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Simon Nixon @nixonsimon.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

The idea that Britain is some kind of winner from Trump’s tariffs or has received a Brexit bonus is deeply flawed. Partly as a result of Brexit, it is one of the most vulnerable countries in the world to Trump’s blowing up of the global economic order.

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The End of the Economic World as We Knew It

Focusing on Trump's tariffs risks missing the bigger picture. The consequences of upending the global economic order on this scale will not be limited to trade

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Musa Okwonga @okwonga.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

Absolutely tired of the psychodrama of one country being the problem of the entire planet.

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Edwin Hayward @edwinhayward.com · 03/04/2025

Trump took a VERY bizarre route to work out what tariff to impose on each country. Instead of calibrating the USA's tariffs against the *actual* tariffs imposed on the USA by its various trading partners, he said "how much tariff would wipe out our trade deficit on paper?" - then charged half that.

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Edwin Hayward @edwinhayward.com · 03/04/2025

In case you're just waking up to the news of Trump's tariffs... The 10% rate imposed on the UK had nothing at all to do with Starmer's attempts at diplomacy. That's crystal clear when you realise Trump's team used a simple (and absurd!) formula to calculate tariffs, based solely on trade deficits.

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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

The suffering that will be unleashed on Vietnam, Cambodia and Laos is horrific. And that's not because they have "raped" America. It's because they're poor, they can't afford many US goods but they can become wealthier by exporting to rich countries.

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Mike Galsworthy @mikegalsworthy.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

Great video just out. Norway's opposition leader has said she wants Norway to the EU... ...and the public are warming to it too.

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Why Norway is Flirting With Another EU Membership Bid

YouTube video by TLDR News EU

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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

Labour is doing the sensible thing in seeking to limit the damage of tariffs. But there's a limit to how much humiliation this country can take. And we're getting pretty close to hitting it. inews.co.uk/opinion/trum...

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Trump has proved what a humiliating position the UK is in

We are having elements of our domestic policy dictated by tech bros in the White House

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Edwin Hayward @edwinhayward.com · 02/04/2025

You know what nobody is talking about right now? Simply this: Trump's barrage of tariffs makes a total mockery of WTO rules. You know, the ones that Brexiters assured us again and again that we'd be just fine operating under in the event of a no-deal Brexit... Ho hum.

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Edwin Hayward @edwinhayward.com · 02/04/2025

The price of appeasement is... 10% tariffs on all goods, and 25% tariffs on cars. Take a bow, Starmer. That Special Relationship is very, very special indeed.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 01/04/2025

Booker: "I confess that I have been imperfect. I confess that I've been inadequate to the moment. I've confess that the Democratic Party has made terrible mistakes that gave a lane to this demagogue. I confess we all must look in the mirror and say 'we will do better.'"

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Ministère des Bras Cassés 👻 ᵖᵃʳᵒᵈᶦᵉ @brascasses.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

Jordan Bardella : "Nous demandons la tolérance zéro pour tous les délinquants, sauf pour les affaires de détournement de fonds publics."

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Edwin Hayward @edwinhayward.com · 01/04/2025

The grovelling is so unbecoming. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

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Graham Simpson @grahambs.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

“Europeans turn their backs on Tesla” Registrations of new Tesla car sales in France fell 37 per cent year on year in March to 3,157 vehicles, while those in Sweden fell 64 per cent to 911 units.

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Barack Obama @barackobama.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

Congratulations to Judge Susan Crawford on her victory, and to the people of Wisconsin for electing a judge who believes in the rule of law and protecting our freedoms.

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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

It’s well known that I was on The Apprentice. We were all covered by NDAs at the time, but mine has now expired. And do I ever have some tea to spill. I’ll post it later today after consulting once again with my attorneys.

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Jacob Öberg @profjacob.bsky.social · 31/03/2025

🚨🚨 This is a significant development. The whole proposal is worth reading but I would like to summarise the opinion of the Rapporteur here in short 🧵

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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 31/03/2025

If your dog poos on the beach you get fined £1000. If the Water Companies dump millions of tons of poo, YOU get fined £1,000,000,000.

