Simon Fraser
@SimonFraser00
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Founding Partner @FlintGlobal. Chair @ChathamHouse. Former permanent secretary at UK Foreign Office and Business Dpt.
Joined November 2012
Event | Europe’s strategic choices 2025 In our second plenary session in Berlin, Marialena Athanasopoulou, @matt_houlihan, @oertel_janka and Katrin Schallenberg joined @SimonFraser00 to discuss how the 🇪🇺 can raise its competitiveness. ➡️ https://t.co/s54JP8Ons3
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"By 2025, Brexit had reduced UK GDP by 6% to 8%, with the impact accumulating gradually over time. We estimate that investment was reduced by between 12% and 18%, employment by 3% to 4% and productivity by 3% to 4%" Read the Stanford report: https://t.co/2ddExtuoaR
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It’s 20 years today that the great George Best sadly passed away. What a player he was, a genius with the ball. #RIPGeorgeBest
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'If you live in the UK you can expect everyone you know to send you a text saying 'IT'S SNOWING!!!!'' My latest cartoon for tomorrow's @Telegraph Buy a print of my cartoons at https://t.co/ILFJjPmckx Original artwork from https://t.co/bVPAkgE34y
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Syrian foreign minister Asaad Al-Shaibani came to Chatham House yesterday and answered questions on relations with the US, UK, Israel and Russia, and more. 🏦 Read more about his visit here:▶️ https://t.co/tG4977r5Ts Watch the event in full here:▶️
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Interview and discussion with Asaad Al-Shaibani, foreign minister of Syria, at Chatham House, to describe the hopes and ambition for a new Syria’s role in the region and world.
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Too many commentators and BBC-exs grinding their own grudges. Big picture Trump shakedown of major British institutions egged on by enemies of plurality and impartiality in this country
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It’s ironic but predictable that the BBC duo -who tried so hard to please the right wing papers-are removed by the right wing papers.
BBC director general Tim Davie and CEO of News Deborah Turness resign over criticism of Donald Trump documentary edit
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Very pleased to have @Montie join our team @FlintGlobal.
Some personal news. Delighted to have joined @FlintGlobal as a Senior Adviser.
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Wholly unsurprising that the Trump Putin meeting is postponed.
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This post by Tom Fletcher is extraordinary. There is nothing there. It has all gone.
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Europe pays tribute to Sofia Corradi, whose vision inspired the creation of the Erasmus programme. Alongside a number of visionary academics and students, she believed that learning across borders could build a stronger, united Europe. Her legacy lives on in millions of young
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Plus: ⏪ Rana Mitter on UK and China relations 🔎 Has National Security become political? @SimonFraser00 & @MarkUrban01 🏴 Caerphilly by-election @adrianmasters84 📰 @andybell5news & @annemcelvoy review & Lots more...
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Too many people around Westminster and Whitehall are using the China spy case for obvious self profiling and political positioning.
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New from @EmpirePodUK THE LOST WORLD OF OTTOMAN GAZA With the great Eugene Rogan, Professor of Middle Eastern History at the University of Oxford
Don't miss our new @EmpirePodUK double bill on: OTTOMAN GAZA: From Selim the Grim to Allenby & the WW1 Battles of Gaza With the great Eugene Rogan, author of The Fall of the Ottomans & Professor of Modern Middle Eastern History at the University of Oxford
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These videos shows what remains of our home and neighborhood, nothing but rubble.
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Gaza also has a fascinating Christian history. The most prominent Saints from Gaza are associated with the rise of monasticism in the 4th and 5th centuries such as Saint Porphyry of Gaza, Saint Hilarion the Great Saint Silvanus of Gaza & His Disciples et al.
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🤝 Great session with @FlintGlobal, close partners of Patchwork Foundation! Our delegates learning from industry experts whilst strengthening partnerships that support our mission! #getinvolved #CPC25
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We are pleased to share that Flint Founding Partner @SimonFraser00 will be a keynote speaker at the hashtag#TRAForum2025 on 8 October. Drawing on his extensive experience in policy and trade, Simon will explore how global geopolitical shifts are reshaping the trade landscape.
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Less than a week to go until #TRAForum2025 We will be joined by Peter Hill from #NorthStarAdvisory and @SimonFraser00 from @FlintGlobal as our #keynote speakers, bringing a wealth of policy and trade knowledge to the event.
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My latest cartoon for tomorrow's @Telegraph Buy a print of my cartoons at https://t.co/ILFJjPmckx Original artwork from https://t.co/bVPAkgE34y
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