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Peter Jukes @peterjukes.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Eight years ago

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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

23 days until we vote to end this nightmare.

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Bill Park @billpark.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Me neither. I thought I indisputably and unambiguously was English, but it turns out that a bit of Irish, Welsh and Jewish heritage has done for me.

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Bill Park @billpark.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

It is a truly bizarre assertion. Not only geography, but our AngloSaxon/Roman/Norman history and language, our intensely European royal family, so much of our modern history, our intellectual and cultural evolution, our economic and everyday interactions, our ethnicity - all so very European.

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Bill Park @billpark.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

It was the Cold War that was the exception in US behaviour. Trump is a return to 'normal'. Europe was wrong to trust the US so much and accept its dependency on the US.

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Bill Park @billpark.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

It would indeed be a serious mistake, because Trump is not an aberration but a return to a US that was happy to stand aside as 1939-41 Germany attacked and occupied its neighbours - until Pearl Harbour attack and Hitler declared war. Also stayed out of League of Nations, and delayed WW1 entry.

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Bill Park @billpark.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Europeans, Japan etc should therefore pull out of it.

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Olga Lautman 🇺🇦 @olgalautman.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Will international media ever start covering Russia’s ongoing genocide? Ukrainians in Russian occupied Oleshky are eating grass and weeds to survive and the world stays silent 😭

kyivindependent.com

'Nothing left to eat' — Sybiha urges partners to act on Oleshky humanitarian crisis

Oleshky's population has fallen from around 24,000 to approximately 2,000 as of spring 2026, according to the Foreign Ministry.

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Kate from Kharkiv @kateinkharkiv.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

People in Oleshky have no food and are surviving on grass and weeds, a desperate measure that won't even be an option in the winter. Real pressure must be applied to Russia to allow people to evacuate!

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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Liar. Small boat crossings peaked under Johnson in 2022 reaching 46,000 in 2022. In current year they are 18,565 and falling. Also prior to Boris Johnson's Brexit there were none.

It's a disaster, and it can all be traced to
Labour ideology. Burnham has no mandate
from the people. He has no real ideas, and
no plan,

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The Ukrainian Review @theukrainianreview.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

🇩🇰🇺🇦 Danish Prime Minister said that Western countries have Patriot systems that they can transfer to Ukraine. According to her, without strengthening air defense, winter will be extremely difficult for Ukraine.

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Bill Park @billpark.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Not solely. 77 million Americans voted for him, and the likes of Hegseth, Vance etc are with him.

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Kate from Kharkiv @kateinkharkiv.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

BOLTON: Europeans imposed 21 sanctions packages on Russia over 4 years. They should've been imposed all at once in February 2022. That, and strict enforcement, would've had much greater effect. Gradual escalation of sanctions has been a mistake, they can and should be tightened.

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Shaun Pinner @shaunpinner.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Happy Ukrainian Flag Day. 🇺🇦 This flag has come to represent far more than a nation. Freedom, Defiance, Sacrifice & Resilience. From occupied cities to the frontline, Ukrainians have fought, suffered and died beneath these colours. The flag still flies in 2026 Slava Ukraini! 🇺🇦

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Bill Park @billpark.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Yep. Russia has a problem of knowing when/where to stop - its is already 30% non-Russian (eg Chechnya etc) , and wants/has wanted to control Ukraine, Belorussia, Moldova, Caucasus states, Baltics, Finland, Central Asia, Poland, central Europe, northern Kurile islands, Afghanistan, Iran etc etc

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Bill Park @billpark.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Agree totally with all of that.

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Kate from Kharkiv @kateinkharkiv.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Gillian Tett, journalist: Right now, NATO needs Ukraine as much, if not more, as Ukraine needs NATO. Having seen what friends of mine in Ukraine doing with drone technology today, their resilience and fearlessness, it's mind-blowing. We need their technology, know-how, and grit.

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Kate from Kharkiv @kateinkharkiv.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Calling North Korea "unthreatening and respectful" when they send missiles, shells, and troops to kill Ukrainians is a special kind of lunacy.

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Bill Park @billpark.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

True, as his home delivery, the move to the suburbs, and the fact that people don't go to pubs as they once did. Nothing to do with vape stores and Turkish barbers.

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Kate from Kharkiv @kateinkharkiv.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Russia killed or injured more civilians in Ukraine in July 2026 than in any month since March 2022. We need air defense, it is not a whim. We need it to save lives.

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Kate from Kharkiv @kateinkharkiv.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

BROWDER: Putin's whole projection of power internationally is completely hollow now. Russia looks like second-tier regional power. That's where Putin is now. He's not superpower everybody thought he was before. We now see Russia for what it is: a corrupt, mid-level failed state.

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Bill Park @billpark.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Even so, these are very high levels of trust for each of these leaders, not least given Ukraine's difficult circumstances.

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Kate from Kharkiv @kateinkharkiv.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

STUBB: Putin sees Russia as major power and empire. That’s why he talks about biggest travesty in recent history being dismantling of Soviet Union. That’s why he hails someone like Stalin who, after all, was mass murderer, killing millions of his own people and around the world.

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Emmanuelle Chaze @emmanuellechaze.com · 07/08/2026

🇺🇦 In Kharkiv, Russia destroyed 8 million books from several publishing houses with two jet-propelled drones. Nearly a third of Ukraine's annual production. One million of those books were schoolbooks to be used in a few weeks by primary & secondary school children. The fire isn't extinguished yet.

The books logistics warehouse destroyed by russia. Books in ashes, charred structure.

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Bill Park @billpark.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

This is the line the US took at the beginning of WW1 and WW2. Trump is not an aberration. US commitment to Europe during the Cold War was the aberration.

