@brian-tutt.bsky.social
Academic, background in politics and public administration, interest in classical music, jazz, art and satire. LGBT+🏳️🌈
We've crunched the numbers on Burnham's new government to bring you up to speed with the new faces around the cabinet table, and what Burnham's choices tell us about how he wants to run his government. New from @meganbryer.bsky.social, @philipnye.bsky.social and I 👇👇
Six things we learned from Andy Burnham’s government formation | Institute for Government
What do Andy Burnham’s cabinet choices reveal about the priorities and direction of his new government?
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everyone remarking how mean that review of the film was; it could be so so much worse. Sometimes it's just a murder using your own tools. Feast your eyes on the greatest literary hatchet job of all time. onehundredpages.wordpress.com/2013/06/12/d...
Don’t make fun of renowned Dan Brown
Renowned author Dan Brown woke up in his luxurious four-poster bed in his expensive $10 million house – and immediately he felt angry. Most people would have thought that the 48-year-old man had no…
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It’s worth pausing on the scale of Burnham’s social care pitch. This could be the biggest reform to health in England in a generation. A universal care system - effectively a second NHS - would be revolutionary. Just free personal care would be lifechanging for older and disabled people.
THREE PERCENT of LGBT respondents at large don't like the 'T'...
Alex Says Stuff@alexsaysstuff.bsky.social · last wk.This actually provides quite a useful point of comparison for how marginal and irrelevant to the community LGBA are (they filtered out respondents who weren't explicitly their supporters) - terms overwhelmingly popular with gay/lesbian/bi folks at large are overwhelmingly *unpopular* with them.
As though Farage has any worthwhile contribution to offer to the social care debate. Might as well ask my gerbil to answer the Schleswig Holstein question.
This letter to the Times on Burnham’s education proposals captures a strain of thinking on the Right: culture is for those heading to university, while everyone else’s children can do with much less of it.
The front page of the Daily Telegraph, standing up for the real victims in modern Britain.
Burnham's comments today were a kind of anti-populism: a rejection of easy answers, an acknowledgment of trade-offs and a commitment to solve seemingly-intractable problems. Early days, but incredibly refreshing.
I say this with nothing but love in my heart for the fatherland but can you imagine any other country looking at wildfires and thinking "quick, get a philosopher on the line"
I have a modest proposal for a new tax. It involves a deck of cards and a monkey throwing darts. Here are the rules:
Friendly reminder that these things aren't impacted by closing the Strait of Hormuz so maybe, just maybe, we should implement them to avoid being impacted by future conflicts: -Solar panels -Wind turbines -Battery storage -Electric vehicles -Bicycles -Natural fertilizers -Electric heat pumps
“Remigration” is ethnic cleansing. It is genocide. It is mass-murder. The world’s richest man is a fascist. His allies in the US government are fascists. Failure to say this out loud is delusion or complicity.
Snigdha@snig.bsky.social · 2w agoTweet from Elon Musk: “Anyone who opposites remigration is a traitor” posted yesterday.
If Heffer’s terrible column achieves anything, I hope it’s persuading someone to launch a BA in Clog Dancing.
Peter Whitewood@pwhitewood.bsky.social · 2w agoHeffer showing his ignorance about universities again. For many towns and cities, ‘let them fail’ means one of the biggest local employers disappearing.
Is welfare spending ''out of control''? It's estimated to be 11.1 per cent of GDP this financial year. That's just 1.1 per cent of GDP higher than in 2007-08, and total welfare spending has actually fallen by 0.9 per cent of GDP since 2012-13 ⤵️
The House of Lords Constitution Committee is starting a wide-ranging inquiry into strengthening our constitutional safeguards - as proposed by (Lord) Peter Hennessy. Look East, look West, and see the urgency. Written evidence requested by 28th of September. committees.parliament.uk/committee/17...
The UK’s constitutional safeguards inquiry launched by Lords Constitution Committee - Committees - UK Parliament
The House of Lords Constitution Committee has today published a call for evidence for its inquiry into the UK’s constitutional safeguards. It is inviting interested individuals and organisations...
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To carry 50,000 people per hour in each direction, a city needs a 175m wide road for cars. Even if those cars are electric. And then there’s all the parking. OR a city can move A LOT MORE people in a lot less space, with A LOT LESS public money, emissions, pollution, noise etc. Choices. Simple.
Heffer showing his ignorance about universities again. For many towns and cities, ‘let them fail’ means one of the biggest local employers disappearing.
Just published, open access: Trump is floundering in a quagmire of his own making in Iran, not least because he completely misunderstands the lessons of imperial history. @willdalrymple.bsky.social www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Trump Completely Misunderstands the Lessons of the British Empire
Published in The Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History (Vol. 54, No. 4, 2026)
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'On Tuesday the government published its response to the Education Committee’s report on higher education funding and the threat of insolvency. It’s 37 pages...read quickly, amount to a department competently batting away an inconvenient select committee.' 1/2
Ministers are throwing students to the wolves
On Tuesday the government published its response to the Education Committee’s report on higher education funding and the threat of insolvency.
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💯 A two-party system is only viable - & is certainly only democratic - if those parties can hold a broad range of opinion within them. If they refuse to do that, the best they can hope for is to deny much of the electorate representation. More likely, they'll see challengers emerging outside them.
Dylan Difford@dylandifford.bsky.social · 2w agoEndlessly fascinating how many in the Tories and Labour combine an obsessive preference for two-partyism and a hatred of the internal pluralism needed to have the big tents required for a two-party system. The cost of ideologically pure silos is external pluralism.
In just its first two days, we've seen a government is vastly more politically astute than its predecessor inews.co.uk/opinion/burn...
To mark five years of this book existing I've been collating some of the praise it's received from grateful readers
Four former employees from Southern Water, including the former Chief Executive Officer Matthew Wright, face a charge of conspiracy to defraud. www.gov.uk/government/n...
EA commences criminal proceedings against Southern Water
Four former employees from Southern Water, including the former Chief Executive Officer Matthew Wright, face a charge of conspiracy to defraud.
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Northern PM for two days and already imposing flat caps.
Sky News@news.sky.com · 2w agoThe £2 bus fare cap in most areas of England will be reinstated from January.
Buses, famously for the richer classes and upper orders.
