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Oliver Lewis

@policy_uk

Historian of policy failure in British Government. British Gaullist. Instagram: @madeinmontgomery

Oxford Katılım Kasım 2018
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Oliver Lewis
Oliver Lewis@policy_uk·
Obliged to @Telegraph for this profile published today; an overview of my academic research into British Policy Failure and vibe for how we extricate ourselves from the crisis we are in. Stage One: restoring a sense of national pride & fixing the training of our political elites
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Daniel Hannan
Daniel Hannan@DanielJHannan·
Seriously @British_Airways, you have got to sort out your software. It has been years since your online check-in was reliable. It causes huge and needless delays. How hard can it be to fix?
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Rob Osborne
Rob Osborne@mrrobosborne·
Welcome to see UK-wide coverage of the Senedd election. But striking how many columns still default to Scotland when writing about devolution despite the story not being there this time. Why? Because it’s what they know. Wales needs more voices in UK publications.
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Christopher Day
Christopher Day@IndieChris71·
@WingsEcosse @ClarkeMicah @policy_uk Cambridge will always be second best, it was founded as an offshoot from Oxford, as anyone born and brought up in Oxford (such as me) will never tire of telling you! 😀
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Peter Hitchens
Peter Hitchens@ClarkeMicah·
.@policy_uk. Oxford is indeed in the real world. It has a sewage farm and used to have a gasworks, it has a bus station, a football ground, several Tescos (I have a Clubcard), and a hideous shopping mall. But I do know very well that it is in some ways untypical.
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@NealOKelly @ClarkeMicah I adore Peter but he is wrong on this. Oxford has never been the real world.

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Sarah Vine
Sarah Vine@WestminsterWAG·
Standing room only on @GWRHelp to London from Par in Cornwall. £80 for a one way ticket, and they can’t even supply a seat.
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Roger Ford
Roger Ford@Captain_Deltic·
@policy_uk @Ogilvie_CJ @ClarkeMicah My PhD on the subject has been written in monthly (and fortnightly) instalments over the last 30 years! Would love to read your analysis of those crucial years. Roger@alycidon.com plese
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Peter Hitchens
Peter Hitchens@ClarkeMicah·
I am against HS2, a vanity project unrelated to the country's transport needs. What happend to the public subsidies for roads, in real terms, 1993 to 2007? And how much of the rail subsidy went straight into the trousers of train operating companies, Roscos, etc? .@policy_uk
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@BernardMeesPhD @NealOKelly @ClarkeMicah But we are in the process of throwing £100 billion at HS2… and the public subsidy to the railways tripled in real terms 1993-2007

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Oliver Lewis@policy_uk·
@NealOKelly @ClarkeMicah With children or elderly relatives, when it’s raining cats and dogs as it does so often in Britain. Or half of the rest of the year when it’s freezing.
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Neal O'Kelly
Neal O'Kelly@NealOKelly·
@ClarkeMicah Apart from being a lament regarding personal distaste for car, what's the actual vision here: Cities connected only by rail, with only cycle tracks within their walls?
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Peter Hitchens
Peter Hitchens@ClarkeMicah·
3/3 .@nealokelly As an education reporter and then industrial reporter I also travelled widely. I have never lived in central Oxford, but in various suburbs, including both Summertown and Rose Hill. You know nothing about me. Sorry to disturb your enjoyable prejudices.
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@policy_uk @ClarkeMicah It almost as if seldom leaving central Oxford might give you a slightly warped perspective of reality.

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Oliver Lewis
Oliver Lewis@policy_uk·
First Past The Post worked when most Parliamentary seats had only one or two candidates in the 19th century, before the days of a proper two-party duopoly when candidates were genuinely elected on their individual merit. Not now !
Aaron Bastani@AaronBastani

We need PR. STV or additional member system would create more stability, not less. It’s very possible that the adversarial two party system possibly can’t work in the information environment we now have.

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Tom HB
Tom HB@hb_history·
🚨 A letter to Year 11 families at Michaela Community School states that children who do not attend weekend and holiday revision sessions will “spend time in Referral” They must also attend in full school uniform
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Neal O'Kelly
Neal O'Kelly@NealOKelly·
@policy_uk @ClarkeMicah It almost as if seldom leaving central Oxford might give you a slightly warped perspective of reality.
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Oliver Lewis@policy_uk·
@ClarkeMicah Peter you live in Oxford where you can walk anywhere to amazing amenities - cultural, economic, educational. Most of the rest of the country doesn’t have these facilities close to their homes, and definitely not a stroll away across the University Parks !
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Oliver Lewis@policy_uk·
@ClarkeMicah Nonsense! If you immigrate ten million people 1991-2021 you’re going to need more roads. We suspended the trunk road building programme in 1994. Madness.
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Neal O'Kelly
Neal O'Kelly@NealOKelly·
@BernardMeesPhD @ClarkeMicah @policy_uk "99% of the investment" is a slightly framing, is it not? I get that you think we should have spent more on rail, but we couldn't realistically have not spent on roads. Which road/roads is/are it that you think we don't need?
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Nick, 30
Nick, 30@an0n_Nic·
The point is the British state governed and administered the largest Empire in recent history without so much as a single iPhone. Today we have infinite times more compute and can barely build a bridge, incase we disturb a bat nest.
Gerry Hassan@GerryHassan

So much fantasy projection about the UK & British Empire in 1900. The UK was grim for the vast majority: life expectancy was 44-48 for men & 48 to 54 for women; inequality & hardship were rife. And by 1900 fears of decline were rife in elites with the rise of USA & Germany.

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Roger Ford
Roger Ford@Captain_Deltic·
@Ogilvie_CJ @ClarkeMicah @policy_uk But East Coast upgraded by BR on time and on budget. Railtrack West Coast upgrade descoped, late and grossly over budget. Ditto Great Western Despite economic and ridership growth, subsidy as percentage of GDP pre- Covid (2018-19) double BR in 1989-90.
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