And that's before taking the career of the academic in question. It's the Matthew Effect isn't it? Even aside from the big journals, if the likes of HBR or SSIR know who you are then it helps. It's much harder to break through from zero base.
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I'll be honest, publishing in the big journals isn't enough. It really is who you know and getting out there. Which is not necessarily natural terrain for a good number of academics. I understand this completely - I am hopeless at it and much prefer 'backroom' sort of work, if that makes sense. It's also arguably easier if one works at one of the more lauded institutions.
A good way in is to for a policy fellowship or get involved with anything that comes out of the cabinet office. Again, not for everyone. I have been know to suggest academics add in a colleague who loves this stuff to grant applications. They might be meh as a researcher, but if they can schmooze its a useful addition
Well, maybe I don't put it quite like that.
My own appointment makes much more sense now lolI'll be honest, publishing in the big journals isn't enough. It really is who you know and getting out there. Which is not necessarily natural terrain for a good number of academics. I understand this completely - I am hopeless at it and much prefer 'backroom' sort of work, if that makes sense. It's also arguably easier if one works at one of the more lauded institutions.
A good way in is to for a policy fellowship or get involved with anything that comes out of the cabinet office. Again, not for everyone. I have been know to suggest academics add in a colleague who loves this stuff to grant applications. They might be meh as a researcher, but if they can schmooze its a useful addition
Well, maybe I don't put it quite like that.
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Keir Starmer mocked for ‘Happy St George’s Day’ video containing images of Scotland
Labour leader used scenes from Glasgow in a Twitter post to mark the feast day of the patron saint of England
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Diogenes the Cynic
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To be fair if he's editing his own scenic shots in a vanity video I'd be a lot more concerned.
Just an employee or freelancer making an amusing but unfortunate error.
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Or he's a proper lad and did it for the bants as they say.
In which case he's gone up immeasurably in my estimations.
In which case he's gone up immeasurably in my estimations.
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Well it's not really Starmer is It. Whoever put the video together needs getting rid of.
Should have stuck the Eiffel Tower in there as well.
Maybe he made it late at night when he was half cut. Pissing himself laughing. Getting his Mrs over to watch it but she’s completely uninterested.
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Agreed, but did he not even bother looking at it……
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Finally someone has stood up to that bigot Abbott 
Heard Starmer being interviewed on Radio 4 this morning. Ponderous and not very compelling is my take.
Seems to be rehashing Blairite 3rd way style policies.
Seems to be rehashing Blairite 3rd way style policies.
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He's just a bellend.
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One thing is certain, and this needs to be properly understood by many on the left of the party who appear to see politics as passing hobby, is the damage to the country and it's public services after 14_years of Conservatism runs so deep and so wide that it will take more than one full term to begin to address, with many things having to be prioritised or even dropped until a second or third term is apparent by slightest degree of pragmatism
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