Academic, political theorist, educationalist, former Pro-Director Education at LSE, HoD Department of Government LSE. 'Woke Realist' in a good way. Grandfather
Lot of anger on here from Brexiteers hating the lack of national celebrations at their triumph. Perhaps its dawning on them that populist is not the same as popular.
@JolyonMaugham
Disappointing of
@BBCJonSopel
this sort of stuff alongside the UK EU ambassador spat makes us look an insecure and unserious country....
@JohnRentoul
There is a rule about misleading the house (lying from the dispatch box) but nobody seems much bothered by that. And yet there is a really good reason for that rule.....
@JohnOBrennan2
Capitalism stopped me serving the interests of capitalism so in order to really serve the interests of capitalism I need a revolution against the forces of capitalism -
@trussliz
Good luck with that dear …
@IanDunt
And this was on a quick read - most interesting. Suspect Cummings knows what he is doing. Key issue is whether press is interested in the story of pursue the 'not cutting through and no one cares' line. People should care but this is really now down to the press.
@Williamw1
I'm sure Singapore, Wall Street and Shanghai will be delighted. So having destroyed manufacturing supply chains the next stop is damaging the City!
@Fox_Claire
Why? Just tell us. What is wrong with pointing all this out? It doesn't undermine her genius or 'cancel' her work. Explaining the social phenomena that underpins culture is interesting in its own right. Or are you going command that only F R Leavis counts. Truth hurts no one.
@GoodwinMJ
You need to read more history - start with Simon Heffer’s edition of Chips Channon’s diaries - the old elite (whatever that means) had absolutely zero interest in the values of ordinary people (whoever they are)…
@PaulEmbery
'almost certainly' by which you mean Not Certainly - ie you don't actually know. Come back when you have an evidence based statement! Some people probably don't think firemen can write books on politics - but I suspect there is far more talent out there than we give credit for.
@PrivateEyeNews
To be honest having the support of
@JamesDalyMP
as future Met Police commissioner is the kiss of death if it ever was an ambition. The support of a future ex-MP and the rump of Tory Right following a possible Labour landslide is perhaps not all its cracked up to be…
@ReemAmirIbrahim
Comedy - a bunch of monty python characters fresh out of year 11 at the same minor public school. The future of the Conservative Party I fear…
@michael_merrick
@policy_uk
Isn’t this classic Apples vs Oranges - entry tariffs for a BA/B.Sc programme versus a Foundation programme ie not the same thing.
@implausibleblog
The Windsor accord was Sunak’s great achievement, but no one in Westminster thinks of Northern Ireland on a daily basis- just read
@ShippersUnbound
new book. It’s shocking how no one seems to think about NI and yet it is a constant issue in UK international politics
@WritesBright
Imagine having all those opportunities in life and the best you can come up with is writing cranky contrarian op-ed pieces for a paper your grandfather edited…
@ragipsoylu
Clear the Military leadership have lost confidence in Netanyahu - his lack of interest in anything other than appeasing West Bank settlers for electoral advantage has alienated many - who are now having to pickup the pieces in the mobilisation and the ground action in Gaza
Today is my birthday and I'm 58. In his 58th year John Locke published An Essay Concerning Human Understanding, Two Treatises on Civil Government and A Letter on Toleration. No pressure there then....?
@bbclaurak
Does it ever occur to you to question what you’re hearing and why you’re being told? It’s your propensity to pass this nonsense on uncritically that is damaging your reputation as a serious commentator…
@PickardJE
@BBCr4today
Ah the old correlation is not causation move - year 1 phd political science. Next move Hume on scepticism about causation yr 1 UG philosophy. Is this the best they’ve got? If its scepticism about causation how can they know mini budget will lead to (surely not cause) growth?
@LiamThorpECHO
Go team lefty lawyers - some of finest this evening and a big shout out to ECHR. This so-called policy was a despicable stunt played on some of the most vulnerable.
@matthewlesh
And the manufacturing process, and testing. The basic science is not the slow part, the chemistry of mass manufacture is significant - moving from lab to industrial process. Don't go for the cheap easy target of lazy regulators all the time....
@RobbieGibb
@lewis_goodall
Sorry Robbie but
@lewis_goodall
has been one of the most consistently well informed writing on this issue. If there is a more balanced view to be had perhaps it is the fault of the Gov not to have given it in interviews and communications. If in doubt play the messenger...
@IanDunt
You published a book - I know in some houselds that's like brushing your teeth - but when I was growing up only magical people way above my station did that. Just sayin....
@Beyond_Topline
@EdwardJDavey
Wouldn’t it be hilarious if this is correct and Reform got three seats but it was three nobodies as Farage, Tice and Anderson failed to win.
