Arthur Hammond

And the days are not full enough' And the days are not full enough And the nights are not full enough And life slips by like a field mouse Not shaking the grass. Ezra Pound

@RightToLifeUK Just a shame no amount of palliative care doctors proclaiming people do not suffer will alter the experience of many who have had family die.

On Channel 4, a palliative care doctor dismantles myths about assisted suicide ❌🩺

@ZackPolanski Dull populism in action. Teachers have good pay and conditions - and there you are wanting to devalue exams.

Fair play from the Mail. I said what I said.

@AshleyDalton_MP oh what's disgusting is the tactics used by the unelected Lords to block it.

Just appalled that the response to the campaign’s failure to successfully navigate the full parliamentary process including scrutiny, for their PMB is to next time fully stack the committee with yes people, and they call it democratic! news.sky.com/story/how-fox-…

@spikedonline @Docstockk Assisted dying is about freedom of choice and reducing suffering. The majority of public in favour of it are in favour for these reasons, not because they want to reduce costs.

‘Assisted death is about reducing costs, not reducing suffering. Whenever assisted death is rolled out, palliative care and hospices suffer. We are going to a very dark place.’ Kathleen Stock (@Docstockk) on the chilling economic logic of assisted dying:

@JamesMelville Says the clueless entitled liberal to his smug little echo chamber.

No child should ever be treated like this. There is absolutely no moral or ethical justification for this whatsoever.

@ZackPolanski Zack's probably too young to remember the appalling standards of teaching around the 80s... teachers turning up to classes without any plan, bunging on film strips, dicatating passages from books, not bothering to mark homework... but Ofsted.

Abolish Ofsted. theguardian.com/politics/live/…

@20th_Centurygal It's a brilliant song, and Wish You Were Here is my second favourite Pink Floyd album.. but I love the Barrett era stuff. youtube.com/watch?v=np5z_y…

Is "Comfortably Numb" Pink Floyd’s best song or do you have another song that tops it?

@NoDMsPerfavore Sandy Denny - stuff on the Fairport albums is superb.

Choosing from these, who’s your favorite female vocalist? 👇

@ChazenEliezer @Old_SchoolEddie If that did happen in comparison to now it was minimal.. most people still have 4 channel TV. But I equally agree it wasn't a golden age of productivity for most people, just more aimless channel flicking..

@Old_SchoolEddie You can do that now by deleting your accounts then tell me how slow life feels. You pre-Internet nostalgics don't quite live in reality. In the 1980's, people were complaining about cable TV and Nintendo ruining attention spans and making life feel too fast.

Would you go back to a world with zero social media if it meant life felt as slow as it did in the 80s?

@Old_SchoolEddie I had a weekend without social media and i definitely felt more present in the real world! More periods of boredom, but also actually watched some decent documentaries, read and found stuff out.. rather than just arguing the toss!

@readswithravi How old was he when he wrote this?! In my late 50s I don't feel this. More just acceptance.

This sentence by Dostoyevsky never fails to hit hard: “You sensed that you should be following a different path, a more ambitious one, you felt that you were destined for other things but you had no idea how to achieve them and in your misery you began to hate everything around you.”

@s8mb Guess it depends on the individual and your home set up.. I have my spare bedroom.. aka study, and I'm probably more productive at home than in the office. Main reason for the office is social interaction and build relationships (and my sanity) and that's important!

I’m not a “work from home” guy by any means. But I’ve done it a bit lately and it’s certainly nice to see my family during the day. I can see why it’s so popular. But, and it’s a big but, my productivity is unquestionably lower. There’s just no substitute for the office.

@mrmikeMTL 2016 Brexit vote. Not specifically about Brexit - but it was then we ended up with a buffoon as Prime Minster (BJ) and then we started the whole post-truth populist nonsense, the dominence of social media soundbites and a decline in serious journalism.

Can anyone pin-point the exact moment where everything in society just got substantially worse???

@DesertMarcus @SurfThrash Elastica probably took their sound..

@SurfThrash Sounds like Elastica.

Shop Assistants All Day Long BBC studios in Queen Margaret Drive, Glasgow, Scotland 1986

@neilgharrison @SurfThrash @girthkokowicz Sounds abit like Jesus and Mary Chain..

@SurfThrash @girthkokowicz I think they were maybe just a few months ahead of their time. Feels a bit like other bands kind of reaped the rewards of their work.

@IainDale Who is he?

How on earth does the sacking of Scott Mills become the lead item on the BBC One O'Clock news. I know the BBC loves nothing more than to obsess about itself, but is this really a bigger news story than what is going on in Iran or energy prices?

@AlphenMatthias @batcountry1980 I haven't listened to it for ages, but i don't recall thinking that ever.. side 2 has One Tree Hill and Exit on it...amazing tracks.

@batcountry1980 Well said. "The Joshua Tree" also opens with a "mammoth trilogy of epic rock", leaving the rest of the album attempting to catch-up. On the other hand, "Achtung Baby", which I consider superior, has a perfect sequencing and is enjoyable over all 60 minutes.

I am a fan of the guise adopted on Let’s Dance, and the sound Bowie shapes. He’s clearly having fun, and if anyone deserved to make some serious coin from their endeavours, it’s him. The sequencing doesn’t do the album any favours, though. It’s not that there aren’t good songs throughout. But opening with that mammoth trilogy of almighty pop gems sets a serious moonlight, sorry, momentum, that the record never quite catches up with again. Still, I do love how Bowie just decides “now I’m going to be a bright, shiny, massive unit shifting, MTV-conquering pop star” and then clicks his fingers and does it, just to show how easy he could.

@Bloke_Baz I sometimes think its similar to 'open prison'..

Having a job and living alone is such a crazy combo. You go home, shower, eat, scroll through your phone, and stay silent until you talk to someone at work the next day.

@SarahLudford yes, but probably 90% of people driving in London have no real need to.

At 75 I walk a lot in London. I do not own a car & mainly use public transport, but that includes buses & an occasional cab. Many people have disabilities & mobility challenges, cannot walk far (like my late husband after leg amputation) let alone cycle. They are being excluded.

@roryisconfused yep - saw them tonight and the music hits you hard.. takes you to another dimension..

Can’t remember where I read it, but I remember a critic describing My Bloody Valentine as the closest music has come to sounding like some transmission out of an entirely different dimension