Nigel Driffield
@nigel_driffield
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Markets only work when there is equality of opportunity to engage in them.
Joined May 2011
The ONS reckons (it’s still deciding how to collect proper official data on the sector) that UK higher education as a whole exported £25.6bn a year in 2020 despite the pandemic, more than exports of pharmaceuticals, or aerospace
ft.com
Governments like the UK’s are realising the potential from selling higher education abroad
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No. What you're seeing is a fundamental disagreement between people attempting to justify racist rioting and others who think spreading hate and making people (H/T @BBCr4today this morning) feel terror in their own homes is utterly wrong and wholly unjustifiable
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GB News complaining that nobody from the Government will talk to them any more, just seconds after falsely telling their viewers that Keir Starmer has been "labelling anyone concerned about immigration as far right".
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These are just some of the tweets that were put out by GB News presenter Darren Grimes in the run up to the general election. The same channel that is now accusing the left of inflaming racial tensions in the UK https://t.co/Pgiz74ELuu
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"Repeated and urgent counsel that far-right extremists were exploiting gaps in the law to foment violence on social media were ignored while top-rank politicians... sought to gain advantage by waging culture wars" -Sunak's former anti-extremism adviser
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Exclusive: Dame Sara Khan, who advised May, Johnson and Sunak, says recent administrations failed the country
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A reminder that the last Conservative Government published a review just last year claiming that there had been "too much focus" on tackling threats from the far-right.
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Arriving on campus 10 mins ago i overheard a contractor (NB not warwick staff) pleading with someone on the phone NOT to go to a “protest” today “they are evil and you could fuck your life up” ….
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But while those “patriots” who believe this crap are doing time, the authors of this are just getting richer.
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"Politicians saw privatisation and private infrastructure as a way to get access to a big bucket of money...in fact, the failures of privatisation are numerous and obvious." Sound familiar? An Australian perspective on the scam of privatisation🇦🇺 https://t.co/0CHy8BbUfz
theguardian.com
From the 1980s until recently, politicians saw privatisation as a way to get a big bucket of money to spend on popular projects
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Arrested rioters are about to find out that, when they are alone in their cells, Elon Musk, Nigel Farage, Isabel Oakeshot, Richard Tice and the staff at GB News won't come out to help them and their families. They'll be safe and secure at home while you do time
Ask any lawyer who blearily pressed the cell buzzer at Highbury Corner Magistrates’ Court in the early hours of those hot, dangerous days in August 2011. There’s always a reckoning.
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A reminder After the Aug 2011 riots, police & my prosecutors examined all the video evidence for MONTHS identifying & bringing offenders to justice - 1000s of them Some didn’t get arrested till a year later! Prison was the usual sentence My boss was someone called Keir Starmer
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"Stand in your capital to show concern about the state of Britain? That's far right. Protest after the murder of children? Far right. Suggest we leave foreign courts so we can control our borders? Far right. Call to lower immigration? Far right. Point to grooming gangs? Far
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do the client journos write stuff and then he tweets about it, or do they write to order? How is this buffoon still a thing ?
Remarkable that Labour have reached the hubris stage after just a month in power and while the country faces its biggest civil disorder for many years. Their apparent belief that the Conservatives can be 'destroyed' is also remarkable. Of course in the worst case (which I think
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The BBC says: “Protesters target mosque”. Can you imagine saying “Protesters target synagogue? These are criminals. By platforming Farage, Oakeshott, Tice, Goodwin etc, the BBC normalised the far right. Now it legitimises them as so called “protesters”
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Three officers were injured after facing "serious and sustained levels of violence", Northumbria Police said.
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When a nation cannot protect its own children something has gone terribly wrong https://t.co/liUeIhMiRY
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A couple of years ago some women held a peaceful vigil to protest about violence against women, and were dragged away, this lot do this and nothing happens to them - why is this ?
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Although I've shared this before, it's always worth resharing when it pops up in my timeline. (And I say this as a suit wearing, middle-aged white man.)
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Interesting how many anti-trans people are piling on about this boxer, when its is clearly an entirely different issue.
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“Unions” aka people who teach your kids and keep your parents alive
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