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Cambridge for Europe @cambsforeurope.bsky.social · 31/03/2025

Withold EU funds from member states that violate rule of law and other key principles? Expand qualified majority voting in the Council of the EU to security and foreign policy, to prevent veto blackmail on key votes? Yes please🇩🇪🇪🇺 www.politico.eu/article/germ...

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The time has come to punish Orbán, Germany’s next government says

Merz’s incoming coalition wants to press the EU to look at withholding funds and suspending voting rights from Hungary.

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Marie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · 31/03/2025

as a French-born journalist who's covered several French elections, I'd be more than happy to appear on your news TV programmes today and do the running man for as long as you're willing to keep the camera on me, without ever breaking eye contact with the lens

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Edwin Hayward @edwinhayward.com · 31/03/2025

Some people complain that I'm too down on Labour. And yet this is by no means an exhaustive list... The reality: It's not that I am too quick to find fault, but that they are lightning-fast to create it. Wake up and rip the rose-tinted glasses off. Labour aren't the saviours you think they are.

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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 31/03/2025

Hard to overstate the importance of the Le Pen court ruling today. We find out if the French legal system can resist far-right populism better than the US did and whether France will stay firmly in the anti-Putin camp. The implications, for Europe and the world, are enormous.

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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 31/03/2025

Yep - same with US court decisions (or Romanian ones). Regardless of the future politics it's good when the courts do their job. If they don't you're screwed anyway.

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Cambridge for Europe @cambsforeurope.bsky.social · 31/03/2025

“The investigations also showed that these were not administrative errors ... but embezzlement within the framework of a system put in place to reduce the party’s costs.” Once again, the link between right-wing authoritarianism and corruption is laid bare. www.theguardian.com/world/live/2...

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Marine Le Pen faces ban from running for public office after guilty verdict in embezzlement trial – Europe live

Exact length of ban not yet known after French far right leader and eight National Rally MEPs found guilty of misappropriating EU funds

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Emile Chabal @emile-chabal.bsky.social · 31/03/2025

Some observations about the Marine Le Pen verdict: 1) WOW. They really went for it: prison term (w/electronic tag) and 5 years of ineligibility. That's almost exactly what the prosecutors asked for, so she's seriously guilty. 2) Will this halt the progress of the far-right in France? No. But... 1/

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Emile Chabal @emile-chabal.bsky.social · 31/03/2025

5) FN/RN built a lot of their strength on hammering mainstream parties and their corruption. Ths gives MLP's opponents a massive stick to beat her with. 6) It damages the party's attempts at "credibilisation", just as RN seeks parliamentary respectability. Corruption at the top suggests... 4/

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Wera Hobhouse MP @werahobhouse.org.uk · 31/03/2025

From urging the government to fix our relationship with the EU, to championing my amendment to the Tobacco and Vapes Bill to tackle the threat of contaminated e-liquids - this past week I have been standing up for issues that matter to you. Here's a quick snapshot of what else I've been up to👇📸

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Jacob Öberg @profjacob.bsky.social · 31/03/2025

🚨🚨Major and lovely news: Marine Le Pen barred from running for French presidency in 2027 due to French court verdict finding her guilty of embezzlement of European funds and barring her from public office with immediate effect.🧵 www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...

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Marine Le Pen barred from running for French presidency in 2027

Far-right leader found guilty of embezzlement of European funds and immediately barred from running for office

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Mike Galsworthy @mikegalsworthy.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

"We tax income, goods, services, business profits, oil and gas revenues, fuel, tobacco, alcohol, capital gains, inheritances, residential and commercial properties... However, we do not effectively tax multinational tech companies, profits hidden in in tax havens, wealth, or windfall profits."

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Tax facts – ten tax truths that you need to know

Tax myths cloud public debate, but the truth is clear: fair taxes on the rich can prevent attacks on the poor. Here are 10 key facts!

