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Jonathan Hibberd
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Gatwick has to be the most shouty airport I've used for a while.
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IR/European Studies/Ukraine/Visegrád4/higher ed Rail/train stuff
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Jonathan Hibberd
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Gatwick has to be the most shouty airport I've used for a while.
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Jill Lewis 🌻
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If you've been stationed in Russia the odds are they've got something on you...
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Bellingcat
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If you've come here from X we're not having the same issue on this platform as we have there. The link to this article is still being miscategorized as spam despite our reports to X. The link to the investigation below should work on Bluesky as it appears to be an X only issue.
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Mark Chadbourn
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UCL Associate Professor in Global Politics Brian Klaas on what Americans can learn from the UK election:
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Jonathan Hibberd
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If you don't want to admit Ukraine to NATO, give an alternative. Arm Ukraine like South Korea.
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EUwatch 🇪🇺
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Orbán parrots Putin’s lines on Ukraine in leaked letter to EU chief
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Jonathan Hibberd
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Try to imagine someone bombing Great Ormond Street. That's what Russia did to Ukraine this morning.
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Jonathan Hibberd
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I would suggest that some of those inclined to the far right agree with the rhetoric but still somehow have the presence of mind to see that far right government would offer no credible solutions.
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Jonathan Hibberd
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Interesting that a French colleague of mine was able to vote online. How secure is it? I don't know but banks manage it. Meanwhile arrangements for Brits abroad to vote are still hopeless.
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Farewell to British combat medic Peter Fouche held in Kyiv
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Jonathan Hibberd
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I don't suppose Orbán raised the issue of the status and rights of the repressed Finno-Ugric minorities in Russia, including the closest relatives to Hungarian, the Khanty and Mansi, who can only dream of the rights ethnic Hungarians have in Ukraine.
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Jonathan Hibberd
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The French system sort of allows you to get your protest vote out of the way in the first round and then vote sensibly in the second
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Jonathan Hibberd
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Maybe that 'Yellow Tories' thing actually came in handy in the end
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Jonathan Hibberd
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In 1938 Hungary's leader Horthy made an agreement with a fascist dictator with the aim of recovering territories lost at Trianon. In 2024 Viktor Orbán meets with a Russian fascist dictator, probably with the aim of doing the same thing. I hope it ends equally badly for him.
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Jonathan Hibberd
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I wonder if Putin is threatening to break every bone in Orbán's body or telling him to 'dip his hands in blood'
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Jonathan Hibberd
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In this sense I hope Starmer is 'dishonest' and moves towards sensible agreements on issues like customs and common travel
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Jonathan Hibberd
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The thing no one's talking about this morning is, whether they're aware of it or not, this has happened whilst the first effects of hard Brexit on our cost of living are being felt. If Labour insist on taking up this baton in full they're going to feel the effects of it next time
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Jonathan Hibberd
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Nothing to be wildly excited about with Labour's current plans but it will at least be a functioning, serious government. The end of the era of pseudo-government of the past 5 years is very welcome.
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Jonathan Hibberd
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Hertfordshire looks beautiful this morning
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Jonathan Hibberd
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I get the impression party discipline has been key this time. Noticeable how Labour and Lib Dems stayed out of each other's way this time.
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Jonathan Hibberd
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13 seats for Reform, if true, is a disaster
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Jonathan Hibberd
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How would they know? 😳
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David Quantick
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Today is National Mummy Didn't Make My Labour Party The Way I Wanted It Day. Just vote, you can have pudding in heaven.
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Jonathan Hibberd
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My dear mother, a proud Brit and Leave voter, said 'I wouldn't go to Dubai, it's built on slavery'. Erm, who's going to tell her...? 😬
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Jonathan Hibberd
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Sadly no
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Nostalgic Things
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Hard to believe that it’s already 1010 years since we lost Æthelstan Ætheling.
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Jonathan Hibberd
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Interesting to observe that Dutch (or Flemish at least) has a word 'wachtzaal' similar to the word 'vokzal' and also used here in connection with rail travel.
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Jonathan Hibberd
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The plane has more than one bar?
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Jonathan Hibberd
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8 years on from the referendum and I'm at the airport in Holland getting stamped whilst Swiss, Norwegians etc. don't. Fingerprinting on the way. But there's no sign Labour is going to do anything to address this.
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Jonathan Hibberd
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Good that they run a direct bus to Tilburg from Turnhout station. Easy connection and timings good (doubt that's by design tbh). Comfort wise the vehicle could be improved... 😬 #CrossBorderRail
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EUwatch 🇪🇺
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Starmer’s growth plan ‘doomed’ without access to EU markets, warn economists
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Jonathan Hibberd
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In Belgium fireworks sales are legal but in Holland they aren't. Apparently lots of issues with smuggling. Have heard that the Dutch side has the sex shop but this may be apocryphal.
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Jonathan Hibberd
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I wonder whose 'house style' the station would be in if it came back. Would definitely be fun.
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Jonathan Hibberd
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Yes. Often the way. In fairness it's been closed about 90 years at this point.
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Jonathan Hibberd
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What do we reckon to this one @jonworth.eu as regards #CrossBorderRail? My heart says bring back the railway. My head says the buses work pretty well, run frequently and late in the evenings and take a direct route. But good that the route is preserved in case of an eventual sea change.
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Jonathan Hibberd
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A railway line used to run through here between Tournhout and Tilbilurg but closed a long time ago, in the 30s. It's now a trail.
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Jonathan Hibberd
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Fortunately these little reminders are posted on lampposts around town so you know whose jurisdiction you're in.
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Jonathan Hibberd
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Have to keep checking my phone to figure out which country I'm in
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Jonathan Hibberd
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Catching the bus from Holland to Holland via Belgium
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Jonathan Hibberd
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Sipping coffee on old railway turntable in Tilburg
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Jonathan Hibberd
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Eindhoven Centraal already via airport bus. Everything very quick once you clear Brexit control.
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Jonathan Hibberd
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Off to Holland. And then Belgium. And then Holland again. And then...
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Jonathan Hibberd
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In the light of Farage's comments, it's really sad to have to bring this up again. This is a blog post I wrote 8 years ago about why EU 'expansion' is not to blame for what happened to Ukraine europesfringe.wordpress.com/2016/05/10/u...
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Jonathan Hibberd
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I must say, I live in a Labour safe seat so it's quite nice to just vote the way I want without worrying. If it was a marginal it's different.
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Jonathan Hibberd
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I think some people are feeling tactical voting is less important this time.
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Mark Chadbourn
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The hapless Tories just can’t cut a break. Their big ad today is a roulette wheel and a voiceover about Labour gambling… As the Gambling Commission investigates two of their candidates and CCHQ is being very shady about how many more might come to light.
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Jonathan Hibberd
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Jonathan Hibberd
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One unexpected outcome of Euro 2024 is that it's killing the myth of Germany having good trains. Perhaps people might start also reflecting that a state-owned railway, whilst having some pluses, is not the magic bullet.
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Jonathan Hibberd
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Sa-kart-ve-lo
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Jonathan Hibberd
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There was this thing when it first started of every other post there mocking twixter but in an oddly professional smug way. It put me off.
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