Harvey's brewery, Lewes, yesterday

*Gusting*!

Gutting Force 5 off Seaford, last Saturday

Mount Caburn and Ranscombe Camp, with Beddingham in the foreground, yesterday

Below Wilmington Hill, April 2019

Bodiam castle, April 2021

Chart showing earnings gap 10 years after graduation, associated with having been in deep poverty at age 16, adjusted for demographic and university characteristics, and further adjusted for work characteristics: England

Child poverty isn't just bad, it results in an enduring earnings gap.

The pay gap between graduates who grew up in poverty and those who didn't persists even between when they go to the same university, get the same degree and work for the same firm ⤵️

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This is happening in less than two weeks time! A must for all #Wollstonecraft fans, or #Wollstoncurious people who happen to be in London.

Looking west from the Caburn ridge, April 2015

Looking west towards the Glyndebourne ridge, April 2020

Hope Gap, April 2017

Berwick Rectory and church, April 2022

Frank Furedi, Matt Goodwin, Rod Dreher, The Hungarian Conservative, Nigel Farage, J.D. Vance, Douglas Murray, we have beaten them all. Vladimir Putin, can you hear me? Vladimir Putin... your boys took a hell of a beating! Your boys took a hell of a beating!

I compare him with Bernard Williams. Both brilliant and, I think, lazy, but Williams's work opens up possibilities while Scruton's closes them down. I suspect that's not unrelated to their political views.

I broadly agree on the academic stuff: generally a clear (sometimes early) statement of a view that people find attractive, but not mostly deeply thought out. A former colleague who'd been a student at Birkbeck said he was distinctively kind and supportive to students.

How would Britain vote at the start of 2026? We take a detailed look at voting intention across multiple factors, including a new socio-economic classification

Essentially, if you feel economically secure and you are of working age, you vote Labour, and if you feel economically secure and are retired you vote Tory, and if you are economically insecure and working age you vote Green, and if you are economically insecure and retired to vote Reform:

Below Bostal Hill, April 2018

I think this may be the one:

Crispin Odey abandons £79mn libel case against the FT over sexual misconduct claims - www.ft.com/content/6966... via @FT

Near Ripe, yesterday

The Firle Beacon ridge and Beddingham Hill, April 2024

Thank you!

Seaford Head, April 2022

I'd be grateful if you added me.😊

I do still (after 35 years or so) like its style, though!

You can look at the argument if you want to. It's in section 8.6 of my The Good and the True, which should be available in institutions through OSO. Glancing at it again now, I see that it strictly depends on an assumption about causation which is very obviously open to question.

Not really. It was just about how agents can be responsible for their own actions.

(In fact I once presented my argument as an argument against Galen's view.)

I think my motivations were in that area: I wanted agents to be responsible for what they do, and I thought causal theories of action left the agent out altogether. (Even a view like Galen Strawson's, where the cause of an action is just a belief-desire pair.)

Of course the doing of an action will be a causing of something else. (The doing of a killing will be a causing of a death, e.g..)

I thought supervenience would do it, but maybe that was naive.