Charles Bauman
@charlesbauman.bsky.social
Director - Europe Programme @LondonPolitica. Passionate about International relations, geopolitics and government.
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Lots to unpack recently on where the UK sits amidst a congested middle-power pack.
One advantage it could be in leveraging it's regulatory rep and the buzz around Stablecoins.
Read below for my thoughts for the Carolum Forum!
@charlesbauman.bsky.social
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One advantage it could be in leveraging it's regulatory rep and the buzz around Stablecoins.
Read below for my thoughts for the Carolum Forum!
@charlesbauman.bsky.social
open.substack.com/pub/thecarol...
From Rule-Maker to Rule-Taker? Britain’s Strategic Blind Spot on Stablecoin Regulation
UK delay on stablecoin regulation risks London’s role in global crypto and financial sovereignty.
open.substack.com
August 21, 2025 at 9:10 PM
Lots to unpack recently on where the UK sits amidst a congested middle-power pack.
One advantage it could be in leveraging it's regulatory rep and the buzz around Stablecoins.
Read below for my thoughts for the Carolum Forum!
@charlesbauman.bsky.social
open.substack.com/pub/thecarol...
One advantage it could be in leveraging it's regulatory rep and the buzz around Stablecoins.
Read below for my thoughts for the Carolum Forum!
@charlesbauman.bsky.social
open.substack.com/pub/thecarol...
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The 22 June strike on #Iran signals a dramatic shift in #internationallaw.
It risks unleashing a Pandora's Box of implications allowing states like #China and #Russia justification re their own #geopol ambitions.
Excellent read @charlesbauman.bsky.social
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It risks unleashing a Pandora's Box of implications allowing states like #China and #Russia justification re their own #geopol ambitions.
Excellent read @charlesbauman.bsky.social
open.substack.com/pub/multiple...
US Strikes on Iran: Pre-emptive Attack Tests International Law
The 22 June 2025 raid on Iranian nuclear sites could reset self-defence rules and embolden rivals from Moscow to Beijing.
open.substack.com
June 26, 2025 at 7:40 PM
The 22 June strike on #Iran signals a dramatic shift in #internationallaw.
It risks unleashing a Pandora's Box of implications allowing states like #China and #Russia justification re their own #geopol ambitions.
Excellent read @charlesbauman.bsky.social
open.substack.com/pub/multiple...
It risks unleashing a Pandora's Box of implications allowing states like #China and #Russia justification re their own #geopol ambitions.
Excellent read @charlesbauman.bsky.social
open.substack.com/pub/multiple...
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The right is starting to meltdown that the new pope has been vocally critical of Trump.
May 8, 2025 at 6:13 PM
The right is starting to meltdown that the new pope has been vocally critical of Trump.
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Thank you!
New post from me about the elections of the last week, where the 'peak populism' hypothesis stands, and what lessons the Labour Party should be drawing. 1/n
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Labour is Learning the Wrong Lessons
Centre-left incumbents are staying in power by aggressively pushing back on populists, not by aping them
benansell.substack.com
May 5, 2025 at 8:42 AM
Thank you!
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Considering writing an obscenely long essay on how the shift from naming sports venues from like Astrodome and Boston Garden to Smoothie King Center and Crypto whatever is a reasonable stand-in for the fall of American civic society, anyway let’s enjoy warriors-rockets game 7 at Toyota center
May 5, 2025 at 12:44 AM
Considering writing an obscenely long essay on how the shift from naming sports venues from like Astrodome and Boston Garden to Smoothie King Center and Crypto whatever is a reasonable stand-in for the fall of American civic society, anyway let’s enjoy warriors-rockets game 7 at Toyota center
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This is foreign interference in our election and we need to find a policy solution for it ASAP
April 27, 2025 at 2:43 PM
This is foreign interference in our election and we need to find a policy solution for it ASAP
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I hope Ed Davy finds a way to ban noise of transport… I’m tired of hearing people’s nonsense. Also one of those British customs I’ve wholeheartedly adopted.
April 25, 2025 at 6:40 AM
I hope Ed Davy finds a way to ban noise of transport… I’m tired of hearing people’s nonsense. Also one of those British customs I’ve wholeheartedly adopted.
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A new low, even for MTG 👀
April 22, 2025 at 7:12 PM
A new low, even for MTG 👀
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"The Heritage Foundation was created in 1973 by Joseph Coors, Paul Weyrich and Edwin Feulner. Coors, of the Coors brewery dynasty known for its union-busting, anti-environmental and anti-equal rights stances, provided the finance."
Right-wing push to dismantle the EU: Heritage Foundation’s private workshop
After seizing control of the US government, the Heritage Foundation turns its attention to the EU
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April 22, 2025 at 8:29 PM
"The Heritage Foundation was created in 1973 by Joseph Coors, Paul Weyrich and Edwin Feulner. Coors, of the Coors brewery dynasty known for its union-busting, anti-environmental and anti-equal rights stances, provided the finance."
