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Dagmar Seeland

@dseelandwrites.bsky.social
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UK correspondent for the German weekly stern magazine. Former President, Foreign Press Association. Always on the lookout for good stories.

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victoria scott @victoriascott.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
I am sympathetic to Silicon Valley guys ascribing human-level consciousness to AI because if I had to talk to people from Silicon Valley all day I’d probably have a real low bar for sentience too
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Stephen Kinsella @stephenstroud.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
It’s so confusing. I thought Farage was a huge fan of charity, meaning donations given freely by people with no expectation of anything in return. 
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Dagmar Seeland @dseelandwrites.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
OMG so innovative!
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Dagmar Seeland @dseelandwrites.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
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Dagmar Seeland @dseelandwrites.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
The Telegraph is surpassing itself today
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Dagmar Seeland @dseelandwrites.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
Can someone from the new Treasury team now reverse the idiotic new requirement for freelancers and small businesses to produce quarterly accounts under MTD please? It’s hours of extra work & won’t bring in one extra penny in tax. As usual, the only winners are accountants.
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The Empty City @davidallengreen.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
Reversed, wrong-headed, lied; unhinged, wrong-headed, deprived.
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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
Labour won by 20 points and net immigration is down by over 80% in two years. But sure write your column again.
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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
Happy Father's Day 🖤
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Alex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
I have put together a little video guide to Nigel Farage's umm... evolving views on hecklers. They seem to be quite dependent on whether the heckler disagrees with him (bad, boring, frightening, dangerous), or shouts abuse at a woman in the street (buy him a pint/give him a peerage).
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Dagmar Seeland @dseelandwrites.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
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Der nächste britische Premier könnte Nigel Farage heißen. Schuld wäre Keir Starmer
Mit dem faden Keir Starmer sollte Kompetenz und Ruhe in Großbritanniens Regierung zurückkehren. Die Realität ist eine andere. Von einem schlechten Premierminister, der es gut meint.
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Dagmar Seeland @dseelandwrites.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
“We are not fighting over politics. We are fighting for the soul of a country.”
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Henry Mance @henrymance.ft.com · 10/05/2026
Want to know who is in Nigel Farage's inner circle? An FT deep dive: as.ft.com/r/6172c04b-c...
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The court of king Farage
As Reform UK’s leader aims for government, he must juggle a growing crowd of admirers and influence-seekers
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David Gura @davidgura.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
A Pulitzer for Julie K. Brown. Richly deserved, and overdue!
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Mr Roger Quimbly @rogerquimbly.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
If the past really is a foreign country I’m surprised so many right-wingers want to live there.
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Michael J. Stern @michaeljstern.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
LOL.
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Barbara Cooney @barbaracooney.bsky.social · 05/04/2026
At least one of our newspapers didn't whitewash Trump's vile and intemperate outburst. #Trump #DonaldTrump #Iran #StraitofHormuz
Front page of The Mirror, UK, April.6th: 'Unhinged. President Hits New Low'.
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Stephen McGann @stephenmcgann.uk · 03/04/2026
That famous treaty they made entirely with themselves. That one.
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Paul Byrne @theplanetaryguy.com · 03/04/2026
This image of home just came down from the Artemis II crew. Taken after their translunar injection burn, there are aurorae at top right and lower left, and zodiacal light at lower right. Credit: NASA/Reid Wiseman
That's home. That's us.
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Des @desdelboy.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
Tuesday
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Arthur Snell @snellarthur.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
Not fighting a war with Iran would presumably have a similar effect.
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Dagmar Seeland @dseelandwrites.bsky.social · 15/03/2026
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Der heimliche, unheimliche Einfluss des Tony Blair
Tony Blair ruinierte sein Image mit dem Irakkrieg. Das möchte er ändern. Jüngste zwielichtige Verbindungen legen nahe: Für den Ex-Premier heiligt der Zweck offenbar alle Mittel.
