Anand Menon
@anandMenon1
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Director @ukandeu Bitter and twisted observer of politics. ‘Not yoda’ (DC) ‘Slightly matey politics don' (Q. Letts) Trustee, @fullfact #LUFC
Joined January 2010
It isn't Keir Starmer's Britain. This country belongs to all of us who call it home. And people who are only loyal to it if it is run by people they agree with aren't patriots at all
We keep being told to prepare for war…would you fight for Keir Starmer’s Britain?
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The culmination of my @ukandeu small project on what the UK could learn from other countries' fiscal frameworks now a published article in the @NIESRreview
https://t.co/MJOe2qWfVJ It suggests a menu of options from those countries with markedly better fiscal positions, @lseei
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RETHINKING THE UK FISCAL FRAMEWORK: LESSONS FROM ELSEWHERE
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Calls are fine. Actually working with the UK in schemes like SAFE are better
We need to build up European military capabilities swiftly. Strengthening European defence and supporting Ukraine are not separate tracks. They are mutually reinforcing priorities. Today’s call with defence colleagues from France, Germany, Italy, Poland and the UK underscored
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"The US can no longer be relied on... Rather any US involvement will be transactional, and the UK needs to rapidly unpick 80 years of defence integration with, and dependence on, the US." ✍️ Andrew Dorman on the UK and the US National Security Strategy https://t.co/YOZiPmk7nr
ukandeu.ac.uk
Andrew M Dorman reflects on UK defence policy and argues that while the UK must deintegrate its defence capabilities from the US and implement the recommendations of this year's Strategic Defence...
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The European mind cannot comprehend this level of free speech. I'm so pleased that the national security strategy seeks to bring this level of press freedom to our benighted continent.
Reporter: What changes do you want to see at CNN? Trump: I am not involved in that, I will be probably involved maybe in the decision... I think CNN should be sold because the people that are running CNN right now are either corrupt or incompetent. Reporter: Will that be a
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New blog out on @UKandEU - ‘Scotland’s Priorities for new UK-EU Strategic Alliance’: https://t.co/R1FVvXwYSC
@ScotGovBrussels @ScotGovInter @AngusRobertson @anandMenon1
#diplomacy #EUengagement
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Angus Robertson MSP outlines the Scottish Government's priorities for the forthcoming UK-EU negotiations, arguing that the UK government needs to adopt a more ambitious package of measures and give...
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Nothing to see here. Just giving your mates a job for life in the national legislature.
NEW: Labour announces 25 new peerages including - as revealed by me and @elenicourea - Rachel Reeves's former chief of staff Katie Martin and Keir Starmer's ex-director of comms Matthew Doyle. Also former Tory-supporting Iceland boss Richard Walker.
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🇬🇧🇪🇺Brexit EXC: 🎓UK on course to rejoin Erasmus student exchange scheme from January 2027 = EU extends key deadline for universities to participate = Rising hopes on both sides of a deal by Christmas, crunch talks Monday
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‘Your security is our security. Here’s the bill if you want to reinforce it’
@anandMenon1 A 6 billion contribution to be part of a 150 billion defence programme that, given the Britain's defence sector, would have disproportionately benefited it. Seems Britain still can't do maths.🤷♂️
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Today, we are publishing our World Inequality Report, which reviews the most recent #inequalitydata and exposes the scale of #inequality over time and across space. The third edition of the report, prefaced by @JosephEStiglitz & @Jayati1609 comes at a challenging political
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This report says there is a longer internal version of the NSS that gets into more detail on weakening the EU. It also proposes a new grouping of countries called the C5— US, China, Russia, Japan, and India— that’s not hemmed in by G7 rules. No Euro representation unless you
‘Make Europe Great Again’ and more from a longer version of the National Security Strategy | Read the exclusive story by @meghannmyers_
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I think this might be my favourite video ever
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58 likes, 3 comments. “1000+ fans turn up to Radiohead Karaoke party after Copenhagen show cancels and sing together until the early hours ❤️”
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And let’s please stop with the idea that a CU of any kind will end the need for paperwork etc. The real costs of Brexit come from being outside the single market. Apart from that, it’s a fab idea, so well done lads. 3/3
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So the numbers are just plain wrong. On top of which, does anyone know if the EU will negotiate a CU of any kind with us, and what they might ask in return? They wanted 6 billion to let us into SAFE, remember 2/3
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On the whole customs union debate, worth bearing a few things in mind. The 'research' on which the claims of economic benefit are based isn't about a CU but about the EU accepting 'deep alignment on goods and services' - which it won't. 1/3
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😳😳😳 Labour group that backed Starmer canvasses party on leadership candidates https://t.co/gxjy4cRmvY
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This is a great snapshot of what this whole debate is about:
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One of the good things about playing away to Leeds is that you are visiting a ground with a proper name ie Elland Rd, not the Emirates, London stadium, Etihad, Stadium of Light or any of these other unreal football ground names @anandMenon1 ! We could be back in the 1970s !
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