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Italy gives a perfect if sad demonstration of what happens when countries do not vaccinate by age and hence true risk, and allow younger lobby groups to jump the queue

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Excellent thread on Johnson’s utter dishonesty. Every Tory MP should read it and then vote against or abstain

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Even by his own low standards, Boris Johnson’s Telegraph article plumbs new depths of shoddiness and dishonesty (short thread) 1/

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@NileGardiner Good lord, you do write such rubbish

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@BBCNews should not have allowed @frankfieldmp to claim falsely the EU is "bankrupt" and its accounts "are never signed off". Like UK with Nat Audit Office, EU has Court of Auditors which identifies errors. But no more than typical govt @Andrew_Adonis

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Fascinating warning from Brahma Chellaney: The steadily increasing risk of war between China and India

The steadily increasing risk of war between China and India

Beijing's use of domestic law underpins its international expansionism

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@toryboypierce @Keir_Starmer The committee’s only mandate is to decide whether or not he knowingly or recklessly misled Parliament. What has Sue Gray’s report got to do with that?

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"remarkably, Ukraine seems to be in a better position in the naval war (without a navy)" Weekend Update #46 , by @PhillipsPOBrien

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Wrong: it is where choosing Boris has led you

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This is what election oblivion looks like. This is where getting rid of Boris has led us.

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@JeremyCliffe And the trope about Italian “political instability” needs correcting too. Most of the 69 postwar governments were what in our system would be called “reshuffles”. The years of lead were truly unstable, but with a death rate equivalent to our “Troubles”

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The deadly British superiority complex, including sneering at what was happening in Italy: "The veil of ignorance through which the UK viewed the initial weeks of the pandemic was partly self-inflicted," said the report.

Covid: UK's early response worst public health failure ever, MPs say

But the new report by MPs fails to reflect the views of bereaved relatives, campaigners say.

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Jimmy Carter has been wronged by history via @FT Excellent, by ⁦ @EdwardGLuce ⁩

Jimmy Carter has been wronged by history

Ronald Reagan, meanwhile, benefits from an eternal free pass

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That’s 13 Scottish Tory votes in the Commons against a no-deal

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@hhesterm @Mij_Europe This discovery of "territorial integrity" as a slogan is interesting. As a rallying cry, is it real or fake? Do rules over chilled v frozen sausages flout territorial integrity more or less than different education or legal systems eg btw E&W and Scotland?

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"Do we want Ukraine to win the war and liberate all its territory? or Do we want Ukraine to be forced to accept a deal which hands over parts of the country to Putin?" Weekend Update #53 Zaluzhnyi and the War, by @PhillipsPOBrien

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@ElbridgeColby But you ARE the establishment, at least in the GOP. And many of your views are NOT in line with those of “regular Americans”, notably on aid to Ukraine. So you must be right: regular Americans get it better than you, the GOP establishment

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Helen Suzman's great comment about South Africa's apartheid era parliament comes to mind now for Britain: a shiver went round the cabinet, looking for a spine to run down

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Excellent by @PhillipsPOBrien on how the past six months have shown how the Ukrainians could win, if only they were armed properly (which they’re still not)

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Important corrective to those who imagine disinformation is the fault of new and social media. Especially in Britain, it is legacy media that has led the way

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@Andrew_Adonis Baroness Noakes was censured in 2014/15 for tweeting anti-Labour views but left in her post. She then tweeted pro-Leave views during the referendum campaign, with no consequences. I was removed for a few tweets, despite an official recusal from all EU-related decisions

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Johnson thinks he is like Churchill, but his true equivalents are Trump and Berlusconi

He will never quit, so this serial liar and incompetent will need to be thrown out - and hopefully soon will be. English original of article in La Stampa today

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Largest democratic mandate in British history? A lie straight out of the Boris playbook

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We will always be grateful to @BorisJohnson for his commitment and leadership in delivering the largest democratic mandate in British history. 🇬🇧 #Brexit

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@peteratcmc Are you serious or just gaslighting? Gray report: May 22. Johnson govt collapse (over Pincher, not Partygate): July 22. Supposed Starmer-Gray talks: October 22. Please stop being so boring

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@matthewsyed No we weren’t. Perhaps you were

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@EdwardGLuce @Sathnam And if the monarchy has had a “stabilising” or “moderating” influence on Britain as so many claim, I’d hate to see what lack of moderation would have done

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I demand a full investigation into Margaret Thatcher’s hiring of career civil servant Bernard Ingham

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When did the convos start is the key question here and why weren’t they declared. Ignore the partygate over reach by some tories - there are questions about this process that don’t add up. Hence the white hot anger in officialdom and current no10 rather than the past.

