Articles, reports and other links I shared on Twitter this week.
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NYT gives U.K. a concentrated dose of “see ourselves as others see us” nytimes.com/2017/11/04/sun…
Sun 5 Nov 2017 · on Twitter
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Links from the week of 30 October 2017
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Non-Brits in EU bubble, when they talk to me abt Brexit, hardly ever talk trade deal A50…
Non-Brits in EU bubble, when they talk to me abt Brexit, hardly ever talk trade deal A50 technical stuff. Nope. Home Office horror stories.
It’s astonishing (and horrible) how much those human stories of lives and loves being disrupted have cut through. Even in the home of
law and process, people getting deportation threats is the face of Brexit now. Whatever happens trust of U.K. will be harmed for decades.
Originally posted as a thread of 3 tweets on Twitter on 27 October 2017. View the original thread.
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Links from the week of 23 October 2017
Articles, reports and other links I shared on Twitter this week.
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A Bordeaux, une fronde anti-Parisiens depuis l’ouverture de la ligne à grande vitesse buff.ly/2y3WY7J
Tue 24 Oct 2017 · on Twitter
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This is by Simon Jenkins and therefore wrong but there is a bright gem of stupid hidden behind the workaday stupid. theguardian.com/commentisfree/…
Thu 26 Oct 2017 · on Twitter
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Trump thinks he met the Pres of the Virgin Islands (which is him) which prompts a…
Trump thinks he met the Pres of the Virgin Islands (which is him) which prompts a thought: make Trump king. It would please his ego, he
could jet around and be in gold buildings a lot, but he would have no power and there’d be a PM doing all the deciding.
There would be a lot of hassle changing USA to UKA everywhere but that’s a one off
Originally posted as a thread of 3 tweets on Twitter on 14 October 2017. View the original thread.
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Links from the week of 9 October 2017
Articles, reports and other links I shared on Twitter this week.
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*not filled with confidence face* bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politi…
Mon 9 Oct 2017 · on Twitter
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Heading for Berlin and (paper) launch of this book featuring a chapter from me. You can read it online now though. kas.de/medien-europa/…
Thu 12 Oct 2017 · on Twitter
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Present-day alignment is true but irrelevant unless UK is going to pass a self-denying…
Present-day alignment is true but irrelevant unless UK is going to pass a self-denying deal saying it won’t stray from EU standards twitter.com/jillongovt/sta…
I don’t think this is a statement of future vision. It’s “we should have a good deal. Good deals are good.”
PH *might* be implying “and we’ll keep those rules aligned for the future” but that’s a huge thing, I’d be very surprised.
Originally posted as a thread of 3 tweets on Twitter on 14 September 2017. View the original thread.
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Agreed the UK could never have gone this far based on politics of last 20 years or so.
Agreed the UK could never have gone this far based on politics of last 20 years or so. But in future, think UK being in core more likely. twitter.com/JGForsyth/stat…
An outer-circle would have been a comfortable place for the UK as long as it had a say over rules. Now it won’t have that and the “outer
circle” becomes much more a group of “pre-ins” than “never-ins” (as it would have been with UK). That means that by 2030, say, if UK wants
to get back in (demographic churn and likely Brexit effects being what they are) the choice will be “All in or not in”, and with Brexit
a fatally poisoned brand (as it would be if we needed to get back in), “All in” would be the obvious choice. /end
Originally posted as a thread of 5 tweets on Twitter on 13 September 2017. View the original thread.
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Links from the week of 4 September 2017
Articles, reports and other links I shared on Twitter this week.
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The “embedded” account of Macron’s campaign, now written and published by Philippe Besson. Cc @joncarrwest liberation.fr/france/2017/09…
Sat 9 Sep 2017 · on Twitter
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I like Le Soir partly because it’s sometimes so parochial.
I like Le Soir partly because it’s sometimes so parochial. Today’s had two pages on a sinkhole opening up on a street near my house.
And then other days it has really detailed political reporting or a piece on Venezuela. Half Manchester Guardian, half Spaulding Guardian.
*Spalding
Originally posted as a thread of 3 tweets on Twitter on 8 September 2017. View the original thread.
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This story has annoyed me.
This story has annoyed me. First, picking up a single sentence in what a non-native speaker says to an audience of non-native speakers. twitter.com/bbcnickrobinso…
Second, the pointing and shouting ‘look at the nasty foreigner, look at the nasty foreigner’ from the media and Leave campaigners.
Don’t look at the nasty foreigner. Look at yourselves. Look at why the British public still don’t know, after two years, what leaving the
single market entails. Look at the persistently low level of knowledge about what the EU is and how it works, for years. Look at the
way in which Government Ministers can make the most ridiculous claims (deals with Berlin) and not get called out on it in interviews.
Look at how the most significant UK economic crisis since the 70s is being treated by all sides as a party management issue. Barnier could
have missed an opportunity to stay silent, but Britain should know more about the choices it has, and the reason it doesn’t are all the
people who should have been telling them for the past twenty years.
Originally posted as a thread of 8 tweets on Twitter on 4 September 2017. View the original thread.