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Dagmar Seeland @dseelandwrites.bsky.social · 14/03/2026
“The markets have largely swallowed the fundamental underlying Trump idiocy, which is that he is the only pertinent person in world affairs. Plainly he believes this, but he is wrong. And he is discovering how wrong he is as we speak.” open.substack.com/pub/iandunt/...
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The world is run by a madman and it's driving us all nuts
The president is obviously out of his mind. So why don't investors seem to care?
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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
We have awarded these people contracts in the Ministry of Defence. What the fuck are we doing.
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Jonathan Portes @jdportes.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
The impact of Brexit on UK immigration - new research by @johnspringford.bsky.social & me for @centreeuropeanref.bsky.social & @ukandeu.bsky.social Brexit a) reduced EU-origin employees by 785K (2.3% of workforce) b) increased non-EU origin employees by 992K (2.95%) www.cer.eu/insights/imp...
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The impact of Brexit on immigration to the UK
A new analysis finds that Brexit raised the number of foreign-born workers in the UK by about 200,000, but resulted in a more dramatic shift in the countries of origin.
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Dorian Lynskey @dorianlynskey.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
I love Jeremy Bowen in "I'm too old for this shit" mode #wato
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Lewis Goodall @lewisgoodall.com · 04/03/2026
It’s being said a lot that the shadow of Iraq is hanging over Keir Starmer and the Labour Party during this Iran crisis. It absolutely should. What’s remarkable is how little much of the British media and the rest of politics seem to be thinking about it at all, or learning its lessons.
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Lee Hurley @hleehurley.com · 27/02/2026
Watch this twice. Once for Hannah's speech and a second time for Matt Goodwin's face throughout it...
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Jim Pickard @pickardje.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
a year is a long time in politics
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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 21/02/2026
A retired British primary school administrator with a British passport and a valid visa was shackled, chained and detained for six weeks by ICE www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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‘Don’t go to the US – not with Trump in charge’: the UK tourist with a valid visa detained by ICE for six weeks
Karen Newton was in America on the trip of a lifetime when she was shackled, transported and held for weeks on end. With tourism to the US under increasing strain, she says, ‘If it can happen to me, i...
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Janine Gibson @janinegibson.ft.com · 21/02/2026
this FT reporting team exposed a secret Russian smuggling team by using this one weird trick -- they all shared the same email address??? as.ft.com/r/aa78dec9-c...
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Email blunder exposes $90bn Russian oil smuggling ring
[FREE TO READ] Apparent network of companies using same server includes little-known group that has become country’s largest oil exporter
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Stephen Moran. @moranstephen1000.bsky.social · 15/02/2026
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Dagmar Seeland @dseelandwrites.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
In Europe, the publication of the Epstein files above all helps right-wing populists. Which was probably the plan. www.stern.de/politik/ausl...
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Am Ende lachen die Populisten
Die mühsame Aufarbeitung der Epstein-Akten hat in Europa bislang härtere Konsequenzen als in den USA. Die Profiteure sind nicht die Opfer.
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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
Name them shame them
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Dagmar Seeland @dseelandwrites.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
Never trust ChatGPT
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Christine Heuer @christineheuer.bsky.social · 01/02/2026
How the far right is gaining ground in the UK - and why. My report for @deutschlandfunk.de.web.brid.gy, featuring @petergeoghegan.bsky.social, @pnjackson.bsky.social and @joemulhall.bsky.social. (Audio in German only.) 👇Listen here: www.deutschlandfunk.de/grossbritann...
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Labour und Tories bleiben den Briten den Wandel schuldig - davon profitieren Rechtspopulisten
Labour und Tories finden auf viele Probleme Großbritanniens keine Antworten. Immer mehr Briten sehen Rechtspopulisten wie Nigel Farage als wählbare Alternative.
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Dagmar Seeland @dseelandwrites.bsky.social · 31/01/2026
Brilliant piece by my colleague @christineheuer.bsky.social on the rise of the far right in the UK, and on who finances them. In German, sorry! Aus der DLR App | Hintergrund | Großbritannien – Die Rechte im Aufschwung share.deutschlandradio.de/dlf-audiothe...
