Ewan @ewannic.bsky.social · 09/10/2026"People don't proof read your tables for you*" should be taught in schools *Except in places where they've already learned this the hard way and defo do check the data 020
Ewan @ewannic.bsky.social · 06/10/2026I agree it's a mad system, but some of those who miss out on additional 15 hours childcare presumably benefit from Universal Credit childcare instead? 100
Ewan @ewannic.bsky.social · 05/10/2026*Don't say it don't say it don't say it* Well actually Odysseus only spends around 1/4 of the Odyssey trying to get home. The rest of the time he's on an island with Calipso doing bugger all or already on Ithaca murdering his subjects *Damnit couldn't resist* 050
Ewan @ewannic.bsky.social · 03/10/2026A bank recovery tax, levied until the banks have paid back government debt incurred for the banking crisis and QE 010
Ewan @ewannic.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Oh, I lucked out with teachers at school too. Had some really excellent ones. One taught me Geography GCSE in her own time because I couldn't take that and History. The older I get, the more grateful I am for her doing that. 020
Ewan @ewannic.bsky.social · 01/10/2026My parents paid for music lessons, the local authority invested a lot in weekend arts education, I volunteered for the local MP. So I had some advantages and I've no doubt they helped me get into Cambridge. They just didn't cost my parents £15k /year 110
Ewan @ewannic.bsky.social · 01/10/2026(I can think of one bloke who thought his private education was better - that was more to do with him. Mostly everyone mixed and were lovely). 110
Ewan @ewannic.bsky.social · 01/10/2026I tend to agree (including with the "loosely held") part. I was a comp kid who got into Cambridge. Some of the private school kids had a different education to mine, I wouldn't say it was better. 120
Ewan @ewannic.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Good. Policy makers should be informed. It's what, less than £1 per week per person? 000
Ewan @ewannic.bsky.social · 28/09/2026I am enjoying the specific housing market point but can we also take a moment to observe the general point on "below inflation increase" and say: that's not how inflation and price setting work. 011
Ewan @ewannic.bsky.social · 27/09/2026If we shadows have offended, Think but this: fuck all is mended 010
Reposted by EwanWill Stone MP @willstonemp.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Today is National Manufacturing Day 2026 and I'm proud to have brought more manufacturing to Swindon through the Drone Hub and back the people working in the manufacturing sector. This builds on Swindon's history as a manufacturing town, leading the way in engineering and research. 122
Ewan @ewannic.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Hmm, but if you get so sick you can't study you get sent back to your home country so still need to maintain health insurance 100
Ewan @ewannic.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Like, by all means express the desire to see the thing happen. Just don't assume that things can always happen in the time it takes to think the thing and tweet it. 000
Ewan @ewannic.bsky.social · 22/09/2026One of the tendencies on Bluesky is to assume that because something hasn't happened yet, the powers that be are useless and will not do the thing. My friends, sometimes things just take a day or two. 110
Ewan @ewannic.bsky.social · 21/09/2026Nah, you fry the lettuce first so it crisps up. Reckon it was a Fearnley-Whittingstall recipe. 000
Ewan @ewannic.bsky.social · 21/09/2026Gem lettuce quiche. OMG. Though I think it was the cream rather than the lettuce that made it. 200
Ewan @ewannic.bsky.social · 20/09/2026*there are shifts though. The move to nationalise certain utilities - e.g. railways - is one. Manchesterism is potentially another. 000
Ewan @ewannic.bsky.social · 20/09/2026But there's been less debate about underlying paradigms*. So it's not that folk aren't engaged they're just engaged in different levels of the puzzle. If there's a desire to get more engagement with the underlying paradigms, the question is how you incentivize that. 101
Ewan @ewannic.bsky.social · 20/09/2026Think of a hierarchy of events then patterns then systems then paradigms. (E.g. this one: www.cairnleadership.com/systems-thin... ) Where there is engagement it tends to focus on patterns (is there a cost-benefit case for reform?). Sometimes, people come together and you get systematic reform 100
