Definitely keen to interview him, let's see how that goes first 😉

Planning to! EEF for sure in depth, not sure how much space I'll have for the others. I'm planning chapters by policy area and haven't decided if I'm going to say much on FE/HE rather than schools, otherwise would obvs mention TASO.

Thank you!

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Moreover, I argue that they are not just consistent with democracy but can strengthen it by clarifying the trade-offs and options we face as a society, if our democratic processes can rise to the challenge.

Do get in touch if you have thoughts or strong feels (pro or anti!)

Yes, but I would love to hear the crossover episode! Maybe a More Jam Tomorrow on Samoa or the Pacific Islands

Plus:

Got depressed about Aberdeen's economic future and politicians' false hope thanks to a @resolutionfoundation.org report

Questioned @piercepenniless.bsky.social and @will-davies.bsky.social' podcast account of why unis aren't producing intellectuals any more

Last week:

Read The Book of Guilt, and considered how morality involves recognition of others' realness.

Also had some thoughts on that Alan Lockey essay, whether politics is really post-material now, and if that's any excuse for Starmer's failure

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Maybe a better way of putting it: people spend a lot of time feeling angry or vengeful when sorrow and regret would be more apt.

Actually one of my favourite use cases, discussing a novel I really want to talk about with an LLM. Needs to be famous enough that they don't hallucinate though.

Nice