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Jonathan Wolff,
Political Philosopher.
Fellow British Academy
Emeritus Professor Blavatnik School of Government, Oxford
Wolfson College
President The Royal Institute of Philosophy
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Jonathan Wolff is a British philosopher. He is a Senior Research Fellow in Philosophy and Public Policy and Governing Body Fellow at Wolfson College, Oxford. He was formerly the Alfred Landecker Professor of Values and Public Policy at the Blavatnik School of Government at the University of Oxford. Prior to his joining the Blavatnik School in 2016, Wolff's academic career had been spent at University College London (UCL), where he was, latterly, Professor of Philosophy and Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Humanities. .. more

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Jo Wolff @jowolff.bsky.social · Nov 21
I’ve changed my header photo to this one. It shows my father Herbert and his sister Lotte with their parents Fritz and Marta in their Frankfurt apartment before Herbert and Lotte were sent to England on the Kindertransport, and later Fritz and Marta transported to Lodz Ghetto, final fate unknown.

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Jo Wolff @jowolff.bsky.social · 2h
God almighty. In ten years’ time there will genres of movies, memoirs and novels devoted to the gross cruelty of the Trump Regime, akin to those we now have of Germany in the 1930s. Intensely hoping it stops before we get to the 1940s.

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Jo Wolff @jowolff.bsky.social · 3h
You all know this about the classic Apple computer sound? Just checking because some of you are a little younger than me.
Sosumi is an alert sound introduced by Apple sound designer Jim Reekes in Apple Computer's Macintosh System 7 operating system in 1991. The name is derived from the phrase "so, sue me!" because of a long running court battle with Apple Corps, the similarly named music company affiliated with the Beatles, regarding the use of music in Apple Inc.'s computer products.

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Jo Wolff @jowolff.bsky.social · 4h
Anyone got Ryan Mason’s WhatsApp number?
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Things looking up at Tottenham. 30 mins in and still 11 players on the pitch.

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Jo Wolff @jowolff.bsky.social · 5h
Things looking up at Tottenham. 30 mins in and still 11 players on the pitch.

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Jo Wolff @jowolff.bsky.social · 6h
The big question for the Winter Olympics. Who will be this competition’s Eddie the Eagle?

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Eddie the Eagle - Wikipedia
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Jo Wolff @jowolff.bsky.social · 8h
Hahaha!! Neither hope nor expectation here.

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Jo Wolff @jowolff.bsky.social · 9h
Just seen a review of a philosophy book that says it is 128 pages and $200.

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Jo Wolff @jowolff.bsky.social · 9h
Surely not the death penalty. Life imprisonment being forced to attend pronoun awareness classes, online implicit bias training, attentive listening classes, an anger management course, and group hygiene and self-care, each twice a day, every day, would surely be the fitting punishment.

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Jo Wolff @jowolff.bsky.social · 10h
Also many redundancies at The Onion as the Trump Regime becomes increasingly self-sufficient in satire.
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Peter Navarro: "The jobs report comes out tomorrow. We have to revise our expectations down significantly for what a monthly job number should look like ... Wall Street has to adjust for the fact that we're deporting millions of illegals out of the job market."

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 10h
Peter Navarro: "The jobs report comes out tomorrow. We have to revise our expectations down significantly for what a monthly job number should look like ... Wall Street has to adjust for the fact that we're deporting millions of illegals out of the job market."

Reposted by Jonathan Wolff

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stuart @stuartp.bsky.social · 12h
he's doing it, he's doing it

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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 13h
No-one seems to have noticed, but many of the core developments in the Mandelson/Epstein story these last few days have been broken on this website. @pickardje.bsky.social and @petergeoghegan.bsky.social are both posting each breaking development on BlueSky, not X.

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Jo Wolff @jowolff.bsky.social · 14h
Still remember being publicly criticised by the then head of REF for writing a column saying that the REF was a form of collective punishment that the university sector imposes on itself. I think the room was with me though.

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Research Professional News @resprofnews.bsky.social · 16h
Scrapping REF should be “serious’ option”, says Manchester VC.

