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Ed Hammond
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Local government governance person, supporting English councils on stuff relating to decision-making, oversight, transparency, etc. Views my own.
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Ed Hammond @se13ed.bsky.social · 21h
almost certainly
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Ed Hammond @se13ed.bsky.social · 21h
2007
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Ed Hammond @se13ed.bsky.social · 21h
"Mission accomplished", one might say
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 21h
World leaders have signed the Gaza peace deal at the Sharm El-Sheikh summit.

Trump: “This took 3000 years to get to this point. And it is going to hold up.”
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Ed Hammond @se13ed.bsky.social · 1d
went on a Geography field trip to Cardiff Bay (before it was "Cardiff Bay") where my Geography teacher got in an argument with the PR person working for the development corporation about how building the barrage would destroy the mudflats in the bay (an important marine habitat)
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Ed Hammond @se13ed.bsky.social · 1d
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Ed Hammond @se13ed.bsky.social · 1d
I would have said "turbocharge" rather than "accelerate"
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Ed Hammond @se13ed.bsky.social · 2d
Good thing about it is that it works two ways
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Ed Hammond @se13ed.bsky.social · 2d
@katebevan.com I wasn't sure if you'd done this one yet
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Ed Hammond @se13ed.bsky.social · 4d
The longest of long games
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Ed Hammond @se13ed.bsky.social · 4d
failure demand associated with wider systemic problems - a challenge that councillors also face (I think the caseload figures for many cllrs will probably reflect this trend this)
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Ed Hammond @se13ed.bsky.social · 4d
which is a cop out, isn't it? I sometimes think that there are two ways that "digital natives" can go - using that marination to engage critically with this stuff (because you have a sophisticated understanding of memes and virality) or just using it as a reason to suspend your critical faculties
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Ed Hammond @se13ed.bsky.social · 5d
Number 2: "Have you considered that it might be heavy metal poisoning - thallium, perhaps?"
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Ed Hammond @se13ed.bsky.social · 5d
is this a high point in the way that the Vaalserberg is the highest point in the Netherlands (elevation: 1,000 ft)
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James Plunkett @jamestplunkett.bsky.social · 5d
One thing that's interesting interacting with big banks is that they essentially replicate 100% of the logic and qualities of public sector bureaucracy (the need to taxonomise, sharply demarcated silos/domains of competence, complete inability to tailor, diffusion of moral agency, etc.) 1//n
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Ed Hammond @se13ed.bsky.social · 6d
he prrrrobably shouldn't be pictured wearing his Mayoral chain of office for this, it is arguably a breach of his council's civic protocol
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Ed Hammond @se13ed.bsky.social · 6d
personally, I would show Bob a slideshow of headshots of various black and brown people and invite him to make a judgement as to whether or not each one was integrated (the twist is that all the headshots would be of sitting Conservative councillors)
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Ed Hammond @se13ed.bsky.social · 7d
Now in Yr 3 they all do exactly the same stuff British primary school children have always done - practicing the recorder, cutting up crepe paper with scissors, learning about the Egyptians for some reason, going on school trips to see the Cutty Sark. They're all becoming little Londoners. (3/end)
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Ed Hammond @se13ed.bsky.social · 7d
It's a great school! The need to support those children with limited English comes at zero cost to the education of others in the same class and, in fact, it works to their benefit because it gives all the kids exposure to children from different backgrounds. (2/)
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Ed Hammond @se13ed.bsky.social · 7d
OK so my younger son's primary has I think the highest rate of children with English as a second language in the borough (and one of the highest in the country). Biggest primary in the borough too (650 kids). There are quite a lot of kids who start reception with v little spoken English. (1/)
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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 7d
Katie Lam says there are some schools in London "where 3/4 pupils don't speak English to the standard needed to for education"

Are there? London school results are outperforming everywhere else, partly + migration/diversity effects

[CPS livestreaming this if want to check the quote.It was 915am]
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Ed Hammond @se13ed.bsky.social · 7d
This is an old picture - there are now two (2) female justices
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Ed Hammond @se13ed.bsky.social · 7d
Used to be on Britbox! Watched a few episodes last year, it's much more high concept than I remember what with the near-future Docklands setting
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Ed Hammond @se13ed.bsky.social · 7d
parts of it probably haven't aged well (and bless Jesse Birdsall and Craig McLachlan but neither were compelling actors) but it was outrageously entertaining and boasted a tremendous title sequence
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Ed Hammond @se13ed.bsky.social · 8d
Policymaking - developing and agreeing policies, and then implementing them - is difficult, but plenty of people (increasingly) confuse it with "coming up with ideas for policies" which is, indeed, very easy. Same philosophy that says that announcing the thing is the same as doing the thing
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Tony Yates @t0nyyates.bsky.social · 8d
Someone who thinks 'policymaking is generally not very complicated' either does not know what they are talking about or has very strong ideological leanings that help disappear the trade-offs that worry the rest of us.
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Wrath of God Bot @wrathofgodbot.bsky.social · 8d
Good thing he has a high quality team of thoughtful people with a firm grasp of the issues and how complex governing is
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Ed Hammond @se13ed.bsky.social · 8d
Bit weird to think that the Conservative leader this time last year was Rishi Sunak
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Ed Hammond @se13ed.bsky.social · 9d
From now on everyone will be able to exercise their right to free speech on the last Sunday of each month outside the coach interchange at Scratchwood services on the M1 (for up to forty minutes, terms and conditions apply)
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