The gap between the dominant narrative of the United Kingdom’s economic performance and real life as experienced by its average citizen has widened to the breaking point, writes .
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It's easy to say 'Of course Millennials aren't voting conservative, they've nothing to conserve', but my Old Millennial friends who do now have property and families aren't voting Tory either
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Remember, your friends won’t see your tweets about Liz Truss’s essay, because they have better things to do on a Saturday night, but Liz Truss is reading them all.
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The problem with the post-mortem is it is quite hard to disentangle precisely who Truss blames for the collapse of her govt, what they did wrong, and how they are connected. There is a lot of reliance on notions of "consensus" and "orthodoxy", and broad links between actors.
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Truss also blames the “wider orthodox economic ecosystem”. OK, fine, what exactly are your plans for operating outside of that ecosystem? I might as well say it was a great idea to rip out my central heating but the Scottish weather just wasn’t ready for my vision.
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This strategy is no real use to Truss personally - in the unlikely event she had some sort of comeback hope - because she says it’s because she’s a bad communicator, not that she made a one-off mistake. It’s only of use to people who want to do Trussism without Truss.
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Ah right, I’ve read the essay now and Truss’s acknowledged mistakes were (a) maybe the mini-budget should have been a few days later (but only maybe) and (b) she didn’t communicate well enough how brilliant the plan was.
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Perhaps there is something in the essay, but it’s noticeable that the write-up includes Truss saying she was not “blameless” but without actually identifying anything she did wrong.
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And she’s back… Liz Truss blames a “powerful economic establishment” for her downfall in 4,000 word essay…Show this thread
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BBC News obtains internal advice to magistrates about re bulk processing of warrants for forced installation of prepayment meters..sometimes a few 100 at a time
Says that its “irrational” for them not to grant, previous v careful scrutiny “now disproportionate”
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You might wonder why I am training very hard at sprinting these days, but the answer is simple: my strategy for winning the London Marathon is to be only ten seconds behind at the 26 mile mark and outpace my competitors from there.
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Why do the Tories need £25 million?
The election strategy is Sunak’s performance and an improving economy cut the Labour poll lead to 5-10 points by the start of campaign
They then need the most aggressive and expensive air war ever to make up the rest
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"The longer the problem of intergenerational unfairness persists, the more it will transform into one of intra-generational unfairness."
ICYMI, hating both life and myself, I wrote a piece about my relationship to the Bank of Mum & Dad
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The issue of 16 year old candidates is a difficult one and one I don't yet have a view on, but the general tenor of this column is yet another instance of the absolute contempt that older generations hold youth in when it comes to democracy. Appalling.
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30 years since the scandal, we go ‘Beneath The Magic Circle Affair’. Now on iPlayer.
bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episod
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If you liked "book that should have been an article" and "meeting that should have been an email", you'll love "government that should have been an essay". twitter.com/kateferguson4/
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Having slept on it, I am now convinced that Friday night with Nadine is actually a work of genius. It perfectly illustrates the Age of Shamelessness we are in and how the people who can milk it the most are the 55+. Not only do they benefit, they can complain about everything
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📢 Today SUP launches an open call for content!
We are now accepting proposals for monographs and edited collections from academics at our participating institutions.
See the full release here: sup.ac.uk/news/scottish-
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Two new full time, permanent lectureships/senior lectureships just advertised with us here , one in environmental law and one in just transition. More info here: jobs.ac.uk/job/CXD770/lec and
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Scottish university press slashes open access monograph costs timeshighereducation.com/news/scottish- via salutes this innovative Scottish model
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So much commentary on the Tate viewing gallery case hasn’t taken into account that the court hasn’t yet decided what (if any) practical steps, or compensation instead, the Tate is responsible for. And that that’s the stage where, if relevant, private v public rights are balanced
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Before voting in the NEC election, please read this well-informed, well-documented piece on the SWP provenance of, & influence over, .👇Demands over pay, conditions & pensions that employers will never accept are a feature, not a bug, for the following reason... 1/ twitter.com/AdamOzanne/sta
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According to Politico, Truss “intimated that she did not trust her successor, Rishi Sunak, a more technocratic Tory, to do the job” and fine, but this is not something you deserve to be listened to on if you swiftly crash the markets and your poll ratings and quit in disgrace.
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The I: Liz Truss comeback ignites fears of new Tory civil war #TomorrowsPapersToday
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(Maybe it’s different in different disciplines?) One of my referees for a previous job, well aware of this, wrote me a reference which was only two lines long, which worked out well but in retrospect was a bit of a risk to take with someone else’s career…
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Pre-picket line thought: one thing academia could do collectively to reduce workload is try to reduce the use of references. I’m not convinced they make much difference: people invariably write positive references and they don’t end up much use for distinguishing candidates.
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Academic jobs that demand reference letters before an interview should be forced to create a website where applicants can read anonymous posts by current staff reviewing the work conditions at the department.
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As they say, it is easier to engrave the Lord's Prayer on the eye of a needle than for someone who is rich to enter the kingdom of God.
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Tiny gold Lord's Prayer engraved in eye of needle by artist bbc.in/3jnOuRF
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Hoping this becomes a bidding war to lop time off the embargo so I can go to bed early.
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"There’s one other reason to be wary of the R-word: it’s sometimes pitched as an alternative to simply spending more money"
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We’re launching our #CFP today for our first women in #legalhistory event, funded by and coming up later this year. Abstracts and queries to seldenssister@gmail.com by 21 April. Tell a friend!
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I didn’t get to share all this on here last week, but it’s worth recording because it really is a scandal. 🧵
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It is with great sadness that announces the death of Professor Gerry Maher KC. Our sincere condolences to his family and friends. Gerry will be missed not only in the School and the University, but across the entirety of Scottish legal life.
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Contrary to popular belief people who report they've been victims of sexual offences do not have a "right to anonymity" in Scots law. They do in rUK - but not here. In today's I dig into our efforts to change the law .
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Probably the best preface I have ever read on a book on China, & in its own way extremely honest and inforned.
Peter Fleming, 'One's Company' 1o34.
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I'm going to leave the politics to others. The tax part of the Zahawi story, and therefore my role, feels over. But I wanted to sign off by correcting three takes which we’re going to hear a lot of, and I think are wrong.
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It’s usual, I think, for these letters to talk about the great things the government has done (albeit picking things connected to the author). Zahawi doesn’t even bother praising the government or PM: he’s just written a letter about how great he is.
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I don’t know who this person is but this is the second time in a few days that I’ve seen him tweet a very damning alleged quote by a Tory politician that hasn’t been picked up by anyone else despite being highly newsworthy if real. twitter.com/Bodysatnav/sta
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