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LONG POST WARNING I'm sharing this because Brexiteers & extremely rich tax evading Tories, Reformers and their billionaire friends in MSM didn't think about how it affected people day to day (primarily because none of it affected them) their cushion of wealth protected them! 1/

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We are fully committed to maintaining the mistake; whatever happens we promise you, without reservation, that we will not remedy it and will never give you back your rights and freedoms. Please vote for us.

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The US rep to the IEA said that "pursuing offshore wind power would make countries reliant on China." It's instructive to explore this sort of claim, in particular for what it reveals about those claiming it. Two points:🧵

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An EU negotiator is providing a commentary to the FT on talks while the UK side is mostly briefing The Times on internal decisions made ages ago. But no running commentary according to the UK government... But there's a bigger hidden story here...

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Seven truths about trade but right now this is the most important. www.ft.com/content/21a7...

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Trump is fiddling with tariff levels on a day-by-day basis, rolling some back, cutting or postponing others, and imposing new punitive tariffs on yet more products, eg solar panels from Asia. How can any firm hope to plan for the long or even the medium-term when faced with such a rollercoaster?

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In the 3 weeks since Trump’s tariffs took effect, ocean container bookings from China to the United States are down over 60%. [Source: Flexport].

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I Wish I Could Post This Without His Awful Face Attached, But Americans Need To Stay Informed…..😊💙

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Confused over who's in the running to become the next pope? But you do have some knowledge of financial-crisis era central bankers? This is the thread for you!

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🚨🚨 MAJOR NEWS: @ec.europa.eu fines Apple €500M and Meta €200M for breaking the rules of the EU Digital Markets Act, the first fines in the history of the act. 🧵 www.politico.eu/article/eu-f...

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There’s nothing stopping the Home Office from changing a) how the migration figures are recorded (who counts as a migrant worker vs a foreign student on temporary visa) so they’re more credible and reliable, and b) how migration is actually managed. And yet, instead, we get this kind of nonsense.

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The first peregrine falcon chick has hatched at Worcester Cathedral! Happy Easter everyone 🐣

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First the Canadians, now the Chinese. Illiquidity looks like it may need a bigger premium. on.ft.com/42l7J28

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Trump is reordering not ending globalisation - mainly by massively undermining US multinationals. Advantage everyone else. www.ft.com/content/e439...

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Some Scottish clouds over the beautifully-named Isle of Taransay. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 📷

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Time for something not about politics. One of the paintings I’ve most admired for decades. Joseph the Carpenter by Georges de La Tour.

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The thing about Brexit is: it isn’t done and never will be. Brexit is wrecking ball — it’s wrecking lives from cancer care to farming and food. Every year we tolerate it, the damage grows. We need to debrexit Britain — with urgency. www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...

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Arthur Daley's Brexit. New post on my Brexit & Beyond Blog, with analysis of what Trump's Tariffs do and don't tell us about Brexit itself, and how the 'choice' they give the UK is to duck and dive whilst the real decisions are made by others: chrisgreybrexitblog.blogspot.com/2025/04/arth...

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Machine embroidered artwork by Alison Holt, UK textile artist #WomensArt #Spring

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"Pope Francis skipped the Vatican’s official meeting with Vice President JD Vance Saturday, instead having his No. 2 give the vice president a lecture on compassion, according to a Vatican statement."

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Spot on. Who else agrees with this? Drop a comment.

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The early riser braving the wet morning. #Easter2025

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‘Still Life with Apricots and Nectarines Jessica Brown. Artist

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My mental model of the Labour government is that they talk much more right wing than they act (e.g. budget was a big expansion of the state funded by borrowing and raising corporate taxes but cast as “prudent” and “austere”) is that true of Brexit now as well? www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

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A very useful paper by Federico Santopinto and I happen to agree with his conclusions. “Understanding the debate on the financing of European defence and its political implications” www.iris-france.org/en/comprendr... @institutiris.bsky.social

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To try to stave of tariffs, Vietnam is expediting approvals of a $1.5 billion Trump Organization resort www.wsj.com/economy/trad...

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A lovely 1469 vellum manuscript of St Bonaventure’s Legenda Maior. With some more informal figure studies in the margins.

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Class action law suit proposed against TESLA suggesting Tesla has inflated distance measuring odometer reading to reduce warranty periods & persuade people to purchase extended warranties I’m not clear about the number of claimants involved in the proposed action apple.news/AfADoLAdWSdG...

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My Trade Secrets today. It's a longstanding American grievance that predates Trump: US companies can't sell cars in Europe & elsewhere because of evil trade barriers. It's actually because US protectionism has encouraged its carmakers to make clunky great gas-guzzlers no one else wants to buy.

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This is an interesting one, supermarkets send a letter to the EU calling for a UK deal on food and drink trade. But I'd suggest the real audience, and indeed organiser, is rather closer to home, as in the UK government building up domestic support. www.ft.com/content/687f...

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17 Apr 1656: State funeral #otd of James Ussher, Archbishop of #Armagh, #Dubliner, outstanding scholar of his generation, using the proscribed Church of #England Prayer Book in St. Erasmus Chapel #Westminster (Bodleian)

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17th century, painting of 'A Turkish woman' by an unknown artist (Wellcome) The hat, the pattens, the handkerchief, the ermine trim ... it's all happening

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Lots of interesting stuff in the WTO trade outlook for 2025. 1) The WTO expects Trump's tariffs and wider uncertainty to reduce goods exports from North America by 15 percentage points and imports by 14 percentage points, compared to their original forecast. Those are pretty big numbers!

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This from Chinese state media. Nonetheless, 100% TRUE. “The US is not getting ripped off by anybody. The problem is the US has been living beyond its means for decades. It consumes more than it produces. Rather than being ‘cheated’, the US has been taking a free ride on the globalisation train.”

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Ydays post: The new silent majority mainlymacro.blogspot.com/2025/04/the-... When the 2 main parties promote socially conservative policies and argue against funding better public services, that can mean that a social liberal and economic centre or left point of view struggles to get much airtime

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Raises the age-old question: does Britain think EU or US processes generate rules and standards that suit its interests? US processes are increasingly oligarchic. The EU's processes can be warped by industrial interests too, but the rule of law and checks and balances are more powerful.

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When you live in an age where George W. Bush’s time as President is perceived (incorrectly) as relatively safe, sane and benign… you know the planet has jumped the shark. 😱

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The wild pansy goes by many names, which an early reader of this 16th century herbal has added, including the particularly lovely 'heartsease' #Readers #Herbals

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If you've never watched the tide rise for yourself, it might be difficult to imagine just how quickly the sea moves...

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Shou Xin

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Farmers in North Carolina, a state whose electoral votes went to Donald Trump in the past three elections, are struggling with the unpredictability of his tariffs, which threaten their access to foreign markets and add a heavy dose of uncertainty to an already capricious undertaking.

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Bravo! Brexit benefit number... inews.co.uk/news/world/b...

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2016: Daniel Hannan said that outside the European Union the UK's steel industry would be revived 2025: BBC report on the need to rescue Britain's steel industry Hannan also said we could "hire and fire" the people who pass our laws, but now he sits unelected in the House of Lords passing our laws

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The phrase about Britain leading Europe gives the game away. Labour trapped in the normal establishment nonsense. Two types of PMs, planners or responders. Starmer is hopeless at being either.

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