Ewan @ewannic.bsky.social · 20/09/2026Being 70 years since its publication, I was flicking through Crossland's Future of Socialism back in the spring. In the early chapters he canters freely through the then traditions of British socialism: Owenism, theory of value, Christian socialism, ILP, Fabianism, the paternalist tradition... 100
Ewan @ewannic.bsky.social · 20/09/2026I saw you tweet it earlier and nearly resubscribed to renewal... 100
Reposted by EwanJohn Denham @jydenham.bsky.social · 20/09/2026Rekindling Labour's relationship with the wider world of progressive ideas. renewal.org.uk/blog/labour-... 122
Reposted by EwanHetan Shah @hetanshah.bsky.social · 15/09/2026We met with the new Science Minister Chris McDonald yesterday. He indicated his strong support across all R&D disciplines which was great to hear. He is keen to get to know the social science, humanities and arts, and has offered to meet with our community which we'll take forward 612328
Ewan @ewannic.bsky.social · 14/09/2026Yup, saw a clip of an 80s film on Instagram yesterday, loads of comments underneath it saying things like it was their favourite, pretty certain the whole thing was AI as I'd never seen it before, none of the comments named the film, and it was just weird. 040
Ewan @ewannic.bsky.social · 13/09/2026Adding in these costs and it becomes more expensive. But if you follow the logic of that argument, you also really need to ask what the infrastructure costs are of *not* investing in green energy generation. Across water, transport, food etc 001
Ewan @ewannic.bsky.social · 13/09/2026"Can Britain's Broken Energy System be Fixed," on Radio 4 right now, is a really great breakdown of the issues facing energy in this country. But they've fallen into a bit of a trap. The line of argument that green energy is cheaper to produce until you've added in the costs of infrastructure... 100
Reposted by EwanAlex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 03/09/2026I note with astonishment the total lack of reporting about gilt yields falling back to their pre-spike level, the Times piece on how this makes it easier for gov't to fund stuff, and of course the Telegraph front page MARKETS LOVE BURNHAM. 725785
Reposted by EwanSunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 02/09/2026The BBC news website prefers the visible OPTICS of arrival and the newsworthyness of UP to its duty to contextualise and report (as v well described in the BBC thematic review of migration). The reports do include the DOWN context a bit more now + BBC Verify tracks it www.bbc.co.uk/search?q=cha...bbc.co.ukFrench police tactics are becoming more effective in stopping small boats in the English Channel from reaching Britain, the Home Office has said. 1206
Reposted by EwanMet Office - weather and climate @metoffice.gov.uk · 01/09/2026In addition, our scientists assessed how this summer’s warmth would compare in future global warming levels and found that this summer’s warmth would be around average for a UK summer in a world 2.5 - 3°C warmer than the pre-industrial period. 🧵 1187
Reposted by EwanMet Office - weather and climate @metoffice.gov.uk · 01/09/2026Summer 2026 is provisionally the UK’s warmest summer on record with the season’s mean temperature made around 130 times more likely due to human-induced climate change. Here, we delve into the numbers 🧵 5262168
Ewan @ewannic.bsky.social · 30/08/2026Finally saw the Spidey movie. My favourite Marvel movie. Also better, I think, than the Odyssey. But the two 9 year olds I went with weren't quite so impressed. 000
Ewan @ewannic.bsky.social · 23/08/2026That is one of the most elegant sitcom jokes of all time. Was watching some early Simpsons today (not the same thing, I know). But that too had some beautifully-written actual jokes in it. 010
Reposted by EwanSunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 19/08/2026National Lottery Good Causes £53 billion has gone into good causes from the lottery in its three decades. The government is now consulting for 12 weeks (by 23/9/2026) with a call for evidence on what works well + what could change & how to work better www.gov.uk/government/c...gov.ukNational Lottery Good Causes: Fund what matters to you 1134
Reposted by EwanGlennyrodge @glennyrodge.bsky.social · 13/08/2026what do we want? motorbike noises when do we want them? nnyyyyyyyowwwww 34113
