Ian Dunt
Editor of . Author of Brexit: What The Hell Happens Now? Host on . Says stuff on TV & radio.
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The day I got temp-banned from Twitter for offering somebody support by using British slang
Revert to Saved 81d 1 tweets
Candid commentary on technology, retro games, Macs and other things, written by Craig Grannell.
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Ian Dunt The brilliant, kind and witty is right now in Twitter's sin bin because it thinks the phrase "bite your arm off" means "hoping that someone experiences physical harm". 81d
Is the government pursuing herd immunity by the back door?
politics.co.uk 83d 3 tweets
A seeming indifference towards failure over the R rate suggests a government which is happy for the virus to spread.
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Ian Dunt 'This can only be herd immunity once more, by the backdoor' - troubling piece by on the government's seeming acceptance of an R rate above 1 83d
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Ian Dunt Herd immunity by the back door: on the government's ineffective Tier programme 82d
How to regulate stimulants: A practical guide - Transform Drug Policy Foundation
Transform Drug Policy Foundation 89d 3 tweets
The 'war on drugs' has been a global disaster leading to violence, exploitation and record numbers of drug-related deaths. We all recognise the need to do things differently. In this book we show why the responsible regulation of stimulant drugs is...
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Ian Dunt His book outlining the plan is available for free online here or you can buy a hardcopy here 87d
How to regulate stimulants: A practical guide
Transform Drug Policy Foundation's store 87d 1 tweets
There is growing consensus that the 'war on drugs' has failed. Cannabis is now being legalised across the Americas and elsewhere. Transform is a leading global think tank on drug policy reform, and has advised governments across the world on how to...
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Ian Dunt His book outlining the plan is available for free online here or you can buy a hardcopy here 87d
Lawyers: We can't find parents of 545 kids separated by Trump admin
NBC News 89d 65 tweets
About two-thirds of the 1,000 plus parents separated from their kids under a 2017 pilot program were deported before a federal judge ordered they be found.
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Ian Dunt A total of 545 migrant children separated from their parents by the Trump administration have still not been reconnected with them. This is one of the most grotesque abuses of immigrants we've seen in any Western country 88d
A circuit-break will save thousands of lives
politics.co.uk 89d 3 tweets
The time for a lockdown is today, and this is why.
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Ian Dunt 'It's likely 2,000 people will die over the next two weeks and 4,000 the two weeks after that' - this is a brutal but absolutely vital piece by on the need for an immediate circuit-breaker lockdown 89d
Letter - Better Conversations
Letter 710d 1950 tweets
Letter is a place to share the important things we often leave unsaid
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Ian Dunt Throughout the Brexit period, Robert Tombs was one of the Brexiters I most admired - warm, polite, open to debate. We've started a series of open letters to see if we can reach across the divide. The first one is here 89d
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Ian Dunt First reply from Robert here 87d
Darren Grimes under police investigation after David Starkey interview
The Telegraph 100d 41 tweets
Commentator to be interviewed on suspicion of stirring up racial hatred over comments made by historian
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Ian Dunt This boy is an absolute tool and no-one with any sense would take him seriously, but the police action here is excessive and dangerous. 99d
There is no ‘scientific divide’ over herd immunity
Matt Reynolds - WIRED UK 102d 22 tweets
There’s a lot of talk of scientists divided over Covid-19, but when you look at the evidence any so-called divide starts to evaporate
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Ian Dunt There is no ‘scientific divide’ over herd immunity 101d
Using Excel to process covid infections shows a total collapse in competence
politics.co.uk 101d 1 tweets
Excel is completely unsuitable for handling such a vast and critical data project. Why was it being used?
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Ian Dunt 'The decision to rely on spreadsheets suggests technical incompetence of the highest order' - on the Excel debacle 101d
IBA - the Implications of the Internal Market Bill for the rule of law in the United Kingdom
Ibanet.org 103d 3 tweets
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Ian Dunt This is interesting: An open webinar, called at short notice, to enable the Bars of England and Wales, Scotland and N. Ireland to address the challenge to the rule of law raised by the internal market bill 103d
Johnson conference speech: Guff and fantasy in place of a plan
Ian Dunt - politics.co.uk 103d 3 tweets
We need, more than at any time in the post-war era, a prime minister who has a plan. But that is not what we have.
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Ian Dunt Johnson conference speech: The truth is obvious to anyone who cares who cares to see it. He has no idea what he is doing. 103d
The break-up of the UK is coming - but will it be violent or peaceful?
politics.co.uk 104d 1 tweets
From Yugoslavia to Czechoslovakia, states can break up peacefully or violently. We can't afford to be complacent about what will happen to us.
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Ian Dunt 'Thinking seriously about the future of the UK involves thinking about the Yugoslavia-Czechoslovakia spectrum' - Charles Turner on how states break up 104d
Donald Trump's trolling in the election debate was a real-time spectacle of democratic decay
inews.co.uk 109d 1 tweets
He is undermining the whole notion of free debate - the basic cultural assumption upon which the open society is based
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Ian Dunt Donald Trump's trolling was a real-time spectacle of democratic decay - me on last night's US presidential debate 109d
The government's covid problem is simple: It won't listen to experts
politics.co.uk 109d 1 tweets
An autumn surge is not an autumn surprise. It has been hypothesised since early in the pandemic.
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Ian Dunt 'There is a sickness at the heart of this government: an unwillingness to listen, to learn, to accept responsibility for inevitable errors' - & on the avoidable mistakes of the covid response 109d
Covid: The libertarian population immunity strategy is wrong-headed & dangerous
politics.co.uk 110d 7 tweets
Six arguments for why the population immunity argument is unsound.
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Ian Dunt Crucial piece by dismantling the population immunity strategy being increasingly promoted by the 'hawks' 110d
Crimes against mingling: Government covid response reaches new height of absurdity
politics.co.uk 118d 2 tweets
The government is passing highly intrusive laws seemingly with little understanding of what they entail.
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Ian Dunt 'The government has effectively bribed people to eat in restaurants, but if you're a couple with three kids and a new baby you can't chat in the park with another human being' - on the Rule of Six 118d
The Corbyn-era autopsy proves that the 2019 election was a disaster waiting to happen
politics.co.uk 121d 1 tweets
Two new books on the Labour party under Jeremy Corbyn show, more than anything, the central need for competence in political leadership.
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Ian Dunt "An irresistible argument for the unglamorous virtue of competence" - you won't read a better assessment of the two new books on Corbyn than this from 121d
Boris Johnson's campaign to undermine objective truth stops him from being held accountable
inews.co.uk 122d 3 tweets
Without it, the Government can keep on lying - and keep on operating with impunity
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Ian Dunt To even retain the capacity for memory and objectivity, is, in this period, a radical act. 122d
'No Ships' Chris Grayling To Be Paid £100,000 A Year To Advise Ports Company
HuffPost UK 123d 7 tweets
Grayling, once dubbed the “worst transport secretary of all time”, will collect his six-figure salary for just seven hours of work per week.
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Ian Dunt 'No ships' Chris Grayling to be paid £100,000 a year to advise ports company 122d