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Senior Fellow Institute for Govt + Senior Adviser to Ark. Writes about politics + policy on my Substack (sign up below) as well as for TES, NS, FT, ST.

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    10 hours ago

    New post just gone out - Monthly Digest - Edition 4 My favourite links from the the past month plus a short review of Louis Menand's amazing "The Free World: Art and Thought in the Cold War"

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  2. 2 hours ago

    I wrote for on why private schools aren't "losing" Oxbrdge places; rather we're just starting to see the unfair advantages they've always had countered.

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  3. 4 hours ago

    These are areas where the Tories did make significant progress last year and the seats were last fought in 2018 when Labour did relatively well so staying still isn't a bad result for Labour. (They will want to get wins elsewhere in the country.)

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  4. 4 hours ago

    Just straws in the wind but a few activists - Lab and Tory - in red wall seats have told me that initial signs from canvassing etc are that the Tories aren't going to make any more gains and may possibly fall back a bit. (Any insights welcome in the DMs).

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  5. 5 hours ago

    I hope that while he's Steward of the Manor of Northstead they at least let him use the tractors.

    The Chancellor of the Exchequer has this day appointed Neil Quentin Gordon Parish to be Steward and Bailiff of the Manor of Northstead. Mr Parish is no longer MP for Tiverton and Honiton.
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  6. 5 hours ago

    Ah, my arch-nemesis, the base rate fallacy, we meet again.

    not saying I'm a nerd but I've just calculated that London's population is 16.7 times larger than that of County Durham
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  7. 8 hours ago

    Arguing about the morality of abortion isn't even the right question, because you can't ban abortion, you can only ban safe and legal abortion.

    For some men abortion is a philosophical, a moral problem. An opportunity to preen. For women it is delivering dead babies, dying in childbirth, staying in abusive relationships and living in poverty. The grandiosity is disgusting.
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  8. 9 hours ago

    Whatever you make of the SNP's politics/policies - it's hard not to see Nicola Sturgeon as the country's most successful politician. Eight years in power and still has an approval rating comfortably higher than anyone else.

    New poll of Scotland (change since March)
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  9. 9 hours ago

    This month's links include pieces by and - an eclectic mix of science, religion, politics and culture.

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    12 hours ago

    IMAO (amateur opinion) the more obvious reason the leak benefits the Right is that, instead of the actual opinion coming out as a definite thing to produce a revolution, we have a leak that isn't law yet and produces a partial outlet of steam; when it actually happens, "oh well"

    I clerked at the Supreme Court. Last night, I assumed a liberal clerk leaked the draft opinion overturning Roe. Now I think MUCH more likely it was leaked by a conservative fanatically committed to every word of Alito’s monstrous opinion. **🧵**
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  11. 21 hours ago

    "Beergate Day 7"

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  12. 21 hours ago

    Urgh at this framing. Private schools don't own the places. As more and more state school pupils compete for places of course they will get fewer each year.

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  13. 22 hours ago

    Though of course in the meantime the problem itself - which is real - goes unsolved. And the plausible solutions uninvestigated.

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  14. 22 hours ago

    Comes to something when the best thing about a Government is its incompetence because at least that prevents it from engaging in deeply cruel and inhumane policies.

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  15. May 3

    Two days to go... my preview of the local elections if you had the good sense to be avoiding twitter over the Bank Holiday.

    New post - my big local elections preview. Including: * The different types of councils up for grabs + their political significance. * All the councils that could change hands * My predictions * Could they finish Boris Johnson? (£ but free trial)
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    May 3

    Why the ‘leaked’ Alito opinion will be especially worrying to supporters of a constitutional right to an abortion The content of the opinion will make it it harder to reverse, even by codification at a federal level Today's law and policy post

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  17. May 3

    After all that effort from the Mail.

    NEW: YouGov have just today re-asked this question - changes from January. Looking back over the lockdown periods, do you think [X] generally did or did not follow lockdown rules? Boris Johnson Did - 21% (+4) Did not - 70% (-3) Keir Starmer Did - 42% (+2) Did not - 28% (-)
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    May 3

    NEW: Private renters on low incomes face annual rent shortfalls of hundreds of pounds after the government froze housing benefit for a second year running - a real-terms benefit cut in most of England just as living costs soar By me, for

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  19. May 3

    Yep this is very good.

    Another excellent column The claim that girls don’t study physics because the maths is too hard is nonsense, but it also distracts from an arguably bigger issue: Boys are falling further behind girls in education every year, and the consequences could be far-reaching
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    May 3

    Because Roberts wouldn’t join an opinion this vicious in tone even if he joins in the result, any of the 4 joining Alito has the leverage to demand changes in the language. Leaking this maximally harsh version as a trial balloon would magnify that leverage.

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