Welcome to England. A first glimpse of spring but with no right to roam.
I am delighted to have been nominated for a @royalholloway.bsky.social Education Excellence Award. One of the comments from a nominating student said:
'From facilitating the greatest and most inspirational lectures and seminars...
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I was just going through my old files when I found this: my calling out of Matt Goodwin on twitter from January 2017.
This evening I attended a rejoin #Erasmus+ celebration at Westminster addressed by Europe Minister Nick Thomas-Symonds MP @europeanmovement.co.uk
What? Oh yes, the US, the country where the shore can be private property and the subject of big beautiful real estate deals. #Feudalism
Not sure which country's head of state you mean. In many European countries and in Canada, head of state and head of government are not the same person.
If a Latin American head of state can be kidnapped, the same can happen to the head of government of a NATO country.
Bulgaria joins the eurozone as its 21st country after formally adopting the euro.
Spotted, 27 December 2025 in Hampshire. #Daffodils #ClimateChange
I did spot daffodils two years ago on 26 December.
Some good news: UK to rejoin #Erasmus+ but let's cautiously wait until details are published tomorrow.
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/d...
What actually explains Gill's reselection in 2019, regardless of #Farage now claiming he was merely a bad apple? It's extraordinary given the deselection or voluntary retirement of 21 of the 24 Brexit Party/UKIP MEPs.
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In 2014, 24 MEPs were elected for #UKIP. In 2019, only 3 were reselected for the Brexit Party: Farage himself, Gill and one other www.theguardian.com/world/2025/d... 1/2
🇪🇺🇬🇧At the 11th edition of the Oxford Symposium, the 3rd panel discusses redefining the state & public policies:
🔺 Giacomo Benedetto
🔺 Andy Western MP
🔺 Maria Jepsen @eurofound.europa.eu
🔺 Pascal Smet
🔺 @afscharian.bsky.social
🔺Joni Smith
🔺 @francoisbalate.bsky.social
👉 bit.ly/GreatUnravel...
@rhulpir.bsky.social
2/2: and to have authored a chapter on European public investment and progressive policy in a new book on the Great Unravelling co-authored by Patrick Diamond and @aniaskrzypek.bsky.social bsky.app/profile/feps...
I am very pleased to have taken part in the @feps-europe.eu Oxford Symposium 2025 feps-europe.eu/event/11th-o... 1/2
#NigelFarage reference in a 2014 Guardian interview with UKIP's founder Alan Sked, 1/2
Sked's reference to the Farage of 1993 around the time of the Newbury byelection was more strongly worded than what is reported in that interview in The Guardian, which nevertheless concludes:
And this #DulwichCollege #NigelFarage bsky.app/profile/lbc....
Poland‘s Vice President Radoslaw Sikorski absolutely torches Elon Musk.
I'll not forget what Alan Sked told me at the LSE about the attitudes that Farage had when he and Sked first met in the early 1990s, a decade after the reported incidents at Dulwich www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
But youth mobility is a fantastic opportunity for the UK just as are home fees for EU students, which would re-open a source of future talent for the UK's knowledge economy.
Dans le Nord, des activistes anglais d’extrême droite veulent stopper les migrants
#Salzburg
Yes of course, but AP was not the centre-right until the late 80s when UCD collapsed.
Today's migration stats illustrate the migration doom loop in action...
(from my presentation at the IMF last week)
Regional government elections are being held today in Veneto, Puglia & Campania. If things go as predicted there should be easy wins for the centre-right in Veneto & the centre-left in Puglia. Campania should also go to the centre-left by a smaller majority. Voting continues tomorrow until 3 p.m.
