Angie Hobbs
@drangiehobbs
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Professor of the Public Understanding of Philosophy
University of Sheffield
Joined October 2009
RT @NewsHour: PBS News is not going anywhere. We will continue our work without fear or favor, as we have for nearly five decades on the a….
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RT @BtSIsrael: Hundreds of Israelis are now marching in the center of Tel Aviv against the starvation of Gaza at the hands of the Israeli g….
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RT @EdwardJDavey: David Lammy must realise that we’re past the point of threatening sanctions. Every day the Government sits on its hands….
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RT @ByDonkeys: 🚨 RIGHT NOW opposite Labour Party HQ in London. We’ve turned their street into Jabaliya camp in Gaza. A genocide is happeni….
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Why Plato Matters Now forthcoming @BloomsburyBooks @BloomsContinuum 28th August. You can pre-order here:
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RT @carolecadwalla: NEW: Landmark decision on UK's failure to investigate Russian interference to be handed down tomorrow. A five-year le….
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RT @EdwardJDavey: Time and time again, the Prime Minister says the situation in Gaza is intolerable… but he keeps on tolerating it. Palest….
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RT @JamesMelville: Here is Feargal Sharkey explaining that the £100bn figure that is quoted by the government for the cost to renationalise….
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Agreed.
Expecting a different form of regulation to fix the water industry is, frankly, rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic. The govt deliberately left out the option of public ownership from the review, but that’s the only real way to get the water industry to clean up its act.
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Forthcoming 28th August in the U.K. and in October in the States. I have also recorded the audio book. And I will be discussing Plato’s thoughts on how democracy can be subverted to tyranny this Saturday in an event hosted by @PlatoAcademyCen.
🦉"Any extreme is liable to produce a violent reaction, and this holds just as true of cities, extreme anarchy yielding to ferocious oppression." .From the forthcoming “Why Plato Matters Now” by @drangiehobbs. @BloomsburyBooks .#plato #socrates #democracy
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RT @PlatoAcademyCen: 🦉"Any extreme is liable to produce a violent reaction, and this holds just as true of cities, extreme anarchy yielding….
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RT @CarolineLucas: Labour seems totally incapable of cleaning up our water. Banning bonuses is least they should do (& water companies are….
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RT @SaraWahedi: Today, the Taliban arrested dozens of women in Kabul for not wearing the full veil - raiding all public spaces. Witnesses….
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RT @rusudanjakeli: The crowd in Georgia's capital, Tbilisi, on day 234 of daily, nationwide protests. 🇬🇪. We're chanting 'until the end', m….
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RT @M_Millerman: "I have given up newspapers in exchange for Tacitus and Thucidydes, for Newton and Euclid, and I find myself much the happ….
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RT @Kasparov63: Colbert canceled: Colbert's days are numbered on CBS & the WSJ is "fake news". Trump's lawsuits and threats are just the st….
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RT @AuthorWelland: Sibelius's Violin Concerto at the @bbcproms last night - a truly world-class virtuouso performance by Lisa Batiashvili.….
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The world’s greatest classical music festival gets under way live from the Royal Albert Hall, with Vaughan Williams, Mendelssohn’s Hebrides Overture and Sibelius’s Violin Concerto.
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RT @MarkWarner: It seems DNI Gabbard is unaware that the years-long Russia investigation carried out by the Senate Intelligence Committee r….
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RT @drandrewb: “In Finland, the number of homeless people has fallen sharply. Those affected receive a small apartment & counselling with n….
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RT @juliaioffe: One of the first things Vladimir Putin did on becoming president was take over NTV, the TV channel that hosted a satirical….
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