Research should inform policy but that’s tricky if it is almost entirely driven by policy. The independence of research is key to change because if you fund only research that responds to policy (even good policy) you’re less innovative, creative & responsive to the open options of the future.

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Today’s #TitleOfTheDay - 'The morphology of musket wounds' Available #OpenAccess at orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/13...

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Describing the UK Government's new digital ID as a 'BritCard' is the surest way to get the policy off to a bad start in Wales, Plaid Cymru has warned

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Just registering my genuine surprise that such a virulent, out-in-the-open racist and antisemite, and such an obvious provocateur, would have so many "mainstream" politicians and media rushing to lionize them. And I don't think I'm naive.

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Yesterday, I read a long list of Angela Rayner's accomplishments while in the job, & I hadn't heard about any one of them. I realised how all the communication, from govt to media, is obsessed with small boats. It's all we hear. Boats, boats, boats. This is crazy.

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