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Journalist, aspiring goatherd. Rory Peck Award winning cameraman, author of REBELS (Penguin Random House, 2014), theoretically writing a Very Serious Book.

Joined August 2011
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  1. 8 hours ago

    18 months ago Macron was fawned over by the usual idiots yearning for a liberal strongman, now he’s a cautionary tale Salvini uses to rally his supporters. The ride’s only speeding up.

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    Matteo Salvini: "Look at the images coming from Paris — those who sow poverty will collect protests."
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    8 hours ago

    "Because it's France" will bite EU in bum over Italy. Macron tonight announces tax giveaways and minimum wage hikes around €10bn to quell social anger. French deficit was already rising from next year perilously close to 3%. The sound you hear is Salvini licking his lips 👅

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    17 hours ago

    "We are your principals & you our agents. If you shall assume, or exercise any power, that is not derived from our trust & choice thereunto, that power is no less then usurpation & an oppression, from which wee expect to be freed." Richard Overton, 1646.

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    23 hours ago

    Athens,1889.

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    15 hours ago

    Dennis Skinner: "Does the Prime Minister realise she has handed over power, not to people in this house... but over to the people she's negotiating with in Europe,"

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    18 hours ago

    Now begins our traditional debate, are our leaders mendacious or incompetent? Happily, Macron reminds us there is a Third Way: both.

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    Dec 9

    The Structure of Current Mobilizations Corresponds to that of the Sans-Culottes via

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    Dec 9

    The Roundabout Riots - on the Gilets Jaunes.

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    20 hours ago

    Whither Europe’s elites? Razor sharp insight from Gavin Mortimer.

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    24 hours ago

    Right-wingers believe conspiracy theories. Left-wingers believe conspiracy theories. Centrists uncover hidden networks of influence manipulating the easily-led.

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    20 hours ago

    Think we'd never see these scenes on the streets of Brexit Britain? Think again

    WATCH: "Yellow Vest" protesters light a car on fire in Paris
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  12. 20 hours ago

    A permanent, ongoing erosion of the legitimacy of existing political institutions, declining social trust, increasing political polarisation, with the whole thing kept from ever quite collapsing- perhaps for decades- simply through inertia

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  13. 20 hours ago

    The “1930s 2.0” narrative of liberal fears, or the similar one of autocrats rising to inhabit the empty shell of liberal democracy, conceals the more likely prospect of withdrawal of consent from existing institutions without anything yet formed being capable of replacing them

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  14. 20 hours ago

    Brexit has helped hasten the erosion of legitimacy not only of Britain's political class- and the media class which orbits around them- but increasingly of the entire system sustaining them. Analogous perhaps to the popular disgust with parliamentary democracy now seen in France.

    "Has the way that Parliament has responded to increased your trust in politics, damaged your trust, or made no difference?" Increased 2%…
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    21 hours ago

    "Generally speaking, how well do you think politics in Britain is currently working?" Well, despite difficult circumstances 11% Not well, but only needs better gvt, not fundamental change 30% Politics is broken, needs serious change or reform 48% YouGov Dec 7

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    21 hours ago

    Dystopian shots of Britain’s rural edgelands by Robin Friend, via the brilliant

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    23 hours ago

    Latest from me: on a society that was splitting apart for decades, & how Brexit caused the final break

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    Dec 9

    TV show on channel most linked to Podemos goes to Spain's most nominally communist village in search of the 44 Vox voters. Knocking on doors, asking other villagers, where are they, where are they, who is it? Via

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    Dec 9

    Italy, Winpoll poll: ¹ LEGA-ENF: 33% M5S-EFDD: 25% PD-S&D: 12% Renzi-*: 9% FI-EPP: 9% FdI-ECR: 4% +E-ALDE: 2% MDP/SI-S&D/LEFT: 2% PaP-LEFT: 1% ¹Scenario: Matteo Renzi party (Renzi-*). Field work: 7/12/18 – 9/12/18 Sample size: 1,500

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    Dec 9

    Belgian PM Charles Michel reshuffles his government without the Flemish nationalists after the coalition broke apart over migration policy

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