Chris Hewson

The perfect conjunction of terrible idea, terrible tweet and horrific people in the replies.

Typically on holiday when my team scores its first home penalty for 1984 days. ⚽

Absolute state of this @policygiles.bsky.social

Or indeed, ever done. I live in a conservation area, which apparently means we just let the Victorian pavement degrade and get stolen

think this is sort of interesting as actually.....no you probably didn't need to do "more research" into it? you just had to trust the state and local authorities to know better than you when it came to vaccinating your child? not good that the internet has killed faith in institutions!

We've entered the next phase. At this rate he'll be in QAnon by September.

I still struggle to eat chicken Kiev as I associate it with the trauma of my first A-level exam. I'm literally transported back the meal the night before.

Every description of this I read makes it sound terrible, yet everyone I know who has read it raves about it.

Management: 'What do you think we should be aiming for?'
Me:

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How he actually comes across...

Just recycling far right talking points now. He wangs on about the failures of the HE system, and he's right in as much as he's exhibit A.

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Just checking in to see what stage on the Matthew Goodwin story arc we have now entered.

One thing this govt is going to need to get better at if it isn’t to face constant and effective criticism on its left flank is explaining why it needs to prioritise and justifying what it is prioritising.

I'm old enough to remember when Barcelona were perceived as the sensible half of El Clásico

I'm going to go out on a limb here, and suggest that Huddersfield Town 2023-2025 wasn't used as a pilot for this initiative

Sorry but personally if a miniature horse woke me up from anesthesia by banging out nonsense on a miniature keyboard it would send me into a liminal space between life and death from which I would never return

Meanwhile as academics we’re not actually trained to do any of this

I suspect it's harder to see the intensifying lunacy if you're on there all the time, like a frog being boiled alive

I occasionally dip into the other place for news and information, and every time I do there's a new horror awaiting me.

Not sure anyone is topping that tbh

My initial sense of this that 'governor' and 'province' give it a post apocalyptic air that is unnecessarily tin-eared

Woman attacked driver that hit, killed chicken that was crossing the road, per police A woman who stopped at an intersection to allow a chicken to cross the road allegedly attacked another driver with bear mace for killing the bird.

That's certainly a punchline
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There was some redundancy, but he broke it down into 10 principles for effective PM'ing (I paraphrase) and then imposed a timeline on it.

Ominous

Patrick Vallance trails first details of R&D missions programme - Research Professional News Scheme will “stimulate a different way of thinking about R&D” in government, says science minister

How exactly is the £500m fund for R&D on Labour govt's five missions going to work? Patrick Vallance starts to form some answers.

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There's also a strange conspiracy of silence around what is actually important, which I understand given the constrained ability of govt/funders to support everything, but it isn't very helpful and in my experience people would rather be put out of their misery.

The concept is certainly better than the execution

Have just finished Anthony Seldon's absorbing demolition job on Liz Truss's reign as PM, and this probably sums it up as well as anything in those 300+ pages.