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22 Aug, 6 tweets, 2 min read
I’m wearing this t-shirt for the first time in ages, my son thinks it’s a picture of a pterodactyl and keeps yelling DACTYL 😂
Being #3yo is such an incredibly endearing and yet incredibly irritating age 😂
I just stood on a sausage from yesterday lunchtime, meanwhile he is blowing a kazoo in my ear
how it started how it’s going
He’s also developed a habit of wiping his bogeys on me, only me. His mum will offer him a tissue which he will disdain and search through the house to find me so he can wipe it on my arm.
I’m probably oversharing at this point

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18 Jun
I’m currently on board @LeShuttle on my first trip back from the UK to Brussels in 15 months. As some followers may know, this is my normal weekly commute, or was until March 2020. Short thread of impressions here for anyone who is interested. 1/ Image
The M20 is miraculously roadwork-free for the first time in many years. It was a much quicker trip to the tunnel than usual. 2/
The tunnel terminal itself is a sad echo of bustling pre-pandemic pre-brexit times - a ghost town haunted by screeching gulls. There’s barely a soul here. I guess that’s to be expected. 3/
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24 May
I don’t think it’s paranoid to see the present UK government as committed politically, strategically, ideologically to weakening, damaging, and ultimately destroying the EU. The EU’s continued existence stands as a repudiation of their Brexit.
You won’t see the UK show hostility to EU member states. But by acting with hostility towards the EU, or at the very least pretending the EU is an irrelevance, the UK *is* hostile to EU member states, because a successful and strong EU means successful and strong member states.
The very fact that states which perceive themselves to be in competition with the EU - and the UK isn’t the only one - invest so much effort in bypassing the EU to deal with member states bilaterally is all the evidence you need that the EU confers an advantage to its members.
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28 Nov 20
Twas the night after lockdown, when all through the land
Not a person was stirring, except for a Spad;
The eye tests were hung by the Castle with care
In hopes that St. Dominic soon would be there;
The patients were intubated in their beds,
While hydroxychloroquine danced in their heads;

When out in the car park arose such a clatter,
I sprang from the ward to see what was the matter.
Away to the window I flew like a flash,
Tore open the shutters and threw up the sash.
The moon on the breast of the new lorry park
Gave the lustre of noon when it should have been dark,
When, what to my wondering eyes should appear,
But a scruffy posh blonde with an arrogant leer,
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29 Oct 20
Short thread on @IanDunt’s interesting (and very good) line of argument on @OhGodWhatNowPod talking about the incremental approach to #RejoinEU: 1/
I have been a vocal and passionate opponent of a soft Brexit, BRINO, Norway, EEA/EFTA solution as I see it as unsustainable, democratically outrageous, rule-taker not rule-maker, worst of all worlds. It is all those things, but 2/
that works in both directions. If we go from full EU membership to BRINO then that’s highly unsatisfactory and unsustainable and will only lead to pressure to pull away further. But if we go there from a skinny deal/no deal Jacobin hard Brexit, the momentum is reversed. 3/
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28 Oct 20
I went for a test this morning. It was a shambles, hardly inspiring confidence. The kids in fluorescent Serco vests wearing ill-fitting masks meant well, were trying their best, but it all felt distinctly amateurish.
I was surprised by the lack of PPE worn by Serco staff. So in mitigation the rule was to keep car windows closed at all times. Meaning we couldn’t communicate! Shouting through windows or calling their mobiles. Meanwhile we’re all steaming up as we sneeze & cough. 😳
Tests are self-administered, ok, we can do that. But how to match the test to the person? QI codes only given via email, not text, so no codes for my kids. Had to complete in pen - but we had no pens, & they couldn’t give us any. Staff seemed clueless.
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10 Sep 20
Think for a second. Imagine you’re the EU’s leadership. If one partner gets away with unilaterally rewriting a treaty, all the EU’s treaties are rendered worthless. The EU *has* to take a stand.
The scorn and bad faith shown by Johnson over years, decades, earn him zero right to goodwill or favours from Brussels. But even if the EU wanted to help him out, it couldn’t afford to. The price would be far too high. ‘Pacta sunt servanda’ is all that makes the EU work.
Fortunately, the EU is an economic superpower (which it is because of the international rule of law). That means it has teeth. It will use them if it has to, in defence of its most precious, most essential ideal: pacta sunt servanda.
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