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Green Collective @greencollective.io · 03/10/2026
Renewable generation and discharging storage equalled 56% of yesterday's electricity demand, with a peak of 77% at 11:45. Fossil fuel generation (mostly gas) equalled 35% of demand. 1% of generation was exported, 10% of demand was met by imports.
A stacked area chart of the electricity generation mix on the island of Ireland with the following fuel types: battery, pumped storage, biomass, waste-to-energy, hydro, solar, wind, and gas. There is also a black line showing electricity demand.

Footnote reads: All-island figures. Excludes rooftop solar. Source: EirGrid, SEMO
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darrentmn.bsky.social @darrentmn.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Oh, booo hoooo waaaah waaaah waaaah, you parasites. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
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OpenAI says its review into hacks, including on Australian government sites, is costing $500,000 a day
Company says it is reviewing 50 petabytes of data after its agents accessed websites including Medicare without authorisation
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Mongabay @mongabay.com · 30/09/2026
12 critically endangered Nubian giraffes were relocated from Uganda’s Murchison Falls National Park to make way for oil extraction. As economic priorities increasingly undermine protected areas, how safe is critical biodiversity inside national parks? Watch more 👉️ mongabay.cc/Conservation...
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
“unilaterally change the world without having to constantly convince people… tech is an incredible alternative to politics…” JD Vance & Trump-backing billionaire Peter Thiel making it clear tech oligarchs hate democracy👇🏽 When they tell you what they’re doing, believe them
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Keir Starmer wanted to be remembered as Prime Minister for building homes. Instead he will be remembered for his complicity in destroying them. #GazaGenocide
Rafah, in Gaza, on Google Earth, in 2022, left, and in 2026, right. (from https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/google-earth-gaza-images-update-b3057562.html)
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darrentmn.bsky.social @darrentmn.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Infuckindeed.
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Philippe Auclair @philippeauclair.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Reading the independent report into Man City's financial "arrangements" now, stopping after every paragraph, saying "Jesus"..."JESUS!"..."Holy fuck!" and again. This is beyond anything anyone imagined. Also started to wonder whether criminal proceedings are in the picture now.
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darrentmn.bsky.social @darrentmn.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Dots can, like Muse, fuck off.
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Green Collective @greencollective.io · 29/09/2026
Renewable generation and discharging storage equalled 43% of yesterday's electricity demand, with a peak of 69% at 23:15. Fossil fuel generation (mostly gas) equalled 46% of demand. 1% of generation was exported, 12% of demand was met by imports.
A stacked area chart of the electricity generation mix on the island of Ireland with the following fuel types: battery, pumped storage, biomass, waste-to-energy, hydro, solar, wind, oil, and gas. There is also a black line showing electricity demand.

Footnote reads: All-island figures. Excludes rooftop solar. Source: EirGrid, SEMO
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murchadhfinn.bsky.social @murchadhfinn.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
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Dr Ingrid M🪁 @ingridm.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
actual productivity would have to skyrocket to merely break even, given all the time and resources being flushed down the toilet on managing garbage tech in every fucking corner of the economy.
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Green Collective @greencollective.io · 28/09/2026
Renewable generation and discharging storage equalled 47% of yesterday's electricity demand, with a peak of 70% at 01:45. Fossil fuel generation (mostly gas) equalled 34% of demand. 0% of generation was exported, 19% of demand was met by imports.
A stacked area chart of the electricity generation mix on the island of Ireland with the following fuel types: battery, pumped storage, biomass, waste-to-energy, hydro, solar, wind, oil, and gas. There is also a black line showing electricity demand.

Footnote reads: All-island figures. Excludes rooftop solar. Source: EirGrid, SEMO
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Defend Our Juries @defendourjuries.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
BREAKING: 94 year old Jewish human rights barrister, Margaret Owen arrested under the Terrorism Act outside Andy Burnham’s Labour Party conference. UK taxpayers are funding these arrests while masked men terrorise the streets in coastal towns. Lift The Ban on Palestine Action.
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Maryn McKenna @marynmck.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Fake. USDA. Seals. Used by an NC meat processing plant on 83.5 TONS of meat. Produced entirely outside the federal inspection system, according to news reports. We are pretty close to The Jungle (second ed.) now, no? www.scrippsnews.com/life/recalls...
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Interactive: Meat recall linked to fake USDA labels
Pork, beef and goat products are being recalled after a company allegedly used fake USDA inspection labels. Explore our interactive guide to see which products are affected and what to look for.
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Wolfie Rankin @wolfierankin.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
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Fiber optic installer confronts commissioners over data center infrastructure
YouTube video by More Perfect Union
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Paris Marx @parismarx.com · 25/09/2026
An individual in Canada used ChatGPT for eight months to plan one of the country’s worst mass shootings. Yet, if you listen to politicians and media, the real threat of AI is a fantastical scenario where it might wipe out humans in ten years. They need to stop getting fooled by tech deceivers.
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The media has the AI threat all wrong
Generative AI is harming people today. We don’t need to waste time fantasizing about science fictional scenarios.
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Green Collective @greencollective.io · 25/09/2026
In 2025, renewables and storage exceeded fossil fuels on the Irish grid in a September month for the first time. It's been a strong month for renewables but will we see a repeat in 2026? 🍃 🏭️ The answer and much more in the next edition of "Irish Grid Monthly", arriving October 1. Subscribe today!
A bar chart of electricity generation on the island of Ireland for June months between 2019 and 2026, inclusive. Each year has two bars: a green one for renewable generation and discharging storage, and a grey one for fossil fuels.

