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I'm not a member of any party, and I have no political loyalties, but I've tried, as well as I can, to assess our choices between the major (English) parties. I've published my conclusions in this week's column. theguardian.com/commentisfree/…
The evil of #Antisemitism must be eliminated everywhere. Yes, Labour has been too slow and too weak on it. There have also been loads of Conservative AS scandals over the past 2 years. But the Tories face almost no media pressure to stamp it out. Why not? en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antisemit…
If you are among those who have complained about #Antisemitism in the Labour Party, but have said nothing about antisemitism in the Conservative Party, I would urge you to ask yourself this. Is it antisemitism you want to stamp out, or Labour?
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Much as I love @suzanne_moore, and while I agree about the harsh binaries of representative politics, I couldn't disagree with her conclusion more. This is a crucial election, and the life chances of many people will be determined by it. PLEASE VOTE.
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Voting alone is not enough. We need many other political tools to change the world: organisation, protest, discussion etc. But it is essential.
REGISTER, then VOTE.
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Registering is really quick and simple. You have ONE WEEK LEFT to do it. Please don't hesitate. gov.uk/register-to-vo…
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There are so many misconceptions on this issue. The capacity of rivers is generally less than 1% of the capacity of the catchment. To prevent floods, you need to slow the flow INTO rivers, and slow the flow OF rivers, above the urban pinch points, to reduce flood peaks.
Dredging does not enhance the capacity of the ctachment, but it does accelerate the flow to the towns downstream, hitting them with a wall of water. It is completely counter-productive. See: anglingtrust.net/core/core_pick…
The reason that's a weird link, by the way, is that the report was written by the Environment Agency but deleted by the government under Owen Paterson, who had an ideological commitment to dredging, and couldn't stand to see the evidence that it's a really stupid idea.
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This is what much of the catchment of the River Don, that has flooded Meadowhall, looks like. Strip-burnt and drained for grouse shooting, reducing its capacity to hold water, which flashes off the land.
There are three components to river flooding: rainfall, land surface and river morphology. When the land is stripped, drained and burnt and the rivers dredged and canalised, heavy rain becomes much more dangerous. theguardian.com/commentisfree/…
What makes this even worse is that much of the damage that is likely to have contributed to this flood has taken place in national parks. Their management is an utter disgrace.
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I’ve taken the challenge @MrsSpalding - a look through a year 10 student’s #english exercise book. If you came into my classroom and picked up a book... what would you see? #teamenglish #lifeofateacher #pedagogy
Daily low stakes quizzing of knowledge taken from the knowledge organisers. All marked by the students - demonstrating feedback in every lesson.
You’ll see that making mistakes and getting things wrong is ok. It’s how we learn. We mark accurately, correct the error and get it right next time around.
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Well, the Alt-Right made it a hate symbol.

Either this or, the media is once again falling for a 4chan hoax. People are so easy to manipulate these days. And it doesn't matter what they believe, or where they politically lean.
I thought the ADL debunked this claim last year.

This is just ridiculous now.
Ok, CNN, ADL, this was debunked last year.

This has to be a fake report.

Why are so many MSM outlets, left wing or right wing constantly falling for this BS?

This isn't helping the bitter division and hatred going around between the Left and the Right online at all.
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Thomas Piketty, president of @ecineq starts his ptesentation on the recent evolution on inequality and political attitudes
One of Piketty’s first well known papers was on social mobility and the transmission of redistributive preferences (it’s published in the QJE of 1995, look it up, it’s quite good)
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My take on #Election2019, is one that will surprise all #Canadians who will take the #time to read past this #headline. It will be a #long #series of #tweets that will be #purely #honest & straight to the #point.
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It’s Saturday night and no one will care about this thread, but superdelegates are a totally fine part of the process.
2/ When running for POTUS along a major party line, you’re not just running for the office itself, you’re also running to be the head of the party. That means that you’re going to be the boss of state chapters and the national party and every member of your party in Congress.
3/ Any nominee will set the tone for how everyone else will run, and they will need good relationships with state parties and managers of party infrastructure. This is where superdelegates come in.
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