Nick Anstead

@NickAnstead

Associate Professor working on political communication & political ideas . Also Fellow of .

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  1. Pinned Tweet
    11 Oct 2017

    My recent work covers many topics including discourses on austerity, TV debates & data-driven campaigning. Download:

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  2. Aug 26

    It is pretty funny that these stories are appearing in . I think we have ample proof in recent years that people do not always vote with their economic interests in referendums about national identity...

    Getting flashbacks to the 2016 Remain campaign. Every day now in many London-based media outlets you get pieces claiming that "this one big thing" is the deus ex machina that will stop Scottish nationalism in its tracks. Reeks of desperation
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  3. Aug 24

    As the challenges get greater (C19, Brexit, future of the U.K., climate change) our politics seems to somehow get smaller.

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  4. Aug 24

    The problem is that is a member of a gov that has done more to create this situation than any administration in political history: intentionally divisive, backward-looking, reactionary & directionless.

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  5. Aug 24

    In contrast, I would suggest, it is countries that are having a crisis of identity and lacking national direction that tend to descend into culture wars about the historic meanings of symbols.

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  6. Aug 24

    Or the use of the Union Jack on Noel Gallagher’s guitar or Geri Halliwell’s dress in the 1990s. These things weren’t that controversial because they were clearly a statement about the present.

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  7. Aug 24

    Think of the psychedelic, technicolour version of Britain created by the Beatles, the Kinks, Carnaby Street and the Italian Job in the 60s.

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  8. Aug 24

    This is one of those situations where someone stumbles - accidentally - on a truth, but not in the way they intend. Certainly it is the case that self confident countries have a different relationship with their history, symbolic iconography and flag waving more generally.

    Rule Britannia and Land of Hope and Glory are highlights of the Last Night of the Proms Share concerns of many about their potential removal and have raised this with Confident forward-looking nations don’t erase their history, they add to it
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  9. Retweeted
    Aug 21

    In 1304, the Bishop of Lincoln, John Dalderby, pronounced the excommunication of all inhabitants of Newport Pagnell (a town nr modern-day Milton Keynes) who knew the location of Sir Gerald Salvayn’s lost falcon but refused to reveal it. Simpler and somehow still less petty times.

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    Aug 20

    New Fellowship opportunity from With ‼️

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  11. Aug 20

    So much wrong with this tweet, but two key points standout: 1. The piece cited is in the not . 2. On , has been a model of how good journalism holds gov accountable for its policy decisions (& the proof is in the u-turn).

    Is there anyone more damaging to the BBC's reputation for impartiality than ? This is so off the scale I don't even know where to begin.
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    Aug 19

    There's a small but significant number of students who have not been helped at all by the govt u-turn. They've neither been upgraded, or downgraded. Because they have no grade and now, a v uncertain future. They're the external exam candidates. For example, Ferdaus. (Thread)

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    Aug 17

    Colleagues on admissions: solidarity. I hope you've got plenty of tea and chocolate. Colleagues in post-92s: I'm also sitting here wondering if we'll survive. Colleagues in pre-92s: solidarity as I see your potentially impossible workload. Students: we'll do our best for you

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  15. Aug 17

    This astonishing. Even if specific outcomes were not known, the problems with the model were a feature not a bug of the approach. There are only two options: either the Secretary if State did not grasp this or he did not care.

    Gavin Williamson has said he only knew about the inequalities in the system THIS WEEKEND. Tory source tells me Ofqual had 'repeatedly reassured' govt that the system wouldn't cause these issues. Very clear attempt to shift blame to Ofqual.
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    Aug 17

    We share the acute concerns about the process by which A-level grades have been determined this year. That the impact of this should fall most heavily on the already-disadvantaged is appalling. Please read our full statement here:

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    Aug 17

    New College can confirm we have concluded the review of our outstanding offers, and is pleased to announce that all undergraduate offers made in 2019/20 have been confirmed.

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  18. Aug 16

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    Wadham College will admit all 2020 offer-holders. Those applicants whose courses are now full will be guaranteed deferred entry for 2021. Read the full updated statement from the Warden, Ken Macdonald QC here:
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    Aug 14

    Remember when you read about pupils not getting places at Oxbridge etc that no pupil took an exam. Those who got in and those who lost places did nothing themselves - that is how an algorithm works and that is why it is inequitable.

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  20. Aug 14

    Signed and I would encourage others to do so

    I hate doing Oxford discourse, but I've signed this alumni letter, in the hope that my university and others will look to use deferred places and unconditional offers to allow people who have missed their places due to the unique circumstances:
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  21. Aug 14

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    Worcester College, Oxford has just confirmed that it has confirmed the places of all of their UK offer holders, irrespective of their A-level results. Says their 2020 impact is their "most diverse cohort ever."
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