Simon Glendinning

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Head of the European Institute and Professor of European Philosophy at LSE.

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Simon Glendinning is an English philosopher. Glendinning is Professor of European Philosophy and Head of department in the European Institute at the London School of Economics.

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Simon Glendinning @simonglend.bsky.social · 20h

Typo: should be “reports that the BBC censored” not “accuses the BBC of censoring”.

www.theguardian.com/media/2025/n...

Reith lecturer accuses BBC of censoring his remarks on Trump

Dutch writer Rutger Bregman says claim that Trump was ‘most openly corrupt president in US history’ was removed

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Rutger Bregman @rutgerbregman.com · 1d

I wish I didn’t have to share this. But the BBC has decided to censor my first Reith Lecture.

They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1

Simon Glendinning @simonglend.bsky.social · 3d

Is that Judith Shklar - the liberalism of fear?

Simon Glendinning @simonglend.bsky.social · 4d

The only collapse here is a defeated England at Australia’s feet. Incredible opportunity thrown away.

Simon Glendinning @simonglend.bsky.social · 4d

In the third of the published volumes (XII-XV), in English p. 72. A dog (“my dog”) called Mohrle. I don’t think Heidegger changed his mind on animality - but his formulations on animal worldlessnes do vary.

Simon Glendinning @simonglend.bsky.social · 5d

Isn’t the bit after the not understanding bit it explained by the not understanding it bit?

Simon Glendinning @simonglend.bsky.social · 5d

He did have a dog though and he talks about it in the Ponderings text. A black Pomeranian.

Simon Glendinning @simonglend.bsky.social · 5d

He gloved it, no?

Simon Glendinning @simonglend.bsky.social · 5d

I don’t know the Swiss model - but I’m talking about parliamentary, electoral politics without parties, not “direct democracy”. (Simone Weil is my guide here.)

Simon Glendinning @simonglend.bsky.social · 5d

Very true - but the assessment part of this may be very skewed, or may rest on unfounded fears, as well as solid reasons. (I am not sure about the claim in parentheses btw. One of the things I mentioned in my own contribution with him was the way the party form prevents people speaking their mind.)

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LSE European Institute @lse-ei.bsky.social · 6d

We are still buzzing from Tuesday night’s Maurice Fraser Annual Lecture with Sir John Major, former UK Prime Minister (1990–1997) 🇬🇧

🎥 Video and podcast out soon!

Simon Glendinning @simonglend.bsky.social · 6d

Sir John Major gave the Maurice Fraser Annual Lecture at LSE on Tuesday. He did not pull his punches on Brexit, calling it “an act of collective folly” and calling out the timidity of our political leaders who fail to speak out about the damage it has done to the UK, politically and economically.

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Laura Phillips @lauraphillips.bsky.social · 6d

John Major yesterday at LSE: 1. “In an act of collective folly, the United Kingdom voted to lead to European Union across the world, our enemies celebrated and our friends despair.”1/

Simon Glendinning @simonglend.bsky.social · 6d

What does that reveal about norms? How about these two things? 1. that not respecting them is always possible. (A freedom condition.) But also 2. that it is not simply a statistical statement that norms (eg of right conduct) are typically respected. (A recognition condition.)

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James Chapman @jamesmchapman.bsky.social · 6d

Sir John Major: “Brexiteers predicted other countries would follow their lead and leave the EU. None have. All saw only too clearly that Brexit was packed with disadvantages. As we meet nine further nations now wish to join, which is an apt comment on how the world saw Britain's decision.

Reposted by Dorothy Bishop, Lesley A. Hall, Enzo Rossi , and 5 more Dorothy Bishop, Lesley A. Hall, Enzo Rossi, Andrew Livingstone, Simon Glendinning, Michael H. Whitworth, Seán Hanley, Graham Dutfield

Jo Wolff @jowolff.bsky.social · 8d

Have been thinking about “immigration has been tearing this country apart.” Surely I’m not the only person to think that it isn’t true, but inflamed rhetoric about immigration by politicians is what is tearing this country apart and so statements like that only makes it worse.

Simon Glendinning @simonglend.bsky.social · 10d

The splicing of Trump’s speech by the BBC is really shitty journalism.

The airtime devoted to the Reform agenda on migration by the BBC is really dangerous journalism.

#BBC - you are becoming a danger to this country. Lightweight and Lazy.

www.theguardian.com/media/2025/n...

