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White House: Hegseth leads by almost a complete lap.

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I can’t say ‘I’m going to the cleaners’ without thinking ‘and other misdemeanours’. The genius of Ian Dury.

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I had the badge! Went to quite a few events.

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Jo Wolff @jowolff.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

But also people judge quality by price (unless they have detailed knowledge of the products). Hence no one wants to signal lower quality.

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When the internet finally grinds to a halt I’ll remember this shop.

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Though my father and brother used to be Millwall season ticket holders. I don’t know how they managed to keep sane. OTOH I remember going to a cup game in about 2000 and someone tried to start a racist chant. Another fan said ‘we don’t do that any more’.

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Jo Wolff @jowolff.bsky.social · 8h

She obviously wasn’t at the Millwall West Ham game I went to in the 80s where it seemed most of the Millwall fans were denying that Paul Ince and another Black West Ham player were even human.

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Brings to mind surveys of what counts as a ‘necessity’ from the point of view of measuring relative poverty. In the 1970s wall-to-wall carpets was on the list. (Also a cooked breakfast five times a week - era of no central heating and walking or cycling to work or school).

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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

From the new Private Eye

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Jo Wolff @jowolff.bsky.social · 12h

Was thinking earlier how amazing it was that in the 60s to maybe even now everyone knew the name Dr Christiaan Barnard, who carried out the first heart transplant, and wondering if there’s ever been another celebrity surgery (or other medical worker apart from Florence Nightingale).

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Thank you! I had Rocastle in mind but it didn’t seem right.

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She obviously wasn’t at the Millwall West Ham game I went to in the 80s where it seemed most of the Millwall fans were denying that Paul Ince and another Black West Ham player were even human.

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White House: Hegseth leads by almost a complete lap.

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Jo Wolff @jowolff.bsky.social · 20h

All is vanity.

Large tree roots overwhelming a stone wall.

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Amazing how much progress we’ve made in online privacy. We moved from websites being intrusive without telling you, to websites intrusively asking your permission to be intrusive.

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Jo Wolff @jowolff.bsky.social · 22h

Yeah, ok, I’m ready to see Advent Calendars in the supermarket.

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I get about two of these a week. Almost identical wording!

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That’s nice, AI scam. Just been invited for a ‘Live Author’ event for a posthumous volume of essays I edited.

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Maybe the Tin Pot?

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Ah, brilliant! I read this once and I’ve been looking for it ever since. Delighted to see it again.

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I’m much more Christian than the Christians.

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Yes, there’s a lot missing - especially about the quality of relations between people. Fascinating about Singapore. Socialism without realising it?

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Definitions are tricky. But I like the Marx idea from Critique of the Gotha Programme: that each should contribute according to their ability, and receive according to their need. Not saying that you can run an economy on this basis alone, but good to have in the background.

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Every now and then, when people say stupid things about socialism, I have to roll out these lines from Arthur Lewis, on what socialists want.

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Who decided that the Eurasian wren should be called troglodytes troglodytes? Talk about making an insult and rubbing it in.

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Every now and then, when people say stupid things about socialism, I have to roll out these lines from Arthur Lewis, on what socialists want.

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Before photocopying, in geography lessons teachers had rollers that they would ink, and careful deployment would produce a map of the world, or the British Isles. This is probably my most joyous memory of primary school.

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Jo Wolff @jowolff.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Present status: currently held at a red signal.

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The one no-go area for me in every city is the Conservative Club. Never set foot in one.

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Ah yes, had forgotten that.

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Still not sure what the Iranian connection was meant to be with the Fairfield Five. A love of highly spiced kebabs served with herb infused yoghurt and rice?

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“When I was a child there was once a case of the plague in Berlin. A laboratory attendant (at the Charité Hospital, I think) had placed his cigar butt on a plague culture and then continued smoking.” Topical in an unexpected way by Victor Klemperer.

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What is this at Schiphol Airport?

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I may be one of the few political philosophers to quote Jeffrey Archer in a published paper. It was from a Sunday newspaper feature. He said ‘It’s such a privilege having money. It gives you such freedom too.” (As G.A. Cohen points out: therefore capitalism is a society of unequal freedom.)

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Received an email about ‘how to get Britain growing’. Is that growth in wisdom? Imagination? Equality? Creativity? Consideration for others? Inclusion?

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I don’t know that quote but I do remember finding this argument in Bentham.

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Justice and fairness is my favourite.

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Freedom as ability, liberty as ‘within the law’. But I accept there are very many different uses and shades.

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I used this quote to illustrate the difference in meaning between ‘freedom’ and ‘liberty’. If Archer had said ‘money gives you liberty’ that has a tinge of corruption. But no one has seemed the slightest bit interested in this argument (which I thought defuses some philosophical disagreements).

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For the absurdly curious here’s the reference to Archer and the link to my paper. www.tandfonline.com/doi/ref/10.1...

References
1. Archer , Jeffrey. 1993 . "Jeffrey and Mary Archer: How We Met". The Independent on Sunday Supplement, 14 th February

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