#Gove

Dan Rebellato

DanRebellato

What Trump and the Brexiters have shown is that our democracy, our common politics, our checks and balances all rest at a pretty fundamental level on the assumption that people

Jon Worth

jonworth

It seems today is the day to play a "what does Johnson want on Brexit?" game"He wants a Deal!""No he doesn't want a Deal!"Hang on. What if he actually doesn't

Peter Foster

pmdfoster

NEW/EXC. Back in real world. The UK is nowhere close to meeting the target for 50,000 customs agents it needs for #Brexit, and the govt. "misleading" about it - haulage,

Joe Lo

joeloyo

“Dido Harding is a senior executive in the NHS” says Johnson.Actually she’s a Telecoms executive, who had a brief stint at NHS Improvement. And is now inexplicably in charge of

Robert Saunders

redhistorian

There seems to be a certain kind of columnist that no longer recognises any obligation to the "truth". Boris Johnson is, of course, the prime example: he always looks baffled

abbey steele

abbey_st

ICYMI: check out Michele D'Arcy and Marina Nistotskaya's excellent work cadastral records, state capacity & regime type.https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/gove.12206 also @anulolbapnauj & Hillel Soifer's use

KT Parker activist do-gooder 😇🧚‍♀️

lunaperla

BILLIONS of Tax-payers' £ spaffed on dubious contracts to Palantir, Faculty, Serco, Sitel, Randox, Public First, Aventis, Pestfix, Ayanda, etc.Why isn't Govt public procurement abuse + Towns Fund misallocation all

Jim Grace

mac_puck

I am not an epidemiologist.But the SIR model (Susceptible, Infectious, Recovered) of infection is actually very simple to model in a quick spreadsheet.Best fit I found was:Ro = 3 Mortality

Tes

tes

At the Fed150 event celebrating 150 years of state education the discussion starts with former education secretaries Kenneth Baker, Ed Balls and Estelle Morris. Mr Baker says the biggest failure

Brexit Bin 🇪🇺 #NotMyBrexit

BrexitBin

Thread:Aggregate AIQ's targeted fake news ads for vote.Leave (and illegally for Be.Leave) used a two step strategy. First they needed to collect your data. So they either bought it from

Nick🇬🇧🇪🇺

nicktolhurst

+UPDATE+Boris Johnson’s “Scotland policy” hit by UK govt infighting.Little remarked upon further fallout of the internecine war engulfing Downing St is Johnson’s Union strategy.In February when the “Union Unit” lost

Adam Roberts

arrroberts

A lot of gloom on my lefty-peeps timeline this morning, for obvious (UK political) reasons. But I’m more optimistic, at least medium term. I don’t see we’re facing another generation

Her Holiness Pope Mrs Trellis, the 1st

theonlywayisup

I doubt it on the basis of the fact that she shares her life with a man who looks like he covered himself with glue then ran naked through an

Matt Dean

Matt_Dean1994

My dad's shift from Thatcher to Starmer (thread)Just had a long, very interesting talk with my dad about politics and about his political history. As I've said on here before,

Maureen Fitzsimmons

mojos55

Outsourcing Brexit: £180 Million in Cabinet Office Contracts for Corporate Giants https://bylinetimes.com/2020/10/26/outsourcing-brexit-180-million-cabinet-office-contracts-corporate-giants/ Huge #Government contracts for the delivery of #

James Woodcock

JamesVWoodcock

This govt has inherited Gove’s presumption that teachers = enemy. Most teachers aren’t Conservatives. But govt translate that as enemies of education. Which means they tell, rather than ask; presume,