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Welcome if true. Wir schaffen das, revisited.

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🇪🇺 🇷🇺 EU to Cut Dependence on Russian #Gas by Almost 80% This Year - Bloomberg

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US support doesn't "dwarf" Europe's combined support: The US is the largest single-country supporter, but if you add EU institutions to all the European national contributions, support on either side of the Atlantic is quite similar

Ukraine Support Tracker - A Database of Military, Financial and Humanitarian Aid to Ukraine

The Ukraine Support Tracker lists and quantifies military, financial and humanitarian aid promised by governments to Ukraine.

www.ifw-kiel.de

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If support for Ukraine is so inconsequential, why does the $113 billion the U.S. has pledged since 2022 dwarf Europe's combined support for a conflict in its region? The U.S. has strategic imperatives in Asia that NATO-Europe doesn't. We can't view this conflict in isolation.

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On behalf of @japansocietylon and all its members and friends of Japan, I send my deep condolences for the tragic and shocking murder of Shinzo Abe today in Nara

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@Peston Probably the most self-destructive idea they could have come up with

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Powerful and deeply concerning @anneapplebaum : An existential moment for the Euro-American alliance @wake_up_europe

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Don’t be absurd. No one outside the Trumpian Republican core seriously believes this. They may criticise this or agree with that but no serious non-party analyst thinks Biden’s foreign policy has been a disaster

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Objectively. QED

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This is incredibly important, from @LawDavF Gradually, then Suddenly

Gradually, then Suddenly

The Ukrainian flag is raised again in Kupyansk “How did you go bankrupt?” Two ways. Gradually, then suddenly.” ― Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises. As with bankruptcy so with military defeat. What...

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Which part of “Parliamentary sovereignty” do you not understand?

Michael Fabricant 🇬🇧🇮🇱🇺🇦

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Serious questions will need to be asked about the manner in which the investigation was conducted. These were no jurists as was apparent by the tone of the examination. The question of calibre, malice and prejudice will need to be answered now or by historians.

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Shutdown and Aftershocks — Covid and the new world order via @FT My review essay on books by ⁦ @adam_tooze ⁩ and ⁦ @thomaswright08 ⁩ & ⁦ @ColinKahl ⁩

Shutdown and Aftershocks — Covid and the new world order

Two books bring insights into the radical political ruptures wrought by the pandemic

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Mussolini’s Grandchildren — the long shadow of fascism in Italy via @FT

Mussolini’s Grandchildren — the long shadow of fascism in Italy

Historian David Broder on why Giorgia Meloni and her populist government provoke questions about the past

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When parody becomes saner than reality

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Yes, you got it right. The aim is to overturn or confirm a democratic vote by democratic means. That's the truth. How can you possibly object?

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#PeoplesVoteMarch just remember, you are marching to overturn a democratic vote. You can tell yourselves that you are in the side of the angels, and maybe you are. But that’s the truth.

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A lying shit who likes to be liked, by @bill_emmott

A lying shit who likes to be liked

Pardon my language, but that is the way to understand Boris Johnson

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The sobering reality surrounding the Afghan debacle, by @bill_emmott

The sobering reality surrounding the Afghan debacle

The West's 20-year failure reflects a regional impotence, not just an Afghan one. But the manner of America's exit from Kabul will still haunt the Biden administration and damage the whole of the West

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So Napolitano again, as the only responsible politician in Italy. If the past is the solution, now Giulio Andreotti for Palazzo Chigi?

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@FoxNews 78.7% of these GOP student activists would vote for a criminal, anti-constitution insurrectionist. If true, America's days as a superpower are numbered

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@MKarnitschnig @JEyal_RUSI What's useless idiot in German?

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@jacopo_iacoboni @LaStampa Bravissimo Jacopo

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Felicity Bryan, literary agent, 1945-2020 via @FT Very sad; beautiful obituary of a lovely person ⁦ @davidpilling ⁩

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Proof of Italian exceptionalism: today’s coverage of Diego Maradona — Corriere della Sera, first 8 pages, La Stampa first 7 pages

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@TrevorHoneyman @lisanandy Easily. She was nominated by 28 elected governments, subject to confirmation by the European Parliament. Rather similar to the US requirements for confirmation hearings/votes for Secretaries of State nominated by the elected President. Or is the US Constitution a farce too?

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Magnifica. Brava.

