Robert Edwards
@robert2957.bsky.social
Thank you for your most interesting response
August 18, 2025 at 12:23 PM
Thank you for your most interesting response
The problem with self ID: "But in the present case I have no criterion of correctness. One would like to say: whatever is going to seem right to me is right. And that only means that here we can't talk about 'right'." Wittgenstein Philosophical Investigations 258
August 18, 2025 at 3:44 AM
The problem with self ID: "But in the present case I have no criterion of correctness. One would like to say: whatever is going to seem right to me is right. And that only means that here we can't talk about 'right'." Wittgenstein Philosophical Investigations 258
The problem with self ID: "But in the present case I have no criterion of correctness. One would like to say: whatever is going to seem right to me is right. And that only means that here we can't talk about 'right'." Wittgenstein Philosophical Investigations 258
August 18, 2025 at 3:40 AM
The problem with self ID: "But in the present case I have no criterion of correctness. One would like to say: whatever is going to seem right to me is right. And that only means that here we can't talk about 'right'." Wittgenstein Philosophical Investigations 258
This article is a brilliant satirisation of the humourless mentality one so often finds on the 'liberal' left. I don't think that I have ever seen it derided so effectively. If you are not a member already, I hope that you will join the Free Speech Union.
July 10, 2025 at 6:57 AM
This article is a brilliant satirisation of the humourless mentality one so often finds on the 'liberal' left. I don't think that I have ever seen it derided so effectively. If you are not a member already, I hope that you will join the Free Speech Union.
How many attendees support Fascism: Any right-wing, authoritarian, nationalist ideology characterized by centralized, totalitarian governance, strong regimentation of the economy and society, and repression of criticism or opposition. Wiktionary ?
February 18, 2025 at 8:35 AM
How many attendees support Fascism: Any right-wing, authoritarian, nationalist ideology characterized by centralized, totalitarian governance, strong regimentation of the economy and society, and repression of criticism or opposition. Wiktionary ?
A conclave is a secret meeting. You can see this on Livestream.
February 18, 2025 at 8:32 AM
A conclave is a secret meeting. You can see this on Livestream.
John Crace does not understand the term ‘category error’.
February 13, 2025 at 5:19 AM
John Crace does not understand the term ‘category error’.
KB is not saying anything in this passage which implies that anyone is morally to blame for anything.
February 11, 2025 at 6:17 AM
KB is not saying anything in this passage which implies that anyone is morally to blame for anything.
Having watched this interview are you satisfied that she did not say that Sir Keir Starmer could not run a bath?
February 9, 2025 at 11:53 PM
Having watched this interview are you satisfied that she did not say that Sir Keir Starmer could not run a bath?
I think that he has hit his thumb with the hammer.
February 5, 2025 at 1:02 PM
I think that he has hit his thumb with the hammer.
'Reform UK MP Lee Anderson wasted little time in criticising the length of the sentences, saying all should have been "locked up for life".'
www.express.co.uk/news/uk/2006...
www.express.co.uk/news/uk/2006...
Glasgow gang handed life sentences for 'monstrous' child sex abuse ring
DISTRESSING CONTENT WARNING: The two women and five men will all be monitored for life they were found guilty of gang-raping a child and abusing other children in a drugs den in Glasgow.
www.express.co.uk
February 5, 2025 at 12:56 PM
'Reform UK MP Lee Anderson wasted little time in criticising the length of the sentences, saying all should have been "locked up for life".'
www.express.co.uk/news/uk/2006...
www.express.co.uk/news/uk/2006...
I think that you will have to accept that the Daily Telegraph is not aligned with those you mention and has no interest in implicating only brown men. www.telegraph.co.uk/global-healt...
First global study uncovers ‘staggering scale’ of abuse and exploitation of children on the internet
Children widely exposed to pornography, grooming, extortion and solicitation through online platforms such as social media, say researchers
www.telegraph.co.uk
February 5, 2025 at 12:40 PM
I think that you will have to accept that the Daily Telegraph is not aligned with those you mention and has no interest in implicating only brown men. www.telegraph.co.uk/global-healt...
I shouldn't think that EDI officers are a particularly diverse bunch. How many are Conservatives?
February 4, 2025 at 12:09 PM
I shouldn't think that EDI officers are a particularly diverse bunch. How many are Conservatives?
What specific qualifications do you need to be an EDI officer? “EDI officer” is not a legally protected professional designation like “optometrist”.
February 4, 2025 at 7:31 AM
What specific qualifications do you need to be an EDI officer? “EDI officer” is not a legally protected professional designation like “optometrist”.
'The OBR offers a ...forecast of a 4 per cent change in GDP in [15] years time. The idea that a £2,700 bn economy can be forecast over [15] years to such a degree of accuracy is the sort of thing that gets economic modelling a diminished reputation."'
www.briefingsforbritain.co.uk/why-leaving-...
www.briefingsforbritain.co.uk/why-leaving-...
Why Leaving the EU was no big deal - Briefings For Britain
Former Treasury advisor Warwick Lightfoot argues that joining the EU made little difference to the UK economy and equally leaving it in 2021 has done little harm. The main reason is that EU competenci...
www.briefingsforbritain.co.uk
February 3, 2025 at 9:20 PM
'The OBR offers a ...forecast of a 4 per cent change in GDP in [15] years time. The idea that a £2,700 bn economy can be forecast over [15] years to such a degree of accuracy is the sort of thing that gets economic modelling a diminished reputation."'
www.briefingsforbritain.co.uk/why-leaving-...
www.briefingsforbritain.co.uk/why-leaving-...
That doesn’t answer my question.
February 3, 2025 at 5:06 PM
That doesn’t answer my question.
What decisive improvements in our economy attributable to our EEC membership had taken place by 1st January 1978 after 5 years?
February 3, 2025 at 3:21 PM
What decisive improvements in our economy attributable to our EEC membership had taken place by 1st January 1978 after 5 years?
We don't need EDI officers. At the last school I worked at there was a lack of diversity since they had no Conservative Brexiteers on the staff. Without consulting anyone they hired me {they already knew that I was one} and the lack of diversity was thus addressed.
February 3, 2025 at 12:59 PM
We don't need EDI officers. At the last school I worked at there was a lack of diversity since they had no Conservative Brexiteers on the staff. Without consulting anyone they hired me {they already knew that I was one} and the lack of diversity was thus addressed.
Sounds to me like he is like the Bangladeshi minicab driver who picked me up during the referendum campaign, saw my Vote Leave posters and said: 'You want to chuck people like me out of this country don't you?' I denied this and it turned out that he was a Brexiteer too.
February 2, 2025 at 11:01 AM
Sounds to me like he is like the Bangladeshi minicab driver who picked me up during the referendum campaign, saw my Vote Leave posters and said: 'You want to chuck people like me out of this country don't you?' I denied this and it turned out that he was a Brexiteer too.
Iab Pace says at the end: "Louks’ work may be remarkable, or it may be relatively average — only when the thesis is made available or published will one be able to judge." so he is not condemning what he has not read.
February 2, 2025 at 10:42 AM
Iab Pace says at the end: "Louks’ work may be remarkable, or it may be relatively average — only when the thesis is made available or published will one be able to judge." so he is not condemning what he has not read.
This is why I have always been against PR: it gives disproportionate influence to small groups. FPTP gives disproportionate influence to large groups, which is the lesser evil.
February 1, 2025 at 3:08 AM
This is why I have always been against PR: it gives disproportionate influence to small groups. FPTP gives disproportionate influence to large groups, which is the lesser evil.