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Reported that Richard Sharp will be the new BBC chair. Very significant in terms of the future of public media. Short thread on his background. Sharp’s late father, Lord Eric
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Can understand people being upset about Erasmus but as others have already said, in my school nobody told us this was a thing we could do. Instead, we had visits
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I’ve changed my mind on Starmer’s Brexit strategy.His logic was sound - move debate to competency where Boris is weak.But 2 days reading thru the deal it’s such a disaster
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Thread: I’m am so sick of centrists/Labour MPs/Journalists lying through their back teeth about #LabourLeaks. Labour Party staff subverted democracy, aided and abetted by Tories to remove Corbyn from power.
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I've spent my adult life in a state of contented coexistence between the very different & potentially conflictual parts of my background and identity - almost a model child of
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More leadership has been shown by football managers and players in recent times than by the actual government.And it is a coalition of kindness building.Jürgen Klopp won't talk to the
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1/ Why did the government "actively avoid" investigating Russian influence? These graphics give a glimpse into its reasons. 2/ Some more graphics suggesting why the government doesn't want to investigate
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Incredibly frustrating that at tonights Education & Children's Services committee that the Conservatives voted to block a group of Independent and Voluntary Nursery Heads coming and talking to us about
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1/ All this stuff about Starmer not breaking through misses the point. This year he had two jobs. 1st to bury the idea that labour is not fit for office
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Before the referendum I wrote that a vote to Leave would turn Britain into Argentina, with Peronist politics, a volatile currency, leading to long term relative economic decline. 1/https://www.conservativehome.com/thecolumnists/2016/06/garv
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Interesting hour of Parliament debate likely, starting now: will Holyrood declare a nature emergency? Live now: https://www.scottishparliament.tv/  it's just palpable how much SNP Ministers love processes and reports and targets
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In not too many days Brexit will be done. Kaput.The Tories will be able to proudly showcase all that they have achieved, while saving us from the greedy EU mouths.We
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Every so often the fact I take the piss out of the opposition seems to confuse people. Se here - in my very first ever wanky thread - I'll explain
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Why is Labour still behind in the polls? THREAD:Though Johnson's approval ratings have fallen since the start of lockdown (+32% in April, -1% so far in July), he still has
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British government's dithering, continually delayed response to Covid cannot be divorced from countless newspaper columns and broadcast debates pushing 'lockdown sceptic' positions and the 'Swedish model'. Again, idea th
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In many ways we misread Britain.We got Boris Johnson as prime minister not because of Brexit....but rather we got Brexit because much of the English population likes the “idea of
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