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1 year

. @GiorgiaMeloni on Ukraine 🇮🇹🇺🇦✊🏻

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INCREDIBLE! MAXXI Rome, on Culture Ministry orders, has revoked Girlfriend in a Coma's Feb 13 Italy premiere booking. CENSORSHIP. STUPIDITY

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Yet another desperate lie. The seven freeports the UK had between 1984 and 2012 were evidently a figment of our imaginations.

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@ClarkeMicah @BBC The point is that you can only see Sudan and Ukraine as equivalent and requiring equivalent resolution methods if you see both as civil wars rather than one being an invasion by a former imperial overlord

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@iainmartin1 Fanatics are our problem

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@allisonpearson Germany has a slightly higher proportion of its population foreign-born (14.8%) than Britain (14%). So its immigrants must just be doing different “shameful” jobs it should have been training its own young people for. And Switzerland (30%). Such shame!

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What has been laughable — but also cryable — has been the constant evidence since June 23 2016 that the British Brexiter Class had no idea what to do, how to make choices, nor what on earth it all meant. They took us up shit creek and didn’t even know what a paddle looks like

Julia Hartley-Brewer

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This is so laughable. @Nigel_Farage resigned after the 2016 referendum because he thought the job was done. He (like every Leave voter) never thought for one moment that the British political class would attempt to thwart a democratic vote. How wrong we all were.

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Superb but chilling description of the coup by cult currently being attempted—a coup against Britain’s political institutions reinforced by a rewriting of very recent history. Resistance is essential. The showdown is coming.

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Government by cult. My latest Brexit Blog on the mounting damage, the re-writing of history, and the paradox and limitations of no-deal planning being overseen by a government that resembles a cult. Just up:

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Bill Emmott: China goes lukewarm on support for Russia amid Ukraine invasion - The Mainichi

Bill Emmott: China goes lukewarm on support for Russia amid Ukraine invasion

Russia's invasion of its neighbour, Ukraine, is now almost two months old. Many aspects of the war and its consequences are unknown because its outcom

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Thanks, Boris: UK tops coronavirus death rate rankings | Free to read via @FT

UK suffers second-highest death rate from coronavirus | Free to read

FT analysis of data from 19 countries finds Britain suffering heavy toll from pandemic

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The Telegraph and Boris Johnson have both been in Russia’s pocket for years. Money may not smell — but those who have taken Russian money stink to high heaven. Traitors all.

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+UPDATE+ The Telegraph Newspaper is estimated "to have recieved many millions" from the Russian State News Agency - RIA Novosti - to run Russia reports from 2007 onwards. During this time Telegraph's reporting on Putin softened - while the paper became increasingly anti Europe.

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@peteratcmc You do. They don't. With a bought peerage, given against the recommendation of the Lords Appointment Committee, you can hardly claim to be a tribune of the people

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@Rob_Kimbell No, because the European Commission is the civil service, not “the supreme government”. All decisions sre made in the European Council by democratically elected govts. But then you know that, and you prefer lies to truth

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In fact, Ireland made a far-sighted, constructive and entirely reasonable decision, after closest neighbour turned self-destructive

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The Irish Government, our closest neighbour, whom we should share a mutually beneficial relationship with, made a short-sighted, self-defeating, and politically catastrophic policy decision when they opted to take a hardline and punishing stance toward the United Kingdom after

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@HuXijin_GT And you, presumably, keenly remember the casualty totals in your own civil war, in the Great Leap Forward, and in the Cultural Revolution. Very important for Chinese people, especially CCP members, to reflect on their own past

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@JoeMillerJr What's amazing is that he bases his argument on a "should circumstances change" notion, just 10 months since the WA was passed into law by Parliament. What's changed? A truthful answer would be "should minds change"...

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@thehill All 75 million Biden voters were rejecting the Democrats’ agenda?

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Incredible thread about what are now, fortunately, almost unimaginably dreadful events in Italy exactly 41 years ago, part of the long conflict and the “strategy of tension” in which both neo-fascist groups and the State itself were engaged

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2 August 1980, the worst terrorist attack in post-war Italian history. A bomb hidden in a suitcase explodes in the waiting room of Bologna Station, causing the partial collapse of the station structure. 85 people die & 200 are injured [Thread] >> 1

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@nfergus more than a decade ago coined the term "Chimerica" to summarise Chinese and American interdependence. As he knows, interdependence is no guarantee of peace. His view is that just as Norman Angell was wrong in 1911, so anyone relying on economic ties would be wrong now

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Fully agree with @nfergus that we are in an economic MAD situation with China. This makes defense strategies that rely on our “destroying” China economically are not credible, let alone wise. Why? Because China could do the same back. 1/

