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Links from the week of 22 April 2019
Articles, reports and other links I shared on Twitter this week.
- Greetings are a minefield for @demsoc. Brussels (one kiss, or left-right), Italy (right-left), UK (curt nod from a respectful distance). We need a Workplace Greetings Directive. theguardian.com/money/shortcut…
  
  Wed 24 Apr 2019 · on Twitter
- Good ⁦@TPpodcast_⁩ from David Runciman on how one version of democracy ending doesn’t mean democracy has ended. Appropriate listening for walking down Friedrichstraße to ⁦@DPZ_Berlin⁩’s #pgs19. overcast.fm/+ES62-wBGs
  
  Thu 25 Apr 2019 · on Twitter
- Great! Loi next please > Rue Belliard loses lane in favour of cycle paths brusselstimes.com/brussels/15207…
  
  Fri 26 Apr 2019 · on Twitter
- The Belgian equivalent of the OBR verdict on the manifestos: «Aucun parti n’a respecté les objectifs budgétaires imposés à la Belgique»
  plus.lesoir.be/220947/article…
  
  Sat 27 Apr 2019 · on Twitter
- Interesting interview with new French digital minister. Struck by his argument that strength in digital entrepreneurship and innovation is a way of ensuring France (and I’d add, Europe) has independence of decision making in coming decades. lesechos.fr/tech-medias/hi…
  
  Sun 28 Apr 2019 · on Twitter
28 April 2019
Last Brexit tweet, because this is all you need.

Last Brexit tweet, because this is all you need. Today, almost a month after Brexit was due to happen, the UK is still doing unicorns. twitter.com/tnewtondunn/st…

And when I say last Brexit tweet, I’m not kidding. Muting the words, unfollowing British journalists, I’m done. I enjoyed Brexitless Easter and I’m going to keep rolling like that.

There’s enough to be getting on with. European elections. Spain. The whole democracy thing. Go vote. Do democracy right. #ThisTimeImVoting #tymrazemglosuję

Originally posted as a thread of 3 tweets on Twitter on 26 April 2019. View the original thread.

26 April 2019
Links from the week of 15 April 2019
Articles, reports and other links I shared on Twitter this week.
- Less than a week left to apply to work with @demsoc and our great partners at @opengovpart on open government and democracy in the EU: demsoc.org/who-are-we/wor…
  
  Tue 16 Apr 2019 · on Twitter
- US politicians and Brexiteers clash on ‘concocted Border issue’ irishtimes.com/news/ireland/i…
  
  Wed 17 Apr 2019 · on Twitter
- Brexit as the Marxism of the right, chapter 20: the inevitable glorious revolution is temporarily delayed. politico.eu/article/inside…
  
  Thu 18 Apr 2019 · on Twitter
- Not often you hear ex-Cato Institute people talking about how a European social market is the best socio-economic model. Really interesting interview with ⁦@willwilkinson⁩ on the ⁦@ezraklein⁩ podcast. overcast.fm/+QLhVb9oDw
  
  Thu 18 Apr 2019 · on Twitter
- The “Brexit: the clock is ticking” documentary is as good as everyone is saying it is. youtu.be/KGXfrbW-XB8
  
  Thu 18 Apr 2019 · on Twitter
- Good strategy for signing up voters. Also check out thistimeimvoting.eu/?recruiter_id=… for online tools twitter.com/StuartBudd1/st…
  
  Sat 20 Apr 2019 · on Twitter
- Bauhaus at 100 – The New York Times nytimes.com/interactive/20…
  
  Sat 20 Apr 2019 · on Twitter
20 April 2019
Links from the week of 8 April 2019
Articles, reports and other links I shared on Twitter this week.
- UK’s seaside towns have been an iconic economic problem for over a decade, and it looks like things are going backwards. ft.com/content/b5317c…
  
  Tue 9 Apr 2019 · on Twitter
9 April 2019
Links from the week of 1 April 2019
Articles, reports and other links I shared on Twitter this week.
- The lovely @SOIFutures are running a Next Generation Foresight Practitioners award. You can find the details at nextgenforesight.org – but perhaps if you were really good at foresight, you’d already know… #nextgenforesight #SOIFNGFP
  
  Mon 1 Apr 2019 · on Twitter
- Not long now, I was surprised to read: railway-technology.com/features/mobil… twitter.com/David_K_Clark/…
  
  Wed 3 Apr 2019 · on Twitter
3 April 2019
Switzerland is a half-direct democracy, argues @claudelongchamp (at #swissbreakfast) -…

Switzerland is a half-direct democracy, argues @claudelongchamp (at #swissbreakfast) – popular votes interacting with parliaments. Could be a solution to democratic disaffection in rest of Europe.

There have been 222 constitutional revisions in Switzerland through popular votes of which 22 have been successful.

Of the 200 that are lost, about 25% have had some compromise position later passed through Parliament.

93% of parliamentary decisions have no referendum, 7% are contested, of which about half are approved and half overturned.

The most important part of Swiss democracy is not the voting but the dialogue.

Doesn’t Brexit show that some things are just too complicated, asks @niknuspliger?

Originally posted as a thread of 6 tweets on Twitter on 3 April 2019. View the original thread.

3 April 2019
Please stop calling it Common Market 2.0.

Please stop calling it Common Market 2.0. It’s a cheap sop to fool people who “thought we were joining the common market” and is hostage to whatever “trade but no migrants” vision they have in their heads.

Call it “Norway Plus” or “EEA+” or “Great British Winston Churchill Old Maids Cycling To Communion Through The Autumn Mist Special Arrangement” but not Common Market 2.0.

Otherwise the Mail will lead *for the next decade* on “we were told it was Common Market 2.0 but LOOK now we have to follow health and safety rules of BRUSSELS TYRANTS without even a VOTE”

And the Mail will be right, to the extent that we won’t have a vote, and it won’t be like Common Market 1.0 – because in Common Market 1.0, EU Membership, we have a vote.

Common Market 2.0 should be called Common Market Parental Controls Edition.

Originally posted as a thread of 5 tweets on Twitter on 1 April 2019. View the original thread.

1 April 2019
Links from the week of 25 March 2019
Articles, reports and other links I shared on Twitter this week.
- One of Belgian TV’s info videos in advance of the European elections. Could have done with a few more of these in the UK in recent years. facebook.com/rtbfinfo/video…
  
  Thu 28 Mar 2019 · on Twitter
28 March 2019
Links from the week of 18 March 2019
Articles, reports and other links I shared on Twitter this week.
- I see @Luxscarf got its moment of fame in the FT (ft.com/content/cf1fe0…)
  
  Fri 22 Mar 2019 · on Twitter
22 March 2019
Links from the week of 11 March 2019
Articles, reports and other links I shared on Twitter this week.
- Exploring Antwerpen. A slightly down at heel office block by the station has an interesting history (cc @artdecoist) Retroscoop – Het Century Hotel aan de Keyserlei: Standingvol Art Deco-icoon in Antwerpen retroscoop.com/amusement.php?…
  
  Sat 16 Mar 2019 · on Twitter
- Nice piece about 80s football, though pretty thin. The memory that really echoed was turning on my portable radio as I walked out of the ground with my cousin, to hear the scores from around the country. Little forgotten rituals… bbc.co.uk/bbcthree/artic…
  
  Sun 17 Mar 2019 · on Twitter
17 March 2019

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