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13 Oct, 3 tweets, 2 min read
I see the Usual Suspects are spreading the narrative that the EU are conceding because they're scared of UK threats of a trade war. This is how a trade war would actually work. Top tip: it would be an outright disaster for the UK. inews.co.uk/opinion/brexit…
As usual, I could never write these pieces without the help of people who are far smarter and more knowledgeable than I am. If you want to know more about what's going on, do follow @CSBarnard24 @GeorgePeretzQC @StevePeers @Joe_Marshall0 @derekhalpenny
Omg and of course the magnificent @t0nyyates, who very generously takes time to answer my questions about what money is and how it works

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13 Oct
Right I'm coming to the end of the paperback book tour but there's still a few events this week.

Tonight it's a VIRTUAL event with the wonderful @JohnJCrace for TAL festival talfestival.ticketco.events/uk/en/e/ian_du…
@JohnJCrace Tomorrow night it's Milton Keynes festival, also VIRTUAL, with pay-what-you-can

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@JohnJCrace And Friday lunchtime it's Politics and a Pint IN PERSON at Mere - in a place called The Butt of Sherry, which has made my day.

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12 Oct
I have read the Frost speech and it is head-scramblingly inane. His actions have directly contradicted nearly every aspect of it.
"We need to stick together". You negotiated our departure. "It is our responsibility to safeguard peace in Northern Ireland." You yourself aggressively pursued the project that put that at risk.
"The protocol has lost consent in Northern Ireland". You imposed it against the consent of Northern Ireland. "We are being asked to run an EU boundary through the centre of our country". That is the product of your negotiation.
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12 Oct
Hindsight narrative is gaslighting on a national scale. I remember exactly what it was like in March 2020. The pressure was intense for the government to take action weeks before it did so.
And even if that wasn't the case, they made precisely the same mistake in autumn. Weeks of warnings, completely ignored, thousands dead.
We literally just lived through this. Don't now come and tell us that it didn't happen.
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10 Oct
The police have been broadly interpreting this law since it was passed to interfere with people's right to speak or express themselves exactly as we see here.
It's left to the police officer to decide if a passer-by could be caused distress by the 'threatening' words.
So of course someone saying 'fuck' in a conversation outside the pub isn't targeted by police, but people holding political placards/wearing political T-shirts with the word 'fuck' are.
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6 Oct
If this speech lasts five minutes it'll be too long.
I seem to be watching a Tory prime minister make a speech about how catastrophically the country has performed after 11 years of Tory rule.
Johnson mistakes alliteration for wit.
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5 Oct
Priti Patel's 'protest banning orders' are a direct threat to freedom of speech and assembly inews.co.uk/opinion/column…
They’re basically a copy-and-paste job from football banning orders, which are used to tackle violent hooligans, or criminal behaviour orders, which are used to tackle anti-social behaviour. But there is a crucial distinction.
Those orders prevented people from going to football matches or engaging in misconduct. These orders prevent people from exercising their democratic rights.
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