Charlie Maynard
@charleswmaynard.bsky.social
Politics, history, geopolitics, and business. Interested in UK–EU relations and a move towards closer cooperation. Likes and reposts reflect interest, not endorsement.
Legend, love this!
December 3, 2025 at 11:05 PM
Legend, love this!
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Well, Canada paid €10m to join while UK was told to pay £6bn then reduced to £2bn to join. And UK can still supply up to 35% of a SAFE procurement from outside, rather than 50% inside. And as a cheap loan, paying up front to access it undermines that entirely. Not an EU good, UK bad story.
December 3, 2025 at 9:23 AM
Well, Canada paid €10m to join while UK was told to pay £6bn then reduced to £2bn to join. And UK can still supply up to 35% of a SAFE procurement from outside, rather than 50% inside. And as a cheap loan, paying up front to access it undermines that entirely. Not an EU good, UK bad story.
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How 'UK in a changing Europe' reported the impasse 🤔
December 3, 2025 at 8:08 AM
How 'UK in a changing Europe' reported the impasse 🤔
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I think my main point here is that that despite all the evidence to the contrary people often exhibit massive certainty bias re what they think will happen in the future.
December 3, 2025 at 11:36 AM
I think my main point here is that that despite all the evidence to the contrary people often exhibit massive certainty bias re what they think will happen in the future.
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We have got to make politics intellectual again. It is the only way that societies thrive is when politicians have the capability to actually think and reflect deeply:
![I confess that I always had difficulty with interpreting the Biblical precept to love our neighbours “as ourselves” until I read some of the words of C.S. Lewis. He pointed out that we don't exactly love ourselves when we fall below the standards and beliefs we have accepted. Indeed we might even hate ourselves for some unworthy deed.
None of this, of course, tells us exactly what kind of political and social institutions we should have. On this point, Christians will very often genuinely disagree, though it is a mark of Christian manners that they will do so with courtesy and mutual respect. [Applause] What is certain, however, is that any set of social and economic arrangements which is not founded on the acceptance of individual responsibility will do nothing but harm.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:xbnsfdtxoothg654ujxe3p25/bafkreicrdgbtvm54qnmttwe6crhxwt4be5v3izjmqtnvlxmaljwg5wolai@jpeg)
November 28, 2025 at 12:15 PM
We have got to make politics intellectual again. It is the only way that societies thrive is when politicians have the capability to actually think and reflect deeply: