Jon Stone
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EU–UK Reporter at @POLITICOEurope ; documenter of London cycle routes (link below) jstone @politico .co.uk
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it’s impossible to understand why photos of normal looking European streets keep going crazy viral on here until you appreciate that a really big number of american *town centres* look something like this
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One reason people insist that you use the proper channels to change things is because they have control of the proper channels and they’re confident it won’t work
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Brussels has lit up its main square in Union Jack colours to say goodbye to the Brits 😭
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wages haven’t gone up in a decade, inflation is 10%, you can’t get an ambulance, GP, or dentist, energy bills have doubled, interest rates are heading to 6%, the rental market has gone mad, rail fares up, childcare is bonkers, and a pound is now worth one dollar. what did I miss
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can you imagine the hysterical reaction if someone had suggested the creation of public libraries today. ‘for free? how are you going to pay for that, STALIN?'
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Imagine you're Kwasi Kwarteng: you've got strident views about economic policy and you even wrote a book about it. you finally get the job as chancellor, the peak of your game, and get to test out your ideas! turns out they are garbage and the economy explodes
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You don’t hear much about Eat Out To Help Out these days do you
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yeah that civil service tweet is good, but it’s even better when it’s being read out slowly on BBC News
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this is an important thing to remember when US urbanist YouTubers say a city is ‘walkable’ they don’t mean it’s pedestrianised or whatever, they mean it’s actually possible to walk places
walking five minutes through bend, oregon, to get a coffee, just to be told that the dutch bros is drive-thru only
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It’s perfectly legal to sail across the channel in a rubber dinghy, and perfectly legal to claim asylum in the UK once you get there
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when money was free and interest rates were basically zero, the UK destroyed its public services in the pursuit of balanced budgets. Now money is expensive the UK going to borrow lots of it to spend on cutting taxes for rich people 😸
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when the propaganda gets too embarrassing to put your name on
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To be fair he also said it required common sense
I thought it was "basic good manners" to wear a face mask in shops...?
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it's all kicking off at once this weekend: easter, an April fools' bank holiday, clocks changing... feels like a season finale
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Massive respect to Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe for not sugar-coating what she thought, and absolutely zero respect to people telling her what she should be thinking or feeling after being locked up for six years
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France’s EU minister names her cat 'Brexit' because ‘he meows loudly to be let out but just stands there when I open the door’
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Germany: Here's a €9 monthly season ticket to help with the cost of living 🚉
Spain: We'll make commuter trains free for four months💪
New Zealand: Things are tough😊time to cut all fares by 50%
UK: Fares will go up by less than 11.8% don't forget to say thanks😏
An expected increase to rail fares in England will be less than July's retail price index to help commuters cope with the cost-of-living crisis, the government says
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does Toby Young think supermarkets, fast-food chains, and other large corporations are administered by school-age children?
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the best thing about this is that she was the US ambassador to Denmark and apparently thought people were cycling everywhere because they couldn’t afford a car? her diplomatic dispatches must have been essential reading
I’ve seen this before. In Denmark, middle class people can’t afford to drive a car. They have a bike and take the train for long trips. My embassy driver would bike an hour in the snow to get to work. That’s the future team Biden wants for Americans. Is this what you want?
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Is it named after Alan Turing because the students on it have been treated like shit by the British government?
