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Yes, the UK government SHOULD abandon its Carbon Capture and Storage scheme, which a. would cause a net increase in emissions b. is unlikely to work c. uses tens of billions that'd be much better spent on genuinely green projects. Let's hope it has seen sense. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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Everyone Like And Repost 💯

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Australian newspaper "The Sun-Herald" opinion piece calls it out. American msm, take notes.

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Titanic paper from @andrewduffeu.bsky.social, which I missed at the time While there may be some stuff to quibble about, and some of this will be hard reading for Europeans, as well as for some in the UK, as a whole this is what needs to be said. This should be the focus for join. A reaction 🧵

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If the stakes weren’t so high, the contortions & humiliations of all the people who cheered this in & sneered about ‘Trump Derangement Syndrome’ etc would be absolutely hilarious.

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How can Brexit Britain navigate Trump's World? New post on my Brexit & Beyond Blog. With the rapid deepening of a dangerous global divide, the UK faces hard choices. Could the latest proposals for UK-EU 'mutual recognition' be part of the answer? chrisgreybrexitblog.blogspot.com/2025/02/how-...

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Once more, Farage is claiming that he stood up in the European Parliament in early 2014 and predicted the Ukraine war. In fact, he stood up in September 2014, AFTER the annexation of Crimea, and blamed Europe for Putin's actions. I kept the receipts. Listen here 👇🏽 open.spotify.com/episode/77cz...

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The lies are the point: Ukraine is a battle for objective reality iandunt.substack.com/p/the-lies-a...

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EXCLUSIVE - The Papua New Guinea Courier's USA correspondent on red pilled despots. Click through to my blog for more... open.substack.com/pub/mrhenrym...

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🚨🚨 Grim, heavy but nonetheless essential read by esteemed observer Chris Grey on the relationship between #brexit and Trump's new very dangerous global chaos politics and the stark choices ahead for Britain navigating all of this. 👇

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The bonus will be that all the Mars-goers die of space cancer www.shesabeast.co/mars-radiati...

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1. A few years ago, people like me were widely attacked in the media for “declinism”. How could we fail to see that we were heading into a capitalist utopia, in which everything would keep getting better? This is a thread about what we could see that our critics could not. 🧵

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They tried to cancel John Crace from covering the right-wing jamboree at ExCel but no one can stop him filing copy this good www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

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A cluster of stories on regulation this morning in the FT. First, the UK government's plan to review all regulators to see if they are working to boost growth. A depressing and sterile debate based on the incorrect regulation v growth narrative. www.ft.com/content/f82f...

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Tim Radford, the great science editor of the Guardian (and so much more besides) has left us. To my shame I had never before seen his 25 commandments for aspiring journalists. They are very good indeed and worth your time. And curiously haven't aged. www.theguardian.com/science/blog...

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These disputes will not derail relations, despite Político hype. However, this does demonstrate what the real barrier is to UK integration with Europe. It's not FOM. It's control of financial-services regulations. 1 www.politico.eu/article/brex...

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NEW: The Papua New Guinea Courier's overseas correspondent, with the very latest from Washington. open.substack.com/pub/mrhenrym...

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Question Time last night was pretty fierce. And had to be. There's a deliberate effort now to shift the ground: towards appeasement, inhumanity and authoritarianism. Once more, we must resist it. We must fight hard for kindness. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

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Trump’s new world chaos offers possibilities for post-Brexit Britain. Latest post on my Brexit & Beyond Blog. The UK's choice isn’t just between US & EU, it's about the new global divide, and it could finally change the stale politics of Brexit: chrisgreybrexitblog.blogspot.com/2025/02/trum...

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Trump’s new world chaos offers possibilities for post-Brexit Britain. New post on my Brexit & Beyond Blog. The UK's choice isn’t just between US & EU, it's about the new global divide, and it could finally change the stale politics of Brexit: chrisgreybrexitblog.blogspot.com/2025/02/trum...