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A reckoning on Germany’s Russia policy is long overdue via @FT

A reckoning on Germany’s Russia policy is long overdue

The invasion of Ukraine has made a proper accounting of ties between Berlin and Moscow more urgent than ever

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OMG. I am one of that rootless elite TMay hates as have taken three flights this week. And shame! I have employed Italians! @Wake_up_Europe

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My tribute to dear Helen Alexander, former Economist Group chief executive, 1957-2017 via @FT

Helen Alexander, former Economist Group chief executive, 1957-2017

Force behind publisher’s global expansion who became CBI’s first female president

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The Italian reality, as told by Napoleon Bonaparte: “When a government is dependent upon bankers for money, they and not the leaders of the government control the situation, since the hand that gives is above the hand that takes.”

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@iainmartin1 @reactionlife When wasn’t it? That’s why it was set up: to prevent ruptures and rival national interests from turning destructive. It’s about managing division and competition, not eliminating it. That’s been true since 1957 and always will be

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The nation that laughed itself stupid via @FT

The nation that laughed itself stupid

Boris Johnson has exposed the costs of Britain’s addiction to humour

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My local supermarket in quasi-lockdown Dublin was similar this morning. Calm, well stocked. Eggs! Largest supply of toilet roll I've ever seen (OK, I may not have paid attention before). But truly, we're all lucky to have been able to watch Italy, with sadness but also admiration

Ferdinando Giugliano

@FerdiGiugliano

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Just been to my local supermarket in Milan 🇮🇹 for my weekly shopping. Found plenty of fruit and vegetables, meat and fish. No eggs (damn!), but we’ll be OK. Many people wearing face masks, but everyone was calm. We have been in lockdown for 11 days. Rest of the world - calm down!

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Biden will feel very little need to think about, let alone regard, Johnson at all

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Hits the nail on Johnson's lying right on the head. Here's hoping Philip is right about these being the last days. The last days of Boris Johnson, by @philipstephens

The last days of Boris Johnson

A liar until the end, even now Johnson struggles to suppress a smirk

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Bill Emmott: Quad must be productive partnership to keep India from Russia, China orbit - The Mainichi

Bill Emmott: Quad must be productive partnership to keep India from Russia, China orbit

The photos always look impressive: political leaders from four great countries covering a very wide geography, bearing very wide smiles. The fact that

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Important point. This is a political u-turn, not a fiscal one. Markets will be little affected, until a credible financial plan emerges

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From a fiscal point of view important to remember cut to 45p rate was just about smallest part of the "mini budget". What was a £45bn tax cutting package is now a £43bn package. This U turn has, in itself, essentially no effect on fiscal sustainability.

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Excellent initiative, likely to improve public discussion especially in 2024 when the UK-EU TCA is up for review (assuming it has survived that long)

Lionel Barber

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Brexit isn’t working! Lord Kerr joins academics, business people, top trade unionist (and me ) in new Independent Commission on UK-EU Relations. We want to promote informed debate and find solutions - NOT refight the referendum. Backgrounder to follow

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@amandajplatell @Keir_Starmer I wonder whether you know how to read calendars. Gray report published May 22. Boris government collapsed (over Pincher, not Partygate) July 22. Reported Starmer-Gray talks: Oct 22. All your gaslighting is becoming very boring

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US sanctions often advance China’s interests

US sanctions often advance China's interests

Iran, Russia and Myanmar pivot to Beijing as Biden applies outdated policy

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If we could manage the pandemic emergency, we can manage to stop buying Russian gas, by @bill_emmott

If we could manage the pandemic emergency, we can manage to stop buying Russian gas

The case for weaponising Europe's purchases of Russian gas, oil and coal is not about reducing dependency. It is about winning the war in Ukraine as quickly as possible

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@GCPPPorg China's continued effort to make gains during the pandemic but not make friends

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Why are these developments getting little Indian media coverage? 1. China's ongoing territorial aggression in Ladakh. 2. China has banned the entry of Indians since early November. 3. Its machinations are effectively holding 39 Indian crew members of two ships captive for months.

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A top reason why he is absolutely “unfit” to be President of the Republic. Sarebbe vergognoso, davvero. Una vergogna assoluta.

Nicholas Whithorn 

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I'll never tire of repeating this. Berlusconi cannot be President of the Republic because it has been established in a court judgment that he paid large sums of money to the mafia for 18 years. There are plenty of other reasons but they are trivial in comparison.