@BBCNews
Just nonsense what is this 'cancelled'? A publisher has chosen not to publish a book. If they have breached a contract with her they will pay. If they no longer want it that is their right. No one has a right to be published. She should take it somewhere else if its any good.
@pcaruanagalizia
@gemmanewby
All oligarchs should have their wealth confiscated and placed in a Ukrainian development fund for full reparations. It might focus some minds in Putin's circle - you break it you own it Colin Powell's pottery barn doctrine).
@Fox_Claire
@UKHouseofLords
Just for the record I have some quite sick students and some pissed off parents so don't say they don't get ill and it's wokeness gone crazy. It's not the teaching it's everything else that spreads the virus amongst the vulnerable - and I don't mean wealthy Profs but cleaners etc
@IanDunt
The question on this and other issues is he stupid, petulant or malevolent? How this man's egocentricity contributes to the triumph of socialism remains a mystery
@Haggis_UK
@fjbeecher
Well done Louise Casey - the real ‘benefit scroungers’ are the employers who pay such low wages that people in work are still requiring benefits to support the next generation. Govt subsidises low pay deliberately but pretends this is about ‘scroungers’. Yet nobody calls this out
@Gabriel_Pogrund
@HarryYorke1
So we can't offer visa free sanctuary to Ukrainians because of security concerns. But when the security services MI6 raised concerns about Lord Ledbedev it wasn't considered important...
@campbellclaret
I know
@campbellclaret
has skin in the game but this is actually spot on. The leading press stories are briefing and blame shifting within the Gov. This is all they can do with an 80 seat majority and major challenges. The Gov have no ideas - shocking.....
An abiding memory of the last 14 years was Steve Hilton at a seminar at LSE in 2011/12 I think. Robin Butler was in the room. Hilton was a big fan of move fast break things- but he had no idea how complex government is. Shockingly / dangerously naive but he was Cameron’s COS …
40 years ago I went to York University, 36 years ago began my PhD at LSE, 33 years ago began Post Doc at U Chicago, 30 years ago first permanent job at U Swansea, 25 years ago returned to LSE - it's been my home ever since
@LSEnews
@LSEGovernment
Wonderful new book by Ed Hall one of my last PHD students before I went over to the dark side! As I've now returned to the cave Ed will give me much to think about as he did when a student. I always learned more from him than he from me but that is the joy of PHD supervision...
@tnewtondunn
@TimesRadio
So truth is this has nothing to do with public health and the public interest and everything to do with PMs weak hold on his party and positioning to succeed PM 'should that vacancy arise....'
Just added this to my reading. The brilliant but unjustly neglected Judith Shklar. A voice for liberal civility in a world sadly lacking it. Overshadowed by big names like Berlin and Rawls but her voice has never been more relevant. Respect to Ashenden and Hess.
@jdportes
@PaulbernalUK
One non- trivial benefit is it opens up Horizon to UK science. Ok most ordinary people will not notice but the long term damage to UK science and HE would have been significant. Sunak knows that…
@PaulbernalUK
It extraordinary that the only person to resign was the woman in the room. The men have either clung on or like Doyle been kept on my PM. Nice. I hope that is not lost on Ms Stratton with her considerable insider information or on all women voters.
@SebastianEPayne
@theipaper
Shame he didn’t understand the importance of Horizon for UK as a science super power? He was only interested in science as he understood it not as it’s actually done why actual scientists …
@ColonelShotover
@iainmartin1
He will get over it, I work at a University where getting a First was standard and everyone is brilliant in their field. Most of us survive the pressure and just get on with it.
Victoria Atkins being murdered live on
@BBCr4today
- she is so hopeless it is almost a news story in its own right. Honestly this sort of initiative just reminds people how rubbish the last 14 years of austerity has been - she’s actually making things worse for the government …
Unbelievable
@BBCr4today
interview with HE minister on Turing. Interviewer badly briefed and failed to challenge. Donelan was basically saying universities free to establish exchanges around world not just EU. Universities always had that power. Turing is short term and unfunded.
@Steven_Swinford
So the doorstep issues are all to do with cost of living and public sector decline and not ECHR or small boats - he just confirms his own failure…
@johnredwood
You have spent most of the last few decades campaigning for an abstract noun not a policy nor a plan. Others told you to focus on the reality you told them they were fools. This is what you campaigned and voted for - this.....