“On Erasmus, it was a tough decision”
UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson says the government will replace Erasmus with “a UK scheme for students to go around the world, it will be called the Turing scheme... named after Alan Turing”
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Sky News anchor (who also happens to be a landlord) decides to turn an interview about housing policy into an irrelevant and patronising rant about her tenants
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i’m not sneering here btw, there are of course grim places in europe (and especially the UK) but I think many europeans maybe don’t get the extent to which many north american towns are a sort of collection of extremely spaced out, low-rise sheds with lots of parking
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The view expressed in this video is one you could only hold if absolutely nothing is at stake for you and you view politics as a spectator sport
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did Mick Lynch just drop a solid gold clip on every news channel he went on this morning? I swear I’ve seen about half a dozen different ones on my timeline today
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Chief nurse again uses this argument that she won't disclose how many NHS staff have died from Covid-19 because families haven’t all been asked for permission - feels like a very weird argument, nobody is asking for identities, rather anonymised figures
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mortgage lenders will typically let you borrow 4.5x your salary. So someone on £30k can borrow £135,000. an average terraced house in London costs £574,983 according to the land registry. so either this fictional first time buyer has a £440,000 deposit, or they do not exist
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Don’t normally tweet things like this, but: the Telegraph should absolutely sack Allison Pearson for bringing the paper into disrepute - she is either too stupid or too dishonest to do her job and this is far from an isolated incident
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someone has snuck a stack of these beer mats into Tory conference and is handing them out to delegates
#HS2
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so it’s like a water fountain… that you have to pay for. rail passengers squeezed for every penny
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Eat Out To Help Out cost £849m in total... you could buy all 1.4 million kids elegible for free school meals a £400 Chromebook and 12 months of £20-a-month broadband for roughly the same amount of money (£896m). Might have been a better investment over the summer
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A worker on £30k pays £3,486 income tax and £2,399 NI
Energy bills are expected to go to £7,700 in April, up from £1,042 in 2020
Even if you completely scrapped both income tax and NI it would not cover the increase in bills.
The idea that tax cuts will solve this is deluded
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the worst thing about the Cummings episode is that the government is willing to undermine its entire public health strategy during a pandemic to excuse the actions of a single advisor
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the narrative has pivoted overnight from ‘it’s your fault you can’t afford a house because you spend all your money on Pret’ to ‘it’s your duty to brave this deadly pandemic to spend money on Pret’ and I can’t think of a better illustration of the contradictions of capitalism
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unfortunately we can never take this down because that would be erasing our history. i don’t make the rules
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there’s been a reassessment of the Blair/Brown government on the Left in recent years: you hear more about its achievements than you used you. that’s good, but it’s also important not to forget that it regularly did things a Tory government would be criticised for (THREAD)
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it's key to remember that this was *actually built*. there is a link from the channel tunnel to the west coast mainline. British Rail invested £140m before it was privatised. the trains were built! but services never ran because operators didn't consider them commercially viable
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Jenrick/Desmond story isn’t just about corruption in Britain’s ruling elite, but about corruption whose explicit aim was to deprive one of the country’s most deprived areas of £40m
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That’s two days in a row the British state has produced reports into itself that say ‘don’t believe your lying eyes, we’re perfect and can do no wrong’
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One thing I think many British people may not understand is that the 'government will cover 80% of your salary if you can't work because of coronavirus' scheme is actually very similar to how regular unemployment benefit works in a lot of Europe
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MPs to spend seven and a half hours giving tributes to Prince Philip, longer than scrutiny for final Brexit deal
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Laurence Fox got endless free coverage and establishment hype and still got beaten by a YouTuber pledging to reduce the price of Freddos to 5p and ban Prince Andrew from going near schools
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Parts of Michael Gove’s levelling-up plan ‘copied from Wikipedia’
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London is genuinely very lucky that the GLC got the Thames Barrier built in the 1970s-80s because the city would constantly flood without it but also lol imagine trying to get it built now
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“The Tories in England long imagined that they were enthusiastic about monarchy, the church, and the beauties of the old English Constitution, until the day of danger wrung from them the confession that they are enthusiastic only about ground rent.” — Karl Marx, 1852
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Eurostar will launch a fourth daily return train between London and Amsterdam from September. Means the service will carry over 3,600 people a day in each direction, the equivalent capacity of 19 daily return flights
