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I’ve published an update on the local impact of the pandemic to date, using our bank spending data. We now have six months of data, on a weekly basis, about

Next year’s A-levels are a massive headache: - do we give as many As and A*s as this year or last year? - to hit either of those, will standards

*cough*https://twitter.com/xtophercook/status/1293290050520850437 The Ofqual paper is quite wince-inducing. The data *doesn’t* allow that. ThIs puts idea that grade inflation, school level results and maintaining the distribution shape is

The Ofqual paper is quite wince-inducing. The data *doesn’t* allow that. ThIs puts idea that grade inflation, school level results and maintaining the distribution shape is more important than the

You can’t infer the correct grades at an individual level from the prior year’s distribution of grades, no matter how hard you clonk away at the abacus. Everyone in the

This is conceding the point: the advice was as @Keir_Starmer said it was. Calling Starmer "Sir Keir" when he doesn't use his title is also a bit "Lady Nugee".

Opening up questions of reparations is, might I suggest, a very bad idea for Britainhttps://twitter.com/mrharrycole/status/1246750522511699970 Could make the Commonwealth games a bit edgier.