Glyn Hughes

It's Sunday, so time for one of my Nicely Abridged Books. As gloom and thunder threaten, how about a half-hour with the original Frankenstein... thehundredbooks.com/Frankenstein.h…

@keithfrankish A good moment to repeat this glorious little reappraisal of the British Empire, from one its finest historians, Jan Morris... bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0b…

In retrospect, I think, the second Elizabethan era will be seen as a time when Britain repeatedly tried and failed to become a normal European nation. It failed because it couldn't properly wake from the dream of empire. I hope it will keep trying.

@keithfrankish @keith_wilson @Helenreflects It's comparison again, Keith! We compare what we find with what we've found before, if it matches, it's good, if it doesn't, it's bad. That's it.

@keith_wilson @Helenreflects But so does human-created art!

Theologians. How's this... "We expect you to believe in God, but we don't ask you to know what God is. You discover that for yourself" @CandlerTheology @AJWTheology @LivedTheology @PTRBirmingham @UoN_CoTP

No, @BBCnews Truss isn't spending anything. We're spending everything.

RT - In today's J&M, Jesus describes the road to sainthood: jesusandmo.net/comic/latin

An anaclitic telephone call... youtu.be/d4Ya57iyRNI

I remember when @RichardJMurphy and @DavidHenigUK talked ever so cautiously and politely about UK economy and trade. Their language seems to have changed in recent years. Wonder why? Follow them.

Why, oh why, oh why, would anyone defer to this creature? I simply cannot understand. I can not understand.

@RussInCheshire Agreed.

Thanks DuckDuck and Amazon, but no...

Well, one thing's clear. All the government's Graphic Artists have left...

@ChrissieGrech Why would a gov't deliberately set out to harm its country? Well, it's what rich Russians did in the 1990s. And they bought up assets cheap, then sold them dear, and made the richest people in the world.

@carbonsaveruk @RichardJMurphy Profitable though. It made loads of billionaires in Russia in the 90s

@RichardJMurphy "Creative destruction" , this is insane. The only emergent "businesses" will be parasitic tax dodging asset strippers, they will do nothing for the economy or the people.

Yesterday was so bad that we have no choice now but think about the world we want after neoliberalism taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2022/09/0… Truss has created a far-right government intent on destruction. We have to imagine a better world if we are to survive.

I thought "I'll put the TV news on", and then found that in the online, on-demand world, I don't actually know how you do that any more.

@keithfrankish Way I also recommend 'Hitler's Table Talk', a fascinating insight into his private chats... en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hitler's_…

Reading the first volume of Volker Ullrich's biography of Adolf Hitler. It's a salutary work, which shows in detail how AH relentlessly exploited constitutional processes to achieve dictatorial power, and how mainstream parties kept underestimating the threat he posed.

@fakehistoryhunt These are made, I think, just round the corner from us by @vaillantuk

Another brochure with lovely pictures and prices, I love this kind of stuff, just to get an idea of how rare/common my water heater was.

A few years ago I bought myself an old water boiler, just for show, it's probably not safe to use, but it will look nice in my kitchen. Of course I researched it like mad and I found a few more of those fun circle head only shower thingies. So here's a very random research 🧵

@DavidHenigUK Was that a typo for 1880s?

The Conservative Party is mentally stuck on a 1980s idea of deregulation which is absolutely not relevant to the 2020s.

Business will be appalled. In particular this means they will continue to suffer regulatory uncertainty from a government that doesn't understand the link between this and trade. An appointment that will come at cost to the economy.

@philosophybites Liz studied philosophy? Presumably she was off on the day they did Logical Fallacies

Let’s hope Liz Truss never mentions that she studied a bit of Philosophy (PPE).