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Nigel Watson

@NigelAWatson

Husband, father, son, brother...and a wee bit of cycling

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Nigel Watson
Nigel Watson@NigelAWatson·
🧵on my thoughts Tl:dr - great debate..I’m probably in the @andrew_trimble @DearbhailDibs @Saraita101 “space” 1/
Upfront with Katie Hannon@RTEUpfront

Tonight on #cblive: A United Ireland - what would it mean? Claire will be joined by Taoiseach Micheál Martin, Tánaiste Leo Varadkar, Sinn Féin President Mary Lou McDonald.... ...and Joe Brolly, Ian Paisley Jr., Naomi Long, Andrew Trimble among others *9.35pm* on RTÉ One

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@Aldamir Certainly mixing & matching his language… But as the new leading Christian voice on the planet…that seems like “his right” tbh😎
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Aldamir الدامیر
Aldamir الدامیر@Aldamir·
It's almost like he's deliberately destroying US foreign interests, whike being cheered on by a crowd of idiotic sycophants...
Gandalv@Microinteracti1

Trump Eyes Korea Withdrawal. Half of America Reaches for the Constitution. The question hanging over Washington this week is whether Donald Trump is about to pull 45,000 American troops from South Korea. The short answer is nobody knows. The longer answer involves Kim Jong-un, a compliment, and a cabinet that has stopped asking difficult questions. Trump’s reasoning is straightforward: Kim has been nice to him, Seoul should pay more, and why are American soldiers protecting someone else’s country anyway. His generals’ reasoning is equally straightforward: those troops are the only thing standing between a nuclear-armed dictatorship and a catastrophic miscalculation. The Korean War never officially ended. That detail tends to get lost. Back home, the 25th Amendment is trending again. Former Trump insiders are calling him clearly insane. Democratic senators spent Easter on the phone to constitutional lawyers. The train is visibly leaving the rails, and the people watching it happen are running out of track. Whether the troops actually move remains to be seen. But the fact that it is a genuine open question, in April 2026, tells you everything about where we are. Gandalv / @Microinteracti1

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@Aldamir Think you’ll find he does…and lots of American Christian leaders say he is
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Nigel Watson@NigelAWatson·
@Choyaa13 Have you not been paying attention… He says he is His supporters say he is MANY Christian leaders say he is He’s now the global face of Christianity… Seems “some what mad” to me…but it is what it is VERY LITTLE push back from Christianity…I assume most are “happy enough”
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Choyaa@Choyaa13·
@NigelAWatson Trump is a lot of things, a Christian is not one of them.
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@Choyaa13 He’s the most prominent Christian in the world… I’ve barely heard any criticism of him from his fellow Christians… I’m taking this as active/tacit support
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Nigel Watson@NigelAWatson·
@danobrien20 @McNamara_Eoin I regret to inform you…there is an incredibly small amount of interest in this topic in NI… AP✅✅ SDLP✅✅ UUP✅ (perfunctory) Rest😵‍💫😵‍💫😵‍💫
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Javier Blas
Javier Blas@JavierBlas·
The world’s most important price for physical oil barrels soared to its highest on record. Dated Brent, which helps price much of the world’s actual oil barrels, hit $144.42 on Tuesday, according to Platts, a unit of S&P Global Energy.
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Paul Johnson
Paul Johnson@PJTheEconomist·
Agree with every word of this by ⁦@stephenkb⁩. Daft words by govt blaming profiteering, dafter proposals from opposition wanting subsidies and tax cuts. In real world there is less oil, it costs more, we are worse off. giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/ac…
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Javier Blas
Javier Blas@JavierBlas·
Key food commodity prices since US-Iran war started: 🍚 Rice: ⬇️ -6.3% 🌾 Wheat: ⬇️ -0.5% 🥫 Soybean: ⬆️ +0.6% 🌽 Corn: ⬆️ +2.7% As with everything else in this war, all depends on escalation. But talk about a "food crisis" or a "food shock" is premature.
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Dan O'Brien
Dan O'Brien@danobrien20·
Always amazed at the complacency in Ireland around the risk of democratic backsliding. The main opposition party has an un-disbanded private army, doesn't recognise the Irish state's defence forces as the only legitimate army, still glorifies its private army's past killings, has the objectives below in its constitution and plenty more that make it unique in terms of large European political parties.
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Gerardo L. Munck@GerardoMunck

Democratic Backsliding: Books The topic of democratic erosion or backsliding has become a focus on interest among political scientists. To catch up on this literature, these are some books I would recommend.

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Ed Conway
Ed Conway@EdConwaySky·
👀 Blimey @energy_said (one of the smartest energy analysts around) calculates that if oil continues to be disrupted as it is today it "would push prices upwards by $1/bbl per day, until prices surpassed $250/bbl, while almost zeroing global GDP growth." Totally catastrophic.
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Javier Blas@JavierBlas·
“… Despite high gasoline prices, the U.S. economy is holding up. Abroad, though, interest rates and inflation risks have shot up, fuel is being conserved, and economic forecasts are darkening…” — @greg_ip wsj.com/economy/the-ir…
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Nigel Watson@NigelAWatson·
This is something that needs tackled ASAP… I speak as a 60yr old (nearly boomer😵‍💫🤪)…who’s “done well” out of this… But my kids & “society” not so much… I’m kind of stunned it’s still controversial to have affordable housing 😵‍💫😵‍💫😵‍💫
Sam Bowman@s8mb

It’s actually a bad thing that 40% of people’s salaries go on paying for homes that have gotten *smaller* since the Second World War while they were increasing in size across the rest of Western Europe.

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This feels like the “right take”… I speak as an Ulster season ticket holder who attended the game… I would say that so many more of the Osprey’s passes were “more forward” than this…especially “back inside short” type of passes they use a lot
Stuart Barnes@SBarnesRugby

It is forwards but how many `more forward' passes were not called? And who wants TMOs calling a halt for every narrow call? The decision is right, it's also, in a broader way, wrong....do you want TMOs or not?

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Nigel Watson@NigelAWatson·
@DanMulhall That’s (sadly) a super niche view within unionism… Taking EBGAA (a club founded EXPLICITLY as something of a rebuke to more “militantly republican” GAA clubs)… Its treatment has been shocking…even to me There’s not going to be any “cultural outreach” from unionism
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Daniel Mulhall
Daniel Mulhall@DanMulhall·
For those who value the union, reaching out to the nationalist community ought to be a priority. Acknowledging the Irish language seems an ideal way of signalling respect for nationalist culture & showing it can be accommodated within NI & the UK. Those who back a UI need to find ways of accommodating unionist identity. 👇
Belfast Telegraph@BelTel

"Linda Ervine is possibly Northern Ireland’s foremost living cultural anomaly. A woman from a proud Protestant working-class background in east Belfast, she is also one of the country’s most vocal and successful Irish language proponent" belfasttelegraph.co.uk/comment/some-u…

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