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Nick Reeves #FBPE #NAFO @nickreeves.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

There is a grave danger of a Trumpist Farage-Tory government in 2029. We can knock the wheels off Farage's bandwagon by mobilising the maximum possible anti-Farage vote in the local elections. In low turnout elections, such a campaign can work. Fight Fascism #Vote4Democracy

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Dimitri Tilloi-d’Ambrosi @dimitri-tilloi.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

Le Pont du Gard sous un ciel printanier

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Nick Reeves #FBPE #NAFO @nickreeves.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

A lot of people who are angry with Labour are going to sit out the local elections. That's just what Farage and the Brexit media want. If you're fed up with Labour then vote LibDems or Green. Don't help fascism by abstaining. We urgently need to burst Farage's bubble. #Vote4Democracy

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Mike Galsworthy @mikegalsworthy.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

The World Cup in 2026 should definitely be taken away from the US. ⚽️🏆 America is clearly not safe to travel to. 🇺🇸 ❌ Note that it was a joint US-Canada-Mexico bid that won… so Canada and Mexico have serious leverage here. 🇲🇽 🇨🇦 v 🇺🇸 Failing that - mass boycott will cost the US more than it earns.

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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

In 1862, a Union soldier found cigars wrapped in a piece of paper in a field of clover. The paper was a copy of Confederate Gen. Lee's invasion orders. The Southern sloppiness helped the Union stop Lee at Antietam. It's unknown who lost the orders in the field, or if he was related to Pete Hegseth.

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Mike Galsworthy @mikegalsworthy.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

Due to the resignation of Labour MP Mike Amesbury… …the inevitable Runcorn and Helsby by-election will provide the government with its first electoral review.

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Josiah Mortimer @josiahmortimer.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

🔴 Keir Starmer’s Government Has Quietly Beefed Up Its Workers’ Rights Bill to Make It More Pro-Worker A series of significant changes on workplace rights and the right to strike have been slipped out by ministers bylinetimes.com/2025/03/25/k...

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Keir Starmer’s Government Has Quietly Beefed Up Its Workers’ Rights Bill to Make It More Pro-Worker

A series of significant changes on workplace rights and the right to strike have been slipped out by ministers

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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

Pete Buttigieg has entered the chat.

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Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

I've been quiet lately for... a lot of reasons. But honestly: Fuck all this shit. Gloves off. Cowards to the back.

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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 15/03/2025

When conservative Americans talked about freedom they often meant their *freedom to* oppress others, and *freedom from* an “overreaching” federal government that might try to stop them. Now that such “conservatives” control the federal government and have shed all residual libertarianism, watch out.

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Isaac Dovere @isaacdovere.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

Walz's first stops will be in Republican districts in Iowa and Nebraska this weekend. Coming up soon: Wisconsin, Minnesota and Ohio. “I understand now my responsibility. I have a little more of a national voice, so I should bring it to them." www.cnn.com/2025/03/12/p...

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Tim Walz to launch national tour of town halls in Republican House districts | CNN Politics

Tim Walz is headed back out on the road – this time, for a tour of House districts represented by Republicans, some of whom have stopped holding town halls amid the raucous receptions their colleagues...

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Poulet Volant @pouletvolant3.bsky.social · 08/03/2025

Guerre d'Ukraine | 07/03/25 | Suite et fin Horaire inhabituel pour une cartographie importante puisqu'un véritable engagement ne prend ni de week-end, ni de vacance pour toujours rester en veille. 🌐 Update Zone Sud-Ouest Koursk🔹U250307-2054 #UkraineRussianWar #GuerreEnUkraine

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Pilar redalphababe #fbpe 🇪🇸🇬🇧🇺🇦🇪🇺 @pilargomez.bsky.social · 08/03/2025

Absolutely. There was nothing honourable about the result, not the way it was achieved, nor the way it has been implemented by 5 prime ministers! Brexit doesn’t work, it hasn’t worked and it won’t work in any of the various ways it’s promotors promised.

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Simon Oldridge @sioldridge.bsky.social · 09/03/2025

Such an important bill 👇👇 Current laws allow water companies to poison our rivers with raw sewage until 2050. Please ask your MP to attend this vital debate on 28th March. Rivers are nature’s lifeblood and we must protect them.

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 08/03/2025

Congratulations to the senior Tories who, having been told this for a mere 60 years, and staunchly denied it throughout, have finally twigged that it might not be a brilliant idea to have a nuclear deterrent which can be switched off by another state. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...

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US support to maintain UK’s nuclear arsenal is in doubt, experts say

Malcolm Rifkind joins diplomats and analysts urging focus on European cooperation to replace Trident

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Graham Simpson @grahambs.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

Trump isn’t isolationist he’s creating an Imperial power. We have to stand with Canada, Mexico, Greenland, Denmark and Gaza!

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