Adam Watson Brown @awb58.bsky.social · 13hMuch tear gas down at Brussels South Station at lunchtime today where I dined with Roger Guinery late of King’s, maybe known to you. The trots had taken over by the time we’d paid our bill. 010
Adam Watson Brown @awb58.bsky.social · 13hKemi is deemed popular ´Because, as I say, there is nothing so powerful in British politics as the right-wing unreality machine.’ 000
Adam Watson Brown @awb58.bsky.social · 13hLess faff per defence buck and Euro. Procurement has always been performative . 000
Adam Watson Brown @awb58.bsky.social · 08/10/2026Many debatable points here, but deindustrialisation has already started long before she was in power. UK industry was uncompetitive. 000
Adam Watson Brown @awb58.bsky.social · 08/10/2026Dan posted some chats today on whom the CON proposal would benefit. Yep, in geo terms it’s London home owners. 000
Adam Watson Brown @awb58.bsky.social · 08/10/2026The game has several levels, nice words from politicians; and then there is EU political machinery, and national interest. 210
Adam Watson Brown @awb58.bsky.social · 07/10/2026Metaphorically, yes! I would not mind IHT so much if Londoners whose families have paid it for 3 or 4 generations weren’t competing in the London property markets against the international rich who haven’t. And there are knock-on FX all the way down the property ladder. 310
Adam Watson Brown @awb58.bsky.social · 07/10/2026That’s cojones as such households are are probably paying CGT and higher rate tax already. 100
Adam Watson Brown @awb58.bsky.social · 07/10/2026The ceilings haven’t been raised in lines with inflation, but hey, this is a flashier policy. 000
Adam Watson Brown @awb58.bsky.social · 07/10/2026Check how letter post is declining because of email, etc. High fixed costs need to be spread to spread over a smaller volume of letters. 000
Adam Watson Brown @awb58.bsky.social · 06/10/2026That reorientation towards Dublin might be positive. 000
Adam Watson Brown @awb58.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Caspar David Friedrich vibes at VF, west coast style. 000
Reposted by Adam Watson BrownMatt Hodges @matthodges.bsky.social · 03/10/2026There's growing experimental evidence¹˒²˒³˒⁴ that LLMs are unusually good at talking people out of entrenched false beliefs and conspiracy theories. ¹ pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39264999/ ² pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/41179846/ ³ sciety.org/articles/act... ⁴ connecticut.adl.org/resources/re... 36840217
Adam Watson Brown @awb58.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Yes, but Brexiters ‘priors’ still say that Brexit worked. It’s gut feeling. 000
Adam Watson Brown @awb58.bsky.social · 04/10/2026I’d hope for good risk assessments. Would that be enough? 000
Adam Watson Brown @awb58.bsky.social · 03/10/2026Protectionism is an EU-minus UK artifact not IMO part of EU DNA. 000
Reposted by Adam Watson BrownDr Stylite @columnist.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Brexit Brexile Brexodus Breturn Brentrer Breaction Brealism Breality Brecognition Brevulsion Breverse Bremorse Brecap Brebound Brevolution Brefreshing Brexecution Breavement Brextinct 5010222
Adam Watson Brown @awb58.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Agreed. EU IA is not objective. Considering the vast, formalist edifice that Better Regulation became, absence of IA is erosion of BR. 000
Adam Watson Brown @awb58.bsky.social · 01/10/2026´Value-engineering’ has curtailed or written the goods lift out of the spec. ‘Moins cher pour vous, as we say in Belgium. 000
Adam Watson Brown @awb58.bsky.social · 01/10/2026An old building, a new building or a cheap building of any period? 100
Reposted by Adam Watson BrownSteve Peers @stevepeers.bsky.social · 01/10/2026EU adopts new Returns Regulation, including stricter rules on expulsion and detention of non-EU citizens not authorised to stay - www.consilium.europa.eu/en/press/pre... Updated analysis of the new Regulation, by Dr. Izabella Majcher - eulawanalysis.blogspot.com/2026/07/the-...eulawanalysis.blogspot.comThe Regulation of Shame: When Far-Right Ideas Become EU Return LawDr. Izabella Majcher , Independent Consultant Photo credit : Shutterstock * Updated 1 October 2026 to refer to the adoption of the ... 21712
