Exquisite Tweets collected by Preoccupations

• Gilesyb There is a lot of Stupid around on Twitter, but not much that beats the stupid view that the main reason Britain lacks sufficient nuclear energy is Nick Clegg. If there is a single politician to blame - your standard Stupid viewpoint - I think it really stopped under Thatcher 7:39am Sep 7th 2022 • 16 tweets from 3 people
• anneapplebaum In the past 24 hours, several senior American generals have spoken out to remind Americans that they serve the constitution, not the president. Where are the senior Republicans? Why don't they offer a similar message? Here is my explanation: https://t.co/06GFXlVbmI 3:09pm Jun 4th 2020 • 7 tweets from 1 person
• 10DowningStreet THREAD 1/3: #Coronavirus press conference slides (16 May 2020) 🔵 COVID alert levels 🔵 Steps of adjustment to social distancing measures 🔵 We can help control the virus if we all stay alert https://t.co/cYIPIZ1v5s 12:29pm May 31st 2020 • 12 tweets from 2 people
• pmdfoster Per @ShippersUnbound weekly read @BorisJohnson is still struggling physically, PM and #Cummings share a “never apologise” mantra...and yes, it’s STILL all about #brexit by Jan 31. Oh, and the PM was pissed at Dom, contrary to received wisdom /1 https://t.co/TOV8keDri7 10:42am May 31st 2020 • 6 tweets from 1 person
• igorvolsky 1/ This line in Trump’s tweet: “when the looting starts, the shooting starts”... is a quote from Miami Police Chief Walter Headley In Dec 1967, months before riots at GOP Convention in Miami, Headley used that quote to announce “get tough” policy for policing black neighborhoods 1:39pm May 29th 2020 • 12 tweets from 1 person
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• GoodwinMJ This weekend offers a glimpse into how democracies fall apart. It's not just one advisor violating social norms. It's the journalists, academics & celebrities cheering on neutral institutions going political. This is how you erode democratic norms & public trust in institutions 12:18pm May 25th 2020 • 5 tweets from 2 people
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• rcbregman Wow. Really overwhelmed with the response to my story about the real 'Lord of the Flies'. So so happy that this extraordinary tale is finally - after 50 years! - becoming famous. Here's a thread (with pictures!) on how I found the 'boys' three years ago /1 https://t.co/qYdnXmQMMM 4:20pm May 10th 2020 • 39 tweets from 1 person
• incunabula Am I the only one here who has very sensibly used this two months of quarantine to fulfill a boyhood ambition 40 years later and finally buy a chunk of Roman Imperial Porphyry, the coolest of all the stones? No? No-one? Just me then? https://t.co/nAd7vtrozd 8:19am May 10th 2020 • 31 tweets from 11 people
• ChrisGiles_ NEW: The excess UK deaths linked to coronavirus are likely to be around 41,000 as of yesterday, not the 17,337 of the hospital deaths announcements Here is the explanation for that estimate, which I will update daily 1/ 7:42am Apr 22nd 2020 • 26 tweets from 2 people
• garius It's Friday. I should be boozing but no. Lockdown. So have a history thread about where I should be. Let's talk about Bradley's Spanish Bar, London's classiest and oldest (maybe) dive bar, and about how a bunch of old Greek wrestlers helped turn a tiny corner of Soho Spanish. https://t.co/0vEhMHNpyf 9:05am Apr 18th 2020 • 23 tweets from 2 people
• ChrisGiles_ A simple statistical analysis of offical data suggests there have been 6,000 coronavirus deaths in English & Wales care homes to date.... ... not 217 How so? Read on https://t.co/qqu9j8GH4U https://t.co/PyZNjH145C 5:07pm Apr 17th 2020 • 7 tweets from 1 person
• halhod i wrote about contact tracing apps this week. their value, if any, is to optimise a large testing regime. more interesting is the massive sensor network Apple and Google can whip up just by agreeing on a protocol. it exposes their power. 3.5bn phones suddenly proximity tracking 11:34am Apr 16th 2020 • 6 tweets from 1 person
• frankcottrell_b I couldn’t sleep last night so I read this. It’s by, among others, Dominic Raab and Priti Patel. It outlines their “thinking”. It's difficult to convey how ridiculous it is. It feels mean to try but I’m going to because learnt something https://t.co/91CJ3b3nyB 6:40pm Apr 13th 2020 • 12 tweets from 1 person
• hhesterm Just when I wrote about established narratives there’s another one here. So a short thread. https://t.co/4GVQqe4k6O 10:02pm Apr 11th 2020 • 13 tweets from 1 person
• AndrewDuffEU Remarkable brutal truths from Simon Jenkins https://t.co/j0ijS2W4WB 9:31am Apr 11th 2020 • 16 tweets from 2 people
• globalhlthtwit I received this circular to all staff from Great Ormond St hospital today. 73 out of 181 staff have tested positive and 318 staff members off sick. (THREAD 1) https://t.co/YGHmAAOWxj 11:16am Apr 2nd 2020 • 9 tweets from 1 person
• Raphael_Hogarth Some police forces are, in my view, making three mistakes in how they enforce the Health Protection (Coronavirus, Restrictions) (England) Regulations 2020, which provide that "no person may leave the place where they are living without reasonable excuse." 8:13am Mar 31st 2020 • 16 tweets from 1 person
• edwinhayward The Mail on Sunday has *2 double page splashes* deflecting blame for the coronavirus onto foreigners and stirring up xenophobia. Target 1: the EU. Target 2: China. The reality is, Boris Johnson bungled this crisis very, very badly. He zigged when the rest of the world zagged. https://t.co/4zcTd5wGPy 4:03pm Mar 29th 2020 • 24 tweets from 2 people
• lookner Over half of the coronavirus patients in intensive care in the Netherlands are under 50 years old h/t @Momo_x5x https://t.co/FFkYTRXzox 11:00pm Mar 16th 2020 • 13 tweets from 3 people
• whippletom The team whose modelling estimates advised Cobra are presenting their modelling. They modelled controlled spread and realised 250,000 would die. Now advise stronger intervention to suppress - but no idea how long it will need to be in place. #coronavirusuk https://t.co/sLM4cNvMwi 8:10pm Mar 16th 2020 • 22 tweets from 1 person
• MedievalG If you spend a lot of time in churches you often come across examples of these - a 'consecration cross' - but few people today seem to understand their meaning. So a short thread. 1/10 https://t.co/f4Vkaxm2sI 1:17pm Mar 6th 2020 • 18 tweets from 5 people
• jburnmurdoch NEW: we analysed the Labour Force Survey to find out which regions & industries will be most exposed by UK's new immigration points system London will be especially hard hit, in particular its accommodation & food sector Story: https://t.co/NgTvVWLp23 Thread: https://t.co/iapq5MmJc0 8:49am Feb 26th 2020 • 10 tweets from 1 person
• joncstone there’s been a reassessment of the Blair/Brown government on the Left in recent years: you hear more about its achievements than you used you. that’s good, but it’s also important not to forget that it regularly did things a Tory government would be criticised for (THREAD) 3:07pm Feb 23rd 2020 • 96 tweets from 2 people
• Number10press In 2017 the EU showed on their own slide that a Canada type FTA was the only available relationship for the UK. Now they say it’s not on offer after all. @MichelBarnier what’s changed? https://t.co/ve8zeAqbSZ 7:13am Feb 19th 2020 • 13 tweets from 2 people
• Calthalas At the south entrance of the cathedral of Lausanne, Switzerland, hides a true medieval gem, a glimpse into the bright and vivid face of the Middle Ages: the Painted Portal, where angels wear rainbows on their wings. 1/ #medievaltwitter #polychromy https://t.co/VItdEXrp56 7:12pm Feb 6th 2020 • 8 tweets from 1 person
• kevinhorourke Tomorrow will be a happy day for millions of Brexiteers and I wish them well. But it'll also be a very sad day for millions of Remainers, usually for reasons that have nothing to do with border frictions, GDP or any of the other things we've been fighting about these past 3 years 7:29pm Jan 30th 2020 • 9 tweets from 3 people
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• djmgaffneyw4 Music, which lacks a semantics (because it lacks reference), seems to be able to express, represent, or cause (the choice of verbs is not innocent here) complex intentional states such as irony indecision or resignation. This seems to me one of the bigger mysteries of experience. 10:15pm Jan 24th 2020 • 6 tweets from 2 people
• Nicolas_Colin 1/ People who think they can reinvent the state make me laugh. In countries such as the UK or France, the state is a social construct that was thousands of years in the making. https://t.co/0jaNibsVAw 9:50am Jan 15th 2020 • 14 tweets from 1 person
• jds1306 François Sureau avocat, proche de Macron. https://t.co/h5XALZ3ogy 1:53pm Dec 30th 2019 • 20 tweets from 2 people
• robfordmancs Here comes the post-Brexit culture war https://t.co/rUGIqw6fh5 12:28pm Dec 30th 2019 • 8 tweets from 4 people
• thestuffofmemes This is what the British right wing press was saying in 1945 to scare voters away from choosing what became the government that created the NHS. https://t.co/4RZxmmPpL1 1:10pm Dec 12th 2019 • 12 tweets from 6 people
• henrymance Looking at the transcript of Andrew Marr’s interview with Boris Johnson. I think there are a few reasons why it was a frustrating exercise... 2:35pm Dec 1st 2019 • 9 tweets from 1 person
• Blake2_0 I've seen the projection of the Ancient of Days on the dome of St Paul's and it is truly amazing. What a time to be a Blake scholar, when William Blake is literally the biggest artist in London. But... I'm going to lose my shit for a moment. https://t.co/beJ7GMa7nu 7:30pm Nov 29th 2019 • 11 tweets from 3 people
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• MESandbu It is time to treat the EU budget as statecraft https://t.co/9nT71pCR9H via @financialtimes 4:04pm Nov 1st 2019 • 10 tweets from 1 person
• OxfordESH Starting off today’s #oxeshfacseminar, Mark Bailey (@uniofeastanglia) is talking about “the greatest catastrophe in recorded history”: the Black Death #econhist #econtwitter #twitterstorians https://t.co/OoIPAbUX4M 6:06am Oct 29th 2019 • 22 tweets from 3 people
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• tomashirstecon Since I'm already hostage to fortune on this, here is the text from my weekly note on where the Brexit talks currently stand (hope it makes sense!) https://t.co/3CRHWVOixi 6:27pm Oct 14th 2019 • 48 tweets from 11 people
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• DrSueOosthuizen THREAD. The gold foil crosses found at Prittlewell appear to have been placed over the eyes of the person buried there, and are accepted by @MOLArchaeology as a signal of his Christianity. https://t.co/aCXXckpo10 11:01am Oct 2nd 2019 • 5 tweets from 1 person
• DrSueOosthuizen THREAD. Some years ago I began to wonder whether the collective cultivation of arable land in open fields *was* an early medieval innovation of the 7th-10thC or whether they might have earlier origins. Here’s what I found out. (Photo: https://t.co/QKQiqx9SI9)+ https://t.co/as6viwDWyh 1:42pm Sep 20th 2019 • 22 tweets from 1 person
• EamonnMcKee There is a remarkable parallel between the evolution of the EU and the Northern Ireland peace process. The Single European Market in particular enabled a deal; consent by nationalists in return for the all-island expression of their identity. Let's look at the sequence. 11:38am Sep 15th 2019 • 18 tweets from 2 people
• Pinboard @Joi @zittrain "Don't take money from notorious pedophiles, or visit their stately home on Rape Island" should be a really low ethical bar to clear. Archaeologists should be spending entire careers excavating that ethical bar from under 40 miles of granite. But @joi couldn't clear it. RESIGN! 7:59am Sep 9th 2019 • 14 tweets from 3 people
• redhistorian The last time Conservatives accused Parliament of defying "the will of the people", they ended up supplying weapons to paramilitaries and threatening civil war. My latest for the @NewStatesman on the lessons for Brexit of 1914. https://t.co/edKTmbJ0Ni 6:33pm Sep 5th 2019 • 9 tweets from 1 person
• Independent At least 60 anti-prorogation protests planned across Britain https://t.co/1oIQxhi5Ag 10:11am Aug 30th 2019 • 27 tweets from 6 people
• DrSueOosthuizen THREAD. For years and years, everyone was sure that in 1086, at the time of the Domesday Survey, hardly anyone lived in the Cambridgeshire fenland. So here’s the story of what I found out when I tested that belief & the data it rested on... https://t.co/IO97x1HAOA 7:02pm Aug 26th 2019 • 19 tweets from 1 person
• Flanerie_art Bas relief à l'effigie du « dieu au maillet » Xe siècle à Comiac, #Lot. Un peu d'Histoire sur ce dieu ici : https://t.co/LipXfYlQki … https://t.co/JYkMUlAwHq 8:15am Aug 26th 2019 • 16 tweets from 5 people
• Jderbyshire Norway - Bergen to Skjolden https://t.co/rvsAfSEKez 6:54pm Aug 20th 2019 • 17 tweets from 1 person
• fryford This chart (from today's release - https://t.co/4cTJYSri3Z) surprised me. A lot is written about suicide in young men - the most common cause of death for this group. But it's actually those in their 40s and 50s who have the highest rates. https://t.co/yqdEPvKau6 10:41pm Aug 17th 2019 • 16 tweets from 5 people
• DrSueOosthuizen THREAD. Fabulous work by @ThamesDiscovery & @Nathalie_Cohen has identified a plethora of #AngloSaxon #fishtraps along the Thames. Once wattle-sided, the surviving framing posts widen as they lead up the riverbank, filling at high tide & once trapping fish in the apex on the ebb.. https://t.co/CV5qH45BMU 10:19am Aug 14th 2019 • 9 tweets from 1 person
• AlbertoNardelli Some Brexit thoughts. At its core the deal negotiated by both sides is a balance between: - UK red lines (no single market/customs union) - EU27 mandate (single market integrity) - joint commitment to no hard border in Northern Ireland Any credible solution cannot ignore these 9:01am Aug 13th 2019 • 10 tweets from 1 person
• SeamusBlackley Two weeks ago, with the help of Egyptologist @drserenalove and Microbiologist @rbowman1234, I went to Boston’s MFA and @Harvard’s @peabodymuseum to attempt collecting 4,500 year old yeast from Ancient Egyptian pottery. Today, I baked with some of it... https://t.co/143aKe6M3b 9:41am Aug 5th 2019 • 13 tweets from 2 people
• DavidHenigUK Right, the Ireland and Brexit thread. Why the backstop is not annexation, might be undemocratic but that could be negotiated by a mature UK Government, and is required because of history, identity and normal border procedures 1/ 10:36am Aug 1st 2019 • 30 tweets from 1 person
• hayward_katy PM Johnson has made the removal of the #backstop the make-or-break matter when it comes to an exit deal with the EU. So this thing is pretty damn important. Time for a quick recap of what the 'loathed and detested' backstop actually is? 1/14 10:24am Aug 1st 2019 • 14 tweets from 1 person
• EdwardGLuce Worth elaborating on the level of incompetence Trump showed today on Kashmir. Those unfamiliar with Indo-Pak situation may not realise that his offer to mediate on Kashmir dispute ranks among the most consequential mistakes he has made. But that's the least of it (1). 5:13am Jul 23rd 2019 • 7 tweets from 1 person
• IsabelOakeshott Incredibly proud of my protege @StevenEdginton for his role in the #WashingtonFiles #darroch scoop, which can now be revealed. Team effort, for which he deserves great credit https://t.co/Ojl2P8u5yR 7:03am Jul 21st 2019 • 17 tweets from 11 people
• jburnmurdoch The pace of the surveillance boom is frightening. Last year 2,910 patents were approved worldwide for facial recognition technologies, up 400% over 5 years. For surveillance tech patents the 📈 was 380%. From this brilliant @henrymance story on privacy https://t.co/k3Lan3AtBG https://t.co/45UTf9ReY5 11:40am Jul 19th 2019 • 16 tweets from 4 people
• sjwrenlewis New post: There is only one alternative to Prime Minister Boris Johnson https://t.co/eK65thebnO Corbyn may not be a great or even a particularly good leader, but it seems few in the media recognise he is the only viable opposition to the far right we have. 2:50pm Jul 16th 2019 • 21 tweets from 7 people
• Samfr The three types of Corbynite defender of anti-semitism. A thread. Type 1: the cultist. These people will not acknowledge any problem + will respond to anything with: a straight denial; A "WhAT aBoUt IsRAeL"; or a Chomsky quote. They are dumb/brainwashed so just mute them. 2:35pm Jul 11th 2019 • 7 tweets from 1 person
• DaraDoy Ireland set to publicly acknowledge for first time need for some checks in or around border in no-deal Brexit. Scoop on @TheTerminal 10:26am Jul 9th 2019 • 12 tweets from 4 people
• Psythor 1/ BIG news today for London: TfL is announcing that it is rolling out technology to track passengers using wifi full time from July 8th. I’ve written about this story for some time, so if you’ll forgive me, a little thread on why this is cool but also… controversial! 10:16am Jul 8th 2019 • 27 tweets from 6 people
• NicholasGuyatt A thread about Anne Widdicombe, Daniel Hannan, and the recklessly offensive analogising of slavery to Brexit. https://t.co/kHFUA7EMqA 5:12pm Jul 5th 2019 • 24 tweets from 1 person
• dsquareddigest One of the very minor compensations for the otherwise disastrous Atlanticisation of our politics is the new taste among Conservatives for MAHOOSIVE KEYNESIAN STIMULUS and other parties should run with this rather than trying to score short term "responsibility" points https://t.co/7wxVmhNlHd 10:03am Jun 28th 2019 • 5 tweets from 3 people
