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Alan Sked
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Alan Sked is emeritus professor of international history at LSE. His views are his own, NOT those of LSE. Author of key work ‘The Case for Brexit’.
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    Alan Sked
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    Mar 23, 2025
    Sunday Times reveals huge scandal concerning student loans. Thousand of students who can barely speak English enroll in dubious universities with no intention of taking courses but with the intention instead of taking out grants that they do not intend to repay. Many are Romanian
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    Alan Sked
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    Nov 1, 2019
    On Have I Got News For You, Jo Brand insults our head of state by referring to her as ‘the fucking Queen’. Is this what our BBC license fee pays for? The BBC has already had to warn Brand. Now time to ban her?
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    Alan Sked
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    Dec 22, 2019
    Some poor kid who claimed dual nationality after Brexit (like hundreds of thousands of British EU patriots) by taking an Austrian passport has discovered that he is now liable to Austrian military service. My heart bleeds for him.
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    Alan Sked
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    Mar 20, 2021
    Cornish fishermen are abandoning EU markets for the domestic one as Cornish people buy huge amounts of fish, lobster and crabs from them. Great news!
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    Alan Sked
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    Oct 30, 2022
    Apparently scores of civil servants are leaving the Home Office and Justice Department after the appointments of Braverman and Raab, whose views they dislike. What happened to civil service neutrality? Aren’t they taught this any longer? High time they were.
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    Alan Sked
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    Aug 25, 2019
    Tony Blair calls Brexit ‘an unforgivable act of vandalism’. I wonder what he thinks the Iraq War was. And what overturning the outcome of a democratic referendum would be. Little wonder he is loathed up and down the land along with Campbell, Mandelson and the rest of his cronies.
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    Alan Sked
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    Dec 26, 2020
    Only 24 tests out of 10,000 at Dover turned out positive. But Macron ruined Xmas for thousands just because he could. Damn him.
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    Alan Sked
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    May 16, 2020
    In what looks like an astonishingly vicious decision the EU has refused mutual recognition of standards in cars, chemicals and pharmaceuticals to Britain, something which it agreed with Canada, Japan and other countries with which it has FTAs. Is this raw protectionism or hatred?
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    Alan Sked
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    Oct 6, 2019
    Farage apparently intends to stand in Thurrock at the next election. The Tory majority there is extremely small However the local Tory MP is an avid Brexiteer who believes that we must leave on 31 October deal or no deal. So why stand against her? He should challenge a Remainer.
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    Alan Sked
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    Jan 11, 2020
    Sir Sam Mendes and his co-writer of the new film 1917, assert that it is anti-Brexit and meant to remind us that British soldiers in 1917 fought for ‘a free and united Europe’. This is pure tosh. They fought to free Belgium, defeat Germany and defend Britain and her Empire.
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    Alan Sked
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    Aug 23, 2019
    Pimlico Plumbers is now donating to the Lib Dems to stop Brexit. Boycott the firm. There is no shortage of plumbers. Give your custom to a rival.
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    Alan Sked
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    Oct 27, 2019
    The Archbishop of Canterbury has attacked Boris for using inflammatory language and dividing Britain. If he MUST get involved in politics why cannot he preach to his fellow Remainers against overturning democratic majorities and trashing the constitution?
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    Alan Sked
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    Sep 15, 2019
    She LIED about tripling student fees. She LIED about respecting Brexit. She VOTED FOR the bedroom tax. She SUPPORTED austerity. She now wants to CANCEL Brexit, our largest democratic vote ever. Jo Swinson. The ugly face of politics.
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    Alan Sked
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    Dec 12, 2020
    Lisa Nandy, Labour’s Shadow Foreign Secretary says that the EU has ‘moved’ in negotiations while Britain has ‘lost the plot’. In other words, Labour is backing Brussels against Britain. Nandy backs Brussels. I hope her electors remember this.