Extra funfact - the former boss of MI6 is one of the ROH's trustees. So it's not as if they can claim to be humble showbiz folk for whom stuff like this terribly hard to get right.
Gabriel Milland
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Mainly research for strategy. Former senior UK government comms official and adviser. Once a journalist. Further back, a historian of the media, war and public opinion. Halberdier. Aggro-centrist. Bristol City FC.
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The John the Baptist of education reform.
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Plus a delegation of especially angry Black Cab drivers, @super-patriotSENDTHEMBACK from Twitter and the ghost of Bernard Manning.
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Someone drafted it. Someone signed it off.
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"These are my principles. I can take no other stand. For a while, at least. Pop back in a few weeks and see what the state of play is."
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There are others. Have a play with the Centre for Cities portal and see what you can find which proves Dundee's economy is superior to Bristol. Both ports which saw industries like jute and tobacco disappear. Both quite close to a thriving capital.
www.centreforcities.org/data/data-to...
Data tool - Centre for Cities
The purpose of this tool is to show the scale and nature of the variation in the economic performance of cities and towns across the UK by highlighting the performance of the 63 largest urban areas on...
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Many such comparisons are, of course, impossible these days. Because the Scottish Government cocked up the census.
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If you thought being the dog which catches the Brexit car was bad enough, just imagine what that would be like.
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My pitch would be:
We leave the ECHR, then the putative Tory/Reform coalition which withdrew from it collapses because it agrees on nothing else.
A new British Bill of Rights then ends up being drafted by Shami Chakrabarti and the worst sort of Lib Dem.
My pitch to the average Tory would be "if we leave the ECHR, first chance we get we're expropriating everything you've got"
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Much to celebrate there. But even though I carry no torch for the 2019-24 government, the idea that Dundee is a more prosperous, successful place than Bristol strikes me as difficult to believe.