Adam Watson Brown @awb58.bsky.social · 01/10/2026‘Given that the Commission's proposal was not accompanied by an impact assessment…’ It’s political… 100
Adam Watson Brown @awb58.bsky.social · 01/10/2026At today’s low interest rates? Better an index tracker fund. 010
Adam Watson Brown @awb58.bsky.social · 01/10/2026The ‘Buy American Act’ is still in force. Passed in 1933. We live in a post-irôny world however. 000
Adam Watson Brown @awb58.bsky.social · 01/10/2026There are international tax agreements, difficult to change, the most likely reason. I have not researched this, but from memory. 000
Adam Watson Brown @awb58.bsky.social · 01/10/2026For many, Brexit is up there alongside Munich and Suez as a failure not just of policy but of world view. I paraphrase Chris’s assessment. 010
Adam Watson Brown @awb58.bsky.social · 30/09/2026The big action climax, subsequently and tiresomely, blowing up the villain’s hideout, ad nauseam. 000
Adam Watson Brown @awb58.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Very good indeed! Bond films can be segmented into the tighter ones like FRWL, OHMSS, and Skyfall versus the sprawling travelogue spectaculars. Goldfinger is still quite fast moving. 010
Adam Watson Brown @awb58.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Somewhat In the same vein, The Bulletin once reported that a policeman drew his side arm and shot a lorry’s tire. Sadly the round bounced off and killed a woman passing by. Decades ago, this was. What would Q have said? 000
Adam Watson Brown @awb58.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Much enjoyed the, er, homage to North By North West as a boy. The chase still looks good. 121
Reposted by Adam Watson BrownFrédéric Moreau @goodclimate.bsky.social · 28/09/2026This is very, very good. 37239
Adam Watson Brown @awb58.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Sony adapted Betamax into an entry level professional camcorder system called Betacam. It sold well. 010
Adam Watson Brown @awb58.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Jean Tirole: "L'Europe est aujourd'hui dans la position du zèbre dans la savane'" www.lecho.be/opinions/gen...lecho.beJean Tirole: "L'Europe est aujourd'hui dans la position du zèbre dans la savane'"L’Europe est le «zèbre» de la rivalité sino-américaine, estime le prix Nobel d’économie Jean Tirole: assez puissante pour être une cible, trop peu armée pour imposer ses conditions. 000
Adam Watson Brown @awb58.bsky.social · 27/09/2026À Belgian was the first to introduce chips into UK. Sold with a pea option, not with fish. My parents would bring fish and chips back to the house in the sixties: all soggy as the seller didn’t tear a hole à la Belge to allow condensation to escape. 000
Reposted by Adam Watson BrownGarvan Walshe @garvanwalshe.org · 27/09/2026Top thread. It hints that in the modern world countries have relationships with each other, and we can debate and change the rules governing them, but invoking the magic word sovereignty doesn’t make them disappear. 031
Adam Watson Brown @awb58.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Is there any catalyst that might dissolve some of the red lines? 111
Adam Watson Brown @awb58.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Art, antiques, fiddly stuff, and already subject to CGT surely. For the bank subsidy, I don’t know enough about it, but suppression sounds good. 000
Adam Watson Brown @awb58.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Hitler is receding into heritage. I hope this is accessible as it’s a good piece. app.thenewworld.co.uk/story/162684...app.thenewworld.co.ukWhat happens when we forget Hitler?The second world war forged our moral order. As memories fade and the truth is twisted, that is falling apart – and no one knows what will replace it 000
Reposted by Adam Watson BrownSunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 26/09/2026A dramatic spike in small boats daily arrivals on Wednesday: 781 people on 10 boats. This means the year-on-year drop is now 42% rather than 44% The BBC reporting is now putting context *much* higher But shows the challenge that visible optics remain more reportable than invisible trends. 33010
Adam Watson Brown @awb58.bsky.social · 26/09/2026If you have the money to buy the advice, you’ll always reduce your tax bill. 010
