How did France grade its Covid-year students ?
— Alex Taylor (@AlexTaylorNews) August 14, 2020
Taking the average of 1st + 2nd term marks, always rounding "up" and creating 10 000 extra university places
No negative algorithms
France levels up. Johnson talks about it but does the very oppositehttps://t.co/pGikrbcWYM
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Great to see @sixdaycycling waking up again. Anxiously awaiting news of this year's London event. Best night of the year, every year. 🤞
— Simon Dickson (@simond) August 14, 2020
Salut @amaurysport @LeTour Pensez-vous à vendre le livre de route officiel du Tour de France sur une plateforme d'impression à la demande cette année - peut-être Amazon KDP? Il reste encore du temps. Aussi simple que de télécharger un PDF. pic.twitter.com/JQV2dDlnMe
— Simon Dickson (@simond) August 14, 2020
Delighted to discover that Substack offers RSS feeds of its publications (at a nice logical URL, slash-feed); and is flexible enough to handle subscriber-only content. #notjustemail https://t.co/cx7Pagqql1
— Simon Dickson (@simond) August 13, 2020
Pompeo: "When President Trump made his announcement about not only TikTok, but about WeChat—and if you read it, it’s broader even still than that—is that we’re going to make sure that American data not end up in the hands of…the Chinese Communist Party."https://t.co/pjJq1tX8DH
— Jonathan Cheng (@JChengWSJ) August 13, 2020
The #heatwave some of us have been experiencing has been truly EXCEPTIONAL. Not even in 1976 did the temperatures hover at such a high value for so long. It’s not a normal summer blast of heat. It’s on another level for this climate. This is the future, and it’ll get worse. https://t.co/XMU6KamN4Q
— Tomasz Schafernaker (@Schafernaker) August 12, 2020
Another startup bank pulling out of the UK. 'We never imagined what would happen with Covid and it looks like we are headed for a No-deal Brexit. Uncertainty is increasing to a point where we have to make an adult decision.' https://t.co/UffQqtjR1u
— Simon Dickson (@simond) August 12, 2020
This is not a piece (primarily) about Boris Johnson.
— Sam Coates Sky (@SamCoatesSky) August 12, 2020
It is a starting point for a discussion about what Britain gets systemically wrong, blaming governments going back decades, the flaws of civil service, civil society and issues with the nation’s identity
Very worth reading https://t.co/9cNhh5hYjM
Blog post from last week goes into more detail: 'In general, we're focused on those within the respective administrations underneath the head of state that offer its policy perspective abroad' https://t.co/KL9X25GqS5
— Simon Dickson (@simond) August 12, 2020
I wonder how they (and their civil servants) feel about that: are those accounts personal, or official?
— Simon Dickson (@simond) August 12, 2020
Twitter policy is at https://t.co/njx6o8uZQC Applies to UNSC P5 countries only for now: a very astute decision by Twitter