Malcolm Quinn
@malrog.bsky.social
Professor of Cultural and Political History UAL, Honorary Professor Bentham Project UCL. Thinks about anti-aesthetics. Read a chapter of my academic work for free:
https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10096746/1/Bentham-and-the-Arts.pdf
https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10096746/1/Bentham-and-the-Arts.pdf
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Malcolm Quinn
@malrog.bsky.social
· Aug 31
'If Bentham unsettles our faith in aesthetics while appropriating aesthetic forms, if he uses his knowledge of visual culture to compare Treasury officials to automata and has his portrait built in an anatomy theatre, which aspects of utilitarian thought are being developed?'
UCL Laws 24 July 2025
UCL Laws 24 July 2025
I love those ‘your teammates are trying to reach you’ messages, because you know that it means that your teammates have just sent a message to more or less everyone on earth.
November 11, 2025 at 10:27 AM
I love those ‘your teammates are trying to reach you’ messages, because you know that it means that your teammates have just sent a message to more or less everyone on earth.
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British Society for Ethical Theory
2026 Annual Conference: Leeds (13-14 July)
www.bset.org.uk
November 11, 2025 at 9:55 AM
There will be hell to pay, says the toupee from Hell.
November 11, 2025 at 9:15 AM
There will be hell to pay, says the toupee from Hell.
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I've always felt that Johnson and Farage put self-interest over the national interest - hence their dallying with Putin and his oligarchs. But directly colluding with a foreign government to take down the BBC feels like an act of supreme treachery
November 10, 2025 at 5:50 PM
I've always felt that Johnson and Farage put self-interest over the national interest - hence their dallying with Putin and his oligarchs. But directly colluding with a foreign government to take down the BBC feels like an act of supreme treachery
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Quick thread on the BBC and the political and societal significance of recent developments:
One of the main reasons the UK has historically been so much less polarised than the US, is that Britain has a shared source of information, consumed and trusted by most people regardless of their politics.
One of the main reasons the UK has historically been so much less polarised than the US, is that Britain has a shared source of information, consumed and trusted by most people regardless of their politics.
November 10, 2025 at 1:43 PM
Quick thread on the BBC and the political and societal significance of recent developments:
One of the main reasons the UK has historically been so much less polarised than the US, is that Britain has a shared source of information, consumed and trusted by most people regardless of their politics.
One of the main reasons the UK has historically been so much less polarised than the US, is that Britain has a shared source of information, consumed and trusted by most people regardless of their politics.
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Like a set of dodgy Christmas tree lights.
Reform are the first party that (1) only work when you plug them into the polls (2) are shorted out by the polls. Product recall needed.
The Restore Trust campaign mobilisation suffered from a similar Farage paradox to the Reform canpaign in Caerphilly.
RT was defeated because it succeeds in mobilising support among a vocal minority, but looking like it could win mobilised opposition to it winning from within the latent majority
RT was defeated because it succeeds in mobilising support among a vocal minority, but looking like it could win mobilised opposition to it winning from within the latent majority
November 10, 2025 at 5:06 PM
Like a set of dodgy Christmas tree lights.
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The only thing that could destroy the BBC is its own timidity.
November 10, 2025 at 5:27 PM
The only thing that could destroy the BBC is its own timidity.
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I’m dreaming of a new DG that makes a public statement about the vital importance of the BBC standing against racism.
Davie ‘admitted he is “worried” that the BBC could be fuelling toxic culture war debates’ but decided to go ahead anyway. He needs to consider the effect this has on recent immigrants to UK in particular.
🔴BBC Accused of Pro-Reform Bias as Lib Dems Launch Campaign to End ‘Wall to Wall’ Farage Coverage
They accuse the BBC of “following Farage around like a lost puppy” and have complained to Ofcom to demand fair coverage
bylinetimes.com/2025/09/09/b...
They accuse the BBC of “following Farage around like a lost puppy” and have complained to Ofcom to demand fair coverage
bylinetimes.com/2025/09/09/b...
November 10, 2025 at 5:47 PM
I’m dreaming of a new DG that makes a public statement about the vital importance of the BBC standing against racism.
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An insight into the malaise that set in when the BBC started jumping at its own shadow.
The reaction to the Panorama edit has been nothing short of hysterical. Yes the BBC has some impartiality problems. But its biggest isn't the one you think.
New piece from me.
open.substack.com/pub/goodalla...
New piece from me.
open.substack.com/pub/goodalla...
The truth about impartiality at the BBC
And the hysteria of the current "crisis"
open.substack.com
November 10, 2025 at 8:01 PM
An insight into the malaise that set in when the BBC started jumping at its own shadow.
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I’m really looking forward to the @elotroalex.bsky.social lecture this Wednesday 12 November.
Delighted that @elotroalex.bsky.social will deliver this lecture at UAL on 12 November. He will discuss the difficulties of speaking freely under and beyond fascism, through the lens of Aimé Césaire's play about the Haitian Revolution “… Et les chiens se taisaient” (“… And The Dogs Were Silent”).
ONLINE TrAIN Open Lecture: Alex Gil
Writing Freedom Without Freedom of Expression
www.eventbrite.co.uk
November 9, 2025 at 9:54 AM
I’m really looking forward to the @elotroalex.bsky.social lecture this Wednesday 12 November.
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Cassis, Cap Lombard, 1889, by Paul Signac, French neo-impressionist artist, known for luminous coastal views, born #OTD 1863; developed pointillism with Seurat & influenced Matisse.
