Honoured to feature in the Economic Times #India along with my distinguished colleague Dr Rajdeep Singh of Delhi University on prospects for the #EU -India #FTA ! Spoiler alert: the marriage can thrive if both stay cool! #India #Europe

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What about wazzock?! Peter Smith

Nadhim Zahawi has agreed to pay the £3,000,000 tax bill he lied about and hid from HMRC.

He should be sent to jail for fraud.

RT if you want to see him in jail.

Ohh an anti-establishment party. I wonder which Oxford graduate gets to run it.

Summarising #Proust . Delighted to feature today in the journal @ModernDiplomacy on prospects for EU FTAs vs the countercurrents of the #GreenDeal and #StrategicAutonomy . The jury is out. But I could not resist a great Monty Python metaphor!
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Thomas White, an ordinary Briton with mental health issues, has been in prison for twelve years for the theft of a mobile phone.

Nadhim Zahawi, a Tory Chancellor who dodged £3.7 million in taxes, is allowed to slip off quietly into the night, without spending a day behind bars.

Disease and hunger soar in Latin America after floods and drought, study finds
Climate chaos is threatening food production, trade and lives, says World Meteorological Organization
#ClimateCrisis #ClimateActionNow
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Summarising #Proust . Delighted to feature today in the journal @ModernDiplomacy on prospects for EU FTAs vs the countercurrents of the #GreenDeal and #StrategicAutonomy . The jury is out. But I could not resist a great Monty Python metaphor!
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I have no crystal ball but I imagine India would be happy to conclude first with U.K. so as to send a message of low expectations to the EU. But I could be wrong!

john clarke Economic Times Delhi University Exactly- compromise attitude and realistic approach from the #EU side. More of it will be needed in next round of negotiations and hopefully will be better accepted but the renewed #EP after #EP 2024 elections.

'There is a dire need for the EU to try to see the world from the global south perspective and reflect urgently on a more realistic agenda.'

Governments these days must contend with competing #economicpressures , among which is #derisking from Chinese dependency without triggering retaliation. The struggle is real, john clarke writes, but the solution needs careful choices. Read more: buff.ly/4dozpX9

Indeed. She and her MP husband whom she miraculously replaced after his serious misdemeanours are hardly what the Labour Party needs. She seems to me to by a rank opportunist - just a rat leaving the sinking ship.

Honoured to feature in the Economic Times #India along with my distinguished colleague Dr Rajdeep Singh of Delhi University on prospects for the #EU -India #FTA ! Spoiler alert: the marriage can thrive if both stay cool! #India #Europe

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In the UK, political success comes from capturing the centre ground. Blair knew this in the 90s and did it. Starmer knows it now and is doing it. Sure, I personally would like to see him adopt more radical left-wing policies but I recognise that that is just my opinion and

In a perverse way Tyce and his Reform business cronies are right in saying that the tide has turned, join the revolution etc. The voters decisively revolted against their disgusting, racist and economically illiterate proposals. Time and Tide wait for no Tyce one might say!

In a perverse way Tyce and his Reform business cronies are right in saying that the tide has turned, join the revolution etc. The voters decisively revolted against their disgusting, racist and economically illiterate proposals. Time and Tide wait for no Tyce one might say!

Another epic in which our hero single-handedly takes on almost the entire economics and trade profession in thinking them irretrievably biased against him and his beloved and only he blessed of the wisdom that amazingly enough proves Brexit is all going terribly well thanks...

My (imperfect) pentameters on Thursday’s elections.

Sunak may boast but by now he is toast.
‘We have a plan!’ Sounds like Desperate Dan…
Tories are sinking; Labour’s not blinking.
Suella’s trending. She hastened the ending.
The voters said no to their racist s**tshow.

Had to go out, thought of filing a horror report from the terrified and woke streets of an inner-city London under a re-elected Sadiq Khan, but all I saw was people enjoying the sun and a couple of large shops patently short staffed.