Thomas Holland
@tjholland.bsky.social
Heron posing for a photo (iPhone shot)
May 17, 2025 at 6:08 PM
Heron posing for a photo (iPhone shot)
Arbroath, Scotland 🏴 Pt. 2
April 8, 2025 at 4:58 PM
Arbroath, Scotland 🏴 Pt. 2
Arbroath, Scotland 🏴
April 7, 2025 at 7:09 AM
Arbroath, Scotland 🏴
100 years before Piketty, the aptly named economist and Liberal MP Leo Chiozza Money used newly available death duty data to map wealth inequality in the UK. Thought this visualisation was pretty striking
Money, Riches and Poverty (1905)
Money, Riches and Poverty (1905)
April 4, 2025 at 10:08 AM
100 years before Piketty, the aptly named economist and Liberal MP Leo Chiozza Money used newly available death duty data to map wealth inequality in the UK. Thought this visualisation was pretty striking
Money, Riches and Poverty (1905)
Money, Riches and Poverty (1905)
Introducing the new fragrance: Peasants’ Revolt, 1381
March 25, 2025 at 5:02 PM
Introducing the new fragrance: Peasants’ Revolt, 1381
The New Liberal political theorist L. T. Hobhouse predicted the early 20th c. rise of suburbia and hostility of its middle class inhabitants towards substantive tax or social reform would become politically ‘a greater burden than the slum.’
Democracy and Reaction (1904)
Democracy and Reaction (1904)
March 4, 2025 at 5:27 PM
The New Liberal political theorist L. T. Hobhouse predicted the early 20th c. rise of suburbia and hostility of its middle class inhabitants towards substantive tax or social reform would become politically ‘a greater burden than the slum.’
Democracy and Reaction (1904)
Democracy and Reaction (1904)
Check out my partner’s sculptural installation, made with ‘found materials’ as she rushed to work this morning:
‘Untitled,’ mixed media (2025)
‘Untitled,’ mixed media (2025)
February 21, 2025 at 2:23 PM
Check out my partner’s sculptural installation, made with ‘found materials’ as she rushed to work this morning:
‘Untitled,’ mixed media (2025)
‘Untitled,’ mixed media (2025)
looks totally legit…
February 18, 2025 at 4:44 PM
looks totally legit…
Egret in the mist (and up a tree for some reason)
February 9, 2025 at 7:52 PM
Egret in the mist (and up a tree for some reason)
‘Asset price inflation continues to destroy the social fabric of this country.’
There, I fixed the headline for you FT.
There, I fixed the headline for you FT.
February 7, 2025 at 10:25 AM
‘Asset price inflation continues to destroy the social fabric of this country.’
There, I fixed the headline for you FT.
There, I fixed the headline for you FT.
Keynes on the corrosive effects of the hereditary principle upon society, whether aristocratic or capitalist
January 23, 2025 at 4:43 PM
Keynes on the corrosive effects of the hereditary principle upon society, whether aristocratic or capitalist
The philosopher R. G. Collingwood thought the decline of representative democracy in Britain began as early as the 1890s . . . with the emergence of the Daily Mail . . . (Autobiography, 1939):
January 4, 2025 at 4:58 PM
The philosopher R. G. Collingwood thought the decline of representative democracy in Britain began as early as the 1890s . . . with the emergence of the Daily Mail . . . (Autobiography, 1939):
Up on the tops / Brontë country
December 22, 2024 at 3:12 PM
Up on the tops / Brontë country
J. S. Mill on John Austin’s dismal lack of productivity - finding this strangely comforting to reread at this late stage of the PhD. . . (from Mill’s Autobiography, 1873)
December 18, 2024 at 2:55 PM
J. S. Mill on John Austin’s dismal lack of productivity - finding this strangely comforting to reread at this late stage of the PhD. . . (from Mill’s Autobiography, 1873)
Telegraph readers tried their best to enjoy the Idles set last night, despite all the cathartic ‘Tory-bashing’ 😂
December 1, 2024 at 5:12 PM
Telegraph readers tried their best to enjoy the Idles set last night, despite all the cathartic ‘Tory-bashing’ 😂
John Maynard Keynes at work - from the Radical Modernity exhibition in London (paintings by Duncan Grant and Vanessa Bell)
November 22, 2024 at 9:42 PM
John Maynard Keynes at work - from the Radical Modernity exhibition in London (paintings by Duncan Grant and Vanessa Bell)
Progressive inheritance taxation was introduced by Liberal MP William Harcourt in 1894 with a top rate of only 8%. Widely preferred to income tax since it taxed unearned, not earned income. Queen Victoria denounced it, warning it would ‘cripple all landowners’ and agricultural workers
November 20, 2024 at 10:45 AM
Progressive inheritance taxation was introduced by Liberal MP William Harcourt in 1894 with a top rate of only 8%. Widely preferred to income tax since it taxed unearned, not earned income. Queen Victoria denounced it, warning it would ‘cripple all landowners’ and agricultural workers
Recent protests over inheritance tax in Britain gives me a shameless opportunity to share my article on John Stuart Mill’s views on inheritance taxation, published in the journal History of Political Thought (free access via the link below)
www.researchgate.net/publication/...
www.researchgate.net/publication/...
November 17, 2024 at 8:39 PM
Recent protests over inheritance tax in Britain gives me a shameless opportunity to share my article on John Stuart Mill’s views on inheritance taxation, published in the journal History of Political Thought (free access via the link below)
www.researchgate.net/publication/...
www.researchgate.net/publication/...
Things seen in Glasgow (not my Buckfast)
August 8, 2024 at 7:17 PM
Things seen in Glasgow (not my Buckfast)