At CPC23, the Conservative Party embraced conspiracy theorists, adopting ideas against net zero and 15-minute cities, both of which are generally popular. Rishi Sunak sitting down with Elon Musk for an interview proves how far down the rabbit hole they are - and it is bad for democracy in the UK.

Sunak plunged 5 points in a week after #CPC23 to his lowest rating. Starmer’s fell by 2 points Not sure won the poll for who would make the best PM. 43% voters are unsure about who would make the best leader.

Stand up and fight

Rishi Sunak, the Marie Antoinette of UK politics, uses a private jet to attend #CPC23 in Manchester, cancels major infrastructure projects, and commits to doing stuff that’s either already being done or are just culture war dogwhistles. #GeneralElectionN0W #ToriesOut

Helpful summary by Josh Freeman of HEPI of the higher education policy on display at #CPC23.

Skills, skills and degree apprenticeships – a review of Conservative Party Conference - HEPI

There were only 22,060 degree apprentice starts in 2022/23 (of 560,000 students accepted through UCAS overall) – but if the 2023 Conservative Party Conference was your first foray into higher educat...

An aged cartoon: The 'Back up to bailout' scheme... #HS2 #CPC2023 #CPC23

@RishiSunak , seems to have had a better day. The chat is all about The rebrand. I wonder how long it will take for Him to revert to Right wing culture wars, because His leaky government have fucked Him again. A week? #CPC23

The UK government leads the way in tackling the greatest issues of our time... Finally someone is standing up to all those woke microscopes and cancelling spectrometers!

Well, #CPC23 has descended into absolute shitfuckery over manufactured culture wars... bear with us, there's quite a bit to post about.

Things continuing to be normal over in jolly old england