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James Hawes
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Father of three boys. Married to an Irishwoman. Ex-novelist. Historian. Teacher of writing. Novel “Speak for England” (2005) predicted Brexit - “it deserves some kind of prescience prize" (Observer, 2017).
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Berlin Airport, Sunday, I think… thank you to my spy!

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Thanks! Glad you like it. It’s all too easy to forget that full-on colonialism was a thing within Christian Europe (well, unless you’re 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🇮🇪🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿, Catalan or Basque, in which case it’s pretty easy, you having the evidence before you every day)

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Tonight, more than 750,000 Israelis, are on the streets of israel calling for the immediate release of all hostages & the immediate impeachment of Netanyahu & his government. This is the largest protest in the history of Israel it’s the equivalent of 22.5 million Americans taking to the streets.

750,000 Israeli took to the streets to protest Netanyahu tonight in the largest single protest in Israel’s history. Netanyahu does not have the support of the people.
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I wrote for the Observer about the #AfDwww.theguardian.com/world/articl...

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Saxony has 4 million, Thuringia 2 million inhabitants. So we are talking about ~7% of the German population.

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Ich finde das null ßberraschend, aber um es mal festzuhalten, obwohl oder gerade weil es eine Selbstverständlichkeit ist: Die Brandmauer zwischen CDU und AfD auf Landesebene steht. Niemand, wirklich niemand von Relevanz in der CDU sagt etwas anderes, so weit ich das ßberblicke.

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No. And it is not at all guaranteed that they will end up in a regional government. For that they need a coalition partner. And this will be the test for all the other parties. Still quite glad to be living in a different part of 🇩🇪.

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But Annette, this really is Im Osten nichts Neues. All that’s really happened is BSW has taken 18% straight from Linke. In fact, if the SPD makes the 5% barrier (as seems likely), the Landtag will be *less* anti-NATO, less „Frieden mit Russland“ etc than in 2019…

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James Hawes
@jameshawes.bsky.social
Father of three boys. Married to an Irishwoman. Ex-novelist. Historian. Teacher of writing. Novel “Speak for England” (2005) predicted Brexit - “it deserves some kind of prescience prize" (Observer, 2017).
124 followers37 following65 posts