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The Brexiteer reactions

17.08.2016 0 comments

UPDATE: there is a good, meticulous reply to my blog entry – that text and my response to it is here. Do have a read of that before reading the stuff below! Despite going out of my way in my blog entry about why Brexit will not happen to make […]

Brexit

Brexit is not going to happen (but it might need a second referendum)

16.08.2016 19 comments

This blog entry is going to be like a red rag to a bull to some people. The focus, as readers who persevere beyond this first paragraph will see, is on the practicalities of why Brexit will not happen, not on whether Brexit is right or wrong, or what sort […]

Technology

Gadget review: Kingston MobileLite MLW221

11.08.2016 0 comments

tl;dr – if you’re looking for a portable, battery powered, wireless card reader for use on holiday, this is an excellent gadget. It’s especially good if you use an iOS mobile. I’ve just returned from a 3 week trip to Central Asia. Throughout this trip I knew that I and […]

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The rest of the EU doesn’t understand Britain playing games with its and the continent’s future

14.07.2016 1 comment

Brexit, and the economic and political consequences of it, is serious. So why then has the UK appointed its least serious front line politician, Boris Johnson, as its Foreign Minister? (backed up by the little better Davis, Fox and Leadsom) That’s the question that politicians and journalists across the EU […]

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Cover your ears, world – this Boris Johnson as Foreign Minister thing might just prevent Brexit

13.07.2016 1 comment

It has just been announced that Prime Minister May has appointed Boris Johnson as Foreign Minister. Reactions are not positive – see Mike Smithson, Gareth Harding, David Rennie, Antonia Mochan, Jeremy Cliffe. And I agree it’s going to look awful and indeed be awful. Johnson was already a laughing stock […]

Brexit

The unbearable lightness of Michael Gove

29.06.2016 2 comments

I don’t care what side of the EU referendum debate you were on. This isn’t about that. This is about how much the referendum matters to you or not. And – importantly – how it seems to not matter to the very people who ran it. The story of referendum […]

EU Politics

Article 50 Clock

27.06.2016 0 comments

Time since polls closed in the UK’s EU Referendum Time since the UK triggered Art 50 at approx. 1200 BST on 29th March 2017 Time the UK still has in the EU – NOW WITH Article 50 EXTENDED TO 31 OCTOBER Time the UK still […]

Brexit

Post-even-really-simple-fact politics

20.06.2016 2 comments

Some of the argument about fact and fiction in the EU referendum campaign is the normal, everyday political stuff trying to bend the facts to suit your purposes. The £350 million a day sent to Brussels claim by the Leave side is in this category – ultimately wrong, but based […]

Brexit, Technology

Facebook’s pro-#Brexit bias

14.06.2016 1 comment

Bernd Hüttemann earlier pointed out to me that the mood section of the Facebook app for iOS has a mood “in favour of leaving the EU” but none in favour of remain. I scarcely believed it! But now I have checked and it is true. I am using an iPhone […]

Brexit, Technology

If you want to do something useful in the EU referendum campaign, step away from this blog, step away from Twitter, and turn to Facebook

12.06.2016 1 comment

The deadline to add people to the electoral register has passed. The campaign is entering its final straight. Those of us caught up with the debate about the referendum see an end in sight after months of spending dozens of hours thinking and writing about nothing else. But up to […]

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#BERBritsBrexit media coverage

06.06.2016 0 comments

When Matt Hanley, Josh Posaner and I started to wonder about what the Brits in Berlin thought about Brexit we could not have quite imagined how much interest there would be in this issue. We’ve managed to build a super network of people, organised half a dozen events, built a […]

Brexit, Technology

Social media and alternative versions of political reality

02.06.2016 3 comments

“Social media is overhyped” a friend said to me in a social setting yesterday. “Look at the Arab Spring – it failed!” I agree with the latter part – what happened at Tahrir Square (and how people came to the square), and indeed Gezi Park, would seem to indicate the […]

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The Brexiteer reactions

Brexit is not going to happen (but it might need a second referendum)

Gadget review: Kingston MobileLite MLW221

The rest of the EU doesn’t understand Britain playing games with its and the continent’s future

Cover your ears, world – this Boris Johnson as Foreign Minister thing might just prevent Brexit

The unbearable lightness of Michael Gove

Article 50 Clock

Post-even-really-simple-fact politics

Facebook’s pro-#Brexit bias

#BERBritsBrexit media coverage

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Turning any complicated process into a flow diagram

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European Commission, why should anyone be led by you? You’re not really leaders if you’re still on Twitter/X

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Turning any complicated process into a flow diagram

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