Posts by David Walker
Pour les pêcheurs britanniques, déjà en difficulté depuis le Brexit, la crise dans le détroit d'Ormuz complique tout. Conséquence : le prix du fish and chips augmente ou la recette change pour des poissons moins chers.
Caroline Fourest annonce son départ de Grasset : «Vincent Bolloré vient de pilonner la valeur de la marque qu’il possédait»
Canary in the World Cup coal mine?
Fascinating contrast with the UK's grovelling towards US tech giants.
Remember how France was long mocked for its tech nationalism - cringey home-grown search engines that flopped etc.
Now, as Mujtaba says, it's on the way to insulating itself somewhat from US tech giants.
Salame d’asino
Just don't go.
I thought traditional Catholics cleaved to papal infallibility
New LGR unitaries ‘designed to fail’ with 500,000 population ‘guideline’ not met www.room151.co.uk/funding/new-...
"Rob, how can you keep saying that Lisa Nandy doesn't exist when she gives all these interviews about how she does exist and is definitely turning up to work every day at her department which she insists also exists?"
Proxys, voyous, diplomates, loups solitaires… Depuis 40 ans, l'Iran n'a cessé de perfectionner son art du terrorisme à distance. Petit tour d'horizon des méthodes de Téhéran pour frapper ses ennemis en Occident sans toujours se salir les mains
Sad to mark the death of Jeremy Beecham, a loyal servant of local government in the North East and nationally
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And how he dodges Brussels’ anti-graft measures.
It takes money, time, patience and really good lawyers to report this kind of stuff. Buy a paper! #buyapaper
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This 1988 interview by @pollytoynbee.bsky.social is shockingly prophetic—not just the Iran & specifically Kharg Island bits, but her closing question
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More and more organizations, publishers, and creators are abandoning legacy platforms that throttle their reach. Bluesky gives them a direct line to their audiences, without suppression or gatekeeping bsky.app/profile/eff....
The brilliant @lewisbaston.bsky.social and I are compiling a very, very comprehensive guide to the London borough elections in partnership with Lowick Hedry. Not long before it's available. Sign up for your copy here: londondecides.lowickhedry.com @rafaelbehr.bsky.social @matthewfright.bsky.social
Almost Ian Leslie-like in its wrongness
The stakes of the election could not be higher: if Orbán wins, #Hungary will continue its slide into autocracy domestically and will keep blocking joint action at the EU level wrote @zecsaky.bsky.social in her @centreeuropeanref.bsky.social insight, read here:
On fête outre-Manche aussi (pas d’EDF, pas de lumière)
Now we can breathe for a moment…
The decimation of youth services across the country was one of the most damaging legacies of post-2010 austerity. We saw its consequences every day in London. Great to see this investment from @london.gov.uk
💬 L’Europe fait face à un séisme énergétique. Thierry Bros, expert du secteur, avertit : le bouclier tarifaire ne reviendra pas. Pour les Français, la sobriété ne sera plus un slogan, mais une nécessité budgétaire ➡️ https://l.lepoint.fr/p1H