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Chris Kendall 👊🇪🇺🧶 @ottocr.at · Nov 18

In case any recent arrivals are wondering what happened to my long-standing Twitter avatar, here’s why I changed it.

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Chris Kendall 👊🇪🇺🧶 @ottocr.at · 7h

There is a failure here in the education system (not to mention a parenting failure). Not to downplay their personal responsibility for what they wrote and said but many teens are selfish idiots. (I know I was.) Many of them will learn empathy the hard way as they grow up.

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Chris Kendall 👊🇪🇺🧶 @ottocr.at · 7h

I can’t imagine this surprises anyone. You’d better believe you’d find similar content in Young Conservative group chats.

Politico @politico.com · 21h

EXCLUSIVE: Thousands of leaked messages show leaders of Young Republican groups joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape in a private Telegram chat.

Inside rising GOP leaders’ racist chats — obtained by POLITICO and spanning more than 7 months👇

‘I love Hitler’: Leaked messages expose Young Republicans’ racist chat

Thousands of private messages reveal young GOP leaders joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape.

www.politico.com

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Chris Kendall 👊🇪🇺🧶 @ottocr.at · 1d

Yes! Exactly. Great point.

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Chris Kendall 👊🇪🇺🧶 @ottocr.at · 1d

For some reason I had laboured under the misapprehension that Moseley disappeared from politics after the 1930s. But he was still at it in the 60s. I did not realise that there was a direct unbroken line of continuity from him to Farage via the National Front. Anyway, Bertie shows us how it’s done.

In December 1961, the British fascist, Oswald Mosley, sent Bertrand Russell two of his books. Mosley wrote of ‘the two root differences between us' in international politics, and subsequently invited Russell to lunch. On 22 January 1962, Russell declined the invitation in these terms.

Dear Sir Oswald,

Thank you for your letter and for your enclosures. I have given some thought to our recent correspondence. It is always difficult to decide on how to respond to people whose ethos is so alien and, in fact, repellent to one's own. It is not that I take exception to the general points made by you but that every ounce of my energy has been devoted to an active opposition to cruel bigotry, compulsive violence, and the sadistic persecution which has characterised the philosophy and practice of fascism.

I feel obliged to say that the emotional universes we inhabit are so distinct, and in deepest ways opposed, that nothing fruitful or sincere could ever emerge from association between us.

I should like you to understand the intensity of this conviction on my part. It is not out of any attempt to be rude that I say this but because of all that I value in human experience and human achievement.

Yours sincerely,
Bertrand Russell

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Frédéric Moreau @goodclimate.bsky.social · 1d

Translation: British coach drivers routinely overstay unlawfully in Schengen.

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sianushka.bsky.social @sianushka.bsky.social · 1d

USE HEADPHONES ON THE TRAIN USE HEADPHONES ON THE TRAIN USE HEADPHONES ON THE TRAIN YOU SELFISH MOTHERFUCKER

my thought process right now is

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Chris Kendall 👊🇪🇺🧶 @ottocr.at · 1d

That’s one very odd guy.

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Chris Kendall 👊🇪🇺🧶 @ottocr.at · 1d

My understanding is that once it’s done the first time then subsequently it’s very fast, just showing a passport, no stamping. But I guess we’ll soon see.

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Chris Kendall 👊🇪🇺🧶 @ottocr.at · 1d

Also, one has to make the distinction between actual border officials and carrier staff who ask to see your passport to make sure you’re entitled to travel. For the latter, the passport doesn’t matter; for the former, it does.

Chris Kendall 👊🇪🇺🧶 @ottocr.at · 1d

> an EU one in my other hand and told me it would save everyone a lot of hassle if I just showed her that one instead.

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Chris Kendall 👊🇪🇺🧶 @ottocr.at · 1d

The UK doesn’t always do exit checks, so if you’re not asked to show a passport on leaving, then there’s no issue. It’s a pretty foolproof approach to only ever show the passport to the guard of the same jurisdiction. I once accidentally showed my UK passport to a French guard and she saw I had >

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Isabel Picornell @picornell.bsky.social · 1d

This doesn't end here. For the rest of their lives, the IDF command and Netanyahu and his Cabinet should be spending sleepless nights and looking over their shoulders worrying about the arrests (that will surely come) that will land them in The Hague for war crimes.

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Chris Kendall 👊🇪🇺🧶 @ottocr.at · 1d

If you have a biometric passport, with your photo in it, (which is surely all valid passports now), then they have a digital copy of your photo and any other biometric data you submitted when you applied for it.

Chris Kendall 👊🇪🇺🧶 @ottocr.at · 1d

Could you come and do my wife’s car please?

Chris Kendall 👊🇪🇺🧶 @ottocr.at · 1d

Fingerprints are digitised and encoded in my German passport. And face too, also in UK passport.

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Chris Kendall 👊🇪🇺🧶 @ottocr.at · 1d

EU border guard, EU passport. UK border guard, UK passport.

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Chris Kendall 👊🇪🇺🧶 @ottocr.at · 1d

No EES rollout at Dover yet.

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Chris Kendall 👊🇪🇺🧶 @ottocr.at · 1d

Biometric data in biometric passports.

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Chris Kendall 👊🇪🇺🧶 @ottocr.at · 1d

You get two checks on every route I do. Tunnel, Eurostar, ferry. I cross the border twice a week. Never have any passport stamped.

Chris Kendall 👊🇪🇺🧶 @ottocr.at · 1d

Ditto. This is my weekly commute.

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Chris Kendall 👊🇪🇺🧶 @ottocr.at · 2d

As I mentioned, that data is already collected but manually by border guards using existing IT systems.

Chris Kendall 👊🇪🇺🧶 @ottocr.at · 2d

No, the same, but the EU passport holder in that group might have to wait while the non-EU members have details taken the first time

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Chris Kendall 👊🇪🇺🧶 @ottocr.at · 2d

I guess you meant risible

you’ve clearly never been through Zaventem airport

Chris Kendall 👊🇪🇺🧶 @ottocr.at · 2d

All the information being harvested in EES is already gathered by border officials and stored on government databases. The only difference is the method.

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Chris Kendall 👊🇪🇺🧶 @ottocr.at · 2d

No, you’re spreading baseless rumours. In the EU we have extremely strict rules on data privacy.

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