Alastair Horne
Academic, second class.
Publishing Lecturer at the University of Stirling. Researcher of smartphone storytelling. Author of books on Paris, London, Scotland, cemeteries, chess, & dragons. Erstwhile doer of other things. Baritone. Often mediocre. He/Him
- The eternal question; is Midland Bluebird actually running the advertised (and university-subsidised) 07:37 service today? No bus at the stop at 07:36. A bus arrived at the stop at 07:42 and has taken on passengers – is it now going to wait until 07:52 to depart (when the next service is due)?
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- I love the arrangement of this, but something about Jarvis’s performance here seems off to me: it feels not quite half-hearted, not quite unconfident, but something in that vein. (And I expect I’m in a minority of one on this.) www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Wd1...
- If the racists want cheaper beer, maybe they should make savings elsewhere – how many pints could they get by ditching their X subscriptions?
- Ronnie was last seen at the local park, insisting to tired and upset local kids that no, they couldn’t go home until he’d scored the remaining goals he needed to reach 1,000 career goals, and explaining that of course these counted as first-class goals.
- Just bought an ebook almost entirely because the translation apparently introduces an entirely new character to the original text, which seems somewhat wild.
- Just watched episode 1 of the 1980 BBC Tale of Two Cities, another Dickens of which I know next to nothing.
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- Djokovic lost; hooray.
- Reposted by Alastair HorneThis is an absolutely incredible example of someone telling on himself, because for almost all of his life Matthew Goodwin craved nothing more than exactly this. He boasted for years of being the “youngest full professor of politics”, and then applied for post after post at more prestigious unis.
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- Made myself a lunch of mushroom omelette, peas, and chips, and I should do this more often.
- “The universities minister, Jacqui Smith, also defended the government’s approach as “fair”, citing the salary premium graduates enjoy.” Painfully obvious that universities minister Jacqui Smith lacks the slightest interest in universities and university students. observer.co.uk/news/nationa...
- By this point, it seems as though @tomgauld.bsky.social has seen the syllabus for my module on digital publishing and is producing bespoke cartoons to order.
- My books cartoon for this week’s @theguardian.com
- Matt Badloss overcompensating embarrassingly for the fact that he's thoroughly establishment. Absolute teenager.
- You dont win 'em all! Reform's Matt Goodwin in Sunday Times: 'Most .. people criticising me are nerds.The last thing I want is to be at some dinner party table with Nick Robinson & Mary Beard. I'd rather shoot myself in the head'. Hang on, I'm not THAT bad!Nerds sometimes have a (thoughtful!) point.
- Watching The Mouse on the Moon. It’s rather mild, but there are occasional moments of brilliant CW, like the American and Russian scientists both accidentally giving a Hitler salutes at times of celebration, because, of course, they used to be Nazi scientists.
- I’m recreating Sunday evenings from the 80s by watching an episode of a classic serial each weekend. Finished the 1970s Hard Times last Sunday and now wondering what to follow up with this weekend…
- Could Nazi cosplayer and all-round fascist Bovino be an antisemite? If only there had been some kind of sign.
- Bovino Is Said to Have Mocked Prosecutor’s Jewish Faith on Call With Lawyers www.nytimes.com/2026/01/31/u...
- Would queuing at bars be such a bad thing?
- My bottle of drink fizzed up over my hand while I was on the Glasgow subway, and a young woman offered me one of those lemony hand wipes, which was extremely kind of her.
- I think the dates might possibly have been 1300-1550 and 1550-1700, rather than 1530?
- Update: I have just bought many more Wodehouses from Voltaire and Rousseau. Photo to follow.
- ScotRail app seems borked.
- Gender and Writing, 1879-1941 1300-1530 1530-1700 1700-1830 Latin
- 100% with this, not least because I’ve been calling him Badloss for ages.
- Deliberating over treating myself to a Remarkable Paper Pro Move…
