Retired lawyer, independent history scholar. ‘The point of the rule of law is to make politics boring so individual lives may be interesting’. Tim Snyder 🇺🇦
Jun 17, 2020 • 4 tweets • 3 min read
@montie@JEGullis Is it not the duty of the Teaching Unions to safeguard the health and wellbeing of their members? The union’s proposals for ensuring a safe return, far from being a ‘campaign of fear’ are extremely detailed, sensible and evidenced based. Maybe study the before commenting? 1/n@montie@JEGullis More generally, let me assure you the teachers in my family and their colleagues have been working tirelessly to provide safe and effective ways of teaching and many have risked their health to educate front line workers’ & vulnerable children. I suspect you have not. 2/n
May 25, 2019 • 7 tweets • 2 min read
Some thoughts on No Deal and fair play. I suspect for many Leavers this is about violating the deeply felt British sense of fairness. 'We won, we deserve what we won'. The inescapable fact is that what they won is not a free gift, every version of it comes at a cost. 1/n
The 'softer' the departure, the more the UK will engage with EU rules and regulations, the harder, the more trade we will lose with the EU and the more we will become internationally isolated and weaker. And then there is Ireland (and Gibraltar) and probably Scotland. 2/n