@Andrew_Adonis
Would not be surprised. Part of the problem is a consequence of Gove's withdrawal of diverse assessment at A and AS. Modular assessment would have given real student performance input to the calculations. At the moment all is just a construction so grade inflation worry is bogus
@Samfr
So Putin is defending JK Rowling and the Orthodox Patriarch of Moscow is after LGBT Pride marches - not sure how this fits with invading Ukraine - perhaps I'm missing something? It must be a comfort to Russian mothers losing their sons.....
@implausibleblog
There should be prison for some of these people not just the crooks who profited from PPE. Looking forward to the
@GBNEWS
headlines on their new star turn …
So 50 days ago my Grandson Jesse Alexander Fox arrived in the world some 12 weeks early taking us all by surprise. With exceptional care from the NHS NICU and his wonderful parents he continues to grow and thrive. This is all you get to see but trust me he is gorgeous....
@DLidington
Trouble is SNP was only interested in an anti Starmer stunt and not Gaza or Israeli hostages. Same with the Tories. There is clearly a house majority for a ceasefire across all parties but that wasn’t what yesterday was about.
@AdamBienkov
This is our actual Foreign Secretary - our Chief Diplomat. Does she not know that everyone is watching? This small audience of no name losers is more important than our national interest? She really is beyond the pale.
@branwenjeffreys
Missed 4 months of O Level year and reduced attendance thereafter - initial impact not great but 42 yrs later (Professor with 14 books) not such a big deal... Stay well and stop worrying children are incredibly resilient
@IanDunt
I’m sure you will find any such drug taking was essential for work and building colleagues morale at a time of great political stress for the country. It may have looked like recreational drug using but that’s because you don’t understand the pressure of government etc etc etc
Final GV100 Lecture today - Fanon on violence. Great fun and a wonderful cohort of students - now over to you to make of a snapshot of political theory whatever you will. It’s been a blast and as always a privilege
@LSEGovernment
@LSEnews
@J_Bloodworth
@rolandmcs
Darren Grimes is clearly a momentum sleeper agent and I look forward to him taking down the rest of the racist right wing commentariate 'by mistake' keep up the good work Darren!
@michael_merrick
@policy_uk
I disagree - there is an important debate here but it gets lost in this sort of noise and false comparison. I’ve made my point - have a good day…
As government evaporates in Kabul its pretty clearly that the UK has no government to speak of just a failing PR team and some cartoon characters. Not a partisan point - I imagine most serious Conservatives are stunned by the total absence of the Gov this evening.
@Reuters
This is precisely the dangers of concentrating political power in the hands of journalists and op-Ed writers. Mrs Thatcher (who I didn't agree with) was a real scientist and a lawyer and must be turning in her grave.
Worried about the Police, Crime and Sentencing Bill - annoying people can bring a 10 Yr Prison Sentence - most of my adult life (and my job) has been spent annoying people (not always deliberately) but nevertheless the case.
Realists such as John Mearsheimer are not having a great war. As an analytical theory or even as an empirical theory realism has something going for it, but as a normative theory 'small powers Should defer to great powers' it stinks. US academic realism needs to be more realistic
Of course Orwell meant uncomfortable truths not just any old baseless opinion or insult. Contemporary debates about free speech especially in universities forget that important distinction.
So
@BBCr4today
feature on Brexit's benefits had a couple of things on benefits to hedgefunds but not much for the redwall. I guess the whole 'prospering mightily' will turn out to be the mighty prospering - as ever was....
Dear
@BBCNews
nobody cares about Mrs Truss’s whining self justification. The small number who might can buy
@Telegraph
- She is clearly a fool elected by an unrepresentative cabal of fools. The real story is Tory cranks trying to undermine the PM. Time for an election.
Family of Romanian immigrants into Germany.
The boy in the yellow t-shirt went on to lead the team that cracked the Covid vaccine.
Respect immigrants.
#Immigration
@DPJHodges
She is being investigated by the Police why should she release anything to the press? It wouldn’t stop the Police investigation - of course she will not publish anything.
This finally arrived. My son’s first book - it’s impossible to fully convey the joy as an academic and bibliophile to receive this from my own son. It’s also quite brilliant. And I’m a very honoured and proud father…
@PippaCrerar
I wonder whether private tax affairs are quite the political master stroke Sunak thinks they are (actually he doesn’t care) - is there any evidence this is a positive for Tories of the reverse?
@ProfTimBale
We had a great opportunity to restructure academic year and post qual admissions and blew it. Gov did precious little for universities but has allowed university admissions to distort the exam system this year. The two need to be de coupled as only post result admissions will do
Funny how lock down sceptics continue to get airtime on
@BBCr4today
and
@BBCNews
etc but an 'austerity sceptic' would laughed out of court with '... But the magic money tree? Seems like balance is only necessary in some cases. Being consistently wrong is no bar to some....