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@NadineDorries @BorisJohnson The unity that led to 60 ministers and senior officials to quit within 24 hours

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So no more immigrants with potential. Only actual, current skills allowed. If the US had done this, virtually none of Silicon Valley’s heroes would have made it in

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Thanks @DanielJHannan We look forward to the EU's burning of Westminster in a couple of decades' time (are you really as ignorant as you make out?)

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I'm not sure that Dan Hannan is good publicity for History degrees from Oriel College, Oxford.

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Why I remain a Remainer via @FT

Why I remain a Remainer

‘If Brexiters had come out with a proper plan, they would have soon bored most Remainers into irrelevance’

www.ft.com

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@bill_emmott

2 years

So now, after what was clearly a damning "update" by Sue Gray, the question is whether enough Tory MPs have principles. Back to Helen Suzman's great comment about apartheid era SA: she watched a shiver go round the room, looking for a spine to run down. Now we all watch and wait

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@bill_emmott

4 years

On this basis London will be Britain's Lombardy

Tony 🇪🇺🕷️🇺🇦 #FBPE #3.5%

@tnywalsh

4 years

@dinosofos @JJ_Bryant Everyone please take a look at this. See how closely the UK death rates match Italy's from two weeks ago...

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Bill Emmott

@bill_emmott

3 years

Delighted and honoured to discuss Japan with @RobertAlanWard and @YukaKoshino for #japanmemo in this opening @IISS Japan chair podcast. Would welcome reactions and disagreements! @japansocietylon @jas_wdc @drjwalk @observingjapan @dicksamuelsMIT @takakohikotani @japansociety

IISS News

@IISS_org

3 years

To launch #JapanMemo , @bill_emmott joins @RobertAlanWard and @YukaKoshino to discuss changes in #Japan over the past decades, including its shifting demography, the role of women, prospects for economic reform and its pandemic response. Tune in now 🎧

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4 years

@EmmaKennedy This piece about Bergamo illustrates the importance of the data you are seeking:

We May Be Underestimating the Coronavirus Death Toll

Many people believe we're under-counting the Covid-19 infection rate, but Italian data suggest we may be getting the death numbers wrong too.

www.bloomberg.com

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@bill_emmott

3 years

@hhesterm @EmporersNewC In the long run we are all seamless

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@bill_emmott

2 years

@christopherhope Please make the "Star Chamber" report to all of us on why they were apparently so wrong when going through the TCA line by line last time, given the ERG's subsequent support for the protocol

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@bill_emmott

2 years

Assume a can opener. The Truss government’s answer to Britain’s economic crisis , by @philipstephens

Assume a can opener. The Truss government’s answer to Britain’s economic crisis

Swingeing tax cuts for the rich will simply make them richer

philipstephens.substack.com

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@bill_emmott

3 years

Criminal justice is the best solution for Trump by @bill_emmott

Criminal justice is the best solution for Trump

Italy's experience with its Trump-forebear, Silvio Berlusconi, shows that only the law can control such shameless figures - and even then, not forever

billemmott.substack.com

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@bill_emmott

2 years

@iainmartin1 @FabianZuleeg @julianHjessop UK/Ukraine? Little we’ve done has been an EU power. To say we were now “free” to act nimbly is to say Blair was somehow cramped when he co-invaded Iraq, which is also absurd

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@bill_emmott

2 years

@RuthDE But he didn't do any of those things. Sorry, but he just didn't. No lift to animal spirits, no remedy for national decline (which wasn't happening, until he came along, since Thatcher had ended it). Nothing any historian will consider to be of note, beyond his shame

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@bill_emmott

6 years

Genoa bridge collapse exposes a scourge that is not just in Italy via @financialtimes

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@bill_emmott

6 years

Absurd — no, outrageous— that an “independent” regulator has been led by two peers taking the party whip and voting with the government. Ofcom code of conduct warns against damaging “perception” of independence and impartiality

Andrew Adonis

@Andrew_Adonis

6 years

I open debate in House of Lords this evening on concerns about the lack of impartiality by Ofcom as regulator of the BBC & deep concern that its chair & ex deputy chair (Lord Burns & Lady Noakes) have been voting for Brexit in the Lords

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7 years

Fine rebuff to all the "we were never told the truth in 1975" nonsense

Graham Simpson

@grahambsi

7 years

Edward Heath in 1972 understood Britain was joining much more than a common market. He said its aim was to improve the quality of life of the peoples of a Europe. It was and it has. Let’s not throw it away. Fight #Brexit !

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5 years

@david_game33 @aaron_skinner @lionelbarber @MichaelPDeacon @NSoames They have voted to leave, more often than their Prime Minister. They are not against the central policy of their party. He is!

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