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Charles Owen

@charlesowen.bsky.social
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MD of European Pubs and Seasonal Businesses in Travel (SBIT), and a management consultant that likes snowboarding, politics, economics, films, music & tech. I wish I had more time for all of the above www.european-pubs.com www.sbit.org.uk

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Prof Christina Pagel @chrischirp.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
🧵On @thenewsagents.co.uk yesterday, school closures and the lab leak theory were offered as two examples of legitimate questions that were hard to ask. Both have in fact been asked constantly since 2020. But here's a thread on why I think they were wrong and dangerous on school closures 1/12
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Stephen Kinsella @stephenstroud.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
Agree with this. Some people think Musk is exploiting division to advance his business interests. The reality is he’s so wealthy he can pursue his racist agenda without caring about the commercial hit, which anyway is borne by others.
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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 17/04/2026
Our new report shows that the majority of Brits want to rejoin. And: EU membership delivers the most growth. ✍️ Write to your local paper to show it is time to talk about EU membership. Use our template: www.bestforbritain.org/write_to_pap…
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Charles Owen @charlesowen.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
Another incredibly detailed and informative podcast from Arthur. I advise you to listen to it and then go and fill up your car ASAP. Thank you @snellarthur.bsky.social
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Mums for Lungs @mumsforlungs.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
Brilliant to see that every feasible primary school in #Lambeth will have a School Street by 2027. Thank you @rezinachowdhury.bsky.social for your strong leadership, and for putting children's #Health and safety first. 💥 💚 😍
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Lambeth to install a School Street for every eligible primary school by 2027 - Love Lambeth
Lambeth is expanding its School Streets programme to all eligible primary schools by 2027
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Jim Pickard @pickardje.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
support the free press www.ft.com/content/8cc9...
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Charles Owen @charlesowen.bsky.social · 29/09/2025
I have been campaigning for a UK-EU Youth Mobility scheme for 5 years along with some superb partners in @bestforbritain.org and ABTA. So I was very proud to be at the #labconf25 to hear the chancellor speak so positively about the government’s intention to implement this scheme.
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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 26/09/2025
🔴 BREAKING: Chancellor believes allowing young people to live and work across Britain and the EU would boost the economy and reduce the need for tax rises in the budget. www.bestforbritain.org/uk_outlines_…
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Nick Rosenthal @nickrosenthal.bsky.social · 27/08/2025
... and if EU mobility is a good idea for our young people, then surely it is a good idea for all of us?
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Mike Galsworthy @mikegalsworthy.bsky.social · 27/08/2025
76% of Brits support EU youth mobility scheme. 👏👏👏 Time to remove the Brexit blockade on our youth.
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Abta study shows 76% of Brits support EU youth mobility plans
Travel bodies encourage ministers ‘to get on and do the deal’
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Charles Owen @charlesowen.bsky.social · 27/08/2025
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Youth mobility: Overwhelming majority of Brits want EU-UK scheme
New polling has revealed an overwhelming majority - 76% - of Brits support the creation of a youth experience scheme with the European Union (EU).
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Alex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 27/08/2025
💥 Nick Thomas-Symonds: "Nigel Farage will take a sledge hammer to any progress we make. And that is purposeful. Because, apart from his pension package, he cannot bring himself to have any relationship with the EU. Nigel Farage wants Britain to fail. His model of politics depends on it." 💥
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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 27/08/2025
Sausages and cheese could get cheaper with EU food and drink deal, government says www.itv.com/news/2025-08...
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Peter Foster @pmdfoster.bsky.social · 27/08/2025
This should help UK Govt be more courageous in the coming EU 'reset' negotiations...the EU will want ambition on youth mobility, which is a harder sell than the 'veterinary' deal Nick Thomas-Symonds is pushing on today. Of course all of this still relatively cosmetic for total trade purposes.
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Charles Owen @charlesowen.bsky.social · 27/08/2025
Seasonal Businesses in Travel (SBiT) and ABTA have revealed new research showing strong public support for securing a youth experience deal with the EU, as it urges the government to press ahead with negotiations with the EU following May’s UK-EU Summit. 1/n
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Jon Loveridge @jonloveridge.bsky.social · 04/08/2025
Incredible that this is all the same article. How utterly pathetic
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Eddie Mair @eddiemair.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
This is the last thing the BBC needs
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Alex Andreou's Podyssey @alexpodyssey.bsky.social · 02/06/2025
*cough*
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Charles Owen @charlesowen.bsky.social · 25/05/2025
Another beautiful and insightful episode by @sturdyalex.bsky.social. This podcast series continues to entertain, enlighten and enthral me in equal measures. If you aren’t listening to these you are missing out. Subscribe now! Thank you to @pimlicat.bsky.social and @mrkennycampbell.bsky.social too
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Prof Christina Pagel @chrischirp.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
Brilliant job there Labour - your voters think you're anti immigration (while they're pro) and reform and Tories think you're pro immigration (while they're anti)
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Peter Foster @pmdfoster.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
👇from a man who knows…why Youth mobility is important both to the young, but also UK outbound travel industry.
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Charles Owen @charlesowen.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
Yesterday I was interviewed by the BBC about the UK-EU Youth Experience scheme announcement and the positive difference it could make to thousands of young Brits in the travel industry
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David Henig @davidheniguk.bsky.social · 17/05/2025
Heck, a year ago I was quite often told there would be no UK EU reset while Labour's red lines stayed in place. There was going to be no summit. The EU would do nothing. And so on.
