, 2025 at 9:13 AM
"What is certain, and felt instinctively by almost everybody, is that things cannot go on in their present way" – The Times, May 1975
“It is difficult to imagine a previous period when such an all-pervasive hopelessness was exhibited at all levels of British life” – Professor Stephen Haseler, 1975
“It is difficult to imagine a previous period when such an all-pervasive hopelessness was exhibited at all levels of British life” – Professor Stephen Haseler, 1975
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We have chaos and Ed Miliband, they're just not evenly distributed.
November 13, 2025 at 1:15 PM
We have chaos and Ed Miliband, they're just not evenly distributed.
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The British public yearns for the creations of autistic elderly shed-hermits and their well meaning grandsons
November 13, 2025 at 12:30 PM
The British public yearns for the creations of autistic elderly shed-hermits and their well meaning grandsons
Very excited to get to attend one of these in person at long last
Who will be attending the Origin Story live show tonight?
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November 13, 2025 at 10:55 AM
Very excited to get to attend one of these in person at long last
The inevitable downside of 40K becoming more generally popular through Space Marine 2 is an influx of people who don't understand that the basic truth of 40K is that everyone bar the GEoM is definitely going to die
Games Workshop has sparked shock and anger among Warhammer 40,000 fans after it killed off two main characters from Space Marine 2 via a brief lore update posted on its website.
'Is There Anything More Grimdark Than to Die Offscreen?' — Games Workshop Just Killed Two Space Marine 2 Characters via a Brief Lore Update Post and Warhammer 40,000 Fans Are in Tatters
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November 12, 2025 at 12:49 PM
The inevitable downside of 40K becoming more generally popular through Space Marine 2 is an influx of people who don't understand that the basic truth of 40K is that everyone bar the GEoM is definitely going to die
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You are essentially stuck between an ageing society desiring nostalgia and / or risk removal and a shrill social media cacophony demanding everything is sorted out now. With glib supposedly edgy one-liners far too often passing as serious commentary.
November 12, 2025 at 7:33 AM
You are essentially stuck between an ageing society desiring nostalgia and / or risk removal and a shrill social media cacophony demanding everything is sorted out now. With glib supposedly edgy one-liners far too often passing as serious commentary.
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As I think Labour is discovering but few in the Conservatives wanted to is this inter-connected world has few opportunities for growth in mature economies, and lots of expectations from people that governments can and will do everything to remove risk. Doesn't add up.
November 12, 2025 at 7:31 AM
As I think Labour is discovering but few in the Conservatives wanted to is this inter-connected world has few opportunities for growth in mature economies, and lots of expectations from people that governments can and will do everything to remove risk. Doesn't add up.
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bees.leaflet.pub/3m5f5jfimlc2... Democratic Senators make healthy choices for themselves and their families, by not being online and living in reality where most people aren't insane white hats and black hats, and that's why us too-online folks get frustrated with them - and we're right
Hyperreality & Resistance - Bees and Spiders and Other Stuff
Democratic Politics in Heightened Reality in the Second Trump Era
bees.leaflet.pub
November 11, 2025 at 10:13 PM
bees.leaflet.pub/3m5f5jfimlc2... Democratic Senators make healthy choices for themselves and their families, by not being online and living in reality where most people aren't insane white hats and black hats, and that's why us too-online folks get frustrated with them - and we're right
FWIW my position on Labour, as a Lib Dem, has pretty much always been that having to come back from the catastrophe of Corbyn was going to involve a very steep learning curve. I actually think they do show the capacity to learn, but there just isn't time to wait for them to get their act together
November 11, 2025 at 10:55 PM
FWIW my position on Labour, as a Lib Dem, has pretty much always been that having to come back from the catastrophe of Corbyn was going to involve a very steep learning curve. I actually think they do show the capacity to learn, but there just isn't time to wait for them to get their act together
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The BBC will fuck things up from time to time. Lots of major news organisations do; just look at The Times having to memoryhole several fake news stories in a matter of weeks.
No one is calling for the abolition of The Times, however.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
No one is calling for the abolition of The Times, however.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
UK newspaper editor calls Bill de Blasio fake interview blunder ‘humiliating’
A Times associate editor reportedly addressed situation in an email to staff, saying: ‘We should have been on our guard’
www.theguardian.com
November 10, 2025 at 9:53 AM
The BBC will fuck things up from time to time. Lots of major news organisations do; just look at The Times having to memoryhole several fake news stories in a matter of weeks.
No one is calling for the abolition of The Times, however.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
No one is calling for the abolition of The Times, however.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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Robbie Gibb was appointed to the BBC Board by Boris Johnson, was an editorial advisor for GB News, and worked as Theresa May's Director of Comms.
He is not impartial or neutral. The government should remove him from the Board immediately to protect the BBC's independence.
He is not impartial or neutral. The government should remove him from the Board immediately to protect the BBC's independence.
November 11, 2025 at 1:00 PM
Robbie Gibb was appointed to the BBC Board by Boris Johnson, was an editorial advisor for GB News, and worked as Theresa May's Director of Comms.
He is not impartial or neutral. The government should remove him from the Board immediately to protect the BBC's independence.
He is not impartial or neutral. The government should remove him from the Board immediately to protect the BBC's independence.