Shakespeare scholar; Fellow @HallBlackfriars, Oxford; Senior advisor @Georgetown, Washington DC; New novel Hamlet and the Psychotherapist out in Jan.
Oxford, UK
Joined April 2020
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Professor Michael Scott retweeted
Don't miss the #RandomThingsTours Blog Tour for #HamletandthePsychotherapist by @MikeScottProf
Begins 20 April
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Professor Michael Scott retweeted
On October 11, @KathrynTemple55 & @MikeScottProf will launch the series & reflect on their theatrical & literary interests in relation to the series' themes. Co-sponsored by @HumanitiesGU, @GeorgetownMAEPH, @CampionOxf, & @BlackfriarsOx. RSVP: global.georgetown.edu/events… (2/2)
ALT A Literature, Art, and the Environment Event - A Bent but Beautiful World: An Introduction. October 11, 2022. 11:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. EDT. An image of a woman reading outdoors is in the background, and there are photos of the two speakers: Kathryn Temple (Georgetown University) and Michael Scott (Blackfriars Hall, Oxford).
Professor Michael Scott retweeted
I wonder if any of the candidates will address the fact the pound is currently at its lowest rate against the dollar for 37 years?
Professor Michael Scott retweeted
It's amazing how Tories who've been in Johnson's cabinet for years suddenly have the magic solution to all the things they've failed to do so far...
Professor Michael Scott retweeted
There are now 177 billionaires in the UK with a total wealth that’s grown to £710bl. Taxing their obscene individual wealth over £10ml at just 3% would raise over £76bl.
Enough to pay for NHS nurses to get a 15% rise until 2098.
Professor Michael Scott retweeted
Liz Truss’s leadership manifesto in @Telegraph says she wants to put £400bn of the government’s Covid related debt on a “longer term footing”. It might have been practical at the time the money was borrowed. But if refinanced now, the interest rate would probably be horrendous
Professor Michael Scott retweeted
The Tory leadership candidates want credit for telling Boris Johnson to go. But here's what they recently said about him.
Professor Michael Scott retweeted
The race to the bottom when the bottom has been scraped, has fallen out, is that up which the 'leadership' candidates have got their heads, is the state of the country after the debacle of Brexit & Johnson - what a ghastly mess.
A fundamental change is required.
Professor Michael Scott retweeted
Loyalty doesn't require conformity. If consensus is wrong, you have an obligation to disagree.
Weak leaders demand deference. Strong leaders welcome dissent.
Being a team player is not about sacrificing your values for a group. It’s about acting in service of the greater good.
Professor Michael Scott retweeted
This is all bonkers. The nation faces three crises: the cost of living, the NHS backlog and the Russian invasion of Ukraine. The Tory “leadership” candidates have yet to say a word on these and instead bang on about tax cuts when they voted for tax hikes only weeks ago.
Professor Michael Scott retweeted
Question I'd like all potential Conservative leaders to answer (RT if agree)
The energy price cap's predicted to rise 64% in Oct taking a typical bill to £3,244/yr; & rise again in Jan to £500/yr more than when May's help package was announced. What'll u do to avoid this & when?
Professor Michael Scott retweeted
We need a General Election. Or a revolution.
The parade of hideousness that is the 'Tory Party leadership contest' is beyond comment.
Professor Michael Scott retweeted
I need someone to explain to me why it’s always “if you can’t pay rent, buy fewer lattes and avocado toasts” and not “if you can’t pay your employees a living wage, buy fewer yachts, rockets and spacecraft”.
Explain it to me like I’m in kindergarten.
Professor Michael Scott retweeted
Nobel prize winner Sir Paul Nurse - and head of renowned Crick Institute - says UK investment in science is at the bottom of the league table of advanced nations. This is something Tory leadership contenders should address
