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Know I’m going to regret saying this... but Germans looking shaky
No im not going to regret it!! But maybe later... all the big teams so far looking flawed - France, Argentina, Spain, Portugal, Germany... what on Earth were they thinking leaving Leroy Sane at home? #GERMEX
They’ve built a wall, the Mexicans, and they’re making Germany pay for it...
#GERMEX
Prediction: deeply controversial VAR equaliser coming for the Germans, 86th minute.
They left Sane in Manchester .... best young player in premier league
No schadenfreude until we’ve beaten Tunisia... which is tougher than everyone thinks.

But wow. #GERMEX
That said one wonders if the DFB might have to rebook their hotels for the semis...
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Interesting - maybe too late. Labour MPs astonished No 10 failed to consult with unions too. Also one told her directly that her talking up of No Deal as a viable option was making things difficult. Ie they need her to say publicly that No Deal is a disastrous non option...tricky
Labour sources briefing against: “We will look at any proposal that is put forward to improve T May’s bad deal.

“However, amendment would mean MPs supporting deal based on promises that are not legally binding. also doesn’t guarantee UK won’t fall behind on important rights”
“Protection of rights is also one element of this deal. The government has still refused to listen to Labour’s demands for a permanent customs union and a strong single market deal.” Says Labour source...
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Another ticking No Deal time bomb -Lords Grand committee supposed to take 4 hours to deal with 10 Brexit Statutory instruments - Got through just 3 on stem cells, embryology etc, all referred up to full House of Lords.

Hundreds more required to be passed to correct statute book
Some Govt sources suggesting there is a filibustering game going on here - Lords strenuously deny - todays committee included Lord Winston, Warner, Foulkes, Adonis etc, say it is scrutiny legislated for in Withdrawal Bill.

In any event, cant see how they get through all the SIs
Here’s the committee taking on the minister who was trying to get 10 SIs through today... parliamentlive.tv/Event/Index/8a…
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Very good story about Brexit consultancy contracts from @AdamParsons1 and @TomBoadle

My understanding was BCG and Mckinseys ones were to work up rejected plans for New Customs Partnership and Max Fac to test them with very sceptical manufacturers (under gagging clauses ofc)...
Essentially, the Government paying many millions to external consultants to tell them it was going to take years to prepare customs etc, but also trying to square circle of its own red lines on Brexit with keeping frictionless trade.
Plenty of people were telling the Government, often under NDA, for free, that such plans were unworkable...
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#Update: There are also people gathering at the "place de la Comédie" in #Paris today as they are being heard saying #Macron démission "Resign" as the New #Acte6 protests begins. #GiletsJeunes #YellowVests
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I am now gonna bore the fuck out of you with a piece of writing advice from a William Goldman book that I use nearly every day.
Goldman adapted his own novel MARATHON MAN into a film of the same name. He was on set during a confrontation between Laurence Olivier's villain and another character played by Roy Scheider. Goldman scripted an exchange between Olivier and Scheider as follows:
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OLIVIER: Perhaps I already have been.
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The Suffocation of Democracy

By: Christopher R. Browning

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As a historian specializing in the #Holocaust, #Nazi Germany, and #Europe in the era of the world wars, I have been repeatedly asked about the degree to which the current situation in the United States resembles the interwar period and the rise of #fascism in Europe.
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In the 1920s, the US pursued #isolationism in foreign #policy and rejected participation in international organizations like the League of Nations.
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1. So #GroupB of the #WorldCup with #Spain, #Portugal, #Morocco and #Iran is the best group ever and we already know what will happen. You just need to look back to the turn of the 16th century and events that linked all of these countries (and Russia). History will repeat.
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