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Peter Kellner's article in @theneweuropean.bsky.social sets out the issues that Brexit has caused to the British economy before hitting this key argument: The problems come from being a third country. 1

submitted 4 days ago • 13 comments

There are a lot of reasons why it won’t or shouldn’t happen, but it’s strikes me that if the EU was looking to do something that would cause Washington and Moscow to shit themselves, announcing they hope and expect Ukraine, Moldova and the UK to join the EU by the end of 2026 would do the trick.

submitted 5 days ago • 4 comments

Military historian Sir Antony Beevor on Times Radio on Trump-Putin: "We should always distrust historical parallels, especially those from WW2...but there is a really very frightening echo of the betrayal of Czechoslovakia in 1938 and the idea that one can deal over the heads of a suffering nation"

submitted 10 days ago • 21 comments

well it has certainly been an amusing prank to let the worst people alive take over the american government for a few weeks, but I think it's probably gone on long enough

submitted 11 days ago • 102 comments

Can you imagine if like Canada or Mexico, the UK had grown more economically dependent on the USA for its exports, as the Brexiters would have had us & will have us? The benefit of EU member ("frictionless" not just "free") trade is it is not all vulnerable to the whims of one shit for brains leader

submitted 14 days ago • 2 comments

It takes a certain kind of monster who has the money to stop world hunger, water shortages and provide desperately needed medical aid to clap and cheer whilst closing down aid agencies and support networks. As for its followers, failed human beings doesn't quite do them justice.

submitted 17 days ago • 3 comments

A few years ago I ran like hell for a train because I knew it hadn't departed, and saved SNCF a hotel bill by catching it. It was the afternoon TGV from Gare de Lyon to Barcelona and missing it would have meant a night in Paris. www.theguardian.com/business/202...

submitted 17 days ago • 0 comments

Seeing as everyone is writing Brexit anniversary pieces, I thought I'd give it a go. Brexit for 🇪🇺 didn't begin in. 2020 or even 2016. Brexit began during the financial crisis, with UK blackmail. A 🧵

submitted 22 days ago • 10 comments

A propos the fairly obvious, good faith in international agreements is not just a nice-to-have, but a fundamental Some slides from the last time we experienced this 1/

submitted 22 days ago • 1 comment

I don’t fucking think so.

submitted 23 days ago • 309 comments

A tradition still persisting in the UK. Urine-filled witch bottles are regularly found in the liminal areas fringing lay-bys, often associated with ritual caches of hedge-porn.

submitted 32 days ago • 2 comments

Ah, some Liz Truss baby pictures

submitted 33 days ago • 16 comments

NEW Looking critically at Trump's flurry of Executive Orders Why we should watch what is done, and not to be distracted by what is said By me On Substack emptycity.substack.com/p/looking-cr... Personal blog davidallengreen.com/2025/01/look...

submitted 34 days ago • 0 comments

I doubt any Troll here who’s trying to smear ⁦Keir Starmer about decade-old events will be interested to read these pages from my book about his record prosecuting rape gangs. But he’s done more to bring them to justice than Farage, Yaxley-Lennon - or Musk -will ever do.

submitted 49 days ago • 39 comments

Government should seize the moment, while Musk and Farage are at odds, to close the loophole on foreign donations to UK parties. The danger was always that introducing legislation would trigger a donation. So do it now, before they kiss and make up.

submitted 49 days ago • 12 comments

Joey not sure why we’re in bed with the lights on, glasses in hand, and watching BBC Alba’s celidh when we never normally watch TV in bed.

submitted 54 days ago • 0 comments

By long tradition, Ely Cathedral is removed for cleaning on St Stephen’s day

submitted 60 days ago • 1 comment

This in The Times is designed to alarm wealthy people, which is why this front page article has been written by a political correspondent and not by an education or business journalist. Private schools aren't collapsing & 3,000 more children in state schools is just a normal day. Literal non-story.

submitted 60 days ago • 87 comments

This very British type of complacency is infuriating and reminiscent of the useless Remain campaign in 2016, which failed to learn that the lying, manipulative hard Right doesn’t play by the same ethical rules as nice folk, has no sense of honourable conduct and sees fair play as weakness.

submitted 64 days ago • 292 comments

Gregg Wallace has been replaced by a "middle class woman of a certain age", which is absolutely hilarious.

submitted 67 days ago • 19 comments

My piece for ConHome on why the turmoil in France and Germany doesn’t validate Brexit. conservativehome.com/2024/12/16/d...

submitted 70 days ago • 7 comments

The report serves as a textbook example of shifting the standards of evidence to suit its authors' needs.

submitted 73 days ago • 7 comments

At the end of the day, Brexit revealed to the world two things: first, most UK politicians - from both sides of the divide - fundamentally did not understand how the EU works. Secondly, they had no intention of filling that gap in knowledge. That's why we're still stuck in this infinite loop.

submitted 75 days ago • 2 comments

I love it* when a random person on here tells me that an area of law I have written five editions of a book about doesn't exist *I do not, in fact, love it

submitted 78 days ago • 173 comments

It’s driving me insane how neither politicians nor the media seem able to speak honestly about where the immigration numbers are at NOW. A very significant drop is already baked in. We’re talking net numbers halving & the discourse is all still “omg record highs how do we bring them down?” 😱

submitted 81 days ago • 28 comments

Two genuinely irritating phrases: "Nobody voted to leave the single market" And its cousin, "We should never have left the single market". A 🧵

submitted 82 days ago • 30 comments

This utter legend right here ! I'm howling 😂🤣👏

submitted 83 days ago • 10 comments

So, I see youth visas remain as controversial as ever. Worth asking, in an honest assessment of such visas, who benefits? Cui bono? A 🧵

submitted 84 days ago • 4 comments

Still having trouble getting used to the ‘x’ for closing photos etc being top right instead of top left. One small aspect where the opposition has the advantage IMO. Once X has died perhaps BS could pinch the idea…

submitted 86 days ago • 0 comments