Steve Analyst @emperorsnewc.bsky.social · 06/02/2026So Tom McTague, who a few years ago was recommending Hugo Young, has now written a book about our relationship with Europe which has been reviewed by Vernon Bogdanor who claimed Powell was a "committed" European before 1969. Now I just want to die. What's the use if the bullshit cycle never stops? 2233
Reposted by Steve AnalystAnand Menon @anandmenon.bsky.social · 23/09/2025Having pondered it all morning, I'm still incredulous that all that Today programme coverage of migrant hotels at no point (unless I missed it) mentioned why people were here, what they might be fleeing from etc. 36778169
Steve Analyst @emperorsnewc.bsky.social · 17/07/2025Any controversial position Farage takes won't be "Reform policy", but if he gets into power, Reform policy will be whatever Farage says on the day. 1268
Reposted by Steve AnalystLewis Goodall @lewisgoodall.com · 17/07/2025There is a lot of ill-informed commentary out there suggesting that the Afghan leak superinjunction is a story about transparency vs safety. That is not true, or at least it is not the full picture. Thread below. 1019876
Steve Analyst @emperorsnewc.bsky.social · 15/07/2025I've started on the "No Loss of Essential National Sovereignty" series. In the episode I cover the first year of the campaign to join and how the Kilmuir letter was actually dealt with, in opposed to what we've been told all these years. www.youtube.com/watch?v=PCO4...youtube.comNo Loss of Essential National Sovereignty - The Kilmuir LetterYouTube video by Steve Analyst 182
Reposted by Steve AnalystAlan Beattie @alanbeattie.bsky.social · 09/07/2025If the EU and specifically the holdout France cannot see that RIGHT NOW THIS MOMENT is the time to ratify its trade deal with Mercosur they are absolutely utterly totally hopeless.ft.comTrade war live: Donald Trump threatens Brazil with 50% tariffsUS president accuses country of launching a ‘witch-hunt’ against its former leader Jair Bolsonaro 611734
Steve Analyst @emperorsnewc.bsky.social · 09/07/2025The UK should have stood up to this. Everyone should have stood up to this. Now he's taken another step. 59336
Reposted by Steve AnalystAndrew Watt @andrewwatteu.bsky.social · 08/07/2025The EU would do better to reach agreement with the recipients of these screeds than with their author. The value of any agreement with the latter is dubious at best. A coordinated approach with Japan, Korea, China and other BRICS countries interested in rules-based trade would be powerful indeed. 37332
Steve Analyst @emperorsnewc.bsky.social · 08/07/2025Have they looked for the Epstein client list in the Mar-a-Lago bathrooms yet? 2345
Steve Analyst @emperorsnewc.bsky.social · 08/07/2025So, Ruth Lea is in the HoL too. I can only conclude the previous government basically packed it with extremists. 2100
Reposted by Steve AnalystSteve Peers @stevepeers.bsky.social · 11/06/2025If Brexity folks start crying crocodile tears about the people of Gibraltar, note that a) the Gibraltar first minister supports this deal b) Brexity people sure as hell didn't care how Gibraltar voted in the 2016 Brexit referendum 521330283
Reposted by Steve AnalystIan Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 11/04/2025One man is standing up for the rule of law in Britain. His reward is to be savagely attacked by right wing think tanks, newspapers & politicians. They understand where the battle against populism is taking place. And they've marshalled their forces accordingly. iandunt.substack.com/p/a-good-man... 812067705
Reposted by Steve AnalystAnna Jerzewska @annajerzewska.bsky.social · 09/04/2025You know what I'm going to say... The uncertainty and unpredictability are detrimental for businesses. You can work around tariffs (maybe not 125%🇨🇳) that you know will be in place for a year. You can't prepare for this, you can't mitigate this level of chaos. 2489
Reposted by Steve AnalystTony Yates @t0nyyates.bsky.social · 09/04/2025The US has just ripped up all of its deals and is trying to coerce the terms of a new one. The way it should work is non US countries coordinate retaliation and coercion of the US. EU will only cut its throat by submitting to the moving target of US demands. 75111
Reposted by Steve AnalystSteve Peers @stevepeers.bsky.social · 09/04/2025The available information was that Trump would enact the disastrous policies that he has in fact enacted 1116740
Reposted by Steve AnalystSteve Bullock @guitarmoog.bsky.social · 09/04/2025Weird seeing this nostalgia for mining from people who’ve never and would never have to go down a pit. My grandfather had no choice, really, and died of black lungs when my dad was 10 leaving a wife and three children and a £12 insurance payout. 412412
