Steve Analyst
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Political Analyst
European Community Historian
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCSyDJbSQcF6fc9MOSfXcjSQ
European Community Historian
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Having pondered it all morning, I'm still incredulous that all that Today programme coverage of migrant hotels at no point (unless I missed it) mentioned why people were here, what they might be fleeing from etc.
September 23, 2025 at 11:02 AM
Having pondered it all morning, I'm still incredulous that all that Today programme coverage of migrant hotels at no point (unless I missed it) mentioned why people were here, what they might be fleeing from etc.
Any controversial position Farage takes won't be "Reform policy", but if he gets into power, Reform policy will be whatever Farage says on the day.
July 17, 2025 at 9:28 PM
Any controversial position Farage takes won't be "Reform policy", but if he gets into power, Reform policy will be whatever Farage says on the day.
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There is a lot of ill-informed commentary out there suggesting that the Afghan leak superinjunction is a story about transparency vs safety.
That is not true, or at least it is not the full picture.
Thread below.
That is not true, or at least it is not the full picture.
Thread below.
July 17, 2025 at 1:19 PM
There is a lot of ill-informed commentary out there suggesting that the Afghan leak superinjunction is a story about transparency vs safety.
That is not true, or at least it is not the full picture.
Thread below.
That is not true, or at least it is not the full picture.
Thread below.
100%
Incidentally, I'm not remotely sure 16-18-year-olds are a useful group to Labour. I mean - God knows, untested - but easy to imagine them voting hard right and hard left mostly by gender.
July 17, 2025 at 12:01 PM
100%
I've started on the "No Loss of Essential National Sovereignty" series.
In the episode I cover the first year of the campaign to join and how the Kilmuir letter was actually dealt with, in opposed to what we've been told all these years.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=PCO4...
In the episode I cover the first year of the campaign to join and how the Kilmuir letter was actually dealt with, in opposed to what we've been told all these years.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=PCO4...
No Loss of Essential National Sovereignty - The Kilmuir Letter
YouTube video by Steve Analyst
www.youtube.com
July 15, 2025 at 5:06 PM
I've started on the "No Loss of Essential National Sovereignty" series.
In the episode I cover the first year of the campaign to join and how the Kilmuir letter was actually dealt with, in opposed to what we've been told all these years.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=PCO4...
In the episode I cover the first year of the campaign to join and how the Kilmuir letter was actually dealt with, in opposed to what we've been told all these years.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=PCO4...
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If the EU and specifically the holdout France cannot see that RIGHT NOW THIS MOMENT is the time to ratify its trade deal with Mercosur they are absolutely utterly totally hopeless.
Trade war live: Donald Trump threatens Brazil with 50% tariffs
US president accuses country of launching a ‘witch-hunt’ against its former leader Jair Bolsonaro
www.ft.com
July 9, 2025 at 10:30 PM
If the EU and specifically the holdout France cannot see that RIGHT NOW THIS MOMENT is the time to ratify its trade deal with Mercosur they are absolutely utterly totally hopeless.
The UK should have stood up to this. Everyone should have stood up to this. Now he's taken another step.
We are in new territory with Trump’s latest trade letter, threatening a 50% tariff on imports from Brazil starting Aug. 1
—The US runs a rare trade surplus with Brazil, so there’s no deficit to fix
—Trump says these duties are explicitly over political concerns, not economic ones
—The US runs a rare trade surplus with Brazil, so there’s no deficit to fix
—Trump says these duties are explicitly over political concerns, not economic ones
July 9, 2025 at 9:49 PM
The UK should have stood up to this. Everyone should have stood up to this. Now he's taken another step.
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The EU would do better to reach agreement with the recipients of these screeds than with their author. The value of any agreement with the latter is dubious at best. A coordinated approach with Japan, Korea, China and other BRICS countries interested in rules-based trade would be powerful indeed.
July 8, 2025 at 5:57 PM
The EU would do better to reach agreement with the recipients of these screeds than with their author. The value of any agreement with the latter is dubious at best. A coordinated approach with Japan, Korea, China and other BRICS countries interested in rules-based trade would be powerful indeed.
Have they looked for the Epstein client list in the Mar-a-Lago bathrooms yet?
July 8, 2025 at 7:58 PM
Have they looked for the Epstein client list in the Mar-a-Lago bathrooms yet?
So, Ruth Lea is in the HoL too.
I can only conclude the previous government basically packed it with extremists.
I can only conclude the previous government basically packed it with extremists.
July 8, 2025 at 3:35 PM
So, Ruth Lea is in the HoL too.
I can only conclude the previous government basically packed it with extremists.
I can only conclude the previous government basically packed it with extremists.
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If Brexity folks start crying crocodile tears about the people of Gibraltar, note that
a) the Gibraltar first minister supports this deal
b) Brexity people sure as hell didn't care how Gibraltar voted in the 2016 Brexit referendum
a) the Gibraltar first minister supports this deal
b) Brexity people sure as hell didn't care how Gibraltar voted in the 2016 Brexit referendum
June 11, 2025 at 4:39 PM
If Brexity folks start crying crocodile tears about the people of Gibraltar, note that
a) the Gibraltar first minister supports this deal
b) Brexity people sure as hell didn't care how Gibraltar voted in the 2016 Brexit referendum
a) the Gibraltar first minister supports this deal
b) Brexity people sure as hell didn't care how Gibraltar voted in the 2016 Brexit referendum
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One man is standing up for the rule of law in Britain. His reward is to be savagely attacked by right wing think tanks, newspapers & politicians. They understand where the battle against populism is taking place. And they've marshalled their forces accordingly.
iandunt.substack.com/p/a-good-man...
iandunt.substack.com/p/a-good-man...
