#BREXIT

"Faut en finir ! Trouvons un accord sur le Brexit ?" "Vraiment ?" "Wait for it...." "Ouais, vous acceptez ce que j'exige et c'est bon" "Aaannd here we go again..."
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Sorry Greg, but still no, existing UK-EU alignment does not help get a quick FTA, and it may even make timescales longer. Consider for a start that the entire EU-UK
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Over the last five years I have been highly critical of those who said labour could go nothing because they 'weren't in power you know' and who pushed that dumbest
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Thinking about the suspension of Corbyn purely from a public relations perspective, I wonder if it will do Starmer more harm than good. Let me explain why - and emphasise
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3. Govts have always tried to narrate events in a way that suits them. But it feels, increasingly, as if controlling the narrative is *all* that matters: that narrating Brexit
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1. Political education matters, and it isn’t a given. My mum, a single parent on benefits throughout my childhood, at a point when single mums and their children were entirely
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60,000 people dying alone, in isolation rooms behind plastic, unable to see their loved ones, in terror. 40-50 thousand of those deaths were avoidable except @BorisJohnson thought people were so
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What has Brexit flagged to me?.... that there is a group of people with a phenomenally developed capability to talk and write. Who are looked upon by many as gurus.
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"There has however been speculation that this report was going to reveal either that Russia had interfered in or sought to influence the referendum, but this committee's view it's worse
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That really interesting thread by RS Archer has gone unfortunately. So here it is again. @archer_rs if you come back please continue it! THREAD BY RS ARCHER STARTS BELOW
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The Telegraph has been leaked details of notes made during seven high level UK-US meetings. They show Boris Johnson privately told US diplomats Trump was “making America great again”. Also
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Busy day - another story - supermarkets have conducted an exercise calculating the UK Global Tariff on internal food/ drink supply chain data for trade with EU (obv zero now),
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Hey Russ, didn’t you just do #TheWeekInTory on Monday?Yes. Yes, I did.But you’re having to do another on Thursday?I don’t make the rules. And apparently, Boris Johnson doesn’t either.Anyway, here
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About 18 months ago I interviewed a senior UVF man who lived through the entirety of the Troubles. He made two observations on technology that have stuck with me and
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We've seen enough of this government's behaviour by now to realise what is happening. A huge share of the blame and condemnation must now lie at the door of the
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Let's be clear - The UK study trial of Dexamethasone is important.The early ventilation in Covid (as used in ARDS) produced bad outcomes - which is counter intuitive This is
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