Michael Morris @michaelmorrisphil.bsky.social · 07/10/2026Seaford Head from Newhaven, October 2024 030
Michael Morris @michaelmorrisphil.bsky.social · 05/10/2026I suppose the point of orisons is to have your sins remembered in them. 010
Reposted by Michael Morris Damion Schubert @zenofdesign.com · 15/07/2026Finally it's my moment to shine 562987710
Michael Morris @michaelmorrisphil.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Wilmington Hill from Bo-Peep chalk pit, October 2025 040
Michael Morris @michaelmorrisphil.bsky.social · 03/10/2026The Seven Sisters from Seaford Head, yesterday 0111
Michael Morris @michaelmorrisphil.bsky.social · 02/10/2026This man is ridiculous as well as nasty. 110
Michael Morris @michaelmorrisphil.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Glynde Reach, the Ouse, and the sea, from Mount Caburn, October 2019 040
Reposted by Michael Morris Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 01/10/2026ONS briefing ignores known context (net migration fell by 25% from 230k in year to mid-2025 to 171k all of 2025) So mid-2025 did see pop rise as every year since 1982 Bigger story ignored. ONS stats show why 2025 will be first year of (marginally) falling population for 4 decades. 2026 bigger fall 1116
Michael Morris @michaelmorrisphil.bsky.social · 01/10/2026The Meeting House moat on the University of Sussex campus, October 2019 020
Reposted by Michael Morris Ervin Sperla @ervinsperla.bsky.social · 30/09/2026My favourite example, from painting, is this invaluable insight achieved by 17/18th century English editor and art critic John Hunt: "Rembrandt is not to be compared in the painting of character with our extraordinarily gifted English artist Mr. Rippingille." 0211
Michael Morris @michaelmorrisphil.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Looking south-west down Michel Dean (between two of the Seven Sisters), September 2018 051
Michael Morris @michaelmorrisphil.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Try the Cock and Bottle, in, er, Morden (in Dorset). 000
Michael Morris @michaelmorrisphil.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Mount Caburn and the Kingston ridge, from the side of Beddingham Hill, September 2015 050
Michael Morris @michaelmorrisphil.bsky.social · 27/09/2026I'm imagining Enobarbus as a builder, inserting 'f*cking' before every word that begins with a stressed syllable. 040
Michael Morris @michaelmorrisphil.bsky.social · 27/09/2026You will certainly alter the pentameters, but I'm not sure you need mess up the iambic pattern: if you insert the trochaic 'f*cking' between the first and second syllable of an iamb, won't you keep the whole thing iambic? 250
Michael Morris @michaelmorrisphil.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Natasha Devon with George Monbiot on ME/CFS 050
Michael Morris @michaelmorrisphil.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Falmer House on the University of Sussex campus, September 2018 040
Reposted by Michael Morris Princeton University Press @princetonupress.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Wonderful to see that Helen De Cruz has won the International Society for Science & Religion's General Readership Book Prize for her work, Wonderstruck! This illuminating book reveals how wonder and awe are catalysts that can help us reclaim what makes life worth living. Learn more: buff.ly/IYNfe0Q 112443
Michael Morris @michaelmorrisphil.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Is that the one where Mozart played the organ? I love Mala Strana - my favourite bit of Prague (I was lucky enough to stay there for two week-long Erasmus trips). 110
Michael Morris @michaelmorrisphil.bsky.social · 25/09/2026I remember noticing this in a philosophy book. Every chapter had an epigraph, and where they were within copyright, permission had been sought. Of course, the epigraphs mostly weren't from philosophical texts, whereas the quotes within the chapters were, but it's interesting that it's more general. 040
Reposted by Michael Morris Chris Brooke @chrisbrooke.bsky.social · 24/09/2026"The trouble with you, Spode, is that just because you have succeeded in inducing a handful of half-wits to disfigure the London scene by going about in black shorts, you think you're someone." 1278
