Chris Lyon

Political theory, development, international politics @iddbirmingham @unibirmingham

[Chris Lyon @Chris__Lyon]

Classy.

From Gorton and Denton: see you later, Matt Goodwin. All that's happened here is that you stood for election, and more voters liked what other parties had to offer. You bussed in from your GB News show and tried your schtick and most of us here didn't like it. Bye!

[Ethan Davies @EthanDaviesMEN]

Matt Goodwin has had his say on the result, effectively conceding victory to the Greens. But he says the loss is down to “a coalition of woke progressives and islamists”

[Chris Lyon @Chris__Lyon]

@NewLeftEViews @adam_tooze "Realistic idealism" is the only sane position for almost anyone imo.

The problem with vulgar realism is philosophically classic: it disrespects Hume's law, trying to derive "oughts" from "is's", prescriptions from descriptions.

(Or perhaps even pretending it has no "oughts".)

[Chris Lyon @Chris__Lyon]

Four trivially obvious sentences, followed by a fifth that is a total non-sequitur leap, smuggling the assumption that "meaning" could only ever be externally conferred, rather than intersubjectively constructed.

Can't stand this kind of scientistic bullshit (and I love science)

[Mathonymics @Mathonymics]

“As far as we can tell from a purely scientific viewpoint, human life has absolutely no meaning. Humans are the outcome of blind evolutionary processes that operate without goal or purpose. Our actions are not part of some divine cosmic plan, and if planet earth were to blow up tomorrow morning, the universe would probably keep going about its business as usual. As far as we can tell at this point, human subjectivity would not be missed. Hence any meaning that people inscribe to their lives is just a delusion.”

― Yuval Noah Harari in "Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind"

[Development Studies Association @devcomms]

On 29 April, in partnership with the @iddbirmingham, we will continue with a conversation on UK aid under Labour.

This discussion will include: @TBartonUK, @romilly_bond and @Chris__Lyon, and moderated by @profdavidhudson.

Register for the event here: https://t.co/6vGCjPrjSa

[Chris Lyon @Chris__Lyon]

@deborahsmonte @Fromagehomme Apologies, I'm very rarely on twitter at the moment, but thanks so much Deborah, it was fascinating, I learned a lot!

[International Development Department @iddbirmingham]

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[Chris Lyon @Chris__Lyon]

@rnishimura Very nice!

[Chris Lyon @Chris__Lyon]

@rnishimura Couple of years ago finally came across de Finetti like

[Chris Lyon @Chris__Lyon]

@rnishimura Probability is epistemic not ontological.

Without wanting to sound like a smartass, this has always seemed completely obvious to me and I find it weird when people talk as if events *really have* probabilities, rather than just happening/not happening due to causes.

[Chris Lyon @Chris__Lyon]

@deborahsmonte Kkk 😆😎😌

[Chris Lyon @Chris__Lyon]

A virada chega

[Chris Lyon @Chris__Lyon]

And yet we're not all clamouring to move to the USA, interesting...

[delian @zebulgar]

my god these people are all poorer than WEST VIRGINIA

[Dr Ellie Chowns MP @EllieChowns]

The ICC arrest warrants for Netanyahu and Gallant must make the Government finally end the indefensible sale of arms to Israel.

https://t.co/ABI21a690B

[Chris Lyon @Chris__Lyon]

@Leigh_Phillips #2 seems most likely candidate, but from reading the blurb and opening of the book I can't really tell for sure. (Obviously there is an issue of style here; I'm a dullard who likes plainspoken clarity...)

[Chris Lyon @Chris__Lyon]

@Leigh_Phillips 3. "The very acts of classifying, surveying, etc. are, therefore, inherently tainted with racism and injustice *for anybody anywhere*, including us now" - would be a highly questionable normative claim; seems like a "cooties" argument. But doubtful Yusoff is saying this?...

[Petra Alderman @PetraAlderman]

Looking for a podcast to listen to over the weekend?

Look no further and tune into the #PeoplePowerPolitics pod EP23 by Thomas Carothers and @BrendanHartnett 👇

Available wherever you get your podcasts 🎧

[Chris Lyon @Chris__Lyon]

@godsandsods Think you need to check your non-buy-to-let-owner privilege, Tim. People are hurting out there

[Chris Lyon @Chris__Lyon]

A tax break for fee-charging schools is a vindictive piece of class warfare that hurts that large majority of parents and kids who can't afford high fees, by subsidising private schools and passing costs on to the public in the form of foregone state revenue.

[David Davis MP @DavidDavisMP]

The VAT on private schools is a vindictive piece of class warfare which will hurt parents who scrimp and save to pay school fees.