RobWilliams100
@robwilliams100.bsky.social
Portfolio career. Writing, journalism, tour guiding PR, PA, etc. Tweet as RobWilliams100 but the sky is bluer here. Still #FBPE Writes stuff, including for The Guardian http://www.theguardian.com/profile/robwilliamsy
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Well, a short bio of the good bits I'm Rob. Or Robbie. Did European Studies at university and feel like a luddite now. A big fan of more trams, and more electrified railways, good walks, hikes and bike rides, and #France. Think Belgium is criminally underrated. Take the occasional decent photo.
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Ground rent cap is good news (though peppercorn would be better straight away). Also welcome is promised abolition of new leasehold properties. Better still would be the outright abolition of leasehold altogether, a feudal anachronism virtually unique to England and Wales.
January 27, 2026 at 7:53 AM
Ground rent cap is good news (though peppercorn would be better straight away). Also welcome is promised abolition of new leasehold properties. Better still would be the outright abolition of leasehold altogether, a feudal anachronism virtually unique to England and Wales.
This is my first time in #SouthAfrica It's endlessly fascinating. Here's #Johannesburg and some countryside around Pretoria
January 26, 2026 at 9:22 PM
This is my first time in #SouthAfrica It's endlessly fascinating. Here's #Johannesburg and some countryside around Pretoria
Late to read this but absolutely spot on analysis from @chrisgrey.bsky.social here. I'd suggest, in my own humble opinion, that Starmer even thinking about following US demands on reg standards will be the end of his premiership
Making sense of the madness. New post on my Brexit & Brexitism Blog. Analysis of the international and domestic implications of the ‘Greenland crisis’, including how the ‘Carney doctrine’ could offer a way forward for post-Brexit Britain: chrisgreybrexitblog.blogspot.com/2026/01/maki...
January 24, 2026 at 8:41 PM
Late to read this but absolutely spot on analysis from @chrisgrey.bsky.social here. I'd suggest, in my own humble opinion, that Starmer even thinking about following US demands on reg standards will be the end of his premiership
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Making sense of the madness. New post on my Brexit & Brexitism Blog. Analysis of the international and domestic implications of the ‘Greenland crisis’, including how the ‘Carney doctrine’ could offer a way forward for post-Brexit Britain: chrisgreybrexitblog.blogspot.com/2026/01/maki...
January 23, 2026 at 7:32 AM
Making sense of the madness. New post on my Brexit & Brexitism Blog. Analysis of the international and domestic implications of the ‘Greenland crisis’, including how the ‘Carney doctrine’ could offer a way forward for post-Brexit Britain: chrisgreybrexitblog.blogspot.com/2026/01/maki...
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When Trump made the same claim in December and then again to Congress this month, the Elysée said nothing. After Trump’s aborted grab for Greenland and his attacks on Europe in Davos, the gloves are off. 4/
January 22, 2026 at 1:38 PM
When Trump made the same claim in December and then again to Congress this month, the Elysée said nothing. After Trump’s aborted grab for Greenland and his attacks on Europe in Davos, the gloves are off. 4/
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Why there will be no midterm elections. This is worth a listen. Robert Kagan saw where Trump was heading years ago. And he sees it now. 👇 @carolecadwalla.bsky.social
NEW | VIDEO
‘Europeans need to understand that it’s over’: historian Robert Kagan talks to @carolecadwalla.bsky.social about Trump’s coming ‘dictatorship’, the end of the western alliance - and why Keir Starmer needs to change course, fast
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‘Europeans need to understand that it’s over’: historian Robert Kagan talks to @carolecadwalla.bsky.social about Trump’s coming ‘dictatorship’, the end of the western alliance - and why Keir Starmer needs to change course, fast
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youtu.be/0goGamFRtO0
Europe needs a dramatic strategic revolution - now: historian Robert Kagan
YouTube video by The Nerve
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January 21, 2026 at 8:30 PM
Why there will be no midterm elections. This is worth a listen. Robert Kagan saw where Trump was heading years ago. And he sees it now. 👇 @carolecadwalla.bsky.social
Board of Peace or Bored of Peace?
January 22, 2026 at 11:10 AM
Board of Peace or Bored of Peace?
I'd suggest that #TonyBlair has irreparably damaged his reputation in joining the "Board of Peace". He needs to go the same way as Mandelson. Not a great strategic thinker; more of a sycophant to dictators
January 22, 2026 at 11:07 AM
I'd suggest that #TonyBlair has irreparably damaged his reputation in joining the "Board of Peace". He needs to go the same way as Mandelson. Not a great strategic thinker; more of a sycophant to dictators
Hi @stellacreasy.bsky.social I don't think the government is listening to you or other sane people
This has always been the Brexitist goal - to put the UK under US standards, and Washington recognises, after years of having its standards shunned for Europe's, an opportunity:
An insinkable low-standards aircraft carrier on Europe's doorstep.
