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Feb 13 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
Such a BS story. This is already the law. And there's no evidence that schools don't follow it apart from one anecdote.
It's like the "we'll ban mobile phones" nonsense from last year. Bashing schools for stuff they already do, for a cheap headline, rather than dealing with any real problems.
Another good example of my law of education news stories.
A lot of Tories do genuinely seem to believe that schools are turning the young against them. A more straightforward explanation might be a policy agenda that focuses almost entirely on placating older homeowners.

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Feb 12
Great piece by @duncanrobinson on "Unpopulism" - the belief amongst politicians, particularly on the right, that their causes are populist when they are not. economist.com/britain/2022/0…
@duncanrobinson As I regularly point out, parties on the right are collectively polling lower than at any point since the early days of Blair. We are most definitely not a rainy fascist island.
Part of the reason for unpopulism is that activists on the left reinforce the idea these views are popular, through constantly overweighting the impact on ordinary voters of right-wing media (and also buying into stereotypes of ignorant old white guys in the red wall).
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Feb 6
It's probably worth a brief thread explaining how this could have happened without anyone breaking any of the rules or doing any cheating. (I.e. why it's really the Govt's fault not the schools).
Last year schools were told to award grades themselves. There was a vast array of options available to set these grades. They could use their own exams, or old ones, or class work. They could allow retakes. It was wide open.
Exam boards were told to quality assure this by sampling evidence from a range of schools. They could use data on whether schools were well above previous years to decide on their sampling. But they couldn't automatically reduce grades if the school could provide evidence.
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Feb 5
Absolutely terrible ideas to have MPs as Chief of Staff and Director of Policy. I don't imagine anyone else will do it.
These are full time 16 hour a day roles. MPs have Parliamentary and constituency duties as well as their political allegiances + interests; and can't work with officials in the same way.
Two possibilities here. A) no one else would do it; b) this is a quid pro quo from the Cabinet to continue support. Barclay is known to be close to Sunak.
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Feb 4
The Carrie stuff is interesting because she is heavily involved but can't speak publicly (and is only heavily involved because Johnson has set things up that way - ultimately it's his responsibility).
The absence of any kind of formal role for a PM's spouse means we don't have any mechanisms for talking about the spouse's interests openly whereas e.g. US has a structured First Lady/Gentleman role.
By "Carrie Stuff" I'm referring to the Mail front page and Ashcroft's book etc...
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Feb 4
When you think about it it's actually pretty conscientious to have an official photographer record your crimes. Good to see transparency in action.
The Save Big Dog group can have that one for free. Best if they put into their own words.
Tory MPs definitely putting in letters now. "A cake is one thing but Estrella? Totally unacceptable."
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Feb 4
Sad to see the usual suspects parade this paper (written by people who've always opposed lockdowns). It is definitionally a mess (according to the definition they use we're still in a lockdown). Ignores lags. Systematically excludes studies. Etc...
You don't need to take my word for it sciencemediacentre.org/expert-reactio…
The problem with all these papers is it's pretty much impossible to measure the impact of interventions which looked different in different countries; came in at different times, incl occasions when too late to make a difference, and link in complex ways to voluntary behaviours.
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