William Finlator

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Journalist, researcher. The Economist, Spectator and others

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@Noahpinion @noahpinion How do you know this will be the continuing paradigm? The only certainty is uncertainty with an object whose methods are more sophisticated than our ability to comprehend them?

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@AlexBerenson This is trump's idea of what the solution is by the way

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@clairlemon @JeffLadish And it still could mean many many deaths, or even an unliveable plannet, risks aren't diminishing, they're just adding cumulatively.

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@Dominic2306 This is no issue for nation states, the infrastructure of global authority far exceeds the complexity of these issues...

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@lordsambrah There could be no future history books...

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Some additional reflections on visiting Ceuta in July-August on my Substack, or the cognitive dissonance of being a journalist: https://t.co/ylu6d2kXXp

[The New Statesman @NewStatesman]

Having risked their lives to swim around the frontera in the hope of a better life in Europe, most of the Moroccans still in Ceuta seemed crestfallen. Since Spain joined the Schengen Convention in 1991, Ceuta and Melilla have been treated as administratively separate entities. It is impossible to travel to Spain proper without further passport checks – and so while those who crossed to Ceuta were technically in Spain, they were no closer to Europe than when in Morocco.

Some of those who were yet to return hadn’t quite accepted this reality: they were desperately hoping they could still find a way. Aziz, an Afghan national, who looked to be in his forties, had been travelling for over a month to get to Ceuta. He told me he had been “fleeing from the government”. He said he had flown to Libya, and then had trekked across, first to Algeria, then Morocco. Although claiming asylum looked difficult, he was adamant: “I am not going back to Morocco.” Most of the remaining new entries were left either milling around Ceuta or headed for CETI, the temporary migrant processing facility in the hills above the city, in the hope that they might successfully claim for asylum.

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Some reportage for the @NewStatesman, from when I was in Ceuta: https://t.co/3eK8ajmISe

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When in Ceuta I provided some reportage for The Economist, found here: https://t.co/20Nl7C18P8

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A little article in the new years' edition of @TheEconomist, courtesy of me: https://t.co/e3MyoTHFcv

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Wrote this for @TheEconomist: https://t.co/j2KtrNM80W

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What's the point of a pseudonymous blog when you promote it under your own name and photos of you are very much in the post itself? I don't know. But anyway, here is my latest blog about visiting China: https://t.co/bCNolbxCan

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I wrote this for @TheEconomist on why Africa is building a new set of supertall towers: https://t.co/Skq45SEDtv

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I wrote this article for @TheEconomist. Check it out

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Why are African governments building higher? At a time of high debt, tight budgets and dwindling foreign-aid payments, economic motives are doubtful https://t.co/SI4p4aQTXs

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Why African governments are building higher https://t.co/vsTNIV1dfe

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I recenty visited Addis Ababa. An amazing city. Here are some reflections on my psuedonymous blog: https://t.co/xheFRn9xxR

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@RoryStewartUK @RestIsPolitics They've been doing this in Africa for a good while. Setting up hybridised networks of disinformation that include hiring influencers, setting up things that look like official news networks (Africa Initiative in Burkina for example) as well as bots.

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Appeared in this with @holysmoke and @michaelgove

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🎙️Sale of the century: why is the Kirk selling off hundreds of churches so cheaply?

Listen to Holy Smoke with Damian Thompson below 👇

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The Tragedy of Scotland's Church Sell-Off, by me, in this week's Spectator: https://t.co/hBgAQ1zuxa