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23 Jan 2019
My son asked me to explain #Brexit recently. So, I told him to imagine if he & 27 of his classmates pooled their Lego & built for years. Then one day, one of them wants to leave & would like their Lego back. The blue ones.
He immediately grasped how complicated that would be.
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9 Sep 2025
Frankie said Relax. A year ago today, Mario told Europe to wake up. #Competitiveness
If you want to see more #momentum - show your support. (Shout out to national governments across the EU-27!).
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11 Jun 2025
Peter @Serafinowicz is a shoo-in to play Freddie Forsyth when the inevitable biopic gets developed?
theguardian.com/books/2025/j…
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1 Jun 2025
Wow
1 Jun 2025
Hope Greta and her friends can swim!
timesofisrael.com/greta-thun…
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25 May 2025
Don't think that the misery happening in Gaza will fade to nothing. It won't. It will resonate as a staggering example of first world hypocrisy for a long time to come.
theguardian.com/commentisfre…
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23 Apr 2025
Happy 10th Birthday @POLITICOEurope
Here's a little something I wrote for the occasion:
linkedin.com/pulse/ten-years…
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7 Oct 2024
Evergreen tweet for everyone who’s still hoping this platform can somehow regain its previous magic.
7 Oct 2024
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5 Oct 2024
Are Americans aware they are funding and supplying this?
5 Oct 2024
israel’s carpet bombing of civilian areas in beirut tonight is monsterous
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2 Oct 2024
Early evidence of the brilliance of Edgar Wright.
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2 Oct 2024
Think data collection is a recent thing?
Think again. Here's some data on harvest dates in Burgundy going all the way back to.... 1355.
lemonde.fr/en/climate-change…
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1 Oct 2024
Today is the day
.. the Irish government delivers its bazooka bonanza of a budget.
…and France hears the plans of a PM capable and experienced enough to spell out the changes & sacrifices needed to put the country’s finances back on track.
1 Oct 2024
Michel Barnier's plans for France's new coalition government are, as someone close to the prime minister said, "the best kept secret of the French Republic."
What he says in his speech today will have major implications for everyone in the country.
🔗 trib.al/pQxuBkl
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30 Sep 2024
Watch this statement. Arab countries including Palestine saying they’ll agree to security of israel if Netanyahu et al agree to a two-state solution. And if he won’t? ‘Ask Israel what its end game is’..
When I was growing up in the 1960’s and 70’s a statement like this was inconceivable, and a vast majority of Israelis would have celebrated it. And now, here it is (and has been for years). Are there risks? Of course. But that’s what leaders are for.
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24 Sep 2024
What a glorious, perfectly timed thing Spaced was.
Spaced is 25 years old today!
Stream every episode now on Channel 4, you lucky people 🍀
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24 Sep 2024
Poor little baby - no justification for Netanyahu’s savagery.
Nor the delay for a trial at the ICC. Alongside Putin, Sinwar, et al.
24 Sep 2024
A little girl was injured in an Israeli air strike in the Nusairat refugee camp, central Gaza.
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24 Sep 2024
In my @IrishTimes column today, I write about the need to complain more about Ireland's public transport deficiencies. It is a gesture of solidarity with others who might need this service even more than you do. irishtimes.com/opinion/2024/…
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19 Sep 2024
From #Gaza to #Sudan, #Ukraine & beyond, the use of explosive weapons in populated areas is one of the greatest threats to civilians in contemporary armed conflict.
Sign the petition to #StopBombingCivilians & urge gov'ts to join the landmark declaration:
hrw.org/StopBombingCivilians
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19 Sep 2024
Guess who's back!
19 Sep 2024
Good to see Albert @KunardoczEU getting another top role in the next European Commission:
Assistant Executive Vice President for Ensuring European Adequacy and Safeguarding Complementarity Platform Mechanisms
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16 Sep 2024
649 pages - and no sign of it stopping. Don’t think the horrors happening in Gaza will fade to nothing. They won’t.
15 Sep 2024
The Ministry of Health in Gaza has just published a 649-page document with the the name, age, gender, ID number of every Palestinian killed in Gaza from October 7 to August 31 that it has info for (over 34k out of 40k). The 1st 14 pages the age is listed as 0 (under 1 year old)
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