Wednesday 17th March 2021

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Wednesday 17th March 2021

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Morning all.
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Good morning.
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Quite.
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Re: Wednesday 17th March 2021

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Tories getting upset because the words of one of their government advisers have been quoted back at them. Good, let's have a bit more of that.
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Re: Wednesday 17th March 2021

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Nice thread from Chris Cook
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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
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Re: Wednesday 17th March 2021

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Well hello there.

Anybody else about?
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Oops.

Julie Burchill fires new publisher identified as a white nationalist

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2021/ ... ationalist" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
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.
:D

Safe to say that Ms Burchill hasn't had the best of weeks...
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And in "Well, I never" and "Shocked shocked!" we have...Tommy Robinson!
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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
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Was tidying up my files the other day, and found a wealth of poorly "photoshopped" artwork I've submitted to FTN in recent years. Brought on a bout of nostalgia.
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RogerOThornhill wrote:And in "Well, I never" and "Shocked shocked!" we have...Tommy Robinson!
Lizzie Dearden
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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
Its never the people you expect, is it??

(oh yeah, it actually is)
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