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Place-based policy at @TeessideUni . Currently I'm a grand sounding @BritishAcademy_ innovation fellow *and* @TPIProductivity fellow with @NP_Partnership

Newcastle upon Tyne

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Joined February 2009

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We (for example) unpacked what was happening in the real world rather than dig over the white paper and concluded "not much we haven't seen before". We pointed out that LU was shot through with contradictions around cities/towns, growth/pride in place etc

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Post-Brexit regional policy in England: exploring ‘Levelling Up’ in practice

‘Levelling Up’ has come to dominate debates around regional inequality in England, but has been criticized for lacking clarity and definition. This paper addresses this critique by providing an ear...

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4 years

Have to reshare this from today - my best ever twitter interaction and I can't imagine anything surpassing it.

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I hope next year's Conservative leadership election doesn't take as long as this one.

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Bristol Central Constituency Voting Intention: GRN: 49% (+23) LAB: 40% (-19) RFM: 3% (+2) CON: 6% (-8) LDM: 3% (New) Via @wethinkpolling , 25 Jun - 1 Jul. Changes w/ GE2019 Notional.

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Quite a few people are convinced that any new build property is being built for "illegals". It's rife on Facebook.

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If I didn't know better I might think 'Network North' was rapidly cobbled together by people who weren't sure what they were doing, some of it from really old documents.

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Worrying about "creeping privatisation" is often scoffed at as an internet lefty thing, but that's pretty much what's happened to NHS dentistry.

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NHS dentistry as we know it 'gone for good'

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I still think I win.

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Earlier this week, one of our editors saw dentally-gifted national treasure Rylan buying a hammer in Islington. For our next issue, we'd like to know your most memorable, moreish and mundane CELEBRITY ENCOUNTERS.

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Football media: •Arsenal fans justifiably angry after 10 months without a trophy, •Allardyce not good enough for Everton •West Ham fans anger at owners understandable. •Deluded Newcastle fans insufficiently grateful to Mike Ashley. #NUFC

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Road pricing but really expensive unless you book in advance with your destination and times.

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@NeilMurphy1978 Thing is, now that my new mate Chris mentions it, I think it really was Ghostbusters.

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Here's a straight bat, good faith question. If a smaller state is a priority, and levelling up is the government's defining mission then why wasn't the relationship between these two objectives discussed at length in the Levelling Up white paper?

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In the Sunday @Telegraph , I outline our plans to pursue our core priorities as we learn to live with Covid. This includes returning to a smaller state and ensuring the centre of government operates like the best-run companies. Read my thoughts here 👇

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If I was in government and genuinely wanted parks to be looked after and clear of detritus, including gas canisters, I'd probably fund local government properly.

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3 years

Maybe around 2013 when I worked in local government, the BBC reported on a survey that found most people hadn’t noticed any effect of austerity. A colleague said, “people are going to get up one day, look around and say this place is a shit hole, what happened?”

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It's easy for me to sit here and say, yes well that's the kind of thing local government used to do when it had any money. And I am.

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During the first big round of public spending cuts in the 2010-15 parliament, there was a sense that there was plenty of fat to cut and those complaining were moaning Minnies/vested interests.

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I think the British library is an important institution, but this puts Gateshead's £20 million levelling up grant into context (and the row over the borough's leisure services closures)

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Building stuff in the regions in the bad old days: an underground metro tunnel in Byker, 1977.

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9 months

A very niche version of this meme

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6 years

It's true. A football club is paying for a negative publicity campaign targeted at its manager and supporters. Absolute madness.

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5 years

It's great to see everyone showing their appreciation for public servants, it really is. We should harness this enthusiasm and have a regular fundraiser, perhaps as often as every month. Maybe the government could take it straight out of our salaries.

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@jdportes @Miss_Snuffy There's some potentially interesting research to be done on online radicalisation of middle aged boomers /gen-xers who've gone down a "fretting about deep woke" rabbit hole.

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2 years

It's simply not true that the Shared Prosperity Fund matches the previously available funding 🤷‍♂️

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Government kickstarts £2.6 billion investment in communities as UK takes back control of EU funding

People across the country will benefit from £2.6 billion of investment as the UK approves spending plans for funding previously run by the European Union.

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@Alex_Niven I bet you a mars bar that he thinks the government is doing a decent job and he blames labour councils for causing trouble.

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Steve Bruce is a Geordie and fantastically unpopular with #NUFC fans. As a small compensation, this would at least confuse idiot pundits.