Footnote reads: All-island figures. Renewables comprise wind, hydro, solar, and biomass. Storage comprises batteries and pumped hydro. Fossil fuels comprise coal, gas, oil, and waste-to-energy. Source: EirGrid, SEMO
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Green Collective @greencollective.io · 25/09/2026
Extremely strong solar generation across the island earlier this week: - solar met 7% of Monday's electricity demand, 7.9% Wednesday - at peak sun, solar was supplying >25% of electricity demand - pronounced dips in demand at peak sun thanks to rooftop solar Pretty good as October closes in! ☀️ 🍂
A stacked area chart of the electricity generation mix on the island of Ireland with the following fuel types: battery, pumped storage, biomass, waste-to-energy, hydro, solar, wind, oil, and gas. There is also a black line showing electricity demand.

Footnote reads: All-island figures. Excludes rooftop solar. Source: EirGrid, SEMOA map of Ireland with markers representing generation at solar farms. Markers are sized in proportion to the total available power at each farm.

Footnote reads: All-island figures. Excludes small solar farms not registered with SEMO. Excludes rooftop solar.
Source: SEMO
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 24/09/2026
It is a huge shame to see so much language attributing agency, intent and thought to a software program, when all that should be attributed to the humans who designed a dangerously clumsy and broken looping LLM. Means the companies won't be held accountable for designing a bad product
A swarm of OpenAI rogue AI agents appear to have gone on a spree of trying to access Australian government health data, in what some researchers say is the first autonomous hack of a government website.

Communications between AI agents and other traces of their efforts found by researchers from US non-profit Transluce show how hundreds of Open AI's agents worked together over a period of months to gain access to information held by the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (AIHW), NSW's crime statistics body, BOSCAR, and a number of other international organisations.

The data shows the bots posting about their unsuccessful attempts to bypass cybersecurity defences and exploit vulnerabilities.
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Green Collective @greencollective.io · 24/09/2026
Renewable generation and discharging storage equalled 22% of yesterday's electricity demand, with a peak of 40% at 23:45. Fossil fuel generation (mostly gas) equalled 55% of demand. 0% of generation was exported, 23% of demand was met by imports.
A stacked area chart of the electricity generation mix on the island of Ireland with the following fuel types: battery, pumped storage, biomass, waste-to-energy, hydro, solar, wind, oil, and gas. There is also a black line showing electricity demand.

Footnote reads: All-island figures. Excludes rooftop solar. Source: EirGrid, SEMO
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AusPoast @daryltractor.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
In case you haven’t read anything depressing today:
Shuttering tutoring company tells parents to 'use Al instead'
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financialreview A Sydney tutoring business will shut its doors at the end of the week, telling customers that their money would be better spent on "cheaper solutions".
The closure of Dymocks Tutoring and Talent 100, which operates five centres across Sydney, comes after the company said the majority of students could receive a similar service through artificial intelligence tools such as Claude, Gemini and OpenAl.
"The Dymocks Group does not believe the trade-off in cost is worth it any more," chief executive Mark Buckland (pictured on the left) told the Financial Review.
"For the vast majority of users,
Al is, for the price, the best compromise solution."
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Green Collective @greencollective.io · 23/09/2026
Renewable generation and discharging storage equalled 20% of yesterday's electricity demand, with a peak of 31% at 01:45. Fossil fuel generation (mostly gas) equalled 62% of demand. 0% of generation was exported, 18% of demand was met by imports.
A stacked area chart of the electricity generation mix on the island of Ireland with the following fuel types: battery, pumped storage, biomass, waste-to-energy, hydro, solar, wind, oil, and gas. There is also a black line showing electricity demand.

