My hunch is Euro responses to Russia's latest escalation will:
1. Lead to short term moves within social media news cycles that will be widely condemned as inadequate
2. Initiate long term structural shifts in policy and posture that intensify confrontation between Russia and EU/UK

Because I'd worked with Truss I knew there really was nothing there at all. But it was so hard to get people to accept it. "She must have something because she's about to become PM". Nope, not at all. That's not how it works.

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It seems the US is doing everything possible to push us towards China

Yes I logged on here expecting to see easy cynicism - and that is exactly what I found! But not in this thread.

I wonder how far the process by which the DUP supplanted the Ulster Unionists in NI might be analagous. With immigration playing the role of the Good Friday Agreement

after all, Hawaii is practically asking for it...

Wow. The current scene outside the Russian Embassy in London.

Syrians gathering to celebrate the imminent fall of the Assad regime.

They have been chanting: “Freedom for Syria, down with Assad, down with Putin.”

#Syria 🇸🇾

(🎥Credit: Idlibie)

1) It misses the point.

Civil servants are not slow, risk-averse or inexpert because they choose to be.

They are slowed down by 5 layers of people signing off their work. They are risk-averse because mistakes mean headlines and ministers don’t always back them to innovate.

Especially since these days engagement gets them $.

The incentive dynamics of that now seem to be utterly rampant over there

I imagine its its hard to resist the sloppy, bait-y tweets when they generate cold cash, and merely amplifiy your existing pejudices

Been following him for years (and got a lot of value from it to be fair). He's always had this kind of anti european tendency, but its expression has def become more pronounced.

I suspect he's deep, consciously or otherwise, in Twitter monetisation at this point. He certainly seem to have become a more extreme version of himself over the last year or so. Sad, really.