Sam Lowe

Customs Union What do you know? You know ...

And here's the latest edition of MFN, in which I try to explain what a customs union is ... again.

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Customs Union What do you know? You know ...

And here's the latest edition of MFN, in which I try to explain what a customs union is ... again.

mostfavourednation.substack.com/p/customs-un...

we want to see Starmer's drawing skills

Yes — drawings!

[this may not actually be a good idea]

My tip: go full niche to the point that you only communicate in acronyms. Drive away casual readers. Dad jokes.

Gearing up for my annual “this is what a customs union does and doesn’t do” post or thread

But actually this

New from me at the @CatoInstitute blog: "For US Businesses, Tariff Complexity Is 'Death by a Thousand Papercuts'" www.cato.org/blog/us-busi...

EXACTLY what I’m going for

😂

Decided I needed lower bleph surgery and just went for it

Okay, we’re getting somewhere, but it’s still flexing on my tie

"SHIT TIE, NEXT"

I bloody **love** the future

Hahaha. Actual work photo of me versus ChatGPT “improved” work photo of me.

In the event serious rejoin was ever on the cards I assume it would get fudged, but given volatility of UK politics I don’t think it is, and I’m even uncertain about the longevity of any tweaks to the relationship under the reset

Yes. Rejoining would conceivably be positive for the UK economy, but it’s very difficult to foresee a situation in which rejoining leaves the UK in the same economic position as if it had never left.

Handle With Care RIP low value consignments, we hardly knew thee

No more small parcels for you. Or you. Certainly not you.

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I sense this question applies more broadly, so I can say with 100% confidence: “yes”

Handle With Care RIP low value consignments, we hardly knew thee

No more small parcels for you. Or you. Certainly not you.

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It’s always sweet when the one year old gives you a surprise present, even when it’s a half chewed raspberry in your shoe.

Who killed Europe’s single market dream? A decades-long effort to tear down internal trade barriers has stalled, leaving the EU economy ‘tagging along behind’

"In some 25 years only one French baker has been recognised by Germany as a meister permitted to run a bakery."

In fairness, French bread is not the national cuisine's best exhibit. www.ft.com/content/cbfd...

“What does running a bootstrapped news organisation involve?”

“Well aside from having to do the reporting, editing, commissioning, invoicing, and payroll… you also spend a lot of time posting garden implements to competition winners.”

And yet here it is …

(You posted one to my wife [different surname])

Heh.

@jim.londoncentric.media

Realised people won’t realise I’m joking (I know it’s the ONS not OBR in Newport), and allowed to be mean about Newport (I’m from Llanelli). Might delete.

Tbh this is what you get if you put key institutions in Newport.

I’m going to level with you … that’s still TBC

And lots of the shops don’t open until 10…