• highamnews Great things come in small packages: only 140 pages from ⁦@DrSueOosthuizen⁩ but a thoroughly devastating piece of historical revisionism... 1/3 https://t.co/4FygKcKFrO 9:45am Jun 25th 2019 • 10 tweets from 3 people
• pauloCanning As the Dutch-led investigation team today nails & names those responsible for downing Malaysian flight #MH17 (killing ten Brits) a thread on how the now UK Labour High Command's responded ATT. https://t.co/U32tXHIMAd 12:59pm Jun 20th 2019 • 17 tweets from 2 people
• DrSueOosthuizen THREAD. Well, here’s a thing. This is Toft in Cambs. - &, as you can see, the church (red dot) is quite a way from the village which lies to the NW, W & SW. Only the rectory & its cottages stand nr the church. Why the distance between church & village? (https://t.co/nn5BLVRyta) https://t.co/hCmnIkUqSm 11:20am Jun 15th 2019 • 24 tweets from 5 people
• djmgaffneyw4 There is quite an important theme in Ulysses which is not mentioned in this interview. https://t.co/WzXK3oBmk4 2:33pm Jun 14th 2019 • 16 tweets from 2 people
• EmilyRCWilson There is a wonderful section from Louis Macneice's Autumn Journal that I often think about. "and lastly I think of the slaves. And how one can imagine oneself among them I do not know; It was all so unimaginably different And all so long ago." 3:24am Jun 12th 2019 • 16 tweets from 1 person
• AdamWagner1 This @jennirsl article in The Times has confirmed my fears about why the BBC should not have given Jonathan Sumption the Reith Lectures platform. (Short thread) https://t.co/X8Cc0UuOZQ 8:21am Jun 6th 2019 • 9 tweets from 1 person
• djmgaffneyw4 If that Matt Hancock proposal counts as realism, Anglo-Irish relations are well and truly screwed for the foreseeable future. 1:00pm Jun 2nd 2019 • 5 tweets from 2 people
• amandadeibert What’s a cool bit of family history you know? Can be family of origin of family of choosing. 8:01am May 26th 2019 • 33 tweets from 8 people
• djmgaffneyw4 I still can't quite believe the UK is going to leave the EU, quite possibly in an (avoidable) chaotic fashion, because people think that the UK is not an independent sovereign state. I can't believe a category error could generate such a debacle. 10:47pm May 22nd 2019 • 12 tweets from 1 person
• chrisgreybrexit This is a very good piece from @lewis_goodall but a conclusion might be that since doing Brexit, however it's done, or not doing it, will all lead to a populist backlash then we might as well avoid the damage of doing it since we're going to get the backlash anyway https://t.co/PewCa8ZLmc 10:19am May 9th 2019 • 23 tweets from 5 people
• jdportes Roger Scruton's essay defending Enoch Powell has mysteriously vanished from the neo-Nazi website where I found it. Archived version here https://t.co/rqZgfGvVkp [thanks @snigskitchen] if anyone wants to read/verify the bigoted/inflammatory quotes I cite. https://t.co/pVoyMEhRvE 8:29pm Apr 29th 2019 • 9 tweets from 6 people
• drjennings After the whole kerfuffle over Andrew Marr's post-referendum comments, I went back and re-read a couple of the most prominent (academic) studies of the vote (notably the @sarahobolt article in @jepp_journal and the Clarke, Goodwin & Whiteley book)... 2:15pm Apr 22nd 2019 • 11 tweets from 1 person
• DanMulhall On this, the 21st anniversary of the Good Friday Agreement, here is a blog I posted at little while back about one of its chief architects, John Hume, Irish peacemaker & European statesman. https://t.co/QNNVNAZYT9 6:42pm Apr 10th 2019 • 10 tweets from 4 people
• LawDavF Some random thoughts on May's statement. 9:27pm Apr 2nd 2019 • 10 tweets from 1 person
• henrymance Is this a constitutional crisis or a political one? You can argue both ways given British politics and constitution are two sides of the same coin. But I think the constitution has clearly failed to provide for today’s political scenario… 12:30pm Apr 2nd 2019 • 9 tweets from 1 person
• ProfMarkElliott This is a truly extraordinary article, in which John Finnis advocates proroguing Parliament until after 12 April, in order to 'terminate parliamentary debate' on Brexit. A short thread. /1 https://t.co/lm04H7P1Di 7:47pm Apr 1st 2019 • 10 tweets from 1 person
• AlbertoNardelli It’s been clear for two years that 1) UK redlines were irreconcilable with UK aspirations - from “frictionless trade” outside the single market & customs union to “easiest trade deal in history”: all bollocks 2) everyone would eventually run out of road, and have to face reality 10:43am Mar 24th 2019 • 3 tweets from 1 person
• EmilyRCWilson In the spirit of Oprah: here are 2 things I know about translation, from my experiences of years of doing it and thinking about it and reading about it. 4:57pm Mar 20th 2019 • 7 tweets from 1 person
• EmilyRCWilson I've been asked/praised/scolded/mansplained/ ad norovirus nauseam about my rendition of the first line of the Odyssey. So I was happy to get a message today asking about my rendition of line 1.10. Yay, moving on! 5:40pm Mar 19th 2019 • 7 tweets from 1 person
• EmilyRCWilson One of the most fascinating and heart-rending characters in the Odyssey is Penelope & Odysseus' only son, Telemachus, who has grown up bullied by his mother's suitors, fatherless, aimless, without positive male mentors until Athena helpfully shows up in the guise of Mentor. 9:09pm Mar 14th 2019 • 22 tweets from 1 person
• EmilyRCWilson So that you can all feel my pain, here are a few more reasons why it's more or less impossible to translate Homer into English in a satisfactory way. 6:58am Mar 9th 2019 • 8 tweets from 1 person
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• djmgaffneyw4 I think this over-capacious usage of the term 'sovereignty' (in this case by Draghi, but it's endemic in contemporary political discourse) is part of the problem, not the solution. https://t.co/B35oYHF5xE https://t.co/nLovCDFE4q 2:43pm Feb 24th 2019 • 8 tweets from 1 person
• Aiannucci Ok, so I’ve finally caught up with ‘Fyre’, the Netflix doc about Billy McFarland and his disastrous drippy-tent and no-music festival. Obviously, the similarities with Brexit were striking. A lot of people who thought they were amazing planning a clear piece of shit, but ... 1/ 8:45am Feb 22nd 2019 • 4 tweets from 1 person
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• EmilyRCWilson Back by popular demand: a very short case study. In book 9, after the gang have blinded the Cyclops Polyphemus and snuck out, clinging to the bellies of the shepherd's rams, Odysseus and crew are rowing away at top speed. But O. can't resist taunting his blind victim. 2:49pm Feb 17th 2019 • 17 tweets from 2 people
• Hegghammer Long thread on foreign fighter repatriation. The question is immensely complicated, and I do not have a clear answer, but I have some thoughts 1/x 9:39pm Feb 15th 2019 • 23 tweets from 1 person
• EmilyRCWilson I've been asked many times about my translation of the first epithet in the "Odyssey": polytropos (polytropon). I won't boringly repeat my thoughts on that. But I want to emphasize how very difficult, on some level impossible, all the epithets in Homer are. 9:31pm Feb 15th 2019 • 8 tweets from 1 person
• redhistorian Jacob Rees-Mogg says that "you've got to understand the history" before condemning the British concentration camps during the Boer War. Unfortunately, he doesn't. So here's a fact-check. [THREAD] 1/10 https://t.co/EFDuMrImAY 11:28am Feb 15th 2019 • 10 tweets from 1 person
• RealJamesWoods Please join me in using proper grammar, syntax, and spelling. The correct pronoun usage in the English language is “he” for a singular male and “she” for a singular female. “They” is used for the plural of either males, females, or both. Don’t be bullied by hare-brained liberals. 9:48pm Feb 14th 2019 • 12 tweets from 4 people
• afneil Now that Q4's very weak growth figures are in we'll no doubt hear more about being slowest economy in G7. Here are prelim. stats for 2018 growth: US 3% Canada 2.1% UK 1.4% Germany 1.1% France 0.9% Italy 0.1% Japan 0% Lesson: H2 2018 saw SERIOUS slowdown outside N America 5:27pm Feb 12th 2019 • 14 tweets from 2 people
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• fotoole Except it really isn't. I make a much more complex argument about the transformation of colonial dreams into a fantasy of being colonised. That is not nostalgia. But of course it's a lot easier to set up a straw man and knock it down. https://t.co/ve6F4dEG2k 11:37pm Feb 6th 2019 • 6 tweets from 3 people
• EmilyRCWilson Odysseus is a man of many epithets, many implying multiplicity ("poly-"), and many disguises. He makes up multiple false identities. He's Man and No Man. He's from Crete, from Troy, from Ithaca, from everywhere. There are puns on his name ("odyssomai"-'to be angry'). 9:50pm Feb 6th 2019 • 13 tweets from 1 person
• amylbernstein The National Endowment for the Humanities @NEHgov did a marvelous job highlighting the Maryland Odyssey Project! Thanks for the gift that keeps on giving @EmilyRCWilson! https://t.co/JG6VsKtS4C 5:30pm Feb 5th 2019 • 5 tweets from 2 people
• PickardJE senior UK gov figure on the consequences for Ireland of a no-deal Brexit: “They would be hit the hardest, they would be fucked, less food security, smaller country, small economy, less ability to manoeuvre, if you think our house prices will fall 30% theirs will go down 50-60%” 11:21pm Feb 2nd 2019 • 13 tweets from 2 people
• tconnellyRTE Breaking: spokesman for Donald Tusk says the backstop is part of the Withdrawal Agreement and the WA is not open for renegotiation 9:04pm Jan 29th 2019 • 8 tweets from 1 person
• EmilyRCWilson I know this is a downer but... for #IWD2018 I am thinking about violence against women. About how violence is enabled & perpetuated. About how gender inequality intersects with other forms of social injustice, like class, race and wealth. About recognition, stories and change. 10:37pm Jan 26th 2019 • 36 tweets from 2 people
• kevinhorourke There's some MP or other on @BBCr4today saying that there are people in Brussels who are now floating alternatives to the backstop, like Ireland leaving the Single Market and there being checks on Irish goods entering the EU26. 9:32am Jan 24th 2019 • 5 tweets from 1 person
• joncstone @carnifux someone born on 24 june 2016 will be 4 years and a few months by September 2020… kids generally start school the first september after their fourth birthday 11:35pm Jan 16th 2019 • 4 tweets from 1 person
• JeremyCliffe Amid the excitement in Westminster it's worth keeping sight of the bigger picture. 7:32pm Jan 15th 2019 • 11 tweets from 1 person
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• OrbenAmy Large quantities of data = High quality of science. My new Nature Human Behaviour paper published today with @ShuhBillSkee shows that this could not be further from the truth. https://t.co/kRGZmYL0eJ (1/10) https://t.co/27ycxAek7Q 5:45pm Jan 14th 2019 • 9 tweets from 1 person
• OrbenAmy Large quantities of data = High quality of science. My new Nature Human Behaviour paper published today with @ShuhBillSkee shows that this could not be further from the truth. https://t.co/kRGZmYL0eJ (1/10) https://t.co/27ycxAek7Q 4:57pm Jan 14th 2019 • 11 tweets from 1 person
• patmarkey New paper out based on a massive sample (n = 355,358) finds that screens explain less than 0.4% of depression AND shows why previous research is deeply flawed - unless you are willing to believe potatoes and eyeglasses are also destroying a generation (Thread 1/13) https://t.co/AF3GP68b94 4:23pm Jan 14th 2019 • 15 tweets from 3 people
• PickardJE some extracts from May’s speech in Stoke tomorrow, fascinating point about the original vote for a Welsh assembly https://t.co/PKvsgd4ONV 7:40am Jan 14th 2019 • 24 tweets from 10 people
• SNevin1 Parliament’s current impasse is the culmination of a domestic political failure to solve an trilemma which has, in various forms, been left unresolved since the UK’s first attempt to join the then European Economic Community (EEC) in 1961. A THREAD: 10:58am Jan 13th 2019 • 20 tweets from 1 person
• Tupp_Ed When you see multiple reporters confidently asserting nonsense about a polity they know nothing about, all at the same time, I presume we can safely assume we’re being treated to lobby briefings. https://t.co/z7iTKN8U4q 8:02am Jan 13th 2019 • 28 tweets from 1 person
• clubdenni “Athena, with her gray eyes glinting, gave thoughtful Penelope a new idea: to let the suitors see her, so desire would open up inside them like a sail” The Odyssey, Homer, trans. Emily Wilson 6:27pm Jan 7th 2019 • 9 tweets from 2 people
• MarionVanR Méditation sur Londres avant l’apocalypse ⁦@ChassNews⁩ @pierrebri⁩ ⁦⁦@alain_frachon⁩ ⁦@ab⁩ ⁦@nf https://t.co/epmkH930WV 5:10pm Dec 28th 2018 • 18 tweets from 13 people
• EmilyRCWilson Retweeting my Odyssey gift guide from last year, because it's classic enough not to have gone out of style. 4:13pm Dec 24th 2018 • 11 tweets from 1 person
• kevinhorourke OK, can someone explain to me what it is about the deal that Remainers particularly hate? It isn't remaining of course, and you would prefer to remain. Fine. But if the UK is leaving, then what is so loathsome about this deal? 8:21pm Dec 18th 2018 • 14 tweets from 2 people
• PoliticoRyan #Brexit #thread 1/ If you don’t follow Brexit every day, here’s some advice. Let go of any illusions that this drama is about trade protocols, residency rights or the status of the Irish border. Brexit is the story of a proud former imperial power undergoing a mid-life crisis 9:13pm Dec 13th 2018 • 21 tweets from 1 person
• TheMERL look at this absolute unit. https://t.co/LzcQ4x0q38 3:07pm Dec 13th 2018 • 41 tweets from 1 person
• EmilyRCWilson I know this is a downer but... for #IWD2018 I am thinking about violence against women. About how violence is enabled & perpetuated. About how gender inequality intersects with other forms of social injustice, like class, race and wealth. About recognition, stories and change. 11:26am Dec 13th 2018 • 29 tweets from 1 person
• AlbertoNardelli May's obsession with freedom of movement and immigration has defined more than anything else where the UK's Brexit predicament is today. Full story: https://t.co/pC2FupERZy 11:23am Dec 13th 2018 • 4 tweets from 1 person
• djmgaffneyw4 Inadvertent example of the root of the problem: 'it is the smaller of the two islands which appears to be exercising greater power'. To be aware that neither state is an island counts as specialist knowledge in England. https://t.co/dKVJELPxQS 7:59pm Dec 11th 2018 • 7 tweets from 1 person
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• AnneLouiseAvery There's a fleeting scene in Brief Encounter when Celia Johnson nips into Boots the Chemist to change her library book: “Miss Lewis had at last managed to get the new Kate O'Brien for me. I believe she’d kept it hidden under the counter for two days.” https://t.co/LXg0ZmjqcK 8:50am Dec 11th 2018 • 15 tweets from 1 person
• FisherAndrew79 "It is not the hedge fund managers who will suffer. It is the people working in manufacturing whose industries will be lost, the people who will see their wages driven down even further" @BarryGardiner to Jacob Rees Mogg #C4Brexit 8:50pm Dec 9th 2018 • 4 tweets from 2 people
• BEERG I'm an old labour negotiator. Never state a problem. Always offer a solution. In our latest Brexit Briefing I float the idea of a guaranteed, delayed referendum when the final Brexit deal is known, after a prolonged transition period. 3:41pm Dec 9th 2018 • 6 tweets from 2 people
• KuperSimon 1. Quick thoughts on what's happening in France, after I've been out this morning watching gilets jaunes in Paris. Purchasing power has long been a bigger problem in France than in other western countries/ 11:44am Dec 8th 2018 • 17 tweets from 1 person
• musalbas Oh wow, remember that hoopla about the WhatsApp design decision which re-encrypts undelivered messages to a new key, if someone has your SIM card? Ian Levy, director at GCHQ, suggests making use of this as a feature for police to get access to messages. https://t.co/iMgIzzlkPb 5:04am Nov 30th 2018 • 8 tweets from 1 person
• musalbas Can businesses trust the advice of the new National Cyber Security Centre given it's part of GCHQ, which stockpiles unfixed vulnerabilities? 4:57am Nov 30th 2018 • 10 tweets from 1 person
• miotei We are about to celebrate 40 years of democracy in #Spain. Reading right now the excellent review by @WilliamChislet3 and I would like to highlight a few facts from the economic section. Thread 👇 1:57pm Nov 28th 2018 • 31 tweets from 1 person
• ChrisGiles_ Today, @NIESRorg put out the first of many economic assessments on the Brexit withdrawal agreement and political declaration. https://t.co/mjILL6R4DO 8:24am Nov 27th 2018 • 7 tweets from 1 person
• ChrisGiles_ Today, @NIESRorg put out the first of many economic assessments on the Brexit withdrawal agreement and political declaration. https://t.co/mjILL6R4DO 8:32am Nov 26th 2018 • 6 tweets from 1 person
• AlbertoNardelli A few observations: 1. Consistent message from EU27 over next few days: regardless of who is PM/asks to renegotiate, this is it on the withdrawal agreement - substance cannot be improved/changed 11:39am Nov 25th 2018 • 4 tweets from 1 person