April 11, 2025 at 9:33 AM
One man is standing up for the rule of law in Britain. His reward is to be savagely attacked by right wing think tanks, newspapers & politicians. They understand where the battle against populism is taking place. And they've marshalled their forces accordingly.
iandunt.substack.com/p/a-good-man...
iandunt.substack.com/p/a-good-man...
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You know what I'm going to say... The uncertainty and unpredictability are detrimental for businesses.
You can work around tariffs (maybe not 125%🇨🇳) that you know will be in place for a year. You can't prepare for this, you can't mitigate this level of chaos.
You can work around tariffs (maybe not 125%🇨🇳) that you know will be in place for a year. You can't prepare for this, you can't mitigate this level of chaos.
April 9, 2025 at 6:45 PM
You know what I'm going to say... The uncertainty and unpredictability are detrimental for businesses.
You can work around tariffs (maybe not 125%🇨🇳) that you know will be in place for a year. You can't prepare for this, you can't mitigate this level of chaos.
You can work around tariffs (maybe not 125%🇨🇳) that you know will be in place for a year. You can't prepare for this, you can't mitigate this level of chaos.
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The US has just ripped up all of its deals and is trying to coerce the terms of a new one. The way it should work is non US countries coordinate retaliation and coercion of the US. EU will only cut its throat by submitting to the moving target of US demands.
* BESSENT SEES DEAL WITH ALLIES, THEN CAN APPROACH CHINA AS GROUP
April 9, 2025 at 2:20 PM
The US has just ripped up all of its deals and is trying to coerce the terms of a new one. The way it should work is non US countries coordinate retaliation and coercion of the US. EU will only cut its throat by submitting to the moving target of US demands.
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ouch.
April 9, 2025 at 2:09 PM
ouch.
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The available information was that Trump would enact the disastrous policies that he has in fact enacted
Of course, not all of them felt this way. Niall Ferguson, for example, projected a serene confidence that I found somewhat shocking
April 9, 2025 at 2:23 PM
The available information was that Trump would enact the disastrous policies that he has in fact enacted
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Weird seeing this nostalgia for mining from people who’ve never and would never have to go down a pit.
My grandfather had no choice, really, and died of black lungs when my dad was 10 leaving a wife and three children and a £12 insurance payout.
My grandfather had no choice, really, and died of black lungs when my dad was 10 leaving a wife and three children and a £12 insurance payout.
April 9, 2025 at 8:37 AM
Weird seeing this nostalgia for mining from people who’ve never and would never have to go down a pit.
My grandfather had no choice, really, and died of black lungs when my dad was 10 leaving a wife and three children and a £12 insurance payout.
My grandfather had no choice, really, and died of black lungs when my dad was 10 leaving a wife and three children and a £12 insurance payout.
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Now federalism and climate policies are threatened by the ever-expanding national security black hole.
April 8, 2025 at 11:06 PM
Now federalism and climate policies are threatened by the ever-expanding national security black hole.
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Executive order to ban The Federalist Papers from school libraries and curriculums.
Now federalism and climate policies are threatened by the ever-expanding national security black hole.
April 8, 2025 at 11:17 PM
Executive order to ban The Federalist Papers from school libraries and curriculums.
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April 8, 2025 at 9:28 PM
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The hard Brexit vibes are so strong
Leavitt defends tariffs: "America does not need other countries as much as other countries need us ... President Trump has a spine of steel."
April 8, 2025 at 5:54 PM
The hard Brexit vibes are so strong
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Didn't think this was going to be multiples when I started typing, sorry, but hey ho: here's some basics on mutual recognition agreements, what they *aren't*, why the UK might want them, and why the EU has less incentive to offer them. 🧵
To clarify recent reporting: mutual recognition of conformity assessment is not the same thing as mutual recognition of product regulation. It enables local bodies to certify compliance with foreign rules. It doesn't mean automatic access for foreign products - that only exists in the Single Market.
April 8, 2025 at 7:39 PM
Didn't think this was going to be multiples when I started typing, sorry, but hey ho: here's some basics on mutual recognition agreements, what they *aren't*, why the UK might want them, and why the EU has less incentive to offer them. 🧵
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To clarify recent reporting: mutual recognition of conformity assessment is not the same thing as mutual recognition of product regulation. It enables local bodies to certify compliance with foreign rules. It doesn't mean automatic access for foreign products - that only exists in the Single Market.
April 8, 2025 at 7:25 PM
To clarify recent reporting: mutual recognition of conformity assessment is not the same thing as mutual recognition of product regulation. It enables local bodies to certify compliance with foreign rules. It doesn't mean automatic access for foreign products - that only exists in the Single Market.
It's starting to look like xenophobia may be the driving force behind these tariffs. Indulging victimhood to lash out at foreigners. It doesn't matter if the US are offshoring on foreign lands, or if foreign lands are offshoring to the US. The only common element is 'foreigners'.
April 7, 2025 at 10:40 PM
It's starting to look like xenophobia may be the driving force behind these tariffs. Indulging victimhood to lash out at foreigners. It doesn't matter if the US are offshoring on foreign lands, or if foreign lands are offshoring to the US. The only common element is 'foreigners'.