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Moody’s Microblog Daily Digest 171229 - https://moodysmdd.blogspot.nl/2017/12/171229.html yesterday’s tweets as a single page

.@mmasnick's New Year's Message: Keep On Believing - https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20171227/17121238887/new-years-message-keep-believing.shtml "And yet, believe it or not, I am still optimistic about the future." #techdirt

‘It’s shocking, it’s horrendous’: Ellen MacArthur’s fight against plastic - https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/dec/30/ellen-macarthur-its-shocking-its-horrendous-fight-against-plastic kudos

Adonis on #Brexit: ‘No mandarin backs May. Government has broken down’ - https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2017/dec/30/lord-adonis-resignation-brexit-policy-theresa-may-whitehall-morale-collapsed lots of great quotes, to wit:

“The senior civil service is now totally drained physically and psychologically by attempting to deliver the impossible with #Brexit, such that it is no longer able to deliver the ordinary business of government."

"He paints a picture of a political system that is consumed by an impossible goal of securing a Brexit that is good for the UK economy, and a civil service at war with its governing masters."

"It is an open secret that no one will go and work in David Davis’s department [DexEU], and Liam Fox is regarded as a semi-lunatic."