'Anyone educated in Manchester would certainly be dull and probably vicious' (Saturday Review). On the University of Manchester's history, from my book 'Made in Manchester'. #HistoryWriters

RIP Patricia Routledge, an absolute legend.

Impossible not to like him

'How do you share a piece of information like that?' Former England rugby union captain Lewis Moody, who won the World Cup in 2003, spoke to #BBCBreakfast about telling his family he had been diagnosed with motor neurone disease. Watch the full interview on BBC iPlayer

This Leo McKinstry column about diversity in adverts is wild.

Winston Churchill obtained a doctor’s note prescribing him alcohol 'especially at mealtimes' during a trip to the US while Prohibition was in force. The quantity required was said by the doctor to be 'indefinite'.

General education should be unapologetically liberal--it should be an education that befits a free person and citizen.

Today is the Feast of St. John Henry Cardinal Newman, theologian, poet, and convert from Anglicanism, who was received into the Roman Catholic Church on this day in 1845 by Italian Passionist Blessed Dominic Barberi. Ora pro nobis

politico.eu/article/denmar… This is interesting. I co-wrote a blog on smartphone bans from the perspective of the political philosophy of childhood: publicethics.org/post/social-me…

Please stop thinking of general education as a chance to introduce students to various forms of expertise. General education is for liberal learning, pursued for its own sake, with an eye on wisdom.

For nearly 50 years Motability Foundation has given back mobility to disabled people. Founded by Lords Goodman and Sterling under the finest disability Minister we have had, Alf Morris. It uses the benefit he created to lease cars. I have never known this scheme so under ignorant attack.

NEW: Venezuelan opposition leader Maria Corina Machado awarded Nobel Peace Prize.

Literally just give it back to the catholics at this point. Close the CoE down. Sorry. Tried it, didn’t work. Had a good run or whatever

"Pseudo-scientific data are invoked to support the claim that a free market economy will automatically solve the problem of poverty." --Pope Leo XIV, Dilexi Te. Direct rebuke to those, like the Acton Institute, who boost free-market fundamentalism as compatible with the Faith.

12 Oct 1915, British nurse Edith Cavell shot. Guilty of treason for aiding 200 Allied soldiers escape from German-occupied Belgium. Had deep Christian faith. On night b4 died, said, ‘Standing as I do in view of God & eternity .. I must have no hatred or bitterness towards anyone'

Went out for a ride this morning at 6. By 6.30 I was regretting it and thinking about coming home: lots of fog , freezing toes and fingers, and poor night's sleep. But I'm glad I stuck with it. My hilliest route yet and great views.

“For Native Americans, there can be no better remedy for the theft of land than land. And for us, no lands are as spiritually significant as the national parks,” David Treuer wrote in our May 2021 cover story.⁠ theatln.tc/msu5Qw8N

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These results suggest that getting a PhD causally worsens mental health, or at least receiving psychiatric medicines. The reversal post PhD degree is particularly convincing. But the up trend among the control group is intriguing. The highly educated are in distress.

Does Robert Jenrick realise English clubs were banned from playing in any European football competitions after May 1985 for the rest of the decade, returning only in 1990/91, after Heysel disaster, as UEFA + our government felt fans couldn't be policed safely travelling away?