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Dr Kevin D. Tennent @kevindtennent.bsky.social · 10h

Cute, but I'd be curious to see if you can get anything more than a French stick in the boot.

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Dr Kevin D. Tennent @kevindtennent.bsky.social · 10h

Believing your own hubris is a classic sign of losing the plot.

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Dr Kevin D. Tennent @kevindtennent.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Multiple factors can cause a socio-economic pheomeonon, and indeed they usually do.

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Dr Kevin D. Tennent @kevindtennent.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Though it says GBR and doesn't clarify that it's just showing Anglia?

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Dr Kevin D. Tennent @kevindtennent.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Expect Orca Gas services are fending off loads of people looking for petrol.

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Dr Kevin D. Tennent @kevindtennent.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

The #MIT report on AI is worth reading - it is well nuanced, thinks about where AI might have positive use cases in HE as well as negative ones, and actually suggests an emphasis on personal development and human contact as a solution. #academicsky aiandeducation.mit.edu/report/

aiandeducation.mit.edu

Report – AI and Education

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Dr Kevin D. Tennent @kevindtennent.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

I remember in the early 2000s mobiles meant BT had to change the orthodoxy - and they brought in the ability to ring any 01 or 02 number from a payphone for 20 minutes for 20p. I used this a lot - but my family still insisted on phoning me back, even though it was more expensive!

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Dr Kevin D. Tennent @kevindtennent.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Agree with your overall point - County Durham's unusual population distribution is a real challenge.

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Dr Kevin D. Tennent @kevindtennent.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Not necessarily, as the Hope Valley project to replicate Switzerland's excellent rural public transport shows. www.eastmidlands-cca.gov.uk/mini-switzer...

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Mini Switzerland Project: FAQs - East Midlands Combined County Authority

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Dr Kevin D. Tennent @kevindtennent.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Remember when we had politicians that were cognitively capable of dealing with complex concepts?

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Dr Kevin D. Tennent @kevindtennent.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

This seemed clear at the time; it is good to see revisionism taking it on.

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Dr Kevin D. Tennent @kevindtennent.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I've published a review of John Wilson's new edited collection on Management in interwar Britain in the Economic History Review. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

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<em>The Economic History Review</em> | EHS Journal | Wiley Online Library

Click on the article title to read more.

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Dr Kevin D. Tennent @kevindtennent.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Might stop traders from getting access to Dixons, though...

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Dr Kevin D. Tennent @kevindtennent.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Historians should be concerned about this precendent at a prestigous university - how many companies, local authorities and universities would happily give access or even sell their archives to an AI company? www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

theguardian.com

Oxford lets OpenAI train its AI models on Bodleian Library

University staff voice concerns over reputational risk of partnering with company behind ChatGPT

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Dr Kevin D. Tennent @kevindtennent.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I've come to prefer the county commentaries to TMS as well.

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Dr Kevin D. Tennent @kevindtennent.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I guess better a slow meandering end to the season than last year's last day collapse.

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Dr Kevin D. Tennent @kevindtennent.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Yeah, a change made the difference for him.

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Dr Kevin D. Tennent @kevindtennent.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I seem to remember Gary Pratt consistently struggling with the bat before Durham dropped him, and he ended up as a 12th man for England...such a shame could have been a great home grown player.

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Dr Kevin D. Tennent @kevindtennent.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Michael Gough? Before I forget, thank you and the team for all the commentaries this year.

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Dr Kevin D. Tennent @kevindtennent.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Though even the crisps have a north-south divide to them!

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Dr Kevin D. Tennent @kevindtennent.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

As a foundation story/corporate history this is amazing, both self-spoofing and genre conforming all at once.

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Dr Kevin D. Tennent @kevindtennent.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Common problem in research centres at universities, where funding is often contingent on individuals.

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Dr Kevin D. Tennent @kevindtennent.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Can that fit in the DLR's platforms? Lol.

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Dr Kevin D. Tennent @kevindtennent.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

You'd have thought they could have properly adapted Molly's workspace given the Bake Off set is temporary. #gbbo

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Dr Kevin D. Tennent @kevindtennent.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Speaks to a much broader problem of course that many parents do not understand that their children are full adults after 18. The number of parents ringing clearing and otherwise representing their kids to university staff seems to be on the up.

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Dr Kevin D. Tennent @kevindtennent.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Some of the stats around York seem a bit optimistic!

