Stuart Wilks-Heeg
@stuartwilksheeg.bsky.social
Professor of Politics, University of Liverpool.
I don't really understand why this regulatory change holds any significance at all. In practice, all of our post, 1st class and 2nd, arrives as a job lot, once per week, or twice if we are lucky.
July 10, 2025 at 6:42 AM
I don't really understand why this regulatory change holds any significance at all. In practice, all of our post, 1st class and 2nd, arrives as a job lot, once per week, or twice if we are lucky.
Enjoyed this by @martinlewis.moneysavingexpert.com on his time as Gen Sec of LSE Students' Union in the 1990s. Back then, I assumed those weekly UGMs were just normal student life, replicated at universities across the land. They really weren't! blog.moneysavingexpert.com/2025/06/bull...
July 4, 2025 at 7:31 AM
Enjoyed this by @martinlewis.moneysavingexpert.com on his time as Gen Sec of LSE Students' Union in the 1990s. Back then, I assumed those weekly UGMs were just normal student life, replicated at universities across the land. They really weren't! blog.moneysavingexpert.com/2025/06/bull...
Full marks to the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic for putting Brahms and Liszt next to each other in their latest brochure. #RhymingSlang
May 28, 2025 at 3:58 PM
Full marks to the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic for putting Brahms and Liszt next to each other in their latest brochure. #RhymingSlang
More wonders of AI. There is no Yonge Street in Crosby, Merseyside. It's actually in Richmond Hill, Ontario.
April 27, 2025 at 9:29 PM
More wonders of AI. There is no Yonge Street in Crosby, Merseyside. It's actually in Richmond Hill, Ontario.
I think my radio had been infected by the Welsh Mind Virus.
April 24, 2025 at 2:03 PM
I think my radio had been infected by the Welsh Mind Virus.
The Wrekin 1920-24 is a good one, funnily enough.
April 20, 2025 at 12:50 PM
The Wrekin 1920-24 is a good one, funnily enough.
From Arwa Mahdawi's column on Trump supporters in today's Guardian. We underestimate this dynamic at our peril. We are almost certainly deeper into it in the UK than we realise. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
April 19, 2025 at 11:14 AM
From Arwa Mahdawi's column on Trump supporters in today's Guardian. We underestimate this dynamic at our peril. We are almost certainly deeper into it in the UK than we realise. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Lots of stuff like this. Repeated by politicians. We always get questions at open days about how much teaching is online only (answer = 0). Seems to be a confusion of routine recording of live, in-person lectures with Covid-era, online-only lecture recordings.
April 10, 2025 at 11:26 AM
Lots of stuff like this. Repeated by politicians. We always get questions at open days about how much teaching is online only (answer = 0). Seems to be a confusion of routine recording of live, in-person lectures with Covid-era, online-only lecture recordings.
This is the bit you all want to hear.
April 8, 2025 at 10:32 PM
This is the bit you all want to hear.
Primal Scream at the Liverpool Guild of Students tonight.
April 8, 2025 at 10:29 PM
Primal Scream at the Liverpool Guild of Students tonight.
I asked the AI search function in Google a) why Liverpool is so rich as a city and b) why it's so poor. It provides superficially plausible answers (if you know little or nothing about the topic) to both questions while simply accepting each polar opposite premise as true.
April 5, 2025 at 9:34 AM
I asked the AI search function in Google a) why Liverpool is so rich as a city and b) why it's so poor. It provides superficially plausible answers (if you know little or nothing about the topic) to both questions while simply accepting each polar opposite premise as true.
Ticket inspector on the connecting train from Preston looked at our tickets more closely than normal and then said:
"Is that a made-up place? I don't even know how to say it. I thought it was German at first".
Just wish our end destination had been Fazakerley. 🤯
"Is that a made-up place? I don't even know how to say it. I thought it was German at first".
