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Ivan Phillips

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Ivan Phillips @vortexphillips.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
Excellence article… Why does everything feel so joyless? Welcome to the age of decadence without pleasure | Michèle Mendelssohn and Charlie Tyson
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Ivan Phillips @vortexphillips.bsky.social · 26/10/2025
As an arty-farty member of the woke liberati it drives me mad when I see politics full of bigots
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Ivan Phillips @vortexphillips.bsky.social · 11/10/2025
The voicemail transcription is ‘low confidence’ but far more poetic than the actual message from my garage
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Ivan Phillips @vortexphillips.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
I imagine anything that prioritises empathy, the articulation of human complexity and the questioning of lazy assumptions must seem like a rip-off to someone like Badenoch, who seems to know the price of everything and the value of nothing.
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Ivan Phillips @vortexphillips.bsky.social · 07/09/2025
Assoc Prof Sam George launches the 2nd day of #gothicmermaids #seachanges @ogomproject.bsky.social Looking forward to more tales and tails of watery wonders - starting with the Ningyō
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Ivan Phillips @vortexphillips.bsky.social · 26/07/2025
Back in the days when I had attack eyebrows and enjoyed eating items of religious symbolism while dressed only in bath towels
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Ivan Phillips @vortexphillips.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
‘And when you gaze long into an abyss, the abyss also gaze into you.’ Thinking of growing (or perhaps buying) a Nietzsche moustache.
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Glen O'Hara @gsoh31.bsky.social · 22/07/2025
Remember me telling you the university redundancy situation was far worse than it looked? Well, here's the evidence - not renewing contracts, forcing people to 'retire' and the like may not show up in the stats, but it cd double the losses number. (1/2) www.timeshighereducation.com/news/uk-univ...
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UK university job cuts put at 20,000 after full impact ‘hidden’
Number of roles affected could be almost double previous estimates when voluntary schemes and hiring freezes factored in, say researchers
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Ivan Phillips @vortexphillips.bsky.social · 21/07/2025
I know universities are worried about numbers but I didn’t know they’d started recruiting wildfowl…
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Ivan Phillips @vortexphillips.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
For anyone whose thoughts are turning to the coast, beaches, the sea, floating, just floating, away, away, away
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Ivan Phillips @vortexphillips.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
So proud of our graduating cohort of UH Model Design students and the fantastic team of dedicated colleagues who support them. 9 of 20 awards at New Blades 2025 yesterday - amazing achievement and fully deserved! Not only are they a phenomenally talented bunch but they’re also lovely human beings
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Ivan Phillips @vortexphillips.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
And this is why UK HE is increasingly looking like a long dull scene from a particularly depressing dystopian film.
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Ivan Phillips @vortexphillips.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
Marking final-year undergraduate essays: the post-retinal detachment method
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Ivan Phillips @vortexphillips.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
Sensible policies for a happier Britain. Thank you Mr Wells.
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Ivan Phillips @vortexphillips.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
Following his announcements on film industry tariffs and the reopening of Alcatraz, Donald Trump is now planning to tax unAmerican air and reenact both the American Civil War and the Battle of the Little Big Horn to prove the originals were fake news.
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Ivan Phillips @vortexphillips.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
No, you’re not. And even if you were, I’m not the droid you’re looking for.
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Ivan Phillips @vortexphillips.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
You never have to travel far down any thread on Lewis Carroll to realise why the world’s in the state it’s in…
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Ivan Phillips @vortexphillips.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
Quite tempted to lift the lid…
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Ivan Phillips @vortexphillips.bsky.social · 12/04/2025
A more than passing resemblance…? #doctorwho #metropolis #moloch #ai #robots
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Ivan Phillips @vortexphillips.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
The train will be arriving soon! This Thursday, Friday and Saturday (13-15 March) I’ll be appearing in the Settlement Players’ production of The Girl on the Train. Please come and see us if you can. Tickets are £10, which is a pretty reasonable fare - and it’s going to be quite a journey…
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Ivan Phillips @vortexphillips.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
Well thank fuck for that
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Ivan Phillips @vortexphillips.bsky.social · 25/01/2025
People, please beware of vampire vegetables. Be especially wary of post-Yuletide pumpkins… 🎃 🧛🏻‍♂️ Source: Nick Groom, The Vampire: A New History (2018).