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An American citizen!
They tried to deport an American citizen, detained him for ten days and lied about it to a judge, after badgering a mentally challenged *citizen* into signing false statements.
What if he had been vanished to El Salvador, unable to return?!
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
They tried to deport an American citizen, detained him for ten days and lied about it to a judge, after badgering a mentally challenged *citizen* into signing false statements.
What if he had been vanished to El Salvador, unable to return?!
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
US citizen wrongfully arrested by border patrol in Arizona held for nearly 10 days
Official claimed Jose Hermosillo, who was visiting Arizona, was ‘without the proper immigration documents’
www.theguardian.com
April 23, 2025 at 4:53 PM
An American citizen!
They tried to deport an American citizen, detained him for ten days and lied about it to a judge, after badgering a mentally challenged *citizen* into signing false statements.
What if he had been vanished to El Salvador, unable to return?!
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
They tried to deport an American citizen, detained him for ten days and lied about it to a judge, after badgering a mentally challenged *citizen* into signing false statements.
What if he had been vanished to El Salvador, unable to return?!
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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all politics have been polluted by American discourse but Anglophone politics seems to have it the worst, hence why Dutton is running in Australia on being antiwoke and English Greens talk about egg prices
April 22, 2025 at 8:51 PM
all politics have been polluted by American discourse but Anglophone politics seems to have it the worst, hence why Dutton is running in Australia on being antiwoke and English Greens talk about egg prices
I don’t think US foreign policy land quite gets it.
Trust was broken long ago. Whether it’s supporting coups and dictators, to false testimony leading to invasion or even the financial crisis - trust in America has BEEN eroding, probably since before I was born.
foreignpolicy.com/2025/04/21/p...
Trust was broken long ago. Whether it’s supporting coups and dictators, to false testimony leading to invasion or even the financial crisis - trust in America has BEEN eroding, probably since before I was born.
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How the United States Can Regain the World’s Trust
Four steps the country’s next generation of leaders should be thinking about.
foreignpolicy.com
April 22, 2025 at 9:50 AM
I don’t think US foreign policy land quite gets it.
Trust was broken long ago. Whether it’s supporting coups and dictators, to false testimony leading to invasion or even the financial crisis - trust in America has BEEN eroding, probably since before I was born.
foreignpolicy.com/2025/04/21/p...
Trust was broken long ago. Whether it’s supporting coups and dictators, to false testimony leading to invasion or even the financial crisis - trust in America has BEEN eroding, probably since before I was born.
foreignpolicy.com/2025/04/21/p...
They likely have no evidence of gang membership for anyone.
WOW. One of the Venezuelans whom Kristi Noem tried to render to El Salvador's slave prison managed to avoid removal and was able to make it to immigration court, and you'll never guess what happened: THE GOVERNMENT GAVE NO EVIDENCE OF HIS GANG MEMBERSHIP. Due process ftw
April 18, 2025 at 9:57 AM
They likely have no evidence of gang membership for anyone.
Wild
“In his first 100 days, President Trump has declared more national emergencies — more creatively and more aggressively — than any president in modern American history.” www.axios.com/2025/04/18/t...
Trump redefines "emergency" to impose his will
Powers originally crafted to give the president flexibility in rare moments of crisis now form the backbone of Trump's agenda.
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April 18, 2025 at 9:55 AM
Wild
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“EXCLUSIVE: Buttigieg, Booker, and AOC Lead 2028 Democratic Primary Field Without Harris in the Race”
New more precise polling from Zeteo and DFP shows no candidate holds a dominant lead – a contrast with other surveys that have shown Harris ahead.
@aoc.bsky.social is ahead of Newsom & Shapiro:
New more precise polling from Zeteo and DFP shows no candidate holds a dominant lead – a contrast with other surveys that have shown Harris ahead.
@aoc.bsky.social is ahead of Newsom & Shapiro:
EXCLUSIVE: Buttigieg, Booker, and AOC Lead 2028 Democratic Primary Field Without Harris in the Race
New more precise polling from Zeteo and DFP shows no candidate holds a dominant lead – a contrast with other surveys that have shown Harris ahead.
zeteo.com
April 16, 2025 at 6:13 PM
“EXCLUSIVE: Buttigieg, Booker, and AOC Lead 2028 Democratic Primary Field Without Harris in the Race”
New more precise polling from Zeteo and DFP shows no candidate holds a dominant lead – a contrast with other surveys that have shown Harris ahead.
@aoc.bsky.social is ahead of Newsom & Shapiro:
New more precise polling from Zeteo and DFP shows no candidate holds a dominant lead – a contrast with other surveys that have shown Harris ahead.
@aoc.bsky.social is ahead of Newsom & Shapiro:
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“It’s amazing that others in this room underwrote electing a man who, in the last week, single-handedly destroyed all of American science. It’s amazing how much good science you can destroy with $320 million and RFK Jr, very fast.”
