Andrew Graham (@polecon42) profile picture

Political Economist, former Master Balliol College, Rhodes Warden, Founded the Oxford Internet Institute and the Europaeum Scholars Programme, still windsurfing

Joined December 2010
Brilliant ad. Ridicule is a powerful weapon against Trump
I don’t agree with Nikki Haley on everything, but we agree on this much: She is not Nancy Pelosi.
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so so proud to see the result of a year of hard work and dedication 🥹 nothing beats the excitement and joy of seeing a project come to fruition, perhaps only the inspiration I get from working with such a fantastic crowd! thank you @the_europaeum 🫶🏼 – at Berlin, Germany
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📢 My first book, ‘Being Hindu, Being Indian: Lala Lajpat Rai’s Ideas of Nationhood’, will be out with @PenguinIndia in early 2024! I explore LLR’s attempt to square Hindu identity with an inclusive Indian one, & argue that his nationalism is distinct from Savarkar’s…
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Why is Gary Lineker accused of impartiality when, considering the language the Government has used, his tweet is historically accurate?
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No laughing matter but can’t believe the Mail actually published this!
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Sewage flowing into the sea at Cornwall today. You'll be glad to know that new Environment Secretary, Therese Coffey, voted to allow water companies to continue doing this.
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So the King was forbidden to go, now the PM can’t even be arsed. This is the summit we hosted *checks notes* one year ago to assert ‘global leadership’ on the climate crisis. Beneath contempt. bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-6…
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Brave - and correct!
A turning point in The Telegraph? Project fear was right and ‘if anything have underestimated both the calamitous loss of international standing and the scale of the damage that six years of policy confusion and ineptitude has imposed on the country.’ telegraph.co.uk/business/202…
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So Kwarteng has shafted Truss, if so, not, it is alleged, for the first time!
It was a pleasure to see so many colleagues & friends at the 30th anniversary of @the_europaeum @BalliolOxford: intriguing panel discussions on AI ethics and the role of universities, with @Nigel_Shadbolt, Isabel Gil, Andrew Graham, Sally Mapstone, James Manyika, and many more.
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Amazing closing of the 30th anniversary of @the_europaeum at @UniofOxford: address by the President of the European Commission, keynote lecture “From post-war Europe to post-Wall Europe” by Professor Timothy Garton and gala dinner with colleagues and friends!
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Celebrating the 30th anniversary of @the_europaeum at @UniofOxford! I am very happy and honoured to be part of this adventure, which is more necessary than ever in these challenging times we are living in. – at Oxford, England
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Privileged to be at a brilliant lecture @the_europaeum by @TGA “From post-war Europe to post-wall Europe”
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Please retweet if you want Labour, LibDems and Greens to cooperate at the next election in order to oust the Tories and introduce PR so that we never again have to endure a Tory Government with an eighty seat majority, secured with only 43% of the popular vote.
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Careful not to share this of @trussliz she’s apparently trying to keep it a secret. Courtesy of @AdamBienkov
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Johnson's legacy: he got the big calls wrong
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Well, well, well, Have a watch of this… Govt voted to relax laws on letting water firms pump sewage into our waters Why? Because water firms could no longer get the chemicals needed to treat the water Why? …BREXIT
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The public swimming baths in Richmond in Yorkshire are closing and local MP Rishi Sunak is building a private pool in his own multimillion pound home. And there you have Tory Britain encapsulated in miniature.
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Tory Govt just voted to make it a criminal offence for Ukrainian families to arrive in UK without the right papers with a penalty of up to 4yrs in prison. At a time when British people have made clear we must help Ukraine, this is truly shameful. Our country is better than this
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