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PhD, policy, strategy wonk. This is my personal account. Views expressed not affiliated to any organisation. RT≠ endorsement. Not influencer, Fatfingers & typos

Anonymity has a reason Katılım Nisan 2009
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Henry Shevlin
Henry Shevlin@dioscuri·
just got invited to peer review a paper I'm one of the authors on
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@FurkanGozukara America offers something so it is worth for people to pay the extra taxes, also taxes are low. I don’t see how a similar tax will work for the UK
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Furkan Gözükara
Furkan Gözükara@FurkanGozukara·
The UK is considering an American style global tax regime. If you move to zero tax havens like Dubai, you will still be forced to pay British income tax for the privilege of holding a UK passport and getting embassy protection. The tax loopholes might finally close.
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Kevin Pietersen🦏
Kevin Pietersen🦏@KP24·
There is only one man in your life that always wants you to be better than them. It’s your dad. Never forget that
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@DavidMcNab17 @RoryStewartUK He has no responsibility and doesn’t have to deliver anything, surprised that his ideas are not loftier. Why sell a bridge to the moon when you can have a zip wire to Jupiter
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David McNab @mcfab@home.social
David McNab @[email protected]@DavidMcNab17·
Do not underestimate the extent of the wisdom underpinning these words. 👇🏻 Zack has been on a steep learning curve - and my god but he’s wiping the floor with classically indoctrinated public-school economists. @RoryStewartUK 👀
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"We've got to stop equating the government's finances with a household." Zack Polanski speaking about government finances, austerity, and the problems with the UK's fiscal framework at our event this week

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@NicholasTyrone You wish, the Greens are asking for more from individuals. Political direction is to grind every productive person till they give up. There is little hope as no one talks about being on the side of stivers, or managing without state handouts. No place for professionals in the UK
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@RebeccaCNReid @YrkshireFinest Deciding privilege based on where someone is educated shows ignorances. It is not a fact. Privately educated are easy targets for ideological bigots
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Rebecca Reid
Rebecca Reid@RebeccaCNReid·
@YrkshireFinest Round 50% , which means that half of them weren't. That 50% don't deserve to be banded together with people who have mega privileged primary or secondary educations.
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@libdemlife Has the artist intentionally mixed Clegg and Cameron
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Lib Dem Life (Simon McGrath)
Lib Dem Life (Simon McGrath)@libdemlife·
a curiously poor picture of Clegg, unveiled at the National Liberal Club yesterday
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@DavidMcGregorBN I was told section 21 evictions are less than 5%, but people not finding properties to rent because of guarantors, landlords spooked, more checks, less properties effects the 95%
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David@DavidMcGregorBN·
People ask what Labour has actually done. Try telling a renter facing a no-fault eviction that ending Section 21 doesn’t matter. Try telling a struggling family that breakfast clubs don’t matter. Some of us know these things change lives because we’ve lived it.
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@BenGrahamUK Where does this money go, it’s not like those working on these projects get paid American salaries
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Ben Graham
Ben Graham@BenGrahamUK·
£1.5 billion for 21 miles of road. That’s £70 million per mile for the A14 Cambridge–Huntingdon upgrade. No tunnels. No megacity constraints. Just standard infrastructure. This is why nothing gets built in Britain anymore.
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@MikeTappTweets Don’t doubt that for you or anyone in politics. Please let it be the battle of ideas. Our political discourse is so low at the moment, very off putting
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Mike Tapp MP
Mike Tapp MP@MikeTappTweets·
Always. It’s on the membership card.
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@redrumlisa Each playing to their own votes. No one wants to face the real issues which will make life better for everyone. Sadly options for us are between someone who thinks they can print money on steroids, or divide people on class, colour or give us a Butlins joyride
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Lisa Mckenzie
Lisa Mckenzie@redrumlisa·
Sadiq Khan is as wrong as you can get on this because he knows sweet FA about anything outside London W1. The country is on its knees, its badly divided & sectarian already another political debate that takes time & focus away from housing, jobs, cost of living, healthcare & education would be suicide for any politician engaging in this & probably a major threat to our democracy. Politicians will not be forgiven if they do this
Antonello Guerrera@antoguerrera

EXCLUSIVE. For the first time, @MayorofLondon @SadiqKhan asks @Keir_Starmer to not only “rejoin the EU Customs Union and the Single Market this Parliament”, but also to “fight the next general election with a clear manifesto commitment: a vote for Labour means we would rejoin the European Union”, without a second #Brexit referendum. 🇬🇧 🇪🇺 Full interview - with many other topics - tomorrow in @repubblica

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@peterkyle This is very good news. Hopefully we start manufacturing all kinds of steel that is needed for growth
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James Heale
James Heale@JAHeale·
Some disquiet in Whitehall about the increasingly strident tone of some press office content:
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Iain Mansfield
Iain Mansfield@IGMansfield·
It didn't surprise me that British Muslims were more favourable to Iran, and less favourable to the US and Israel, than the general public. It did shock me they had a net favourable opinion of Russia (+2) - evidence of a very different geopolitical worldview. Report link: ⬇️
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Niall Ferguson
Niall Ferguson@nfergus·
The polling in the excellent new @Policy_Exchange report on British Muslims' attitudes is full of sobering data.
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@NicholasTyrone A country that voted Brexit, Conservatives (not conservative blob) and Labour now going for whatever 'nomics' from the Green party
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Will Hutton
Will Hutton@williamnhutton·
Each British growth scaleup with turnover in excess of $25 million sold overseas is $5 bn of lost economic value over next 10 years, estimates the Growth Trilogy. Good that Reeves is across this. Reeves vows to stop UK tech from 'drifting abroad' bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…
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@AdnanHussainMP I don't think any faith should use public spaces for praying/rituals in the UK as it is very uncomfortable for those who are not participating. Cultural events are different. Perhaps there should be more faith assigned spaces so that people can practice their faith privately.
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Adnan Hussain MP
Adnan Hussain MP@AdnanHussainMP·
Nick, this is disgraceful. Do you object when Sikhs, Hindus or Jews gather in Trafalgar Square? Or is it only Muslims you smear with talk of “domination”? They were invited, like all faiths. Your rhetoric is inflammatory, divisive, and beneath any serious public office.
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Nick Timothy MP@NJ_Timothy

Too many are too polite to say this. But mass ritual prayer in public places is an act of domination. The adhan - which declares there is no god but allah and Muhammad is his messenger - is, when called in a public place, a declaration of domination. Perform these rituals in mosques if you wish. But they are not welcome in our public places and shared institutions. And given their explicit repudiation of Christianity they certainly do not belong in our churches and cathedrals. I am not suggesting everybody at Trafalgar Square last night is an Islamist. But the domination of public places is straight from the Islamist playbook. Trafalgar Square belongs to all of us. It is a national memorial to our independence and our salvation. Last night was not like a televised football match or a St Patrick’s Day celebration. It was an act of domination and therefore division. It shouldn’t happen again.

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