Chris Yapp
@chrisyapp.bsky.social
Granddad, Futurist, Baggies Fan, Opera Lover, lots more
Oi Canada! Cosying up to the EU and pushing UK to the back of the line? my new @instituteforgovernment.org.uk blog on the Carney-VDL love-in in Strasbourg www.instituteforgovernment.org.uk/comment/carn...
Carney, Canada and the EU: Will the UK’s Brexit hopes fade further from view? | Institute for Government
Fresh EU thinking on Canada may not give the UK more post-Brexit options.
instituteforgovernment.org.uk
If Piddington wants to be a Principality then who is the Prince?
Transcript of White House call to FIFA T: Gianni, I need you to find me 4 more goals. Result has been stolen I: Sure boss
The worst rejection of a political act in my lifetime by aome margin
A whole 12% of voters think Brexit has been a success. And just 25% of Leave voters. Sigh.
Passed a car with a punctured tyre by the side of the road. Registration plate is LLM. Is this an AI warning?
I think that the answer to smart glasses taking unsolicited videos of people is to assign the IP to the individual not the person who takes the video. That way they can ask for it to be taken down or monetise it, not the perpetrator.
Now more than ever, we must stand by our Jewish friends, neighbours and colleagues. Jewish Londoners deserve to live without fear. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Jewish Londoners deserve to live without fear – we are taking action to ensure their safety | Sadiq Khan
During dark times, we must stand by our Jewish neighbours as generations of Londoners have done before us, says London mayor Sadiq Khan
theguardian.com
Now that we are ( rightly) deploring Peter Mandelson over his relationship with a paedophile, in the interest of fairness I now expect any reference to Thatcher to be as the " disgraced former PM" over her relationship with Jimmy Saville, including inviting him to Chequers.
What could be better on 1/4 than an Allister Heath headline
My first Pamphleteers post of 2026. Where next on Brexit www.longfinance.net/news/pamphle...
Brexit: Where Next And How Urgent?
longfinance.net
Once again: even if vacating X is too much of a leap for the government to contemplate, cross post! There are apps (Fedica, Buffer, others) that allow you to send the same message to every site with no more effort. Call it being "platform-neutral". Help non-death-threat platforms to grow.
It’s wild. If a journalist accidentally said, e.g. the names of a minister‘s school age children on air, Downing Street would rightly lose it, yet death threats, conspiracies about the PM’s marriage, racism against ministers…all fine apparently!
My new post for the Pamphleteers on Finance and Democracy www.longfinance.net/news/pamphle...
Finance and Democracy
longfinance.net
That awkward thing where you write an annual report called 'Low Pay Britain' but 'low pay' has been all but eliminated (on the standard hourly pay < 2/3 median measure). (Our 2025 Low Pay Britain report is out on Thursday, launch event here www.resolutionfoundation.org/events/new-d... )
One of my favorite things in central Madrid are the places that say that Hemingway never darkened their doors…
Hemingway never ate here
Ernest Hemingway fue un personaje que amaba Madrid, vivió en Madrid, fue corresponsal de guerra y cliente habitual de casi todos los restaur...
esmadridnomadriz.blogspot.com