Simon B.-M.
@simonbm.bsky.social
Sobretudo assuntos europeus
As long as the separation lasts it’s cost will last or even increase with divergence. Brexit could be ended, so it’s a new choice made over and over again to prioritise nationalist sentiment over the economy.
November 10, 2025 at 10:52 PM
As long as the separation lasts it’s cost will last or even increase with divergence. Brexit could be ended, so it’s a new choice made over and over again to prioritise nationalist sentiment over the economy.
If you buy something you like, it costs money. The UK decided to splash out on nostalgic and xenophobic nationalism. It costs 6-8% of GDP. Social or ecological policies make might also have a cost. It’s what they prefer.
November 10, 2025 at 10:33 PM
If you buy something you like, it costs money. The UK decided to splash out on nostalgic and xenophobic nationalism. It costs 6-8% of GDP. Social or ecological policies make might also have a cost. It’s what they prefer.
How, and why? The US is a foreign power and the MAGA movement is an enemy of democracy.
November 9, 2025 at 10:11 PM
How, and why? The US is a foreign power and the MAGA movement is an enemy of democracy.
It’s existential for British democracy. The UK has to be more aggressively not the US rather than shitting its pants.
November 9, 2025 at 9:58 PM
It’s existential for British democracy. The UK has to be more aggressively not the US rather than shitting its pants.
Also it’s not the only country in Europe to have made a decades long bet on the USA and lost, but it’s the mostly deeply in. It’s the most likely to mistake lazy failure to make steps towards separation with cleverness or some kind of diplomatic sophistication.
November 8, 2025 at 4:34 PM
Also it’s not the only country in Europe to have made a decades long bet on the USA and lost, but it’s the mostly deeply in. It’s the most likely to mistake lazy failure to make steps towards separation with cleverness or some kind of diplomatic sophistication.
If the UK were taken fully into the European camp and felt able to seek strategic autonomy together with the EU, would it? Or would it act as a spoiler and US 5th column? Certainly the latter with a Tory or Reform govt and with Labour we don’t actually know.
November 8, 2025 at 4:24 PM
If the UK were taken fully into the European camp and felt able to seek strategic autonomy together with the EU, would it? Or would it act as a spoiler and US 5th column? Certainly the latter with a Tory or Reform govt and with Labour we don’t actually know.
There’s a vicious circle. The UK doesn’t act as if it has overcome its besottedness with the US. It doesn’t seem trustworthy if it comes to the crunch, but it probably doesn’t feel able to move away from the US being outside the European camp.
November 8, 2025 at 4:19 PM
There’s a vicious circle. The UK doesn’t act as if it has overcome its besottedness with the US. It doesn’t seem trustworthy if it comes to the crunch, but it probably doesn’t feel able to move away from the US being outside the European camp.
There’s a sense of historical continuity in British culture that is maybe stronger than in other countries, where people more readily put things into a box marked “history” and forget about it.
November 7, 2025 at 1:07 PM
There’s a sense of historical continuity in British culture that is maybe stronger than in other countries, where people more readily put things into a box marked “history” and forget about it.
Of course, you can find yourself in a tribal situation and have to be tribal as people did in the Bosnian civil war, but that is not usually the case.
November 7, 2025 at 12:59 PM
Of course, you can find yourself in a tribal situation and have to be tribal as people did in the Bosnian civil war, but that is not usually the case.
A society policing its behaviour does also include such things as taboos, disapproval, ostracism and ridicule, not just nice things. That this works can be seen by racists trying to avoid the description “racist”.
November 7, 2025 at 12:56 PM
A society policing its behaviour does also include such things as taboos, disapproval, ostracism and ridicule, not just nice things. That this works can be seen by racists trying to avoid the description “racist”.
We are all primates, but we can’t behave like people did in 10,000 BC.
November 7, 2025 at 12:28 PM
We are all primates, but we can’t behave like people did in 10,000 BC.
Which is how successive UK govts always presented European issues in public as a member, whatever they did behind the scenes.
November 7, 2025 at 12:06 PM
Which is how successive UK govts always presented European issues in public as a member, whatever they did behind the scenes.
The far-right arsonists are vaguely aware of this because in every xenophobic torture instrument they design, they always try to exempt their own class with income thresholds.
November 7, 2025 at 11:56 AM
The far-right arsonists are vaguely aware of this because in every xenophobic torture instrument they design, they always try to exempt their own class with income thresholds.
Civilisation is our overcoming of such animal impulses. Our level of technology, organisation and overpopulation now necessitates it. There are certainly degrees but these articles contain an extreme form, at least, measured against the system that keeps us alive now.
November 7, 2025 at 11:18 AM
Civilisation is our overcoming of such animal impulses. Our level of technology, organisation and overpopulation now necessitates it. There are certainly degrees but these articles contain an extreme form, at least, measured against the system that keeps us alive now.
This map is seriously random. Now that there are more than two choices, may I suggest PR instead of FPTP for chip accompaniment surveys?
November 6, 2025 at 8:38 PM
This map is seriously random. Now that there are more than two choices, may I suggest PR instead of FPTP for chip accompaniment surveys?
Is it OK for whoever in the world pays for the IEA to be paying a British legislator?
November 6, 2025 at 7:17 PM
Is it OK for whoever in the world pays for the IEA to be paying a British legislator?
It’s anti-civilisational. It’s inviting people to be monkeys although we’ve passed the point where that is going to work.
November 6, 2025 at 6:57 PM
It’s anti-civilisational. It’s inviting people to be monkeys although we’ve passed the point where that is going to work.
A car is bloody expensive enough. Surely it comes with some impunity?
November 6, 2025 at 6:51 PM
A car is bloody expensive enough. Surely it comes with some impunity?
If there are Brits, 1% of the world‘s population, who really believe that the other 99% are necessarily rapists even at a some purely emotional level, that is pretty damn primitive primate behaviour. That is not civilisation as it is normally understood.
November 6, 2025 at 6:43 PM
If there are Brits, 1% of the world‘s population, who really believe that the other 99% are necessarily rapists even at a some purely emotional level, that is pretty damn primitive primate behaviour. That is not civilisation as it is normally understood.
Also eher eine Alternative zu Deutschland als eine Alternative für Deutschland
November 6, 2025 at 5:53 PM
Also eher eine Alternative zu Deutschland als eine Alternative für Deutschland