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nazir afzal
@nazirafzal
Repeat after me:
There is NO point increasing sentences for crimes if offenders are NOT being identified, arrested, charged & convicted

Conviction rate has fallen 18% last yr
Rape conviction rate is the lowest since records began

It’s what you get with Underfunded Justice
10:44 PM · Mar 16, 2021·Twitter for iPhone

Chris Cook
@xtophercook
I see Dominic Cummings would like to get rid of the bad bureaucracy and replace it with good bureaucracy. we should fund the good breakthrough science - and less of the [checks notes] not-as-effective incremental stuff.

I do think the central point about him is that he doesn't understand what the _purpose_ of bureaucracy is

The school reforms of 2010-13 are a lesson to anyone taking the Cummings shtick seriously: they tried to cut the role of bureaucrats in schools and accidentally turned the DfE into a massive, local authority with no operational expertise or local accountability.

His legacy in schools is massively increased bureaucracy for school leaders and a wildly ungovernable central department that has struggled (unsuccessfully!) to stay inside its expenditure limits.

bUt hE wrOtE a bLoG witH foOtnoTeS

Julie Burchill has dropped the new publisher for her book Welcome to the Woke Trials after the publisher was identified as a supporter of the UK white nationalist group Patriotic Alternative .

Tabatha Stirling is the sole director of Stirling Publishing, an independent based in Scotland. On Monday, she announced that she had acquired Welcome to the Woke Trials: How #Identity Killed Progressive Politics, months after it was dropped by publisher Little, Brown over Burchill’s comments about Islam.

Lizzie Dearden
@lizziedearden
Exclusive: Tommy Robinson has been accused of misusing supporters’ money, as he declares himself bankrupt despite receiving hundreds of thousands of pounds in donations and funding

I have interviewed former employees and donors about where the money went
Tommy Robinson ‘misused’ donations from far-right supporters
Exclusive: EDL founder denies mis-spending donations received after appeals for cash
independent.co.uk
6:20 PM · Mar 17, 2021·Twitter Web App

RogerOThornhill wrote:And in "Well, I never" and "Shocked shocked!" we have...Tommy Robinson!

Lizzie Dearden
@lizziedearden
Exclusive: Tommy Robinson has been accused of misusing supporters’ money, as he declares himself bankrupt despite receiving hundreds of thousands of pounds in donations and funding

I have interviewed former employees and donors about where the money went
Tommy Robinson ‘misused’ donations from far-right supporters
Exclusive: EDL founder denies mis-spending donations received after appeals for cash
independent.co.uk
6:20 PM · Mar 17, 2021·Twitter Web App