Garvan Walshe
@garvanwalshe.org
Civic entrepreneur building broadsheet social media at kronkite.social. Lobbyist for electric planes. I chair Unhack Democracy, do green libertarianism @ epicenternetwork.eu My substackSurvival & Success on liberalism and globalisation: garvanwalshe.org
Helene makes an important point, but… Think about those places where people sit around in cafes all the time talking about politics. Are they places you want to live?
Helene von Bismarck@helenebismarck.bsky.social · 15h agoWhatever one thinks of Janan Ganesh‘s general point, this column is very misleading. Thomas Mann was anything but apolitical during the time when it really mattered: the Nazi period and the war. His BBC lectures “To the German people” called for resistance and described Hitler’s many crimes. /🧵
Always a man who upholds the dignity of the Office of President
Anton Shekhovtsov@shekhovtsov.substack.com · 11h agoPoland’s current president, Karol Nawrocki, entering the building of the Polish Constitutional Tribunal. Skills he acquired as a pimp have clearly helped.
oh no www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie...
Patrick Stewart, ‘Star Trek’ Captain and ‘X-Men’ Superhero, Dies at 86
He’s forever known for playing Jean-Luc Picard and Charles Xavier, whom he “admired for their morality, for their kindness, for their sensitivity, for their compassion.”
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Not to pick on Bell who’s one of the sharper Labour MPs and who has to defend his govt’s budget. But in reality there’s little government can do through specifics to promote growth. Growth does not efficiently come from allocation of government resources (pace Keynes) but in two other broad buckets
Torsten Bell@torstenbell.bsky.social · 2d agoFive charts that explain the Budget, plus some reflections on the debate coming out of it – not least the importance of understanding that economic policy is about a lot more than tax and spend. torstenbell.substack.com/p/five-chart...
Last call: join @ecfr.eu tomorrow, 9am CET, as Anatolii Timenko, Yuriy Vaskov and Vessela Tcherneva examine how Russian attacks on Odesa’s ports have left Ukraine’s economy in heightened precarity and strained EU export routes. Chaired by @jkobzova.bsky.social. ecfr.eu/event/storm-...
Storm in the Black Sea: Consequences, Escalation, and the Way Forward – European Council on Foreign Relations
Russia’s ongoing attacks on Odesa and Ukraine’s Black Sea infrastructure are having far-reaching consequences – as pressure grows on Ukraine’s main export hub,
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Someone has pressed the EMERGENCY LAGARDE button. In French constitutional theory this is two levels below the COMMMITTEE OF PUBLIC SAFETY button.
Financial Times@financialtimes.com · 2d agoChristine Lagarde to step down as ECB president in February ft.trib.al/v94ujCj
Counterpoint to Alan Beattie and Kevin H O’Rourke discussion. Both good and worth reading
Holger Hestermeyer@hhesterm.bsky.social · 3d agoI am not entirely convinced the vdL communication strategy on Canada's "associate membership" to the EU was a failure. Indubitably they spoke of associate membership and now speak of an ever closer association to the EU. What does all of this mean? /1
Ideal circumstances to make the self employed pay more tax in advance
Tim Bale@timbale.bsky.social · 3d agoQuite how you, as a government, win an election in a year or two's time given this graph is quite the mystery (RHDI = Real Household Disposable Income).
Point 3 is v interesting here. Some whimsy - the leader of the democratic world (until ‘28 one hopes) needs to come from an EU member to the bloc is onside, and I would argue, speak English naturally Unless we classify Carney as Irish ;) that leaves only one candidate: Radek Sikorski
Kevin Hjortshøj O’Rourke@kevinhorourke.eurosky.social · 3d ago1. VdL a manqué une bonne occasion de se taire. Again. 2. EU-🇨🇦 relations are getting closer and that is good. 3. Since the intellectual and moral leader of the democratic West is either Carney or Zelenskyy, not an EU leader, the EU should approach such deals as an equal, not a would-be leader.
Hostile act against the self employed by securely employed bureaucrats here It does not deal with reality that self employed income often fluctuates significantly It’s the kind of thing that people vote Tory to prevent www.ft.com/content/1426... HMRC prepares £1.3bn tax squeeze on self-employed
HMRC prepares £1.3bn tax squeeze on self-employed
Move is attempt to align their treatment with that of employees, whose tax is collected with each monthly payslip
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Curious this only seems to happen if I VPN it the US and not when I use my UK IP/account.
