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Watching as the Labour party, once again, descends into uncivil war. It cannot coalesce around any policy position or agree on who is best placed to deliver it. 1/6 We've

One more go at the Irish border 'trilemma' (see @rdanielkelemen's Venn diagram) and Brexit. The implications of the latest developments are very stark. Thread.1/ While the UK and the EU

Lots of talk again today about @UKLabour's positioning on Brexit. I don't think that finding the right path as complicated as many seem to believe. Thread. 1/19 (sorry it is

I agree with the framing in this thread - and in particular with the 'negative externality' comment. All businesses want to ensure that they can survive, and will (rationally) make

How - in a few short weeks - have we moved from a situation in which the need for urgency and agility meant that it was not possible to admit

A long thread (sorry) about Universities and the response to COVID-19. It's very much a personal view. 1/22 I'm not going to go through the history - on that, I

Just had the misfortune to see @RobertJenrick's interview on the BBC. 1/12 The rhetoric goes like this: We are at a moment of maximum danger. We have hard choices to

Perhaps inadvertently, Rishi Sunak and Gillian Keegan have, in their comments about 're-skilling', drifted into what I think is *very* interesting territory. A thread on the new normal, resistance to

I wrote a blog for @UKandEU on the internal market bill, and the implications for the UK's future relationship with the EU. Here it is recast as a twitter thread.

It's difficult to take a step back... but that's what I'll try to do here. This is all about the Government's failings. The thing which I think is getting to

This thread is for @seanjonesqc. It is about the misdirection of Brexiters' arguments; they are talking not to the EU (whom they should be trying to understand and persuade), but

Please don't allow the Govt, and @GavinWilliamson in particular, to get away with using the 'triple lock' line in defence of the A level (and GCSE) results fiasco. Let us