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May 14 • 24 tweets • 3 min read
Tonight is a reminder of the eternal truth that #Eurovision Twitter is the best Twitter
Remember that Elon
It’s even better than election Twitter and it’s a wrench for me to say that
They managed to find an especially cloudy Italian day for these intros.
This lady doesn’t actually appear to be on the stage
I feel I’m slowly being serenaded into the cult here but I’m certainly not against it
But I suppose that’s what they’d want us to think #por #Eurovision
I’m sorry Finland but as a starting point this just doesn’t scream Eurovision Image
The Swiss taking on The Cure on a point of principle here
Whilst dressed as the 9th doctor no less
Really not convinced by this joint entry from Mordor/the Borg
Well at least no-one can say the French only enter classic chansons any more
Had no idea Norway was such a big fan of Ed Balls
God maybe one of them is Ed Balls
Nice Emmylou Harris vibes from Armenia

With the possible exception of Norway, dare we say that all these songs have actually been quite…good?
Is there a hand gesture for ‘wrap it up’
It’s already five to eleven in Helsinki
Molto bloody bene
Spain with a nice understated entry there
Spain is what you hope the club is going to be like and Norway is how the club actually always is
Top work from the Netherlands securing Cate Blanchett for this
Slava Ukraini. #Eurovision
There are just…too many songs I like. They’ve got it all wrong.
Great to see Beatlesmania has finally arrived in Vlinius.

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May 14
Glorious
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London is just magical in May
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May 14
Presenting @BBCPM at 1700

On today’s show

🇫🇮 Finnish NATO accession and Putin’s threats, joined live by former Finnish PM @alexstubb
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May 14
When talking about reducing the “attainment gap” between state and private schools this is the graph you need to have in mind- the gap in funding between state vs private kids. It’s more than doubled since 2010- through a combo of ⬇️ real terms state funding and ⬆️ school fees. Image
We should be talking about way more than just Oxbridge (which takes up too much space in this debate) but since we're here, though the % of private school places has fallen they're still far overrepresented by comparison to their % of the school population. Image
Bear in mind too this is just an average for private schools. Many of the top privates charge fees far, far in excess of this figure. The gap between them and state school spending is enormous.
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May 13
Not much evidence here of PM’s historic libertarian instincts. Here he is in part effectively arguing that individuals ought not work from home for the sake of big, collective systems like mass transit or city centre commerce, or even more remote ideas like national productivity.
If nothing else this wfh debate is highlighting a real tension within conservatism. On the one hand you might expect a conservative to say this is a matter for free biz and individuals to decide, that systems have to change as tech changes (precisely the argument employed…)
…In the 80s about different things by the govt’s forebears.) Yet here we have ministers arguing that things ought to be as they were, and likely individuals enjoying less freedom in the name of the system they’re in. Reminiscent of the sort of logic socialists used to employ…
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May 13
On Article 16, Pascal Lamy former WTO head and EU trade commissioner tells BBCPM: “If UK acts unilaterally saying there will be no border… it is the UK saying we negate Brexit. The very decision to Brexit entails the existence of a border. You cannot have your cake and eat it.”
Lamy says UK has a “DUP constituency in Northern Ireland” and “we continentals” have a constituency with the Republic.

That speaks to something which has long been apparent- that perhaps the EU hasn’t fully engaged with fact it is a territorial player itself in NI and GFA now…
…in a way pre-Brexit they weren’t. This new status quo isn’t that they represent the Republic and the UK represents unionism. The Republic and by extension themselves, like the UK, has a responsibility to all communities and to keep power sharing itself going.
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May 12
NEW: Met issues more fines for partygate- “As of Thursday 12 May, Operation Hillman, the investigation into breaches of COVID-19 regulations in Whitehall and Downing Street, has made more than 100 referrals for fixed penalty notices (FPNs) to the ACRO Criminal Records Office.”
Over 100 fines- Downing St and Whitehall seems set to receive more fines for Covid breaches than anywhere else in the UK.

Investigation still ongoing so there could yet be more.
We knew they’d issued around 50 before now it’s around 100. So it’s doubled.
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