Reposted by Steve AnalystHolger Hestermeyer @hhesterm.bsky.social · 09/04/2025Now federalism and climate policies are threatened by the ever-expanding national security black hole. 01912
Reposted by Steve AnalystSteve Bullock @guitarmoog.bsky.social · 09/04/2025Executive order to ban The Federalist Papers from school libraries and curriculums. 1135
Reposted by Steve AnalystJim Pickard @pickardje.bsky.social · 08/04/2025Martin Wolf is not messing around here www.ft.com/content/d96d... 7638061484
Reposted by Steve AnalystKatie Martin @katie0martin.ft.com · 08/04/2025The hard Brexit vibes are so strong 1731139
Reposted by Steve AnalystSylvia de Mars @sylviademars.me · 08/04/2025Didn't think this was going to be multiples when I started typing, sorry, but hey ho: here's some basics on mutual recognition agreements, what they *aren't*, why the UK might want them, and why the EU has less incentive to offer them. 🧵 2103
Reposted by Steve AnalystSylvia de Mars @sylviademars.me · 08/04/2025To clarify recent reporting: mutual recognition of conformity assessment is not the same thing as mutual recognition of product regulation. It enables local bodies to certify compliance with foreign rules. It doesn't mean automatic access for foreign products - that only exists in the Single Market. 161
Steve Analyst @emperorsnewc.bsky.social · 07/04/2025It's starting to look like xenophobia may be the driving force behind these tariffs. Indulging victimhood to lash out at foreigners. It doesn't matter if the US are offshoring on foreign lands, or if foreign lands are offshoring to the US. The only common element is 'foreigners'. 1315
Steve Analyst @emperorsnewc.bsky.social · 07/04/2025"This proposal is along lines which Secretary Marshall and I thought about in Moscow in 1947 but which we did not believe the French would ever accept." A strange US response to the Schuman plan if the plan was to screw their country. 0140
Steve Analyst @emperorsnewc.bsky.social · 07/04/2025Trump is now threatening tariffs of over 100% on China. Apparently the solution to the economic strife is 'more tariffs!'telegraph.co.ukTrump tariffs latest: Trump threatens tariffs of over 100pc on ChinaDonald Trump has threatened to escalate his trade war on China with tariffs of over 100pc as the world’s stock markets continue to fall. 0102
Reposted by Steve AnalystThe Empty City @davidallengreen.bsky.social · 07/04/2025From a constitutionalist perspective the mad thing is that Congress could stop this at a stroke. The presidency only has tariff-setting powers as provided for by Congress. And Congress can take those powers away. But the Republicans in Congress would rather this happen than to do something. 9328112
Reposted by Steve AnalystSimon Nixon @nixonsimon.bsky.social · 07/04/2025Britain’s obsession with trying to negotiate exemptions from Trump’s tariffs is entirely the wrong approach. The overwhelming national interest lies in working with others to stand up to Trump and try to preserve as much as possible of the global trading system. Mark Carney is showing the wayopen.substack.comWhat Can Stop Trump plus other critical issuesThoughts on how to stop a trade crisis turning into a financial crisis, Carney's bid for global leadership, the rise of American poligarchy, and why imperialism is making a return 24762169
Steve Analyst @emperorsnewc.bsky.social · 07/04/2025Nice of the cult leader to ask his disciples to stop selling while the rest of us get our money out. 35911
Reposted by Steve AnalystPeter Foster @pmdfoster.bsky.social · 07/04/2025Some of the UK “Singapore” Brexit benefit stuff being trotted out is absurdly myopic. In the best traditions of Brexit, of course. The UK is trapped between two increasingly mercantilist trade blocs. It will keep paying a price that exceeds any arbitrage benefits. QED, the last eight years. 18561167
Reposted by Steve AnalystSam Lowe @samuelmarclowe.bsky.social · 07/04/2025Given everyone is interested in the advantages and disadvantages for Northern Ireland created by Trump tariffs, I wrote about it last week here: 22413
Reposted by Steve AnalystThe Empty City @davidallengreen.bsky.social · 07/04/2025NEW POST ON FORCE MAJEURE How Trump's tariffs can be a Force Majeure event for some contracts And why it depends on what a particular contract says By me Substack: emptycity.substack.com/p/how-trumps... Personal blog: davidallengreen.com/2025/04/how-...emptycity.substack.comHow Trump's tariffs can be a Force Majeure event for some contractsAnd why it depends on what a particular contract says 1313653
