James Ross

Classicist, quizzer, recovering pedant, news junkie, piano basher, liberal. Academic administrator. He/him 🏳️‍🌈

[James Ross @JamesOhRoss]

Phew.

Ok, what a great result.

But can we not have an Israel-or-someone-else nailbiter EVERY year??

[Nikolaj🇺🇦🇵🇸 @nikicaga]

LETS GOOOOO EUROVISION LIVES ANOTHER YEAR

Да еба майка ти Ізраелу

[James Ross @JamesOhRoss]

@nikicaga oh thank god

[James Ross @JamesOhRoss]

@nikicaga Nikolaj I’m scared

[Matthew Sweet @DrMatthewSweet]

What people forget is that the modern tradition of lying about the packaging of Easter eggs is founded on an old Pagan tradition of lying about the packaging of Easter eggs.

[Cal @wyattyhalpert]

They’re giving He-Man pronouns

[James Ross @JamesOhRoss]

Julius Caesar in 44 BC

[George @george_w18]

Literally every gov announcement ever is just this

[Alex Chalmers @chalmermagne]

This is demented.

[Yashar Ali 🐘 @yashar]

This part is just so heartbreaking:

“For my whole life, I have tried to be good, to be a good student and a good sister and a good daughter, and to protect my mother and never make her upset or angry. Now I have added a new tragedy to her life, to our family’s life, and there’s nothing I can do to stop it.”

[David Hearne, CFP™ @dontdelay]

Announced in 1993

Made law in 1995

Increases didn’t begin until 2010

Equalisation with men finally in 2018

2025. People still complaining about it

🤷‍♂️

[John Stepek @John_Stepek]

Go to uni: punched in face
Have kids: punched in face
Get promoted: punched in face
Someone who is good at incentive structures please help me, my economy is dying

[Oliver Kamm @OliverKamm]

This Waspi campaigner claims the issue isn’t intergenerational because “we’ve got children, we’ve got grandchildren”. What a staggering non sequitur. If you want to “compensate” women who had extensive notice of a rise in the state pension age, younger people will have to pay it.

[James Ross @JamesOhRoss]

Oh yes by all means protect pensioners and their triple-lock by taking yet more money from the rest of us. Because the boomers have had SUCH a hard time and we've been having it SO easy

[Politics UK @PolitlcsUK]

🚨 NEW: Rachel Reeves will use the Budget to impose a £2k-a-year limit on how much salary can go into a pension before paying National Insurance

The move will raise £2bn and hit salary sacrifice schemes

[@thetimes]

[steve richards @steverichards14]

Compare the description of Faiza Shaheen and Matthew Goodwin…it’s not deliberate bias but yet another example of how -in parts of the BBC -the brainwashers have brainwashed themselves:

[James Ross @JamesOhRoss]

what nonsense

[Henry Hill @HCH_Hill]

Imagine writing "mine is the only generation with disposable income" and thinking that this justified fiscal transfers to you.

[Oliver @OWS1892]

I love this woman (Not Vanessa).

[James Ross @JamesOhRoss]

The Free Speech Brigade strike again

[Liz Truss @trussliz]

The Chancellor of @UniofOxford, @WilliamJHague should show some mettle and expel George Abaraonye from Oxford University.

He has brought shame on Oxford and shame on Britain.

[James Ross @JamesOhRoss]

Are we supposed to be surprised by that?

[John Rentoul @JohnRentoul]

Clive Lewis the first to go over the top