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Chris Hewson

@chrishewson.bsky.social

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Head of Policy Engagement, University of Huddersfield; sociology PhD; advocate of knowledge exchange; co-chair Universities Policy Engagement Network; appreciator of reasonably priced fine wine; understander of the power of football to ruin your weekend.

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Chris Hewson @chrishewson.bsky.social · 7h

I'm old and tired, but I made a meme

Chris Hewson @chrishewson.bsky.social · 1h

Also the ESRC Digital Good Network, albeit I forget where it's based.

Chris Hewson @chrishewson.bsky.social · 7h

MK is the one of the only places in the UK where I'd go down the 'this is Un-British rabbit hole'

Chris Hewson @chrishewson.bsky.social · 7h

I'm old and tired, but I made a meme

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Alex Richards @alxrchrds.bsky.social · 21h

The brilliant @privateeyenews.bsky.social captures British journalists and political commentators in a nutshell over their Nigel Farage and Reform Party UK Ltd obsession.

SHOCK POLL:
NIGEL FARAGE ‘WILL BE PM TOMORROW’

IN an amazing poll conducted by The Pointless Polling Company, it was revealed that voters' intentions may well change over the next three and a half years and at present it's 100 percent impossible to guess what the next government might look like.
However, 99 percent of journalists agree that it would be much more fun if we had an election tomorrow and everybody resigned and everything was chaos and Farage had a go at being PM, just for the hell of it, because it was so much fun when Brexit happened and then the government kept falling every five minutes and we could write endless pieces about (cont. p94)

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Robert Hutton @roberthutton.co.uk · 21h

It's weird. There were just no clues that this is what he was like.

Henry Dyer @direthoughts.com · 21h

Johnson refused to answer specific questions or to provide factual denials to allegations of rule-breaking, while insisting all the rules had been followed at all times. His responses led Acoba’s chair, Isabel Doverty, to find him in breach of the rules.

www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Boris Johnson breached rules designed to stop abuse of contacts made in public office, watchdog finds

Johnson found to have breached rules after refusing to answer specific questions about allegations published by the Guardian

www.theguardian.com

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Chris Hewson @chrishewson.bsky.social · 22h

I mean yes, there's some robust academic evidence telling us this, but on the other hand there are a truck load of fascist engagement farmers on X telling me that the 50s were a crime free idyll. Who to believe?

Chris Hewson @chrishewson.bsky.social · 2d

Just reading through some old notes, seeing if there's anything in there worth salvaging. Within some rather mundane scribblings on community engagement I've seemingly written 'Racoon Cafe', and underlined it twice. 🤔

Chris Hewson @chrishewson.bsky.social · 2d

People are engaging with Matt Farrow's post

Matt Farrow @mattfatmarrow.bsky.social · 2d

I am not sure if I am hallucinating this, but after I turned off LinkedIn's bullshit notifications on my phone, it seems to be sending the same notifications to my email instead, which is creating bullshit notifications on my phone. Die, LinkedIn, die?

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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 3d

If you want to win over younger voters, telling them they can't go to university is probably not going to help.

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Chris Hewson @chrishewson.bsky.social · 4d

It never improves tbf. Our 6 year old loves both rice and pasta, so tonight we had orzo. No dice apparently.

Chris Hewson @chrishewson.bsky.social · 5d

The skill is accepting that this is the case, but not becoming paralysed into inaction as you break things down into smaller and smaller pieces, which invariably don't get any less complicated.

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Tony Yates @t0nyyates.bsky.social · 5d

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.

Wrath of God Bot @wrathofgodbot.bsky.social · 5d

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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Kate Klonick @klonick.bsky.social · 5d

“Ok the DMCA is good in this one specific use case”

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Chris Hewson @chrishewson.bsky.social · 5d

This sort of thing rarely passes the smell test, and above all else shows that ACOBA are on a hiding to nothing.
www.civilserviceworld.com/professions/...

Simon Case sets up independent consultancy

Former cab sec's consultancy gets approval from Acoba – along with his first two commissions

www.civilserviceworld.com

Chris Hewson @chrishewson.bsky.social · 5d

Given what we now know about CTE, some of the lawsuits in 10+ years are going to be wild.

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Paula Surridge @psurridge.bsky.social · 5d

Maybe the answer to political apathy, trust, and populism is for everyone to be a local councillor for a few weeks.

James Ball @jamesrball.com · 5d

*gasp*

“Everyone thought we’d come in and there were going to be these huge costs we could cut away but there just aren’t,” said a third senior Reform cabinet member in Kent.

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Dr Dion Georgiou 🇨🇾❤️🇬🇾 @drdiongeorgiou.bsky.social · 5d

Is this a fancy term for minding someone’s cat while they’re on an overseas work trip?

University of Nottingham
UK I CHINA | MALAYSIA
Job Opportunities
Research Fellow in Feline Welfare (Fixed Term)

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Katie Martin @katie0martin.ft.com · 5d

An intervention here from the famously woke... :: checks notes:: ... Michael Heseltine

BremainInSpain @bremaininspain.com · 6d

To describe asylum seekers as thieves or rapists encourages the worst sort of prejudice. We don’t need Trump’s mouthpiece anywhere near No 10
observer.co.uk/news/nationa...

The Conservatives must never have any part in Farage’s po...

To describe asylum seekers as thieves or rapists encourages the worst sort of prejudice. We don’t need Trump’s mouthpiece anywhere near No 10

observer.co.uk

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Chris Hewson @chrishewson.bsky.social · 6d

Good article. Also, me in pretty much every work/social scenario for as long as I can remember
www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

Chris Hewson @chrishewson.bsky.social · 7d

Pretty sure a ton of their trade comes from the subsidy through workplace vouchers route.

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Dave Hemprich-Bennett @davehb.bsky.social · 8d

This is extremely cool: 700 years worth of archaeological artefacts being collected from old nests of bearded vultures (strong contender for the best vulture)

www.popsci.com/environment/...

Multi-generational vulture nests hold 700 years of human artifacts

Crossbow bolts, sandals, slingshots, and more.

www.popsci.com

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Chris Hewson @chrishewson.bsky.social · 7d

An eminently defensible position!

Chris Hewson @chrishewson.bsky.social · 7d

Pretty much the entirely of Pete Namlook's back catalogue is on Spotify too. Again, very good to work to.

Chris Hewson @chrishewson.bsky.social · 7d

Pretty sure my relentless streaming of this track has made Mixmaster Morris enough to buy a small cappuccino or some such.

Chris Hewson @chrishewson.bsky.social · 7d

Quite excited by this follow. 'Hymn' by Dreamfish (absolute banger btw) is my go to track when I have 30 minutes between Teams calls and want to get some focused work done.

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