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Alex Andreou's Podyssey @alexpodyssey.bsky.social · 10/05/2025
🏛️🔥 6. Cassandra - Everything Must Be Said Again 🔥🏛️ NEW EPISODE: Cassandra. Unheeded wisdom or unnecessary pessimism? Woman vs Man? East vs West? Science vs Denial? Why we listen to some people. Why we don't listen to others. 🎧 open.spotify.com/episode/0tCz... 🍏 podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/a...
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6. Cassandra - Everything Must Be Said Again
Podcast Episode · Alex Andreou's Podyssey · 10/05/2025 · 58m
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Charles Owen @charlesowen.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
I was interviewed on the ski podcast this week discussing the potential for a youth mobility scheme, and its implications for the travel industry. My section is at 29:15 open.spotify.com/episode/2Lil...
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246: Ski Jobs Special 2025: How & when to apply, and how to become a Ski Instructor
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Charles Owen @charlesowen.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
I am proud to have signed this letter on behalf of Seasonal businesses in travel (100 travel companies). The travel industry needs and supports a UK-EU Youth Mobility Scheme travelweekly.co.uk/news/travel-...
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Travel bosses lobby government to secure UK-EU youth mobility scheme
Abta chief executive said arrangement ‘would be a win-win for the UK’
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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 27/04/2025
Rachel Reeves: “I want our young to be able to work in Europe.” Good - this is a common sense growth lever for the Chancellor. We already have youth mobility schemes with a dozen non-EU countries. And two thirds of Brits would support such a scheme. www.thetimes.com/article/f347...
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Andrew Lewin MP @andrewlewinmp.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
Proud to work with more than 70 Labour MPs and Lords on this letter. Now is a moment of opportunity for all want to see a closer UK/EU relationship and that includes millions of people who put their faith in our party last year. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...
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Labour MPs urge Starmer to back youth mobility scheme amid EU trade reset
Over 60 MPs from new intake sign letter calling for time-limited visas for 18- to 30-year-olds to travel freely
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Jessica Elgot @jessicaelgot.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
Keir Starmer is under pressure from more than 60 Labour MPs to allow thousands of young Europeans to live and work in the UK, key to unlocking a more ambitious trade reset with Brussels. Sources tell me and @lisaocarroll.bsky.social deal is close and the EU may agree to a cap on youth visa numbers
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Naomi Smith @pimlicat.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
Bravo these 60 Labour MPs! The letter suggests further Brexit trade barriers could be removed through a Canada-style deal involving a mutual recognition agreement (MRA) on conformity assessment, allowing standards of goods to be tested in the UK before export. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...
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Labour MPs urge Starmer to back youth mobility scheme amid EU trade reset
Over 60 MPs from new intake sign letter calling for time-limited visas for 18- to 30-year-olds to travel freely
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Charles Owen @charlesowen.bsky.social · 20/04/2025
This podcast keeps on delivering, another incredible episode. Hats off to the team behind it @pimlicat.bsky.social @mrkennycampbell.bsky.social and the dulcet tones, incredible insight and passion brought to the subject by @sturdyalex.bsky.social Please listen to all episodes, a true joy. Thanks
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Alex Andreou's Podyssey @alexpodyssey.bsky.social · 13/04/2025
🌺 Persephone I - If You Can't Be Free, Be A Mystery 💀 NEW EPISODE: Persephone has been assigned the story of a victim, but bears none of the hallmarks. Why has this magnificent Queen been reduced to a Page 3 girl? 🍏 podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/a... 🎧 open.spotify.com/episode/20hc...
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4. Persephone I - If You Can't Be Free, Be A Mystery
Podcast Episode · Alex Andreou's Podyssey · 13/04/2025 · 1h 33m
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Alex Andreou's Podyssey @alexpodyssey.bsky.social · 02/03/2025
Launching on the 15th of March 2025. Subscribe/Follow now, to get the first episode as soon as it hits the apps. SPOTIFY 🎧: open.spotify.com/show/2x7cD3H... APPLE 🍏: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/a... RSS FEED 🔊: feeds.megaphone.fm/podyssey
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Naomi Smith @pimlicat.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
💥💥💥 WE HAVE CAMPAIGNED ON THIS FOR YEARS 💥💥💥. We drafted policy, proved its popularity, socialised the idea widely & made several podcast episodes on it. Exciting!
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James MacCleary MP @jamesmaccleary.bsky.social · 15/01/2025
Ahead of the debate on my Youth Mobility Bill in the Commons today, The Times are making the case that young people deserve the opportunities which were denied to them by the botched Tory Brexit deal. Read more👇 buff.ly/3WlNjTj?
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Mike Galsworthy @mikegalsworthy.bsky.social · 15/01/2025
🔥 🔥 Fantastic - the ball is really rolling now on pressure for a youth mobility scheme with the EU. If you haven't yet written to your MP to attend the debate on it this afternoon... please send that email now via this easy link --> action.stayeuropean.org/campaigns/yo...
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Charles Owen @charlesowen.bsky.social · 30/08/2024
Hello, just introducing myself to this wonderful platform. I am MD of SBiT (Seasonal Businesses in Travel) and MD of European Pubs. For many years I have been arguing the case for a UK-EU Youth Mobility Scheme and written reports on the impact of Brexit on UK travel industry bit.ly/3Ms7KZm
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