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21 Feb, 4 tweets, 1 min read
From today onwards, for the rest of my time on Twitter, I’m *never* going to tweet about bridges or tunnels crossing the Irish Sea

And I’d really encourage you to do the same
This likewise applies to cablecars, teleporters, floating tunnels, hydrofoils, hovercraft and blockchain powered drone ferries!
And hyperloops. Obvs. In fact no comments on hyperloops *anywhere*, including across the Irish Sea!
Agh sod. And monorails.

And maglevs!

None of those *either*

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23 Feb
A quick thread about Provisional Application of the EU-UK Trade and Cooperation Agreement (TCA)

When the TCA was agreed, the text stated that the Provisional Application would apply until 28 February, but this was not long enough for the EU - and the EU wanted to extend
The *Proposal* for a Council Decision that would then set the negotiation mandate was made public by the European Commission on 10 February - you can find the PDF here

ec.europa.eu/transparency/r…
Only once that Council Decision is adopted can the EU then request that the UK agrees the extension of Provisional Application at the EU-UK Partnership Council (the TCA stipulates that the Partnership Council can extend Provisional Application)
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21 Feb
Corbyn would be a better leader of the opposition than Starmer right now

He dislikes what the Tories do and how they behave and would actually *oppose*

Starmer is instead contorting himself by trying to tell people what he thinks they want to hear
I’m no Corbynista. He was a poor politician in many ways in my view, and Labour is better off with him being gone. His inability to deal with antisemitism in the party is reason enough it’s better he’s gone
*But* on UK politics Corbyn knew what he wanted, and knew where his ethics were

On Hancock behaving unlawfully he’d demand Hancock resign

He’d tear into the supposedly pro-business Tories for a Brexit Deal that kills small businesses
Read 6 tweets
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20 Feb
Johnson sidelining Gove and promoting Frost is going to be a pretty major problem for him. Perhaps not immediately. It means Brexit is going to be more of an issue than it needs to be, at a time when rest of Tory MPs were perhaps ready to partially move on.
Also while Gove is unlikely to be leader, were he to choose to rally behind someone else (also someone pushed aside by Johnson - Sunak for example) you start to see a weakening of Johnson's position.
If The Times piece is right, Johnson promoted Frost because he trusts him, and Frost owes all his power to Johnson. But a good politician is one that doesn't change the apparatus of the state to suit the people who are his mates.
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17 Feb
Earlier today I cast an eye over the communication of the "European Year of Rail"

It's *this year* folks, just in case you were not aware

There's a chirpy video (oddly with a load of Russian trains) and a nastily Photoshopped ICE on a dedicated website

europa.eu/year-of-rail/i…
There's a hashtag too! #euyearofrail

@unsereOEBB even decorated a train with it - and @MartinSelmayr launched it

But the amount of content on the hashtag is... well, it's pretty thin gruel. Mixed in with cheery infographics about why trains are good

twitter.com/hashtag/EUYear…
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17 Feb
The most annoying thing about tweeting about 🚅?

Trainsplaining

It's not ill intentioned, but don't you think that if I am writing about night trains in Europe... I might have encountered ÖBB's NightJets already? 🤔
And yes, I don't work in the rail industry. There are loads of technical things I do not know, and cannot know, and I am super happy to learn those - and loads of nerds help me enormously with that - dozens of those people are on Twitter and they're ace
But as far as any lay person goes then I think I have a pretty good understanding of what is going on... much of it has been written up here as well:
jonworth.eu/category/trans…
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15 Feb
Is there a list of *all* the infra projects needed to make #Deutschlandtakt by 2030 a reality? I am struggling a bit... Do you know @Koelschlenny @elba013 @vorortanleiter @Schienenallianz @bladewing678 ?
There's a huge list here:
deutschlandtakt.de/news-und-downl…

But these are surely not all *necessary* (although they're all being planned)
This explains why new infra is needed, but doesn't say *what* exactly
allianz-pro-schiene.de/themen/infrast…

Bundesverkehrswegeplan 2030 has a load more projects, but again no clarity
bvwp-projekte.de/map_railroad_2…
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