Anthony Barnett
@anthonybarnett
‘Notes on Now’ every month in Byline Times, Co-founder openDemocracy Led Charter 88 from 1988-2005. Iron Britannia; The Lure of Greatness; Taking Control! Etc Online articles in Authory.
Very glad to see this from @stephenkb.bsky.social I read it in proof and have never stopped thinking about it.
Here: @judithherrin.bsky.social opening my subscription copy of the impressive @equatormag.bsky.social
Very sorry to learn that the magnificent David Potter died on Sunday evening. A pioneering mathematical physicist, he founded Psion, created the first hand-held organizer and oversaw Symbian, the standard mobile operating system. He was a wonderful philanthropist and supporter of @opendemocracy.net
When it comes to the 10th anniversary of Brexit on the 23rd, I'm heading to Brussels with @europeforscotland.bsky.social
Is this really a gray squirrel - it’s even a bit redder than in these long distance phone pics?
Never forget that the Nobel Peace Prize was awarded jointly to Le Duc Tho as well: Vietnam's negotiator. He refused it as there was no peace. When I interviewed him in Hanoi in 1980, he dismissed Kissinger as "a liar".
The last time I was in Grosvenor Sq for a demonstration it was 1968✊
I was there in 1980 and brought Hu Num's 'confession' out from Tuol Sleng. You can get an idea of what it was like a year after Vietnam's defeat of Pol Pot with recovery just under way and US led sanctions still being imposed, in my articles collected here
This half lets them off into their frankly lazy rhetoric. Britain is not a nation. “Binding” into it removes the right of self-determination from Scots & Welsh. To survive UK needs to be a free union of its nations.
Staggering and sad that IPPR, who published this pioneering work on England in the UK can run www.ippr.org/articles/rec... by Parth Patel and @npjgarland.bsky.social on 'National' renewal without acknowledging that Britain is a multi-national state not a nation AND then stick on an English flag
Classic bully-boy ploy to make yourself out as a victim - from the master manipulator!
Yes Mandelson oversaw fees. I won't publish on X. This is from my Intro to FIGHT BACK, editor @danhancox.bsky.social you can read here: felixcohen.co.uk/FightBack/ @nicholasguyatt.bsky.social, @jemgilbert.bsky.social and even Alan Finlayson
A giant passes on. Rest in Strength Susan George. Author of How the Other Half Dies www.tni.org/en/article/s...
England on this beautiful, sunny day. Literally full of SH*T. Might there be a political message in the fumes. www.sewagemap.co.uk
This Daily Mail leader spelt it out in September. Danny Kruger defected within a week. Jenrick is part of a clear shared understanding across the right there there must be only one right wing candidate per constituency at the next election