Former academic and university leader. Latterly Clerk in Holy Orders. All tweets in a personal capacity, sometimes ultracrepidarian.
Aberdeen
Joined August 2008
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@mccartney_jenny - I have just read your essay on Engelsberg ("...bro-world...") - totally brilliant analysis, so vital at this dangerous moment.
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Iโm afraid this is where I stop posting on Twitter. Under Musk it has become a cesspit of far-right propaganda, very much including Muskโs own often bizarre tweets. You can find me as vonprond on Bluesky.
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I had genuinely no idea that London has bus fairs. They must surely be great fun.
'Bus fairs are going up from two quid to three quid, but if you enter Britain illegally it's free?'
Nigel Farage is left flabbergasted by the London Assembly voting to call for Sadiq Khan to help asylum seekers cover public transport costs.
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One thing to bear in mind these days is that any politician or ideological commentator "showing" in print something said by an opponent is almost certainly circulating a fake. It's terrible, but that's what you must assume.
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You kind off have to hand it to @elonmusk, he is working really hard to make Twitter a propaganda arm of the Donald Trump campaign.
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Paying people for votes is not a new thing, and was never anything other than corruption.
If youโre a registered Pennsylvania voter, you & whoever referred you will now get $100 for signing our petition in support of free speech & right to bear arms.
Earn money for supporting something you already believe in!
Offer valid until midnight on Monday.
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I've never even heard of "Popeyes", which allegedly according to this has gained the most popularity in the UK...
Theย Restaurant & Fast Food Brandย That Has Gained the Most Popularity in Each Country
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One advantage today of Twitterโs recent determination to put unwanted far-right comments into my timeline is that I can see their discomfort and confusion after last nightโs debate.
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I would consider myself to be on the moderate centre-left. So why, in the last few months, is my timeline full of angry far-right tweets by people I donโt know or follow?
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Definitely a cause we should support.
Iโm launching this hashtag #LetUsExist to protest against the gender apartheid in Afghanistan and im inviting all of you to support Afghanistani women and to fight for gender equality !
I presume this was intended like the Monty Python gag "What did the Romans ever do for us?" Of course the answer is, countless things, including Christianity.
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While this is not an era of political giants in Germany, Green Party Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock is an impressive exception.
Germany needs missiles, not hope, to stave off Russia, warns minister
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