politics 💼
An amusing UK political story
The bloke who made it compulsory to bring photo id to your polling station got turned away today… because he’d forgotten his photo id
We had to vote for a Police and Crime Commissioner today.
It turns out every one of the candidates were for the former, and against the latter…so i voted on party lines
This week the powers that be decided to stick with Ofsted’s 4-point scale of assessing schools - outstanding, good, requires improvement and inadequate
It’s still two points less than the food inspectors use to assess the hygiene of our local pub
Both are important, but you’d think schools need a bit more granularity than how the cleanliness of the pint glasses
Interesting point in this, at least for politics nerds like myself
Famously, JFK performed better in the Presidential debates than Nixon, according to TV viewers, but less well according to radio listeners
Danny Finkelstein says that a recent study suggests that this is entirely explained by radio listeners being more rural, more conservative and more likely to vote for Nixon in the first place
Liz Truss and Brian Clough
I’ve always enjoyed unusual political metaphors - for a while I collected and tweeted a #BrexitMetaphorOfTheDay, possibly the only thing I enjoyed about that whole thing.
Anyway, in this article Liz Truss is compared to both Brian Clough and Jeremy Corbyn…which I think is rather good
www.theguardian.com/politics/…
‘Angertainment’ is a great, and useful, word
‘It got vile very quickly’: how Alex Jones turned a tragedy into a battleground
Annual-ish tweet/toot/post to say I think it’s amazing that Oxford and Cambridge have both reached the Boat Race final again
I have chips on both shoulders