James Meek

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[James Meek @_jamesmeek]

@postsocialismus Thanks Jeremy

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@Sam_Dumitriu @hw_moore Isn’t there evidence for the emergence of a schism in all kinds of markets between the top end, where there is competition between luxury providers, and the bottom, where provision is basically whatever’s available, with a yawning gap in the middle?

[James Meek @_jamesmeek]

@Sam_Dumitriu @hw_moore I’m ready to believe it, but I would appreciate a link to a cross-country meta-study showing the data to back this up for post-1995 conditions. I’m sceptical that developers will build maximally into their own price headwind

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@Sam_Dumitriu @hw_moore I’m also open to the possibility that the developers overpaid for the land on the basis of a calculated risk of what people and their elected representatives would put up with.

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@Sam_Dumitriu @hw_moore I don’t hear anybody round here fighting to save the Aylesham Centre. They just think the replacement could be better.

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@TDBotty @Ed_Miliband The only way Reform's plans would make energy cheaper for British industry and households would be if Reform forced private companies to sell their oil and gas to Brits at cost - but then why would those firms bother to invest in it in the first place?

[James Meek @_jamesmeek]

@TDBotty @Ed_Miliband The consensus estimate is that Britain currently produces just over one per cent of global oil and gas, and that if all restrictions on fracking and licensing were lifted, that might double - so not really enough to affect the world oil and gas price.

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Wrote this about a year ago after a trip to Greenland - Trump has become more menacing, Denmark, as a result, seemed the better overlord, otherwise it holds good https://t.co/tJjtAPggZ3

[Tymofiy Mylovanov @Mylovanov]

On New Year’s Day, I remember those in our university community who died defending Ukraine

Daria Lopatina 1/

[James Meek @_jamesmeek]

Sadiq Khan, democratically elected mayor of my city, is, as far as I know, a decent, ordinary, honest person, trying to do a difficult job as best he can. I'm a white, baptised, halachically Jewish aetheist, British born, with one passport. I voted for him, and I'd do it again.

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@NeilPHauer Appreciate your good work here. Will you be writing about the manpower situation on the Ukrainian side - any changes? And has the introduction of corps made any difference, or are the troops completely cynical about it?

[John Foreman CBE @John_ForemanCBE]

'Europe doesn't want to fight Russia over Ukraine; that's the fundamental problem', Foreman summarised, predicting that 'there won't be enough troops to deter Russia, and there's no commitment to punish Russia if they break the ceasefire.' Europe can help, but the outcome will once again depend on Ukraine'.

As voters, we are all owed much more clarity and openness on the Coalition of the Willing than we are currently getting. Too many known/unknowns.

[James Meek @_jamesmeek]

This lays out the wickedness of the Israeli government's actions very plainly. https://t.co/KhaPiN1QBP

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For the record: Ukraine's extraordinarily generous, self-sacrificing peace offer to Russia, reported today by Reuters. In a nutshell: frozen conflict, frozen assets https://t.co/2DctQC8VUz

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@Aviation_Intel Like sending a guy on a Yamaha R1 out after a swarm of wasps

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Francis Farrell makes a crucial point - ‘ceding territory’ Russia has already captured is a whole different world from pressuring Ukraine to give up land it has successfully defended. We still don’t know which one the new, pro-Putin America will go for, although I can guess

[Francis Farrell @francisjfarrell]

Dear journalists and analysts:

The phrase "ceding territory" is vague at heart, and the ambiguity it creates in these discussions, from NYT headlines to think tank reports is straight-up dangerous. It could mean any of the following very different things:
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[Tatarigami_UA @Tatarigami_UA]

As hurtful as it sounds, the United States is siding with Russia by demanding Ukrainian resources and threatening with action for refusal to comply. We are being robbed by the world's two largest nuclear powers. Welcome back to the 21st-century Molotov-Ribbentrop reality

[James Meek @_jamesmeek]

@shashj Right because putting European troops in the country under threat from 90 per cent of the Russian army would really leave Europe vulnerable to the other 10 per cent