Rick Harmes

Researcher in localism, politics and government. Thoughts on national/international affairs, community, landscape, arts, academia, SW England, sport.

[Rick Harmes @ricklph]

Looks like the 2009 review of home education led by Graham Badman has at long last been vindicated #SaraSharif. Parliamentarians of the time should hang their heads in shame.

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My new @UniofExeter profile can now be accessed on Google.
https://t.co/Zrg41YmnGO

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@SaulStaniforth But a lot of existing primary and infants schools have already got nursery classes, and so probably wouldn't need to draw any money from this fund. It will almost certainly be targeted on those primaries that don't currently have any nursery provision of their own.

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Happy days...

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@HarryJHeath We could have been contenders! But happy memories all the same..

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The full text of my book 'Localism and the Design of Political Systems' is now available to download from Routledge's website.
https://t.co/LQNdgwlMnA
One of the best titles currently available on the theory and practice of localism!

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Outside the Aviva Studios in Manchester today

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Thanks to colleagues and participants at this week's meeting of the Exeter's Political Theory Reading Group for their comments on my draft chapter. A big step forward for my current writing project on 'Power, Politics and Public Value'
https://t.co/BeMqIqpbyF

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Breaking News: my book 'Localism and the Design of Political Systems' now available from Routledge for the first time in paperback. The most authoritative text on localism available currently
https://t.co/2h3WzgA6RA

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Where's the BBC's Head of Values when you need him? #IanFletcher #W1A

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Nick Witchell is too dyed-in-the-wool traditionalist to provide enlightening commentary on the current issues affecting the royal family. Can the BBC please provide a more diverse range of viewpoints on this headline-making issue?

[Graham Simpson @grahambsi]

Brexit: How not to win friends and influence people. Tragic

[Dr Paul Dorfman @dorfman_p]

2021, solar and wind made up 3/4 of all new electricity generation capacity installed worldwide.

Including other renewables, the proportion was 84%.

Nuclear nowhere.

2022 numbers bound to be better for renewables, same for nuclear.

#nuclear #renewables #climate #energy

[Guy Verhofstadt @guyverhofstadt]

EU becoming an ever closer union !

Congratulations Croatia 🇭🇷 on joining euro and Schengen area. Make it work !

https://t.co/4ld4UubgaR

[Rick Harmes @ricklph]

..and Putin of course, as well as one or two others

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Is "the jury still out' Liz?

[Peter Smith @Redpeter99]

What a gracious and elegant speech from one of this country's best friends.

[Rick Harmes @ricklph]

Why am I not surprised about this? Once again Brexit supporters in Cornwall have been conned by Johnson and his cheerleaders

[Richard Whitehouse @rwhitehouse13]

Big news in Cornwall this morning as it is revealed it will get less than half the replacement EU funding which Cornwall Council previously said was "crucial"
https://t.co/idinDIQMfd

[Alastair McLellan @HSJEditor]

Bloody hell! Covid hospital admissions in the South West are now WORSE THAN JANUARY!

[Paul Lewis @paullewismoney]

We will all pay the cost of the broken energy market. And by adding the cost to energy bills rather than paying it from taxes, low income households will bear a disproportionate share of it.

[BBC News NI @BBCNewsNI]

🍷 #Brexit: UK government plans to reform alcohol taxation might not apply in Northern Ireland due to the Northern Ireland Protocol 🍺 @JP_Biz https://t.co/ws4HbCtGAR