Jack McGowan
@jmcgphd.bsky.social
Scottish+Irish/EU citizen in Essex. In academia but forever an actor. History/present, Humanities/humanity. 🇪🇺 #DysguCymraeg https://drjackmcgowan.wordpress.com
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Y’all might not appreciate it, but it took him 87 moves and 14 hours to get here
December 26, 2025 at 12:48 PM
Y’all might not appreciate it, but it took him 87 moves and 14 hours to get here
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Your library card is the most priceless card you will ever own.
December 18, 2025 at 6:32 PM
Your library card is the most priceless card you will ever own.
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Watched BBC 6 o clock news. Just a completely unserious broadcast. Chris Mason, acting like a children's entertainer, giving a prolonged impenetrable editorial. Not a whiff of informative content about the Budget or what it means for the country. Just playschool blah blah bollocks.
December 1, 2025 at 6:28 PM
Watched BBC 6 o clock news. Just a completely unserious broadcast. Chris Mason, acting like a children's entertainer, giving a prolonged impenetrable editorial. Not a whiff of informative content about the Budget or what it means for the country. Just playschool blah blah bollocks.
So the Gang of 2 adopt the Oor Wullie as well as the Mickey Mouse stance: "Oor Party! Your Party! Naebody with a brain's Party!". But you can be in the SWP too, if your like. Dearie me. They're not Roy and Shirley, are they?
November 30, 2025 at 7:20 PM
So the Gang of 2 adopt the Oor Wullie as well as the Mickey Mouse stance: "Oor Party! Your Party! Naebody with a brain's Party!". But you can be in the SWP too, if your like. Dearie me. They're not Roy and Shirley, are they?
These 'senior BBC figures' all seem cut from the same very odd, supremely confident yet profoundly unimpressive cloth. The MPs are little better. Who is on which side? The stench of 'good chaps' joshing rather reminds me of my years at a Russell Group university.
November 24, 2025 at 6:06 PM
These 'senior BBC figures' all seem cut from the same very odd, supremely confident yet profoundly unimpressive cloth. The MPs are little better. Who is on which side? The stench of 'good chaps' joshing rather reminds me of my years at a Russell Group university.
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"While other universities report that the humanities are shrinking, at Berkeley, the opposite is true. The music major is the fastest-growing major on campus. We are finding bigger classrooms because film is exploding. English is back to the numbers we saw 15 years ago. We are hiring" bit.ly/4ohKuOe
"The humanities really are a resource — a confidence for living in our times.” Dean Sara Guyer on the modern utility of humanities degrees
This interview originally appeared on the Division of Arts
bit.ly
November 23, 2025 at 3:38 PM
"While other universities report that the humanities are shrinking, at Berkeley, the opposite is true. The music major is the fastest-growing major on campus. We are finding bigger classrooms because film is exploding. English is back to the numbers we saw 15 years ago. We are hiring" bit.ly/4ohKuOe
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Nathan Gill has been sentenced to 10.5 years for endangering national security and taking Russian bribes.
Nigel Farage and Reform are a danger to national security, the Liberal Democrats will continue to hold them to account and defend our democracy.
Nigel Farage and Reform are a danger to national security, the Liberal Democrats will continue to hold them to account and defend our democracy.
November 21, 2025 at 4:35 PM
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The real BBC bias story, narrated by Anna Ford
November 19, 2025 at 12:12 PM
The real BBC bias story, narrated by Anna Ford
The main question I have for Labour is, what will you do when the polls don’t improve for you after this?
November 17, 2025 at 8:11 PM
#FPTP has forced me to vote #Labour (often very reluctantly) in most GEs in my lifetime. After the last week (particularly #Reeves & #Mahmood): never, ever again. Immoral & incompetent. Do what you need to do: @libdems.org.uk @greenparty.org.uk @snp.org @plaidcymru.bsky.social @getprdone.bsky.social
November 16, 2025 at 11:40 AM
#FPTP has forced me to vote #Labour (often very reluctantly) in most GEs in my lifetime. After the last week (particularly #Reeves & #Mahmood): never, ever again. Immoral & incompetent. Do what you need to do: @libdems.org.uk @greenparty.org.uk @snp.org @plaidcymru.bsky.social @getprdone.bsky.social
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What the husband @mjowen174.bsky.social says is true.
