Michael Morris
@michaelmorrisphil.bsky.social
Philosopher (emeritus prof) of language, art, and metaphysics, plus Plato and Wittgenstein. Also interested in music, visual art, photography, and walking (when fit).
Migrant crossings this year are down circa 43% vs 2025 BBC doesn’t mention this until the fifth paragraph of broadcasting Reform saying it’d launch "the largest military operation in the English Channel since World War Two" to tackle small boat arrivals Trying to divert attention from Farage..🙄
Reform UK would use Royal Navy to stop small boats
The party's home affairs spokesman Zia Yusuf says it would be the "largest military operation in the English Channel since World War Two”.
bbc.co.uk
Itford Hill from Castle Hill, Newhaven, August 2022
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The Seven Sisters from Seaford Head, July 2023
The Royal Statistical Society calls for a rethink to all the Maths cuts at the University of Sussex. You know, crazy new woke subjects like... *checks notes* Maths, one of the biggest losers in the current madness of Higher Education. rss.org.uk/news-publica...
RSS joins call to protect mathematics at the University of Sussex
rss.org.uk
Belle Tout to Cuckmere Haven, from Beachy Head, July 2023
“If more post-92 universities are pushed towards subsidiary staffing models, we risk creating a two-tier academic profession...Over time, that could further concentrate research activity in older institutions and diminish opportunities for emerging researchers elsewhere". (Diana Beech) 2/3
For Eric Ravilious's birthday, Furlongs (which Peggy Angus rented and Ravilious visited), with Beddingham Hill behind, June 2015
Looking towards High and Over from Exceat, July 2015
Looking south-west from Bostal Hill towards Newhaven, July 2023
Just one para from @jdportes.bsky.social brilliant (and beautifully written) @theguardian.com piece on Burnham and the economy. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
I heard a joke about Sappho but he nc l ne g t st
E.Saxey@esaxey.bsky.social · 3w agoI heard a joke about Procrustes but it was a bit of a stretch
Looking from beside Firle Beacon towards Glyndebourne, July 2023
Furlongs (the cottage Peggy Angus rented, where Eric Ravilious often stayed) and Mount Caburn, July 2015
Wow. The Department for Education has just published new projections which estimate that the number of pupils in state-funded schools in England will plummet by more than 9% by 2031 amid falling birth rates And yet this issue receives probably 1,000th of the coverage the immigration debate receives