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The North East - England's poorest region - has around 26,000 direct jobs in higher education. (compared with, for example, around 7000 direct jobs in the manufacture of motor vehicles)

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It’s hard to think of a policy that would be better targeted at reducing social mobility and more damaging for “levelling up”, writes @jdportes . Free to read 🔓

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You all know this, but I'm going to keep reminding people that the UK is not a high tax country.

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2 years

Still wracking my brain for a way we could get more funding for public services in the long term

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@DrDavidJeffery Don't let them concrete over our scrapyards.

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@gm_stone As you’ve said, government has shown no interest in/is wary of seeking a popular mandate and it's hard to trigger radical change without one

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It's linked to the belief that councils run their own immigration policy, particularly Labour Councils who "ship in illegals" and so on.

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I know what you're thinking. You're thinking you just can't get enough critical analysis of that thing they call levelling up.

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Post-Brexit regional policy in England: exploring ‘Levelling Up’ in practice

‘Levelling Up’ has come to dominate debates around regional inequality in England, but has been criticized for lacking clarity and definition. This paper addresses this critique by providing an ear...

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A quite long and detailed @BBCNews item that doesn't mention Central Government's decision to implement sustained cuts to local government budgets. Quite an achievement and also quite absurd.

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Warning one in 10 county councils face effective bankruptcy

County councils in England are demanding emergency funding to stave off financial collapse.

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@AcademiaObscura @RimaSaini3105 @unbounders @MarinePolicy @KarinBodewits @PenguinRHUKNews I'm working on my response now and I'll get a draft to you by the middle of next week. Promise.

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Looking forward to reading even yet still more about the new elite in Country Squire Magazine.

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That levelling up white paper had better be good.

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I've an @IPPRNorth email address and I've done some get to know you meetings, so I think I can exclusively announce to my legions of twitter followers that I'm going to be working there for a little while on secondment.

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Docklands and Canary Wharf were first and foremost transformed by unleashing *enormous* sums of public money.

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Liz Truss

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Huge pleasure to introduce @BorisJohnson at London dockland hustings. Let's unleash enterprise to transform our country like we did for docklands and Canary Wharf. #backboris #peddlingoptimism ( thanks for the photos!)

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It's like Bobby Ewing in the shower in Dallas. Maybe everything since the polls closing on the Brexit referendum has been a dream and George Osborne is delivering a Northern Powerhouse speech later.

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Former Tory PM David Cameron has just been seen walking into Downing Street slap bang in the middle of the reshuffle…

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4 years

I love a regional cliche in the morning.

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Plastic lawns. 😕 They’re everywhere around my way, including outside fancy period houses. Honestly, I reckon people will look back and cringe that it ever seemed like a good idea.

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Cuts presented as prizes is the story of the past decade in regional policy.

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"the Government is describing it as a new £96bn programme of investment, but The Yorkshire Post understands it is based on transferring money earmarked for previous plans to the amended proposals, rather than totally new funding." > *shock face*

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2 years

There must be enough of these for a deck of cards.

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If I was being paid by a think tank to lead on UK prosperity, geographic inequality and stuff like that, I’d probably have tweeted about the levelling up speech this morning rather than going on about how many liberal lefties there are on twitter.

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If you believe that lower taxes and less government (tax funded services) is the way forward for the UK then, fine, that's an intellectually coherent position. But put it in a manifesto and take it to the country.

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Unleashing a thriving free market economy is the most effective mechanism to eradicate poverty. It is the poor who are the greatest victims of the anti growth coalition. A Conservative MP ought to understand that.

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@PickardJE Another Brick in the Wall and Albatross are the two finalists for worst record of all time.

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Have to mute this - it must have been RTd by a celebrity tweeter coz it's gone a bit mad. Hope I get as large an audience for forthcoming discussions of urban regeneration, free ports and devolution.

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Quite bewildering that some of my fellow citizens might be prepared to believe half the BBC newsroom was weeping Jeremy Corbyn lost the general election.

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BritishVolt had no experience, no product, no customers and no money? Strange that it ran for so long as big levelling-up-the-red-wall good news story.

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Humblebrag. I'm now busy with my new British Academy fellowship looking at regional development funding in the UK. When you write it down like that it sounds quite boring but I'm happy about it.

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@Alex_Niven We should find out though, because (as I remember) when Helen was asked why she was re-interviewing the same (hostile to Labour) people, she said it was part of a long term project. 😀

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@PickardJE We're all blocked; you're gonna have to screen grab it.

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All purpose, "this time it's different, we'll spend the money in the north" GIF

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There are more jobs in the North East in higher education than in making cars. But, hey, let the woke go broke; they're probably crowding out private blah blah, something something.