• BloombergUK "It's time for everybody to take their responsibility" on Brexit, says Michel Barnier, who stresses Britain and the EU will "remain allies, partners and friends" https://t.co/VLzVcCiXfM https://t.co/SQBfvqhXrs 10:07am Nov 25th 2018 • 5 tweets from 2 people
• henrymance @BethRigby PM suggested there are 3 options (this is from Hansard) - Rudd is effectively saying there are only 2 https://t.co/vw1bY8Vshv 10:59am Nov 21st 2018 • 10 tweets from 5 people
• simonjhix THREAD: If (when?) Brexit has had a devastating effect on the UK’s economy and society, this act of self-harm can be blamed on a litany of failures by our political class and institutions. In reverse order: 1/ 9:03am Nov 21st 2018 • 11 tweets from 2 people
• rolandmcs A reminder that the Withdrawal Agreement & PD don't preclude a range of future relationships including EEA, BUT (and it's a huge but), the red line of ending free movement w/o carving up UK point to a deeper CU + toppings. And the WHOLE of British Politics backs the red line. 7:04am Nov 20th 2018 • 4 tweets from 1 person
• rolandmcs I’ve pondered Mrs May’s Ending-Free-Movement (‘EFM’) Deal further. The realisation of the *full* extent/truth of this EFM deal changes things profoundly. /1 https://t.co/jgX6Yhqjoe 12:43pm Nov 19th 2018 • 10 tweets from 1 person
• LevParikian I have seen an utterly wonderful and enchanting thing. 12:59pm Nov 17th 2018 • 24 tweets from 1 person
• leebryant Sometimes I unplug my brainstem from the non-stop crisis liveblog that has become our life in the UK and become briefly conscious of how the media, especially the BBC, has failed us on Brexit in a way that reminds me just a little bit of the collapse of Yugoslavia. (1/20) 5:37pm Nov 16th 2018 • 20 tweets from 1 person
• AlbertoNardelli These Diplomatic Notes Reveal What EU Governments Really Think About The Brexit Deal https://t.co/z5K000hfDT 3:22pm Nov 16th 2018 • 8 tweets from 1 person
• MESandbu My unpopular opinion of the day. https://t.co/1ZOAAI5Lma 6:42pm Nov 14th 2018 • 11 tweets from 2 people
• EmilyRCWilson I’m glad @Pete__Simon insisted I should devise titles for the books of the Odyssey. I hope it helps draw the reader in. https://t.co/ayKxJxLdtu 8:40pm Nov 8th 2018 • 9 tweets from 1 person
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• lugaricano Today 10 years ago the Queen asked me "Why did nobody saw the crisis coming?" On the occasion of her visit to LSE to inaugurate our new building, I was asked by the Palace to explain to the Queen the financial crisis. @MESandbu @greg_ip @Simon_Nixon @alanbeattie 1/ https://t.co/H2K1j0sScs 8:00am Nov 6th 2018 • 11 tweets from 1 person
• UKandEU Read @anandMenon1 article on the '#Brexit backstop and Northern Ireland featured in the @FT #Brexit briefing https://t.co/2ASU8KHvpG https://t.co/XuPuW7YAzl 11:42am Nov 5th 2018 • 8 tweets from 2 people
• kevinhorourke Where we are..but there are big problems here. https://t.co/aiXWZyISDQ 10:03am Nov 3rd 2018 • 7 tweets from 1 person
• Samfr Time for a thread on teacher shortages. All graphs come from an excellent report by @worth_jack published today. Full report here: https://t.co/IffzaxGwoE 7:42pm Oct 30th 2018 • 9 tweets from 1 person
• JP_Biz Question remains for Ireland & EU: If it’s no deal, but no hard border, where & how is the integrity of the single market to be protected? https://t.co/b55L2JDFq6 11:13pm Oct 26th 2018 • 27 tweets from 6 people
• JohnSpringford It's now 2 years since the Brexit vote, and we can tell what the Treasury's much-maligned short-term forecast got right. 1/ https://t.co/5HTOyGe44g 10:47am Oct 26th 2018 • 8 tweets from 1 person
• tim_cook It was an honor to be invited to #ICDPPC2018 in Brussels this morning. I’d like to share a bit of what I said to this gathering of privacy regulators from around the world. It all boils down to a fundamental question: What kind of world do we want to live in? 11:19am Oct 24th 2018 • 8 tweets from 1 person
• kevinhorourke This sounds very alarming if true... https://t.co/dbYGBKa15E 10:44pm Oct 20th 2018 • 7 tweets from 1 person
• sundersays Useful rule of thumb: May, without DUP, needs 1 Oppo MP vote for every Cons vote she loses. (Or an abstention for every abstention). (With the DUP, has a margin. Could lose up to 10 more Cons MPs than she gains opponents). Cons 317 DUP 10 Opposition 316 [absent: Sinn Fein 7] 8:31am Oct 19th 2018 • 8 tweets from 1 person
• kevinhorourke @davidallengreen is of course right: if HMG reneges on the backstop it previously agreed this may well lead to a no deal Brexit, considerable economic damage to Member States including Ireland, and the very hard border the backstop was designed to avoid. https://t.co/1B9n4NzbDC 8:01am Oct 17th 2018 • 7 tweets from 1 person
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• edwardlucas so -- starting a new thread for those who have just joined my discussion with my friend @ClarkeMicah, who is right on a lot of things, but not this. The story so far. He contends that it is "indisputable" that Estonia and Latvia have mistreated their "Russian minorities" https://t.co/AUlcqWyBbm 8:05pm Oct 15th 2018 • 40 tweets from 1 person
• EmilyRCWilson The Odyssey is about what 20 years does -- to a man, a boy, a dog, a pig, a slave, a woman, a household, a weapon, a community, a marriage, a goddess, a tree, a poem, a father, a mother. How long does it take to come home from a war? Will we ever be who we were? 7:06pm Oct 15th 2018 • 18 tweets from 1 person
• tconnellyRTE Main takeaway from @theresa_may Commons statement: Lots of conciliatory words about the EU "working with us to respond to the very real concerns we had on their original [draft] proposals," and tributes to both teams of negotiators... 5:41pm Oct 15th 2018 • 15 tweets from 1 person
• tconnellyRTE Irish foreign minister @simoncoveney says the UK had made "commitments in writing" that there be a backstop to avoid a hard border, and that that backstop could not be time limited. 10:24am Oct 15th 2018 • 9 tweets from 1 person
• arusbridger 1. Couldn’t be more pleased that @churchnw6 is spending a sabbatical cover term at @LMHoxford as chaplain (thread) https://t.co/qIyMnwAXZ8 https://t.co/8V7DKFDeSR 10:06am Oct 14th 2018 • 9 tweets from 1 person
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• AlbertoNardelli Using Tactics Perfected By Trump, Populist And Nationalist Leaders Are Undermining Italy’s Institutions https://t.co/ZIlOxoJXXm 12:06pm Oct 4th 2018 • 6 tweets from 1 person
• PrivacyMatters 1/ I note the issues around the conservative party conference app .. BUT OMG! I took a peek at the Conservative Campaigner app - "the official mobile app for supporters of The Conservative Party” and OH BOY … 11:10pm Sep 29th 2018 • 17 tweets from 1 person
• DrMatthewSweet Outside a pub in Ilkley, an American woman is phoning home to explain what the word “snicket” means. 10:14pm Sep 29th 2018 • 8 tweets from 6 people
• APHClarkson With this Raab has dismissed himself from being an interlocutor the EU can take seriously https://t.co/I4VkfzahCT 2:06pm Sep 29th 2018 • 4 tweets from 3 people
• piris_jc THREAD. 1. EU does not accept Chequers Paper for several reasons 10:24am Sep 29th 2018 • 12 tweets from 1 person
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• AdamWagner1 The lack of empathy here is just extraordinary. Why can’t Corbyn just say: “I’m sorry to see @lucianaberger needs police protection, we are doing all we can do ensure she is safe” rather than denying there are any threats? Is he suggesting it’s for show?! https://t.co/jCuPHthxPc 8:55am Sep 26th 2018 • 5 tweets from 2 people
• seatsixtyone The Night Riviera sleeper train from London to Cornwall has just had a superb revamp. Last night I checked out the improvements... https://t.co/hRm7LqhoGj 8:51am Sep 26th 2018 • 7 tweets from 1 person
• gsoh31 What he says here is categorically not true. Sorry, but it's a deliberate and direct falsehood. https://t.co/W3wUfQK6Is 8:03am Sep 26th 2018 • 7 tweets from 6 people
• gsoh31 What he says here is categorically not true. Sorry, but it's a deliberate and direct falsehood. https://t.co/W3wUfQK6Is 7:31pm Sep 25th 2018 • 3 tweets from 2 people
• theousherwood Emily Thornberry receives a standing ovation as she demands Labour kicks out “sickening individuals” who use the party’s “legitimate support for Palestine as a cloak and a cover for their despicable hatred of Jewish people”. https://t.co/SpKhJKky3K 6:53pm Sep 25th 2018 • 8 tweets from 1 person
• IanDunt One thing I should've mentioned: the EU citizens part was very welcome. Should have been done years ago. But better late than never. 5:48pm Sep 21st 2018 • 9 tweets from 4 people
• leonidragozin It so happened that I spent a week travelling through three Baltic countries and listening to typical East European 20th century family stories - of victims and perpetrators living under the same roof or - a common case - being the same individuals. 9:54am Sep 18th 2018 • 32 tweets from 1 person
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• pmdfoster EXC: Raab threatened Barnier that Europe would have to impose a border in Northern Ireland in event of a 'no deal' #Brexit - to the Frenchman's fury. My latest. https://t.co/wx5GNRNbnB 11:46pm Sep 6th 2018 • 8 tweets from 3 people
• BBCDomC I'm going to retweet the crucial evidential pictures of the #Salisbury suspects in the correct chronological order, with some maps. It shows how quickly the suspects struck and left the city. Here's the thread: 3:42pm Sep 5th 2018 • 7 tweets from 1 person
• theousherwood Exclusive: Met Police to investigate whether cases of anti-Semitism within the Labour Party constitute hate crimes. 10:26am Sep 4th 2018 • 13 tweets from 1 person
• AdamWagner1 1/ This is very interesting. Apparently there is a missing section from Corbyn’s speech which was edited out of the YouTube video. It actually clears things up in my mind. It’s much simpler now and the ambiguity has basically gone (short thread) https://t.co/4Q8aCXT7xI 8:39am Aug 26th 2018 • 9 tweets from 1 person
• AliceGoodman17 When the powers that be create a 'Hostile Environment' for anyone, it becomes, eventually, a Hostile Environment for all. It cannot be contained. It permeates the whole country. 1:18pm Aug 25th 2018 • 10 tweets from 1 person
• CliveSSmith Divisive Private Schools: the claim they 'save govt money' https://t.co/9wAkskH8B0 but my former school has 11x £ per student overall, & almost as much in govt gift aid per student as state schools get in total 10:39pm Aug 22nd 2018 • 5 tweets from 1 person
• GreekAnalyst I’m carefully reading analyses of all the things that went wrong during the Greek crisis by the exact same group of EU officials, analysts, journalists and opinion-makers that pushed for them in the first place. And not even a hint of self-criticism or “mea culpa.” #Greece 11:09am Aug 21st 2018 • 6 tweets from 1 person
• Will_Sutcliffe8 I've always felt Corbyn is maligned by the mainstream media, so I went to this - to hear him speak in a non-confrontational setting. What I learned is that he is flat, uninspiring, repetitive, dreary, inarticulate and vague. Bitterly disappointing and enraging. https://t.co/vnRBr8SjX5 6:21am Aug 21st 2018 • 6 tweets from 1 person
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• itschekkers our new @TheLancetPsych paper was the biggest ever study of exercise and mental health. it caused quite a stir! here's my guided tour of the paper, highlighting some of our excitements and apprehensions along the way [thread] 1/n https://t.co/hvlzstkISR https://t.co/pIzBJiNYQh 12:01pm Aug 15th 2018 • 18 tweets from 1 person
• AlbertoNardelli Some thoughts on the tragedy that hit Genova. Here's Salvini implying that it’s the EU’s fault because it constrains spending https://t.co/Ktlaioepes First, the obvious: it’s tragic that even in tragedy Italian politicians, across parties, immediately started blaming someone else 8:20am Aug 15th 2018 • 9 tweets from 1 person
• MichaelPDeacon Bought a second-hand copy of the Penguin Dictionary of Historical Slang (1937) and it's the finest 10p I ever spent https://t.co/js3cLwrJOz 12:03pm Aug 13th 2018 • 16 tweets from 1 person
• lukecooper100 Long Brexit survey from YouGov with some interesting findings. Full results well worth looking at. It confirms the now standard pattern of a consistent Remain lead but with a still stubbornly high Leave vote (53 vs 47%). However... /1 https://t.co/9Nd7lKjfQ1 4:26pm Aug 10th 2018 • 10 tweets from 1 person
• AlbertoNardelli The similarities between the number of media and political entities in places ranging from Hungary and Poland, to Italy and France, are curious, their links to political parties, and relentless campaigns against the same targets eg “gender theory studies” 9:49am Aug 10th 2018 • 2 tweets from 2 people
• EmilyRCWilson A question that is always present, for any translator: What is stylistic "equivalence"? Is "equivalence" even the right term? Translation Studies over the past few decades has taught us a lot about how complex that question always is. 3:22pm Aug 8th 2018 • 12 tweets from 1 person
• FinancialTimes Kroenke emerges victorious over Usmanov in battle for Arsenal https://t.co/GL27cdNG8G 9:17am Aug 7th 2018 • 5 tweets from 3 people
• heidiallen75 About as suitable to be PM as he was Foreign Secretary https://t.co/wNCcuBS6MO 8:40am Aug 7th 2018 • 76 tweets from 53 people
• EmilyRCWilson Why and how is translation so hard? Here's a little non-comparative case study to help make the process more visible. 9 words from the very start of the Odyssey, lines 1-2: ὃς μάλα πολλὰ / πλάγχθη, ἐπεὶ Τροίης ἱερὸν πτολίεθρον ἔπερσεν. Syntactically easy. 5:38am Aug 7th 2018 • 24 tweets from 1 person
• PeoplesMomentum Michael Segalov joined Labour to vote for Jeremy Corbyn. Here's what he has to say on antisemitism https://t.co/KtrY0Cb5W8 11:17am Aug 4th 2018 • 24 tweets from 2 people
• tompeck Well this goes a long way to explaining Maradona's erratic behaviour at the World Cup. Had no idea he was carrying around this kind of emotional baggage. https://t.co/fOZJHe7ZRb 6:34pm Aug 3rd 2018 • 8 tweets from 2 people
• jdportes Good Brexit news? EU, UK & DUP converging on "backstop" which keeps UK in customs union & NI in relevant bits of Single Market (so regulatory, but no customs, "border" in Irish Sea). https://t.co/dLvSWMWFDS 9:41am Aug 3rd 2018 • 7 tweets from 4 people
• CJFDillow BOE raises rates because a "diminished rate of supply growth" could be inflationary: https://t.co/6uI2759LCM Why growth has diminished is a very political question. A few candidates (which are not mutually exclusive) include: 1:35pm Aug 2nd 2018 • 11 tweets from 5 people
• StewartWood Labour & the left need to face up fast to an uncomfortable & existential truth: Brexit will make radical, progressive politics extremely difficult in the UK. Here's why. (A short thread) 1/7 1:33pm Aug 1st 2018 • 7 tweets from 1 person
• MESandbu Thread: In my latest @FT column, I explain why the Chequers proposal points to what is both the most likely Brexit outcome and the best available Brexit compromise. Its fundamental idea is a free circulation zone for goods. It should be taken seriously. https://t.co/Zj6IThZ4rF 7:15am Aug 1st 2018 • 21 tweets from 6 people
• JeremyCliffe I'm pondering a theory. Britons (innate make-doers) were never happier than during WWII and crave the need to Keep Calm And Carry On. Is hurtling towards a beans-hoarding, mustn't-grumble, darn-yer-socks sort of a no deal Brexit some sort of nation-level wish fulfillment? 10:03pm Jul 31st 2018 • 13 tweets from 8 people
• JeremyCliffe Message from a thoughtful Corbyn supporter: don't I realise that Corbyn just wants to make Britain more like social-market Germany? Britain should indeed become more like Germany, but Corbynism is a long way from how you'd do that. 9:34pm Jul 31st 2018 • 12 tweets from 1 person
• AdamWagner1 1/ I consider myself to be on the Left. I have almost always voted Labour. I am Jewish. Here's my thoughts on 3 things Jeremy Corbyn needs to do to start to fix this situation with the Jewish community (but I'm afraid it's going to hurt) 10:33am Jul 28th 2018 • 43 tweets from 1 person
• kevinhorourke Not acceding to unreasonable or impossible or illegal requests is not the same thing as imposing a humiliating divorce deal...I wish the EU could impose a (non-humiliating and mutually beneficial) divorce deal, but it can't impose anything on the UK. https://t.co/0bmzanxNE5 8:27am Jul 27th 2018 • 23 tweets from 11 people
• sjwrenlewis Thread on Corbyn's speech today, having now seen summary sent to press and 'check against delivery' version. The section that has attracted interest is "A key sentence is “For the last 40 years, a magical kind of thinking has dominated the way Britain is run. We’ve been 1/n 1:13pm Jul 24th 2018 • 8 tweets from 1 person
• PhilippMenn #Merkel am 20. Juli: Wenn die Generation die den Krieg überlebt hat nicht mehr da ist, wird sich zeigen ob wir aus der Geschichte gelernt haben. #Bundespressekonferenz 11:48pm Jul 23rd 2018 • 8 tweets from 4 people
• EmilyRCWilson Here is a classic in-progress translation struggle. I am working on "Oedipus Tyrannos". Creon says he is not, or not yet, τοσοῦτον ἠπατημένος as to want anything other than good things that benefit him. 2:03pm Jul 22nd 2018 • 8 tweets from 2 people