— Seth Rogen’s censored remarks presenting the Breakthrough Prize
— Seth Rogen’s censored remarks presenting the Breakthrough Prize
April 16, 2025 at 3:10 AM
“It’s amazing that others in this room underwrote electing a man who, in the last week, single-handedly destroyed all of American science. It’s amazing how much good science you can destroy with $320 million and RFK Jr, very fast.”
— Seth Rogen’s censored remarks presenting the Breakthrough Prize
— Seth Rogen’s censored remarks presenting the Breakthrough Prize
Which is astonishing because Washington just doesn’t care.
The UK had actual say on issues in the EU and regularly utilised the force multiplying power of the bloc on the global stage.
Closer relations with the US just means vassalisation by an empire in decline.
The UK had actual say on issues in the EU and regularly utilised the force multiplying power of the bloc on the global stage.
Closer relations with the US just means vassalisation by an empire in decline.
The UK has always put first their relationship with the USA above the EU, always. I doubt things are about to change now.
April 16, 2025 at 1:00 PM
Which is astonishing because Washington just doesn’t care.
The UK had actual say on issues in the EU and regularly utilised the force multiplying power of the bloc on the global stage.
Closer relations with the US just means vassalisation by an empire in decline.
The UK had actual say on issues in the EU and regularly utilised the force multiplying power of the bloc on the global stage.
Closer relations with the US just means vassalisation by an empire in decline.
Exactly
A senior Labour MP added: “Don’t let the Americans determine your negotiating strategy, it’s like letting a toddler decide where you go – they keep changing their mind.”
April 16, 2025 at 12:57 PM
Exactly
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A senior Labour MP added: “Don’t let the Americans determine your negotiating strategy, it’s like letting a toddler decide where you go – they keep changing their mind.”
April 16, 2025 at 7:29 AM
A senior Labour MP added: “Don’t let the Americans determine your negotiating strategy, it’s like letting a toddler decide where you go – they keep changing their mind.”
This feels like a “no duh” point, but maybe that’s why it has to be said out loud.
“I hope the Govt sees through that.
“I think even without Brussels ‘telling the Brits’, they would know things like hormone-treated beef, chlorinated chicken are not going to be compatible with any rapprochement with the EU.”
“I think even without Brussels ‘telling the Brits’, they would know things like hormone-treated beef, chlorinated chicken are not going to be compatible with any rapprochement with the EU.”
April 16, 2025 at 12:57 PM
This feels like a “no duh” point, but maybe that’s why it has to be said out loud.
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“I hope the Govt sees through that.
“I think even without Brussels ‘telling the Brits’, they would know things like hormone-treated beef, chlorinated chicken are not going to be compatible with any rapprochement with the EU.”
“I think even without Brussels ‘telling the Brits’, they would know things like hormone-treated beef, chlorinated chicken are not going to be compatible with any rapprochement with the EU.”
April 16, 2025 at 7:29 AM
“I hope the Govt sees through that.
“I think even without Brussels ‘telling the Brits’, they would know things like hormone-treated beef, chlorinated chicken are not going to be compatible with any rapprochement with the EU.”
“I think even without Brussels ‘telling the Brits’, they would know things like hormone-treated beef, chlorinated chicken are not going to be compatible with any rapprochement with the EU.”
I mean just don’t do it. At this point there is nothing to gain. It’s being used to divide and conquer and it won’t help at the next election.
Washington is trying to drive a wedge between UK & Europe!
Paul Adamson chair of U.K. EU commission said:
“You see American commentariat on social media to that effect.
“The last thing Americans want is for the UK and Europe to be united and come closer together.
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Paul Adamson chair of U.K. EU commission said:
“You see American commentariat on social media to that effect.
“The last thing Americans want is for the UK and Europe to be united and come closer together.
1/3
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April 16, 2025 at 12:56 PM
I mean just don’t do it. At this point there is nothing to gain. It’s being used to divide and conquer and it won’t help at the next election.
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Washington is trying to drive a wedge between UK & Europe!
Paul Adamson chair of U.K. EU commission said:
“You see American commentariat on social media to that effect.
“The last thing Americans want is for the UK and Europe to be united and come closer together.
1/3
archive.ph/2025.04.15-1...
Paul Adamson chair of U.K. EU commission said:
“You see American commentariat on social media to that effect.
“The last thing Americans want is for the UK and Europe to be united and come closer together.
1/3
archive.ph/2025.04.15-1...
April 16, 2025 at 7:29 AM
Washington is trying to drive a wedge between UK & Europe!
Paul Adamson chair of U.K. EU commission said:
“You see American commentariat on social media to that effect.
“The last thing Americans want is for the UK and Europe to be united and come closer together.
1/3
archive.ph/2025.04.15-1...
Paul Adamson chair of U.K. EU commission said:
“You see American commentariat on social media to that effect.
“The last thing Americans want is for the UK and Europe to be united and come closer together.
1/3
archive.ph/2025.04.15-1...