Paul Buddery

Public policy, organisational development, volunteering, public services. Mostly virtue signalling.

[Basho Society @BashoSociety]

summer rain passing
the scent of pine bark
returning

Basho

[Paul Buddery @buddypb]

nwbn. JJ bujikbiinn

[𝚃ｅ𝚣ｚ𝙰ｌ𝚊ｐ 👀 @TezzaLap]

@HadleyFreeman Yet they wish to make representations to the Peggie tribunal and the Supreme Court? Why not set out their completely reasonable and not at all batshit crazy claims in the newspaper of record to soften the ground for such representations?

[Morgan J. Freeman @mjfree]

THIS WINS THE DAY!!!! https://t.co/Lk2PJeFByd

[Alison Moyet @AlisonMoyet]

Songs are like old loves. You can still like them. You can believe they are worthy of love. You can wish them a happy and long life and be delighted they have friends that care for them. You just don’t want to kiss them anymore. It’s no more complicated than that.

[London Review of Books @LRB]

‘He loved to put a familiar or vulgar phrase in inverted commas, as though to show that it wouldn’t quite “do”, and italicised the simplest of words as though that would make them carry the most complex of meanings.’

Colin Burrow on Henry James:
https://t.co/RMZeHJvCBs

[George Eaton @georgeeaton]

One thing largely unnoticed in Labour’s manifesto: it will give public bodies a legal duty to reduce inequality (by enacting the socio-economic duty in the 2010 Equality Act for the first time).

[Nick Davies @NJ_Davies]

For reference, the £2.5bn annual cost of the Conservatives new national service policy is roughly twice as much as would be needed to return local authority spending on services for young people back to the level it was in 2010

[Paul Buddery @buddypb]

@KenningtonRUN Twitter handle?

[Paul Buddery @buddypb]

@BoyGeorge I was there. Insightful review. And I'm a Cheapness and Beauty fan!

[Paul Buddery @buddypb]

@ralarconoficial We're on our way 👋

[Randal Hendrickson @RandalHendrick9]

There’s something sort of sweet about this.

[Roger Luckhurst @TheProfRog]

You know, I thought there was something off about that Royal photograph

[Miffy @miffythegamer]

This is simply epic. 😆

[Paul Buddery @buddypb]

@JamieACooke How lucky was the RSA? You carried the best of its values and qualities, and were just a super colleague. I'm sure the future will be bright!

[Samantha Rose Hill @Samantharhill]

"That a beginning be made man was created."

— Augustine

The final lines from Hannah Arendt's Origins of Totalitarianism. She turned to Augustine to find the principle of natality as the ground for action.

It means: the world can always be other than it is if we decide to act.

[Josh Ritter @joshritter]

Josh Ritter & The Milk Carton Kids - The Gospel of Mary (Audio) https://t.co/Rezq4QVp82 via @YouTube

[Philosophy Matters @PhilosophyMttrs]

The History of Philosophy told through emojis

[Migration Observatory @MigObs]

The Migration Advisory Committee's annual report is out, with chapters on net migration, health and care visas, and international students

https://t.co/aHPvEwbucM

[lemn sissay OBE FRSL @lemnsissay]

A distressed deer races to his home
And a stunned and silent swan
Wild turkeys stand as still as stone
Benjamin has gone.