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@HJJoyceEcon

Radical centrist, Continuity Remainer, citizen of nowhere, saboteur. The Economist's Finance editor. I tweet about Brexit, Brazil - & other stuff.

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Joined January 2013
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  1. 14 hours ago

    Fair enough, really shouldn’t be too much to ask

    I don't want a new "centrist" party. I want a left-wing party that's not led by dim, West-hating, racist-enabling, Europhobic moral illiterates stuck in the 70s/80s, & riddled with fanboys & thugs who blindly defend to the hilt any awful thing they do. Seems I'm shit out of luck.
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    24 hours ago

    Artist Susanna Bauer adds thread and crochet to dried leaves, creating miniature artworks

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  3. 24 hours ago

    The best thing written on the GFA, by a country mile

    Using today's anniversary of the Good Friday Agreement as an excuse to re-up my long read of a couple of weeks ago on the peace process, the border and Brexit
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    Apr 10

    I am deeply sorry that my remarks in a meeting last month were recorded, and that they were so unambiguous.

    "I am deeply sorry that my informal remarks in a meeting last month have led to a misunderstanding"
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  5. Apr 10

    very good piece in the 'God give me patience' strain that British politicians talking about Ireland too often inspire

    Vexed by Mr Davis, I wrote this up at greater length.
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    Apr 10

    This is such rubbish. As far as I can find out DD has been to neither Dublin nor Belfast since being appointed....

    Exclusive: David Davis says the Irish border problem is complicated because Leo Varadkar’s government has a “strong influence from Sinn Fein”
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    Apr 10

    On the 20th anniversary of Good Friday Agreement a very senior UK cabinet figure is spreading this nonsense. The Irish border is complicated because Davis wants to leave Single Market and Customs Union

    Exclusive: David Davis says the Irish border problem is complicated because Leo Varadkar’s government has a “strong influence from Sinn Fein”
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    Apr 10

    If this is what David Davis really thinks then he’s a fool. There must be someone in the civil service who could give him a tutorial on Irish politics?

    Exclusive: David Davis says the Irish border problem is complicated because Leo Varadkar’s government has a “strong influence from Sinn Fein”
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  9. Apr 10

    Janan Ganesh really, really doesn't understand the Good Friday Agreement.

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  10. Apr 9

    This is sobering.

    Powerfully written blog post by the owner of a small manufacturing business: Why Brexit Will Devastate U.K. Manufacturers: A Rare Treat to Boring Facts
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    Apr 9

    Fernando Henrique Cardoso: "When there is fear, the conservative aspects of Brazilian society are exrpessed with nore force, and once again that sensation of fear has returned". Good report by via

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  12. Apr 9

    The big mystery is that someone smart enough that they are capable of learning to read and write can still be stupid enough to be taken in by being told that this is a dastardly 'plot'

    UK: Fuck off. EU: Ok. Bye. UK: Why are you fucking off? That's so unfair!!
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    Apr 9

    One thing I’ve learned from responses to the Hungarian election is that people who generally hate foreigners often have a soft spot for foreign racists.

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    Apr 9

    Searing Junot Diaz in new .

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  15. Apr 9

    It is a great piece, and profoundly troubling. Jair Bolsonaro as president surely not impossible. Very far from impossible...

    Great story from re: Brazil: ‘It’s time we brought back some morals to this country’: Backlash sparks conservative revival across Latin America
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  16. Apr 9

    This is exactly how it will play out

    "New Deal" THOSE UPCOMING 3RD PARTY TRADE NEGOTIATIONS, IN FULL. Follow with mobile notifications for new strips. Book available from:
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    Apr 5

    EconHist fun fact: The all-male customs officers of Wilhelmine Germany couldn’t pat down female travellers as it would have been considered indecent. Instead they made women climb on a designated stool and jump down repeatedly to make any smuggled goods fall out of their dress. – at Deutsches Zollmuseum

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  18. Apr 9

    This quite suddenly nearly brought tears to my eyes. (Excuse: my own boys are nearly grown-ups but it seems like yesterday that they might have said such s thing)

    At the playground, the baby was blocking a tunnel that a boy aged about six desperately wanted to get through, so I moved the baby. "Let's let him go past, he looks like he's on a mission," I said. The boy stopped, turned to me in utter astonishment and said "how did you know?"
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    Apr 8

    1. Since we're still on the Kevin D Williamson thing, here's a short thread about it. KDW doesn't like me personally to such a degree that he's written at least one entire article about not liking me personally, and uses me as a kind of stand-in for Lena Dunham-esque liberals.

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    Apr 8

    Fascinating piece of self-interrogation by , with some useful reflections on journalism and its assumptions

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