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Mar 1 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
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give @hickychip a follow for that
and @PhilipPullman !
Apparently someone reported my tweet (with just the screenshot of the bollock face insult) as a breach of German law. 😂 Image

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Chris Kendall 🇪🇺🇺🇦 Profile picture
Mar 3
Indulge me in this thread about what I've heard someone call "a brilliant week for the EU" (in terms of its policy response, not in a wider sense of course - the past week has been a disaster for all of us, not just #Ukraine).
As someone who has spent my career working in EU foreign policy, I do find it tremendously heartening to see us win praise for getting it largely right, acting quickly and decisively. This is why I joined - to see the EU use its weight to defend our values from bullies.
And from where I sit it is rather stunning to see us deliver a truly punchy sanctions package, and mobilise EU funding to deliver arms - even fighter planes - to our friends to help them defend themselves.
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Feb 4
This has to be career ending.
Remember when Julian Clary was cancelled for years because he made a gag about Norman Lamont’s red box? Come on @Channel4 @NetflixUK this is way over the line.
So I did verify that he said it. I’m afraid he did. I’m afraid I’m now falling into the trap of helping it go viral which rather seems to have been the point. But it’s Catch-22 - if we say nothing then this will be seen as OK. It isn’t.
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Dec 11, 2021
I remember the round of FCO cuts in 2011 when they were already cutting into bone. Many smaller embassies were run by two UK diplomats only, including the ambassador, leaving most actual diplomatic work to local hires. This now has to mean embassy closures.
When a core set of tasks that can only be done by diplomatic staff (eg cypher work) is done by the Ambassador and the DHM, because there’s nobody else qualified, that leaves the usual diplomatic reporting, representation etc to local staff. Is that what Tory backbenchers want?
Local staff are great, don’t misunderstand me; but I don’t believe that many people back home really appreciate how much of British diplomacy is conducted by foreigners on their behalf.
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Nov 17, 2021
A friend of mine has been critical of his local Tory MP on the socials. My friend’s spouse works in the local community. So said MP has complained to her boss about her husband’s politics. This is bullying. This is not OK.
I’m not naming names as I’ve been asked not to (yet) but he’s ok with my sending these tweets.
If anyone has a useful suggestion on how my pal can do something about this while protecting his privacy, I’ll gladly pass that on.
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Nov 14, 2021
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I started saving them rather than binning them only after a few years but I have a full alphabetical set with plenty of redundancy. Unfortunately the format has now been changed so this is as big as the collection is going to get. Image
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Nov 9, 2021
Dr Syntax & Tom Caruana - Get Your Dad Off The Internet
^^^^^ confess, you haven’t listened have you? it’s ok I don’t usually put the sound on either, but this time you should, if @Coldwar_Steve were a rapper he might be a bit like @drsyntaxraps
“he’s furious about corruption in the United States electoral college… he lives in Norwich” #flow
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