Reposted by @epictetus135.bsky.socialDavid Klemperer @dmk1793.bsky.social · 18hThis is basically the self-involved woke equivalent of when Stalinists denounce "bourgeois parliamentary institutions" in the context of a fascist assault on democracy. 1668
epictetus135.bsky.social @epictetus135.bsky.social · 09/10/2026You don’t support the right to self defence despite the fact that it is enshrined in the United Nations charter, which apparently you do support  000
epictetus135.bsky.social @epictetus135.bsky.social · 09/10/2026So are people going to picnic as they did at Tyburn? Maybe we might get another tom Paine as silver lining 010
Reposted by @epictetus135.bsky.socialProf Frank McDonough @fxmc1957.bsky.social · 09/10/20269 October 1940. John Winston Lennon was born in Liverpool. He was the founder of The Beatles. His songwriting partnership with Paul McCartney remains the most successful in pop music history. In a 2002 BBC viewer poll he was ranked the 8th “Greatest Briton” of all time. 0207
Reposted by @epictetus135.bsky.socialProf Frank McDonough @fxmc1957.bsky.social · 08/10/20268 October 1967, Clement Attlee died (aged 84). As Labour Prime Minister from 1945 to 1951, his governments introduced a range of social and economic reforms includimg the establishment of the National Health Service. He’s ranked as one of the best UK Prime Ministers. 1306
epictetus135.bsky.social @epictetus135.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Except Canute knew he couldn’t do it. It was an act of piety 010
Reposted by @epictetus135.bsky.socialBill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 03/10/2026“Originalism is an incoherent doctrine. It allows you to prove anything. Thus what it amounts to is a ritual invocation of the Founders, gesturing at this or that piece of text, before delivering whatever conclusion was approved on Fox News the night before.” www.liberalcurrents.com/we-have-no-s...liberalcurrents.comWe Have No Supreme CourtThe philosophical incoherence of originalism prevents the Court from performing its core functions as a supreme court. 1223002781
Reposted by @epictetus135.bsky.socialProf Frank McDonough @fxmc1957.bsky.social · 02/10/20262 October 1836. Charles Darwin returned to England on HMS Beagle after 5 years of researching his landmark book: the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, published on 24 November 1859. The voyage which began on 27 December 1831 took Darwin around the globe. 0175
epictetus135.bsky.social @epictetus135.bsky.social · 02/10/2026I’m sure you’re pleased, that she didn’t call you a white supremacist colonialist because you are by all her essentialist definitions Good luck. 000
epictetus135.bsky.social @epictetus135.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Yes, my friend I didn’t think that needed to be said sorry the doctor was always landing in a quarry.  I assumed you would get it without explanation. 110
epictetus135.bsky.social @epictetus135.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Ok appealed to me as a classic inside bob holmes joke . But 30 is not the only one capable of it. 130
epictetus135.bsky.social @epictetus135.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Yeah go fir it . @albomp.bsky.social can’t wait I’m sure 110
epictetus135.bsky.social @epictetus135.bsky.social · 02/10/2026That’s what I thought. Not USlaw ? 010
epictetus135.bsky.social @epictetus135.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Should be the fate of all trolley problems. Seriously. 010
epictetus135.bsky.social @epictetus135.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Don’t know about uk but RWNJ in Oz have had a weird conspiracy of view of the Fabians going back to the late 70s in my memory 000
Reposted by @epictetus135.bsky.socialBill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 28/09/2026“The republic was dying well before Caesar, and the question for Americans is not whether Trump is our Caesar. Our bigger concern should be if this is more like our age of Marius and Sulla, who inflicted wounds on the republic that proved fatal in the long term.” open.substack.com/pub/theunpop... 1319731
Reposted by @epictetus135.bsky.socialMichael Warburton @michaelwarburton.bsky.social · 25/09/2026The opening sequence to ‘Bad Moon Rising’ kinda sums up why I loved this show - dialogue, characters and acting in full zinging flow. THE WEST WING (2001) #OliverPlatt #MartinSheen #JohnSpencer #AaronSorkin 0211
Reposted by @epictetus135.bsky.socialPaul Kelly @pjthinker.bsky.social · 14/09/2026I remember when self-ownership arguments were ubiquitous in political theory and beloved of libertarianism but have yet to see any take on self-data ownership - where individual private property gives way to tech companies taking the data of others to monetise. Surely an issue of property rights? 082
Reposted by @epictetus135.bsky.socialWHAT A FUCKING RECORD @whatafuckingrecord.bsky.social · 21/08/202637 112116
