Fellow of things at @TeessideUni. Currently I'm a grand sounding @BritishAcademy_ innovation fellow *and* @TPIProductivity fellow with @NP_Partnership

Newcastle upon Tyne
Joined February 2009
Replying to @DPJHodges
And with that, the celebratory conga line at the other party HQs gets longer
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What's the odds that a list of sensible policies runs to tax cuts, spending cuts, and deregulation?
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Ranked in the top ten most popular charities in the UK in this latest polling.
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RNLI are one of the 10 most popular charities in the UK About as popular as the RSPCA, Guide Dogs, and Children in need. Looks like the public are deeply out of touch with you.
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The real good old days of Reading festival: hordes of drunk men hoying bottles of urine at Meatloaf, Hothouse Flowers, and - sorry - the late Bonnie Tyler.
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I lazily asked AI. Still, I do like the idea of getting fat cat councils to manage it all within their existing generous budgets.
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Like many students taking a short cut, I asked AI.
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Great to see people who were in and around the government that delivered Brexit and the EU settlement scheme now gotchaing universities about EU nationals being eligible for student finance. Also good to see it pitched as fraud story in the newspaper of record Top work lads
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Replying to @PJDunleavy
My favourite ever headline from bailed out banker Matt Ridley
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It's also worth looking at the history (And, yes, we know this line hides a big change in the gender mix)
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With the polls about to close, I wonder how much of the world that are interested in such things realises how much this little election in the suburbs of Wigan will determine the direction Britain.
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