I disagree with this but it's daniel Hannans brexit dream. SM access without membership. @davidheniguk.bsky.social it sounds like you and @nialloconghaile.bsky.social actually agree with each other (if you remove NIalls anti brit bashing)

Two stories you may not have seen this week that would be a big deal in a normal country: 1) The ‘dossier’ detailing the BBC’s editing of the Trump speech literally edited Trump’s speech. 2) The NBER calculated that Brexit’s longer term damage to GDP was greater than originally forecast.

The government’s latest reversal shows that Labour has no plan on.ft.com/3JTONRF

Wrote for the Irish news. Will Northern Ireland work? The more pressing question: Do we want it to work? www.irishnews.com/opinion/sara...

So, lest folk think I am no longer going to be critical of the UK government over EU negotiations, here's a great story showing them burying their head in the sand on the details of the SPS deal to come, and its implications. www.fwi.co.uk/news/farm-po...

For folks (and journalists) who want to search the Oversight Committee email texts, I made a database for searching the 20k text files: splendorous-chaja-f79791.netlify.app

Alternate view - the pitiable irrelevant Brits should be honoured to be bullied by the glorious infallible greatness that is the EU. The EU doesn't need anything, put up the walls and everything will be great! bsky.app/profile/nial...

The centre is giving way. Britain’s new fight could be a radical populist duel: Farage’s rage machine vs Polanski’s social justice crusade

saddens me to see the UK fall apart post brexit but the DUP in NI, a so-called british unionist party, have not helped one iota.

Labour currently has the majority to easily change voting rules to the more democratic proportion system, thereby saving the country from a far right absolute majority - which would even save Labour's own ass.

I was already laughing out loud when I got to the "Thank you for your attention to this matter" bit at the end. 👇 superb. bravo @davidallengreen.bsky.social 👏😂

The letter the BBC could send back to Trump - brilliant stuff from @davidallengreen.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/emptycit...

Really quite shocking - if you think about it. Unfortunately, brexiteers don't think about it!

excellent thread on how the tax rises at the end of Nov will be the first time regular brits will actually be directly affected by brexit. 👇

Bears no resemblance to discussions in Brussels, just an anti-UK the EU is always right rant. Picking up some suggestions that the French have overplayed their hand (again) leading to pushback, hopefully then tals will formally start soon (informally they already did).

Let’s do this. 👍

Come on @teamlabouruk.bsky.social @labourlewis.bsky.social @lisanandymp.bsky.social @yvettecooper-mp.bsky.social This can’t wait!

Dear Britain: Your polls look very "European" and NOW would be a really really really really really really really good time to switch to PR. ➡️ RFM: 26% | 170 (+74) 🟥 LAB: 19% | 124 (-110) 🟦 CON: 18% | 118 (-38) 🟩 GRN: 15% | 98 (+55) 🟧 LDM: 14% | 91 (+10) 🟨 SNP: 3% | 19 (+2) 🔲 PLC: 2% | 12 (+7)

Greens & LDs have made some huge progress recently but there must be more urgent calls to switch to PR now. A landslide of seats for Яeform will be disastrous. @grahambs.bsky.social ¦ @gavinesler.bsky.social

Brexit has done untold damage to the UK economy, it’s the elephant in the room syndrome!!

Well, this is quite a serious allegation. I do hope the BBC shows true impartiality and investigate whether or not some of its Board members are systemically biased. www.theguardian.com/media/2025/n...

saddens me to see the UK fall apart post brexit but the DUP in NI, a so-called british unionist party, have not helped one iota.

"You, like Nigel Farage, are simply lying about what the ONS says." I somewhat lost my patience with Reform Councillor Bill Piper here.. (from about 1h 27 min in) www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

the brexit cliff edge in 2020 was so high up, the UK is only beginning to hit the branches on the way down. The income tax rises Reeve's is preparing everyone for in the UK is a direct result of brexit. Don't let anyone tell you it's "coz covid" or "coz Ukraine, innit?".

If you'd like to see me debating a united Ireland with Fintan O'Toole, bringing our book to life on the stage, there are just a few tickets left for the National Concert Hall in Dublin on 30 November. 🎟️Get them here:

BUY SOMETHING! Is it truly social media anymore? Or is it more like selling media? It invades everything. It's obvious to wealthiest and most powerful people on the planet don't care for nature, climate, the earth or the universe. So I painted the invasive nature of ads in nature.

