Simon Pawley

[Simon Pawley @ukplc1]

@Olly25Olly @joehas It works for Adam Buxton not just because he’s quite funny, but also because his over-the-top approach makes it really obvious right away that it is an ad, so you don’t feel duped by it.

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@rosiewright99 Could it have anything to do with having Tories in charge of Education from 2010 to 2024?

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@BrusselerMel The American cover is considerably worse. https://t.co/L2F459JwSR

[Daniel Steinmetz-Jenkins @daniel_dsj2110]

Forthcoming and much anticipated ! https://t.co/oYaXDTbOuc

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@postsocialismus @AtkinsGarethW @EricFixmer One incentive an examiner would have to pass without corrections is that they won't have to read a second version...

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Amidst much hand-wringing about academic integrity, I was surprised to see this reference in Political Quarterly (a journal of very high standards) to a book (attributed to @PickardJE ??) that must be a figment of AI's imagination. https://t.co/Rr4I6nY7yL

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@Kazanjy @erinhengel @nathancofnas @jonatanpallesen Huh. Why do so many families spend so much money on private schooling (or on living in an area with “good” public schools), if SAT tests are a meritocratic objective measure of cognitive capability? 🧐

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@xgabegottliebx Quite a few VSI books are brilliant, but there are a number in need to totally fresh versions. Kant (Roger Scruton); Politics (Kenneth Minogue); The French Revolution (William Doyle)...

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@OxSoc Much the same applies to you. You have been going on with this ad hominem attack about snooker/football/running for days based on speculation. It is no way to conduct a discussion about academic standards; it is actually quite disgraceful.

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@dickgregory2011 @indy_singh_uk @juliamacfarlane @MatthewdAncona ‘better off than Syria’ is not saying much. It was (and is) no tea party. 1 https://t.co/R1ut8MYMEA 2 https://t.co/uTjaRhi4xF

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@TomChivers You and I won't starve. There is enough food. The problem can be addressed. But since 2014, the fall in world hunger has stalled and even reversed -- temporarily, we may hope. But it's not an issue that will take care of itself. https://t.co/ZrMDYaAzJH

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@DredinBabylon @HavryshkoMarta https://t.co/8Ad8FwfcXQ

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@NewLeftEViews @adam_tooze 70% good, 30% bad? 😉

The book’s context (the breathtaking naïveté of very widespread ideas of ‘progress’ in the 1990s) is a part of the story. Things have changed a lot, and it played its modest part.

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@danwaterfield Quite openly rage farming. And I must admit from my timeline quite successfully. Time to mute now.

[Mushtaq Bilal, PhD @MushtaqBilalPhD]

@CCamosy Straw-manning is a useful rhetorical device.

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@postsocialismus Following references is the fun bit (or, when not fun, at least eye-opening). The source of this strikingly general claim in a gvt white paper... raised an eyebrow.

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@_bezpilotnik I think a big part of the trouble here is that it’s too easy for these kinds of outlets and pundits to get attention with infantile provocation. If it wasn’t so easy, they’d need at least sometimes to have something thought-through to say, in order to get anyone to listen.

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@DrKevorkO Yes, but not only that. It's a totally deluded picture of the Cold War itself. Indonesia (early 60s), Vietnam, Afghanistan (80s), Central America (80s) -- what the 'West'/US brought to those places was... not 'strong democratic alliances and global institutions'.

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@postsocialismus I haven't read the book but I could send you the review.

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@DanielaGabor This makes me very nostalgic for grubby Bloomsbury pubs!! I didn't think there were any grubby ones left. The Boot might still qualify (I haven't been in for 10 years -- I'll have to go back soon and check).

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@postsocialismus I never read any of his books. The point is, a book about "Regional Political Divisions and Cultures in Post Soviet Ukraine" would today be dismissed as vocalizing "Russian propaganda talking points" based on the title alone. But these wise people were fine with it then. Why?

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@postsocialismus Umland would now probably rather forget Katchanovski's 2006 book with ibidem verlag. I suspect that what most signatories consider legitimate parameters of debate has drastically shifted in 20 years. Intellectual coherence demands some explanation of that shift.