Rob Mallows

Jazz Fusion fan and reviewer for @LondonJazz. Civil servant. Runs @DeightonDossier website; operated @LDNJazzMeetup for 16+ years until 2024

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I guess I was just raised right.

[Watson @Watson_SLdn]

The Champions League was created so that the same teams (Real Madrid Barcelona Bayern etc.) could stay at the top for 30 years and more

Because of that, there are fully grown adults who can’t understand that Vojvodina and Dukla Prague were once amongst the best teams in Europe

[Empire Aesthetics @Empireaesth]

“All the Ships of the British Navy - The World’s Most Formidable Fleet” Coloured version of a poster in The Daily Telegraph showing all the ships in the Royal Navy (1938)

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Right??

[(((Dan Hodges))) @DPJHodges]

Is there a way broadcasters could introduce a Red Button "Retro Option" of World Cup coverage going forward. Slightly dodgy picture. Commentary that sounds a bit underwater. It's a big part of what used to make these major tournaments seem so special.

[Cathy Young 🇺🇸🇺🇦🇮🇱 @CathyYoung63]

@DavidAvromBell Good piece! Re portraying the Soviet Union as "the aggressor" - if anything I think conventional history tends to downplay the extent to which the USSR was the co-aggressor early in WWII (the invasion of Poland). How many people know about the joint German-Soviet victory parade?

[Jmy @JmyLss]

“A civilization is not destroyed by wicked men; it is destroyed by weak men who cannot defend what is good.”

— G. K. Chesterton

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Glad I seen this.

[Jamie Bryson @JamieBrysonLLB]

We are all Hearts fans today.

Everyone passionate about sport, who believes in winning on merit without cheating, will be hoping today that the cheaters don’t prevail.

Either way, Hearts are the true champions. The world knows it.

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War.

[The Knowledge Archivist @KnowledgeArchiv]

“If I had asked people what they wanted, they would have said faster horses”

— Henry Ford

[The Ways of A Gentleman @Gentleman_Ways]

“Show me a family of readers, and I will show you the people who move the world.”

-Napoleon Bonaparte

[ThinkingWest @thinkingwest]

William Blake was making 80’s metal album cover art way back in the 1700s.

[Rob Mallows @RobMallows]

Positively tingling with anticipation about @hoyer_kat new book, which I've just received

1933-45 in Germany only makes sense when you understand 1919-33

I'm sure this will throw up plenty of surprises

#Weimar

[Atlas Press @realAtlasPress]

Karl Popper, he was right

[No Context Cats @nocontextscats]

Cat still in original package

[The Knowledge Archivist @KnowledgeArchiv]

"Beauty is an ultimate value—something that we pursue for its own sake, and for the pursuit of which no further reason need be given. Beauty should therefore be compared to truth and goodness, one member of a trio of ultimate values which justify our rational inclinations."

[The Ways of A Gentleman @Gentleman_Ways]

“Beauty matters. It is not just a subjective thing but a universal need of human beings. If we ignore this need we find ourselves in a spiritual desert.”

-Roger Scruton

[Seneca the Younger @SenecaQuote]

Seneca wrote this centuries ago—yet it still cuts deeper than most things written today.

[ZUBY: @ZubyMusic]

The answers to many modern problems are simple but politically incorrect.

So instead of solving anything, everybody pretends they don't know what's going on, and spend years misdiagnosing the issue, talking in circles, and wasting time.