Simon Riley, Shore Qual

Shore: qualitative researcher splashing around in the depths and the shallows of 2020s Britain. Freelance, collaboration, independent research.

[Simon Riley, Shore Qual @ShoreQual]

@StandUpForTrmp A

[Simon Riley, Shore Qual @ShoreQual]

@WilliamWhorton9 @HazelAppleyard_ @jk_rowling exactly - the important thing is not to seek some crowing of “told you so”, tempting though it is, but to actually cement the change in public mood by welcoming regretters and mind-changers.

[Andrew Munro @AndrewPMunro]

Now that Nigel Farage is under scrutiny about his own financial affairs
His latest interview tactic - lifted from The Catherine Tate Show - "how very dare you"
Bullying bluster might work with @bbclaurak but it doesn't cut the mustard with the public

[New Scientist @newscientist]

That the human mind treads a delicate line between order and disorder is a radical idea that’s gaining traction - and is changing our understanding of intelligence, consciousness and creativity https://t.co/qDNSKC09CE

[terry christian @terrychristian]

I wonder why the right were so keen to see the back of Angela Rayner

[stuart murdoch @nee_massey]

The robin is the first bird to break the quiet, after the summer moult. I found out this week (from the lady on the RSPB stall) that the robin introduces a new song for the change of season, quite a melancholy air. I recorded a bit in a Yorkshire churchyard.

[Audrey Ludwig MBE @AudreySuffolk]

I love this @SalmanRushdie quote, which is referenced in the @ProfAliceS review:
"At Cambridge University I was taught a laudable method of argument: you never personalise, but you have absolutely no respect for peoples opinions. You are never rude to the person, but you can be

[Simon Riley, Shore Qual @ShoreQual]

@HJoyceGender thank you for all you do

[Matthew Stadlen @MatthewStadlen]

Turns out the right wing hysteria about VAT on private schools was… right wing hysteria.

[Krishnan Guru-Murthy @krishgm]

Isn't this quite massive? No more bringing back cheese from France???

[J.K. Rowling @jk_rowling]

Spare a thought today for the UK employers, government departments, health boards, academic institutions and sporting bodies who've been breaking equality law to appease activist groups. So many HR manuals to pulp. So many out-of-court settlements to pay. #SupremeCourt

[Simon Riley, Shore Qual @ShoreQual]

@nee_massey London: Shepherd’s Bush Empire; the Electric in Brixton; Koko in Mornington Crescent.
Birmingham: the Institute in Digbeth.

[Simon Riley, Shore Qual @ShoreQual]

@George_D_water @FT … right up until Zelenskyy states Ukraine’s perfectly reasonable position and refuses to get railroaded by their BS

[Simon Riley, Shore Qual @ShoreQual]

FT’s gone all Trumpy … pretty weird headline

[Financial Times @FT]

Zelenskyy’s humiliation in the White House https://t.co/mcFmZKY0GH | opinion

[Simon Riley, Shore Qual @ShoreQual]

Trump, Putin and the midnight of the 21st century, by @NickCohen4 https://t.co/sPKLUBvSBT

[Simon Riley, Shore Qual @ShoreQual]

How the Bud Light Debacle Predicted America's Corporate Vibe Shift ...
Insightful as ever from former ad guy and acute cultural observer, Ian Leslie. Fascinating stuff on how corporate America misunderstood the "culture wars"
https://t.co/3KK8VT0MOM

[Private Eye Magazine @PrivateEyeNews]

Among those currying favour with Elon Musk, it has become an article of faith that the “mainstream media” ignored the UK’s grooming gangs scandal until the brave truth-tellers of X uncovered it, er, last week.

Give over. Feminist writer Julie Bindel first wrote about the disappearance of Charlene Downes in 2004, a year after the Blackpool teenager went missing. And if anyone deserves credit for bringing this story to wider attention, it’s Andrew Norfolk of the Times, who doggedly reported on cases across the north of England, starting in 2011, despite legal pressure and accusations of racism. He won Private Eye’s Paul Foot Award for investigative journalism in 2012, with the citation pointing out at the time — almost thirteen years ago — that his work “has prompted two government-ordered inquiries, a parliamentary inquiry and a new national action plan on child sexual exploitation”. Norfolk then bagged the Orwell Prize for Journalism in 2013.

Subsequent cases, including those in Rotherham, Telford, Huddersfield, Oxford and Oldham, also received widespread coverage. The news even made it to America, with the liberal New York Times running typically ponderous headlines like “Life in an English Town Where Abuse Flourished” and “Indifference to Child Rape” in 2014. That year, columnist Ross Douthat wrote that “what happened in Rotherham was rooted both in left-wing multiculturalism and in much more old-fashioned prejudices about race and sex and class”.

Full story in the new Private Eye, out now.

[Andy Murray @andy_murray]

The top 17 posts on my Twitter feed are from Elon Musk 😂 interesting algorithm he’s created

[Simon Riley, Shore Qual @ShoreQual]

The brilliant Kathleen Stock on cries of "moral panic" and what's really going on with that. Yet another thought-ending cliché.
@UnHerd https://t.co/ltGR9iR6TY

[Simon Riley, Shore Qual @ShoreQual]

Clue: the welfare of those girls may just not be his prime motivator. Taking a wild guess here.

[The New Yorker @NewYorker]

Elon Musk, the world’s richest man, has become fixated on child sexual exploitation in deindustrialized English towns—much of which took place more than a decade ago. What is he after?
https://t.co/3XBj1zcNri