Martin Nesbit

@arrhenius

Former faceless bureaucrat, now having fun at IEEP. Tweets are in a personal capacity, particularly when they are opinionated or embarrassing.

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Joined January 2009
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  1. Retweeted
    17 hours ago

    BLOG: The government must match its rhetoric with the force of law, and a Westminster Environment Act will be an important part of this

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  2. 20 hours ago

    My desk, post spring clean. I cannot be expected to work in these sterile conditions. I need piles of paper again, eftsoons.

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  3. Apr 4

    How bad can it be if a pig-headed amateur takes over a major economy's trade policy? Let explain what the results of their online Prisoners Dilemma game suggest .

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    Apr 3

    The church in the 'dominant culture' backdrop here is the Chiesa di San Cataldo, "a notable example of Arab-Norman architecture" dating to a period when Sicily was "a crossroad for the interaction between Norman and Latin Catholic, Byzantine-Orthodox and Arab-Islamic cultures"

    If we want to defend our way of life we must know what determines us. Europe needs a debate on identity and dominant culture.
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  5. Retweeted
    Mar 29

    prize for metaphor of the day goes to who compares to antenatal classes. all focus on birth but ought to be on years that follow.

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  6. Retweeted
    Mar 29

    One year from today, we are set to leave the EU. Find out why the laws protecting nature in are under threat and why we need UK-wide co-operation now more than ever

    , , and 4 others
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  7. Mar 29

    How exciting it is to have a Chief Secretary with such an eccentric take on macroeconomic principles.

    The price of liberty is eternal fiscal vigilance. My piece for .
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  8. Mar 27

    It's interesting how clear the Speaker is now making it that he doesn't really give a monkeys about whether some in the Government and on Tory benches are hostile to his continued tenure

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  9. Mar 27

    Thanks for swiftly providing me with a refund for the booking tomorrow night thatmy host cancelled at short notice. Do I get any additional compensation, or help, for the hastle and high cost of securing a short-notice replacement place to stay?

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    Mar 21

    Two new studies showing 'catastrophic' free fall of bird populations on French farmland 'at breathtaking speed'. Le Monde journalist even hints at Rachel Carson's Silent Spring. Will reform be enough to trigger new agri model?

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  11. Mar 21

    Brexit through the medium of interpretative dance. Today: fisheries negotiations. On the right, ; on the left,

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  12. Retweeted
    Mar 16

    NEW BLOG. Longer than usual. But then it's not just about curlew

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    Mar 16

    IEEP’s explores EU external policy, arguing for making the policy integral to EU action on . Based on a new book on EU external policy by C. Adele, & , available here:

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    Mar 16

    It’s as if the intern who is only there cos his dad went to school with the boss has been allowed to become the front man! Him in defence at FCO. Not a good time for a foreign policy crisis

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    Defence Secretary Gavin Williamson says "Russia should go away" and "shut up"
    108 replies 395 retweets 1,019 likes
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  15. Mar 16

    Some useful reflections on agricultural policy post-Brexit from . I detect the hand of some former Defra / UKRep senior experts.

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    Mar 14

    Important comment from Senator George Michell, a key broker in the process that became the Good Friday Agreement.

    Senator George Mitchell calls for no return to hard border in Ireland after Brexit
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    Mar 13

    Nice to see my book in the flesh, as it were. Out today & available from all good bookshops. (There’s the test of a good bookshop.) Also available from .

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  18. Retweeted
    Mar 13

    Those who are responsible for the attack in in the must see very clearly that there is unequivocal, unwavering and very strong European solidarity with the British people and the British Government.

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  19. Mar 13

    Incapable leader ousts incompetent foreign minister. A useful precedent for Theresa May to follow?

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  20. Mar 13

    An excellent thread on the question of EU migrant workers in the UK, and whether they are paying in more in taxes than they receive in benefits.

    1/ Iain Duncan Smith (IDS) continues to portray East Europeans as a burden on the British welfare system. Has he got a point or is it just more xenophobic stereotyping?
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