Articles, reports and other links I shared on Twitter this week.
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The refurbished Reyers Tunnel will blow Elon Musk’s mind. gizmodo.com/like-riding-on…
Thu 20 Dec 2018 · on Twitter
Author: anthonyzach
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Links from the week of 17 December 2018
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Links from the week of 10 December 2018
Articles, reports and other links I shared on Twitter this week.
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The nightmare of a no-deal Brexit looms and must be prevented via @FT < Martin Wolf suggestion is “let’s forget about the backstop” which is not going to happen. Cakeism again. ft.com/content/e6d3cb…
Fri 14 Dec 2018 · on Twitter
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Sad to see racist scum polluting my neighbourhood. lesoir.be/195880/article…
Sun 16 Dec 2018 · on Twitter
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Enjoying this list of ways to say “when pigs can fly” in multiple languages: A la Saint-Glinglin – dictionnaire des expressions françaises expressio.fr/expressions/a-…
Sun 16 Dec 2018 · on Twitter
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More remain cake. “Brexit is a self-inflicted disaster, driven by liars and charlatans…
More remain cake. “Brexit is a self-inflicted disaster, driven by liars and charlatans, which will harm Britain for generations, so the EU should do what we want.”
theguardian.com/commentisfree/…The reform free movement insanity claims another victim. The answer to this choice is “it’s better to lose”.
Freedland isn’t even pretending the UK can reform free movement, he’s arguing the remain campaign should just spin it that they can/could. HAVE YOU LEARNED NOTHING?
If the UK isn’t able to bear free movement it should not be in the EU. Sorry, that’s bad for remainers, but so is winning on a lie and keeping the narrative that free movement is this terrible burden that for some reason only the UK sees.
It’s the same sort of “oh Europe’s shit but I suppose we have to go along with it” argument that remain used in 2016 to such magnificent effect.
Originally posted as a thread of 5 tweets on Twitter on 15 December 2018. View the original thread.
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I can see from the 27 perspective the incentive to squeeze the Brexiteers.
I can see from the 27 perspective the incentive to squeeze the Brexiteers. They believe that no-deal is unlikely (and given the immunity of May to challenge and the huge anti-no-deal majority in the Commons, you can see why). Also they, uniquely, can offer
extension(?s) to A50 that the UK will take in a heartbeat to keep things going (and which would come with increasingly heavy hints about how they would welcome the UK back). So they have May’s deal as a minimum, which is fine for them. That’s still going to be
on the table. Why throw May a bone now when a few weeks of pressure might end up with a second referendum or even a Parliamentary withdrawal? They read the British press, they can see how withdrawing A50 has become a respectable edge position not a crazy one.
“Let’s see how things develop” is a good strategy for them, given their control over the extension button.
Originally posted as a thread of 4 tweets on Twitter on 14 December 2018. View the original thread.
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This is an interesting initiative but doesn’t really have a convincing answer on the…
This is an interesting initiative but doesn’t really have a convincing answer on the democratisation part tbqh. twitter.com/lemondefr/stat…
The idea of a european assembly alongside a European Parliament is one democratic assembly for the price of two, and double hatting national politicians didn’t work, which is why we have the European Parliament right now.
The underlying difficulty is that they are trying to create a sovereign European political space without the member states basically ruling the show. I get why, but this isn’t how to do it. You might think – I do – that nation states are
on the way out but they are here and (absent the creation of a European republic, which isn’t really on the cards) you’ve got to deal with them.
And in any case there’s no point in building more democratic institutions up top without rooting them at the base and creating convincing democratic approaches that counter the prevailing feeling of impotence among the public. Nation states are struggling with that,
A European assembly would struggle ten times (or 27 times) over.
All for further democratisation of the European government level but don’t see this as the way to get it.
Originally posted as a thread of 7 tweets on Twitter on 9 December 2018. View the original thread.
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Links from the week of 3 December 2018
Articles, reports and other links I shared on Twitter this week.
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It’s an ill wind… theguardian.com/environment/20…
Fri 7 Dec 2018 · on Twitter
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‘Mind-blowingly gorgeous Georgia’ | Travel | The Guardian < bit harsh on Batumi, which has some lovely bits. theguardian.com/travel/2018/de…
Sun 9 Dec 2018 · on Twitter
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Much truth on the #giletsjaunes crisis from Pierre Rosanvallon (from plus.lesoir.be/art/d-20181207…)
Sun 9 Dec 2018 · on Twitter
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Links from the week of 26 November 2018
Articles, reports and other links I shared on Twitter this week.
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43% of Europeans want to have more and better information on what Europe does for them. #europe4democracy Such as: what-europe-does-for-me.eu/en/portal?fbcl…
Mon 26 Nov 2018 · on Twitter
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Super quick reaction post (with what I said) from #eu4democracy – but much more thinking to come, I’m sure. demsoc.org/2018/11/27/thr…
Tue 27 Nov 2018 · on Twitter
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Links from the week of 19 November 2018
Articles, reports and other links I shared on Twitter this week.
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Reminded by a friend of this Polish Christmas advert (no Polish required to understand it) that was sweet at the time but post-Brexit is unbearable. youtube.com/watch?v=tU5Rnd…
Thu 22 Nov 2018 · on Twitter
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Links from the week of 12 November 2018
Articles, reports and other links I shared on Twitter this week.
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Spitzenkandidaten. La trahison de Verhofstadt et du centre | Fabien l’Européen buff.ly/2DBnTKw < hard to disagree. The Spitz system isn’t much, but it is something, and so for ALDE to dump it for a romp in the hay with Macron is very short-termist.
Tue 13 Nov 2018 · on Twitter
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dilbert.com/strip/2004-01-… twitter.com/TimRoss_1/stat…
Fri 16 Nov 2018 · on Twitter
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The retail apocalypse hits Belgium. Agree with @comeos_fr that the online offer in Belgium is poor, and retailers need a level playing field versus online. But it’s about innovation not tax cuts: En baisse structurelle, le commerce crie à l’aide plus.lesoir.be/190526/article…
Sat 17 Nov 2018 · on Twitter
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She’s running off
She’s running off.
Or maybe not…
Is that it?!
Originally posted as a thread of 3 tweets on Twitter on 15 November 2018. View the original thread.