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Joe Lane
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Joe Lane
@joeAlane
Not tweeting about work for a bit... still thinking about better policy and better policy making.
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Apple has donated millions to the Trump Administration in the past year.
Tim Cook's last post was honoring MLK a week ago.
Pretty galling to offer a tribute to a long-dead icon's "commitment to justice" when you are funding injustice today.
Tim Cook@tim_cook
Today we honor Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s legacy of service, his commitment to justice, and his belief that every one of us has the power to make a difference, because as he reminded us, “everybody can be great, because everybody can serve.”
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The Crime and Policing Bill makes some important changes. As it's currently drafted, though, it will create similar loopholes that were used by those sexually exploiting children. childrenscommissioner.gov.uk/news-and-blogs…
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Ahead of a crucial period of education reform this autumn - we at @ChildrensComm have published our contribution.
The first output from our census of all schools and colleges in England.
assets.childrenscommissioner.gov.uk/wpuploads/2025…
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@patrickc Which mentions Cas Mudde, who also did this interview in 2019.. fivebooks.com/best-books/far…
But interesting to know how it's changed since then. Maybe ask Cas?
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@patrickc I feel like there were lots of English speaking book length attempts post 2016, or maybe when I was paying most attention. This is a good review of some of those... thenation.com/article/archiv…
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Opinion polling for the next election:
UK: Reform leading by 7pp
France: RN leading by 10pp
Germany: AfD leading by 2pp
Italy: FdI leading by 7pp
Netherlands: PVV leading by 1pp
Switzerland: SVP leading by 12pp
Austria: FPÖ leading by 13pp
(Most data from Wikipedia.)
The degree to which the non-traditional right is ascendant across the western world is very striking. Which are the best pieces that attempt to explain this in international rather than merely domestic terms?
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@joeAlane This is the only one I’ve seen on VI but there is a bunch of ones that purport to show support for dictators, fash stuff generally many of which have quite big quality issues. I’d trust them from a major pollster but be careful with others personally. itv.com/news/2025-07-1…
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It’s really hard to poll 16-17year olds reliably.
There’s going to be a huge amount of polls saying different things about how they’d vote.
Even more important to see if patterns emerge across polls and consider carefully who is doing the work.
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@Ben_Reinhardt A good version of this conversation is, if you went back in time what could you invent. Depends a lot on when too and what you've got. Most people's answer... Almost nothing.
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My favorite example of this is that an F-35 is effectively useless without basically the entire American economy behind it to provide fuel, spare parts, support crews etc.
F-35 not as weapon, but tip of infrastructural spear.
Caleb Watney@calebwatney
Great conversation b/t @dwarkesh_sp, @tamaybes, and @EgeErdil2 on the importance of complementary innovation + infrastructure for understanding how science/tech grows
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Such an important education role in our office. Please speak with @joeAlane if you think this role could be right for you and you want to set the world on 🔥 for children 👇🏻
Joe Lane@joeAlane
I am hiring someone to lead the Children's Commissioner's work on education - very happy to have a call with anyone interested careers.childrenscommissioner.gov.uk/job/4bc49e36-f…
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I am hiring someone to lead the Children's Commissioner's work on education - very happy to have a call with anyone interested careers.childrenscommissioner.gov.uk/job/4bc49e36-f…
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@duncanrobinson Don't think it's exactly the same as the issue you're describing. But part of it
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@duncanrobinson This is how I've tried to describe it. Essentially where a law makes sense for an individual, and might confer individual rights. But can't be delivered, or the system change to deliver it isn't really being thought about.
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People are much savvier than the state thinks. What does that mean? The state actually has to deliver what it has pledged and that, it turns out, is veryyyy expensive and/or unpopular
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@AnnaCMcShane Yes! Feels like a massive opportunity to do something structural and make sure schools are properly linked with range of local services. Ie not be a position where it feels too tricky to make them a statutory safeguarding partner.
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@joeAlane And for schools too to overcome some of the fragmentation in the system due to growth of MATs.
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This is really interesting. The big prize for public services, though, will be
1. Using this to make wider administrative geography more coherent - ensuring things like ICBs and police forces overlap with councils.
2. Making it uniform across England
Max Kendix@MaxKendix
Exclusive: Biggest overhaul of local government in over 50 years - Dozens of councils abolished to make more "efficient" large authorities with populations of 500k+ - First wave of restructuring includes Essex, Kent, Surrey, Hertfordshire, Norfolk and Suffolk
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