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Graham Evans

@mars164.bsky.social

Retired HR manager who's followed, and often participated in, party politics since my early teenage years.

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Graham Evans@mars164.bsky.social · 3w ago

It's significant that the msm media have been in uproar about a black academic in a subject area where Cambridge can hardly claim pre-eminence, while almost completely ignoring alleged bullying of female staff, and harassment of a whistleblower, in a department which has an international reputation.

Steve Peers@stevepeers.bsky.social · 3w ago

Ok, some thoughts, as an olde tyme academic, on the Arday tragedy. First, allegations about causes. We don't know what was in his mind, but many people are keen to blame him, or woke lefties/academia, or the media. Some people are absolutely certain that the media are faultless. 1/

Stephen Bush@stephenkb.bsky.social · 3w ago

It is a wholly accurate description of a piece where you concluded, without proper evidence, that the issue was about “midwitted groupthink” and that the university sector’s approach on ethnic diversity needs a “healthy reset”. Had you even spoken to the hiring panel?

Tom Freeman@tomfreeman.bsky.social · 4w ago

Early signs are not encouraging about whether Burnham is willing/able to improve on the most odious failure of the Starmer government: responding to racist violence by condemning the violence but being silent, or even placatory, about the motives behind it.

Sunder Katwala (sundersays)@sundersays.bsky.social · 4w ago

This is a really inadequate Home Office statement in these circumstancds It empathises with this protest as expressing legitimate concerns, singles out violence against police, and simply fails to say "violence threatening asylum seekers, migrants & other minorities is shocking + wrong"

Gemma Clark 🧿🕯️@gemmaclark.bsky.social · last mo.

Andrew Tate’s lawyer is claiming they will be executed in the U.K. Unfortunately MAGAs will believe anything so just to be really clear, there is no such thing as the death penalty in the U.K. and there hasn’t been for many decades.

Andrew Tate’s lawyer is claiming they will be executed in the U.K. Unfortunately MAGAs will believe anything so just to be really clear, there is no such thing as the death penalty in the U.K. and there hasn’t been for many decades.
Dmitry Grozoubinski@explaintrade.com · last mo.

I don't know what that means. Governing is about making choices and politics is about how those choices get made. UK can have social care workers who are: Cheap, Local or Plentiful but it can only pick two of those at a time.

James Ball@jamesrball.com · last mo.

One particular bugbear of mine: most university degrees have nothing to do with politics, current affairs, or related issues! If you go there to study chemistry, or maths, or nursing, etc, you have a very different experience to, say, PPE. Journalists with humanities degrees endlessly project...

Peter Whitewood@pwhitewood.bsky.social · last mo.

Heffer showing his ignorance about universities again. For many towns and cities, ‘let them fail’ means one of the biggest local employers disappearing.

Graham Evans@mars164.bsky.social · 2mo ago

A challenge to those who think we can't, and shouldn't, reverse globalisation, and who pour scorn on the concept of re-industrialisation. We're not going to return to the days of many, many thousands employed at a single location but we may need to reconsider the concept of competitive advantage.

The Factory We Had to Build Again

Rachel Reeves, John Healey, and the surprising story of Britain’s return to manufacturing. With some big explosions along the way

open.substack.com

Graham Evans@mars164.bsky.social · 2mo ago

George Brown and the 69 Labour MPs who voted with the Conservative government in favour of Britain's entry into the Common Market was the last group of Labour politicians whose commitment to membership has been much more than a purely transactional economic relationship.

Patrick Robey@pat-beauclerc.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Not many people remember Lord George Brown, which is a shame. He spoke a lot of sense. Here he explains the importance of Britain's place in Europe. His words are as true today as they were when he spoke, 55 years ago. www.youtube.com/watch?v=y5vQ...

Laurie Dunkin Wedd@ldw1.bsky.social · 3mo ago

We had a good system once when employers were given significant incentives to use the industry training boards to upskill their employees. They still exist to some extent. Could easily be renewed.

UnHerd@unherd.com · 2mo ago

‘Unless Manchester and Britain's other great cities develop economically, the reforms announced this week risk becoming little more than another iteration of past proposals’ | Thomas Munson

unherd.com