It’s been a bit quiet in my shop lately.
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A repost would be lovely too.
It’s been a bit quiet in my shop lately.
If you’re looking for #Christmas cards and gifts please have a look at my website.
gailmyerscough.co.uk
A repost would be lovely too.
November 12, 2025 at 9:52 AM
What the husband @mjowen174.bsky.social says is true.
It’s been a bit quiet in my shop lately.
If you’re looking for #Christmas cards and gifts please have a look at my website.
gailmyerscough.co.uk
A repost would be lovely too.
It’s been a bit quiet in my shop lately.
If you’re looking for #Christmas cards and gifts please have a look at my website.
gailmyerscough.co.uk
A repost would be lovely too.
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![[Scene is a kitchen - a middle aged woman called JANET is boiling peas at the stove. A younger more colourfully dressed woman named LIZ approached her.]
JANET:
Ugh...
LIZ:
What's up?
JANET:
I am so bored of cooking peas!
LIZ:
Have you tried...
AI peas?
JANET:
AI peas?
LIZ:
They're peas with AI!
[Liz holds up to us a packet of peas labelled: Pea-i AI - Peas with AI].
LIZ:
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JANET:
What
LIZ [Now a voiceover as we cut to a whizzy technology diagram of peas all connected by meaningless dotted lines]
Why not take your peas to the next level with Al Peas' new Al tools to power your peas?
[Show a techno diagram of a pea with a label reading 'AI' pointing to a random zone in it]
LIZ:
Each pea has Al in a way we haven't quite worked out yet but it's fine
[Show Janet and Liz now in a Matrix-style world of peas]
LIZ:
With Al peas you can supercharge productivity and make AI work for your peas!
JANET:
What
LIZ:
Shut up
LIZ:
Our game-changing Pea-Al gives you the freedom to unlock the potential of the power of the future of your peas workflow
From opening the bag of peas
to boiling the peas
to eating the peas
To spending millions on adding Al to the peas and then having to work out what that even means.
JANET:
Is it really necessary to-
LIZ [Grabbing Janet by the collar]:
THE PEAS HAVE GOT AI, JANET
[Cut to an advert ending screen, with the bag of peas and the slogan:
AI PEAS: Just 'Peas' for god's sake buy the AI peas.
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SUPERB and angrily unvarnished response, by former BBC chairman, Lord Patten.
"I don't think that we should allow ourselves to be bullied into thinking that the BBC is only any good, if it reflects the prejudice of the last person who shouted at it." ~AA
"I don't think that we should allow ourselves to be bullied into thinking that the BBC is only any good, if it reflects the prejudice of the last person who shouted at it." ~AA
November 10, 2025 at 6:40 PM
SUPERB and angrily unvarnished response, by former BBC chairman, Lord Patten.
"I don't think that we should allow ourselves to be bullied into thinking that the BBC is only any good, if it reflects the prejudice of the last person who shouted at it." ~AA
"I don't think that we should allow ourselves to be bullied into thinking that the BBC is only any good, if it reflects the prejudice of the last person who shouted at it." ~AA
In the current 'crisis' I think of two women: Lady Brenda Hale and Kirsty Wark.
November 10, 2025 at 7:16 PM
In the current 'crisis' I think of two women: Lady Brenda Hale and Kirsty Wark.
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Billie Piper announced as the new BBC Director General but we've got to wait until next Christmas to find out why.
November 9, 2025 at 6:42 PM
Billie Piper announced as the new BBC Director General but we've got to wait until next Christmas to find out why.
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Here's another bit of conventional wisdom Zohran completely blew away: His speech was at well above a 10th-grade level. It was complex, erudite, punctuated by deep and fluent references. You don't have to condescend to voters with baby talk! Part of re-establishing norms is speaking like an adult.
November 5, 2025 at 5:14 AM
Here's another bit of conventional wisdom Zohran completely blew away: His speech was at well above a 10th-grade level. It was complex, erudite, punctuated by deep and fluent references. You don't have to condescend to voters with baby talk! Part of re-establishing norms is speaking like an adult.
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X is a cesspit led by an unhinged billionaire who is desperately trying to stir up civil war in Britain.