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• JolyonMaugham This is embargoed til 10pm but it wasn't given to me under embargo and don't see why we should play to the Government's news cycle. https://t.co/O0uAbzQU0n 7:28am Jul 20th 2018 • 16 tweets from 2 people
• GoodwinMJ Remember that whole "EU rejects populism after Brexit" thing? 2 years on... Sweden National populists now no.1 in polls Germany AfD now number 2 in polls Italy 60% now for populists/hard right Austria 58% for national populist coalition Hungary 69% for Orban + Jobbik 11:49am Jul 19th 2018 • 8 tweets from 3 people
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• DuckDuckGo We welcome the EU cracking down on Google's anti-competitive search behavior. We have felt its effects first hand for many years and has led directly to us having less market share on Android vs iOS and in general mobile vs desktop. A couple examples... https://t.co/0NGtouiqA2 5:33pm Jul 18th 2018 • 9 tweets from 2 people
• Tom_deWaal Small moment in jaw-dropping Putin-Trump presser yesterday. Putin let slip that "we" (ie Russia, not the "Crimean people") held the 2014 Crimea referendum: "We held a referendum in strict compliance with the UN Charter and international legislation." https://t.co/Ix7NO3UviQ 11:47am Jul 17th 2018 • 2 tweets from 1 person
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• BDStanley When I moved to Nowy Dwór Mazowiecki in 2003, this hill was overgrown and untended. One day, I took a shortcut through here on the way to the centre of the town, and found myself stumbling over old stones. I realised I was in a graveyard. Back then I knew little about the town’s https://t.co/pUp5RP9KlU 8:37am Jul 14th 2018 • 15 tweets from 1 person
• davidfrum President Trump has dangerously misunderstood (or refused to understand) the security concern for the Nordstream gas pipelines directly connecting Germany to Russia via the Baltic Sea. https://t.co/t0nGXa4N0G 1:03pm Jul 11th 2018 • 5 tweets from 1 person
• EmporersNewC 1. Hello, United Kingdom, it’s the United States of America here, and we need to talk. 9:41pm Jul 10th 2018 • 32 tweets from 1 person
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• arusbridger Nick, I agree you do sometimes have other voices. Though not many, to my ears. I tweeted after hearing half an hour devoted the wars within one tribe and no discernible other views. 1/6 10:42am Jul 9th 2018 • 9 tweets from 2 people
• DavidHenigUK We have a slightly optimistic Brexit thread from @davidallengreen here - while rightly cautioning us to wait for the full text of the White Paper. I'm afraid I'm really quite concerned, and this is why... 1/ (won't be too long) https://t.co/l5MJC3mv76 1:34pm Jul 7th 2018 • 8 tweets from 2 people
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• EmporersNewC 1. Will the UK be able to divide Europe into giving them a good trade deal? I think we can answer that question with a thread about Russia. 7:44am Jul 5th 2018 • 33 tweets from 1 person
• JoelTaylorhack This, by Theresa May’s erstwhile adviser Nick Timothy, is drivel; Merkel is not to blame for the migration crisis - that would be the Syrian civil war & widespread turmoil - & to suggest liberal values have failed is twisted https://t.co/RqJqHbAqOO 7:06am Jul 5th 2018 • 5 tweets from 1 person
• MKarnitschnig There's a lot of confusion out there, in particular internationally, about the impact of the the #Merkel-#Seehofer deal. A few points. (thread) 10:16am Jul 4th 2018 • 9 tweets from 1 person
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• NickCohen4 My old friend and comrade @AndrewGimson on the radio saying the public admire Johnson for his "candour". But he wasn't candid about opposing Heathrow expansion, about Brexit delivering £350m a week for the NHS, about Brexit helping us "tackle the housing crisis... 5:38pm Jun 26th 2018 • 4 tweets from 1 person
• frankcottrell_b This is extraordinary. This book belonged to the Jesuit missionary. The meticulous handwriting in the margins is by Topcliffe - the man who was torturing him. Topcliffe had his own rack at home. He must have read and racked by turns. https://t.co/jLMILVy3Wm 4:29pm Jun 25th 2018 • 4 tweets from 2 people
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• ChrisGiles_ My regular plea for people to stop saying U.K. income (or wealth) inequality is rising. It is not. And hasn’t for a generation. But it did rise a lot in the 1980s All from @TheIFS living standards report today https://t.co/UemonOjIhD https://t.co/2Ta8GJ6P5g 7:48am Jun 21st 2018 • 22 tweets from 7 people
• AlbertoNardelli Much of the immigration debate between political parties in Germany seems grounded more in the events of 2015 than in the reality of 2018. A short thread. 3:05pm Jun 19th 2018 • 9 tweets from 1 person
• ChrisGiles_ All you need to know (concisely) about a supposed ‘Brexit dividend’ for National Health Service https://t.co/eOYmlYhckp via @financialtimes 6:53am Jun 17th 2018 • 13 tweets from 2 people
• kevinhorourke This is a must-read by @tconnellyRTE https://t.co/nTP9rnHhKO 9:40am Jun 16th 2018 • 7 tweets from 1 person
• ProfChalmers I see the Spectator has found someone to defend Christopher Chope, who hasn’t actually bothered to work out what Wera Hobhouse’s bill was about. https://t.co/h8a589sa7C https://t.co/Zwj7JZxpOW 10:53pm Jun 15th 2018 • 9 tweets from 1 person
• DuncanWeldon Unless you’re me... Economic history is rarely that exciting. But right now it really is. And the wonders of twitter and the internet mean we can watch a debate play out in real time. So please excuse a mini thread (especially from an interested amateur rather than a participant) 9:52pm Jun 15th 2018 • 15 tweets from 1 person
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• AlbertoNardelli The problem with populists. A short story. Yesterday, Italy’s interior ministry published data on migrant arrivals. So far this year there have been 15,500 arrivals, an 80% drop compared to last year https://t.co/I7qJXFl69I 7:02am Jun 15th 2018 • 6 tweets from 1 person
• BlondeHistorian As I’ve been trained by fab @guidedogs how to navigate using tactile pavement I thought I would share some key info in a thread! First, blister paving at road crossing points. The tactile round bumpy paving at pelican crossings is usually red & bumps are in horizontal rows. https://t.co/bGdmfW3sZ9 10:37pm Jun 13th 2018 • 38 tweets from 15 people
• AlbertoNardelli World Leaders Managed To Find An Agreement At The G7. Then Trump Tweeted. https://t.co/5r4YndPFnR 10:28am Jun 10th 2018 • 7 tweets from 1 person
• kevinhorourke Some commentators on Brexit this week seem to have forgotten paragraph 46 of the December agreement, to which the UK as well as the EU signed up. It states: 4:38pm Jun 9th 2018 • 6 tweets from 1 person
• Aiannucci Going to be doing a Twitter Q and A in 20 mins for release on @iTunes . All welcome https://t.co/88WORyEHGA 5:56pm Jun 8th 2018 • 9 tweets from 1 person
• BDStanley Your occasional reminder that PiS’s “stunning single-party victory in 2015” was (a) achieved by three parties, not one; (b) the contingent product of the left’s decision to run as a coalition, not a party; (c) based on an appeal to moderate voters; (d) not actually that large. 9:42am Jun 4th 2018 • 3 tweets from 1 person
• BethRigby I first reported on women on boards when I was in the lobby @FT over 8 years ago. The Davies Review recommended that a quarter of FTSE350 directors should be female by 2015 and warned of quotas if the targets weren't met. #womenonboards (thread) https://t.co/asfYyXyw9r 8:26am May 31st 2018 • 7 tweets from 1 person
• Samfr The sheer staggering ignorance. In comprehensive inner London last year 59% of disadvantaged pupils got good GCSEs in English and Maths. In selective Kent it was 35.6%. https://t.co/VIcR7BC03o 12:19pm May 25th 2018 • 8 tweets from 1 person
• AlbertoNardelli Some thoughts on the state of Brexit talks: On NI border: latest UK proposal (CRAP) won’t work. Other pending issues (governance) have yet to be agreed. On others, UK doesn’t yet have a position. On the future relationship, the UK seems to not accept that “Brexit means Brexit” 11:57am May 25th 2018 • 7 tweets from 1 person
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• halvarflake I visited the area of Germany that I grew up in yesterday and today. Best described as Germany's rustbelt, it used to be the social-democrats heartland. It is surprising how many former SPD-voters I spoke to that are now clearly leaning toward AfD. I had a longer chat ... 2:04pm May 20th 2018 • 23 tweets from 1 person
• arusbridger (1/5). Now botched legal carrots & sticks dropped - which WERE a threat to press freedom - MPs should vote for Leveson 2, which isn't. (Thread) 9:07am May 15th 2018 • 5 tweets from 1 person
• BridgetCarey I am genuinely bothered and disturbed at how morally wrong it is for the Google Assistant voice to act like a human and deceive other humans on the other line of a phone call, using upspeek and other quirks of language. "Hi um, do you have anything available on uh May 3?" #io18 7:43am May 9th 2018 • 5 tweets from 5 people
• monlouhawk Thread on why @Theresa_May's Hostile Environment policy could potentially work in the Netherlands but cannot possibly work in the UK. And why @David_Goodhart (of Anywheres vs Somewheres) is fundamentally wrong about ID cards. 12:06pm Apr 23rd 2018 • 35 tweets from 4 people
• neb I can't really express how personally gratifying the news of flickr's escape from it's long slow doom at the hands of corporate mismanagement has made me. Such massively expressive datastores are obviously culture and deserve to be celebrated as such. https://t.co/RsuD5IhdTT 8:00am Apr 21st 2018 • 6 tweets from 1 person
• EmilyRCWilson The Homeric poems are very ancient and very alien and very formulaic. They are also vivid, direct, gripping, beautiful, enjoyable, ethically and psychologically complex works of narrative and poetic art. Translators have to choose which matters most: to alienate, or to engage. 2:27pm Apr 19th 2018 • 11 tweets from 1 person
• TomTugendhat The news that #Windrush kids are finding it difficult to establish legal status is very serious. I look forward to @ukhomeoffice sorting this problem quickly so those who helped build our country get their rights confirmed fast. 10:10am Apr 16th 2018 • 13 tweets from 3 people
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• EmilyRCWilson One of the most famous and heart-breaking moments in the Odyssey is about Argos the dog, who has waited 20 years for his old master and is lying neglected, in the dung. He hears O's voice again, pricks up his ears, and then dies. 3:16pm Apr 2nd 2018 • 19 tweets from 1 person
• anitathetweeter Feeling strangely soothed by the sight of Michael Portillo in a rose petal bath in front of the Taj Mahal 8:12am Mar 28th 2018 • 4 tweets from 3 people
• Freedland A few people have asked what, if anything, Jeremy Corbyn could do to defuse the current antisemitism issue. Here are some thoughts. (Thread) 5:08pm Mar 26th 2018 • 11 tweets from 1 person
• Samfr I'm sure that Corbyn is genuinely horrified at the idea he could be antisemitic. And that if a far-right group attacked a synagogue or something the condemnation would be real. 4:26pm Mar 24th 2018 • 10 tweets from 2 people
• timberners_lee This is a serious moment for the web’s future. But I want us to remain hopeful. The problems we see today are bugs in the system. Bugs can cause damage, but bugs are created by people, and can be fixed by people. 1/9 7:26am Mar 22nd 2018 • 9 tweets from 1 person
• EmilyRCWilson For #worldpoetryday: the oral-poets of the Odyssey. Phemius on Ithaca, and Demodocus on Scheria. They tell of an interestingly narrow array of poetry topics: arguing, fighting, troubled home-comings, and divine adultery. 6:17pm Mar 21st 2018 • 11 tweets from 1 person
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• Pinboard The problem with this argument is an inversion of the private and public sphere. Campaigning is an inherently public activity; running Facebook ads that only a tiny targeted audience can see is different. It removes public accountability. https://t.co/PGHndpQgLA 7:24am Mar 18th 2018 • 7 tweets from 3 people
• EmilyRCWilson I just saw this letter to NYT about the 12 slave women whom Odysseus says the suitors raped (παρευνάζεσθε βιαίως, 22. 37). The letter writer seems to endorse what he calls their "execution". https://t.co/vrJmQujixm 4:05pm Mar 15th 2018 • 7 tweets from 1 person
• ChathamHouse Four instances where British governments have communicated weakness to Russia without any intention of doing so, from James Sherr and John Lough (THREAD) 3:42pm Mar 14th 2018 • 6 tweets from 1 person
• kevinhorourke This is very good as usual by @andrewrawnsley but you could query one implicit assumption. Were Blair, Clinton and Schroeder really social democrats? 2:19pm Mar 12th 2018 • 15 tweets from 1 person
• EmilyRCWilson This seems to be the most controversial word choice in my translation. After many hours of soul-searching, I have decided to keep it for now, for the paperback. https://t.co/BauybZ8EpE 11:44pm Mar 11th 2018 • 4 tweets from 1 person
• EmilyRCWilson I know this is a downer but... for #IWD2018 I am thinking about violence against women. About how violence is enabled & perpetuated. About how gender inequality intersects with other forms of social injustice, like class, race and wealth. About recognition, stories and change. 7:28pm Mar 8th 2018 • 19 tweets from 1 person
• EmilyRCWilson Everyone knows the story of the Sirens from the Odyssey. They're the singers who tempt all those who sail past to listen to them forever, forgetful of their families. Odysseus, instructed by Circe, has himself bound to the mast so he can listen to their song. 11:44pm Mar 4th 2018 • 20 tweets from 1 person
• Andrew_Adonis Fact of the day: of the 2,000 books in the Bodleian Library in 1605, only 58 were in English! Shakespeare, unlike Newton, practically unknown outside England until late 1700s ... because he wrote in English. 9:40pm Feb 18th 2018 • 5 tweets from 2 people
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• IrishTimes 'I felt the blood rushing up through my chest and into my head as my eyes flashed and stung. Mate. It’s not the insolence or the cheerless familiarity of it, so much as the hint of laddish menace.' https://t.co/r6ULgyaqg8 1:55pm Jan 20th 2018 • 32 tweets from 12 people
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• jburnmurdoch Quick thread collating recent research on media — old and new — and political polarisation: tl;dr we obsess over social media filter bubbles, but evidence suggests old media and the least "social" of new media (partisan news sites, not social platforms) are the real problem 8:34am Jan 17th 2018 • 8 tweets from 2 people
• openDemocracy "Between 65% - 80% of people taking anti-depressants are depressed again within a year" - says @johannhari101 Why? Watch @BenjaminRamm's full interview on his new book >> https://t.co/tlsHZRwtOb https://t.co/n5dsdT8y4U 11:01pm Jan 10th 2018 • 12 tweets from 2 people
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• GeorgeLakoff Trump uses social media as a weapon to control the news cycle. It works like a charm. His tweets are tactical rather than substantive. They mostly fall into one of these four categories. https://t.co/XaK8tCpRy6 8:10am Jan 3rd 2018 • 14 tweets from 1 person
• SLevelt Toad watching #PMQs, noticing all the important things. https://t.co/4XbfYXUAML 10:11am Jan 2nd 2018 • 5 tweets from 2 people
• KuperSimon 1. @Andrew_Adonis was my first boss @FT in 1995 and became mentor. He knows more about how UK state works than almost anybody https://t.co/MeZUxGRkmF 10:18am Dec 31st 2017 • 7 tweets from 1 person
• jeffnoon Ten tweets, one story, coming next... 7:55am Dec 29th 2017 • 11 tweets from 1 person
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• DonaldMacleod01 Nightmarishly stressful week: building work with attendant fall-out continues; a certain amount of strife @ BBC; dreary stuff to deal with accountants. Inadequate to what's required of me. So now have prize stye: always an indicator...considered sending photo. Too gross. 12:03am Dec 20th 2017 • 40 tweets from 15 people
• pisaniferry Wow! https://t.co/rKdCo5Y410 1:37pm Dec 19th 2017 • 4 tweets from 2 people
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• Harkaway Corbyn still firmly saying “when” and still talking about Brexit as almost a natural phenomenon. https://t.co/NkVZAMMarU 11:02pm Dec 9th 2017 • 19 tweets from 1 person
• SimonFRCox Lawyers with difficult clients can recognise Gov’s strategy. Thread. 1. https://t.co/VNRjctX8SZ 3:39pm Dec 1st 2017 • 12 tweets from 1 person
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• ChrisGiles_ Shockingly bad discussion of productivity on @BBCr4today. It’s simple. A strong economy has 1) lots of people in work & 2) producing a lot 7:03am Nov 23rd 2017 • 8 tweets from 2 people
• myrrlyn 1 like = 1 engineering fact I think is weird and cool, and possibly not general knowledge Not limited to computers 2:20pm Nov 21st 2017 • 112 tweets from 1 person
• GeorgePeretzKC This is a classic example of the poor reasoning - both illogical and anti-democratic - that has got us into this mess. https://t.co/vj2qCKjHWk 9:21am Nov 20th 2017 • 13 tweets from 1 person