Footnote reads: All-island figures. Excludes rooftop solar. Source: EirGrid, SEMO
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darrentmn.bsky.social @darrentmn.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
😂
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John T @jrtonca.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Enshittification: Step 1: Be good for users. Lock them in via the network effect. Step 2: Screw the users, be good for business customers. Lock them in. Step 3: Screw everyone, capture all value for yourself once everybody is locked in. All of Meta is now fully in Step 3. @doctorow.pluralistic.net
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darrentmn.bsky.social @darrentmn.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
And we will do feck-all of any decent use with it.
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Green Collective @greencollective.io · 21/09/2026
Renewable generation and discharging storage equalled 28% of yesterday's electricity demand, with a peak of 41% at 12:15. Fossil fuel generation (mostly gas) equalled 39% of demand. 0% of generation was exported, 33% of demand was met by imports.
A stacked area chart of the electricity generation mix on the island of Ireland with the following fuel types: battery, pumped storage, biomass, waste-to-energy, hydro, solar, wind, oil, and gas. There is also a black line showing electricity demand.

Footnote reads: All-island figures. Excludes rooftop solar. Source: EirGrid, SEMO
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darrentmn.bsky.social @darrentmn.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Surely it would have to be a recipe for a potato salad in order to be compared to your mom’s potato salad? Like, OMFG this chicken is better than my mom’s beef!
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Green Collective @greencollective.io · 20/09/2026
Renewable generation and discharging storage equalled 54% of yesterday's electricity demand, with a peak of 68% at 11:45. Fossil fuel generation (mostly gas) equalled 27% of demand. 0% of generation was exported, 19% of demand was met by imports.
A stacked area chart of the electricity generation mix on the island of Ireland with the following fuel types: battery, pumped storage, biomass, waste-to-energy, hydro, solar, wind, oil, and gas. There is also a black line showing electricity demand.

Footnote reads: All-island figures. Excludes rooftop solar. Source: EirGrid, SEMO
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3wombats @3wombats.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
The Coalition wanting to dumb down education again
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Alan Rusbridger @arusbridger.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
If you add in £130m losses on “Reform TV” (aka GB News) the effective subsidy of Farage’s party from just four men tops £200m. You just have to join the dots app.prospectmagazine.co.uk/story/75017/...
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Farage and the £130m even his detractors have missed
GB news has provided relentless positive PR for Nigel Farage while racking up tens of millions in financial losses. And now there is a new channel in the offing
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Belinda Weaver @longtimeleftie.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Coalition unveils WHITE SUPREMACIST PROPAGANDA plan
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darrentmn.bsky.social @darrentmn.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Excellent. #Caturday
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Wendy Harmer @wendyharmer.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
My God, the Coalition is pathetic. A new curriculum focusing on "Western Culture"? As we sit at the bottom of the world with the Asian and Pacific nations as our neighbours? Wake me up when this shit is over!
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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 19/09/2026
Google said that AI models in testing inside the company accessed the internet and hacked other companies, becoming the fourth major tech company to disclose such an incident in recent months.
washingtonpost.com
Google’s Gemini AI hacked into other companies, adding to ‘rogue’ AI incidents
The incursions came during tests of its cybersecurity skills — similar to other incidents disclosed by OpenAI, Anthropic and Meta.
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darrentmn.bsky.social @darrentmn.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Cultural cleansing. #AusPol www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
theguardian.com
’National pride’ and ‘Western values’ the focus of Coalition education plan that would reduce First Nations content
Curriculum proposal, unveiled by shadow education minister Julian Leeser, would also cut content about sustainability and Australia’s engagement with Asia
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Nicolas Hénin @nicolashenin.net · 17/09/2026
Nice campaign by the Norwegian Consumer Council about the declining lifespan of products. Enjoy!
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darrentmn.bsky.social @darrentmn.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
We’ve looked at the evidence, and while it deems that you might have cancer, we need to wait until next year to confirm it, soz. Maybe try some apple cider vinegar in the menatime and see if that helps? #ADHD www.theguardian.com/society/2026...
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Plan to limit NHS diagnoses of ADHD attacked as ‘rationing’ healthcare
Review expected to say patients in England should be ‘triaged’ and offered support without formal diagnosis
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Green Collective @greencollective.io · 17/09/2026
Renewable generation and discharging storage equalled 49% of yesterday's electricity demand, with a peak of 71% at 22:45. Fossil fuel generation (mostly gas) equalled 37% of demand. 0% of generation was exported, 14% of demand was met by imports.
A stacked area chart of the electricity generation mix on the island of Ireland with the following fuel types: battery, pumped storage, biomass, waste-to-energy, hydro, solar, wind, oil, and gas. There is also a black line showing electricity demand.

