Simon Webster-Kogen

Sociologist and Lecturer in Cultural and Media Theory @SOAS

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[Simon Webster-Kogen @websterkogen]

@simonmontefiore Tall order with a Turkish TFR approaching 1.2 children per woman.

[Eugénie Bastié @EugenieBastie]

Le contrat social entre générations est déjà fragilisé aujourd’hui alors imaginez dans trente ans quand nos enfants devront travailler jusqu’à 70 ans pour payer la retraite de gens qui se seront fait vasectomiser pour pouvoir jouer aux jeux vidéos et faire le tour du monde.

[Simon Webster-Kogen @websterkogen]

@Nexxo00 @EricLevitz You're missing the point. In the pre-modern era population growth may have been limited by high infant mortality, but few people made it past 60. The global population was small but very young! The main challenge now isn't fewer people, it's rapid ageing.

[tim abrahams @timabrahams]

The only cathedral built in France in the 20th century, Evry Cathedral by the Swiss architect Mario Botta sits in the new town to the SE of paris. It is crowned by 24 silver linden trees, symbolising the hours in the day, but also, apparently, the apostles and tribes of Israel.

[Simon Webster-Kogen @websterkogen]

@AscendedYield Enough to thwart any Reform legislation.

[Simon Webster-Kogen @websterkogen]

@ctindale Sorry if this question is a stupid one, but would this slow down warming in the Arctic?

[Gilad 🇮🇱 @gilad73]

Love this picture. Synagogues in the US stayed open 24 hours to pray for the troops on D Day.

[Simon Webster-Kogen @websterkogen]

@tyqwer16 Catastrophic

[Lord Hanson of Flint Labour Peer & Minister @RTHondavehanson]

In a corner of parliament at the far end of the Royal gallery a box lies permantly open containing sand from all five Normandy beaches -a reminder to both houses of the sacrifice & the cause of freedom fought for by brave service people on DDay June 6 th 1944. #DDay

[Simon Webster-Kogen @websterkogen]

@DastDn They hate us because of our contributions, not in spite of them.

[TheFrenchie @ML3democrats]

Remember when they said Zelensky desecrated the sanctity of the White House by not wearing a suit

[Simon Webster-Kogen @websterkogen]

@liron "Civilized" and "largely secular" aren't necessarily synonymous. Was the Soviet Union "civilized" in the sense you give to this word?

[Trevor Acorn 🔰🌹🇺🇸🌎 @trevoracorn]

Whatever we want to call this style, it’s a style we’re going to see a lot of in the coming decade.

[Simon Webster-Kogen @websterkogen]

@HenMazzig It's a brilliant graphic novel but we shouldn't forget that she and her family were wealthy communists (her grandfather was a literal prince!) whose money shielded them from the theocratic takeover they helped to cause. To my knowledge she never abjured her communist beliefs.

[Simon Webster-Kogen @websterkogen]

@BreizhLondon Coal mines and heavy industry need more labour than vineyards ==> northward internal migration.

[Simon Webster-Kogen @websterkogen]

@IdeologyTribe @CaolanReports That's not contrarianism. That's mindless conformism.

[Simon Webster-Kogen @websterkogen]

@WarMonitor3 Putin will never sue for peace.

[Simon Webster-Kogen @websterkogen]

@cupcakeharpic @halteconnerie Stfu you opportunistic hack.

[Simon Webster-Kogen @websterkogen]

@larryhagman12 @RTEsport He looks amazing.

[Simon Webster-Kogen @websterkogen]

@andyd10 Arguably political Islam's greatest failure.