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Simon Hewitt

Simon Hewitt

@leedshewitt.bsky.social

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Leeds theologian. Lay Dominican. Socialist. Poster of dog photos.

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Simon Hewitt @leedshewitt.bsky.social · Sep 3

‘Scotch’

Simon Hewitt @leedshewitt.bsky.social · Aug 27

I've always-already got round to laughing at Rangers.

Simon Hewitt @leedshewitt.bsky.social · Aug 27

'Political economy starts with the fact of private property; it does not explain it to us.' Marx, 1844.

Simon Hewitt @leedshewitt.bsky.social · Aug 15

Just refused to sign a contract giving permission to CUP to allow use of my book to train generative AI.

Simon Hewitt @leedshewitt.bsky.social · Aug 14

Incorrect position.

Theologian in Jenrick xenophobia row says pair ‘could work together’

Exclusive: Krish Kandiah invites Tory shadow minister to help him ‘de-escalate fear and anger’ after BBC controversy

www.theguardian.com

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University and College Union (UCU) @ucu.org.uk · Aug 14

🎓To all students getting results today - congratulations on your hard work and achievements.

Whatever your next step, we’re fighting for a fairer, properly funded education system where all students can thrive without debt or hardship.

Congrats

Simon Hewitt @leedshewitt.bsky.social · Aug 2

Simon Hewitt @leedshewitt.bsky.social · Aug 2

There’s a thing circulating on here listing a church tax as a potential Democrat policy. The capacity of American liberals to be absurdly self-destructive in the cause of the culture wars is quite something

Simon Hewitt @leedshewitt.bsky.social · Aug 2

It’s exactly white ethnic dominion. It’s just different white people having the dominion.

Simon Hewitt @leedshewitt.bsky.social · Aug 2

This weekend I am doing no work. This post is, as much as anything, a note to myself.

Simon Hewitt @leedshewitt.bsky.social · Aug 2

My word, the analytic philosophers are still talking about that sex blog post. They resemble nothing more than a group of clever adolescents.

Simon Hewitt @leedshewitt.bsky.social · Aug 1

Getting ready for the British Society for Philosophy of Religion conference in September (I’m treasurer). Looking forward to this. The theme is Creation and Creativity.

Simon Hewitt @leedshewitt.bsky.social · Jul 31

I look forward to reading it!

Simon Hewitt @leedshewitt.bsky.social · Jul 31

This sounds really interesting!

Simon Hewitt @leedshewitt.bsky.social · Jul 31

The author of ‘On Consulting the Faithful in Matters of Doctrine’ is not a bad doctor for a synodal church.

Simon Hewitt @leedshewitt.bsky.social · Jul 31

‘Government oversight of course evaluations’.

Veena Dubal @veenadubal.bsky.social · Jul 30

The “deal” that Brown made with the Trump admin is much more extreme than is being reported. It includes government oversight of course evaluations and no barrier to government interference in faculty hiring.

Read it for yourself here:

www.brown.edu/sites/defaul...

Simon Hewitt @leedshewitt.bsky.social · Jul 30

Quite apart from my quaint view that cheating on your partner is entirely wrong, it would be good to see philosophers consider inequalities of sex, class, and so on in their discussion of teenage fantasy conferences.

Simon Hewitt @leedshewitt.bsky.social · Jul 30

Woot!

Simon Hewitt @leedshewitt.bsky.social · Jul 30

I see the philosophers are being pettybourgeois again, earnestly defending their own shagging around in the most urgent yet didactic of tones.

Simon Hewitt @leedshewitt.bsky.social · Jul 30

Neither Communio nor Concilium.

Simon Hewitt @leedshewitt.bsky.social · Jul 30

Outreach event for schools tomorrow. Demystifying theology. In a certain sense of ‘demystify’, obviously.

Simon Hewitt @leedshewitt.bsky.social · Jul 30

What on earth have I signed up to such that I am getting ‘updates from Bishop Barron’?

Simon Hewitt @leedshewitt.bsky.social · Jul 27

RIP Tom Lehrer

Simon Hewitt @leedshewitt.bsky.social · Jul 26

Not now, mystery alien spacecraft

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Yair Wallach @yairwallach.bsky.social · Jul 25

These airdrops land on people and kill them, and in the current stage of mass starvation it's a drop in the ocean.
Impose a ceasefire. Flood Gaza with food and medical aid. We're about to see hundreds dying of famine.

NBC News @nbcnews.com · Jul 25

Israel will allow foreign countries to airdrop aid into Gaza, an Israeli security source says, as the country faces mounting backlash over a spiraling hunger crisis in the Palestinian enclave.

Israel says it will let foreign countries drop aid into Gaza as hunger crisis spirals

Airdrops into Gaza have previously been criticized as insufficient and impractical. The United Nations has called for an urgent ceasefire, though talks appeared Friday to have collapsed.