Part time NMR spectroscopist and quantum mechanic; full time curmudgeon and professional cynic. Heretical Globularist 🌍 All tweets are personal.
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Jonathan Jones 🦆 retweeted
If high taxes and a big welfare state worked, France would be a utopia. The citizens would be dancing on the streets… instead they are the civil unrest capital of Europe.
On the flip side, Switzerland with its low tax, small state is peaceful, calm, affluent and secure.
Good Intentions don’t matter. Good outcomes do.
“As I sip each of its mellow, luxurious, very expensive cupfuls, I realise what its purchase really signifies. First, that there’s a difference between “being proud of your heritage” and “unnecessarily repeating a profound oral trauma”.”
“Second: that, in all my years of drinking cheap instant coffee, no one thought I was being delightfully quirky and “real”. Because the biggest truth of all is that no one ever notices or cares what you do. Ever.” thetimes.com/comment/columni…
RT @BenedictSpence: London in a nutshell. Twat cyclists and useless hi-vis ‘security’ staff engaged in an futile stand-off along a run-down…
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Jonathan Jones 🦆 retweeted
The British government is like "we're coming round to take the 2p coins from the crevasses of your couch and arresting you for playing Elgar and please buy baked beans so we can pretend the lines are moving and by the way we're paving over the countryside to build data centres that will be obsolete by the time they're finished and please can you just stop thinking and moving about already, you f***ing peasant."
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Friends in and around Oxford, I am doing a book event @blackwelloxford on 17 November. Please come along: it would be great to have a decent audience! I'll be in conversation with music writer Philip Clark and will be happy to sign copies. Details here.
eventbrite.co.uk/e/alexandra…
Jonathan Jones 🦆 retweeted
Coming soon! So excited about this 😀
Here's something to be excited about: "Hoarded Gold: A Book of Old English Wisdom" by Eleanor Parker (@ClerkofOxford) will be published by Uppsala Books and available worldwide before the end of November!
Follow us (@UppsalaBooks) for more announcements about this book and other exciting new releases.
Jonathan Jones 🦆 retweeted
@grok Is it true that the voters Sky News calls Palestinians are actually Israeli Arab citizens who hold full equal voting rights, while Arabs living in Judea and Samaria were Jordanian citizens until Jordan lost the 1967 war and later revoked their citizenship?
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‘That’s £190,000 per person…’
‘We could buy them all a house!”
@NickFerrariLBC runs the numbers on the government's pledge to end rough sleeping by Christmas.
Jonathan Jones 🦆 retweeted
There's been a "European Question" for the UK since 55BC. There's never going to be a "settled resolution".
Jonathan Jones 🦆 retweeted
MP's to be banned from town centers.
Jonathan Jones 🦆 retweeted
Very much agree with Helm on decrepit infrastructure. I heard a joke that when the contractors were removing some old 132kV sections which were made superfluous by the Beauly Denny line, they said the pylons weren't holding up the cables, it was the other way round.
Jonathan Jones 🦆 retweeted
Kind Hearts and Coronets being remade without the comedy, eh? Or Alec Guinness.
Hmm.
"Legitimising the hurting of Jews, without insulting or abusing them directly, is how a lot of anti-Semitism works these days in the West." telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/10…
"Only the Pattern accurately describes the uniquely bizarre moral contortions, contradictions and flagrantly illogical arguments required for ensuring that pathways to harming Jews remain open, especially when doing so butts up against other kinds of moral thinking."
"As @DavidDeutschOxf also says, where there is sufficient evil, you will likely see the Pattern. “No demographic is exempt from it,” writes Deutsch, “and its cost is stupendous.”"
Jonathan Jones 🦆 retweeted
It takes two to tribo: Stochastic charge evolution in repeated binary collisions of acoustically levitated particles journals.aps.org/pre/abstrac…
accessibly summarised here physics.aps.org/articles/v19…
