On the plus side, there’s now a vacancy for a Conservative council candidate in Somerset which Jason Arday could take up?
Jonathan Simons
@jonathansimons.bsky.social
Partner, Public First and Head of Education Practice. Education strategy + policy advisory. Former civil servant + think tanker. Occasional loud LFC. Centrist Dad, so naturally I also have a Substack.
Unsurprisingly, this is so so good
Daisy Christodoulou@daisychristo.bsky.social · 4d agoI've weighed in on the great vocational education debate. From what we can see of the govt plans, I think they will repeat mistakes of the past. Also, we need to retire the phrase "parity of esteem". It's not helping. substack.nomoremarking.com/p/the-proble...
Sunday: an LLM disproves an 87-year-old mathematics conjecture, seemingly on the prompter's whim Monday: the UK govt dept responsible for thinking strategically about AI + research in the round is disbanded, seemingly over a petty civil service turf war. Good one. 🇬🇧🦶🔫
Ed M getting on the phone to Tehran in the morning
Ed Milliband Gifminster
ALT: Ed Milliband Gifminster
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The Argentina behavior on every foul - encircling the ref & yelling at him - is illegal & no other team does it as comprehensively & often as they do, & it should not be tolerated.
Jude Bellingham. Selfish player, self obsessed. Should have left him at home
Wild game. Can’t work out if this is “man England really can’t hold a lead” or “France are brilliant” or “who gives a toss”
Oh thank god! Approximately £10 per taxpayer freed up to make a significant contribution on cost of living priorities!!!
The Guardian@theguardian.com · 3w agoBurnham to scrap Starmer’s digital ID scheme in ‘reset of priorities’
You have to think at least 4-5 places in that final squad were wrong either tactically, mentality, form or fitness wise, which is quite an error rate from 23 (excl the GKs) (Chalobah, Henderson, Mainoo, either Eze or Madueke, and purely for fitness reasons, maybe Saka)
Karim Palant@karimpalant.bsky.social · 3w agoEngland didn’t have another fully fit 6/8 style player - Elliot Anderson and Declan rice fully fit would have seen us into the final I think. A midfield three of Bellingham, rice and Anderson can win the euros next time. Who knows what went on with Mainoo. But inability to rest Rice cost us.
The German car manufacturers didn’t save us, now the German manager can’t save us.
What a bunch of unlikeable people to lose to as well. God I hope Spain smash them
I’m sorry to say that was as predictable as the sun coming up
When someone does something wrong “Sack [X] for being unloyal, disloyal” @jesslister.bsky.social
Stephen Bush@stephenkb.bsky.social · 3w agoWhat’s the cultural reference you must frequently have to stop yourself from making at work, because no-one else would get it? Mine is “ze price stabilité is ze most important thing”.
It will be peak Starmer if we win the World Cup, the genuinely big football fan PM has it as his literal last moment of official glory, and he celebrates it with an incredibly awkward photo and some terribly written social media commentary supposedly in his name
Politics UK@politicsuk.com · 3w ago🚨 NEW: Keir Starmer will attend the World Cup final in New York if England beat Argentina on Wednesday He would then fly back to London and officially resign as Prime Minister
2030. An overcrowded prison cell Prisoner 1: what are you in for? Prisoner 2: armed robbery. You? Prisoner 1: about six months ago I said “Halò, is mise an tagraiche pàrlamaideach ionadail agaibh”
Josiah Mortimer@josiahmortimer.bsky.social · 3w ago🔴 Reform UK Plans To Jail Candidates For Using Irish, Gaelic Or Cornish On Election Leaflets EXCLUSIVE: Nigel Farage’s party propose amendment to the Government’s elections Bill which would mean candidates using Irish and Scottish Gaelic would face up to six months in prison
Do ITV do audience research? There’s surely not a group of watchers out there who sit in a focus group, watch clips and think “yeah, those are my guys”
Sam Freedman@samfr.bsky.social · 4w agoThe best news is the semi-final is on the BBC so we don't have to listen to Sam Matterface and Lee Dixon again.
Henderson has his full kit on despite being injured. The full John Terry 😂😂
I may be cursing it but my god, the perennially injured right back and the injured star right winger is surely going to kill us at some point
Keir Starmer has the opportunity to do the funniest thing here
👇👇👇 (The League of Former HMT Officials speaks)
Jack Kessler@jackkessler.bsky.social · 4w agoWhile nodding to my entry in the register of former HMT officials' interests, I'd argue it's run by people who worry about the public finances on the basis, correctly in my view, that no other department (inc No 10) cares about it.
I swear to god this is a Yes Prime Minister plot (the little puppy for the Queen as a gift from the french) which has to be quarantined
Chris McKeon@cjmckeon.bsky.social · 4w agoToday's best bit of news from Nato - Erdogan gave the other leaders each a revolver engraved with their name and a box of live rounds. But Starmer has had to leave his in Turkey to be decommissioned because, while Erdogan gave him a note waiving export controls, it's illegal to import into the UK.
