Anne returned from work with the library copy of Eliot Weinberger and Octavio Paz's 19 Ways of Looking at Wang Wei. The most pointlessly aggressive book I've read in a long time. Not sure whether to love or hate it.

Nice lenticular clouds forming over Edinburgh this evening.

Now, ladies and gentlemen, do we think that these people did £88,000 worth of work to their house to justify the increase in value, or do we they want it both ways: huge arbitrary perks for homeowners without any payback for how damaging high house prices are for the economy?

Yet another reason to hate the Labour Party.

This on the St Andrews Library cracked me up

Hey Stagecoach East Scot you X60 currently going through Kirkcaldy is full of the most rancid stench. It is fucking rank.

Proud to announce my new book ‘Recovering Rawls: The Resources of Liberalism in Times of Despair’ will be coming out with Routledge next year.

Apparently 12 years ago today I was reading Kafka’s ‘Letter to my Father’ in Senate House Library, and discovered the single greatest piece of marginalia ever written.

I do kind of enjoy the idea of 'Liberation Day' being the day when all money magically disappears.

With an national average 250% increase in value in the last 25 years and zero capital gains tax on first homes, I beg to differ. In major cities, property values have increased over 600% in that time.

I wonder if anyone will mention to the King that other great “puzzle” that humans are capable of great wealth and great poverty.

Anne Boyer just walked into the kitchen and said “I just learned some shit. About planets. Did you know they’re made of pebbles.”

From Brecht

He was the best pope.