Prof Patrick McGhee

Occasional #Guardian @timeshighered #BBC columnist | #TEDx | #Psychology | #BABCP | Visiting Fellow / Scholar at Cornell, Yale, MIT 2017 | #Chess | Own Views

[Prof Patrick McGhee @ProfMcGhee]

Revealing when media say "Government" is paying for free childcare places, but that "taxpayer" is paying for unemployment benefits.

[Hugh Laurie @hughlaurie]

Thanks for your critique, Janet. We actually tried a couple of episodes where House (Hugh Laurie) (please put the brackets in the right place) gets it right first time, but they were only 6 minutes long. NBC weren’t happy. Then we tried some where House never gets it right and the patient dies. The audience wasn’t happy.

One could apply your trenchant analysis to other art forms: JS Bach wrote 30 Goldberg variations on the same chord structure; Frida Kahlo painted 50 portraits of herself; Henry Moore, what??

The point is, or was, variations on a theme; if all you see is hospital, medical blah blah, then it wasn’t meant for you.

Nonetheless, I look forward to your first novel!

[Hamish Carton @hamishcarton]

A wee plug for a project I’ve been working on, looking back at Celtic’s 2025/26 season, through the videos we put out on Celtic AM at the time.

Enjoyed putting it together — hope you’ll enjoy reliving the good and bad too.

All three parts out now 👍🏼

https://t.co/q7bMAbNEl6

[Prof Patrick McGhee @ProfMcGhee]

@hamishcarton This is first rate. Definitely recommend.

[Prof Patrick McGhee @ProfMcGhee]

Why is this leading on the BBC for 12 hours? It’s almost as if they are promoting their own interventions. https://t.co/rEZ3MIRrML

[Prof Patrick McGhee @ProfMcGhee]

I always remember this quote from Nick Hornby in Fever Pitch. #arsenal

[Prof Patrick McGhee @ProfMcGhee]

@geokoart Redemption

[Prof Patrick McGhee @ProfMcGhee]

@Rokewood Yes, Nick Hornby mentions that phenomenon in Fever Pitch.

[Prof Patrick McGhee @ProfMcGhee]

@DominikDiamond Yes there is one argument that we should keep him but another argument that we should sell him. These too opposing arguments might resolve themselves through conflict to resolution - but at a higher conceptual level. Such is the way with opposing ideas…

[Jim Daly - On Tour @jimdalycomedy]

Handful of tickets left for today's show in Chesham at 1pm.

🎟️ https://t.co/F1k4haA2en

[Prof Patrick McGhee @ProfMcGhee]

As Frank Skinner said, this song always used to make me laugh, now it only makes me cry https://t.co/z9Hfndjkig

[Prof Patrick McGhee @ProfMcGhee]

I love how when Osmand broke free at the end, Iheanacho and Forrest sprint with him like he needed support #MuscleMemory.

[Prof Patrick McGhee @ProfMcGhee]

Exhilaration today, but reverberations echo across summer. High prob of UCL; recruitment rather than recriminations; more attractive to potential managers the list of positives goes on. Surely our pusillanimous, sclerotic, cupidinous board can’t screw it up again? Can they?

[Prof Patrick McGhee @ProfMcGhee]

@PaddyG67 @BocaJrsOficial @CelticFC Damn straight.

[Prof Patrick McGhee @ProfMcGhee]

We have to note the irony that we won that game by switching temporarily to 3 at the back. You do remember 3 at the back don’t you? The thing is, 3 at the back is a tactic, not a strategy.

[Prof Patrick McGhee @ProfMcGhee]

Sign him.

[Prof Patrick McGhee @ProfMcGhee]

@WolfgangFace Couldn’t agree more, Rab.

[Prof Patrick McGhee @ProfMcGhee]

Genius tactics from MON: out and out striker with two wide runners.

[Prof Patrick McGhee @ProfMcGhee]

@DominikDiamond He also speaks fluent French. I’d love it if he swore in French and then said “pardon my French”.

[Prof Patrick McGhee @ProfMcGhee]

@SPFLWatch Very interesting perspective