Philip Morgan

Professor of Optometry, @OfficialUoM. President of @theiacle; Past President/current Secretary of Man Stat Soc; Past President of ISCLR. Crocs enthusiast. #safc

[Philip Morgan @philmor]

@claire_ainsley @hoffman_noa @BitebackPub @SpecCoffeeHouse Great interview. Loads of sense and positivity. Thanks.

[Philip Morgan @philmor]

So Binance and Binface are different things then?

[Philip Morgan @philmor]

Sometimes there are just too many facts.

[OptaJoe @OptaJoe]

90 - Sunderland are the first English team to score a 90th minute winning goal away from home in the UEFA Europa League since Wolves at Beşiktaş in October 2019.

Dramatic.

[David Skelton 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇺🇦 @DJSkelton]

One of biggest public policy successes of post war years. A lot of people deserve credit here. @michaelgove for leading and entrenching reforms. Blairite trailblazers like TB and Adonis. Proud of role that @Policy_Exchange played when I was there under @NeilDotObrien's leadership

[John Burn-Murdoch @jburnmurdoch]

2) England is a rare exception.

During the 2010s many other countries (including the other 3 UK nations) changed tack, experimenting with ideas like transferrable skills instead of focusing on tried-and-tested disciplines and methods. It looks like those experiments have failed.

[William Atkinson @WTMAtkinson]

The Newcastle Metro really is one of the great wonders of Western civilisation. What do you mean that England's best city has its own Tube? And that it's so aesthetically pleasing? So...yellow. So...square.

[IanHodge8 @ian_hodge8]

Today @Daley_thompson becomes the first ever GB athlete to hold a national record for fifty years. It was on Sep 5, 1976 that he scored 7905 pts in a Decathlon in Talence..he improved it eight times to 8847 pts to retain Olympic gold.. the only change since is the scoring tables

[Edward Oakenfull @EdwardOakenfull]

The last days trading for Denby Pottery, here in Amber Valley, Derbyshire. This business began in 1809. All destroyed because of successive governments obsessions with Net Zero, making us have some of the highest energy costs in the world.

[Matthew Lesh @matthewlesh]

Supermarkets are nothing short of a modern miracle.

A large Tesco Superstore carries around 40,000 product lines, sourced from over 20,000 British farmers and 70 countries, available year-round. A feat of logistics unimaginable just a few generations ago.

Yet in Britain today the supermarket is cast not as a marvel but as a villain, blamed for the very prices it has spent a century driving down.

A strong majority, 70 per cent, believe that supermarkets are making excessive profits. However, this conclusion has largely been driven by misinformation.

The public believes that supermarkets are making 32 pence for every £1 that shoppers spend. In reality, their margins are around just 3 pence per £1 spent, compared with the all-industry net margin benchmark of roughly 8.5 pence.

When you inform voters about the profits supermarkets make, public opinion shifts dramatically. The level of agreement that supermarkets are profiteering drops to 32 per cent, while disagreement rises to 44 per cent.

That represents a fall from +58 to -12 in net agreement that supermarkets are profiteering, an unusually large shift in public opinion from providing just a single piece of additional information.

My latest for @iealondon: https://t.co/Xe1DkVuRzp

[Daisy Christodoulou @daisychristo]

This is not true. You are NOT always financially better off earning more and earning more literally CAN make you worse off in monetary terms.

cc @DanNeidle

[Anthony Cox @Cox_A_R]

Saw this today in a museum.

‘Before digital communication, information had to be shared through paper signs, pinned to noticeboards.’

Surely people are aware of the concept of a notice board still? Never have I felt so old.

[FalklandsinUK @FalklandsinUK]

Fantastic to see the mighty Team Falklands all ready to go at @Glasgow_2026! 🤩

The Falkland Islands will be competing in Bowls, starting tomorrow, across the Men's, Women's and Pairs events - wishing all the team the very best of luck! 🇫🇰🤞

#Glasgow2026

[Alan Smith @AlanJLSmith]

Total government spending in the UK for the financial year 2019/20 was £889 billion.

Total government spending for 2025/26 is estimated to be £1,368 billion.

You simply can’t tax your way out of this level of spending growth.

[Philip Morgan @philmor]

@northumbriana Outstanding work from the lead/conductor fella.

[Jools @a_swift_half]

My brother, who is a 777 pilot, shared this message sent over ACARS earlier today.

😆

[Fella @FPLFella]

If you’re an England fan born in 2000, you have no idea how good you have it.

You turned 18 in 2018, and your entire adult life has just been watching England deep in tournaments. World Cup semis, Euros finals, quarter-finals... you missed decades of pure heartbreak

[Fabrizio Romano @FabrizioRomano]

😁🟡 Jude Bellingham: “My mother was telling me all the week to watch my language, my tackles, my face and my emotions so I don’t get a yellow card.”

[Michael Simmons @Simmons__]

Always worth revisiting Sowell when someone wheels out 'trickle-down' given it doesn't exist and no one has ever claimed it has.

https://t.co/PmBdzW7HY0

[David Gedge @weddingpresent]

Happy Friday! During The Wedding Present’s recent tour of North America, the band was invited to record a live set for KEXP, Seattle’s legendary radio station. You can now watch a video of this performance on the station’s YouTube channel: https://t.co/NDS1zM2szJ

[Philip Morgan @philmor]

@BristOliver Top fact!