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Anti-Corbyn Labour officials worked to lose general election to oust leader, leaked dossier finds
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Rishi Sunak ‘was declared permanent US resident’ while being chancellor of UK
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‘Pro-equality movements in the past were good… but the ones that currently exist are different and bad for these nebulous reasons' - every conservative forever, fighting a neverending rearguard action against equality
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If what Cummings says is true, people at the top of government were saying 'there's no plan, we're absolutely fucked' at the same time as people meant to scrutinise them were saying 'wow the government is amazing, ignore the hipster analysis'
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The UK honours system is inherently corrupt; making your failed minister a knight and your ousted MP a lord isn’t normal behaviour for a representative democracy
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the original Boris Johnson ‘piccaninnies’ column is here - he’s previously claimed the quote was taken out of context…. so here it is:
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I only have mild coronavirus symptoms but whatever I’ve got has absolutely obliterated my sense of taste and smell. To test I have had:
- a teaspoon full of curry powder
- a glass of very concentrated grapefruit squash
- a clove of garlic
none of which taste of anything
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hate to break it to everyone but ‘remain and reform’ isn’t on the table. the idea anyone in the EU cares what reforms the UK wants right now is extremely far-fetched. the closest realistic option is ‘remain and participate’. more likely is ‘remain and just shut up for a bit'
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EU shoots down Boris Johnson's Brexit plan within moments of him becoming Tory leader
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Listening to Matt Hancock this morning it’s obvious the government's plan is to blame the second wave on Europe and say it came from abroad
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@JonnElledge
love the Netherlands insisting ‘Santa lives in Spain’ and Spain being like ‘na he’s not here have you checked Iran?’
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Spare a thought for the Lib Dems, who voted the election into existence to capitalise on a spurious poll lead, but instead seem to have been decapitated, restored the Tory majority, made hard Brexit a certainty, and seemingly thrown many of their defector MPs off a cliff
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Anti-Corbyn Labour officials covertly diverted election cash to allies and away from winnable seats, Forde inquiry finds
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If one source says it’s raining, and the other source says it’s not, your job is to tweet out an anonymous quote from the one that’s blatantly Dominic Cummings as quickly as possible without checking
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UK lockdown is like one of those drinking games where the rules start simple but you add new ones as it goes on until it gets so complicated nobody can remember them all and is constantly having to drink
People living alone and most single parents in England can stay at another household from Saturday, says PM
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‘The british evacuated 200 dogs and cats from Afghanistan and then apologised for leaving people behind’ has the potential to become one of those facts that people remember for literally hundreds of years
🔴Boris Johnson said he felt "a great sense of regret" that British forces will leave Afghanistan without having rescued up to 1,100 Afghans who served alongside them
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Boris Johnson isn't a libertarian... as mayor he banned drinking on the tube. As prime minister he's passing laws requiring identity documents to vote, criminalising trespass, and banning noisy protests
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Seems like:
- UK rail firms wanted to stay in Interrail but leave EUrail, so they could sell more profitable BritRail pass
- EUrail says no, they come as a pair
- UK says ‘lol ok kick us out if u dare’
- EUrail kicks them out
- UK comes crawling back
We are pleased to be able to tell passengers that we have reached agreement and will be remaining part of both the Interrail and Eurail passes.
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Manchester getting its buses back under public control isn't just a local story, it has national historical significance. it marks the beginning of the end of an experiment nobody asked for, which failed immediately, but which took nearly 40 years to start to unpick
First sneak peak of the 50 new Bee Network buses that will be rolled out in Wigan, Bolton and parts of Salford, Bury and Manchester next month
#LDReporter
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a lot of 'anti-social behaviour' is actually just people being social, a good illustration
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Conor Burns resigned as trade minister in 2020 after the standards watchdog found he had intimidated a member of the public. He was back in a ministerial job the next calendar year, and today had to resign from exactly the same job he resigned from before. Welcome to Westminster!
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David Davis’s chief of staff calls hospitalised child a “pathetic cretin” for… some reason
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Brexiteer Tory MP says it is ‘monstrous’ that British businesses now have to fill in forms to trade with EU
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this photo looks less shocking than it should, because we're used to outdoor socialising now... but at the time it was taken many park benches were still covered in police tape. real 'rules are for little people' stuff
NEW: Downing Street staff and Boris Johnson pictured drinking wine in the No 10 garden last May when the rest of the country was limited to meeting just one other person socially outdoors.