Nobody with any sense or decency should be there.
No organisations, government departments, or politicians should be there.
Everyone who is, is enabling this monster.
Nobody with any sense or decency should be there.
No organisations, government departments, or politicians should be there.
Everyone who is, is enabling this monster.
October 29, 2025 at 8:55 AM
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Can we please just fucking stop debating whether blatantly horrible racist things are racist or not? Everyone knows they’re racist, even the nasty arseholes who say them. If you need to fill your 24/7 channels, stick on some cartoons or something. People are getting hurt by this culture of evil.
October 28, 2025 at 11:38 AM
Can we please just fucking stop debating whether blatantly horrible racist things are racist or not? Everyone knows they’re racist, even the nasty arseholes who say them. If you need to fill your 24/7 channels, stick on some cartoons or something. People are getting hurt by this culture of evil.
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Nathan Gill will be sentenced on 21st November for 8 charges of taking Russian Bribes.
It’s essential that the European Parliament carries out an investigation in to UKIP, Brexit Party and Reform UK and their connection to Russia.
Investigation now!
#InvestigateReformUK #ReformRussianBribes
It’s essential that the European Parliament carries out an investigation in to UKIP, Brexit Party and Reform UK and their connection to Russia.
Investigation now!
#InvestigateReformUK #ReformRussianBribes
October 14, 2025 at 6:28 AM
Nathan Gill will be sentenced on 21st November for 8 charges of taking Russian Bribes.
It’s essential that the European Parliament carries out an investigation in to UKIP, Brexit Party and Reform UK and their connection to Russia.
Investigation now!
#InvestigateReformUK #ReformRussianBribes
It’s essential that the European Parliament carries out an investigation in to UKIP, Brexit Party and Reform UK and their connection to Russia.
Investigation now!
#InvestigateReformUK #ReformRussianBribes
I received my Xm*s cards very promptly from @gailmyerscough.co.uk today. Fab designs and excellent quality, as always. I recommend. Thanks, Gail!
October 4, 2025 at 4:30 PM
I received my Xm*s cards very promptly from @gailmyerscough.co.uk today. Fab designs and excellent quality, as always. I recommend. Thanks, Gail!
I've lived in England for 21 years. I now despair for its future. I currently live next door to a synagogue. I feel very, very sad today.
October 2, 2025 at 11:25 AM
I've lived in England for 21 years. I now despair for its future. I currently live next door to a synagogue. I feel very, very sad today.
I recommend this documentary: www.itv.com/watch/vanish... Extraordinary footage and oral testimony about this shameful event, presented intelligently and sensitively. #CofiwchDryweryn
#TeletextArt inspired by last night's 'Vanished Wales' documentary on ITV Wales:
www.itv.com/watch/vanish...
Context: the village and community of Capel Celyn in North Wales was infamously wiped out when the Tryweryn valley was flooded to build a reservoir to provide water for Liverpool in 1965.
www.itv.com/watch/vanish...
Context: the village and community of Capel Celyn in North Wales was infamously wiped out when the Tryweryn valley was flooded to build a reservoir to provide water for Liverpool in 1965.
September 23, 2025 at 9:23 AM
I recommend this documentary: www.itv.com/watch/vanish... Extraordinary footage and oral testimony about this shameful event, presented intelligently and sensitively. #CofiwchDryweryn
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The even more unbelievable crime fact (which I learned relatively recently) is that burglary has fallen by more than 90% since the 1990s.
Did anyone notice? Nope. Does anyone believe it? Nope. But is is true? It is!
Did anyone notice? Nope. Does anyone believe it? Nope. But is is true? It is!
Useful reminder from Peter Kellner on the problems we refuse to acknowledge are getting better, and the politics of hopelessness that this breeds
open.substack.com/pub/kellnerp...
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September 23, 2025 at 6:53 AM
The even more unbelievable crime fact (which I learned relatively recently) is that burglary has fallen by more than 90% since the 1990s.
Did anyone notice? Nope. Does anyone believe it? Nope. But is is true? It is!
Did anyone notice? Nope. Does anyone believe it? Nope. But is is true? It is!
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It might feel a bit early, but I’ve had so many requests already…
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September 18, 2025 at 11:10 AM
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