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Feb 26 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
I guess a lot of Brits are seeing Zelensky in the first time in this role of heroic war leader and don't realise he's a comedy actor by trade. He won the Presidency after appearing for 6 years as the fictional President in a TV show.
Which makes what he's doing now even more extraordinary. Like we decided to elect Hugh Grant as PM after Love Actually and then he turned about to be the heir to Churchill.
May he live through this hell and get to play himself in the film.
Oh and I forgot to mention his party has the same name as the one in the TV show - Servant of the People - it was set up by the production company.

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Feb 25
Fair to say that 48hrs after Putin began this murderous invasion things still aren't going to plan for him:

* Very slow progress in the South and East of the country. No major cities occupied.
* Kyiv is under sustained attack but no part yet occupied.
Completely agree with this assessment that there could be several reasons why it's not going to plan and we won't know for few more days
But certainly true it's damaging Russia politically:

* More sanctions put in place - though still a lot more could be done
* Cultural isolation starts - F1, UEFA, Eurovision all acting today.
* Finland + Sweden joining NATO meetings.
* More Russian celebs speak out against war.
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Feb 24
Important to recognise what are moments of extreme bravery from Russians living in a brutally repressive dictatorship.
Anyone actively protesting is immediately arrested
Some Russian celebrities are voicing opposition to war - which will likely come at high cost to their careers.
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Feb 13
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.
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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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