Via
@guardian
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As of tomorrow Jeremy Corbyn will facing his
- Third Tory leader
- Third Lib Dem leader
- Third Green party leader
- Seventh Ukip leader
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I don’t want to get my violin out for the royal family but if it became obvious that I or my partner were being groomed as a hate figure by the racist end of the British press I’d probably quit as well
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It’s noticeable how even totally ordinary streets in London look beautiful if you remove on-street parking
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Tory MP Steve Baker on lockdown measures: "This is a major infringement on a right to a family life. I'm looking at the European Convention on Human Rights as I speak to you."
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@notjustbikes
i’ve heard ‘it’s too big’ applied as a reason why you can’t do anything in the US from universal healthcare to high speed rail to having pavements, it is very funny
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if spending £522m on subsidising restaurant meals is good economics, but spending £126m subsidising free school meals for children in poverty is bad economics, then maybe its your economic model that’s the problem?
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My take on this: paper tickets have generally fair, passenger-friendly conditions of carriage which were standardised under British Rail many decades ago. but e-tickets have been introduced piecemeal by operators with one-sided rules and they’re a Wild West which needs taming
@jackfifield
Hi Jack, it is your responsibility to ensure your device is charged and ready to show your ticket. We are unable to print off E-Tickets and wouldn't be able to access your account to do so anyway. ^SC
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Boris Johnson, 15 January 2020: "There is no threat to the Erasmus scheme, and we will continue to participate in it.”
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UK quietly drops ‘human rights’ and ‘rule of law’ from goals for Gulf trade deal
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thinking of criticising the ruling party? enjoy being ineligible for public assistance! a rallying cry for autocracy in the Times
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Whatever your opinion of Theresa May, on a human level you have to admit that anyone as anti-immigrant as her deserves to have an awful day like this at least once a month
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I think it’s fair to say this was the worst day in a year and a half for me to try and transport a vacuum cleaner across London on the Tube
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apparently British school canteens serve ‘Detroit style pizza’ who knew
Both types of Chicago style are excellent and New York style hits different, but deep down, we all know Detroit style pizza is the best.
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Context reminder: a basic free trade agreement of the kind Boris Johnson seems to have secured will reduce UK GDP by 5.2% over 15 years compared to staying in the EU, according to the government’s Office of Budget Responsibility estimate from March 2020
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do Telegraph columnists have somewhere they desperately need to be?
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the new interior for Germany’s intercity express trains looks so good. really puts the interiors of the new UK intercity trains to shame
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this is the palais de justice in brussels - an entire district was demolished to build it and the project was so unpopular that people started using the word ‘architect’ as an insult. it’s been held up by scaffolding for the last 39 years
Dear architects, what is preventing you from building like this?
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Everyone’s saying the government has a difficult job but I’m pretty sure the shitposters I follow on this website have preempted every government U-turn by about two weeks
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Absolutely captivated by the multi-day news coverage of the circumstances around a TV interview that took place when I was six years old, really interesting stuff thanks
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Small thing but it’s kind of gross how the company responsible for the rip-off free school meal parcels keeps calling them ‘hampers’ like they’ve got champagne in them or something
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The idea Sam Tarry was sacked for freelancing on policy doesn’t make a lot of sense given Rachel Reeves did it with rail nationalisation on the Today programme just yesterday
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A better government might have used the prime minister getting pinged as a publicity stunt to show nobody is above having to self-isolate and shore up public compliance with contact tracing ahead of the lifting of restrictions tomorrow
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I guess in a way aren’t we all ‘addicted’ to being able to pay our rent and buy food
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@mattyglesias
Feel like Matthew Yglesias got a little too good at posting bad tweets about Europe and started going for takes that are flat out wrong
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Council of Europe issues media freedom alert over UK government blacklisting of investigative journalists
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