Karl Bode@karlbode.com · 3d agoThe best possible interpretation is that a company with 190,820 employees and a $4.40 trillion market cap refuses to do basic quality control. But the more likely answer is that feckless Google executives have enthusiastically embraced corruption-fueled fascism at every possible turn.
Incidentally there’s an odd group of pro-Palestinians on here a bit like the Starmer die hards who want to find reasons why Eisenkot can’t do deals with the Arab parties.
Garvan Walshe@garvanwalshe.org · 4d agoTwenty five minutes to go until polls close in Israel. Netanyahu is a kind of Houdini and escaped many a vice before, but that he wanted polls to open longer and this opponent didn’t, is a hint he may be in trouble 🧵 A thread coming. 🧵
With Bill Kristol, on Trump’s predatory foreign policy youtu.be/TFRqEsXK82g?...
Anne Applebaum: Trump's Predatory Foreign Policy
YouTube video by Conversations with Bill Kristol
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How does England have “mining seats” but no mines?
PoliticsHome@politicshome.bsky.social · 4d agoLast night, on Budget eve, there was fury among Labour MPs from mining seats over government plans to renege on a promise to transfer pension funds to former miners MPs were urging the government to change course ahead of John Healey's statement today, reports Harriet Symonds
Israeli elections: With results stabilising we can see changes from 2022 Netanyahu bloc - 🔻 DOWN 9 Jewish anti-Netanyahu- 🔺UP 3 Arab parties - 🔺UP 6
Twenty five minutes to go until polls close in Israel. Netanyahu is a kind of Houdini and escaped many a vice before, but that he wanted polls to open longer and this opponent didn’t, is a hint he may be in trouble 🧵 A thread coming. 🧵
Next time someone says “nobody cares” about corruption show them this
Home of the Brave@ofthebraveusa.bsky.social · 5d agoNew polling shows that government corruption is the top issue amongst voters.
Unambitious. Maybe they could try Netanyahu who’ll probably be out of a job too. Newly available Vucic could be made spokesman.
Finbarr Bermingham@fbermingham.bsky.social · 6d agoWashington plans for Viktor Orban to be a "joint candidate" for the US, China and Russia to be UN secretary general, WSJ reports www.wsj.com/opinion/...
Significant upset in Bulgarian exit polls, confirmed by the other exit polls
Europe Elects@europeelects.bsky.social · 6d agoBulgaria, Myara exit poll: Presidential election, first round today Iotova (*~NI|S&D|*): 35.2% (+35.2) Gyurov (*-RE|EPP|Greens/EFA): 32.2% (+32.2) Kostadinov (V-ESN): 13.4% (+13.4) Vasilev (MECh-*): 3.8% (+3.8) ... +/- vs. Last election result ➤ europeelects.eu/bulgaria
One: this is welcome Two: Burnham is the first PM in some time who’s remembered that he’s PM, so can set the agenda.
Sunder Katwala (sundersays)@sundersays.bsky.social · last wk.Prime Minister Andy Burnham says he wants a more 'honest conversation' about freedom of movement, suggesting it could work better than post-Brexit immigration has. www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...
A significant shift, however much the circular migration point is overdone. Here's my piece on why this matters from two weeks ago www.arguably.uk/p/eu-free-mo...
EU free movement is an opportunity, not a threat
Progressives need to rediscover the positive case for immigration
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Matthew Holehouse@matthewholehouse.bsky.social · last wk.The real inversion is Burnham defending freedom of movement on merits, to the benefit of Britons; rather than a "price to be paid" for market access. For the first time by a PM since.... 2004...?
Greece, Ireland and Spain which boast robust fiscal health could form a troika to oversee necessary public spending restructuring.
euobserver — EU news that matters@euobserver.com · last wk.[Interview] ‘If stress in France ends up contaminating the rest of the eurozone, the ECB will have to do something,’ says French economist
We provide both platform numbers and track numbers, in order to confuse the unwary, eh @jakubjaraczewski.bsky.social