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Dr Kevin D. Tennent @kevindtennent.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

The double admin involved actually seems to have stifled these inititatives since the 1960s at least. You'd think you'd have found a way to deal with this by now.

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Dr Kevin D. Tennent @kevindtennent.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Don't do that because you'll actually give them the opportunity to create a hyper-libertarian tax and governance haven on our own soil.

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Dr Kevin D. Tennent @kevindtennent.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Union de-recognition is a classic sign of industrial decline, and a determination on management's part that what is now left is the strip mining of what remains.

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Dr Kevin D. Tennent @kevindtennent.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

We finally suggest PELT as an agenda for the research of public value, ecosystems, learning and temporality suggesting that there is a need to learn between projects over time - suggesting that more historical and temporal research interrogated by public management theory is the pathway forward.

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Dr Kevin D. Tennent @kevindtennent.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Finally, Answar et al consider qualitative data from the 1960s to the 2020s to ask whether projects learn across space and time - demonstrating that working with the public sector in different host countries adds complexity, and that the games should be centralised. doi.org/10.1080/1471...

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Do projects learn across space and time? Evidence from the Olympics

Do projects learn across space and time? The Olympics, themselves among the largest publicly funded programmes in the world, offer a unique empirical setting. Theoretically, the Games seem ideal fo...

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Dr Kevin D. Tennent @kevindtennent.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Millar and Mueller consider the 1986 Commonwealth Games through the framework of interplay between strategic action fields - using the story of how Robert Maxwell, a charismatic individual, intervened to bankroll the games, challenging norms. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

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Politics and personalities: the 1986 Commonwealth Games as strategic action field

Quadrennial sporting events are a recognized form of megaproject or mega-event and prior literature has examined in depth their motivations, and the reasons why they frequently fail to deliver prom...

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Dr Kevin D. Tennent @kevindtennent.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Diego Barría Traverso carries out a historical analysis of the 1962 FIFA World Cup - plans for this were scaled down following an earthquake in 1960, but the government was able to realise public value by pursuing the soft power and economic benefits of hosting. www.tandfonline.com/doi/10.1080/...

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Organizing a sport mega-event in a poor and earthquaked country: the case of Chile´s 1962 world cup

This paper aims to contribute to the debate on how the bodies responsible for organizing sports mega-events can successfully overcome challenges during the preparation phase. It also aims to unders...

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Dr Kevin D. Tennent @kevindtennent.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Geeraert and van Bottenburg consider the hosting of stages of the La Vuelta cycling race in the Netherlands - which was largely supported by local government - they find that when public value built in, community benefits are more likely to be achieved. www.tandfonline.com/doi/10.1080/...

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How the pursuit of public value facilitates collaborative governance: the case of La Vuelta Holanda

While existing research on collaborative governance and public value highlights challenges, this article shows how public value goals can foster collaboration. Drawing on public service motivation,...

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Dr Kevin D. Tennent @kevindtennent.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Pleased to announce Dr Alex Gillett and I's intro for our SI of Public Management Review on sporting megaevents is now out! We introduce the concept of PELT - public value, ecosystems, learning and temporality - factors in need of study around sporting megas. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

tandfonline.com

Introducing public management and global sporting mega-events: public value, ecosystems, learning and temporality

Published in Public Management Review (Ahead of Print, 2026)

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Dr Kevin D. Tennent @kevindtennent.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Sounds like a scam to literally cycle money around.

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Dr Kevin D. Tennent @kevindtennent.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Depends how you interpret positive or negative in this context.

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Dr Kevin D. Tennent @kevindtennent.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

GBR's biggest policy failure will be not ending rolling stock leasing.

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Dr Kevin D. Tennent @kevindtennent.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Good to see Women's cricket starting to make the same mistakes as men, just after putting loads of resources in getting domestic women's cricket properly going...

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Dr Kevin D. Tennent @kevindtennent.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

The weather recently has certainly made things interesting (not that its ever boring).

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Dr Kevin D. Tennent @kevindtennent.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Yeah I noticed there were pitches there but didn't know the detail. Any extra info is welcome (I more or less riffed on the maps).

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Dr Kevin D. Tennent @kevindtennent.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Finally got around to doing a new ground history using #nlsmaps - the development of Northampton's county ground shows how industrial development often meant sport wasn't far behind. @martycricket.bsky.social

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