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Ivan Phillips @vortexphillips.bsky.social · 30/12/2024
It’s possible I’ve just found my motto for 2025
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Ivan Phillips @vortexphillips.bsky.social · 28/12/2024
On BBC4 now: Caroline John as in the 1967 Zeffirelli version of Much Ado with Derek Jacobi, Maggie Smith, Robert Stephens & Ronald Pickup. As both a Who nerd & a Bard nerd this is a bit of a treat #doctorwho #shakespeare 1/2
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Ivan Phillips @vortexphillips.bsky.social · 25/12/2024
Scrooge in towel form… Merry Christmas one and all! x
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Ivan Phillips @vortexphillips.bsky.social · 24/12/2024
Our soles fell apart at the same time on Christmas Eve. The boots are over 30 years old - we got them in the first year we got together - so they’ve done us all right 🥾 🕰️ 🎄 #sole #soul #homophone #boots #sharpenhoe #walking #christmas #wearandtear
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Ivan Phillips @vortexphillips.bsky.social · 20/12/2024
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Ivan Phillips @vortexphillips.bsky.social · 18/12/2024
I really don’t think Charles Maturin hits the #Gothic note quickly enough in his play Bertram…
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Ivan Phillips @vortexphillips.bsky.social · 14/12/2024
Waiting to have the clouds lifted from one of my eyes with Sylvia, Lolly and Vanessa
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Ivan Phillips @vortexphillips.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
“Universities are in a shocking state… [Closing arts/humanities courses] is more than an institutional failure. It signals a cultural shift that risks leaving future generations without the critical, empathetic and intellectual tools provided by literature.” search.app/5Pjz8Q9Z7zag...
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The Guardian view on humanities in universities: closing English Literature courses signals a crisis | Humanities | The Guardian
With degrees disappearing and reading rates plummeting, the arts face a critical moment in education and culture
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Classic Horror Films @horrorhammer1.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
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Folk Horror Revival 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @folkhorrorrevival.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
Read Andy Paciorek's review here on the Folk Horror Revival website: folkhorrorrevival.com/2024/10/17/g...
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Ghost of an Idea: Hauntology, Folk Horror and the Spectre of Nostalgia by William Burns. Book Review.
As the number of books about Folk Horror and Hauntology is considerably increasing, focus falls now upon a quest for a unique selling point – the tone, the angle, which cultural examples will…
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Headpress @headpress.com · 20/11/2024
Now available for purchase exclusively from the Headpress store, Ghost of an Idea: Hauntology, Folk Horror and the Spectre of Nostalgia by William Burns. Hits all other outlets in early 2025, but you can get ahead of the curve now! #newbooks #hauntology #folkhorror headpress.com/product/ghos...
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Ghost of an Idea: Hauntology and Folk Horror
A critical analysis of the 21st-century fascination with the past, from horror films to haunted music.
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Kit Yates @kityates.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
It's at this time of year, when the Christmas songs come on the radio, that I like to remember one of the Pogues finest works.
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⛧ Mother Suspiria ⛧ (Stina Marie) @stinasdemons.com · 03/12/2024
Happy Tuesday!
Picture of a person staring into a black hole with the caption, "STARING INTO THE ABYSS"

Picture of a person staring into a black hole that has Xmas lights decorating it. The person now holds a mug and gingerbread cookie, with the caption, "STARING INTO THE ABYSS IN DECEMBER"
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Eddie Robson @eddierobson.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
I see the Tories are getting on their high horse about this Louise Haigh thing. Remember when Robert Jenrick unlawfully approved a £1bn housing development as a favour to a party donor and didn't resign? en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_...
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Ray Newman @raynewman.bsky.social · 24/11/2024
BLOG POST: What to watch next if, like me, you wish there were at least a hundred more of those 1970s BBC ghost stories for Christmas. 🎞📽 precastreinforced.co.uk/2024/11/24/t...
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The infinite supply of BBC ghost stories for Christmas
There are only eight episodes of the BBC Ghost Story for Christmas, produced between 1971 and 1978. That’s not enough. Here are some suggestions for where to go next. First, let’s address a technic…
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