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Prof Colin Talbot
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Professor (Emeritus) U of Manchester ▪️co-ops and cooperation ▪️progressive pluralism▪️ex Aikidoka ▪️Arsenal ▪️Born Dover (that's my Castle)

Colin Ronald Talbot is a British political scientist. He was until August 2017 a professor at the University of Manchester and held the Chair of Government in the School of Social Sciences. He is now Professor Emeritus at Manchester and a research associate at the University of Cambridge. He has also been an adviser to UK Parliamentary Committees on HM Treasury and on Public Administration. .. more

Political science 54%
Business 17%
Pinned
Withe abolition of Police & Crime Commissioners, who will
Police the Police?

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With PCCs abolished, who polices the police?  - The Constitution Society
Colin Talbot explores the unanswered questions arising from the government's decision to abolish Police and Crime Commissioners.
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BREAKING: Morgan McSweeney quits as Keir Starmer's chief of staff amid fall-out from the Mandelson scandal
Lack of a common foe enfeebled Europe — but not any more, says Simon Kuper ft.trib.al/DSHzkRZ
🇲🇩🇺🇦 Moldovan President Sandu said that she is against her nomination for the Nobel Peace Prize, because there are more worthy candidates - Ukrainian prisoners of war.

Sandu emphasized that it is Ukrainians who are truly sacrificing themselves for the sake of peace and security in Ukraine and the EU.

Read John Searle on the social construction and brute facts of money. It requires both to work - real tokens and belief.

I can tell you who it was privately. But as he’s not around to defend himself. And he was my friend for a time. I’d rather not say publicly

Possibly. He’s dead now.

I knew a GLC politician just like MMcS.

He like operating mostly in the shadows. As he put it “making the bullets for other people to fire”. On the other side of Labour to MMcS, but very similar.

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12 Feb is #DarwinDay! Explore the story of our human origins. For a humanist perspective, check out our free classroom resources or invite in a humanist school visitor! understandinghumanism.org.uk/area/human-b...

Having been a Trot in the 70s probably didn’t help. They were also concerned about family history - mine was “complicated” and I had to ask some difficult questions of (adopted) relatives!

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Agreed. And if the ‘something’ that went wrong was that the appointment was simply waved through by Starmer, with McSweeney’s support, then they both rightly deserve every bad thing that ensues.

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I believe it is the way it is so that you can't be blackmailed.

Indeed. Their file on me was disturbingly thick! But by the time I was DV’d they were more concerned about money and sex than politics. And it was two decades since I’d been a Trot 😀

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Ah yes, I remember them being called PV.

A friend announced that he was having to undergo a PV investigation to be able to work at GCHQ. Our medical friends were more than a little suprised, not to say somewhat horrified.

To them, a PV investigstion meant Per Vagina...

This is about Andy Coulson. Another one who wouldn’t have passed DV

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Andy Coulson and and his non ‘Developed Vetting’ – why on earth did the Civil Service let this happen?
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I agree. I wrote about both of them at the time. This one’s Boris Johnson

statecraft.blog/2016/07/14/b...
Boris Johnson and national security
[amended] The appointment of Boris Johnson as Foreign Secretary took almost everyone by surprise. Why has he been appointed? It’s hard to fathom without recourse to ‘Kremlin watching&#8…
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I went through it at under 17 with my parents present. It was brutal.

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In a much earlier stage of my life, I used to attend what was known as PV interviews - Positive Vetting, which I assume DV has replaced. I can confirm the level of shock, shame, embarrasment and humiliation inflicted on the interviewees - not all of whom I'm sure mentally survived the experience.

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I got the form once …. No thanks.

Similarly, I don’t believe Boris Johnson or Cummings went through it.

DEVELOPED VETTING

I’ve been thru it. High level of security clearance. It is excruciatingly, embarrassingly, thorough, believe me.

It’s come up in relation to Peter Mandelson.

I cannot believe he was DV’d for the Ambassador job? If he was something went very badly wrong.

Two days later. 😀

Looks like I was not wrong two days ago?
If this is correct it should be ‘misconduct in public office’ prosecution territory?
New Epstein emails show Peter Mandelson secretly advising JPMorgan’s CEO on how to fight Labour’s 2009 bankers’ bonus tax - even suggesting he “mildly threaten” the Chancellor.

Mandelson was Business Secretary at the time.

A year later, he was seeking work with JPM.

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Subject to qualified legal opinion, certainly worth considering whether there is possible criminal offending, that plus insider trading plus Bribery Act offences. Having worked under (correctly) exacting rules as an official in market-sensitive roles, all this is astonishing and disturbing.

Yes, but in Wales they have managed to exclude co-ops from children’s social care on (in my view spurious) legal grounds.

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If he survives this unscathed it can only because of the dirt he’s got on other dodgy politicians…

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Well done!
Shouldn't be that hard, though, should it?
Next time try looking at the @frame.work kit.
It comes with a screwdriver, and you can get at anything you need to get at.

If this is correct it should be ‘misconduct in public office’ prosecution territory?
New Epstein emails show Peter Mandelson secretly advising JPMorgan’s CEO on how to fight Labour’s 2009 bankers’ bonus tax - even suggesting he “mildly threaten” the Chancellor.

Mandelson was Business Secretary at the time.

A year later, he was seeking work with JPM.

I realised the tip screws on.

So I got a thin needle and very slowly managed to rotate remaining bit of plastic collar with it.

The trick? Hold the needle steady and rotate the Pen. Took about 15 mins but got there.

New tip fitted. Pen rescued and £100+ saved.

You’re welcome

TECHNICAL SAVE

The tip broke off my Apple Pen.

But it left little plastic collar (on the left) inside the tip-end. Which meant you couldn’t for a new tip. So DEAD PEN?

Not so fast ….
New Epstein emails show Peter Mandelson secretly advising JPMorgan’s CEO on how to fight Labour’s 2009 bankers’ bonus tax - even suggesting he “mildly threaten” the Chancellor.

Mandelson was Business Secretary at the time.

A year later, he was seeking work with JPM.

BEAUTIFUL ARMADAS?

Worth remembering that large armada’s (sea born attacks) have not always been successful?

👉🏼Mongol fleets vs Japan (x2) 1200’s

👉🏼Spanish vs England 1588

Just saying