Tim Causer @timcauser.bsky.social · 19/07/2026During his last week Samson sat in the sun and felt the breeze, smelled the flowers, and listened to the birds. He was the best. Love you always, buddy. 000
Tim Causer @timcauser.bsky.social · 19/07/2026After nearly six wonderful years together, last week Samson fell asleep in my arms. He was the greatest, most handsome little mate I could have wished for. I was so lucky I got to rescue him. 4100
Tim Causer @timcauser.bsky.social · 03/12/2025Five years ago today since this little guy arrived from the RSPCA 040
Tim Causer @timcauser.bsky.social · 01/12/2025Published today - 'Essays on Logic, Ethics, and Universal Grammar' edited by Philip Schofield, the latest volume of The Collected Works of Jeremy Bentham Available in hardback, paperback, and as a free open-access PDF from UCL Press: uclpress.co.uk/book/essays-... 1105
Tim Causer @timcauser.bsky.social · 21/11/2025And the cherry on top is that the sign is back, too 0110
Tim Causer @timcauser.bsky.social · 15/10/2025Thought lost when it closed in 2017, the Jeremy Bentham pub on University Street has risen from the ashes 713512
Tim Causer @timcauser.bsky.social · 22/09/2025Anyone who frequented the Jeremy Bentham pub (d. 2016) on University Street may recognise Bentham House's newest art installation 4113
Tim Causer @timcauser.bsky.social · 12/09/2025Cannot believe that I missed the massive Bentham bear at this week's UCL Laws graduation. Torn between thinking it's cute versus it being nightmare fuel 030
Tim Causer @timcauser.bsky.social · 15/08/2025Diagnosed with diabetes two years ago today and still (usually) taking it in his stride 080
Tim Causer @timcauser.bsky.social · 23/07/2025Can't quite believe they are leaving gold like this up online for us all to enjoy brand.warwick.ac.uk/en/brand-gui... 10593
Tim Causer @timcauser.bsky.social · 30/05/20252005: in Edinburgh, saw the brilliant Martha Wainwright tour her debut album at the Queen's Hall 2025: at the Union Chapel at the 20th(!!!) anniversary tour of the album And, for a couple hours I am 23 again 1130
Tim Causer @timcauser.bsky.social · 19/05/2025A letter from 'A Loyalist' in the Morning Herald, 12-14 June 1800, suggests that the island of Van Diemen's Land 'should be called by the name of New South Britain' 100
Tim Causer @timcauser.bsky.social · 05/05/2025This master criminal has managed to pull off two glucose monitors within a week 050
Tim Causer @timcauser.bsky.social · 29/04/2025Over to the electors of Dickson for the chance to do the funniest thing 130
Tim Causer @timcauser.bsky.social · 07/04/2025A couple of lesser-known pencil sketches of Bentham's panopticon, dates unknown From the Bentham Papers @uclspeccoll.bsky.social , Box 157, folios 70 and 71 082
Tim Causer @timcauser.bsky.social · 04/04/2025* 7 1/2 pence for tea at Warrington * 1 shilling 'To a Countryman for catching my Horse' * shilling 'To a Countryman for picking up my Pocket Book' * 2 shillings lost playing cards at Matlock 120
Tim Causer @timcauser.bsky.social · 04/04/2025Expenses paid on Bentham's trip to the Peak District and north of England in August 1768: * 2 shillings and sixpence 'To the Man that shews the Devils Arse in the Peak' * 2 shilling on brandy for said man * sixpence to see the church at Macclesfield * 1 shilling for passage over the Mersey 130
Tim Causer @timcauser.bsky.social · 04/04/2025'There was a Freak took an Ass in the Head' Strong opening to Anianus's fable of the Ass and a Lion's skin, from Sir Roger L'Estrange's 'Fables of Aesop And other Eminent Mythologists', 8th ed., London, 1738 000
Tim Causer @timcauser.bsky.social · 11/03/2025Encountering John Pollexfen Bastard or Edmund Bastard MPs in the Parliamentary Register never ceases to be funny. 010