In the best tradition of Swift, Henry skirts the edges of believability so masterfully that you feel obliged to check it's actually satire.

Well that’s an interesting possible campaign slogan ….

A thing I increasingly think is that, because US politics is so polarised, “elections in the United States” are a poor frame to understand “elections and strategy *in* the United States”, let alone anywhere else.

The easiest explanation of what’s happening to the billionaires is that , while wealth cooks everyone’s brains a little, unimaginable wealth deep fries your brain. And that social media has given us a front row seat to the process

How to curb China’s grip on rare earths on.ft.com/4oY37Ht | opinion

This is exactly right. The U.K. Labour government clings to Boris Johnson’s red lines, and then wonders why it gets treated like Boris Johnson’s government.

h/t to the lady in the centre of this. she totally owns that whole space and image. bravo 👏

I cringe when I see other brits throw the toys out of the pram like this. there is only one side that needs a "Reset" and it's not the EU. The UK called the "brexit reset" summit in May and then refused to "reset" any brexit red lines from 2016.

Dear Diary: that victory speech I penned for cuomo will never get used. ho hum. bouqet arrived with no card. not from andrew. they stink of fag ash not baby oil. nigel is such a tease. Can't decide whether to join reform before or after reevenomics in 3 weeks time. decisions decisions.

“So often has this particular peerage been associated with a mixture of calamity and scandal that royal experts have suggested the title is cursed. A less supernatural explanation may be that it's often given to the monarch’s second son.” On Dukes of York, for @thenewworldmag.bsky.social

the first mention of #NIXIT and #SCOXIT on the other place was the day after the brexit vote in 2016. Almost 10 years later, I think we will be using them a lot soon. quick 🧵 TL;DR: "Vote Leave: Break up the UK Union!" should have been the slogan on the side of the big red brexit bus.

Plaid Cymru’s new Senedd member for Caerphilly, Lindsay Whittle MS, today: “This result [sent] a clear message that Starmer’s Labour & Westminster politics can’t take Wales for granted anymore. The old order is breaking down...and change is on the way." Wales will be led by Plaid Cymru, he says.

My working hypothesis (more soon) is that Europe cannot play power politics with the US and China, or avoid all dependencies, a function of structure as a collection of countries in this inter-connected world. Further weakened by the failure to weaponise the Brussels Effect.

Still too many conversations about a fairly meaningless WTO reform agenda, not enough about the new tools we need to be thinking about to protect against coercion and weaponisation in an inter-dependent world.

🚨🚨Things are just getting worse. 🧵 www.politico.eu/article/us-a...

Polanski appears to be the only political leader in england who is reading the room. An english parliament for england + re-join EU referendum is bang on the money.

Britains Wrongest Man: Daniel Hannan.

Noted this at the time - many of the most enthusiastic proponents of Brexit had oddly imperial childhoods that wouldn't "look out of place if you read in a biography that it had happened in the 1890s" www.newstatesman.com/politics/201...

wow. just wow.

We're just getting started. Time to lower bills. And tax billionaires. If you want to see the Green Party take on Reform - this is the moment. Join.greenparty.org.uk

Brexit latest: quick 🧵on calls for the Northern Ireland Secretary of State to publish border poll criteria (reunification referendum) grow louder in some quarters TL;DR: "Vote Leave: Break Up the UK" should have been on the side of the big red brexit bus. 1/6

as a brit it saddens me to see the UK fall apart like this but I think it's inevitable now. Everyone saw the writing on the wall over Northern Ireland, immediately after brexit, but, I don't think many saw Scotland & Wales heading in the same direction.

🚨🚨"European Parliament tells Belgian prosecutor to stay in lane on corruption probes" Excellent investigation by @elisabraun.bsky.social on corruption, immunities, European Parliament and #bureucracy (I was fortunate to discuss some of these issues with Elisa). 🧵 www.euractiv.com/news/investi...

Attending events in Warsaw. If this one is typical, they seem to involve a lot more cake than UK equivalents.