epictetus135.bsky.social @epictetus135.bsky.social · 21/08/2026Yeah watched it as a kid only appreciated later what a goddess Alexandra Bastedo was. On more recent watching some sets a bit dr who ish but you don’t notice when she is in them 010
epictetus135.bsky.social @epictetus135.bsky.social · 21/08/2026The guy who fought the wars for Augustus . Victor at actiuum. See the 70s I Claudius for references 000
Reposted by @epictetus135.bsky.socialCarole King @carolekingofficial.bsky.social · 10/08/2026"(You Make Me Feel Like) A Natural Woman" Live at the Oakland Coliseum, 1972 701962332
Reposted by @epictetus135.bsky.socialMichael Warburton @michaelwarburton.bsky.social · 07/08/2026 04913
Reposted by @epictetus135.bsky.social🍁🇨🇦Team Canada Forever🇨🇦🍁 @teamcanadaforever.bsky.social · 30/07/2026France calls out the U.S. at a UN meeting: “The US used to be a beacon of human rights. Not anymore. Today, it stands alongside North Korea, Nicaragua, Mali and Russia. Isolated. And the world no longer listens to it.” U.S. representatives stormed out of the meeting. Well said France! 👏🏼🇫🇷👏🏼 1402303087940
Reposted by @epictetus135.bsky.socialProf Frank McDonough @fxmc1957.bsky.social · 30/07/2026PERSON OF THE DAY. 30 July 1958. Singer-songwriter Kate Bush was born in Bexleyheath, Kent. She was 1st woman to have a self-composed UK No 1 hit with Wuthering Heights. Bush was born on the 140th anniversary of the birth of the author who inspired her song, Emily Brontë. 722153286
Reposted by @epictetus135.bsky.socialMusicology Duck @musicologyduck.bsky.social · 29/07/2026drunk girl trying to tell her friends that she thinks they are “weekend at Bernie’s” with McConnell, but she has got completely the wrong movie and keeps calling it “doing a Fish Called Wanda” with him and I’m dying 157538894
Reposted by @epictetus135.bsky.socialSky Marchini @sky.skymarchini.net · 24/07/2026I’m sorry, but like, did they think that the enemy in a war would not actually try to kill them? 1343036374
Reposted by @epictetus135.bsky.socialKettering Foundation @kettering.org · 17/07/2026Read our statement on yesterday’s presidential address. 6408130
Reposted by @epictetus135.bsky.socialGiles Wilkes @gilesyb.bsky.social · 11/07/2026Well this is fascinating giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/... From @jburnmurdoch.ft.com 3621159
Reposted by @epictetus135.bsky.socialBill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 06/07/2026Needless to say, some of the greatest anti-Communists were Social Democrats. Trump wouldn’t know since he never was an anti-Communist—he wanted to cut business deals with the Soviet Union and admired the brutal repression of the Chinese regime. 901543377
Reposted by @epictetus135.bsky.socialToby Buckle @polphilpod.bsky.social · 07/07/2026& they got one in extra time!? 1291
Reposted by @epictetus135.bsky.socialMichael Warburton @michaelwarburton.bsky.social · 01/07/2026In 1947 - aged 19 - STANLEY KUBRICK photographed ‘The Tale Of The Shoe Shine Boy’ for LOOK magazine; a total of 202 images following the story of 12yr old Mickey as he worked to support a family of 10 siblings in New York. 15719
Reposted by @epictetus135.bsky.socialThe Fact of Other Minds Stan Account @csilverandgold.bsky.social · 30/06/2026This is just Malthusianism this isn’t socialism. Socialism is “homeless near a thousand homes I stood; and near a thousand tables, pined and wanted food.” 927939
epictetus135.bsky.social @epictetus135.bsky.social · 26/06/2026As much as I luv your stuff Ian this view of yours (which extends to the House of Lords as I recall) is fundamentally and dangerously undemocratic 1110
epictetus135.bsky.social @epictetus135.bsky.social · 26/06/2026I refused to attend the office event. Seriously what a boring sport 010
Reposted by @epictetus135.bsky.socialCarole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 15/06/2026This morning scrolling Bluesky, there is nothing at all in my feed about Putin’s barbaric attack on the Ukraine’s holiest site, the UNESCO protected Lavra so I’m posting this here. 19646672342
Reposted by @epictetus135.bsky.socialBill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 16/06/2026Theme of Trump's Iran deal: The overconfident second rate con man as sucker. If there weren't so much at stake, it would be amusing to watch Trump get conned by first rate con artists, the Iranian regime. The second rate con men are always the biggest suckers. 1340680
Reposted by @epictetus135.bsky.socialLSE Department of Government @lsegovernment.bsky.social · 12/06/2026What is post-liberalism and how is it shaping the current political discourse? @pjthinker.bsky.social talks about his latest book ‘Post-liberalism. Why ‘Family, Faith and Flag’ is a dead end for the left.’ 📖🤔youtube.comWhat is post-liberalism and how is it shaping the current political discourse?YouTube video by LSE Government 1115
