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Tony Yates

@t0nyyates

Economist. Ex Prof / central banker.

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The New European - Think Without Borders(@TheNewEuropean) 's Twitter Profile Photo

EXCLUSIVE: The strange case of how Michelle Mone and her “in-house legal team” tried and failed to shut The New European up … theneweuropean.co.uk/how-michelle-m…

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Jo Maugham(@JolyonMaugham) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Jim Bethell's phone is one of the great mysteries of our age, simultaneously available and not available. A sort of Schrödinger's mobile, if you like.

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Peterson Institute(@PIIE) 's Twitter Profile Photo

New Chinese data imply that foreign firms operating in China are not only declining to reinvest their earnings but—for the first time ever—they are large net sellers of their existing investments to Chinese companies & repatriating the funds.
Read here: piie.com/blogs/realtime…

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🚨 NEW: At press gallery drinks in No 10 this evening, Rishi Sunak tells lobby journalists to look forward to a general election that “WILL be in 2024”

Ruling out a January 2025 election, and suggesting he may already have a date in mind…

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Tony Yates(@t0nyyates) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Really needs a proper poll reflecting the common sense concerns of the silent majority eg 'Will stop the criminals in the small boats from overwhelming our borders' and 'Will take no nonsense from lefty human rights lawyers who think we are born yesterday.'

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Nick Cohen(@NickCohen4) 's Twitter Profile Photo

This is telling coming from Wallace. The question had always been whether Netanyahu's far right government, which presided over the largest massacre of Jews since the Holocaust, could run a successful political and military campaign. And, well, the answer has always been obvious

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Arthur Snell(@SnellArthur) 's Twitter Profile Photo

You tell angry morons that they’ve a right to be violent and then this happens. The Tories continue their little-league GOP cosplay.

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John Ferry(@JohnFerry18) 's Twitter Profile Photo

@ScotGov's Instagram account is just post after post of unsubstantiated Nationalist propaganda. It's outrageous.

@ScotGov's Instagram account is just post after post of unsubstantiated Nationalist propaganda. It's outrageous.
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Dylan Difford(@Dylan_Difford) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Leaving off some pretty key parts of that classic Nick Clegg legacy:
- Austerity
- Referendum on a voting system nobody wanted, which set the electoral reform cause back about two decades

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Tony Yates(@t0nyyates) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Lex Fridman podcasts *do* have a purpose; it's to birth great lines like this: 'I was about halfway through Lex Fridman’s interview with Jeff Bezos, which is longer than Citizen Kane'. theverge.com/24001656/jeff-…

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If you set up a binary 'what will make us not get into power?' I would say that it's more likely to happen if you *do* make leaving the ECHR the centrepiece of a campaign that if you don't. politics.co.uk/news/2023/12/1…

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