Paul Evans
@pauliewaulie.bsky.social
Representative Democracy ultra. History, economics, film/TV policy, workplace & unions.
Posts often conversational gambits. Views mine only. NFFC & Mayo GAA.
https://paul-evans.org & https://pauliewaulie.substack.com
Banner quote: NeinQuarterly.
Posts often conversational gambits. Views mine only. NFFC & Mayo GAA.
https://paul-evans.org & https://pauliewaulie.substack.com
Banner quote: NeinQuarterly.
‘In The Swarm’ by Byung Chul-Han is very dense but still worth a go.
November 28, 2025 at 7:01 PM
‘In The Swarm’ by Byung Chul-Han is very dense but still worth a go.
Looking at this message from the Trainline, you would think “oh! I will press this button, and it will send a completed application to Avanti for me!“
How absolutely massively fucking wrong you would be!
How absolutely massively fucking wrong you would be!
November 21, 2025 at 4:24 PM
Looking at this message from the Trainline, you would think “oh! I will press this button, and it will send a completed application to Avanti for me!“
How absolutely massively fucking wrong you would be!
How absolutely massively fucking wrong you would be!
The reaction to this will be interesting now that most libertarians have lost their license to talk about ‘authoritarianism’ as though it’s a bad thing.
November 20, 2025 at 12:51 PM
The reaction to this will be interesting now that most libertarians have lost their license to talk about ‘authoritarianism’ as though it’s a bad thing.
Another really nice bit of wordplay today from the Minute Cryptic app. Once I solved it I noticed other connections.
November 15, 2025 at 7:34 AM
Another really nice bit of wordplay today from the Minute Cryptic app. Once I solved it I noticed other connections.
IDK, if I wanted to make a case against 'DEI hires' I'd probably not get it made my an public school boy, or do it in a month where Randy Andy is making so many headlines. I'd probably not use someone who was part of a government that had Dominic Raab or Chris Grayling in the cabinet either.
November 7, 2025 at 10:27 AM
IDK, if I wanted to make a case against 'DEI hires' I'd probably not get it made my an public school boy, or do it in a month where Randy Andy is making so many headlines. I'd probably not use someone who was part of a government that had Dominic Raab or Chris Grayling in the cabinet either.
I can’t recommend the Minute Cryptic app highly enough. Today’s clue is my favourite kind.
November 6, 2025 at 10:32 AM
I can’t recommend the Minute Cryptic app highly enough. Today’s clue is my favourite kind.
I’m writing something at the moment, and here is my draft conclusion. Am I on the right track?
November 1, 2025 at 11:03 PM
I’m writing something at the moment, and here is my draft conclusion. Am I on the right track?
Anyone want to give me odds on him being out of the line of succession by the middle of next week?
They keep hoping the writing on the wall doesn’t say what it obviously does say. It doesn’t do them any good, thankfully.
They keep hoping the writing on the wall doesn’t say what it obviously does say. It doesn’t do them any good, thankfully.
October 31, 2025 at 7:38 PM
Anyone want to give me odds on him being out of the line of succession by the middle of next week?
They keep hoping the writing on the wall doesn’t say what it obviously does say. It doesn’t do them any good, thankfully.
They keep hoping the writing on the wall doesn’t say what it obviously does say. It doesn’t do them any good, thankfully.
I’m never totally confident that stories like this have been properly verified, but if true…
October 31, 2025 at 9:32 AM
I’m never totally confident that stories like this have been properly verified, but if true…
I’m thoroughly enjoying the “Minute Cryptic“ app, and particularly today’s clue.
October 26, 2025 at 8:38 AM
I’m thoroughly enjoying the “Minute Cryptic“ app, and particularly today’s clue.
Here’s Nick Cave replying to a correspondent called Valerio who was asking him about how to respond to a growing sense of cynicism - here. www.theredhandfiles.com/do-you-still...
October 24, 2025 at 7:45 PM
Here’s Nick Cave replying to a correspondent called Valerio who was asking him about how to respond to a growing sense of cynicism - here. www.theredhandfiles.com/do-you-still...
Imagine you’d just woken from a 3-year coma and saw this…
October 21, 2025 at 7:04 PM
Imagine you’d just woken from a 3-year coma and saw this…
ps This doesn’t scream. “a must win game to keep the job that I treasure“, does it?
Choosing Awoniyi over Wood or Jesus is…. er…. bold.
Choosing Awoniyi over Wood or Jesus is…. er…. bold.
October 18, 2025 at 10:53 AM
ps This doesn’t scream. “a must win game to keep the job that I treasure“, does it?
Choosing Awoniyi over Wood or Jesus is…. er…. bold.
Choosing Awoniyi over Wood or Jesus is…. er…. bold.
I remember when he was plain old Randy Andy. The right-royal tabloid likely-lad.
October 17, 2025 at 7:59 PM
I remember when he was plain old Randy Andy. The right-royal tabloid likely-lad.
This *looks* quite like an open declaration of war to me... www.irishtimes.com/world/europe...
October 6, 2025 at 4:18 PM
This *looks* quite like an open declaration of war to me... www.irishtimes.com/world/europe...
Living in the UK at the moment feels like being in a village directly in the path of a clearly visible avalanche, with everyone saying “Don’t worry, it’s all fine!”
October 4, 2025 at 10:47 AM
Living in the UK at the moment feels like being in a village directly in the path of a clearly visible avalanche, with everyone saying “Don’t worry, it’s all fine!”
As @chrisdillow.bsky.social says, this proves how fatuous it is to think we live in a ‘marketplace for ideas’.
Dan Hannan would have had to exit a long time ago.
Dan Hannan would have had to exit a long time ago.
October 2, 2025 at 7:42 AM
As @chrisdillow.bsky.social says, this proves how fatuous it is to think we live in a ‘marketplace for ideas’.
Dan Hannan would have had to exit a long time ago.
Dan Hannan would have had to exit a long time ago.
This, from @jamesbloodworth.bsky.social is very good. The hysteria has to be seen to be believed.
www.forthedeskdrawer.com/p/there-is-n...
www.forthedeskdrawer.com/p/there-is-n...
October 1, 2025 at 12:35 PM
This, from @jamesbloodworth.bsky.social is very good. The hysteria has to be seen to be believed.
www.forthedeskdrawer.com/p/there-is-n...
www.forthedeskdrawer.com/p/there-is-n...
Very sobering point from Orwell’s The Lion and the Unicorn:
September 26, 2025 at 7:29 PM
Very sobering point from Orwell’s The Lion and the Unicorn:
Full house! Every train delayed from St Pancras.
September 23, 2025 at 7:53 PM
Full house! Every train delayed from St Pancras.
Saying this almost every day with almost no reaction either way…. I know how the kid in this story felt.
September 23, 2025 at 6:44 AM
Saying this almost every day with almost no reaction either way…. I know how the kid in this story felt.
News once had tens of millions of paying customers. Now it's funded by people we don’t know and who don’t share our interests.
Liberal democracy won’t survive this shift.
Liberal democracy won’t survive this shift.
September 23, 2025 at 6:28 AM
News once had tens of millions of paying customers. Now it's funded by people we don’t know and who don’t share our interests.
Liberal democracy won’t survive this shift.
Liberal democracy won’t survive this shift.
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September 19, 2025 at 9:21 PM
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