Just wish our end destination had been Fazakerley. 🤯
April 1, 2025 at 7:27 PM
Ticket inspector on the connecting train from Preston looked at our tickets more closely than normal and then said:
"Is that a made-up place? I don't even know how to say it. I thought it was German at first".
Just wish our end destination had been Fazakerley. 🤯
"Is that a made-up place? I don't even know how to say it. I thought it was German at first".
Just wish our end destination had been Fazakerley. 🤯
Today, I learned that, having demolished Charles Rennie Mackintosh's house in the 1960s, the University of Glasgow later reconstructed the interior of it, 100 yards away, as an extension to the Hunterian Gallery. Very cool.
April 1, 2025 at 4:09 PM
Today, I learned that, having demolished Charles Rennie Mackintosh's house in the 1960s, the University of Glasgow later reconstructed the interior of it, 100 yards away, as an extension to the Hunterian Gallery. Very cool.
3 in 4 universities expected to be running deficits by September and redundancies mounting. Nobody is doing anything about it, but OfS has hired 10 extra people to catalogue how bad it all is. So there is that. www.ft.com/content/b512...
March 20, 2025 at 7:38 AM
3 in 4 universities expected to be running deficits by September and redundancies mounting. Nobody is doing anything about it, but OfS has hired 10 extra people to catalogue how bad it all is. So there is that. www.ft.com/content/b512...
Sorry, Mr Trump. You have no cards.
March 15, 2025 at 8:48 PM
Sorry, Mr Trump. You have no cards.
At Curzon Ashton FC to do football commentary for Marine FC. I'm unfortunately a day late for the Sporting Dinner with Matt Le Tissier. Such a shame. Another time maybe.
March 15, 2025 at 2:15 PM
At Curzon Ashton FC to do football commentary for Marine FC. I'm unfortunately a day late for the Sporting Dinner with Matt Le Tissier. Such a shame. Another time maybe.
"Be careful, his bowtie is really a camera".
March 7, 2025 at 7:25 PM
"Be careful, his bowtie is really a camera".
I say, I say, I say, when is a service not a service?
When it's Merseyrail.
When it's Merseyrail.
March 5, 2025 at 5:34 PM
I say, I say, I say, when is a service not a service?
When it's Merseyrail.
When it's Merseyrail.
On a trip to Spennymoor. Can't make out this sign. My eyesight must be going. Can anyone tell me what it says? 🤔
February 25, 2025 at 5:35 PM
On a trip to Spennymoor. Can't make out this sign. My eyesight must be going. Can anyone tell me what it says? 🤔
My FitBit thinks my 1pm lecture on the judiciary was a 650m swim. I am not going to ask why and will just assume instead that I have totally mastered multitasking.
February 18, 2025 at 3:52 PM
My FitBit thinks my 1pm lecture on the judiciary was a 650m swim. I am not going to ask why and will just assume instead that I have totally mastered multitasking.
Definitely not putting all their eggs in one basket in this shop.
February 1, 2025 at 9:47 PM
Definitely not putting all their eggs in one basket in this shop.
Changing trains 3 times in the dark, with tight connections at poorly lit and unfamiliar stations, is an under-rated stress.
January 31, 2025 at 6:32 PM
Changing trains 3 times in the dark, with tight connections at poorly lit and unfamiliar stations, is an under-rated stress.
I'm doing football commentary for Farsley Celtic vs Marine in a more or less empty ground and it's very odd. Like Covid lockdown football.
January 28, 2025 at 8:43 PM
I'm doing football commentary for Farsley Celtic vs Marine in a more or less empty ground and it's very odd. Like Covid lockdown football.
Well, here we are on Day 3 of Trump 2.0, learning ever more about how the USA’s famed separation of powers isn’t quite as it seems in the text books.
January 22, 2025 at 2:21 PM
Well, here we are on Day 3 of Trump 2.0, learning ever more about how the USA’s famed separation of powers isn’t quite as it seems in the text books.