#AirstripOne
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An insinkable low-standards aircraft carrier on Europe's doorstep.
#AirstripOne
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January 22, 2026 at 9:47 AM
Hi @stellacreasy.bsky.social I don't think the government is listening to you or other sane people
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This has always been the Brexitist goal - to put the UK under US standards, and Washington recognises, after years of having its standards shunned for Europe's, an opportunity:
An insinkable low-standards aircraft carrier on Europe's doorstep.
#AirstripOne
1
An insinkable low-standards aircraft carrier on Europe's doorstep.
#AirstripOne
1
January 20, 2026 at 7:35 AM
This has always been the Brexitist goal - to put the UK under US standards, and Washington recognises, after years of having its standards shunned for Europe's, an opportunity:
An insinkable low-standards aircraft carrier on Europe's doorstep.
#AirstripOne
1
An insinkable low-standards aircraft carrier on Europe's doorstep.
#AirstripOne
1
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The government must work with our European partners on retaliatory measures to hit Trump and his cronies where it hurts, unless he drops these tariffs.
It's time to show that Britain stands with our allies and we won’t be bullied into submission.
It's time to show that Britain stands with our allies and we won’t be bullied into submission.
January 19, 2026 at 8:24 AM
The government must work with our European partners on retaliatory measures to hit Trump and his cronies where it hurts, unless he drops these tariffs.
It's time to show that Britain stands with our allies and we won’t be bullied into submission.
It's time to show that Britain stands with our allies and we won’t be bullied into submission.
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Mark Carney has delivered one of the most important speeches of our era. There is a better future waiting for Britain if we dare to follow his example.
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January 21, 2026 at 8:02 PM
Mark Carney has delivered one of the most important speeches of our era. There is a better future waiting for Britain if we dare to follow his example.
inews.co.uk/opinion/trum...
inews.co.uk/opinion/trum...
It's just Quisling after Quisling in the (far) right wing press, isn't it?
January 21, 2026 at 6:44 PM
It's just Quisling after Quisling in the (far) right wing press, isn't it?
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Meanwhile, Britain finds itself lost between two worlds. We were told we didn’t need Europe, we could rely on the transatlantic relationship. They couldn’t have been more wrong.
January 21, 2026 at 3:24 PM
Meanwhile, Britain finds itself lost between two worlds. We were told we didn’t need Europe, we could rely on the transatlantic relationship. They couldn’t have been more wrong.
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It's funny. I never thought watching a gibbering lunatic burn the world down would be so boring.
January 21, 2026 at 2:08 PM
It's funny. I never thought watching a gibbering lunatic burn the world down would be so boring.
I need a stiff drink. And a shower.
January 21, 2026 at 2:51 PM
I need a stiff drink. And a shower.
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I know we're wearily used to it, but it really can't be overstated how utterly unhinged, rambling and detached from reality Donald Trump sounds when measured against the metric of pretty much anyone else in global politics. It's the court of a decrepit medieval king.
January 21, 2026 at 2:33 PM
I know we're wearily used to it, but it really can't be overstated how utterly unhinged, rambling and detached from reality Donald Trump sounds when measured against the metric of pretty much anyone else in global politics. It's the court of a decrepit medieval king.
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This speech by Trump surely marks the end of the transatlantic alliance. An American president itching to incinerate NATO, conquer Greenland, and get far-right parties elected to government across Europe.
January 21, 2026 at 2:18 PM
This speech by Trump surely marks the end of the transatlantic alliance. An American president itching to incinerate NATO, conquer Greenland, and get far-right parties elected to government across Europe.
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please refer to your Davos phrasebook www.ft.com/content/ab4f...
January 21, 2026 at 2:23 PM
please refer to your Davos phrasebook www.ft.com/content/ab4f...
I don't think the Orange fascist has managed a single word that's true yet. It's just a stream of bile, lies and bullshit
January 21, 2026 at 1:54 PM
I don't think the Orange fascist has managed a single word that's true yet. It's just a stream of bile, lies and bullshit
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Thanks to @garethdennis.uk for both radicalising me on the Treasury, as well as the line about being 2 years old when the first mass transit proposal was made. It is true of me too, but it was a line I borrowed from him
January 17, 2026 at 2:49 PM
Thanks to @garethdennis.uk for both radicalising me on the Treasury, as well as the line about being 2 years old when the first mass transit proposal was made. It is true of me too, but it was a line I borrowed from him