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4 Feb, 4 tweets, 1 min read
A nuanced piece about the Tebbit test 30 years later. I had a problem with the test, because I passed it, before being put out by how he made it a political question & a test of integration in that way.
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Oh dear, oh dear. A fortnight after January 20th, here comes more US Presidential Election news from the parallel alternate universe of @MaajidNawaz Image
Oh dear, oh dear. Opponents of Trump's empty, unsubstantiated electoral fantasies (that he could put to the US courts) and the fantastical conspiracies of Sidney Powell et al are now compared to the Emperor Palaptine in Star Wars! Image
Oh dear. Are we really going back to watch out for the Supreme Court intervention in the 2020 Presidential Election?!! Image
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This seems a funny idea.
GB-wide YouGov have him at 26-23 (+3) as the 13th most popular Royal. By 28-62 (-34), the GB public would not fund him from the public purse ImageImage
He got an * for most popular 3 Royals in 2018, but had 1-4% a decade ago. Ipsos-Mori very rarely ask about him.
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While ethnic minority vaccine hesitancy is an important concern, I was very disappointed by the lack of care/nuance with which the @bbcquestiontime chair seemed suggest there is an anti-vaccine norm among minorities. See attitudes evidence yesterday @NCPoliticsUK Image
Thread on evidence. Broadcasters have been careful about getting the balance right (the gap is a legit story to report). I do hope there will be an immediate editorial look at whether loose generalisations by @bbcquestiontime chair tonight got that wrong
Issue is much less @bbcquestiontime itself but whether elite 'word of mouth' may see broadcasters amplify anti-vaccine norm (why don't black prople/minorities trust vaccines?) rather than accuracy/nuance
> how can pro-vax norm widen?
> why is there a larger hesitant *minority*?
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4 Feb
It is vg to see the USA now return to its long-held commitment to contributing to refugee protection, after a rupture with that tradition under the last administration.

President Biden has both a progressive and a broadly popular set of policies on immigration.
73% of Americans support taking in refugees fleeing war & persecution. 85% of Democrats but 58% of Republicans too despite Trump's unpopular 'populism' on this. (Pew, Sept 2019) Image
Perhaps counter-intuitively, Trump's highly polarising approach has shifted US attitudes against him overall. Surprisingly it is Republican voters who became more pro-refugee (while Democrats were confirmed in their already much more strongly positive views). Image
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2 Feb
This is simply not true of ethnic minorities in Britain. Ours is often a very British story, of how we came to be here. It is why academic studies consistently find ethnic minorities have a mildly higher/stronger sense of British identity than white British.
Maybe mildly more a thing about young people. Anout tone of identity: nation + internationalism. Not about an entirely post-national cosmopolitan identity for most young adults

BSA data shows "somewhat proud" to be British > "very proud" to be British.
The story of Windrush is about 492 people who knew about their claim to be British - yet arriving in a country which did not know it's own history as they did. And 2 generations to secure again that strong claim to being British with which they had begun
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Weekly Covid attitudes memo, no 40.
- Growing concern overNHS pressures, confidence rising in vaccine rollout. .
- Self-reported compliance is up, but age-gap reopening
- British public welcomedBiden’s inauguration, mainly due to departure of Trump.
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By 60% to 35%, the public remain confident about the NHS coping, but by the narrowest margin since back at the start
The 35% who are not confident about the NHS coping is highest (41%) in London. (This is from Ipsos-Mori tracking)
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