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Josiah Mortimer @josiahmortimer.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

Lib Dems on the Covid Inquiry report yday: "Doctors and nurses left unsafe. Billions of pounds wasted. Our NHS left hopelessly vulnerable. "The Conservatives' contemptible record of negligence has been laid bare. Never again should they be allowed near the levers of power or our health service."

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Josiah Mortimer @josiahmortimer.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

Thames Water has reported a return to profit today. Liberal Democrat Environment Spokesperson Tim Farron MP: “This is an absolute kick in the teeth for millions of households to see Thames Water posting hundreds of millions in profit after hiking up customer bills."

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Bill Park @billpark.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

A bit of each surely, but basically this is right - Spain were superb.

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Bill Park @billpark.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

Depends on what one thinks the job is. Privatisation was not aimed at ensuring greater efficiency, better service etc. It was aimed at transferring wealth to the already wealthy. Public utilities were basically given away, and there is little regulation of performance. So, they are doing their job.

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Hendrik Klaassens #FBPE #BanX #NoAfD #FBR @aurorablogspot.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

"Greenland should be controlled by the US, not by Denmark", Trump said this week, reopening old wounds. The Danish PM reacted furiously: "We will defend our territory!" By jeopardising unity within NATO, Trump once again shows he will not help Europe if it is attacked by Russia; he doesn't care.

euronews.com

Trump's new Greenland threat triggers Europe's unhealed trauma

The fight over Greenland’s future is far from over as Trump revives his bid to seize the island, reopening Europe’s deepest fears. #EuropeNews

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Bill Park @billpark.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

..erm, Belgium are not bad you know, have experience and a long-established and deep football culture. The US might have won it, but not 'should' have won it. But I'm sure Trump didn't help; the US team did look like a shadow of their former selves.

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Missing The Point @missingthept.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

In a 6-3 decision, the Supreme Court reverses U.S. vs Belgium.

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Bill Park @billpark.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

I reckon, when their 4-1 World Cup victory over the US even with Balogan on the pitch is also taken into account, Trump will be pondering calling for Belgium's expulsion from NATO.

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Bill Park @billpark.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

For the most part, the US - not least Trump - has no clue about football - what it means, how it is run, what are its conventionsetc. FIFA decided to hold (most of) this World Cup there, and this is a consequence.

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Bill Park @billpark.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

Doesn't this miss a rather simple fact - that European industries are being overwhelmed by Chinese imports? For example, how does your observation address the fact - fact - that Chinese car imports are increasing, and European car sales are struggling? From shipyards to mobile phones (Nokia)....etc

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Bill Park @billpark.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

Very uneasy about this thread. European industry - the car industry is next in line - is being wiped out by a Chinese 'competitor' that operates according to different rules and practices. It is hard to see how politically, let alone why, Europe should be passive in the face of that.

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Anton Gerashchenko @antongerashchenko.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

Oh my God. The death toll of the Russian strike on Zaporizhzhia has already reached 12 people. During the daylight, as people were minding their business... Russia killed them. Our daily news, our daily reality. It's very hard on us Ukrainians.

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Bill Park @billpark.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

Not convinced by this. Japan hasn't fully accepted its guilt for WW2 atrocities, but its surely a safe neighbour, no? Russia and Russians simply need to adopt the attitude the rest of Europe has adopted - its better to befriend one's neighbours, trade with them etc, than to threaten them.

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Bill Park @billpark.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

The exact same attitude that kept the US out of WW1 in 1914 and WW2 in 1939. Because its the same US. And its making the same mistakes.

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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

Our current economy is rigged. It just is. A new report shows that 88 of the largest companies in America, including: Amazon Citigroup Haliburton Kohl's Palantir PayPal PG&E Southwest Airlines Tesla United Airlines Disney paid ZERO corporate income tax last year.

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WyoBronco @wyobronco.eurosky.social · 01/05/2026

And Meloni and Macron and Tusk and Zelensky and Frederiksen and Pope Leo XIV and Carney and… It’s better to jump off the Trump train before it crashes

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Bill Park @billpark.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

Ditto Starmer. There is no way to deal with Trump - he simply wants 'allies' to accept everything he says and does and do everything he asks them to do, now. And even then another mood change might find reasons for him to be critical. Ignore him.

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Bill Park @billpark.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

Totally agree. Yes, there is intelligence and military cooperation, but others have such relationships with the US too. The US was nowhere to be seen in 1939 - the Blitz, Battle of Britain - nor in 1914. It took attacks on the US to bring it into the war, not the UK's plight.

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Bill Park @billpark.bsky.social · 26/04/2026

Yep. Trump claims to admire Churchill, yet there's a Churchill right in front of his eyes that he has insulted and betrayed. Then again, what did the US do to Churchill in 1939.....?

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Bill Park @billpark.bsky.social · 26/04/2026

Shouldn't voters look at themselves? They don't like NHS waiting lists, the behaviour of privatised utilities eg water, potholes, the economic consequences of Brexit, slow asylum procedures, the rich getting ever richer and, yes, immigration etc. But they voted Tory, which enabled all these things.

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Bill Park @billpark.bsky.social · 26/04/2026

The very existence of the profit motive - capitalism/free market economics if you like - as well as the interests of the sanctioned body, will always ensure sanctions won't fully work.

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Bill Park @billpark.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

It has just dawned on me that Blackheath, SE London, where I used to live and where Reform are projected to get 6% of the vote, might not be the only Blackheath in the UK!

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Bill Park @billpark.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

I fully agree that the forthcoming local elections will produce some weird outcomes. but I really can't see many people in Blackheath voting Reform. Any of the other four could win it though.

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