Philip Swallow
@philipswallow2
Hazlitt, corduroy jackets, leather elbow patches, wrong side of the history man, changing places, waiting for the barbarian while the British Museum falls down
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18-05-2023 05:38:09
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Dr Rachel Saunders Good Law Project Absolutely. The legal basis for the cases is complete crap. They do not tell the truth to the people who give them money. They do not disclose their advice on the merits. Any organisation that litigated on that basis with public money would end up with people in jail.
1./ 🧵Race Grift in our Museums. A perfect example of how museums are now misrepresenting our history is an exhibition at the Hunterian University of Glasgow. 'Curating Discomfort' aims to "dismantle white supremacy" at Scotland's oldest public museum. Here's why it's total BS. 👉 1/of 9
Journalists I am begging you. Stop saying people are “banned” when what you really mean is “subject to the exact same rules as everyone else”. For example, “no men in the women’s game.” This is no more a “ban” than saying “no adults in the under 18s”! bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…
Of course he's at University of Stirling! We're happy to correct him - can the uni pass it on? The guidance IS NOT ABOUT CLOTHES. It says that a bloke in a dress cannot go into the women's because we have eyes & can see he's a man. He's free to cross-dress without incident in the men's.
Aja gave a smart, comprehensive and impassioned answer to an wilfully naive question from David Aaronovitch. He has been playing this kind of faux-innocent game since the BBC scandal broke and if he can't bring himself to ingest and consider what Aja has said, I think we're all best
Fancy doing a PhD with me? Or with one of the other criminlogists at Uni of Reading. We have a scholarship competition open. I welcome applicants wanting to look at academic freedom, or women, crime and justice. jobs.ac.uk/job/DPJ382/phd…
In the field of mental health, it seems to me that diagnosis is often just a playback of the symptoms. You feel depressed? You’ve got “depression”. You feel anxious? You’ve got “anxiety”. You feel you have issues with your gender? You’ve got “gender dysphoria”. This makes me