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05.02.2021 Brexit

The slam-dunk style of modern political digital communication, and missing meaning

Slam dunk. Lambast Michael Gove with a hasty tweet hammered out while drinking my morning coffee. Push the emotional buttons of both Remain people and Scottish pro-Indy people in one go. https://x.com/jonworth/status/1357603739868278784 Impressions: 120k+ (based on Twitter’s Analytics) Retweets: 300+

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04.02.2021 Brexit

It is time to wonder: is the EU–UK Trade and Cooperation Agreement (TCA), as drafted, actually going to be ratified?

A question has been on my mind for some time: when is the UK Government going to really begin to do the hard implementation work that is inevitable as a consequence of having signed the Northern Ireland Protocol and the

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03.02.2021 UK Politics

The Labour Party, the Union Flag, and patriotism

Ah. Here we ago again. “Leak reveals Labour plan to focus on flag and patriotism to win back voters“. And the reactions are pretty predictable too – Clive Lewis MP expresses caution, Ian Dunt tries to separate patriotism from nationalism,

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03.02.2021 Brexit

A little lockdown project: Brexit Geoguessr

My father was a geography teacher, my mother also a geography graduate, and I grew up with a map in my hand. Years ago I discovered a little game called Geoguessr that used Google Maps and Google Street View and

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25.01.2021 EU Politics

The EU’s impending communication headache: approval (or not) of the AstraZeneca COVID-19 Vaccine

⚠️ WARNING! Political communication is my area of expertise, NOT public health. This blog post is no recommendation as to what ought to happen from a health perspective! ⚠️ ? This piece was written on 25.1.2021, i.e. before the decision

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22.01.2021 Brexit

UK politics, all so wrong it’s hard to know where to start

So there it is, in black and white. Вперед, к Cуверенитету comrades! Onwards, to sovereignty! Today’s FT long read (€) on how the Brexit Deal was struck and what happens next is a remarkable piece of work, drawing together a series

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19.01.2021 German Politics

Armin Laschet, holding up a mirror to the CDU

Early Saturday morning, 16th January 2021. Across Germany 1001 people look into their bathroom mirrors, wipe their eyes. And Armin Laschet stares back. And then, suitably refreshed, they each settle down in front of their laptops, and vote for Laschet

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14.01.2021 Brexit

It’s easier to critique honest incompetence than deal with malevolent deceit

“When future historians try to understand how Britain ended up with a choice between chaos and becoming a satellite of the European Union, one question will stump them,” wrote Fintan O’Toole in this Irish Times column in November 2018. “Were

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11.01.2021 German Politics

#CDUVorsitz 2021 – diagrams to work out who will likely be AKK’s successor, and CDU-CSU Chancellor Candidate

Anyone’s encountered one of my Brexit diagrams knows the score: I find the process of mapping out complicated political decisions as flow diagrams useful, in that it helps us better understand those processes. And Germany just now is confronted with

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28.12.2020 Brexit

On the Brexit Deal and Erasmus the SNP appear clear and decisive, and Labour contorted and confused

It has been a good week for the SNP. On two major issues – due to their own clarity of thought and the errors of others – they have banked clear political wins. On both issues the Labour Party by

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27.12.2020 Brexit

There’s no way to avoid it: the EU question is going to be on the agenda at the 2024 UK General Election, and so Labour can’t wish away the EU question

On page 218 and 219 of the UK-EU Trade Deal (full PDF here) is the following paragraph (emphasis is mine): In order to ensure an appropriate balance between the commitments made by the Parties in this Agreement on a more

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18.12.2020 Brexit

Trying to be better at online political debate (around Brexit, and perhaps more widely too)

An abhorrent piece appeared in The Telegraph this afternoon, wishing ill on the President of France, and trying see an upside for the British and Brexit in the comeuppance of Macron. I am not going to link to it – because

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