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John Bell
@JohnNemoBell
Retired academic (ai). Interested in politics (classical-liberal nation-state democracy, Western civilisation) and philosophy (naturalism, humanism).
Oct 21, 2024 • 24 tweets • 4 min read
Nick Timothy: A drastic change of European asylum policy is needed. The ECHR must go, and deportations of illegal immigrants must happen, at great scale. Civilisations unable to control their borders die – and ours is no exception. … telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/10/2… … Why is it, people sometimes ask, that Britain struggles to deport illegal immigrants and foreign criminals when European countries appear to have no difficulty in doing so? …
Jul 1, 2024 • 12 tweets • 2 min read
Robert Tombs: Just as Europe recognises the costs of the EU, we’re about to make a terrible mistake. … telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/06/3… … There is no rational reason now for the UK to seek alignment, under whatever name, with the EU. We are saving £20 billion plus in budgetary contributions – over £1,000 a year per family, far more than any marginal loss of trade. …
Oct 4, 2023 • 9 tweets • 2 min read
Robert Tombs on the British empire: It was a mosaic of almost ungraspable complexity and extraordinary contrasts, which occupied a staggering quarter of the planet's land area and involved a fifth of its population. … dailymail.co.uk/debate/article… … The Empire was a fragile structure, always run on a shoestring. How could it be otherwise, when a country of some 40 million people claimed to 'rule' an empire of 460 million? …
Mar 21, 2019 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
Ambrose Evans-Pritchard: German alarm grows over the EU's dangerous ultimatum terms for Britain [1/4]: telegraph.co.uk/business/2019/… Ambrose Evans-Pritchard: German alarm grows over the EU's dangerous ultimatum terms for Britain [2/4]: telegraph.co.uk/business/2019/…
Nov 23, 2018 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
"The only real danger, in the short term, is that parliament votes for Mrs May's deal, which would put us in an unprecedented situation, full of political and economic dangers." Robert Tombs interviewed by Fraser Myers (extracts) [1/5]: "The only real danger, in the short term, is that parliament votes for Mrs May's deal, which would put us in an unprecedented situation, full of political and economic dangers." Robert Tombs interviewed by Fraser Myers (extracts) [2/5]:
Nov 17, 2018 • 10 tweets • 5 min read
Steerpike: The top 40 horrors lurking in the small print of Theresa May's Brexit deal [1/10]: blogs.spectator.co.uk/2018/11/the-to… Steerpike: The top 40 horrors lurking in the small print of Theresa May's Brexit deal [2/10]: blogs.spectator.co.uk/2018/11/the-to…
Aug 25, 2018 • 7 tweets • 4 min read
Asa Bennett: Treasury forecasts: fear v reality [1/7]: telegraph.co.uk/politics/2018/… Asa Bennett: Treasury forecasts: fear v reality [2/7]: telegraph.co.uk/politics/2018/…