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James Marriott

@j-amesmarriott.bsky.social

Columnist at The Times

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James Marriott@j-amesmarriott.bsky.social · last mo.

I'm not sure if it's even worth trying ... but to correct the record. Though I don't at all claim to be underprivileged I did not get my job through informal networks. My dad was an English teacher in Newcastle and I had hardly met a real journalist before I was interviewed at The Times!

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John Peters@johnthejack.bsky.social · last mo.

Intensity US preoccupation & comically wide range of diagnoses shld lead us to conclude this is more about them than about us. As their own democracy sinks ever deeper into dysfunction, US pride demands they find someone to pity (£) www.thetimes.com/comment/colu... VG by @j-amesmarriott.bsky.social

Americans love to bash Britain. That’s their problem, not ours

It has become fashionable on the US right and left to denigrate the UK but critics should look to their own house first

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Jeremy Noel-Tod@jntod.bsky.social · 2mo ago

David Hockney, in 2021, explaining that his love of the poetry of George Herbert began when he noticed how glass is described in ‘The Elixir’ as something that you can look *on* as well as through

Hockney likes to quote a seventeenth-century verse on the subject of transparency. 'A man that looks on glass On it may stay his eye; Or if he pleaseth, through it pass And then the heav'n espy.' DH: I've always loved that poem by George Herbert. I know quite a bit of his poetry because I looked it up when I found that one. It's very good because you can look on glass. And if you do look at glass, you can't see through it, but then your eye can decide to go through it. Especially if there's dirt on the glass, you can look at that for a while, and then if you look through the glass you don't see the dirt. I love paintings of glass.
John Peters@johnthejack.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Most politicians who were driven mad in office in the past had fallen victim to fawning and flattery. With the maddening hoots and jeers of the crowd, I think we are learning that hatred can be just as disturbing as praise. (£) www.thetimes.com/comment/colu... @j-amesmarriott.bsky.social is right

First question, Andy Burnham: can you handle the hate?

Politics today is all about the extent to which the public will loathe you — even once-popular mayors can’t escape the curse

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James Marriott@j-amesmarriott.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Second picture is not me. I have not upgraded my phenotype, looksmaxxed my jaw or locked in my posture. I have no aspiration to aura farm on a generational (or frankly, any) level.

Andy Churnwell@churnwell.bsky.social · 2mo ago

While you were smoking doobies and posting nonsense, James Marriott upgraded his phenotype to Fleet Street apex alpha. Jaw looksmaxxed. Posture locked in. Cortisol annihilated. Canthal tilt optimised. Aura farming on a generational level. The hierarchy has been established.

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Bethany Elliott@bethanyaelliott.bsky.social · 2mo ago

I wrote this because oh god some of the stuff I’ve dragged my parents to and they did recently say that, on the one hand it’s lovely when your child still wants to spend time with you and isn’t drunk on vodka in a hedge. On the other… www.thedailymash.co.uk/news/lifesty...

Parents of pretentious teen wish he'd get into beer and football

THE parents of a teenager who opines on Bertolt Brecht and Brutalist buildings wish he would drink cider and vomit at bus stops like his peers.

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James Marriott@j-amesmarriott.bsky.social · 4mo ago

I wrote this about my increasing conviction that one of the defining facts of modern politics and culture is the trauma of living in the shadow of the peaceful and prosperous early 2000s, which we will look back on as history’s greatest golden age www.thetimes.com/comment/colu...

We shouldn’t look back — but we can’t help it

My generation feels envy at the conviction shared just 25 years ago that the country’s best years were ahead of us

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Juli@julijuxtaposed.bsky.social · 4mo ago

“The activists who first took up social media were rather like small children playing with loaded guns… ineptly wielding weapons much more powerful and complicated than they understood, firing with naive conviction in all directions” @j-amesmarriott.bsky.social www.thetimes.com/comment/colu...

Cancel culture was cruel — and totally erratic

Lesson from a decade of social media pile-ons is that mob rule destroys innocent lives while making others rich and famous

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John Peters@johnthejack.bsky.social · 4mo ago

This is good by @j-amesmarriott.bsky.social though not convinced universities can or should teach character (£) www.thetimes.com/article//art... The late great John Diamond once modestly claimed (paraphrase) he got a job bcs seen to be nice guy who turned up on time. Possible to go long way with tht

Don’t overlook the power of a good chap

Temperament is often underestimated as a workplace quality but in public life it often trumps brains and ambition

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