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Labour und Tories bleiben den Briten den Wandel schuldig - davon profitieren Rechtspopulisten
Labour und Tories finden auf viele Probleme Großbritanniens keine Antworten. Immer mehr Briten sehen Rechtspopulisten wie Nigel Farage als wählbare Alternative.
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Dagmar Seeland @dseelandwrites.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
That is actually funny
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👣Coco👣 🇺🇦 🇪🇺 @nortygirl.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
BBC News - www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cd... Prince Harry says sacrifices by Nato troops in Afghanistan deserve 'respect' after Trump comments - BBC News
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Prince Harry says sacrifices by Nato troops in Afghanistan deserve 'respect' after Trump comments
Veterans and bereaved families call the comments
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Dagmar Seeland @dseelandwrites.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
Any Australian parents here who would talk to me about the social media ban? Is it working? Is it effective?
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Warrington-Runcorn New Town Development Plan @warringtonruncorn.com · 22/01/2026
“We’ve invented a magic computer. It uses all of the earth’s resources, we’ve spent trillions on it and it’s the sole growth area of the US economy.” “What does it do?” “We were hoping you could tell us.”
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Dagmar Seeland @dseelandwrites.bsky.social · 12/01/2026
Is South East Water CEO David Hinton doing a rain dance or what? This what 30 years of no investment into the water industry look like.
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Dagmar Seeland @dseelandwrites.bsky.social · 11/01/2026
Interviewed the brilliant @snellarthur.bsky.social for stern magazine last week about the state of NATO and Europe and what we can do about this mess: url-shortener.me/798F
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Trumps neue Weltordnung: Ist Grönland Europas Sudetenland-Moment? | STERN.de
Was wird aus der Nato in Trumps neuer Weltordnung? Der geopolitische Berater Arthur Snell setzt für eine sichere Zukunft auf Europas Aufwachen aus dem Tiefschlaf – und J. D. Vance.
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Captain Haddock @realcaptainhaddock.bsky.social · 06/01/2026
All going according to plan? www.ft.com/content/b3a2...
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Venezuela launches wave of repression after US seizure of Nicolás Maduro
Armed militias patrol the streets and journalists arrested as government crackdown on dissent widens
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Naomi Alderman @naomialderman.bsky.social · 05/01/2026
it has helped me tremendously to think of Donald Trump as someone whose greatest success and primary achievement has been as a reality TV star like reality TV, there are a lot of sudden shocking developments and rule-changes. the only principle is: keep it moving, keep eyes on us.
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Arthur Snell @snellarthur.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
Trump is probably focused on the money he wrongly thinks he'll make from Venezuelan oil. But he's not a details guy and nobody has thought through the details. Essentially, the US has taken over Venezuela by mistake. Stranger things have happened, but not many. open.substack.com/pub/arthursn...
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Stranger Things
The 1980s Nostalgia of Trump's Foreign Policy is probably going to end up, like Stranger Things, as a horror show.
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Michael Spicer @michaelspicer.bsky.social · 02/01/2026
podcasts
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Holger Hestermeyer @hhesterm.bsky.social · 24/12/2025
Christmas in Trump’s America: The US administration sanctions individuals fighting hate on the internet, amongst them a German who received the Bundesverdienstkreuz for her work. www.tagesschau.de/ausland/amer...
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USA verhängen Einreiseverbote gegen Europäer - Deutsche betroffen
Wegen angeblicher Zensur hat die US-Regierung Sanktionen gegen Gruppen verhängt, die sich gegen Hass im Netz engagieren. Von den Reisebeschränkungen sind auch deutsche Aktivistinnen und ein ehemaliger...
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Sarah Owen MP @sarahowen.org.uk · 13/11/2025
🔉What dangers does X pose to our democracy? And should the government stop using it? Good to hear yesterday from @sundersays.bsky.social and @petergeoghegan.bsky.social on the immense risk of X as it ignores legal obligations and its owner tries to influence UK politics. @commonswec.parliament.uk
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