Reposted by Steve AnalystThe Secret Barrister @barristersecret.bsky.social · 07/04/2025There are many people in prison (including Ms Connolly) who in my view do not need to be there. But I’d venture that better evidence of a two-tier society is a national media outlet offering a soft focus profile minimising racist incitement to violence because a prisoner is married to a politician. 21569133
Reposted by Steve AnalystDavid Henig @davidheniguk.bsky.social · 07/04/2025While I see all your conspiracy theories I regret to inform you that the horrible truth is that an old man with a tariff obsession has been given almost unlimited power in the world's richest country. 1565255968
Reposted by Steve AnalystPalmer Report @palmerreport.com · 07/04/2025If Trump drives prices any higher, gold is going to be worth its weight in eggs 1251192
Reposted by Steve AnalystSantiago Mayer @santiagomayer.com · 07/04/2025All I’m saying is that President Harris wouldn’t have us looking at the futures market on a Sunday night. 586407085696
Steve Analyst @emperorsnewc.bsky.social · 07/04/2025If anyone is wondering what would have happened if Farage had been allowed to "implement Brexit". You're looking at it. 316833
Reposted by Steve AnalystSimon Nixon @nixonsimon.bsky.social · 06/04/2025My latest newsletter with thoughts on how to stop a trade crisis becoming a financial crisis, why Mark Carney is the leader the Rest of the West needs right now, the economic consequences of the rise of American poligarchy, and why imperalism is making a comeback open.substack.com/pub/nixons/p...open.substack.comWhat Can Stop Trump plus other critical issuesThoughts on how to stop a trade crisis turning into a financial crisis, Carney's bid for global leadership, the rise of American poligarchy, and why imperialism is making a return 519049
Steve Analyst @emperorsnewc.bsky.social · 06/04/2025"in the pursuit of globalisation" 🤦♂️ Technology has brought the world closer and closer. Nobody needed to "pursue" globalisation. It's a reality. Globalisation will continue regardless of whether anyone pursues it or not. They just had to accept it and manage it as best they can. 1182
Steve Analyst @emperorsnewc.bsky.social · 06/04/2025The UK's solution to globalisation in the 1970s was to join the EEC. Joining a Common Market and attempting to achieve zero friction of trade between developed economies to provide a competitive edge over the undeveloped economies who could undercut us in other ways. #JustSaying 172
Reposted by Steve AnalystAnna Jerzewska @annajerzewska.bsky.social · 06/04/2025This is literally the stupidest thing I've heard this year. They do realise that in order to trans-ship goods via a country or island there needs to be infrastructure there... a port... a customs administration etc? This makes zero sense. 46014
Reposted by Steve AnalystThe Empty City @davidallengreen.bsky.social · 06/04/2025Just had this blog comment on a post about the delays in prosecuting Trump, and I am convinced it is generated by AI. I have thousands of comments over the years, and this is just so neat and formulaic. It links back to a legal blog site, which in turn seems generated by AI. What a prospect. 1116319
Steve Analyst @emperorsnewc.bsky.social · 05/04/2025Watching 24. President Logan has admitted to supporting the selling of Sentox nerve gas to terrorists and the assassination of David Palmer. In this episode the Supreme Court ruled Logan could do whatever the hell he wants, and Jack Baur was chased by people screaming: "Lawfare!" 000
Reposted by Steve AnalystMarie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · 04/04/2025in this week's newsletter! an actually serious essay, in which I try to figure out why on earth so many of the mainstream political elites feel that the far right ought to be able to get away with everything: youngvulgarian.substack.com/p/why-the-el... [free to read!] 30593189
Reposted by Steve AnalystRoland Smith @rolandmcs.bsky.social · 05/04/2025This is as good as people say. 56716
Reposted by Steve AnalystTony Yates @t0nyyates.bsky.social · 05/04/2025We've reached the point where the current govt is hitting the highs of the previous one in terms of farce and wrong-headedness in their thinking and communications. 515025
Steve Analyst @emperorsnewc.bsky.social · 05/04/2025Someone cited the 1993 Vernon Bogdanor argument for a referendum on Maastricht yesterday, and having gone back and looked, it's just terrible. This guy is supposed to be one of Britain's clever ones. www.independent.co.uk/voices/why-t...independent.co.ukWhy the people should have a vote on Maastricht: The House of LordsTHE PROSPECT of a government mauling by prominent Conservative peers has obscured the most important issue in the Lords' consideration of the European Communities (Amendment) Bill. This is not whether... 3143