Big thanks to all who came to last night's launch of What Everyone Knows About Britain* (*Except the British), to Waterstones Trafalgar Sq. for hosting & to Rafael Behr for a great discussion!

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Rafael's Politics: a Survivor's Guide
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We do integration so much better than mainland Europe - it's one of our big success stories and yet so much of our politics is built around denying it.

The section in this video from 1.04, in which Margaret Thatcher critiques Pepsi and Shirlie's 'Heartache', before rocking out to the Thrashing Dove's 'Beautiful Imbalance', is one of the most surreal things ever broadcast on British TV. youtube.com/watch?v=YdTkNz…

Well there is that [gestures at news, state of the world], but, on the other hand, the new Jamie XX/Honey Dijon collaboration is an absolute banger. youtube.com/watch?v=xeKSdJ…

Come along and if you can't get a copy of the book anyway - enlightened and enlightening; a pleasure to read.

Tonight! See (some of) you shortly ...

there are supply teachers that are tougher regulators than Ofcom

'DDR-on-Thames' was not one of the Brexit scenarios I expected tbh..

There is surely no greater tribute to David Marquand that the issues he grappled with so eloquently remain wholly relevant to British politics today. This is from his 1981 essay on 'club government'.

The Biggest Magic Trick in History.

Column, on Labour's deferred dilemmas and the possibility (slender, perhaps) of Britain starting to have a more sensible conversation about migration theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

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To 'bad people' in the middle of the night?

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Podcast! Yes, it has been a while. All new Politics On The Couch podcast, in which I tap the immense wisdom of Jonathan Freedland for reassurance about the state of the world shows.acast.com/politicsonthec…

My book What Everyone Knows About Britain* (*Except the British) is out next week! If you want to hear about it, I'm talking April 25 Waterstones Trafalgar Sq. to ace Guardian political columnist Rafael Behr. And there's more below:👇(1/x)

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Some reflections on this and other aspects of UK-EU relations. First, it seems clear that the Commission did this not because they wanted to start a negotiation with the UK but because they didn't want member states negotiating their own, bilateral deals 1/6

Quite openly Jewish.