Newsnight accused of selectively editing same Trump Capitol riots speech as Panorama

BBC show accused of editing speech to make it appear as if Trump made a more explicit call for violence from his supporters

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Tim Bale @timbale.bsky.social · 11d

Read 'em and weep. (www.nber.org/system/files...)

This paper examines the impact of the UK's decision to leave the European Union (Brexit) in 2016. Using almost a decade of data since the referendum, we combine simulations based on macro data with estimates derived from micro data collected through our Decision Maker Panel survey. These estimates suggest that by 2025, Brexit had reduced UK GDP by 6% to 8%, with the impact accumulating gradually over time. We estimate that investment was reduced by between 12% and 18%, employment by 3% to 4% and productivity by 3% to 4%. These large negative impacts reflect a combination of elevated uncertainty, reduced demand, diverted management time, and increased misallocation of resources from a protracted Brexit process. Comparing these with contemporary forecasts – providing a rare macro example to complement the burgeoning microliterature of social science predictions – shows that these forecasts were accurate over a 5-year horizon, but they underestimated the impact over a decade.

Simon Glendinning @simonglend.bsky.social · 17d

He thought he could resolve a party conflict in a national way. It did not resolve that conflict and proved a disaster for the nation he played politics with.

He reckoned on winning. Perhaps he could have if the image in Scotland (below) had been replicated nationally. He did not reckon on Corbyn.

Simon Glendinning @simonglend.bsky.social · 18d

If you are interested in what *might* be a possible “race without racism” conception, see the final footnotes to my recent (and also free!) paper on the formation of European Studies: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

The Formation of European Studies

Academic studies of Europe in the postwar period increasingly focused on aspects of European integration. This development was led by contributions from the social sciences, not the humanities. The...

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Simon Glendinning @simonglend.bsky.social · 18d

Right - culture as a proxy for race: “spiritual racism”. This is something one can see in Husserl but is not, I think, Heidegger’s position (or Spengler’s for that matter) - which is more about a contrast between (anyone) having it and not having it, rather than a hierarchy of types. But it’s crazy…

Simon Glendinning @simonglend.bsky.social · 18d

So the text I’m reading is Heidegger’s Black Notebooks. He doesn’t think the idea of breeding that is internal to the modern theory of race (as he understands it) is necessarily something thought through or thought out teleologically but he does think it has this drive towards deracialisation in it.

Simon Glendinning @simonglend.bsky.social · 19d

Fascinating. I am reading a text atm which argues that European race theory is inseparable from a “progressivist” theory of “breeding” that posits a telos of attained global deracialisation: everyone would have the same “block” characteristics. Marshall would doubtless favour Anglo-Saxon ones.

Simon Glendinning @simonglend.bsky.social · 19d

Leader editorial in the Independent calls for students to be taken out of migration figures, describing UK government policy quite rightly as “asinine”. www.independent.co.uk/voices/edito...

You don’t need a master’s degree to see Britain depends on foreign students

Editorial: The government’s effort to drive down the number of student visas coming to study in this country is misguided and self-defeating – it will do untold damage to our universities and communit...

www.independent.co.uk

Simon Glendinning @simonglend.bsky.social · 20d

And Neurath’s tract is perhaps even less convincing… (I confess, I am trying to do better myself.)

Simon Glendinning @simonglend.bsky.social · 20d

Have you read my work??

Simon Glendinning @simonglend.bsky.social · 20d

Is the Adorno article the same one published under the title “Spengler Today”? That essay is fascinating - and strangely unconvincing in its appeal to a utopian hope in the effort to find a weak point in Spengler’s conception.

Simon Glendinning @simonglend.bsky.social · 21d

I had not heard, so we’ve not already heard.

I thought the tracks I have listened to were hilarious. I really like the juxtaposition of the tunes and lyrics; very simple idea no doubt but also good fun and nicely done.

Simon Glendinning @simonglend.bsky.social · 21d

Perhaps my work in the deconstruction of onto-theology is finally pushing through.

But how will the markets react when they realise that giving up on ontology (the metaphysics of presence) calls for a counter conception best conceived as (to the ear indistinguishable [in French]) hauntology?

Simon Glendinning @simonglend.bsky.social · 21d

Maybe - but you should check out what some humans are doing too though, in “art” making. The awful thing is not what human interactions with LLMs says about LLMs - but what they show up about humans (being sometimes uncannily alike to them).

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