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11 Mar, 9 tweets, 7 min read
On 5 March I stumbled upon a small Eiffel Tower model in my neighbourhood in Berlin

But I had actually stumbled across a lot more...

Here follows an eccentric 🧵 about replica and derivative Eiffel Towers!
Twitter followers replied to my tweet with their favourite and eccentric towers

Suggestions poured in from 🇪🇪🇿🇦🇳🇱🇵🇭🇲🇪🇫🇷🇮🇹

And what better way to document all of this than to blog about it? And then map the whole lot on @Geoguessr to allow people to virtually explore them!
In total there are 8️⃣6️⃣ towers from 4️⃣2️⃣ countries on the @Geoguessr map
geoguessr.com/maps/60451069a…

Most towers in a country: 🇺🇸 1️⃣0️⃣
Most unusual locations: 🇹🇯🇽🇰🇵🇰🇲🇴🇮🇷
All the towers, and the 5️⃣7️⃣ not on Google Street view are listed on my blog here:
jonworth.eu/the-weird-and-…
Geo coordinates are listed for as many as possible

If you can help me locate any of the missing ones, or have additional suggestions, let me know!
The sheer diversity of the towers is extraordinary - size, location, material (as well as steel there are towers made of bamboo, wood, Lego, sand, stone and even a tree carved as a tower). Painting and lighting vary as well.
Here are a few sneak peeks!
And some more!
Huge thanks to @MSteeman @belvederefrance @rniamat @ditischristine @banter_smartly @notofascists_ @Piirmli @ljubofil @brucediesel @Card5hark @GypseyMoth @RobWilliams100 @nadavr for all your suggestions! I have incorporated as many as I can!
Anyway, do enjoy the Geoguessr map and the blog post folks. It... well, it took just a little while and lots of investigation work to put this together!

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4 Mar
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What does this mean?
Provisional Application of TCA runs until end of April

Before then there are 2 EP plenaries
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Effectively means the later one will be when approval (or not) happens
The Provisional Application deadline could, in theory, be extended further. But that needs the approval of the UK in the Partnership Council...

I suppose it's now not impossible it'd be extended further so as to avoid a major bust up in April?
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Doing a bit of a reorganisation of my Twitter lists...

You can find all my public lists here:
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There are two sorts:

5 lists for my everyday use
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_DE
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If you're on one of these it means I am more likely to see tweets you write than if you're not

If you think I ought to add you to one, let me know 🙂
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The priority for *all* lists is helpful and thoughtful people, people who help me understand the world
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1 Mar
An honorary visiting prof at City University, London

A member of the House of Lords

And a hack at the Daily Mail

... and a little story of hypocrisy, UK elite style
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After all the wrangling in December about the European Parliament and Provisional Application of the EU-UK Trade and Cooperation Agreement... everything has gone weirdly quiet.

Where *is* the vigorous scrutiny of the TCA that was promised?
I can't even find a proper schedule of what's happening, when! europarl.europa.eu/ukcg/en/statem…

Rapporteurs @KatiPiri @CHansenEU when is scrutiny in Committees? When is the Plenary vote? Late March mini plenary, or end of April?
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To me it doesn't make sense
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So discontent will grow, accusations of bad faith will be flung at the EU - with no-one UK side to balance them
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It's the sheer brazenness of the Gove (backed by Foster) approach to "grace periods", & asking for them to continue until 2023...

As if it's self evident that UK is not going to be ready anytime soon... to do what it agreed to do when it signed TCA just 2 months ago!
Really, what has *changed*?

Unionists *that the 2020 WA and NI Protocol sold down the river* are annoyed? Consider me shocked.

That the EU actually thinks what's in a Treaty ought to be complied with? Can't be having that!
Or that vdL's faux pas on Article 16 and vaccines means the EU now has to change its approach to the texts it has agreed with the EU? Come on, that's not serious
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