Articles, reports and other links I shared on Twitter this week.
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Ruh-roh rte.ie/news/brexit/20…
Mon 8 Oct 2018 · on Twitter
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Links from the week of 24 September 2018
Articles, reports and other links I shared on Twitter this week.
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Skripal Suspect Boshirov Identified as GRU Colonel Anatoliy Chepiga – bellingcat buff.ly/2DvBT9h < impressive showing-your-working here.
Wed 26 Sep 2018 · on Twitter
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Just back with @dzyrl from @LaMonnaieDeMunt where good singing and orchestral playing struggled valiantly to escape from under a catastrophic production of the Magic Flute. diapasonmag.fr/actualite/crit…
Sun 30 Sep 2018 · on Twitter
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Imagine Italy took the Chequers approach to refugee redistribution.
Imagine Italy took the Chequers approach to refugee redistribution. It would say “every country must take migrants off our hands, and we’ll say how many. You won’t have alternative or any control over the process we use to allocate it and we’ll be the judges
of whether you’ve done enough, for ever. We’ve had a negotiation in Italy about it, now you have to do it.” How would Britain (which has done next to nothing to help Italy) feel about that?
It’s such a lunatic position that even *this* Italian government isn’t trying it, and Italy’s moral claim for support with refugees is far greater than Britain’s moral claim on the single market.
Originally posted as a thread of 3 tweets on Twitter on 22 September 2018. View the original thread.
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British political-media class seem not to understand, at a deep level, that other…
British political-media class seem not to understand, at a deep level, that other countries have democratic politics. They’re treated as plot devices and minor characters in the drama of U.K. politics.
But now U.K. politics is impotent and these minor characters are writing the script, into one where the U.K.’s actions and motivations don’t matter. They can’t understand it. Why are these people not following the script? Why aren’t they listening?
The U.K. turned up expecting Hamlet and is now watching Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead.
Originally posted as a thread of 3 tweets on Twitter on 21 September 2018. View the original thread.
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Links from the week of 17 September 2018
Articles, reports and other links I shared on Twitter this week.
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Puigdemont out on the campaign trail for a party whose immigration minister has had to apologise in Parliament for using the phrase “cleaning up” about immigrants and attending the birthday party of a Nazi collaborator. Nationalism, eh? plus.lesoir.be/178779/article…
Mon 17 Sep 2018 · on Twitter
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Links from the week of 10 September 2018
Articles, reports and other links I shared on Twitter this week.
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“Britain! Britain! It’s me, CANZUK! Come, rebuild your white empire!”
“Andrew, is that you?”
(Hand over mouthpiece) “…..No”. capx.co/canzuk-is-call…Mon 10 Sep 2018 · on Twitter
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This is a good read and a reminder that most voters don’t care about Brexit. Wait till they find out that being outside the EU is continuous negotiation (👋🇨🇭) theguardian.com/commentisfree/…
Wed 12 Sep 2018 · on Twitter
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Watching #SOTEU speech (or rather listening to it in the background while writing emails) ec.europa.eu/commission/pri…
Wed 12 Sep 2018 · on Twitter
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The public consultation on permanent winter time in Narnia was a farce (h/t @dzyrl) politico.eu/article/jean-c…
Thu 13 Sep 2018 · on Twitter
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Ah well. buzzfeed.com/alexwickham/br…
Sat 15 Sep 2018 · on Twitter
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Progress in British political journalism: the EU having a say gets a mention
No progress: in the context of Angela Merkel being the person who’ll make the deal. buzzfeed.com/alexwickham/br…Sat 15 Sep 2018 · on Twitter
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A nice chiasmus, but… SV can solve problems because it doesn’t act under the…
A nice chiasmus, but… SV can solve problems because it doesn’t act under the constraints of universalism, tax revenue and political control that DC does. It’s not hard to solve non-critical problems for the group of users you want to serve, with slugs of easy VC funding…. twitter.com/ezraklein/stat…
It’s hard to solve problems that you can only indirectly affect, that are deep rooted and dependent on behaviours you can’t control in lives you don’t understand – when everything you do is immediately criticised, legitimately, by political opponents …
When “universal” is the only acceptable service level, but you have to argue with Congress/Parliament for the money, and keep arguing every year for a programme that might take ten years to show results.
It’s no wonder private sector types so often fall on their faces when they step into government.
Originally posted as a thread of 4 tweets on Twitter on 10 September 2018. View the original thread.
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Links from the week of 3 September 2018
Articles, reports and other links I shared on Twitter this week.
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The unconditional surrender of the word “sceptic” ft.com/content/1f3a60…
Wed 5 Sep 2018 · on Twitter
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@jonworth journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.11…
Thu 6 Sep 2018 · on Twitter
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The most striking thing about this is how what might or might not fly with the EU27 appears not to be the slightest concern of either side. Hard wake up call coming. buzzfeed.com/alexspence/ins…
Sun 9 Sep 2018 · on Twitter
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The core choice of all choices is whether politicians think the British public will bear…
The core choice of all choices is whether politicians think the British public will bear continued free movement. twitter.com/BBCNewsnight/s…
Options are (a) No – so hard Brexit with all that entails, (b) Yes – so EEA is fine, no big numbers of voters care about ECJ; (c) Yes but only if the government lies about it stopping one day – temporary EEA is fine but get ready for endless arguments.
The problem is that (a) is undeliverable without burning every bridge; (b) raises the question ‘why not stay in the EU and have a say in the rules then’ and (c) means Brexit paralysis continues for ever and I mean yes literally for ever until people choose (a) or (b).
And this is before taking into account the views of the EU27 and EFTA, who probably prefer the UK having a good long time-out in (b), marginally, over the UK staying in with its neuroses intact.
Originally posted as a thread of 4 tweets on Twitter on 4 September 2018. View the original thread.
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Links from the week of 20 August 2018
Articles, reports and other links I shared on Twitter this week.
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As a long-walks-around-Brussels person I totally buy the benefits of urban walking that @jonnellege sets out. It helps if there is weird and wonderful architecture too. theguardian.com/commentisfree/…
Tue 21 Aug 2018 · on Twitter
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In a cafe in Brussels, selling crisps from a French company called Regent’s Park, who turn out also to make crumpets, scones and muffins. And that’s my comment on #nodealbrexit. regentspark.fr/nos-produits
Thu 23 Aug 2018 · on Twitter
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I don’t think @MartinSelmayr himself could write a better argument for an EU army than Donald Trump just did: atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/natosour…
Fri 24 Aug 2018 · on Twitter
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Thousands Once Spoke His Language in the Amazon. Now, He’s the Only One. buff.ly/2oaZHou
Sun 26 Aug 2018 · on Twitter
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