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Good points. The people in government and the people around them are ultra-libertarians and this was obvious long before Truss became PM. Why didn’t their ideas and backstories get the same kind of scrutiny as e.g the Labour left?

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Back in the summer I reviewed all the polling my org had done on Tory voters' attitudes to tax cuts. And it was obvious then that the policies being invoked by Truss and certain other leadership candidates were completely off the ranch.

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Around 35 years ago, I was in front of @chriswaddle93 in the queue at the Classic cinema in Low Fell. I don't remember what the film was.

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Now, more than ever, we should share our most mundane celebrity encounters. For example, in 2002 I saw Diane Keaton in the Gap

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The PM talked about the decline in Northern England GDP relative to the former DDR regions - which is true - but is this eurostat map that always grabs me when thinking about the geography of discontent.

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@cjayanetti And getting people who are short term unemployed to apply for jobs that they clearly don't want and for which they're unsuitable is a waste of everyone's time, maybe especially the people receiving the applications.

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Is there a bigger political reality gap anywhere than the state of the UK's public services Vs our apparently unshakable belief as a nation that we're overtaxed?

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Brilliant piece by @JenWilliams_FT - Any time any thinker makes plans premised on lower public spending, I'd like them to read this

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This directs you to WhatsApp where there's a link to a 'great British rail sale' section of the national rail website. This site asks where you want to travel from and to before redirecting you to... one of the rail company websites where you start again.

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The Great British Rail Sale is now open. You can access the website to book tickets first on the new UK Government WhatsApp channel. Click here 👇

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Reading that the Shieldfield area is a student covid hotspot reminds that some of the new student blocks in which they're locked down look like an actual prison.

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Forgotten, left behind Darlington...

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Did anyone have "Minister pays damages with public money after libeling private citizens" on their card? I think policy exchange and its education experts deserve more credit for this episode too.

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Here's a list of enterprise zones including at least 12 on Tyneside. They included generous tax breaks, relaxed planning regulations and so on. They turbocharged growth and as a result the north east of England is one of Europe's richest regions 😐

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I'm sure these numbers will turn around when they set out their spending cuts in the medium term fiscal plan.

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All these different regeneration funds are confusing... I'm surprised nobody has ever thought of having a single regeneration budget.

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2 years

We don't talk enough about the online radicalisation of middle aged, middle class people.

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Bridgen claims he has spoken to secret sources who were told not to take the vaccine.

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@PickardJE I'd guess this excludes the CEO's responsible for woke corporatism

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4 years

Knocking down state school A level grades and boosting private school grades might be the most 2020 thing so far. To nail it we just need a yougov poll confirming that a majority of the public think it’s fair and the government is doing a great job.

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5 years

It's going to be a big and thankless task to pick the substance out of the bullshit with these kind of policy announcements.

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REVEALED: Tory plans include an “MIT for the North”; Northern Powerhouse control over the Shared Prosperity fund (or part of it); £900m devo deal for West Yorkshire; money boost for Metro mayors. Full details here. ⁦ @JakeBerry ⁩

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3 years

Batley and spen is red wall? Does red wall just mean "Labour held seat" now?

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@chakrabortty Unquestionably, the best bit of all of this is the repeated suggestion from multiple sources that the stupid plebs didn't understand how flexible the lockdown actual was.

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It's easy for me to sit here and say, yes well that's the kind of thing local government used to do when it had any money. And I am.

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@mendo5an Do you have any data on that? You spend a lot of time in Gresham? People granted leave to remain might well end up in social housing but the idea that lots of nice new houses are being built specifically to house refugees (or 'illegals') is wild.

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If government is dead set on more special economic zones then at least let local and regional government shape them. The worst case is central government imposing investment zones willy nilly with no regard to what's already happening locally.

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I interpret these results as huge enthusiasm for my own liberal elite, anti motorist, woke agenda.

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Henry Mance

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huge by-election votes for a meat tax

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6 years

Dennis Wise's comments on #NUFC maybe provide some insight into how Ashley's people see Newcastle. No affection or ambition for a club that they think should know it's place in the hierarchy.

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2 years

There’s been surprisingly little political argument about this. Maybe politicians don’t want to talk about it for fear of looking remoaners? But we’re out now – this is about what happens next. TBF The EU funds are also notoriously complicated and boring.