Kunstmuseum Den Haag
Kunstmuseum Den Haag
November 11, 2025 at 5:58 AM
Cassis, Cap Lombard, 1889, by Paul Signac, French neo-impressionist artist, known for luminous coastal views, born #OTD 1863; developed pointillism with Seurat & influenced Matisse.
Kunstmuseum Den Haag
Kunstmuseum Den Haag
An insight into the malaise that set in when the BBC started jumping at its own shadow.
The reaction to the Panorama edit has been nothing short of hysterical. Yes the BBC has some impartiality problems. But its biggest isn't the one you think.
New piece from me.
open.substack.com/pub/goodalla...
New piece from me.
open.substack.com/pub/goodalla...
The truth about impartiality at the BBC
And the hysteria of the current "crisis"
open.substack.com
November 10, 2025 at 8:01 PM
An insight into the malaise that set in when the BBC started jumping at its own shadow.
Reposted by Malcolm Quinn
Reposted by Malcolm Quinn
SUPERB and angrily unvarnished response, by former BBC chairman, Lord Patten.
"I don't think that we should allow ourselves to be bullied into thinking that the BBC is only any good, if it reflects the prejudice of the last person who shouted at it." ~AA
"I don't think that we should allow ourselves to be bullied into thinking that the BBC is only any good, if it reflects the prejudice of the last person who shouted at it." ~AA
November 10, 2025 at 6:40 PM
SUPERB and angrily unvarnished response, by former BBC chairman, Lord Patten.
"I don't think that we should allow ourselves to be bullied into thinking that the BBC is only any good, if it reflects the prejudice of the last person who shouted at it." ~AA
"I don't think that we should allow ourselves to be bullied into thinking that the BBC is only any good, if it reflects the prejudice of the last person who shouted at it." ~AA
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BREAKING NEWS: Eight Idiot Democratic Senators Vote to Rescue Trump and Screw America
November 10, 2025 at 12:28 PM
BREAKING NEWS: Eight Idiot Democratic Senators Vote to Rescue Trump and Screw America
I’m dreaming of a new DG that makes a public statement about the vital importance of the BBC standing against racism.
Davie ‘admitted he is “worried” that the BBC could be fuelling toxic culture war debates’ but decided to go ahead anyway. He needs to consider the effect this has on recent immigrants to UK in particular.
🔴BBC Accused of Pro-Reform Bias as Lib Dems Launch Campaign to End ‘Wall to Wall’ Farage Coverage
They accuse the BBC of “following Farage around like a lost puppy” and have complained to Ofcom to demand fair coverage
bylinetimes.com/2025/09/09/b...
They accuse the BBC of “following Farage around like a lost puppy” and have complained to Ofcom to demand fair coverage
bylinetimes.com/2025/09/09/b...
November 10, 2025 at 5:47 PM
I’m dreaming of a new DG that makes a public statement about the vital importance of the BBC standing against racism.
The only thing that could destroy the BBC is its own timidity.
November 10, 2025 at 5:27 PM
The only thing that could destroy the BBC is its own timidity.
Like a set of dodgy Christmas tree lights.
Reform are the first party that (1) only work when you plug them into the polls (2) are shorted out by the polls. Product recall needed.
The Restore Trust campaign mobilisation suffered from a similar Farage paradox to the Reform canpaign in Caerphilly.
RT was defeated because it succeeds in mobilising support among a vocal minority, but looking like it could win mobilised opposition to it winning from within the latent majority
RT was defeated because it succeeds in mobilising support among a vocal minority, but looking like it could win mobilised opposition to it winning from within the latent majority
November 10, 2025 at 5:06 PM
Like a set of dodgy Christmas tree lights.
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Some preliminary points:
Trump is unlikely to succeed in a claim for defamation against the BBC (on information available).
Even if he succeeded, damages for this alleged defamation would be no more than about £50k, probably less. Even the worst libels, now no more than about £100k.
£1bn? No way.
Trump is unlikely to succeed in a claim for defamation against the BBC (on information available).
Even if he succeeded, damages for this alleged defamation would be no more than about £50k, probably less. Even the worst libels, now no more than about £100k.
£1bn? No way.
November 10, 2025 at 4:53 PM
Some preliminary points:
Trump is unlikely to succeed in a claim for defamation against the BBC (on information available).
Even if he succeeded, damages for this alleged defamation would be no more than about £50k, probably less. Even the worst libels, now no more than about £100k.
£1bn? No way.
Trump is unlikely to succeed in a claim for defamation against the BBC (on information available).
Even if he succeeded, damages for this alleged defamation would be no more than about £50k, probably less. Even the worst libels, now no more than about £100k.
£1bn? No way.
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Students —as we know—adore thinking about aesthetics. and aesthetics is at the core of most problems
love that like 70% of the answer is just to rightfully treat aesthetics as core lol
November 10, 2025 at 4:10 PM
Students —as we know—adore thinking about aesthetics. and aesthetics is at the core of most problems
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the right winger who was appointed to lead the BBC in the hope of appeasing right wingers has been driven out by right wingers for not appeasing right wingers enough and the BBC has the chance to do the funniest thing ever
November 9, 2025 at 6:38 PM
the right winger who was appointed to lead the BBC in the hope of appeasing right wingers has been driven out by right wingers for not appeasing right wingers enough and the BBC has the chance to do the funniest thing ever
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