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Alexander Evans

@aiaevans

Professor in Practice & Associate Dean @LSEPublicPolicy. Fmr 10 Downing St, Cabinet Office and British diplomat. Geopolitics, Tech & Policy.

London, England Katılım Nisan 2012
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Alexander Evans@aiaevans·
The difference between patriotism and uncritical nationalism is doubt and irony, both deeply underrated qualities
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NATO@NATO·
Sub-Zero Raiders 🇬🇧 Royal Marines emerge from the icy depths of an Arctic fjord after deploying from a 🇩🇪 German submarine. The commandos carried out a daring raid as part of Exercise Cold Response 26, which involves 14 nations and more than 25,000 troops
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UK Mission to the EU 🇬🇧🇪🇺
We are pleased to announce that Dame Caroline Wilson DCMG @CWilson_FCDO has been appointed Ambassador to the European Union in succession to Mr Lindsay Croisdale-Appleby CMG @LindsayCAppleby. Dame Caroline will take up her appointment during August 2026.
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@b_judah @SpecCoffeeHouse Direct access to and influencing the Foreign Secretary is key, as Robert Wade-Gery observed. Plus my favorite quote - Michael Palliser on externals.
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@b_judah @SpecCoffeeHouse More porosity, more engagement beyond the usual suspects. Needs time and appetite from officials and Ministers. I first published on this in 2012: it’s really important. And that was in a less turbulent world.
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Ben Judah@b_judah·
IDEAS, IDEAS, IDEAS On @SpecCoffeeHouse one of the things I was keen to discuss is the Foreign Office, like the rest of Whitehall, needs to get better and new ideas. This is particularly a problem in our hermetically sealed national security world. The Democrats when they are in charge in DC are much better and at pulling the good new thinking out of think tanks, tech experts and business into policy planning than we are where all this outside expertise is kept at arms length. I think especially due to the breadth and complexity of China issues we are now facing that urgently needs to change.
The Spectator@spectator

Does Britain still have a coherent foreign policy? Ben Judah, former special adviser to David Lammy, reveals how Britain’s diplomatic establishment is under growing criticism, from accusations the Foreign Office has become bloated and distracted by DEI, to deeper concerns that Whitehall does not have the strategic clarity needed in an increasingly unstable world. @ShippersUnbound | @b_judah | @JAHeale

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Nicholas Coghlan
Nicholas Coghlan@NicholasCoghlan·
A Fin whale and its young escort us in heavy seas as we head out from #SouthGeorgia towards the rarely-visited South Sandwich islands. The Fin is the second largest of all whales, coming in at an average 27m.
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Alexander Evans@aiaevans·
@profserious Very much agree with you. First made this argument in 1994 in The Telegraph, and again last year in the FT. As you say, not easy to land though.
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Nicholas Coghlan@NicholasCoghlan·
It's blowing 50-60 kts north of #SouthGeorgia, but we're surrounded by spouting whales. An Antarctic Blue Whale - the largest creature ever to have lived - surfaces beside us like a nuclear submarine. About 1500 remain, from a pre-whaling population of 250,000. What a spectacle!
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Peter McCrory
Peter McCrory@PeterMcCrory·
This is an extremely important point and touches on some of the most important questions to tackle: What new work may emerge? And how fast? And how do we support those contending with disruption during the transition?
Brendan McCord 🏛️ x 🤖@Brendan_McCord

Mockup of how would @AnthropicAI's new labor automation chart would've looked 200 years ago. For our ancestors, the outer ring would be almost unrecognizable. "Computer & math" was nonsensical. Medicine and law were tiny and barely professionalized. The first photo was just about to be taken, so it would have been unfathomable to have a single blockbuster gross more than the entire gross national product of that period. "Office & admin" barely existed as a concept; counting-houses employ a tiny literate class. Agriculture alone consumed maybe 70-80% of the labor force in the US. There was a thick band of artisanal trades that don't map onto any single modern category: coopering, blacksmithing, weaving, tanning, milling. Clergy was a major professional category and Maritime labor was its own significant sector.

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Civic Future
Civic Future@civic_future·
Britain isn’t working. We’re trying to fix it. We need more high-calibre MPs, advisers, civil servants, commentators, or something else entirely. Could you be one of them? 🚨 Applications for the Civic Future Talent Programmes close this Sunday at 22:00 🚨 Apply at the link below.
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Jason Burke
Jason Burke@burke_jason·
so hot take from JLM 1. US/Israeli offensive broader, deeper & way more ambitious than 2025. Khamenei clearly target & may well b dead already(which means insane intelligence). Obv want to take down air defences first, + missiles etc but regime change is name of game.
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Imperial War Museums
Imperial War Museums@I_W_M·
How to cross a street under fire. This clip from a 1943 British instructional film from the Second World War explains how to cross a street quickly and safely under enemy fire. Film: IWM DRA 433
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PNWGUERRILLA@pnwguerrilla·
So anyway. Tactical umbrellas became a thing.
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Happy Valentines Day from Istanbul, where I’m mainly talking about the problem of too much (as well as too little) love
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Alexander Evans@aiaevans·
Shattered Lands sounds fascinating: expanding the geographical perspective on British India and the nature of partition(s) and accompanying politics. Look forward to reading it. 2/2
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