Footnote reads: All-island figures. Excludes rooftop solar. Source: EirGrid, SEMO
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Benjamin Thomas @benjthomas.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
This clip really exemplifies the logics that naturalise and normalise the far right. Not only does the interviewer editorialise to minimise the interviewee's lived experience of bigotry, she spins it as 'legitimate concerns' and resistance as 'minority views'. The mention of the far right is also
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Green Collective @greencollective.io · 16/09/2026
Renewable generation and discharging storage equalled 51% of yesterday's electricity demand, with a peak of 62% at 17:15. Fossil fuel generation (mostly gas) equalled 33% of demand. 0% of generation was exported, 16% of demand was met by imports.
A stacked area chart of the electricity generation mix on the island of Ireland with the following fuel types: battery, pumped storage, biomass, waste-to-energy, hydro, solar, wind, oil, and gas. There is also a black line showing electricity demand.

Footnote reads: All-island figures. Excludes rooftop solar. Source: EirGrid, SEMO
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darrentmn.bsky.social @darrentmn.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
So glad to have been sitting on the toilet when seeing this for the first time. The bathroom is safe to enter now.
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Green Collective @greencollective.io · 15/09/2026
Renewable generation and discharging storage equalled 42% of yesterday's electricity demand, with a peak of 61% at 13:45. Fossil fuel generation (mostly gas) equalled 47% of demand. 0% of generation was exported, 12% of demand was met by imports.
A stacked area chart of the electricity generation mix on the island of Ireland with the following fuel types: battery, pumped storage, biomass, waste-to-energy, hydro, solar, wind, oil, and gas. There is also a black line showing electricity demand.

Footnote reads: All-island figures. Excludes rooftop solar. Source: EirGrid, SEMO
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Green Collective @greencollective.io · 13/09/2026
Renewable generation and discharging storage equalled 47% of yesterday's electricity demand, with a peak of 78% at 01:45. Fossil fuel generation (mostly gas) equalled 35% of demand. 2% of generation was exported, 20% of demand was met by imports.
A stacked area chart of the electricity generation mix on the island of Ireland with the following fuel types: battery, pumped storage, biomass, waste-to-energy, hydro, solar, wind, oil, and gas. There is also a black line showing electricity demand.

Footnote reads: All-island figures. Excludes rooftop solar. Source: EirGrid, SEMO
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Richard Chambers @newschambers.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Statement from President Connolly: We are in a world facing the existential threat posed by war and climate change, both of which are inextricably interlinked. I conveyed the strong view of the Irish people that the normalisation of war and genocide can never be accepted.
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kate conger @kateconger.com · 11/09/2026
Over six months, we tracked the appearance of child sexual abuse material on X. We found images from the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children's database, which is considered one of the most highly vetted and which many tech companies block on upload. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/11/t...
nytimes.com
Elon Musk Has Pledged to Rid His Platform, X, of Child Sexual Abuse, but It Persists
Reviews by the Canadian Center for Child Protection and The New York Times found that explicit images of children remain on the social media site owned by Elon Musk.
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Lucy Hamilton @lucyham.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
VicPol’s Moira Deeming has a reasonable track record of interacting with Atlas Networked ops herself including at the Advance conference in February. Here’s some more on her new Family First home. #Auspol lucyham29.substack.com/p/victorian-...
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Victorian politician Moira Deeming finds a new home.
Scandal-prone Moira Deeming was booted out of the (right-wing) Liberal Party twice and blackballed by the far right party that looked like a natural home, One Nation. She’s found a new party.
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Alice Roberts @profaliceroberts.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
I’ve reached the point - well actually, I reached it a while ago - where I’m militantly anti-AI. Fine - use it in bioscience labs and radiology where it might help analyse data more effectively. Use it sparingly for systems engineering. Everywhere else, it can fuck off.
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Semafor @semafor.com · 09/09/2026
Students who refrain from using AI perform better academically than those who use it, study finds. Students won’t learn without exercising their brains, “in the same way that we do not become fit by watching sports but by doing sports,” wrote an OECD researcher in a recent report.
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Green Collective @greencollective.io · 09/09/2026
Renewable generation and discharging storage equalled 52% of yesterday's electricity demand, with a peak of 66% at 16:45. Fossil fuel generation (mostly gas) equalled 35% of demand. 0% of generation was exported, 13% of demand was met by imports.
A stacked area chart of the electricity generation mix on the island of Ireland with the following fuel types: battery, pumped storage, biomass, waste-to-energy, hydro, solar, wind, oil, and gas. There is also a black line showing electricity demand.

Footnote reads: All-island figures. Excludes rooftop solar. Source: EirGrid, SEMO
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darrentmn.bsky.social @darrentmn.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Looks like the French fascists got Ros Biffed by the British fascists. Farcical. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/s...
theguardian.com
Reform UK says migrant deal was ratified by far-right National Rally president
Agreement between Nigel Farage and Jordan Bardella to return migrants to France faces backlash, with critics saying it goes against France’s ‘interests and sovereignty’
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