• APHClarkson Fascinating report with an inside view as to why the Irish government decided to play hardball with Davis and May over Brexit @davidallengreen @IanDunt @jonhenley https://t.co/dE471L3Cve 6:34pm Nov 18th 2017 • 10 tweets from 2 people
• lukestegemann A thread discussing #Catalonia and the new video from @omnium - a cultural & educational wing of Catalan separatism. 10:05pm Nov 4th 2017 • 8 tweets from 1 person
• PickardJE British politics today is most reminiscent of 6:52pm Nov 3rd 2017 • 5 tweets from 2 people
• S_Rabinovitch China just published guidelines for new activities course at school: sections on what children should think of Communist Party are striking. 7:13am Oct 30th 2017 • 7 tweets from 1 person
• CatherineDVries What to say? Whichever side one is on, this is a sad day for Spain. The country seems stuck in a moment that it can’t get out of. 1/ 9:55pm Oct 27th 2017 • 7 tweets from 1 person
• drjennings Now the dust has settled a little on the letter sent to university VCs by Heaton-Harris, a few thoughts... 9:48am Oct 27th 2017 • 12 tweets from 1 person
• DuncanWeldon 1. Bank of England looks set to hike next week. And yes, inflation is high but growth is weak & real incomes are being squeezed. 7:52pm Oct 25th 2017 • 12 tweets from 1 person
• JeremyCliffe The FAZ has account of May's dinner with Juncker on Monday. Fewer details than the "disaster dinner" piece, but one or two interesting ones: 10:19pm Oct 22nd 2017 • 15 tweets from 1 person
• SimonFRCox They aren’t stupid or liars & there’s no conspiracy. Their judgments are based on a deep unexamined assumption : Britain is Great. 1/ https://t.co/Ia9bX8DWpN 10:34am Oct 17th 2017 • 19 tweets from 1 person
• RudolfdeReiger For Europeans keen to understand Brexiteers this is vital: the fantasy that the British Empire was based on free trade rather than plunder. https://t.co/ICuIxpFZpz 10:32am Oct 17th 2017 • 41 tweets from 6 people
• JohnSpringford England doesn't have a collective psyche - it's horribly divided. It's like loathing Americans, or football fans. https://t.co/3oGEV8EFcJ 9:18pm Oct 9th 2017 • 28 tweets from 6 people
• mattsteinglass I moved to UK from NL in 2015 and returned in 2017; agree with @JORISLUIJENDIJK that Brexit is a misdirected class war. Just 1 addition: 1/ https://t.co/Tm0lAl1NvC 12:30pm Oct 8th 2017 • 18 tweets from 1 person
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• pmdfoster As @theresa_may prepares to deliver her speech at #CPC17 Brussels will be watching. They remember what she said in 2016... 1/Thread 11:55am Oct 4th 2017 • 12 tweets from 1 person
• JeremyCliffe Some observations from Madrid on the Catalan crisis: 10:02am Oct 4th 2017 • 17 tweets from 1 person
• APHClarkson 1. In moments like the Catalan Crisis we often focus on leaders. But think of all the state and political actors whose support Rajoy needed 10:41am Oct 2nd 2017 • 16 tweets from 1 person
• mathieuvonrohr The situation in Catalonia is very complex. Not a simple good vs bad story. https://t.co/iYB4n8qq1i 11:15am Oct 1st 2017 • 6 tweets from 1 person
• AlbertoNardelli Wrote this 3 years ago on why Madrid couldn't simply ignore a rising appetite for an independence vote in Catalonia https://t.co/5mBrKch16G https://t.co/gA3rsIaxwh 10:29am Oct 1st 2017 • 5 tweets from 1 person
• JeremyCliffe Catalan vote would've been illegitimate even w/o Madrid's heavy-handed intervention. Generalitat has ridden roughshod over democratic norms. 10:20am Oct 1st 2017 • 4 tweets from 1 person
• Yascha_Mounk Best analysis of the German election so far, by @martineiermann. Here are the key takeaways (and best maps)! https://t.co/4rTATystoi 1/ 5:18pm Sep 29th 2017 • 14 tweets from 1 person
• CasMudde I don't understand why the replacement of #DieLinke by #AfD as the new "Ostpartei" is not one of the major stories of #BTW17 🤔 #Thread https://t.co/pof5nBrHmn 5:12pm Sep 29th 2017 • 18 tweets from 1 person
• Harkaway And there it is. The tone of this gives me chills. https://t.co/rfo055bzZl 10:35am Sep 29th 2017 • 5 tweets from 1 person
• RVAwonk Important to note that Russia targeted existing vulnerabilities in U.S. society. This wouldn't have worked w/o a receptive audience... 1/ https://t.co/iAlfLpsXFG 12:13am Sep 28th 2017 • 8 tweets from 1 person
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• JeremyCliffe The @SZ reports Number 10 invited "European politicians of rank" to May's Florence speech but they all declined. https://t.co/HE39rIXbSq 1:02pm Sep 23rd 2017 • 5 tweets from 1 person
• hugorifkind Why social media needs to be subject to electoral law, not just theoretically but in practice, too. (£) https://t.co/S5PIE9uTin https://t.co/U5i6nlv828 10:21am Sep 22nd 2017 • 7 tweets from 1 person
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• DuncanWeldon Mini thread... prompted by the return of the "£350m a week" and reflecting on what I learned at the BBC. 11:51am Sep 18th 2017 • 11 tweets from 1 person
• ProfChalmers Interesting thing about this bit of textual sophistry: it fails on its own terms, because it misrepresents Norgrove's letter. https://t.co/tYOh2e9ACi 8:18pm Sep 17th 2017 • 4 tweets from 1 person
• JolyonMaugham They're such liars they lie about their lies. The £8bn was promised in the Tories' 2015 Manifesto. Before there was even a Referendum. https://t.co/mmK7VoxDBE 6:41am Sep 17th 2017 • 6 tweets from 1 person
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• SocialHistoryOx I suppose I'd better explain this a bit.... https://t.co/ksGnRQXEtG 5:17pm Sep 12th 2017 • 12 tweets from 1 person
• ProfMarkElliott Now that EU (Withdrawal) Bill has survived second reading, focus must shift to amending it to address fundamental constitutional concerns + 7:42am Sep 12th 2017 • 15 tweets from 1 person
• kevinhorourke In view of the unique circumstances on the island of Ireland, flexible and imaginative solutions will be required to avoid a hard border... https://t.co/Na6M3QAyhn 12:08pm Sep 7th 2017 • 7 tweets from 1 person
• Noahpinion Fact check: Totally fucking false. https://t.co/qkXHkPXHUC 8:22pm Sep 5th 2017 • 7 tweets from 1 person
• SKalyvas Lessons I learned from Greece #1: abysmal incompetence of populist government leads many to mistaken belief it will be over quickly 2:27pm Sep 5th 2017 • 28 tweets from 1 person
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• faisalislam Long read on where we are re Brexit, Parliament, diplomacy, economics, May Corbyn, "Norway in drag", & no No Deal... https://t.co/jrqfQ3aFSl 8:11pm Sep 4th 2017 • 23 tweets from 1 person
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• rafaelbehr This time last year David David was predicting UK would be well into global free trade deal talks by now, in parallel with Brexit talks. https://t.co/8YRwiPpxbp 8:39am Sep 3rd 2017 • 16 tweets from 2 people
• kevinhorourke 1/n Can be usefully read in conjunction with this conversation with senior French and German diplomats. https://t.co/V7BiNg7S2H 9:57am Sep 2nd 2017 • 8 tweets from 1 person
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• LawDavF When Chilcot report on Iraq released just after referendum I was asked if lessons for brexit 1/ 12:36pm Aug 29th 2017 • 17 tweets from 1 person
• JolyonMaugham David Benedictus is my biological father, and did go to Eton. There’s no mystery about this: it’s in his Who’s Who entry. /1 https://t.co/8W1woSHFn0 10:05pm Aug 28th 2017 • 9 tweets from 1 person
• anneapplebaum 1. for those who don't get this: current Polish govt wants to undermine Walesa, as a way of undermining the achievements of past 25 years https://t.co/85ZRbNFQ9u 6:44am Aug 25th 2017 • 10 tweets from 1 person
• jonworth So the FT thinks UK govt is going to float the idea of a UK-EU court this week, along lines of the EFTA court https://t.co/reYjT6Ml2S 1/8 8:07pm Aug 20th 2017 • 8 tweets from 1 person
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• AliceGoodman17 I've been reading my complimentary copy with interest, rolling my eyes now and again. https://t.co/uMs8PX2WwZ 10:03pm Aug 19th 2017 • 8 tweets from 1 person
• Samfr You won't read anything better than this today... https://t.co/EFUc2g3meN 11:19am Aug 19th 2017 • 6 tweets from 1 person
• benedictevans After yesterday, anyone that hasn’t read the Jäger Report probably should. https://t.co/qUEVtplyeb 7:02pm Aug 13th 2017 • 8 tweets from 1 person
• ProfMarkElliott EU (Withdrawal) Bill is gift that keeps on giving. Its own Byzantine nature is matched only by complexity of legal regime it will create + 10:35am Aug 9th 2017 • 13 tweets from 1 person
• wmarybeard I go to bed with 3 thoughts.1st this is unbearably dispiriting, people say you;ve said what you havent, havent said what you have. Nastily 9:44pm Aug 7th 2017 • 3 tweets from 1 person
• SocialHistoryOx Well, there's a lot to get our teeth into here... https://t.co/FrkgfqF0eI 10:02am Aug 7th 2017 • 6 tweets from 2 people
• wmarybeard Another day off Twitter in interests of calm. Still hammering goes on. Thx to all for support. In case you missed https://t.co/6Cpncr34Ua 8:10pm Aug 6th 2017 • 9 tweets from 5 people
• JeremyCliffe Striking facts in today's @tazgezwitscher: 18.6m Germans (almost a quarter) have a migrant background. 10:47am Aug 6th 2017 • 4 tweets from 1 person
• EmporersNewC 1. I just want to congratulate @AndrewMarr9 and for his successful extension to the Solomon Asch experiment on the @MarrShow 8:41am Aug 4th 2017 • 34 tweets from 1 person
• Nicolas_Colin 1/ I'm currently spending a few weeks in Germany, a good opportunity to read and reflect on that great country. 8:23am Aug 4th 2017 • 30 tweets from 1 person
• stephenkb Re-reading the Smiley books before A Legacy of Spies comes out. Le Carré summarises government policy shifts 1945 to present. https://t.co/v7UURnA39I 10:39pm Aug 3rd 2017 • 26 tweets from 8 people
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• IanDunt Backed Chavez for years. When you grow up knowing Latin America you'll accept almost anything to take on the poverty & right-wing cartels. 10:14am Aug 3rd 2017 • 8 tweets from 1 person
• LRBbookshop did you know? in 1997, during the ill-fated One Hot Minute tour, the TLS published a Red Hot Chili Peppers special issue. flea was guest ed 1:48pm Aug 2nd 2017 • 17 tweets from 2 people
• Joshua_Pollack A few thoughts on today's missile test from North Korea. 9:01pm Jul 28th 2017 • 15 tweets from 1 person
• JeremyCliffe The essence of economic progressivism is the creation of the best possible living conditions for the largest possible number of people. (1/) 10:14pm Jul 23rd 2017 • 18 tweets from 1 person
• SimonFRCox Corbyn starts to show hand 4 pts here: 1 gold, 3 disastrous https://t.co/QCtSHTfWmb Comments 1/ 11:01am Jul 23rd 2017 • 12 tweets from 1 person
• djmgaffneyw4 1/n Owen's getting a lot of unfair flak over this. But I don't think saying 'because I'm a democrat' is the right way to approach the issue. https://t.co/zOLhvWCL0E 8:58pm Jul 22nd 2017 • 6 tweets from 1 person
• ChrisGiles_ Revealing letter from @ONS telling losers from RPI scandal to bog off after my column (1/n)  https://t.co/ks1U5m5uoc via @FT 8:20am Jul 21st 2017 • 14 tweets from 1 person
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• jonworth Recently started to be fascinated by why UK is getting the #Brexit process so wrong. New blog: https://t.co/rnnXYr4rwp Summary in thread 1/5 10:04am Jul 13th 2017 • 5 tweets from 1 person
• cadebellaigue I am really very cross with Andrew Adonis. In 80s Oxford, most humanities teaching was done within single colleges by tutors who only taught 11:39pm Jul 12th 2017 • 22 tweets from 1 person
• ramez 1. There's an incredibly bleak - & misleading - climate doomsday article in @NYMag today. I have several problems with it. Short tweetstorm 11:24pm Jul 10th 2017 • 10 tweets from 1 person
• EmporersNewC 1. Hello, United Kingdom, it’s the United States of America here, and we need to talk. 9:25pm Jul 10th 2017 • 47 tweets from 1 person
• PickardJE Our new man in Brussels sounds like a sensible chap https://t.co/BsBv009XoE 8:35am Jul 5th 2017 • 4 tweets from 2 people
• stephenkb Corbyn is a Eurosceptic, but that isn't Labour Remainers' problem: https://t.co/vVr8jCSaln 12:50pm Jun 30th 2017 • 8 tweets from 3 people
• JeremyCliffe As I wrote on Tuesday: "Mrs Merkel is not a liberal. She is a Christian democrat." https://t.co/pY5ktn3vkt https://t.co/jdGxjuYLlK 12:43pm Jun 30th 2017 • 12 tweets from 1 person
• nick_kapur Today we speak of "BBC English" as a standard form of the language, but this form had to be invented by a small team in the 1920s & 30s. 1/ 12:47pm Jun 27th 2017 • 23 tweets from 1 person
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• JeremyCliffe Corbyn is a nostalgic who ran on a regressive manifesto and did little to stop Brexit, which will screw workers, young people & immigrants. 3:20pm Jun 25th 2017 • 7 tweets from 1 person
• stephenkb This is nonsense. Inter alia, Outside NI, neither the young, nor the old, gave a flying one about the Good Friday Agreement in 2017. https://t.co/dnEmTXPlbw 4:43pm Jun 24th 2017 • 6 tweets from 1 person
• nickclegg One year on, which single claim, assertion or speech about Brexit has been the most significant? Tory guff about a 'global Britain'? 11:46am Jun 23rd 2017 • 6 tweets from 1 person
• jerryhogg 1. Ok so here goes. Freedom of Movement. Hardly has a phrase been more misunderstood. It does NOT mean anyone has the right to live anywhere 10:52am Jun 20th 2017 • 14 tweets from 1 person
• APHClarkson EEA option gives UK little but it could give EU27 a means to ensure the UK can no longer block further integration https://t.co/lxa4O1lV6M 7:19am Jun 18th 2017 • 8 tweets from 3 people
• JeremyCliffe To get through its crisis, Britain needs to return to the school of political economy known as Varieties of Capitalism (VoC). Here's why: 7:31pm Jun 17th 2017 • 15 tweets from 1 person
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• rafaelbehr Has May said anything of substance about Brexit since the election? Have I missed it? Does she really think nothing changed? 9:28pm Jun 15th 2017 • 7 tweets from 1 person
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• AlbertoNardelli Without a fundamental rethink of the UK position and redlines there is no "softer Brexit" https://t.co/o7aAsznEZE 7:48am Jun 14th 2017 • 6 tweets from 1 person
• YouGov THREAD/ How Britain voted in 2017: @chris__curtis digs into the demographics of last week’s vote https://t.co/OS1tzwrpTO 7:39pm Jun 13th 2017 • 9 tweets from 1 person
• JenniferMerode Michel Barnier met Olly Robbins and Tim Barrow on Monday and this is what happened... #Brexit 1 7:01pm Jun 13th 2017 • 11 tweets from 1 person
• Samfr I'd love to see this cross-referenced with age. Is it just a proxy for age or a thing in itself? https://t.co/2KrUk1roWt 6:06pm Jun 13th 2017 • 8 tweets from 2 people
• PhilipJCollins1 I don't believe, when you survey the candidates, that a different Labour leader would have won. You cannot simply take 40% for granted.... 2:14pm Jun 12th 2017 • 6 tweets from 1 person
• StewartWood THREAD: When Gordon Brown was PM, I was privileged to be his N Ireland adviser. We had crises galore, but only one over Nthn Ireland. 1/10 11:22am Jun 12th 2017 • 10 tweets from 1 person
• JeremyCliffe A year ago Tory commentators were grandly hailing Europe's doom. Today Merkel and Macron are riding high, while Britain is a laughing stock. 8:58pm Jun 11th 2017 • 6 tweets from 1 person
• SJAMcBride Hung Parliament priorities DUP set out in 2015. Abortion & LGBT issues not even on a list that includes 40+ issues. It's about £ & unionism. https://t.co/A1pNCPcEgO 7:56am Jun 11th 2017 • 3 tweets from 2 people
• JeremyCliffe Britain is becoming ever more diverse, urban and university-educated. May has put the Tories on the wrong side of that shift. 10:44pm Jun 10th 2017 • 16 tweets from 1 person
• jackbern23 So the DUP's inherent bigotry, homophobia, climate change and evolution denial should disbar them from mainstream politics, full stop. But. 8:04am Jun 10th 2017 • 39 tweets from 1 person
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• JeremyCliffe Hard to overstate how withering German press coverage of Britain has been over this election campaign. 8:19pm Jun 7th 2017 • 8 tweets from 1 person
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• BarristerSecret Serious question to @theresa_may: What will it take for Trump's state visit to be rescinded? https://t.co/rY77ix9xWn 3:47pm Jun 5th 2017 • 6 tweets from 1 person
• JeremyCliffe All this "Merkel is the new leader of the free world" nonsense obscures a more interesting story: the strange non-death of Old Europe. 2:33pm Jun 5th 2017 • 15 tweets from 2 people
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• RidT Theresa May’s comments on the London Bridge attack—predictably—include comments on the internet. I footnoted this section in plain English: https://t.co/EMxYSD2Pww 5:32pm Jun 4th 2017 • 11 tweets from 1 person
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• NickCohen4 1. Fellow hacks are demanding the 'sub and the reporter' in the Sahara joke'. It's long, but here goes. 11:53am Jun 3rd 2017 • 12 tweets from 1 person
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• faisalislam Wherever we are in a week's time, this is one of the most extraordinary moves over the course of an election campaign, we have seen: https://t.co/iHK5x3q97m 6:24pm Jun 2nd 2017 • 18 tweets from 1 person