Tim Causer @timcauser.bsky.social · 06/01/2025The things you have to consult when you edit Bentham... 010
Tim Causer @timcauser.bsky.social · 29/12/2024That feeling when some git shoves a pill in your mouth for an upset stomach 1101
Tim Causer @timcauser.bsky.social · 09/12/20249 July 2013, Sir Malcolm Grant's last Council meeting as Provost. Sadly, no known photographic evidence exists of the first time (but if you have some, please get in touch) 022
Tim Causer @timcauser.bsky.social · 09/12/2024A myth made real: on 10 February 1976 the University College Committee 'record their continuing faith and trust in the ideals which animated the founders of this University and College', 'Carried unanimously, Mr Jeremy Bentham present but not voting'. The only time this happened until... 3157
Tim Causer @timcauser.bsky.social · 03/12/2024Four years, one eye, a dozen or so teeth, and over 800 insulin injections later since Samson moved in. Where does the time go etc 050
Tim Causer @timcauser.bsky.social · 02/12/2024What more could anyone want for Christmas but 'historic prime DNA hair henry clay jeremy bentham #1/10'? Don't know about you but I'm convinced this is totally legit 100
Tim Causer @timcauser.bsky.social · 01/12/2024Remarkable looking MS diary 1843-9 by Cecil Rice Arney, the wife of Major Charles Arney of the 58th Regiment, sold at auction on 20 Nov for £36K - covers the voyage to Australia, time at the Norfolk Island penal station, and the Hutt Valley Campaign in New Zealand www.bonhams.com/auction/2988... 100
Tim Causer @timcauser.bsky.social · 28/11/2024'The Last Words of Bentham', according to John Bowring: '". I entered his room—‘Do you know me?’ He smiled and said, ‘Bowring! Bowring! how have you sped?’ I told him of your acceptance and of my prospects. ‘Very good,’ he said, squeezing me by the hands... 121
Tim Causer @timcauser.bsky.social · 26/11/2024Live footage of me watching City chuck away a 3-0 lead 020
Tim Causer @timcauser.bsky.social · 16/11/2024'I hear you are trying to write a conference paper' 0180
Tim Causer @timcauser.bsky.social · 12/11/2024Left: Actor Stephen Rea Right: Stephen Gardiner, Bishop of Winchester, 1531-55 Never seen in the same room 012
Tim Causer @timcauser.bsky.social · 08/11/2024My favourite Bentham letter remains his to Joseph Hume, 11 and 12 May 1830: 'Dear Hume Two letters of mine unanswered. This the third. Are you alive?' 000
Tim Causer @timcauser.bsky.social · 08/11/2024The next Bentham volume off the grid will be 'The Correspondence of Jeremy Bentham, Volume 14: Supplementary Letters', edited by Philip Schofield, Chris Riley, and some other geezer who hangs around the place. Featuring over 250 never-before published Bentham Letters, many from his brother Samuel 2133
Tim Causer @timcauser.bsky.social · 25/10/2024'Respected Author'? You've got the wrong person, buddy 010
Tim Causer @timcauser.bsky.social · 16/10/2024The face of someone who thanked the vet for draining an abcess by taking an enormous poo on both the vet and his table 030
Tim Causer @timcauser.bsky.social · 08/10/2024Thanks to the generosity of Michael and Liz Phillips, UCL has acquired two more gold mourning rings bequeathed by Bentham upon his death - those left to Dr Neil Arnott, the physician and inventor, and Henry Bickersteth, first Lord Langdale and a Master of the Rolls www.ucl.ac.uk/culture/news... 041
Tim Causer @timcauser.bsky.social · 16/09/2024He made it - now high as a kite after having three teeth pulled out 010
Tim Causer @timcauser.bsky.social · 12/09/2024Really brilliant gift made by one of last year's excellent Bentham LLM module cohort 141