Michael Morris @michaelmorrisphil.bsky.social · 24/09/2026I'm afraid everything in this article will be familiar to everyone who has ME/CFS (or Long Covid) - and much of it will be familiar to everyone who has any chronic illness. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...theguardian.comAbandoned, dismissed and gaslighted: there is no excuse for the way ME sufferers have been betrayed | George MonbiotChanges in guidance and science seem to have little impact on millions of devastated lives. It’s a social crisis playing out behind closed doors, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot 061
Reposted by Michael Morris George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Here's today's column on the astonishing, ongoing mistreatment of people with #ME/CFS. Please spread it far and wide: the only thing which can break the media's wall of indifference is seeing an article about the issue go viral. Thank you. 1/2 www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...theguardian.comAbandoned, dismissed and gaslighted: there is no excuse for the way ME sufferers have been betrayed | George MonbiotChanges in guidance and science seem to have little impact on millions of devastated lives. It’s a social crisis playing out behind closed doors, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot 17925341728
Michael Morris @michaelmorrisphil.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Newhaven from the Firle Beacon ridge, September 2021 061
Michael Morris @michaelmorrisphil.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Beethoven's String Quartet in B flat, Op 130, with the Grosse Fuge (otherwise Op 133) as last movement. You could try any (or all) of the Artemis Quartet, the Belcea Quartet, and the Quatuor Ébène. 140
Michael Morris @michaelmorrisphil.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Firle Beacon from Beddingham Hill, September 2023 000
Reposted by Michael Morris Richard Morris @ahistoryinart.bsky.social · 22/09/2026With its brilliant palette, engaging design and dynamic brushwork, 'An Old Pier, Gloucester,' is a typical example of Jane Peterson’s work from this period and was painted in 1919 on her regular summer journey to the Cape Ann area in search of inspiration. 014517
Reposted by Michael Morris Chris Brooke @chrisbrooke.bsky.social · 21/09/2026The local elections were on 7 May--one hundred and thirty seven days ago--so this is steady depletion at a rate of just over one lost Councillor per day, every day. #clownshow 0157
Michael Morris @michaelmorrisphil.bsky.social · 21/09/2026I heard the chair of the review use the term - as it might be, in scarequotes - in order to deny a prevalent view. Quotes of some kind should have appeared in the headline. 210
Michael Morris @michaelmorrisphil.bsky.social · 21/09/2026One of my favourites is related: 'matter' comes from 'mater' (mother). 000
Michael Morris @michaelmorrisphil.bsky.social · 21/09/2026And many of those who remember the IMF bailout forget the Barber Chancellorship. 100
Michael Morris @michaelmorrisphil.bsky.social · 20/09/2026Everyone's thinking Spinal Tap, aren't they? 050
Reposted by Michael Morris The Empty City @davidallengreen.bsky.social · 20/09/2026“Trump is the biggest arch villain.” - Why is that, Batman? “For he is the villain who wants the biggest arches.” 58814
Reposted by Michael Morris Jim Pickard @pickardje.bsky.social · 18/09/2026my brilliant colleague @robertshrimsley.bsky.social on the threat from Elon Musk’s X platform www.ft.com/content/f270... 6428121170
Reposted by Michael Morris Alan Rusbridger @arusbridger.bsky.social · 19/09/2026If you add in £130m losses on “Reform TV” (aka GB News) the effective subsidy of Farage’s party from just four men tops £200m. You just have to join the dots app.prospectmagazine.co.uk/story/75017/...app.prospectmagazine.co.ukFarage and the £130m even his detractors have missedGB news has provided relentless positive PR for Nigel Farage while racking up tens of millions in financial losses. And now there is a new channel in the offing 351312650
Reposted by Michael Morris Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 18/09/2026Q: China is one of the most repressive countries for journalists in the world-- TRUMP: Well, I don't know about that. I think we're repressive also 69340251029
Reposted by Michael Morris The Onion @theonion.com · 18/09/2026"I make the rules now, and you mustn’t defy me!" — President Donald Trumptheonion.comAnguished, Screaming Trump Bans Father’s Ghost From Press Room For Silently Pointing At HimWASHINGTON—Forcefully closing his eyes, grasping his head with both hands, and repeatedly screaming to be left alone, a visibly anguished President Donald Trump was observed Thursday banning the ghost... 392054305