Just under 48 hours ago I spotted a tweet from the BBC’s well known political journalist Andrew Neil – someone retweeted it into my timeline: Germany tonight in its biggest political crisis since late 1940s. Bigger even than UK’s current ongoing political crisis. — Andrew Neil (@afneil) November 20, 2017 […]
A tweet I wrote earlier today drew some interesting reactions: Be careful here, folks.#Brexit was NOT caused by the Russians. We will never be able to ascertain that. However it is becoming clearer that Russian money influenced the Brexit vote and puts the democratic quality of that vote in question. […]
In my major post about Joseph Mifsud I put “professor” in inverted commas. That was before I knew the extent of Mr Mifsud’s activities, but now having looked into it, it seems to me that this Professor title Mifsud has been using is highly questionable. To be clear from the […]
The world has been asking themselves who the “mystery professor” Joseph Mifsud is. The British press – Byline and Carole Cadwalladr in The Guardian – have been connecting Mifsud to Alok Sharma and Boris Johnson. Mifsud has good Russian connections and is supposed to be the person who facilitated the […]
The original blog post became so complicated and unwieldy that it has all now been re-organised, although the content is essentially the same. tl;dr: Joseph Mifsud is at the heart of a network of questionable political, business and academic practices, some of which are connected to Russia. The connections between […]
A tweet by Alexander Clarkson caught my eye this morning: As long as Remainers reproduce an inaccurate "citizens of somewhere" with a class subtext they will simply keep playing on Brexiter terms — Alexander Clarkson (@APHClarkson) October 30, 2017 Once in a while you read something that crystallises your thinking, […]
In the last 24 hours I’ve encountered a gentleman called Ian Dickinson on Twitter. He tweets with the username @iandicko73. He did not follow me, and I do not follow him. This was our first interaction: "EU citizen with a UK passport"Anyone RTing this fool will be blocked. https://t.co/IziXcf7LYz — […]
ZN and Euractiv have drawn up a new table of EU influencers. You can find out more about their methodology here, and I have written up my thoughts about this on my own blog here. The Twitter list of the full 40 is here.
Ich habe ein Interview zum Thema Brexit gemacht. Meine Zitate erschein in folgenden regionalen Zeitungen! Berliner Morgenpost https://www.morgenpost.de/politik/article212344003/Der-Brexit-bereitet-Briten-in-Deutschland-grosse-Sorgen.html Hamburger Abendblatt https://www.abendblatt.de/politik/article212344003/Der-Brexit-bereitet-Briten-in-Deutschland-grosse-Sorgen.html Bergdorfer Zeitung http://www.bergedorfer-zeitung.de/incoming/article212343439/Die-Unsicherheit-der-Briten.html Braunschweiger Zeitung https://www.braunschweiger-zeitung.de/politik/article212344003/Der-Brexit-bereitet-Briten-in-Deutschland-grosse-Sorgen.html HarzKurier https://www.harzkurier.de/politik/article212344003/Der-Brexit-bereitet-Briten-in-Deutschland-grosse-Sorgen.html Neue Ruhr / Neue Rhein Zeitung (NRZ) https://www.nrz.de/politik/der-brexit-bereitet-briten-in-deutschland-grosse-sorgen-id212344003.html Westdeutsche Allgemeine (WAZ) https://www.waz.de/politik/der-brexit-bereitet-briten-in-deutschland-grosse-sorgen-id212344003.html Westfalenpost https://www.wp.de/politik/der-brexit-bereitet-briten-in-deutschland-grosse-sorgen-id212344003.html Westfälische Rundschau https://www.wp.de/politik/der-brexit-bereitet-briten-in-deutschland-grosse-sorgen-id212344003.html
Whatever Theresa May or David Davis might say (as he did this week), the UK is not going to be completely out of the EU with a negotiated agreement by 29th March 2019. Any agreement will require longer than the 18 months until March 2019 to be put into practice, […]
Last week’s European Council in Brussels – as expected – did not agree that sufficient progress had been made on the three first stage Brexit issues (cititzens rights, financial settlement, Irish border) to allow the negotiations to move to the second stage. There were some friendly noises, but ultimately there […]
I genuinely thought this was a stock image representing absolute loneliness. But no. It's our Prime Minister in Brussels today. pic.twitter.com/fxJraJgT3a — Nooruddean (@BeardedGenius) October 20, 2017 https://twitter.com/stephenkb/status/921323572643139584 What is the answer to that? Via this Buzzfeed piece I know it is an AP image. Looking through AP’s image bank […]
