Jon Wilson
@jonewilson.bsky.social
Historian of South Asia and other places, write about politics, in university management, optimist. https://www.kcl.ac.uk/people/jon-wilson
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Means-testing the winter fuel allowance is, I'm sorry, a simple test of seriousness for the Conservative party. If you cannot bring yourself to restrict this single benefit to pensioners I don't want to hear about how you are ever going to lower taxes at this point.
Badenoch to call Labour policies ‘vandalism’ in firebrand speech
Conservative leader will single out chancellor Rachel Reeves in criticism of government
www.ft.com
January 15, 2025 at 11:08 PM
Means-testing the winter fuel allowance is, I'm sorry, a simple test of seriousness for the Conservative party. If you cannot bring yourself to restrict this single benefit to pensioners I don't want to hear about how you are ever going to lower taxes at this point.
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Visiting Bye-Fellowship for Scholars from the Global South: applications now sought from scholars with posts in the Global South, this year 2025-26 in arts and humanities only, for a one-year research fellowship at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge. www.cai.cam.ac.uk/vacancies/vi...
Visiting Bye-Fellowship for scholars from the Global South
The Opportunity
www.cai.cam.ac.uk
November 8, 2024 at 3:51 PM
Visiting Bye-Fellowship for Scholars from the Global South: applications now sought from scholars with posts in the Global South, this year 2025-26 in arts and humanities only, for a one-year research fellowship at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge. www.cai.cam.ac.uk/vacancies/vi...
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Googling Stuff: Then v Now.
December 11, 2024 at 5:15 PM
Googling Stuff: Then v Now.
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This is a book, from @itihaasnaama.bsky.social and Ornit Shani, that is most eagerly awaited. The Indian public took an active part in the process of the making of the constitution.
November 27, 2024 at 3:13 AM
This is a book, from @itihaasnaama.bsky.social and Ornit Shani, that is most eagerly awaited. The Indian public took an active part in the process of the making of the constitution.
Exactly this: www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Spending time with people in their final days showed me that we need not assisted dying, but better end-of-life care | Gordon Brown
We can and must improve on our current end-of-life options – ‘Switzerland, suicide or suffering’, says former UK prime minister Gordon Brown
www.theguardian.com
November 23, 2024 at 9:28 AM
Exactly this: www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
I find the assisted suicide debate maddening (and this from the Economist just the most maddening). There are so many flaws in the bill. But the biggest problem is that we, again, focus on the wrong thing. We should be thinking about how the poor live, not how the rich die. econ.st/4fD6Hm6
Why British MPs should vote for assisted dying
A long-awaited liberal reform is in jeopardy
econ.st
November 22, 2024 at 7:08 PM
I find the assisted suicide debate maddening (and this from the Economist just the most maddening). There are so many flaws in the bill. But the biggest problem is that we, again, focus on the wrong thing. We should be thinking about how the poor live, not how the rich die. econ.st/4fD6Hm6
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After Anthony Eden resigned as prime minister, he and his wife went on a cruise to recuperate. The cabin steward who looked after them was John Prescott.
November 21, 2024 at 8:53 AM
After Anthony Eden resigned as prime minister, he and his wife went on a cruise to recuperate. The cabin steward who looked after them was John Prescott.
Grown-up foreign policy, at last. The UK needs a good relationship with China. About two sovereign states working together in areas they can cooperate, without hysterics about either a ‘golden age’ or ‘new cold war’. www.bbc.com/news/article...
UK wants 'strong' relationship with China, says Keir Starmer - BBC News
The first in-person meeting since 2018 comes as the PM prioritises shoring up support for Ukraine.
www.bbc.com
November 18, 2024 at 3:20 PM
Grown-up foreign policy, at last. The UK needs a good relationship with China. About two sovereign states working together in areas they can cooperate, without hysterics about either a ‘golden age’ or ‘new cold war’. www.bbc.com/news/article...
Foucault question: has anyone connected MF’s 1970s critique of the obsession with sovereignty to the early C20th pluralist / solidarists critics of the same? MF seems to have forgotten Duguit
November 14, 2024 at 9:59 AM
Foucault question: has anyone connected MF’s 1970s critique of the obsession with sovereignty to the early C20th pluralist / solidarists critics of the same? MF seems to have forgotten Duguit
If there are any cyclists on here, the latest LeeVelo anti-sportive is this Sunday, the Ride of the Dropped Chips (no cost, a route but no signs, no support other than a bunch of friendly people, a pub at the end) www.strava.com/clubs/122253...
September 29, 2023 at 5:16 PM
If there are any cyclists on here, the latest LeeVelo anti-sportive is this Sunday, the Ride of the Dropped Chips (no cost, a route but no signs, no support other than a bunch of friendly people, a pub at the end) www.strava.com/clubs/122253...