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Posts by Adam Watson Brown

This was Harold Wilson’s argument in The Governance of Britain, written in the seventies: ‘ungovernable’.

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There’s a mini British movie genre about kids playing on bomb sites, 50s ahoy!

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The incentives at play…

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Your post is too sweeping. There were times when rep democracy worked better.

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A bickering of Welsh politicians @channel4news.bsky.social More heat than light.

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Very helpful! THX!

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So Wallonie would have to fund the benefits instead of the fed?

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Redwood is 75. I have invited him to retire on several occasions and to turn his skills from advocacy of Euroscepticism towards Trollope and past times.
#Fail

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Further enquiry by ChatGPT suggest that these transfers are automatic stabilisers in the tax and social security systems, not transfers.

250K more jobs in Wallonia, with increased labour participation, would reduce the stabilisation necessary.

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Psycho-disinfo babble.

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Atelier- Ed.

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Is La Wallonie still consuming significant transfers, with 12:1 citizen/officials ratio?

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Units galore!

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Shame!

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Yes, I have a warm feeling already.

Ideas I’ve seen so far:
- un pilier Européenne à L’OTAN.

Obvs, NATO must have pillars in EU-style.

- MS protect their neighbourhoods. Mini-coalitions of the locally willing.

Governance

- E3 ministers F, DE, UK;
- E6 ministers, D, F, Pol, ES, IT, NE;
- EU;

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Prodi’s estimate of 2039 for UKjoin still looks good to me
As he said, a political generation needs to pass on; but not me obvs.

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I’m something of a conservationist myself as regards old architecture. Covent Garden is IMO a better commercial space and easier on the eye than Les Halles in Paris.

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There is an aesthetic angle, especially as this is a big installation.The Greens are channelling this.
Trade-offs…

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A great shot!
Brussels rooftops are diverse and eclectic when photographed together.

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Hmmm, are they betting on the ‘European army’ becoming more than a red top hate meme?

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I suppose the externalities will be less disastrous than in the water biz if it goes wrong.

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That’s the theory.
Who is scrutinising this deal? If it’s the county council, I doubt whether they have the nous.

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Any investment proposed by the vampire kangaroo, as Maquarie is called, deserves deep scrutiny.

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So you could just step off the tram and into the flicks.
This is better than what we have now and what we will have once there is something behind the empty facades.
Would I like the thirties version more?

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Trump and Musk both got seed funding from their fathers. T was good at raising debt for projects. Musk is very bright IMO.
Look at the bloke from Pimlico plumbers. Not much in his background. Worked his way up.
Parental networking is vital for that first internship in UK.

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Another failure @ukhomeoffice.bsky.social

Rather than resolving problems, better to ruin lives obvs.

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What constitutes a ‘fair share’ is always up for debate!

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But they feel so good!

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People think that governments can do anything. This was probably never the case; and certainly isn’t now.

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