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Richard Schofield @richardschofield.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Yes. Tho’ from what he said on the Today programme he agreed with the headline of the motion ie ‘Zionism is Racism’. So he wasn’t ‘against’ the principle of the motion he just thought the GPEW shouldn’t be prescribing a one state solution to the Palestinians.

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Richard Schofield @richardschofield.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Because Americans feel ´safe’ in Beast like cars

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Richard Schofield @richardschofield.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I read the whole of ´The Right Way’, Badenoch’s foundational blueprint for the next 50 years. If any politico can look in a mirror and honestly say ‘I read all of it’, I’d love to hear your views.

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Richard Schofield @richardschofield.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Agree the Badenoch this morning was pure Bird and Forune

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Richard Schofield @richardschofield.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Agree re both the childcare and £100k tax ´trap’, they are a thing for those who already believe they pay their fair share in taxes.

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Richard Schofield @richardschofield.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

So what conditions would have to exist for your ´nothing racist about any ethnic or religious group wanting their own homeland’ to be possible in the real world?

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Richard Schofield @richardschofield.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Yes, tho’ if you can bear it please read the full resolution as it pretty explicitly treats both the same ie ´any form of Zionism is Racism’ and amendments attempting to temper it were defeated.

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Richard Schofield @richardschofield.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I’ve resigned from the Green Party and hope others will too. This motion - and please read all of it - is immoral, politically illiterate and will only make legitimate debate about Israel’s conduct harder.

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Richard Schofield @richardschofield.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

It does tho’ let’s see. Not having a strategy may be a completely inadvertent masterstroke if Labour self-identify as ´let’s undo Thatcherism’ etc and Re… become even more odious the no-woman’s land she is currently in is the front-line by ´28.

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Richard Schofield @richardschofield.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

No, under AV voters rank candidates 1-7 or whatever. When the votes are counted the candidate with least votes drops out and their second preferences are distributed and so on until one candidate gets to 50%+. It’s just another way to get a single candidate to 50%, not proportional

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Richard Schofield @richardschofield.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Supplementary vote, it’s not a proportional system - the voter just gives their first and second preference. It was used in mayoral elections, stopped by the Conservatives and is being reintroduced by Labour. It’s generally considered a fudge between FPTP and a genuinely proportional system

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Richard Schofield @richardschofield.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Well it does sort of depend on how you invest the borrowing.

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Richard Schofield @richardschofield.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Don’t get too excited, there’s the 10 year appeal process…

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Richard Schofield @richardschofield.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I’m a bit confused by all the fuss TBH. My kids have variously done subjects like art, digital photography, design technology, textiles etc as well as the core ‘academic’ subjects. So why is say ‘car maintenance’ or whatever getting everyone so excited?

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Richard Schofield @richardschofield.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Would have been a fun debate between her and Norman Tebbitt

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Richard Schofield @richardschofield.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

And Polanski should have gone with the joke rather than getting spiky - ‘touché mon brave´ maybe

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Richard Schofield @richardschofield.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

As someone who’s just left NHS England I think ‘enough thought’ is very generous of you.

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Richard Schofield @richardschofield.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

It is a good piece. Unfortunately the data that is available is so complex it is hard to demonstrate that the ‘Gove Settlement’ is causative and which bits have had most impact - curriculum, freedom, assessment methods? And many parts of England are likely not doing any better than Wales?

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Richard Schofield @richardschofield.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Yes, though Estonia also has a ‘split’ system and did better than us, so it may be a bit more complex than that. The difference is in Germany the split starts at about 10 (early in the language learning journey for immigrant kids), in Estonia it’s 15

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Richard Schofield @richardschofield.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

I always wonder when we have the words ‘academic’ or ‘press’ before the word freedom as the catch-all defence, how would we judge the behaviour concerned if ‘academic’ or ‘press’ weren’t there?

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Richard Schofield @richardschofield.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

The King of the North needs to sort out the ECB. No Ashes test north of Nottingham in 2027! Including no game at Headingly, the only ground England always win at…failure to read the room AND self-harm.

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Richard Schofield @richardschofield.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Yep. Very well put. Many of these supposed dichotomies are false, and would be seen as so in many countries where devolved government has been entrenched for decades. Not sure why we have such a fear of it all?