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🚨🚨 So Simon Clarke let us do the #brexit maths again. According to OBR reliable estimates (I have posted about this countless of times). ‘Trade and Cooperation Agreement’ (TCA) that came into effect on 1 Jan 2021, will reduce long-run productivity by 4 per cent relative to remaining in the EU. 🧵

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Brilliant satirical cover from Private Eye, mocking spineless media organisations and journalists who submit and cower in the face of power 👏

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Fun fact - the "roman salute" is a myth. There is no mention anywhere in Roman literature or iconography of such actions. We think otherwise because of films and 19th-century art ... oh yes and the Italian fascists and Nazis who pretended it was a thing. One might even call it "Fake history".

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NEW - Like Flies Drawn To Manure. The Inauguration of Donald Trump as seen by The Papua New Guinea Courier. open.substack.com/pub/mrhenrym...

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NEW Why the Truss "lettuce before action" is worse than you thought - and it has a worrying implication for free speech A wider look at the libel letter from the former Prime Minister By me Substack: emptycity.substack.com/p/why-the-tr... Personal blog: davidallengreen.com/2025/01/why-...

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Move fast, break things – sprint to kiss Trump’s ring. It’s the tech bros inauguration derby | Marina Hyde

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In early 2020, a pandemic was spreading. The UK’s PM went on a 10 day half-term holiday during which he was uncontactable and the government went into panic mode, focusing, as Hancock related to the COVID enquiry, on buying enough body bags. 1/8

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I like this modular approach. It's something that could work with other third countries or applicants. However, there would need to be a few provisos to make this work. 1

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The Europeanisation of British politics continues. What does this mean for small-r reform - not the party, but attempts to expand the supply capacity of the UK economy? Thread.

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Deep breath. Leaving ECHR would make no difference to small boat crossings. The only way that would work would also involve leaving the Refugee Convention, plus all international maritime and human rights treaties, to start with. It makes zero difference in practice on this particular area. 1/

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Welcome to 2025. New post on my Brexit & Beyond Blog. A look at how the year has started both quietly and noisily in terms of Brexit-related news, how that's the shape of things to come, and how to stay sane: chrisgreybrexitblog.blogspot.com/2025/01/welc...

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So there is a need to respond to the lies that have been circulating about Europe, MSs and 90/180. This is the visa waiver defined in law (2018/1806). As you can see, the maximum visa waiver is 90/180 days. Britain qualifies for that. 1

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I would have two questions: Why the euro? What benefit would there be to Europe? Until that can be answered, then the default is going to be the treaties, which indicates that commitment to euro is essential at the start of any accession process. A response 🧵

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Folks: please be diligent about not disseminating Ann Telnaes' cartoon in a way that she's not getting the clicks on it (until she says differently). Her IP matters now more than ever. Make it go viral but make sure she benefits. anntelnaes.substack.com/p/why-im-qui...

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THREAD: In 2023, I received an envelope with no return address. Inside was a flash drive containing tens of 1000s of secret files. It came from a vigilante with a tumultuous past, who'd conducted a years-long undercover operation. He didn’t tell the FBI or his family. He only told me.

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The damning statistics that reveal the true cost of Brexit, five years on www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...

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This is clickbait from the Telegraph. But it does tell us something about how the UK - esp. exceptionalists and Brexiters - view the US. It even tells us about the end of Empire. A 🧵

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1/ Ok, so instead of just making jokes about the EU Reset, I wanted to do a very simplified thread on: - what the actual problem is Keir Starmer is trying to solve; - the options on the table; and - why this shit is hard. This will be very long. I'm sorry. Let's get wonky.

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Faced with Trump and Farage, Britain’s natural ally is Europe www.theguardian.com/business/202...

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Beware the Brexit reset backlash. New post on my Brexit & Beyond Blog. With the reset barely begun, the Brexiters' vicious backlash against it is gathering force. But the reset has good justification (& those dismissing it as trivial should beware): chrisgreybrexitblog.blogspot.com/2024/12/bewa...

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