Finn Conway

@Finn_Conway

GDL Student | Once a Classicist | he/him | 🇬🇧🇪🇺🔶

Bristol, England
Joined July 2012
Born 1997
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  1. Retweeted
    May 12

    The Lib Dem Foreign Affairs spokesperson is the first British-Palestinian MP and has today been leading the Parliamentary scrutiny of the UK Govs response. Instead Twitter mocks that based off of four words taken out of context and editorialised by a right wing spam account.

    🚨 | NEW: The Lib Dems have told Israel and Hamas to make peace, saying “it has to stop”
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    May 11

    Feeling weirdly broken by the voter ID stuff and the university free speech stuff. This government has nothing in the tank except open corruption and culture war bullshit, and they're still fucking winning.

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    May 11

    Quite the Queen's Speech Making it possible for the Prime minister to control when a general election takes place, making it harder for people to vote, making it harder to challenge government decisions, and making it harder for anyone to protest about any of this

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  4. May 8

    Good to see things are going well in the ward I lost by 7 votes three years ago

    Results from Holywell ward. 🗳️ Edward Mundy (Labour) and Imogen Thomas (Labour) elected.
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    May 3

    Alarming to hear that the UK government wishes to slash funding of university archaeology by 50%. Archaeological work has time and again drastically shifted our understanding of the past.

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  6. May 3

    Personally can't wait for the follow-up by STEM professors defending the closure of philosophy departments because "departments aren't free" and "we teach a bit of philosophy of science anyway so what's the issue"

    The myopia of a Philosophy department defending the closure of Classics is staggering. The bell tolls for us all.
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    May 1

    As writes: government is “pushing a vision that only Stem subjects [science, technology, engineering and mathematics] matter & degrees are only worthwhile if you move to a job paying a very high salary". We have to challenge this at source.

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  8. Retweeted
    Apr 27

    Balliol's Broad Street facade, probably in the 1890s, from a collection of early lantern glass slides of Oxford, taken by the Scottish photographer George Washington Wilson.

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    Apr 26

    Quite a day in Westminster. Something repeated by many there and on here is that issues around transparency aren’t important because the public doesn’t care. A) that’s disputable B) even if it were true it’s irrelevant. Public interest and the public interest aren’t the same.

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    Apr 26

    I have no view on what a 'man in a pub' would think, but it's a very bad trend in British politics we skip straight to the meta level argument about polling on any issue.

    Boris Johnson's biographer Andrew Gimson says the PM 'may well have' made 'tasteless' remark about allowing dead bodies to pile up but believes it will 'strengthen his reputation as a man who talks as a man in the pub would'
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    Apr 26

    I’ll tell you what’s fucked up: if Kafka’s Metamorphosis happened today, he would probably get eaten by The Economist staff.

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  12. Apr 10

    Personally I don't the nation will have sufficiently mourned until the Woolwich Ferry does another 99 donuts in memory of the Duke

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    Apr 2

    Couldn’t someone have told the authors of that report that even if it’s true that “the system is [no longer] deliberately rigged against ethnic minorities” this is still consistent with the system working as if it is rigged, which is the central claim of institutional racism?

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    Mar 30

    Excoriating piece by on the normalisation of corruption in British politics. "We live in an age when public figures are no longer held to account for their conduct, no longer feel shame or contrition, and simply brazen scandals out".

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  15. Mar 27

    Very cool, thank you for the push notification BBC!

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  16. Mar 27

    It's not called police violence unless it's from [literally anywhere else in the world], otherwise it's just sparkling common sense justice

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  17. Mar 27

    Make it make sense!

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  18. Mar 17

    That said, I'm now slightly regretting my goal for the year of reading as many "first books in series" as possible to determine which ones to continue reading ... and then choosing the series from a list of "best series" in each genre Turns out they're all worth continuing, huh

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  19. Mar 17

    Just finished Leviathan Wakes - another absolutely stellar book, and now can't wait to watch the Prime adaptation Heartily recommended to anyone who enjoys sci-fi, detective novels and political intrigue, as this kind of does... all of them at once

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    Mar 17

    Why is it that every single time a "progressive alliance" is mentioned in this country, it involves progressive parties standing down for the ONLY centre-left party in Europe that supports the electoral system that makes it necessary?

    Is it time for a progressive alliance in Hartlepool?
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