Andrew Levi @AndrewPRLevi
Background: government (foreign policy, national security, economy/trade/investment) & business (big & early stage tech). Interest: what we can learn together. Edinburgh Joined June 2009-
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What’s the key to international justice, or at least something which looks a bit like it? According to a less than complimentary reply I received, my attempt to explain (attached 🧵) is nothing new: “anyone with A Level law knows it”. If you don’t have A Level law, read on! ⬇️
What’s the key to international justice, or at least something which looks a bit like it? According to a less than complimentary reply I received, my attempt to explain (attached 🧵) is nothing new: “anyone with A Level law knows it”. If you don’t have A Level law, read on! ⬇️
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International law depends on national action (which is often lacking).
The other day I took part in a seminar organised by perhaps the world’s most famous human rights organisation. The subject was UN efforts to end mass atrocities & the need to prevent countries blocking the UN doing so. Something unexpected happened. A 🧵/1.
Great thread.
The other day I took part in a seminar organised by perhaps the world’s most famous human rights organisation. The subject was UN efforts to end mass atrocities & the need to prevent countries blocking the UN doing so. Something unexpected happened. A 🧵/1.
@threadreaderapp unroll please
The other day I took part in a seminar organised by perhaps the world’s most famous human rights organisation. The subject was UN efforts to end mass atrocities & the need to prevent countries blocking the UN doing so. Something unexpected happened. A 🧵/1.
Thought provoking thread
The other day I took part in a seminar organised by perhaps the world’s most famous human rights organisation. The subject was UN efforts to end mass atrocities & the need to prevent countries blocking the UN doing so. Something unexpected happened. A 🧵/1.
Worth reading this.
The other day I took part in a seminar organised by perhaps the world’s most famous human rights organisation. The subject was UN efforts to end mass atrocities & the need to prevent countries blocking the UN doing so. Something unexpected happened. A 🧵/1.
Important, depressing, thread
The other day I took part in a seminar organised by perhaps the world’s most famous human rights organisation. The subject was UN efforts to end mass atrocities & the need to prevent countries blocking the UN doing so. Something unexpected happened. A 🧵/1.
Not a comforting read, but a necessary one. It is part of the human condition that violence must be confronted, and underlying whatever our response is must be power, force, the willingness to use overwhelming force ourselves if necessary and none of us can do it alone.
The other day I took part in a seminar organised by perhaps the world’s most famous human rights organisation. The subject was UN efforts to end mass atrocities & the need to prevent countries blocking the UN doing so. Something unexpected happened. A 🧵/1.
A technician's 🧵on one of the world's biggest challenges - how do you constrain the international bully. How do we make every country equal under agreed international law? No more hand wringing in the face of ethnic cleansing means stepping up & defending human rights for all.
The other day I took part in a seminar organised by perhaps the world’s most famous human rights organisation. The subject was UN efforts to end mass atrocities & the need to prevent countries blocking the UN doing so. Something unexpected happened. A 🧵/1.
If you read one long thread today, let it be this one.
The other day I took part in a seminar organised by perhaps the world’s most famous human rights organisation. The subject was UN efforts to end mass atrocities & the need to prevent countries blocking the UN doing so. Something unexpected happened. A 🧵/1.
@AndrewPRLevi Thanks for these calm reasoned posts. May we continue to aspire to a multilateral, sustainable, enforceable rules-based order. The more-or-less rules-based order we have, backed by US power remains the best option available at the moment.
@AndrewPRLevi 'I wasn't....' Typo. Irony in action but in my defence I'm shopping at the same time.
@AndrewPRLevi Absolutely agree - It feels like navigating a minefield on here with people looking to be outraged. Whilst I understand the high emotion, more than ever, we need the sober facts you outlined in your thread.
For those who STILL don’t get it, you can’t have ‘the rule of law’ without an independent judiciary and the right of access to court. And a country without the rule of law is not a democracy but a dictatorship. Got it now?
Today I lost the first member of my extended family in Gaza. The @LibDems have been consistently on the side of humanity and peace. We couldn't vote for our full position today. This evening I tried to ask the speaker to bring people together. Sadly I was cut short.
@AndrewPRLevi Tactically they would be better withdrawing their support from the govt on crucial votes, if they believe they can rise from the ashes. A leadership contest now they won't win makes no sense at all. Oh. I see the flaw in my logic.
Uk Supreme Court: The Rwanda policy is not a policy of sending asylum seekers overseas whilst claims decided here, as sometimes claimed. They will not have their claims decided by Uk authorities. They will be sent there and their claims will be decided by Rwandan authorities.
@AndrewPRLevi I think that excludes me, thanks all the same
IEA in 2017: "Leaving the EU will turn Britain into an engine of global innovation and growth" IEA in 2023: "Leaving the EU has not damaged Britain as much as you think" Desperation as elite and public consensus in the UK hardens into viewing Brexit as a disastrous folly.
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