• tony_nog 1) thread. 1 of the most bizarre aspects of the UK's current direction is that none of the #Brexit Leadership expected this hard brexit 3:40pm Jun 1st 2017 • 23 tweets from 1 person
• IanDunt Corbyn speech on Brexit later today by far the best he's managed since referendum took place. 11:48am Jun 1st 2017 • 6 tweets from 1 person
• WomaninHavana 1. Some thoughts on today. May reminds us, w a straight face, Brexit negotiations start on 19/5. Ten days after an election she called. 8:55am Jun 1st 2017 • 12 tweets from 1 person
• JolyonMaugham If you think we are stronger in the EU you will be frustrated by Labour's policy on Brexit. But there are positives - and a prospect. /1 6:53am Jun 1st 2017 • 15 tweets from 1 person
• Fabien_UX Death is still so poorly handled everywhere in software. Might be because too much of it is done by 20-30 year olds. 12:05am Jun 1st 2017 • 3 tweets from 1 person
• dan_tomlinson_ So, it seems no-one has noticed, but the govt published the latest statistics on trade union membership today. Here's the key points... 1/ 11:05pm May 31st 2017 • 15 tweets from 1 person
• IanDunt OK, very briefly on why the no-deal-better-than-bad-deal stuff is nonsense. It's not that it would be WTO. 1:55pm May 30th 2017 • 8 tweets from 1 person
• anneapplebaum 1. Some are now saying it was wrong for Merkel to tell the truth, to admit that Trump presidency is a game changer. I really disagree. 12:18pm May 30th 2017 • 7 tweets from 1 person
• ShippersUnbound Has a less qualified individual ever been put forward for one of the four great offices of state than Diane Abbott? 10:29am May 28th 2017 • 8 tweets from 2 people
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• LawDavF It is self-evident that anger with Western policies in the Middle East is one – though not the only - factor behind Islamist terrorism./1 3:08pm May 26th 2017 • 11 tweets from 1 person
• IvoHDaalder 1/ President Trump addressed NATO today in Brussels, and it did not go well. #thread https://t.co/3TURgpRalT 6:55pm May 25th 2017 • 11 tweets from 1 person
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• t0nyyates So does nationalization cost anything? It would happen by issuing debt to acquire an asset - a company. 11:13am May 16th 2017 • 16 tweets from 1 person
• AlbertoNardelli On the bad "end of Merkel" punditry there is an important point: many assumed the chancellor would fall because she was open to refugees 8:16pm May 14th 2017 • 13 tweets from 3 people
• JeremyCliffe Disappointing lack of perspective from a great publication https://t.co/FS7R0wVrDq 11:21am May 13th 2017 • 3 tweets from 3 people
• benedictevans The industry has been worried about security for decades. The problems are elsewhere - in user attitudes and the packaged software model https://t.co/weEtRgWFqS 6:26pm May 12th 2017 • 7 tweets from 1 person
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• JolyonMaugham Here's @DanielJHannan; and here's reality. https://t.co/ivW2P6wBon 5:42pm May 11th 2017 • 5 tweets from 2 people
• stephenkb Is 2017 the death rattle of the public election? My column in this week's NS, out tomorrow: https://t.co/XeBgrO8rQs 7:32pm May 10th 2017 • 9 tweets from 3 people
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• jsphctrl The English People's Congress promised a firm line over a power-sharing deal with northern separatists today. https://t.co/EuxTiqXpla 10:33am May 5th 2017 • 54 tweets from 1 person
• SimonFRCox How can we oppose May without adding to her distracting pose as a fighter? Some thoughts... 1/n https://t.co/MWPE841XzB 10:50am May 4th 2017 • 17 tweets from 1 person
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• SimonFRCox May's #1 is "look like a fighter". So winning is a problem - bc it ends the fight. We know this from her Home Office days. Thread. 1/n https://t.co/15M4YsAEHm 11:17pm May 3rd 2017 • 43 tweets from 1 person
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• NevilleMorley I know I have tendency to see the whole world through Thucydides spectacles, but UK seems absolutely determined to recreate Melian Dialogue. 10:54am May 1st 2017 • 9 tweets from 1 person
• ProfChalmers This bit of the FAZ report on the May-Juncker dinner is fascinating, because there are some similarities between Brexit and the JHA opt-out. https://t.co/UGGVJ4xsvC 12:15am May 1st 2017 • 12 tweets from 1 person
• JeremyCliffe Today's FAZ report on May's disastrous dinner with Juncker - briefed by senior Commission sources - is absolutely damning. 11:56pm Apr 30th 2017 • 31 tweets from 1 person
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• hatemachine1187 I have been thinking about the "strong and stable" mantra, in the context of my mum, who thinks Theresa May is great. 2:33pm Apr 30th 2017 • 50 tweets from 1 person
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• timoconnorbl Of all UK myths about the EU, the notion that Dr. Merkel runs all is the most persuasive. It's actually quite a revealing insight. https://t.co/GW6nRmoAAc 1:32pm Apr 29th 2017 • 7 tweets from 1 person
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• faisalislam European Council Brexit negotiation guidelines, just adopted in full, unanimously by the EU27: https://t.co/7EUvEv0eb9 1:14pm Apr 29th 2017 • 28 tweets from 1 person
• ianmulheirn This is key. Problem is gov cld have tried for soft Brexit + sought mandate for hard later. Instead chose to hijack ref as mandate for hard https://t.co/M0dVxCQCVt 1:59pm Apr 26th 2017 • 8 tweets from 3 people
• sturdyAlex 1. I am no great fan of Tim Farron, BUT I think he has been treated appallingly by over this completely made-up "gay sex" question. 11:14pm Apr 25th 2017 • 7 tweets from 1 person
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• carlgardner If you're the PM and you want an election under the FTPA, here's how you do it. 10:41am Apr 18th 2017 • 11 tweets from 1 person
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• ChrChristensen (1) As an Appendix to my @Guardian piece, let me also remind historically-challenged US conservatives who bash Sweden about one more thing. 11:36pm Apr 16th 2017 • 8 tweets from 1 person
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• JohnSpringford ICYMI - my piece on the risk of breakdown from last week https://t.co/5Rp4XieNUS - a few thoughts follow 1 https://t.co/KGDoyHpqiM 2:42pm Apr 6th 2017 • 6 tweets from 1 person
• JolyonMaugham 1. Boris Johnson is, again, pouring his poison into the ears of the people. So take a short walk with me (https://t.co/dRC7xGR1tI). https://t.co/MKPIrQ3aez 7:09am Apr 3rd 2017 • 9 tweets from 1 person
• carlgardner Of course it's sincere. This is only a surprise if you've absorbed all the anti-European nonsense written in British papers for years. https://t.co/uGG8YO12td 9:00am Mar 30th 2017 • 4 tweets from 4 people
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• Harkaway I can't stop watching this. I keep waiting for one of them to mention tubes. https://t.co/st2KIMcHwn 4:10pm Mar 27th 2017 • 8 tweets from 2 people
• jonlis1 Back from meetings in Brussels. Becoming crystal clear that deal vs no-deal scenario will hinge on one thing: the European Court of Justice. 6:20pm Mar 24th 2017 • 8 tweets from 1 person
• IanMartin Very sorry that @BBCRadio3 are ending their weekly Record Review newsletter. It has been a glinting little affirmation of sanity in this... 5:47pm Mar 24th 2017 • 7 tweets from 2 people
• thehistoryguy Wow. @KTHopkins says, 'Great Britain is more disunited… than any time in its past.' There speaks someone without a history degree. 3:56pm Mar 23rd 2017 • 8 tweets from 1 person
• zeynep Stuff may get stolen. Forces having checked luggage. If laptops are dangerous, aren't they dangerous in cargo? Bring phone with keyboard. 🙄 https://t.co/FV88FzpSgl 4:40pm Mar 21st 2017 • 23 tweets from 1 person
• IvoHDaalder 1/ Sorry, Mr. President, that’s not how NATO works. The US decides for itself how much it contributes to defending NATO. https://t.co/8svkzRBEQb 3:17pm Mar 18th 2017 • 9 tweets from 1 person
• holland_tom I'm, I confess, disappointed. Those of us who value the Union have much to do in England & Wales as well as Scotland https://t.co/oou6ZPGdM5 10:23am Mar 18th 2017 • 4 tweets from 3 people
• NicolaSturgeon .@scotgov is not proposing #scotref now...but when the terms of Brexit clear and before it is too late to choose an alternative path. 1/4 https://t.co/ZR6LDtA8v8 1:53pm Mar 16th 2017 • 5 tweets from 1 person
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• IanDunt Almost forgot David Davis in front of Brexit committee this morning. What joy https://t.co/A9jFUkNXNG 10:55am Mar 15th 2017 • 94 tweets from 1 person
• faisalislam Davis to Benn "presumption of No Deal is literally that a presumption of WTO Most Favoured Nation status, which means there will be tariffs" 10:12am Mar 15th 2017 • 12 tweets from 1 person
• jonlis1 Sturgeon speech defining moment. Emphasis that this is about hard Brexit, not Brexit. Single market was the bridge that May casually burned. 11:19pm Mar 13th 2017 • 9 tweets from 1 person
• wblau Again, what exactly is "narrow" here between 60.5% Macron and 39.5% Le Pen polls for 2nd round? #ukpress #bias https://t.co/Tk3FRgo99M 4:36pm Mar 12th 2017 • 6 tweets from 2 people
• djmgaffneyw4 A former minister has confused the European Union with the One Holy Catholic & Apostolic Church.This is a common error over here I'm afraid. https://t.co/2OuPeV2S1t 10:08pm Mar 9th 2017 • 4 tweets from 1 person
• mattblaze Larger lesson of today’s trove of (alleged) CIA hacking tools? Large software systems often have exploitable bugs, as everyone already knew. 7:02pm Mar 7th 2017 • 13 tweets from 1 person
• JonnElledge Hi everyone, here's the first of my new column, asking: "What is Daniel Hannan demonstrably wrong about this week?" https://t.co/dnUq1pDRDz https://t.co/gLjjrzKtcH 1:27pm Mar 6th 2017 • 18 tweets from 1 person
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• thomasforth Limmy is right about Brexit affecting Scotland. A big part was re-establishing London dominance. Not just from Brussels. Within the UK too. 6:04pm Mar 4th 2017 • 6 tweets from 1 person
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• faisalislam Quite regular this stuff now..thought all left behind in 1980s. On personal basis - I don't care. what must be going on generally - terrible https://t.co/eojdNZWSB5 12:11pm Mar 3rd 2017 • 2 tweets from 1 person
• chrisdeerin The Spectator's three remainers - Matthew Parris, @hugorifkind and @alexmassie - are all on fire at the mo https://t.co/Q0GWXf9Fcl 10:25am Mar 3rd 2017 • 6 tweets from 3 people
• davidfrum 1) Sessions story today is a sinister confirmation of central thesis of my autocracy article: https://t.co/zx5HE02N19 6:41pm Mar 2nd 2017 • 21 tweets from 1 person
• JonnElledge One of the enduring questions about Daniel Hannan is to what extent he's ignorant, and to what extent he's cynical. Still not sure. https://t.co/soNhUQ2Kkc 11:57am Mar 1st 2017 • 3 tweets from 1 person
• drjennings All political parties are coalitions of different factions, so division is never that far off. 1/4 1:38pm Feb 28th 2017 • 13 tweets from 1 person
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• Nigel_Farage Reported rapes in Sweden trebled from 2003-2010. The UN graph below says it all. But @BuzzFeedUK want to pretend there is no problem. https://t.co/UNPU45q4tg 6:19am Feb 23rd 2017 • 16 tweets from 2 people
• AlbertoNardelli Germany - Forsa poll: CDU/CSU 34% SPD 31% AfD 8% (-1 on last week, 7 month low) LINKE 8% GRN 7% FDP 6% Far-right AfD appears to be sinking 10:24am Feb 22nd 2017 • 5 tweets from 1 person
• sewellchan 1/ Here's what I learned about Sweden, migrants and crime in reporting this story: https://t.co/v3fGwH0uWq 11:13pm Feb 19th 2017 • 8 tweets from 1 person
• AlbertoNardelli Beyond this incident (Trump was specific, said "last night"), there is a broader issue: Trump's view of Europe = Fox, Express, Breitbart etc https://t.co/pV5cMwzp9B 11:07pm Feb 19th 2017 • 3 tweets from 1 person
• simonjhix My views on #Brexitbill: 1/5 May now has a mandate for Hard Brexit: outside single mkt, EU citizens as pawns etc. Risky for UK econ/society 9:30am Feb 9th 2017 • 5 tweets from 1 person
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• RidT MISSION: DECEPTION—amazing, eerily topical 1992 book on Stasi active measures in the West, by two former operators, one from "Department X" https://t.co/7uGl8NtZeI 11:20am Feb 6th 2017 • 33 tweets from 1 person
• rcallimachi 1. Hello world, today I bring you a piece I've been working on for months about how ISIS "remote-controls" attacks: https://t.co/OB8HzRECfe 10:03pm Feb 5th 2017 • 36 tweets from 1 person
• JohnSpringford Just finished reading the Brexit white paper. https://t.co/RpChWndOnd It says nothing that we didn't know already about the strategy 1/ 1:48pm Feb 2nd 2017 • 5 tweets from 1 person
• aliceemross Wow. Email from immigration lawyer in New York arrives: "The last few days have been extremely unsettling for us all.." 1/1 10:34pm Feb 1st 2017 • 5 tweets from 1 person
• yashar THREAD: Sally Yates confirmation hearing, in the context of Trump's statement/dismissal tonight, is something else. Here are some clips: 8:10am Jan 31st 2017 • 5 tweets from 1 person
• s8mb There's a weird meme going around that Obama removing Syria, Iraq et al from the Visa Waiver Programme is somehow analogous or a (1/4) 7:43pm Jan 29th 2017 • 4 tweets from 1 person
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• NickCohen4 1. I hate the neediness of those British Tories who turn with bright moist,eyes to the US and swoon over “the special relationship”. 10:32am Jan 29th 2017 • 7 tweets from 1 person
• RadioFreeTom So, you're all asking: What should we do? Okay, I have some recommendations in general. These are my personal views, as always. /1 9:03pm Jan 28th 2017 • 15 tweets from 1 person
• stewart "And he's just getting started." • It's still so hard to believe that this is real life. Nearly every action seems gratuitously … evil. https://t.co/ZcpdeUnlYf 8:06pm Jan 28th 2017 • 14 tweets from 1 person
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• timoconnorbl Hannan's idiotic statements about refugee law in this made me genuinely angry. I now realise why. I'll explain why they're so shameful. 1 https://t.co/mhwXwUfb1R 10:51am Jan 28th 2017 • 12 tweets from 1 person
• Harkaway The more I read, the more I think the digital environment may be about to change. 10:59pm Jan 27th 2017 • 14 tweets from 1 person
• APHClarkson Removing sanctions on Russia will damage the United States far more than it will Ukraine. 9:45am Jan 27th 2017 • 7 tweets from 1 person
• C4Ciaran I'm in China where they're "preparing for war" with America. Happy Friday Everyone https://t.co/7n0cKbLsIn 7:46am Jan 27th 2017 • 9 tweets from 1 person
• taylor_owen Some additional context on the gov intervention critique of the @ppforumca report... 5:27pm Jan 26th 2017 • 8 tweets from 1 person
• ScribblingSandy When you grow up in Germany & go through the school system in Germany, you will cover the Third Reich several times. 10:18pm Jan 25th 2017 • 70 tweets from 1 person
• georgemagnus1 1. UK/US free trade agreement (fta) causing bit of a stir, so let's see where this goes. Lots of legal delays and notifications likely 7:24pm Jan 22nd 2017 • 10 tweets from 1 person
• anneapplebaum 1. As someone who lives part of the time in an illiberalizing democracy, let me explain the purpose of a press spokesman's blatant lies 10:48am Jan 22nd 2017 • 9 tweets from 1 person
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• anneapplebaum 1. As someone who lives part of the time in an illiberalizing democracy, let me explain the purpose of a press spokesman's blatant lies 8:10am Jan 22nd 2017 • 8 tweets from 1 person
• StevenTDennis Just watched Sean Spicer's angry statement about crowd size. He got some facts wrong. 11:34pm Jan 21st 2017 • 7 tweets from 1 person
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• MattGertz 1. Trump will swear the oath today. It couldn't have happened without years of right-wing media hatred against Obama https://t.co/JDZRIXuycC https://t.co/8mYcbuxOor 3:20pm Jan 20th 2017 • 19 tweets from 1 person
• RichardEvans36 Article in the British Journal of Educational Studies about Gove's failure on history curriculum. It began with https://t.co/B9rTgefmhE 11:06am Jan 20th 2017 • 6 tweets from 1 person
• NickCohen4 1. You had better get used to Mail headlines in this vein. “If Remoaners don't stop their wild hyperbole they will end up damaging Britain” 10:43am Jan 19th 2017 • 8 tweets from 1 person
• stephenkb Even the Daily Mail doesn't *really* believe that walking away from a bad deal is an option. https://t.co/JnPPfnEsqV 9:38am Jan 18th 2017 • 4 tweets from 2 people
• PhilipJCollins1 The position May has got to is simpler than most analysis suggests. Abandoning single market is not really a choice for a hard exit.... 1/3 7:51pm Jan 17th 2017 • 3 tweets from 1 person
• robfordmancs I'm wondering if part of May's hard Brexit calculations reflect a gamble based on diffs in how public will attribute responsibility 1/? https://t.co/0HfcoBUqIY 4:16pm Jan 17th 2017 • 9 tweets from 1 person
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• JeremyCliffe May gets that leaving SM will come at a price. She just thinks #EUref showed voters willing to pay it to end FoM. https://t.co/vHxn9CVsyT 9:01am Jan 17th 2017 • 7 tweets from 1 person