Duncan Ivison questions “usefulness” of “massive, bureaucratic” research assessment exercise.

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Scrapping REF should be ‘serious’ option, says Manchester VC - Research Professional News
Duncan Ivison questions “usefulness” of “massive, bureaucratic” research assessment exercise
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Jo Wolff @jowolff.bsky.social · 17h
Right. And where should we cut first? Pension triple lock?

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Jo Wolff @jowolff.bsky.social · 17h
But, but, but … potholes don’t repair themselves …
hetanshah.bsky.social Hetan Shah @hetanshah.bsky.social · 18h
‘This 19 percentage points gap is much larger than the 5 percentage point difference in 2022 and the 3 percentage point gap in 2010.’
Nearly 3 in 10 Conservative and Reform supporters now back reducing taxes and spending Support to cutting taxes and spending, % • Conservatives or UKIP/Reform • Labour, Liberal Democrat, and Green

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Jo Wolff @jowolff.bsky.social · 17h
I don’t know why but the US just loves detaining a significant portion of its residents. Once it was mental hospitals (558,922 in 1955). Then prisons. Now as the prison population starts to fall, concentration camps.
rmayemsinger.bsky.social Randi Mayem Singer @rmayemsinger.bsky.social · 21h
Prisons are for people who've been CONVICTED of crimes.

Most people in these warehouses - without proper food or sanitation or worse - haven't even been CHARGED with crimes.

And thousands are CHILDREN.

This will be another of America's greatest shames.

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Jo Wolff @jowolff.bsky.social · 18h
Hahahaha! There should be ‘astonishingly prolific and accomplished writers and artists’.

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Hetan Shah @hetanshah.bsky.social · 18h
‘This 19 percentage points gap is much larger than the 5 percentage point difference in 2022 and the 3 percentage point gap in 2010.’
Nearly 3 in 10 Conservative and Reform supporters now back reducing taxes and spending Support to cutting taxes and spending, % • Conservatives or UKIP/Reform • Labour, Liberal Democrat, and Green

Reposted by Jonathan Wolff

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Randi Mayem Singer @rmayemsinger.bsky.social · 21h
Prisons are for people who've been CONVICTED of crimes.

Most people in these warehouses - without proper food or sanitation or worse - haven't even been CHARGED with crimes.

And thousands are CHILDREN.

This will be another of America's greatest shames.

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Jo Wolff @jowolff.bsky.social · 1d
I thought that point had turned?

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Alexandra Petri @petridishes.bsky.social · 1d
Great news, son! The Turning Point USA All-American Halftime Show Is On!
Great News! The Turning Point USA Halftime Show Is On!
Quick, to the bunker!
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Jo Wolff @jowolff.bsky.social · 1d
Seeing Tony Blair at 500-1 to be next Labour Leader. Gary Neville 200-1.

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Jo Wolff @jowolff.bsky.social · 1d
Funnily enough I was mulling over the phrase ‘best practice’ only today. My response always is ‘says who?’ Don’t think I’ve encountered stylised facts.

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Jo Wolff @jowolff.bsky.social · 1d
A trope I’ve noticed in books from 100 years ago is that unevidenced empirical claims are introduced with the endorsement ‘according to those best qualified to judge’. Makes me wonder if the author is talking about themself, or their chums.

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Jo Wolff @jowolff.bsky.social · 1d
Hahahaha! Can’t really claim that for myself though.

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Jo Wolff @jowolff.bsky.social · 1d
Very good!!

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Jo Wolff @jowolff.bsky.social · 1d
“The influence of a spider is limited by the size of its web.” A line from Tawney that could have been written for Epstein.

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Jo Wolff @jowolff.bsky.social · 1d
Hard to remember today that Keir Starmer is only the fourth Labour leader to win a majority at a general election (after Attlee, Wilson and Blair).

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Jo Wolff @jowolff.bsky.social · 1d
I don’t know the inclusion criteria but it looks like only about 10% of accounts are there.