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Director @ukandeu Bitter and twisted observer of politics. ‘Not yoda’ (DC) ‘Slightly matey politics don' (Q. Letts) Trustee, @fullfact #LUFC Most views someone else’s

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Anand Menon is Professor of European Politics and Foreign Affairs at King's College London in the United Kingdom and was appointed in January 2014 as director of the UK in a Changing Europe initiative. He was a special adviser to the House of Lords EU committee. .. more

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Anand Menon @anandmenon.bsky.social · Nov 5
I did a lecture on the impact of Brexit on British politics. Watch it here if you're really bored www.youtube.com/watch?v=ztqL...
Reflections on the Brexit Revolution: 2025-26 Mackenzie-Stuart Lecture
YouTube video by Cambridge Law Faculty
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UK in a Changing Europe @ukandeu.bsky.social · 1d
🎅 Merry Christmas from everyone at UK in a Changing Europe! Wherever you are and whatever you're doing, have a fantastic day 🎄

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Anand Menon @anandmenon.bsky.social · 3d
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Anand Menon @anandmenon.bsky.social · 3d
I have total faith in the ability of some people to get these wrong for a second time…..
ukandeu.bsky.social UK in a Changing Europe @ukandeu.bsky.social · 3d
🎄To kick off the Christmas break, we're going to be posting some questions and answers from UKICE end of year pub quiz here 🍻

✅ We will reveal the answers here in a few hour's time

For round one we kick off with...

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UK in a Changing Europe @ukandeu.bsky.social · 3d
🎄To kick off the Christmas break, we're going to be posting some questions and answers from UKICE end of year pub quiz here 🍻

✅ We will reveal the answers here in a few hour's time

For round one we kick off with...

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Rob Ford @robfordmancs.bsky.social · 4d
Hi all, its time for my annual Christmas tradition - making predictions on politics in 2026. If you're interested in hearing my thoughts on what next year will bring, or just keen to try and make me make a fool of myself, then post your questions in replies here!
robfordmancs.bsky.social Rob Ford @robfordmancs.bsky.social · 7d
A reminder of yesterday's post reviewing last year's Christmas predictions for 2025. I will start a new prediction thread for 2026 about a week from now. If there's a prediction you'd like me to make, post it in the replies here!
robfordmancs.bsky.social Rob Ford @robfordmancs.bsky.social · 8d
New Swingometer post! I review the preditions I made last Christmas about politics in 2025 and try and draw some lessons from my various blunders and missteps:

swingometer.substack.com/p/my-2025-pr...

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UK in a Changing Europe @ukandeu.bsky.social · 5d
💫 As 2025 draws to a close, Anand Menonis joined by Catherine Barnard & Rob Ford for a discussion on the year gone by

🎧 Listen for their reflections on the big moments in 2025 and cautious predictions for 2026 👇

https://ukandeu.ac.uk/podcasts/the-uk-in-a-changing-europe-podcast-year-in-review/
The UK in a Changing Europe podcast year in review - UK in a changing Europe
This year has seen the inauguration of Donald Trump, the first ever UK-EU summit, continued conflict in Ukraine and other parts of...
ukandeu.ac.uk

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Anand Menon @anandmenon.bsky.social · 6d
‘Apparently, decades of sold-out performances were merely a prolonged warning sign, like a ceiling crack only visible to real estate developers’.

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Anand Menon @anandmenon.bsky.social · 6d
The @timesofindianews.bsky.social revealing a rather good sense of humour timesofindia.indiatimes.com/world/us/don...

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UK in a Changing Europe @ukandeu.bsky.social · 7d
"Without closer cooperation, one thing is clear: the EU and the UK will keep confronting the same threats with little alignment."

✍️ @antonspisak.bsky.social & @jbenford-berlin.bsky.social argue the UK and EU should cooperate more on questions of ‘economic security

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Is economic security a missing element of EU-UK cooperation? - UK in a changing Europe
Jake Benford and Anton Spisak argue that there is a strong case for the UK and EU to cooperate more closely on questions of ‘economic security’.
ukandeu.ac.uk

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Rob Ford @robfordmancs.bsky.social · 7d
A reminder of yesterday's post reviewing last year's Christmas predictions for 2025. I will start a new prediction thread for 2026 about a week from now. If there's a prediction you'd like me to make, post it in the replies here!
robfordmancs.bsky.social Rob Ford @robfordmancs.bsky.social · 8d
New Swingometer post! I review the preditions I made last Christmas about politics in 2025 and try and draw some lessons from my various blunders and missteps:

swingometer.substack.com/p/my-2025-pr...

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UK in a Changing Europe @ukandeu.bsky.social · 7d
🚨 OUT NOW 🚨

🎙️ The UK in a Changing Europe podcast year in review

🗣️ @anandmenon.bsky.social is joined by UKICE stalwarts @cbarnard.bsky.social & @robfordmancs.bsky.social for a discussion on the year gone by

Listen now 👇

ukandeu.ac.uk/podcasts/the...
The UK in a Changing Europe podcast year in review - UK in a changing Europe
This year has seen the inauguration of Donald Trump, the first ever UK-EU summit, continued conflict in Ukraine and other parts of...
ukandeu.ac.uk

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Anand Menon @anandmenon.bsky.social · 8d
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Anand Menon @anandmenon.bsky.social · 8d
Right. A couple of things. Firstly, we don’t lose any more. Second that ref should have apologised in 1975. That is all.

