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May 16 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
You know when the Govt finally start taking an issue seriously because they let John Bew write an article about it. #NIProtocol
John is the No 10 foreign policy adviser, heavily involved in developing our position on Ukraine, historian, and author of the best biography of Attlee, amongst other things.
Relevant here because he's from NI and wrote his thesis on unionism. And his Dad, Paul Bew, now a cross bench peer, is one of the major historians of Ireland and Northern Ireland and was involved in the GFA.
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May 18
Another example of how Britain is becoming more liberal. (And why we don't have US style polarisation.)
And look at this on change of attitude towards immigration. This is why I don't think the right-wing press can simply create a new panic about migration at will. Image
And impacts on specific areas of life. Huge shift on good for the NHS which is a big part of changing attitudes in my view. (As well as on schools, jobs and crime.) Image
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May 18
"In the last ten years the amount available for free school meals has only increased by 1.7%" bbc.co.uk/news/business-…
It's true that inflation is a global problem not a UK specific one. Also true that the welfare state had been cut to the bone over the past decade which makes it a much bigger problem than if we had any slack in the system.
And this burst of inflation hits poorer families harder than richer ones because more of their costs are energy and fuel. 11% is not manageable.
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May 16
One of my missions in life is - whenever I version of this story appears - to tweet that the NHS spends less than half the OECD average on admin + management.
So you want highly trained surgeons to be doing management? No you do not. Stop with this stupid narrative.
(There are no doubt ways to make the NHS more efficient but just going "fire managers and hire front line staff" is absurdly crude + ignores the admin burden + pressure that creates for said front line staff).
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May 16
Not one shred of evidence for this which doesn't stop being repeated over and over. (Every rich country has seen deteriorating teen mental health regardless of their exam system.)
We also have evidence that at age 11 there is no difference in mental health or wellbeing across England, Wales and Scotland, even though England is the only one with exam condition tests.
When I say there's no evidence I mean there's not even any correlations let alone causal relationships. We've had GCSEs since the 80s. Teen mental health starting declining in the late 00s. Further changes to GCSEs happened 5+ years later.
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May 15
Was helping my daughter do a homework project on Diane Nash and we realised it was her birthday today. She's 84. And as she's one of my personal heroes (heroine) I thought I do a brief thread on her.
She was at the heart of the civil rights movement but isn't given anywhere near the attention she deserves. At 22 she was already the spokesperson for the Nashville sit-ins, which led to lunch counters being de-segregated and equivalent movements in dozens of other cities.
She was one of the founders of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee - one of the critical organisations within the movement - and which led the Freedom Rides. Which led to huge publicity and to getting the Kennedys involved.
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May 15
Brilliant thread from John on the same question I wrote about for Prospect this week - why is concern about immigration so low when numbers are at a peak? prospectmagazine.co.uk/politics/has-b…
Because John is a lot better at charts than me he adds some evidence that I think strengthens the case I make in my piece - that this is a real change in attitudes caused partly by general liberal shift and partly by ending free movement.
First on the "it's just because the right wing press are talking about it less" he shows that they *are* talking about it more again but so far concern isn't rising. (Could change of course.)
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