• JeremyCliffe 1) To get May's approach to industry & migration helps to know that she thinks about the economy as a basket of sectors, each almost its... 10:28am Jan 16th 2017 • 3 tweets from 1 person
• ZoeJardiniere Ppl talk abt "EU policy of mass immigration". Proving they know exactly nothing of the EU's immigration policies. Brutal & anti-immigration. https://t.co/8B7ivf9v4g 7:34am Jan 16th 2017 • 10 tweets from 1 person
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• djmgaffneyw4 Interesting casuistry here. W'out UK, EU becomes more integrated, making it less attractive to UK remainers, so can discount remainer views. https://t.co/qve1Ocnd3D 12:43pm Jan 15th 2017 • 8 tweets from 4 people
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• dicktofel If you oppose the BuzzFeed decision to publish, you need to explain why citizens should not be allowed to see the dossier /1 2:00pm Jan 11th 2017 • 5 tweets from 1 person
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• djmgaffneyw4 The chancelleries of Europe aren't going to be postponing any manicurists' appointments to discuss this contribution https://t.co/amMwAOTfuL 11:34pm Jan 7th 2017 • 5 tweets from 1 person
• NickCohen4 1/ After laying waste to his country's future @DanielJHannan and his claque are wasting my time. 11:45am Jan 6th 2017 • 9 tweets from 1 person
• JolyonMaugham 1. Well worth reading the threads under @IanDunt's brave post. I'll now ignore everything I know about twitter and use it to tell a story. https://t.co/YMIFlafjuH 8:54pm Jan 5th 2017 • 9 tweets from 1 person
• benedictevans Tech adoption in France https://t.co/64QUEE1s2J 5:46pm Jan 5th 2017 • 4 tweets from 2 people
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• StewartWood A New Year thread: 10 important political lessons that 2016 taught us. Posted in the spirit of prompting debate. 1/11 4:58pm Jan 2nd 2017 • 11 tweets from 1 person
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• RadioFreeTom I can't really escape the conclusion that for most people, the internet has been a bad thing. In many ways. /1 8:47am Dec 28th 2016 • 11 tweets from 1 person
• worrydream 100% agree with @MaxCRoser about limitations of stories. But stats are v. limiting too (e.g. Seeing Like A State) 1/ https://t.co/2XYhlBGj12 https://t.co/EexacS29cE 6:50pm Dec 23rd 2016 • 4 tweets from 1 person
• StevePeers Waiting for more from ECJ today on trade, FOI & immigration In the meantime some thoughts on the Watson/Tele2 ruling on data retention 1/x 10:47am Dec 21st 2016 • 11 tweets from 1 person
• kurteichenwald For self-protection, I am taking a short twitter break. I will be spending that time with my lawyers & law enforcement going after 1 of u... 6:40pm Dec 16th 2016 • 11 tweets from 1 person
• mrjamesob Daily Mail columnist calls for people to be less nasty. https://t.co/xX9QKPv2in 9:02am Dec 16th 2016 • 7 tweets from 5 people
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• JeremyCliffe 1/3 Yes, that c.46-7% of Austrians backed Hofer is grim. But it's worth stressing what an achievement Van der Bellen's win is. 9:32am Dec 5th 2016 • 3 tweets from 1 person
• AlbertoNardelli Thoughts on #italyreferendum: 1) referendum was not a vote on the EU 12:35am Dec 5th 2016 • 6 tweets from 1 person
• AlbertoNardelli Big day ahead for European politics. A few thoughts, on Austria first: 8:38am Dec 4th 2016 • 10 tweets from 1 person
• matthewstoller 1. This tweet storm is going to be about why people have such a hard time understanding Trump. It's because they don't understand Obama. 3:36pm Dec 3rd 2016 • 31 tweets from 1 person
• arusbridger Both @kenauletta @carr2n praise the Guardian - but David C says now is the moment to start charging http://t.co/wOWcb1PSYj 1:31pm Dec 2nd 2016 • 58 tweets from 11 people
• IanDunt .@1000cuts is here to ruin your fun: 'Sorry Remainers, but there aren't enough Richmonds to go around' https://t.co/0haTDkjWf9 10:32am Dec 2nd 2016 • 5 tweets from 1 person
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• APHClarkson Key fact of the Boris Johnson story is EU ambassadors happily leaked to journalists. Diplomats do not act without the assent of their bosses 11:22pm Nov 30th 2016 • 13 tweets from 1 person
• faisalislam got back from spending a few days in Luxembourg at European Court of Justice and the Efta Court - many Brexits currents flowing here... 1/10 7:48pm Nov 29th 2016 • 10 tweets from 1 person
• BenChu_ Important blog here. "Accusation-based" reporting acutely dangerous in the age of shamless liar politicians and online conspiracy theories https://t.co/V6zBQtg1c4 5:26pm Nov 29th 2016 • 6 tweets from 1 person
• alexvtunzelmann And yet he made it to 90. ¡Hasta la victoria siempre, Alejandro! https://t.co/tlKhUJEcpI 2:20pm Nov 26th 2016 • 12 tweets from 1 person
• mrjamesob Daily Mail trying hard to avoid saying Thomas Mair agreed with everything they write - https://t.co/U4twmTvpTw via @newsthump 2:30pm Nov 24th 2016 • 13 tweets from 11 people
• DuncanWeldon VERY IMPORTANT OBR assumptions https://t.co/0t7AHV36x2 2:07pm Nov 23rd 2016 • 7 tweets from 1 person
• IanDunt "For many years there has been a concern about health tourism" PM says. Note wording. She knows it is not an issue. It's about 'perception'. 12:44pm Nov 23rd 2016 • 5 tweets from 1 person
• JeremyCliffe Very hard, from a European perspective, to grasp fully quite how poor and unhealthy "left behinds" in America are. https://t.co/ZcWWSg2x4X 5:15pm Nov 22nd 2016 • 5 tweets from 3 people
• katecrawford Most developers will be asked to build something unethical or dangerous. But they rarely talk about it. Read this. https://t.co/X06R6eVFKn 2:11pm Nov 22nd 2016 • 6 tweets from 1 person
• TheViewFromLL2 Apologies in advance, because this is going to get long, but we need to talk about the Trump Tower in Argentina for a second. 9:05am Nov 22nd 2016 • 24 tweets from 1 person
• AlbertoNardelli 1. Chancellor Merkel thought a lot about running again before today's announcement. Significance of recent events weighed on her decision 7:48pm Nov 20th 2016 • 4 tweets from 1 person
• rafat That's it. I do think it behooves Muslim Americans to rethink about their place in America for next 4-8 years. I am scared for my family. 11:33pm Nov 18th 2016 • 5 tweets from 1 person
• AdrianChen My dispatch from the Philippines on the rise of President Rodrigo Duterte, in this week's @newyorker: https://t.co/mZ90ufW8mb 9:22pm Nov 18th 2016 • 19 tweets from 1 person
• kuziemsky Excellent twenty lessons from the history of the 20th century by @TimothyDSnyder. Below in a twitter-friendly format: 11:29pm Nov 16th 2016 • 21 tweets from 1 person
• colmocinneide Interesting sign of how the anti-elitism narrative is going to be spun. https://t.co/qsotCMlHAQ 9:44am Nov 16th 2016 • 5 tweets from 5 people
• faisalislam Quite some coup for Farage personally, so close to incoming US President. Puts No 10 between rock & hard place - 1/4 https://t.co/XaeGMZdjqw 8:51am Nov 13th 2016 • 4 tweets from 1 person
• Samfr The funding for kids' mental health support in this country is a total and utter disgrace. A genuine scandal. 6:33pm Nov 11th 2016 • 8 tweets from 1 person
• zeynep This was a close election. If people keep up dismissing real economic despair, next one won't be. I'm from Turkey. I've seen this movie. https://t.co/fGp10hDDr1 1:39pm Nov 10th 2016 • 27 tweets from 1 person
• AlbertoNardelli “Brexits” are complicated but here are some thoughts: 6:38pm Nov 9th 2016 • 12 tweets from 1 person
• TomHRaines Some thoughts about what a #Trump presidency means for UK foreign policy... 1:07pm Nov 9th 2016 • 16 tweets from 1 person
• patrickwintour This says Putin will launch cruise missiles on Aleppo as US wakes up to new President. wahttps://m.gazeta.ru/army/2016/11/08/10315577.shtml 4:40pm Nov 8th 2016 • 3 tweets from 3 people
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• t0nyyates I don't buy the line that we should keep our cards close to our chest. Brexit is not like haggling on ebay over Wombles memorabilia. 11:24am Nov 7th 2016 • 9 tweets from 1 person
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• nathanjurgenson this point on how to treat leaks in an age of info abundance vs scarcity is a great one https://t.co/r5NgBybjeU https://t.co/Kvi9cxugpI 5:43am Nov 7th 2016 • 11 tweets from 6 people
• AlbertoNardelli 1. May's insistence they'll be a "British deal" combined with a confused opposition is numbing any proper debate on Brexit terms 10:24am Nov 6th 2016 • 4 tweets from 1 person
• t0nyyates Corbyn's position here is vacuous as others have pointed out. It's barely different on the substance from the hard Brexiters. https://t.co/R1TZRzzVgz 9:42am Nov 6th 2016 • 9 tweets from 1 person
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• paulwaugh Chilcot says he 'absolves' Blair of any suggestion that he 'deliberately' or 'knowingly' tried to 'spread falsehoods' on Iraq. But..[1/2] 6:28pm Nov 2nd 2016 • 4 tweets from 1 person
• joshtpm 1: Writing this book manuscript has allowed me to bring together, focus my ideas about Trump, the election, the country's politics. 11:44pm Nov 1st 2016 • 8 tweets from 1 person
• JonnElledge Thing I don't get about the "candidate uses wrong email" scandal: Hillary Clinton is 69 years old. Miracle she doesn't text in all caps. 8:27pm Nov 1st 2016 • 7 tweets from 5 people
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• Harkaway Labour MPs have been whipped to vote for the phone-hacking costs amendment: https://t.co/2XLrZ3EEfC 9:02am Nov 1st 2016 • 8 tweets from 1 person
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• simon_schama Dear Alex, much as I admire SR I really hope it's not called ReichFest https://t.co/O6cyeku14e 4:46pm Oct 31st 2016 • 2 tweets from 2 people
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• mjohnharrison All of this really is reminding me of being seven, when that lot were still so firmly in charge they couldn't imagine anything else. 9:31am Oct 30th 2016 • 4 tweets from 1 person
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• gruber For multitasking—flitting between Messages, Tweetbot, Safari (and Safari views in Tweetbot), Mail, and Slack—I prefer iPhone over iPad. 7:13am Oct 29th 2016 • 9 tweets from 3 people
• zeynep The 24-hour cable cycle, turning into 24-hour click-chasing cycle has not been good for sane discussions or anyone's sanity. 8:31pm Oct 28th 2016 • 3 tweets from 2 people
• worrydream Things we prototyped years and years ago at Apple continue to trickle out. 1/2 11:47pm Oct 27th 2016 • 4 tweets from 1 person
• DuncanWeldon 1. Serious points: Government providing support to keep production at Sunderland is the right thing to do but... 3:47pm Oct 27th 2016 • 7 tweets from 1 person
• MayorofLondon Heathrow expansion is the wrong decision for London, and the wrong decision for Britain. Read my full statement: https://t.co/o7BkNavdUa 1/6 12:28pm Oct 25th 2016 • 6 tweets from 1 person
• SuB8u Dystopia, circa 2016, is the Internet of insecure things. Visualized, courtesy the folks at @JoyofTech. https://t.co/HCspiEmmOg 7:34am Oct 22nd 2016 • 22 tweets from 17 people
• zeynep So an army of insecure—thus out-of-control baby monitors—took down a good chunk of major internet sites by DDOS'in DNS servers? Oy, vey. https://t.co/gqb5V03Ye2 8:53pm Oct 21st 2016 • 5 tweets from 1 person
• georgemagnus1 Ok - so there goes another model we won't be able to follow. And Canada's shd have been rel easy and still might. Our case is more complex https://t.co/4r941vsUev 7:27pm Oct 21st 2016 • 3 tweets from 3 people
• AlbertoNardelli This piece by @DanielKorski on EUref is great - key takeaway for me is how UK officials view of Europe is so partial https://t.co/1Gakfex5Wz 8:07am Oct 20th 2016 • 4 tweets from 1 person
• kevinhorourke 1.Free movement is popular! 2. It's central to https://t.co/CihueDlQPv. 3. Art.112 for emergencies, not dislike of foreigners. 4.Cf. Art 114 https://t.co/0RKTqFzOi7 9:39am Oct 19th 2016 • 4 tweets from 1 person
• mattblaze It's undeniable that WL has gone off the deep end lately, but democracy is better served by letting it do its thing, however flawed. 6:51am Oct 19th 2016 • 19 tweets from 4 people
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• DanielJHannan 14 October is the 950th anniversary of England's Nakbah: conciliar government was displaced by feudalism and serfdom. #BattleOfHastings https://t.co/jVUEVjayWX 8:52pm Oct 14th 2016 • 4 tweets from 1 person
• faisalislam Takeaways from today: 1. Actual Opposition. united on Brexit with 170 qs, agreed line on accepting result, Corbyn prepped, Starmer effective 11:30pm Oct 12th 2016 • 12 tweets from 1 person
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• AlbertoNardelli Three irreconcilable contradictions in "soft" v "hard" Brexit economic debate: 1) cutting migration to 10,000s is bad for the economy 10:31am Oct 9th 2016 • 4 tweets from 1 person
• chrishanretty FT says LSE told no non-UK academics to be involved at meeting btwn FCO's @natcopsey and Kevin Featherstone https://t.co/tYnAbhDoTd 12:25pm Oct 8th 2016 • 4 tweets from 1 person
• StevePeers Here's @DavidAllenGreen's threat on the LSE/FCO/EU academic discrimination saga. He's writing as ex-government lawyer. Here's my take 1 https://t.co/W9Zb5z1pkA 9:36pm Oct 7th 2016 • 12 tweets from 1 person
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• DanielJHannan There are 160 replies to this Tweet along the lines of "It WAS all about immigration". All but one from Remain voters. QED. https://t.co/thjWebHNb0 5:04pm Oct 7th 2016 • 7 tweets from 3 people
• holland_tom Good analysis of why the Blick Mead dog tooth is such a significant find. No to the #StonehengeTunnel! https://t.co/UfPi93p79Y 9:19am Oct 7th 2016 • 7 tweets from 2 people
• johngapper Here's hoping those Wall Street bankers can't read https://t.co/uB4eTkpR37 9:22am Oct 6th 2016 • 6 tweets from 2 people
• djmgaffneyw4 'Citizen of nowhere soundbite' increasingly irritating me. Globally, estimated 10m people literally citizens of nowhere: stateless people. 8:28pm Oct 5th 2016 • 4 tweets from 1 person
• IanDunt Actually weirdly cathartic to hear a PM explicitly oppose the values I hold. Before they always paid lip service, then ignored them. 1:37pm Oct 5th 2016 • 6 tweets from 1 person
• DuncanWeldon Ok, speech isn't finished yet but a quick "what is May-ism?" tweet storm... 1:16pm Oct 5th 2016 • 9 tweets from 1 person
• Gilesyb Well, this is a big ****ing deal, and no doubt about it: May weighs in on monetary policy https://t.co/Cv5ANYRq3H 12:46pm Oct 5th 2016 • 8 tweets from 4 people
• AlbertoNardelli 1. Anti-migrant sentiment in the UK isn't new nor a product of 23/06. Inch by inch it has been built up and nudged on by parts of the press 8:57am Oct 5th 2016 • 4 tweets from 1 person
• IanDunt "Our own population". Note the slow chiselling away of decency in language. Note how everything is dominated by ideas of us vs them. https://t.co/AsSZfc5KvB 1:52pm Oct 4th 2016 • 5 tweets from 1 person
• IanDunt Why do ministers keep saying "the British people made their wishes extremely clear"? 51.9% is not very clear. 1:36pm Oct 4th 2016 • 6 tweets from 1 person
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• IanDunt When did the right of the Conservative party stop caring about the national interest? When did it lose its sense of proportion? 10:12am Oct 1st 2016 • 4 tweets from 1 person
• anneapplebaum Sure, but he needs to appeal to the bigots who employ him. His father would be ashamed https://t.co/rYRiLzJ3GP 8:36am Oct 1st 2016 • 15 tweets from 5 people
• anneapplebaum In past 24 hours, fascinating to see US/UK reaction to the same kind of conspiratorial garbage I see every day in Polish and Russian... https://t.co/5xwsIFs1zb 9:01am Sep 29th 2016 • 7 tweets from 2 people
• MartinRowson Actually I think I'm done here. I'm increasingly dismayed by the rancour accruing on all sides, even tho insults are my business. It's... 10:30am Sep 28th 2016 • 12 tweets from 1 person
• t0nyyates Labour's far left takeover is a setback for those hoping for sound economic policy to prevail. 9:54am Sep 26th 2016 • 18 tweets from 2 people
• Nightingale_P Want 2 understand trade? Think gravity: size & distance matter. UK-Ireland greater than UK-China "Jupiter is big but the moon moves tides" 9:51am Sep 20th 2016 • 7 tweets from 2 people
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• ClaraJeffery 1/ Re Skittles, a personal tale. After the Cambodian genocide began. My mom started taping pictures and headlines to our dining room wall. 9:21am Sep 20th 2016 • 12 tweets from 1 person
• Harkaway Astronauts are extraordinary people. 6:25pm Sep 15th 2016 • 8 tweets from 1 person
• ChrisGiles_ Globalisation not to blame for lower middle classes. Resolution Foundation important report https://t.co/jU61jEDcck https://t.co/NKDJAKOH19 8:46am Sep 13th 2016 • 6 tweets from 3 people
• PickardJE Fascinating stat about private tutoring from @helenwarrell on https://t.co/eppLQHF2XN https://t.co/9kddslf3ZW https://t.co/1b079bubB7 5:55pm Sep 8th 2016 • 7 tweets from 3 people
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• Harkaway Britain: the world's 2nd largest arms dealer since 2010 & sold arms to 39 of the 51 "not free" states. https://t.co/FEIoZ7A9Bh 10:12am Sep 5th 2016 • 11 tweets from 1 person