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Richard Schofield @richardschofield.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Yes. Though why is that different to national governments of different political hues? I struggle with the idea that somehow devo creates new problems of political/policy principle, though I also think I must be genuinely missing something

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Richard Schofield @richardschofield.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

I get this argument, I suppose though ‘Britain needs more social housing’ has been an issue for 40 years. No national govt has come close to solving it. Devo (with the right financial rules) may a) be more likely to deliver; and b) allow no 10 to say ‘well that’s been delegated so blame your Mayor’

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Richard Schofield @richardschofield.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

They could always dig out the ‘Orange Book’

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Richard Schofield @richardschofield.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Because the system of ‘regulation’ was designed that way, as numerous policy academics (including me and most importantly Jean Shaoul at Manchester Business School) predicted at the time.

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Richard Schofield @richardschofield.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

In my experience this isn’t peculiar to LiPs and predates AI by decades

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Richard Schofield @richardschofield.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

agree with you and @duncanweldon.bsky.social question is whether devolution really is a better way of generating regional growth. If it is then the debate about education reform becomes about sequencing rather than principle. I’d go for devolution and solve the problems, rather than be deterred

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Richard Schofield @richardschofield.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

Not sure Polly Toynbee’s idea of telling people they are ‘ignorant and ungrateful’ is quite the right comms strategy for Burnham though!

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Richard Schofield @richardschofield.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

All this just shows the ‘left’ is not a thing really. The obsession with property ownership as the single shibboleth of left purity has wasted about 150 years with Life of Brian levels of factionalism.

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Richard Schofield @richardschofield.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

Agree with all of this except your tone about Timpson. He had a commitment to and involvement in prison reform long before becoming a minister, and is genuinely respected. Not sure who your sources were for the ‘ineffective’ jibe but I doubt it was anyone with any real insight.

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Richard Schofield @richardschofield.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

I would describe myself as an ideological centrist, and on the Overton window have been utterly amazed and frustrated at how many of my ‘ideological’ friends, left and right, have shifted their positions so easily. If anything centrism feels more distinct than when I was younger.

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Richard Schofield @richardschofield.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

TBF I don’t think the comments are about whether it ‘plays well’ or is right - it will and it is. I think the comments were more about the expectation that on his first day as the ‘cost of living’ PM his first major pledge didn’t relate to cost of living

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Richard Schofield @richardschofield.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

Everyone wants to ‘end rough sleeping’ but really weird choice of Burnham today: a Not a specific cost of living pledge b Not a big pledge in the great scheme (however worthy), not ambitious c Weirdly dissonant with his devolution schtick. Rough sleeping will be solved locally

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Richard Schofield @richardschofield.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

I agree, the concern is that I’m not sure Burnham has quite decided whether he wants to challenge the HMT orthodoxy or not (right or wrong). ‘Powerful’ chancellors are vital to deliver big policy change, but you have to know what the big policy changes are first.

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Richard Schofield @richardschofield.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

I went full survivalist and moved to the wilds of North Cornwall. Then noticed the big white mushrooms on the cliffs - GCHQ Morwenstow

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Richard Schofield @richardschofield.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

Yes, excellent. In the end tho Tuchel chose a strange squad (why no Wharton?) and asked us to trust he a) was a tactical genius; and b) could instil new belief in the players. For a) we ended up with Big Sam stuff and for b) he showed he didn’t really believe in his own team

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Richard Schofield @richardschofield.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

Well then let’s all leave them to it…please…the liberal tendency to say ‘well there are some good arguments against which we should face’ is 1) at best pointless because they don’t care; and 2) leads over time to oh I don’t know stuff like Brexit

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Richard Schofield @richardschofield.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

Oh yes I agree with your thrust, more a technical question

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Richard Schofield @richardschofield.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

You could apply this equally to the NHS

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Richard Schofield @richardschofield.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

Genuinely don’t the answer to this: does more homes equate to more people?

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Richard Schofield @richardschofield.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

Interesting that for all the fiddle Faddle Spain’s goals were straight out of League 2, complete with bring the big lad on up front to nick you a goal.

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Richard Schofield @richardschofield.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

Sometimes no-man’s-land becomes the front-line if you wait long enough. Which I think is her strategy, tho’ not sure she knows that

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Richard Schofield @richardschofield.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

When did Joao Felix turn into Roy Keane?

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Richard Schofield @richardschofield.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

I fear for Rice, he’s been brilliant, but his body is on the edge it seems.

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