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Peter Foster

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🚨🚨🇬🇧🇪🇺🚨🚨NEW: docs seen by @ft show that England will be £80m worse off in U.K. version of EU “structural funds” *despite* repeated @BorisJohnson govt pledge they would “match” after #Brexit - a pledge they’re still making 🤷‍♂️🤷‍♂️ /1

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Following today's announcement that levelling up directors have been scrapped, it's more important than ever that you read our paper. The paper is so prescient, we don't even talk about them. It's like we knew.

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Post-Brexit regional policy in England: exploring ‘Levelling Up’ in practice

‘Levelling Up’ has come to dominate debates around regional inequality in England, but has been criticized for lacking clarity and definition. This paper addresses this critique by providing an ear...

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White paper drive/unleash count: Drive 74 Unleash 13

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Facebook has just reminded me of the day I should have quit twitter in triumph.

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If you're interested...

Shared Prosperity Fund shortfall leaves a gaping hole at the heart of levelling up - Northern...

Last week, the Government finally announced the allocations for the Shared Prosperity Fund. The replacement for EU funding will be worth less, with more strings attached and less time to spend it.

www.northernpowerhousepartnership.co.uk

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4 years

I've just got back from Lidl in Wrekenton and this was definitely the key question for everyone up there.

@SamCoatesSky

Sam Coates Sky

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Key question cont 3/ Will people will be allowed to travel between multiple homes, I.e if they own one in London and another in Devon. Some in cabinet - Hancock, the hawk I’m told, wants interchangeable situation to March except schools.

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@ProfTimBale @FT It’s strange that there are so many in Newcastle and the north. I might write to them and ask why... at Greggs Head Office, Quorum Business Park, Newcastle upon Tyne. NE12 8BU

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6 years

Don't blame me, I voted for chaos with Ed Miliband.

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@EdConwaySky @RishiSunak @thetimes Wow. I'm trying to imagine the general response to any* Labour chancellor floating this idea. *Not only the recent very left wing variety

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A simple example: I often wonder if students know their assignments are allotted 20 minutes for marking and what the reaction would be if lectures actually marked them that quickly.

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University Wankings

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Absolutely this: If universities are worried about ASOS, it shows that they know how overloaded staff are.

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2 years

Honestly, none of the media or think tank people implicated in this shit show should *ever* be allowed to wriggle out of it.

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I woke up to the bombshell news that poor people live in the worst housing in areas with the worst crime rates, are more likely to suffer poor health, and tend to work in hard, low paying jobs.

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Gap between haves and have-nots widening, report warns

Report mentions stagnant wages and mental health issues, and says the gap widened in the pandemic.

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@MattChorley @johnharris1969 It's interesting. And striking that the 'change' party is the one that's been in government for last 11 years and for most of the post war era.

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@jdportes @Miss_Snuffy Remember a year ago when Liz Truss talked about the insidious influence of Michael Foucault on her schooling in 1980s Leeds? Bizarre.

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@SteveBarclay Start talks now. What, like, *right* now? What the rush, mate...can't we give it a couple of weeks?

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Have I fallen asleep and woken up in the 80s?

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5 years

Tiring of some of the “towns” chatter now. Northern core cities have universities and an educated middle class, but town vs city as if, for example, some kind of privileging of Sheffield is the source of Rotherham’s problems is a misdiagnosis

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Great to live in a country where nothing seems to be working but where we're having a big political debate on whether or not the chancellor has the theoretical/made up "headroom" for pretend tax cuts. You all know that but it's a half term holiday rant.

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3 years

"exciting"

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When a new car park becomes a development

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4 years

@RepDonBeyer There might be a pattern emerging.

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3 months

Saturday afternoon in the city centre and there are 20 minutes between east bound trains on our @My_Metro rapid urban transit system. Who's going to leave the car at home, knowing the alternative is this unreliable?

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It's all too easy to lazily blame the conservative government for the concrete crisis. Just because they've been in power for 13 years with public spending cuts as their signature policy... hang on.

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2 years

Newcastle University has a large and successful school of Architecture and Planning.

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An inheritance tax cut would be popular amongst people who'd never pay it, apparently. Someone reasonably asked today, where *do* the public want taxes raised from?

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2 months

I'm guessing these houses are in Gresham and part of @BenHouchen 's mayoral development corporation - Politicians have been talking about regeneration in Gresham for years, so getting stuff built is a boost for the mayor... bricking in the windows probably won't be popular.

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@jdportes @Miss_Snuffy An additional relatively trivial point is that Liddle was the unadvertised after dinner speaker at a Christmas party people had paid to attend. Leaving a Christmas do early because the closing act is duff isn't cancelling anyone.

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