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@mrianleslie
May 22, 2021 • 5 tweets • 2 min read • Read on X
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New followers: subscribe to The Ruffian! It's free and it includes some politics, but not too much. In the current edition, I reflected on Mark Lawson's 2003 prediction that Boris Johnson would save the Tories...ianleslie.substack.com/p/making-and-f…
It made me think about what kind of presentational style works and what's obsolete
And why Johnson has been more successful than he has any right to be...
I think about this story a lot ianleslie.substack.com/p/making-and-f…
I don't know if you can learn this or if it has to be instinctive ianleslie.substack.com/p/making-and-f…

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Jun 17, 2024
Short🧵on one of the most under-discussed facts in British politics: Keir Starmer's age. I think it's going to have a significant effect on the politics of his first term.
He's 61 and turns 62 in September. We tend to think of him as younger than that, partly because he hasn't been around long. He became an MP nine years ago.
That makes him one of the oldest post-war PMs. And the job has become much more physically demanding since the era of Churchill and Macmillan, due to changes in the media environment etc.
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Jul 19, 2023
Last week @civic_future held a two day conference on economic growth and why Britain doesn't get enough of it. It was fascinating, depressing, and heartening all at once. Here's a 🧵of my impressions.
The first depressing bit was that we heard a lot of evidence that Britain's economy is really screwed, falling ever further behind its peers. The leading voice of doom was @s8mb, you can read his talk here.
Or you can read this by another attendee, @adwooldridge https://t.co/nQcLYBl4LDarchive.ph/iGCb5#selectio…
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Sep 20, 2022
It's remarkable that @mattyglesias thinks this (admittedly pretty big) error is the only noteworthy one in a piece which argues that people think men are stronger than women *because female sport exists*
The whole piece rests on very basic conceptual confusions. An actual expert explains why here but stuff like this shouldn't require experts to waste their time on it, because it's *obviously* stupid.
This is more like it
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Jul 12, 2022
Is there really anybody who read Badenoch's fairly bland defence of free speech and thought 'That's not nuanced enough for me! I'm voting Labour/Lib Dem'? thetimes.co.uk/article/2d5a8c…
It wasn't crass or objectionable unless you have a very strong position on this to begin with. When @hugorifkind talks about 'clodhopping into the culture war' he seems to see it from happening from one side only. When Mordaunt said 'TWAW' wasn't that clodhopping too?
Why is the term 'culture war' reserved for those who reject or question progressive norms, rather than those who construct and police them?
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Nov 3, 2021
I'm not as big a US politics nerd as some on here but this Republican win in Virginia seems...big. Biden won it by 10 points. Youngkin campaigned hard on education and 'CRT'. nytimes.com/2021/11/02/us/…
Evidence for @davidshor theory of the Dems' electoral position which is roughly a) It's worse than you think b) Many voters, including non-white voters, think the Dems have gone mad on culture/gender/race.
Dept. of Unexpected Consequences (or Excuses) nytimes.com/2021/11/02/us/… Image
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Nov 2, 2021
A few scattered thoughts on "Blair & Brown" now it's over. I really enjoyed it. It didn't tell a new story, but the story it told was deepened by the distance we've all covered since then. And they really brought the best out of the interviewees. 1/n
It was a touch hagiographical. I can't believe I'm saying this, because I am a chronic Blair propagandist. But there wasn't much daylight between the story he tells about New Labour and the doc's story. Maybe that's because it's the truth but still, it's a flaw. 2/n
Partly this is because of the sheer force of his presence. Watching it was a reminder of how compelling he was and is. Even if you came from another country/planet and didn't speak the language, you'd know immediately he was the star of the show. 3/n
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