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Bandit's mum @banditsmum.bsky.social · 12/07/2025

I know it's the Mail, but how can anyone think this idiotic drivel is worth publishing? His ability to be wrong and offensive on everything is unparalleled.

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Bandit's mum @banditsmum.bsky.social · 12/07/2025

Well that's just what you want to see on a Saturday morning!

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Saddletramp🇪🇺 @saddletramp.bsky.social · 12/07/2025

You can dress it up any way you wish. You can claim it as a human right, even though you don’t recognise the authority of a body that exists to maintain your human rights but if you choose to smoke, and impose your smoke on the rest of us, you are a selfish dangerous idiot. Talking to you Farage.

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Joolz1001 @joolz1001.bsky.social · 12/07/2025

Ditching the Conservatives and joining Reform is rather like trading in your Michael Jackson CD collection for 'The Best of Gary Glitter'.

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Bandit's mum @banditsmum.bsky.social · 09/06/2025

These posts are really important reading (especially the need for solutions). We need to start this process in the UK before it's too late.

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Olga Nesterova @onestpress.onestnetwork.com · 10/04/2025

The insiders seem to have had a 20min warning before the public

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The Empty City @davidallengreen.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

tl;dr Trump is (mis)using *emergency* legislation which has not intended for this purpose, and has not before been used for this purpose. And (mis)using it to usurp Congress’s constitutional role in setting trade policy. And hardly any Republicans in Congress care.

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Bandit's mum @banditsmum.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

The penguins won the trade war!

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Bandit's mum @banditsmum.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

Surprise surprise, trump starts rowing back on the carnage he's created.

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Sean Jones KC @seanjones.org · 09/04/2025

Perhaps one tiny tariff aimed at “American Candy” to free up a lot of retail space on Oxford Street.

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Mujtaba Rahman @mijrahman.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

US tariff policy is a Truss moment where misguided policy and terrible communication has set off a market correction which has its own dynamic. In UK, what followed was a limited CB intervention, a complete fiscal policy reversal and defenestration of the CX and PM. Not obvious what happens in US

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News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

22 weeks apart.

Two front pages of the Economist. The first is dated October 25, 2024 and says “The Envy of the Workd” and has dollars bill rocketing into the sky in celebration of the US economy.
The second front page is dated this week April 5th. It’s headline is “Ruination Day” and pictures Trump sawing a hole in the group the shape of the US.

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Ed Davey @eddavey.libdems.org.uk · 03/04/2025

Despite backing the US in every major conflict this century—and offering to water down our tax on US tech billionaires—we’ve been rewarded with the same tariffs as Iran. It’s like we’re meant to be grateful Trump gave our friends a black eye and left us with just a wedgie.

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Bandit's mum @banditsmum.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

Small bit of economic good news!

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Santiago Mayer @santiagomayer.com · 03/04/2025

At least now I understand how he bankrupted a casino

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Bandit's mum @banditsmum.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

This whole thread is hilarious. Makes clear just how ridiculous the justification for these trump tariffs is.

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Mike Masnick @masnick.com · 03/04/2025

Incredibly, this appears to be true. We tariffed our own (jointly operated with the UK) military base.

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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

I think I missed some. But here’s a fun fact: the Heard and Macdonald Islands are uninhabited. The tariff is on penguins.

Reciprocal Tariffs
Taritis Charged to the U.S.A.
Including
Country

São Tomé and Principe

Norfolk Island

Gibraltar

Tuvalu

British Indian Ocean Territory

Tokelau

Guinea-Bissau

Svalbard and Jan Mayen

Heard and McDonald Islands

Reunion

Currency Munipelation and Trade Barriers

10%

58%

10%

10%

10%

10%

10%

10%

10%

73%
U.S.A. Discounted Reciprocal Tariffs

10%

29%

10%

10%

10%

10%

10%

10%

10%

37%

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Kara Jane Adams @ghostinexile.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

The question of if a country could fuck itself harder than the UK did with Brexit has today been answered.

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Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

The US stock market has lost over $2 trillion in the last 20 minutes. Nice, nice. Nice.

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Bandit's mum @banditsmum.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

I mean, this is just... I've been an economist for almost 30 years and it is fair to say I have never seen anything like this. What a joke.

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Dave Keating @davekeating.substack.com · 27/03/2025

Why has no European leader said this as clearly and courageously as Canada's Mark Carney? Why is Friedrich Merz the only one who's even come close? Are politicians only capable of tough talk when there's an election?

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David Henig @davidheniguk.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

Not such a big story today, but how does hoping for a few minor improvements to the EU relationship while also trying to get some sort of US trade deal fundamentally differ from most of the period since 2016? Oh, and the same global trade agreement talks of minor economic importance.

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Chris Kendall @ottocr.at · 24/03/2025

Just a reminder, the EU has been operating a naval mission in the seas around Yemen to keep freedom of navigation open "at great cost" since 2008. A number of non-EU countries have contributed, including Ukraine... not the US though. I guess you could call that American free-loading. eunavfor.eu

eunavfor.eu

Home | EUNAVFOR

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Bandit's mum @banditsmum.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

All sane countries really need to be asking whether it's safe to share classified information with the US anymore

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Bandit's mum @banditsmum.bsky.social · 22/03/2025

Loving the influx of cute dog videos on my timeline today. The goodness of doggies is the perfect antidote to the badness in the world right now.

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Bandit's mum @banditsmum.bsky.social · 22/03/2025

How does anyone still listen to anything Farage has to say when he's been proven so wrong on Brexit, the thing he championed for years?

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Bandit's mum @banditsmum.bsky.social · 22/03/2025

Something to bring a little joy into your life this morning - every street needs a stick library!

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Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 21/03/2025

Amol Rajan, "What do you think it would take to get this country growing again?" Alan Sugar, "Go back into the European Union" "That's what I would do. If I was in charge, I'd beg to get back in again"

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Bandit's mum @banditsmum.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

I know it may be considered petty, but this makes me happy!

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Keith Edwards @keithedwards.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

YouTube’s play button doing the lord’s work

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Bandit's mum @banditsmum.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

If ever there was a demonstration of money can't buy class.

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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

Fuck me, he's had his Weetabix

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Adam M @englishmanadam.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

This is so wrong, but god it made me chuckle.

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Lewis Goodall @lewisgoodall.com · 13/03/2025

Surprised to see so many headlines from news outlets suggesting Putin has agreed to a ceasefire. He’s done no such thing. He’s basically said he would do in theory, providing his conditions are met, on his terms. Which is just a variation on what he’s always said.

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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

Trump has folded again. He’s now not planning to increase tariffs on Canada, officials say. Canada didn’t blink and the bully ran away. Of course he could change his mind again in the next hour. Government by random thoughts.

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Luke Tryl @luketryl.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

🆕 @moreincommonuk.bsky.social polling of 🇬🇧🇩🇪🇫🇷🇵🇱🇺🇸 on Ukraine finds: Clear majorities dont think Russia will stop at Ukraine, Starmer's approach popular at home & abroad, less than 50% of Brits now call the US an ally, Europeans ready to go it alone, but only in UK do majority back sending peacekeepers🧵

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Bandit's mum @banditsmum.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

Great thread and post from @benansell.bsky.social . Maybe I just want to believe it's true! But if Trump ends populism everywhere else, that would be a positive outcome (though at a huge cost of the suffering in the meantime)

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