If you want to stop the dynamic alignment, you withdraw from the original arrangement. With limited (and agreed) exceptions, you can’t pick and choose about subsequent changes. That’s the whole point.
I’m cautious about signing up to too much where the UK commits to follow future EU changes without any say (aka dynamic alignment). But if Parliament agrees to dynamic alignment in certain areas, it makes no sense to require primary legislation for every subsequent change.
My piece for @capx.co on why globalisation hasn’t failed but is a victim of its own success.
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Ha ha - you were in Govt, surely there’s no better place to witness it. Including security folk classifying everything so highly no one else can read it.
“But apart from that, Mrs Lincoln, how was the play ?”
OK where do I file my compensation law suit ?
It’s about time you grew up Sam !
I’d say more than slightly hypocritically, given what else they are up to ! But let’s hope a “clear eyed” engagement is possible (to use the overused phrase about relations with another large power).
Great article @antonspisak.bsky.social
How do you stop getting 90% of your @bsky.app feed being about US politics ?
Bethnal Green Young V&A
I see that the EU supported China in arguing that the US Inflation Reduction Act breached WTO rules, with which unsurprisingly the WTO panel agreed. How does that square with Buy European restrictions I wonder ?
Surely not “cherrypicking” ?
Hold on now …
Always goods to read @robertshrimsley.bsky.social Rutherford Hall @financialtimes.com. An adjacent article on gym equipment seems to have escaped from the column…
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Well it has now because it has been broken. But that doesn’t mean it always was, which is what Carney said.
Would you say that a speech one of whose main points was misleading was brilliant ? I agree with Martin Wolf @financialtimes.com that Mark Carney’s comparison of Communism and the rules based system was misleading (“The reality of a world after rupture”). That seems a pretty major flaw in the speech
Great analysis in trademark style !
Having to seek refuge on @bsky.app from the ugliness on X. The Andy Burnham recriminations are like a war with no prisoners taken.
Great stuff ! Do you like Wayne Thiebaud ?
The question we’re all asking is whether FIFA will demand that President Trump hands back the world peace award they gave him recently.
Only 12 ?
Ignacio Bercero going for the jugular here. This means it really is serious.
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Anything happening today ?
Agree. And when China does something which harms its own people everyone knows it doesn’t care. Europe not so much.
“The internet is not a fantasy. It is a real place, real life. X remains a public square. Bluesky, by contrast, is where the teachers’ pets meet after class to study.” Stella Tsantekidou @newstatesman1913.bsky.social Ouch ! But true.
“The dangerous triumph of neo-mercantilism” great article by Martin Wolf @financialtimes.com. Most politicians are instinctively neomercantilist: they laud exports and decry imports. But many also see that better living standards require economic change. That’s the case for liberalism.
It’s bad enough that @gideonrachman.bsky.social ‘s articles @FT are always wholly predictable. But he’s stretched the elastic even further by suggesting that Trump’s tariffs should “prompt Keir Starmer to rejoin the single market.” What, tomorrow ? How about the EU just drop its barriers instead ?
I agree that many commentators who say you can’t take action against individual MS are mistaken, but I wonder how easy it is to actually identify where many EU products come from. Time for a RoO explainer @samuelmarclowe.bsky.social