• SamCoatesSky Theresa May is making her debut on the world stage. Her public appearances so far have been confident and competent. But... 8:15am Sep 5th 2016 • 14 tweets from 1 person
• faisalislam 1. That Japan releases list of Brexit warnings from its business just before G20 is highly significant - https://t.co/pVxC3Qhznk 8:59am Sep 4th 2016 • 10 tweets from 1 person
• benedictevans 'Neoliberal' is such a comforting word. It sounds so much better than 'I instinctively disagree but can't articulate a rational reason why' 8:03am Sep 4th 2016 • 17 tweets from 2 people
• jk_rowling It's Friday night, I want a drink & some peace. Before I go, a few stats for the people who like their socialism mouthy and impotent. 9:25pm Sep 2nd 2016 • 7 tweets from 1 person
• WhelanKarl I’m not a tax expert but I’ll give my two cents on the Apple thing. 11:58am Aug 31st 2016 • 13 tweets from 1 person
• Harkaway I do not want hair on my teeth. That is very much not. I hadn't had coffee for twenty three years until Brexit. https://t.co/UAIEaTkLkd 10:08am Aug 31st 2016 • 5 tweets from 1 person
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• zeynep Facebook curators were instructed not to let pieces critical of Facebook trend on Facebook? https://t.co/mPaN0ITJTg https://t.co/LH0WxDvSBE 10:33pm Aug 29th 2016 • 76 tweets from 1 person
• Bopuc hunch: 1. unique from other media, people want to "have" books, at least during the extensive time needed to "consume" them. Some, for keeps 1:12pm Aug 29th 2016 • 5 tweets from 1 person
• montie To the second referendum folk: a reminder of what was said before Britain voted https://t.co/tf8QxYBaFl 4:14pm Aug 25th 2016 • 5 tweets from 3 people
• thhamilton A few tweets follow to clear up what *really* happened on that train - in the Jeremy Corbyn campaign's own words. 1:03pm Aug 25th 2016 • 12 tweets from 2 people
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• montie He nominated him. Traded on his popularity to beat @TessaJowell. And now turns on him. Such an opportunist https://t.co/qcrCUeWngW 9:51pm Aug 20th 2016 • 22 tweets from 9 people
• ChrisGiles_ It's not quite explicit, but Mervyn King sounds like a Brexiter here https://t.co/jBbMpDEgvO https://t.co/dUADef1bzR 2:08pm Aug 9th 2016 • 5 tweets from 1 person
• ChrisGiles_ The most important BoE forecast. If true, it's a disaster for Brexiteers. https://t.co/VcC4bu1VoS https://t.co/s8deZoEGWF 9:15pm Aug 4th 2016 • 6 tweets from 2 people
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• LibyaLiberty "We won't participate in preparing the body or the burial." That's quite a significant statement. https://t.co/5cwTPhkB4q 10:51pm Jul 31st 2016 • 7 tweets from 1 person
• JamesSurowiecki 1. .@Chrisarnade argues white working class has turned to Trump in large part because they "feel disrespected." https://t.co/esy3Ykd4Ff 10:04pm Jul 30th 2016 • 25 tweets from 1 person
• JamesSurowiecki A short (I promise) follow-up to Parma tweetstorm below: https://t.co/9CzhXKBtPB 10:03pm Jul 30th 2016 • 21 tweets from 1 person
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• davidfrum So let’s sum up Trump Russia policy. 1) Won’t honor NATO treaty. 2) Would recognize Russian seizure of Crimea 3) Wd end sanctions (more) 8:16pm Jul 27th 2016 • 4 tweets from 1 person
• zeynep Instead of "AKP emails", Wikileaks dumped private info of ALMOST EVERY WOMAN in Turkey Yes. https://t.co/oteB3xwPLX https://t.co/D6cgHaoFd3 12:34am Jul 26th 2016 • 62 tweets from 5 people
• Samfr As grammar schools seem to be back on the agenda *sigh* here's the 4 point guide to why they're a bad idea: 10:00am Jul 24th 2016 • 8 tweets from 2 people
• iyad_elbaghdadi Early thoughts about latest revelation about Munich shooting: 11:37am Jul 23rd 2016 • 14 tweets from 1 person
• faisalislam Ok very simply, for confused folk .... 1. Sharp fall of PMI into of leading indicator of GDP (dark blue line) https://t.co/OZwf2bxPzz 1:52pm Jul 22nd 2016 • 11 tweets from 1 person
• levistahl To make men do what you want, or to keep them quiet, you have to whet their desires, fascinate or terrorize them.—Paul Valéry, Analects 6:18am Jul 22nd 2016 • 15 tweets from 1 person
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• DuncanWeldon 1. The emerging Owen Smith agenda is best characterised as North European Social Democracy. 12:23am Jul 19th 2016 • 5 tweets from 1 person
• iyad_elbaghdadi There are no shortcuts to a liberal democracy. There can be no liberal democracy without a liberal population. 12:21am Jul 19th 2016 • 5 tweets from 1 person
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• joshtpm 1: The forces behind Brexit seem fundamentally dark to me. But I'm not a Brit. I can't know what makes sense for them in their country. 12:13am Jul 19th 2016 • 17 tweets from 1 person
• SamCoatesSky 1. One last personal memory of David Cameron, Europe and me. June 2012, Brussels, Cameron press conference -and @jameskirkup asked a great q 1:22pm Jul 13th 2016 • 10 tweets from 1 person
• Gilesyb Can anyone even imagine an immigration policy that would lead people in ten years' time to say, "Well, that's solved now" ? 9:06am Jul 13th 2016 • 9 tweets from 2 people
• robfordmancs Hate to break it to you but Clem Attlee was a moderate regularly criticised by party's left as not "true socialist". https://t.co/LyBlds8vxF 7:15pm Jul 12th 2016 • 6 tweets from 1 person
• johnmcternan It is certainly not winning that matters to Corbynistas https://t.co/DhJNpPB8KO 4:28pm Jul 10th 2016 • 11 tweets from 4 people
• alexmassie Ancient history, I know, but Stop The War (sic), of which Corbyn was chairman, backed Iraqi "resistance" against UK troops "by any means". 6:44pm Jul 6th 2016 • 5 tweets from 2 people
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• rafaelbehr Won't be popular on here, but Blair's plea that his point of view - as things looked to a PM in 2001-3 - be considered, is not unreasonable. 3:58pm Jul 6th 2016 • 5 tweets from 3 people
• PaulbernalUK How can @rafaelbehr 'endorse' Theresa May without mentioning civil liberties or human rights? And in the @guardian! https://t.co/jrOhIPw7up 8:40am Jul 6th 2016 • 5 tweets from 2 people
• ben_machell Thinking about Boris Johnson, and how the landscape of his life has lead to all this. Hard not to relate it to myself in some way, for eg... 9:42am Jul 5th 2016 • 7 tweets from 1 person
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• hugorifkind So, here's how the Leave campaign got carried away and broke Britain. (1) 7:29pm Jun 29th 2016 • 7 tweets from 1 person
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• shockproofbeats 1. My thoughts as a Northern Irish person on how NO LEAVERS REALISED that Brexit will likely precipitate utter carnage in NI and, thusly, UK 12:43pm Jun 27th 2016 • 34 tweets from 1 person
• DanielJHannan Well, Remainers, whatever happens on Thursday, I've enjoyed the debates. Thanks for getting stuck in. https://t.co/IY24EGFWN2 9:52am Jun 26th 2016 • 5 tweets from 2 people
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• JolyonMaugham What it would take to deliver a second referendum https://t.co/PQOoU6Xmuv 10:06am Jun 25th 2016 • 5 tweets from 3 people
• zeynep The mismanagement of the refugee crisis has given us the first major step back from the post-war order in Europe. That's what it's about. 4:14am Jun 24th 2016 • 3 tweets from 1 person
• EconomistLake We have simulated a "Brexit" in our country forecast models. The projections are daunting. I will tweet some of the main outcomes we expect 3:22am Jun 24th 2016 • 12 tweets from 3 people
• Gilesyb Democracy throws up many agonizing choices, between clashing principles and values, but this really isn't one of them. 8:04am Jun 23rd 2016 • 4 tweets from 1 person
• zeynep Nobody likes to hear this but. These shooters are often motivated by posthumous infamy. Media coverage matters. https://t.co/DldwaSnFYM 10:42am Jun 20th 2016 • 4 tweets from 2 people
• mfletchertimes 1 Appalled as I am at the prospect of my country voting to leave the European Union next week, I'm hardly surprised 4:35pm Jun 18th 2016 • 19 tweets from 1 person
• Aiannucci I'll be voting to Remain. I don't want this country for the first time in its history to be defined by its fear and suspicion of others. 8:52am Jun 14th 2016 • 6 tweets from 1 person
• johnharris1969 @GWRHelp if it's a time when super off-peaks are unusable, why have option on yr ticket machines? Big line of ppl getting last min upgrades 6:44pm Jun 9th 2016 • 12 tweets from 2 people
• johnharris1969 Later afternoon @GWRUK trains from Bristol to Portsmouth always overcrowded (& hot, & shabby). Never any extra carriages. Why not? 6:15pm Jun 4th 2016 • 4 tweets from 2 people
• Bopuc All theologies are expressions of accumulated perspectives on system thinking & being. 9:29am Jun 3rd 2016 • 3 tweets from 1 person
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• Gartenberg You want Apple (Car)Talk? @reneritchie @settern @asymco & I take you for a spin. Do we know how to drive? https://t.co/WMtx8qYywp 8:50pm May 22nd 2016 • 5 tweets from 4 people
• zeynep Facebook curators were instructed not to let pieces critical of Facebook trend on Facebook? https://t.co/mPaN0ITJTg https://t.co/LH0WxDvSBE 6:07am May 13th 2016 • 38 tweets from 1 person
• ReutersBiz Global smartphone market shrank annually for first time in first quarter: Strategy Analytics https://t.co/fhyRlrvTlw 2:15pm Apr 28th 2016 • 4 tweets from 3 people
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• benedictevans There are two problems with complaining that SV creates too many 'frivolous' things and doesn't solve 'hard problems'... 10:58am Apr 6th 2016 • 5 tweets from 1 person
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• Neelam2204 @guardianstyle Is it Internet or internet? 4:46pm Apr 2nd 2016 • 12 tweets from 7 people
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• tomcoates I think this is one area where Obama's balanced/reasonable approach is letting him down: https://t.co/LLbkonZoVa 7:50am Mar 12th 2016 • 4 tweets from 1 person
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• tomcoates It’s probably obvious, but I think the whole Apple encryption process at the moment is pretty transparent and obvious. 11:28pm Feb 20th 2016 • 6 tweets from 1 person
• mattb 1/ every #IoT device (lightbulb, thermostat etc) installed in a home makes another tiny piece of a massively distributed global datacenter 7:51pm Feb 2nd 2016 • 7 tweets from 1 person
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• benedictevans There's nothing to say about Apple one couldn't have said 3 years ago. Market for $600+ phones is a subset of the phone market. 6:04pm Jan 27th 2016 • 5 tweets from 1 person
• PickardJE How Apple surfed various technological advances funded by US government agencies - via @MazzucatoM lecture https://t.co/fdZVDUXz6V 8:24pm Jan 26th 2016 • 3 tweets from 2 people
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• mheadd Disrupt shit that matters. https://t.co/cid2OLFB25 https://t.co/JANu0hioWL 10:30am Nov 22nd 2015 • 5 tweets from 4 people
• Marthalanefox Good commitment to universality @Number10gov but don't you think 10mb is so unambitious? By 2020? How about 1gb? https://t.co/5mOwaF6AIX 8:35am Nov 7th 2015 • 5 tweets from 3 people
• jandawson Changes to accounting at Apple – most interesting element: assumption of life for iPad increased from 2 to 3 years for deferral purposes 10:43pm Oct 27th 2015 • 4 tweets from 4 people
• benedictevans Much more useful to think of tablets as competing with laptops than as companions to phones. https://t.co/PRBtAPu7tB 9:26pm Oct 27th 2015 • 6 tweets from 4 people
• genmon “Cybercrime” is the wrong word. TalkTalk stored all those personal details vulnerable to SQL injection attack. That sounds like negligence 11:35am Oct 24th 2015 • 5 tweets from 2 people
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• harrymccracken I got a PR pitch saying that tomorrow is the 36th anniversary of the spreadsheet. Is that true, @danb? 6:08pm Oct 17th 2015 • 3 tweets from 2 people
• tomstafford Patrick Haggard: "informationally asymmetric environments are socially disturbing" #cyberselves 7:05pm Oct 14th 2015 • 5 tweets from 1 person
• benedictevans Devices in use, Summer 2015: 1.6bn PCs 1.4bn Google Android Maybe 4-500m Android in China (No Google) 700-750m iOS 7:23am Oct 1st 2015 • 3 tweets from 2 people
• heyjudesue Announcing Visicalc (c.1979)! Notice they didn't have the word 'spreadsheet' yet. #founder #startup @pmarca http://t.co/gmDB3InuLk 6:04am Sep 22nd 2015 • 6 tweets from 3 people
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• matlock Great article on recurring moral panics about technology and sex (h/t @kottke) http://t.co/rm0YFaGZxB 12:51pm Aug 24th 2015 • 7 tweets from 4 people
• worrydream Real challenge: instead of seeing empathy as a personal virtue, design a medium that engenders empathy by default. https://t.co/qEGNJb1Rwv 7:47am Jul 12th 2015 • 13 tweets from 2 people
• stewart 🕛 So! I've had a day to let it sink in, but this preposterous @wsj editorial! http://t.co/olnPohiYgH "a problem that defies explanation" 4:14pm Jun 22nd 2015 • 20 tweets from 1 person
• benedictevans So, remember ebooks? Flat for several years at 1/4 of volume. http://t.co/yEDnEMD9LE http://t.co/uotex52Jva 11:13pm Jun 15th 2015 • 7 tweets from 2 people
• benedictevans Using the iPad to re-invent how you show content turned out to be beyond publishing companies. Partly execution and partly economics. 6:36am Jun 9th 2015 • 5 tweets from 1 person
• tomstandage Ooh, very clever, @guardian! http://t.co/SMOEzPKMPJ 9:39pm May 23rd 2015 • 8 tweets from 2 people
• sgourley The top 20 most popular finance algorithms you can get from Credit Suisse http://t.co/bneoqP68Ye http://t.co/LZW6sImJ4d 7:53am May 19th 2015 • 4 tweets from 4 people
• PickardJE Easy to forget that the Tories promised to match Labour spending plans in the run-up to the credit crunch. 4:22pm May 15th 2015 • 3 tweets from 2 people
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• tomstafford #TheDress? My man Andrew Schofield from @TheAVA_UK at @ConversationUK has got your back https://t.co/qwJty713eG 9:47am Feb 28th 2015 • 12 tweets from 3 people
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• jamesbridle This is your regular reminder that the network is the naked lunch. The structures it reveals are most ancient. 4:52pm Oct 3rd 2014 • 5 tweets from 1 person
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• gassee Speculation: iPad volume - not just share - down in Q1CY14. Q: If so, why? A: The iPad Is A Tease http://t.co/RMqOooX4fn 7:53am Apr 21st 2014 • 4 tweets from 3 people
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• hondanhon It's quite simple. People invited Nest into their houses. Not Google. 6:11am Jan 14th 2014 • 30 tweets from 1 person
• mattb good to see that Java is much more language than C++ in 2013. http://t.co/5c4bezKHGz 11:24pm Jan 8th 2014 • 8 tweets from 4 people
• Collection contains protected tweets 11:30pm Dec 23rd 2013 • 9 tweets from 2 people
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• genmon Apple acquisition of FingerWorks (multitouch technology): early 2005. iPhone release (first multitouch device): June 2007. 1:48pm Nov 17th 2013 • 5 tweets from 3 people
• ianbetteridge Really rather happy that Google Music is out for iOS. Been using it on web/Android for a while, and it’s pretty awesome. 10:52am Nov 16th 2013 • 4 tweets from 2 people
• evgenymorozov Wanted: a critique of "the smart city" that mentions neither Jane Jacobs nor Robert Moses. 11:41pm Oct 31st 2013 • 6 tweets from 2 people
• genmon Over 8 years since Flickr launched their API & it looked like the web would be an open coral reef, a vibrant ecosystem of creator-consumers 6:35pm May 29th 2013 • 9 tweets from 3 people
• Collection contains protected tweets 9:39pm Mar 27th 2013 • 21 tweets from 9 people
• mala we talked, especially his partner, at @aaronsw's funeral about all the others who face our criminal justice system without his advantages 8:21am Jan 16th 2013 • 29 tweets from 1 person
• Error fetching tweets 6:26am Sep 20th 2012 • 16 tweets from 10 people
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• asymco New blog post: Beneath contempt: The Apple TV business model http://t.co/b0omOkwH 10:06pm May 31st 2012 • 8 tweets from 3 people
• coldbrain @rogre Previously you wrote (or maybe quoted) something like 'I'd give up my right [arm|finger|pinky] for Flickr". Does that ring any bells? 9:03am Apr 4th 2012 • 26 tweets from 3 people
• genmon Fruit flies detect motion of the 3rd antenna segment with Johnston's organ, sensing wind; the wing-beat frequency of mates; gravity. 11:07am Feb 21st 2012 • 11 tweets from 7 people
• tomcoates Bizarre - Apple product photos composited from dozens of separate images to get everything in focus: http://t.co/66tS7Jon 10:57am Feb 21st 2012 • 4 tweets from 3 people
• genmon Cephalopods sense gravity with a statocyst, an inertia-sensing mineral sac. Plants have statocyte cells which sediment starch downwards. 10:45am Feb 21st 2012 • 2 tweets from 2 people
• MrPfister @FGW Do you prioritize additional carriages based on possible revenue or amount overcrowded? How do you calculate overcrowding metrics? 1:15pm Jan 28th 2012 • 3 tweets from 2 people