Knowledge & understanding grow in university settings when experts disagree with each other, testing each others' claims, adducing different evidence & positing alternative scenarios. That's how change happens. In this thread, I suggest that we take a different approach to that featured here. 1/x

NEW from me: many of our universities are now in a dying fall. A new global-national-regional-local split is opening up, which could choke off progress on almost all the Government's plans. Do they have a plan? Nope, nothing, not a clue. 👇 isrf.org/blog/whats-t...

Last week was potentially transformational for the future of young people in England's state schools, who received a new commitment to 'oracy' education in the Curriculum and Assessment Review.

"Conventional wisdom says you can’t sell a tax rise." Tom Wright: How to sell a tax rise

New piece by me in the @newstatesman1913.bsky.social on how Reeves could learn from history on how to tell a story about the inevitable … www.newstatesman.com/politics/uk-...

was delighted to join David Runciman on his podcast @ppfideas.bsky.social this week to talk about 'charisma' and how the (bad) way we talk about politics shapes the politics we get.