Andrew White

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I explain international trade policy for a living which can be nightmarishly complex.

Sometimes I spend days agonizing to find a neat way of communicating something my audience finds baffling...

... but at least I'm not the one who has to explain the concept of 'consequences' to Prince Andrew.

Andrew's completely broke which raises the possibility that a Norfolk duty solicitor is currently having the strangest day of his / her life.

OK USA, *this*, this is how it is done. Pay attention!

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It is time we just put all power in the hands of Dolly Parton

Oh well done.

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Black text on grey background. Screenshot of direct message from a researcher in Australia describing how the immigration time-scales for a postdoc coming to Australia are now so long that they undo the much better efficiency of other countries’ grant systems.

Very common story from a follower👇

Even if you can avoid ARC’s ludicrously long time-scales & recruit via another country’s much more efficient system, you hit Australia’s immigration system.

Barrier after barrier. It’s YEARS between idea & starting the research in Australia.

The slooow country.

John Birch Society having a totally normal moment.

screenshot from truesizeof - greenland projected over western australia, showing it's smaller

it's funny knowing greenland is literally smaller than WA

Australia should 'cut the tag' with American foreign policy: Keating Australia should focus less on the alliance with the United States now that Donald Trump has been elected president, former prime minister Paul Keating says.

Former Australian Prime Minister Paul Keating in 2016 advised us Australians to cut the tag with the USA. Before AUKUS, he foresaw where this was all going. #auspol www.abc.net.au/news/2016-11...

“This has been very badly received across the UK.” Keir Starmer was doing his best to make the collapse of the post-war international order sound dull. It is a job for which he is uniquely well equipped. The prime minister could make the start of nuclear war sound like an announcement that the rail replacement bus service has been cancelled. He might yet get the chance to try. For the benefit of the future historian trying to piece 2026 together from fragments of satire, the specific subject this Monday morning was Donald Trump’s announcement that he was imposing escalating tariffs on all of Europe, and possibly the entire solar system, until we give in and acknowledge him as God Emperor of Greenland. Trump is now in the “making his horse a senator” stage of his presidency, and it turns out that the US constitutional checks and balances about which we’ve all heard so much relied too heavily on there being people in Washington with spines.

Can Keir Starmer bore enough to stop a trade war - or an actual war? My SKETCH of Today In Saving Greenland.
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Wondering if I have time to write a quickie thriller novel about the failed American invasion of Greenland before the failed American invasion of Greenland kills us all.

Independents MPs and senators have written to the government calling for greater parliamentary oversight of AUKUS.

AUKUS is the centrepiece of our defence and foreign policy strategy, but it's been adopted by the major parties with very poor public engagement.

Indeed, IMO this is part of the reason why what is going on now is not a problem that will fix itself in 2028 'when normality returns'. If US foreign policy is to tear up international agreements on ideological or self-interested grounds, there's no guarantee that'll stop if their ideology changes.

I don't know about you guys,but I've entirely forgotten about the 2 million unreleased Epstein files now. Epstein who?

Melissa Ingle (@m1ngle) on Threads In Sept 1968, António de Oliveira Salazar, the Prime Minister and dictator of Portugal, suffered a stroke and fell into a coma. Assuming the 79 year old wouldn’t recover he was replaced. He woke up 1 month later unaware he was no longer PM. Those in charge decided not to tell him and he believed he was still PM. This delusion was perpetuated by his aides and nurses who all pretended he was still in charge. He died 2 years later still believing he was PM. There’s precedent is all I’m saying.

Let history be our guide.

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Breaking news 🇩🇪🇬🇱

right out of the nazi handbook

Tracey Whiting AMTracey Whiting AM • 3rd+3rd+ Former Chair of the Board of the Adelaide Festival Corporation Member of the Board of Directors at Solstice MediaFormer Chair of the Board of the Adelaide Festival Corporation Member of the Board of Directors at Solstice Media 1h • 1 hour ago • Visible to anyone on or off LinkedIn Follow I have decided to resign as Chair of the Adelaide Festival Board, effective immediately. Recent decisions were bound by certain undertakings and my resignation enables the Adelaide Festival, as an organisation, to refresh its leadership and its approach to these circumstances. My tenure as Chair has been immensely enjoyable, as has working with the terrific AF team. I look forward to the future success of the Adelaide Festival. I have no further comment.

A *very* weird statement by Tracey Whiting announcing her resignation as chair of the Adelaide Festival board.

AUKUS has tied Australia to a sinking nuclear defence enterprise called the United Kingdom. It’s not just a retired UK Admiral, the UK Audit office has tracked the structural failures for years. But don’t worry, Marles and Meade say it’s “on track” - they are dangerously deluded

Machines: Global Village Construction Set | Open Source Ecology The Global Village Construction Set (GVCS) is a modular, DIY, low-cost, high-performance platform that allows for the easy fabrication of the 50 different Industrial Machines that it takes to build a small, sustainable civilization with modern comforts. We’re developing open source industrial machines that can be made at a fraction of commercial costs, and sharing …

I love this idea: a cheap starter kit for civilisation

www.opensourceecology.org/gvcs/

All of the money that changed hands in the Teapot Dome scandal totaled less than $10 million after adjusting for inflation, and it was considered so corrupt we still teach it in high school government classes a century later.

Graphic with a blue background and large white text reading “DEAR AMERICAN FRIENDS.” Below is a screenshot of a post explaining that Canada does not have CBS, that a “60 Minutes” episode aired normally in Canada, and stating that Canadian networks are not subject to U.S. government interference. The post ends with “We’re not under a dictatorship. You are.”

This message hits hard.

I just saw Stephen Miller referred to as PeeWeeHimmler and now I can’t unsee it. 😂😂

In #Oxford, we have the UK's 3rd Congestion Charge. After 1 month, the results look very much like New York's...
* Traffic down
* Congestion down
* Buses faster
* New & improved bus services
* City centre footfall up +22% YoY

Year 1 data on congestion pricing in Manhattan…

* Vehicle traffic: -11%
* Foot traffic: +3.4%
* Storefront vacancy: -0.9%
* Pollution: -22%
* Revenue for mass transit: $548M

So YES this has been a huge success.

having spent a while watching this I would say that it was at its absolute funniest on the seventh, maybe eighth replay

Santa Denied Entry to US After Posting on Social Media That Trump Is a Fuckwit — The Shovel In 2019 he wrote on Twitter: “Just checked the naughty list. Trump isn’t on it because fuckwits require a separate category”.

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