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UK in a Changing Europe @ukandeu.bsky.social · 8d
"The optimism of the immediate aftermath of May may have given way to stoic realism, but relations between the EU and the UK are far better than they have been for the past decade."

✍️ @husseinkassim.bsky.social & @cleodavies.bsky.social on UK-EU relations since May

ukandeu.ac.uk/explainers/t...
The UK-EU reset six months after the summit: Where are we? - UK in a changing Europe
Hussein Kassim and Cleo Davies explain what progress has been made since the UK-EU Summit in May 2025 and what the main challenges are.
ukandeu.ac.uk

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Duncan Robinson @duncanrobinson.bsky.social · 8d
question to which the answer is: yes
www.economist.com/britain/2025...

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UK in a Changing Europe @ukandeu.bsky.social · 8d
💥 We've got an exciting line up on The UK in a Changing Europe podcast 💥

🎙️ @anandmenon.bsky.social looks back on 2025 with @cbarnard.bsky.social & @robfordmancs.bsky.social

🗓️ They discuss the year in politics, UK-EU relations and (of course) how Brexit still influences our politics

👀 Coming soon

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Anand Menon @anandmenon.bsky.social · 8d
So what do we think Australians see as the real tough competition? When England tour there or when I do a tour there?

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UK in a Changing Europe @ukandeu.bsky.social · 13d
"The problem is that recovering a decent chunk of those losses would require the UK to jettison its red lines on customs unions, the single market and the free movement of people."

John Springford on the economic impact of Brexit

https://ukandeu.ac.uk/the-continuing-search-for-a-workable-brexit/

The continuing search for a workable Brexit - UK in a changing Europe
John Springford looks at the economic impact of the Brexit deal. He argues that while backtracking on Brexit red lines such as joining a customs union would not be politically simple, the domestic reform required to create similar levels of growth would be equally difficult due to the nature of the UK economy.
ukandeu.ac.uk

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UK in a Changing Europe @ukandeu.bsky.social · 14d
"The era of broad-based, consensual multilateralism is over."

Our latest report unpacks the crisis in multilateralism and how the UK and EU could respond

Each chapter, written by an expert, offers an assessment of a particular multilateral system or institution

🔗 ukandeu.ac.uk/reports/mult...
The crisis in multilateralism: what can Europe do? - UK in a changing Europe
This report brings together leading experts on a range of international systems and institutions – including the UN, COP and WTO – to ask what the main challenges facing the multilateral system are, a...
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UK in a Changing Europe @ukandeu.bsky.social · 15d
"The US can no longer be relied on... Rather any US involvement will be transactional, and the UK needs to rapidly unpick 80 years of defence integration with, and dependence on, the US."

✍️ Andrew Dorman on the US National Security Strategy & Starmer's defence dilemma

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Starmer’s defence dilemma - UK in a changing Europe
Andrew M Dorman reflects on UK defence policy and argues that while the UK must deintegrate its defence capabilities from the US and implement the recommendations of this year's Strategic Defence Revi...
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Anand Menon @anandmenon.bsky.social · 16d
The first number was so bat shit crazy it distracted me

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Anand Menon @anandmenon.bsky.social · 16d
I’m not talking about SAFE.

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Anand Menon @anandmenon.bsky.social · 16d
Yes but our own feet with an allied but disengaging US is not the same as with a hostile one.

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Anand Menon @anandmenon.bsky.social · 16d
Maybe. Or ‘get them to spend more while still being subservient’. Or ‘abandon Europe altogether’. Which one it is matters.

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Anand Menon @anandmenon.bsky.social · 16d
Mine try
emmavj.bsky.social Emma Jacobs @emmavj.bsky.social · 16d
kids should ban parents’ social media use.

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Emma Jacobs @emmavj.bsky.social · 16d
kids should ban parents’ social media use.

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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 16d
Labour’s shift away from “immigration is good but it needs to be managed” to “it is bad” is a gift to essentially everyone they compete with, because it means that they don’t have the right position to be able to attack *anyone*.
nwylabour.bsky.social N 🌹 @nwylabour.bsky.social · 16d
I'm sorry, but these attacks are just not going to convince Green-curious voters, because Labour is so visibly out of step with those voters' core values
jamesdaustin.bsky.social James Austin @jamesdaustin.bsky.social · 16d
This by @umakumaran.bsky.social is good - and a example of exactly how Labour should be taking on the Greens; on values, direct and on Labour territory. Taking them seriously.

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N 🌹 @nwylabour.bsky.social · 16d
I'm sorry, but these attacks are just not going to convince Green-curious voters, because Labour is so visibly out of step with those voters' core values

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Mark McGeoghegan @markmcgeoghegan.bsky.social · 16d
New @ipsosinscotland.bsky.social poll published by STV, finding that Reform now lead Labour on the constituency vote as immigration becomes a top 3 issue for Scottish voters for the first time.
Reform surges behind SNP as Labour support falls, poll shows
Ipsos Scotland Political Pulse survey gives John Swinney's party a 17-point lead over Reform UK ahead of next year's Scottish Parliament election.
news.stv.tv

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Institute for Government @instituteforgovernment.org.uk · 16d
A strong OBR is in everyone’s interests

Replacing Richard Hughes with someone seen as more compliant to the government’s views would undermine the OBR's independence, bringing a high cost to government and the country, says @gemmatetlow.bsky.social www.instituteforgovernment.org.uk/comment/stro...
A strong OBR is in everyone’s interests | Institute for Government
The chancellor should appoint a strong chair of the Office for Budget Responsibility to replace Richard Hughes.
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