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Ben Rosamond @benrosamond1.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Complete with its own daisywheel printer and 3-inch diskettes. It's so ancient that I sourced this image from a museum website. Wrote my PhD on it.

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Ben Rosamond @benrosamond1.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

This is how the relevant legislation defines ‘criminal damage’.

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Ben Rosamond @benrosamond1.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Better still, there seem to be six current members operating as two trios. Are these rival claimants to bring the *real* Three Degrees or do they work shifts as two branches of the same entity?

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Ben Rosamond @benrosamond1.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

At the same time, the exit poll reports a clear right —> left shift in voting amongst young men …

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Ben Rosamond @benrosamond1.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Breakdown by gender, according to the exit poll. Big gender gap in far right voting - predictable, but striking …

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Ben Rosamond @benrosamond1.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

SVT’s exit poll projects a clear opposition victory over the governing centre-right coalition. The stand out is the far-right Sweden Democrats projected to lose 3% of their vote compared to 2022.

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Ben Rosamond @benrosamond1.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

This six-year old image from @coldwarsteve.bsky.social is more apt than ever.

Nigel Farage pointing at drowning refugees to distract attention from a nearby billionaire’s yacht.

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Ben Rosamond @benrosamond1.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

The framing here is grotesque. The law (judicially adjudicated distinctions between legal and illegal) is presented as an underhand tool of the nefarious elite, which in turn runs away from the ‘marketplace of ideas’ as if the latter is a domain of purity … 1/2

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Ben Rosamond @benrosamond1.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Details of James Orr’s teaching duties at Cambridge. Mmhm …

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Ben Rosamond @benrosamond1.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

Oh come on! This is stenography, not political reporting. Some actual journalism from BBC News would be appreciated from time to time.

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Ben Rosamond @benrosamond1.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

On a slight (but not entirely irrelevant) tangent, I'm reminded of the time that Heidelberg made a move to hire Spinoza, with 17th century HR kicking into action. Spinoza didn’t want to teach, so he played hard ball like a pro.

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Ben Rosamond @benrosamond1.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

I mean, look where the referee is. 10-12 yards away, clear line of sight.

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Ben Rosamond @benrosamond1.bsky.social · 30/03/2026

And are we at all convinced (a) that a wholly different passage from Scruton is the inspiration for the ‘misquote’ and (b) that these ‘notes’ exist?

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Ben Rosamond @benrosamond1.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

Exit poll in Denmark. The Social Democrats drop below 20 per cent. They are likely to lead the next government, but the balance of power seems to lie with the centre-right Moderates.

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Ben Rosamond @benrosamond1.bsky.social · 22/03/2026

I suppose it’s par for the course, but is it really too much to ask that someone who - until recently - held a full professorship shouldn’t scam his readers with AI hallucinations and gross misrepresentations?

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Ben Rosamond @benrosamond1.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

Further evidence of the ‘left-wing economic establishment’ in action.

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Ben Rosamond @benrosamond1.bsky.social · 27/11/2025

Let's see how 'great replacement' types try to spin this to their advantage. Nevertheless, the bottom line is that there has been a steep decline in net migration to the UK. Looking forward to the extensive coverage in the media. See www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopula...

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Ben Rosamond @benrosamond1.bsky.social · 21/11/2025

'Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, The wretched refuse of your teeming shore. Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me, I lift my lamp beside the golden door!' On second thoughts ...

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Ben Rosamond @benrosamond1.bsky.social · 12/11/2025

Perhaps check the actual numbers before posting (see www.ukri.org/wp-content/u...).

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Ben Rosamond @benrosamond1.bsky.social · 03/11/2025

From the FT's morning email update. The answer to the question posed at the end is so obvious: because people who take a job stacking shelves are unlikely to end up as the kind of rent-a-quote CEOs who sounds off to the FT when the government seeks to raise the minimum wage in line with inflation.

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Ben Rosamond @benrosamond1.bsky.social · 01/11/2025

So much for the sanctity of ‘the will of the people’.

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Ben Rosamond @benrosamond1.bsky.social · 31/10/2025

👀 JFC. Who are ‘they’? To which ‘you’ is he referring?

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Ben Rosamond @benrosamond1.bsky.social · 31/10/2025

Apparently, the eloquent audience member in grey wasn’t talking about the rights of the Sikh victim, since British = white, while ethnic minority Brit = (by definition) ‘illegal immigrant’. (Also the comments beneath this X post are an open sewer).

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Ben Rosamond @benrosamond1.bsky.social · 25/10/2025

Indeed. And troubling given her own family’s story.

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Ben Rosamond @benrosamond1.bsky.social · 22/10/2025

Katie Lam might want to consider her own family’s story.

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Ben Rosamond @benrosamond1.bsky.social · 20/10/2025

These people need to get their story straight. Were the protests antisemitic or should we deploy antisemitic tropes to criticise them?

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Ben Rosamond @benrosamond1.bsky.social · 11/10/2025

My definitive Civilization (VI) moment occurred in 540 AD, when my Spanish trans-oceanic voyage discovered the Great Barrier Reef off the coast of Bradford

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Ben Rosamond @benrosamond1.bsky.social · 09/10/2025

ABR is not (yet) on this platform (working on it), but she makes a good point here.

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Ben Rosamond @benrosamond1.bsky.social · 30/09/2025

Visuals matter, often doing much more than mere words to frame stories. In this case, the image also builds on the persistently willful mis-presentation of racialised asylum seekers as ‘illegals’.

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Ben Rosamond @benrosamond1.bsky.social · 20/09/2025

👀. At what point will they suggest replacing the memorial in DC to that woke Lincoln guy with one to the real martyr?

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Ben Rosamond @benrosamond1.bsky.social · 19/09/2025

Today in incredibly crap data-viz, itself highly dependent on dodgy manipulation of the *actual* data, but packaged for and lapped up by gullible billionaires ...

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Ben Rosamond @benrosamond1.bsky.social · 27/08/2025

A quote for our times from Milton Mayer's 'They Thought They Were Free: The Germans 1933-45' (Chicago University Press, 1955). This is from chapter 13, entitled 'But then it was too late'.

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Ben Rosamond @benrosamond1.bsky.social · 25/06/2025

A very interesting pair of images when placed side-by-side.

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Ben Rosamond @benrosamond1.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

The account of how the paper was 'written' is something else.

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Ben Rosamond @benrosamond1.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

Can I just say how impressed I am to discover that thirteen people share ...

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Ben Rosamond @benrosamond1.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

;Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances'

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Ben Rosamond @benrosamond1.bsky.social · 02/03/2025

Hang it in the Louvre. The headline of Danish newspaper Information tomorrow simply reads 'The collapse'.

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Ben Rosamond @benrosamond1.bsky.social · 01/03/2025

Complete and utter nonsense. The article is in The Times if you must.

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Ben Rosamond @benrosamond1.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

Reminds me of this from a couple of years ago.

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Ben Rosamond @benrosamond1.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

"If it looks like a duck, swims like a duck, and quacks like a duck, then it probably is a duck".

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Ben Rosamond @benrosamond1.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

@thesquareball.net Stupid word game wouldn’t let me have this.

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Ben Rosamond @benrosamond1.bsky.social · 13/11/2024

I was just explaining the finer points of Brookian fiscal policy to Rosa and, well …

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Ben Rosamond @benrosamond1.bsky.social · 03/10/2024

A real treat for @edinburghpir.bsky.social students. A look back on the UK general election campaign with @anandmenon.bsky.social, Michael Crick and Rachel Amery.

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