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David Short 🇪🇺 🏳️‍🌈 🇵🇸 🚴🏻‍♂️

@dwasmkuk.bsky.social
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Bedfordshire (UK) based engineer working in TV. Cyclist. Rejoiner. Atheist. Born ppm ~ 320. Header picture is a skyline of London’s South Bank taken from Savoy Place. Far left is the old LWT building. The National Theatre in purple.

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The Man In The Shed @themanintheshed.bsky.social · 30/12/2025
A reminder.......
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Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app · 29/12/2025
for the love of god, AI systems aren't "just tools that are neither good nor evil in and of themselves". AI systems *are* tools of capitalism. they exist as tools of capitalism. there is no AI system "in and of itself" outside of capitalism
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EagleOwl @eagleowlsheila.bsky.social · 30/12/2025
I wake up to hear Amol Rajan on #R4Today calling the invaded areas of eastern Ukraine "disputed" rather than "occupied". All hope for BBC journalism is lost.
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thattimwalker.bsky.social @thattimwalker.bsky.social · 29/12/2025
America doesn’t care about Europe any more and it’s left it to Russia as it draws up a new autocratic world order with it and China. Breaking Europe apart with scams like Brexit was the prelude to that. Labour won’t be forgiven for not pushing to mend fences with Europe earlier.
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The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 29/10/2025
Elon Musk’s new competitor to Wikipedia says apartheid wasn’t that bad, cites the Kremlin, and gives legitimacy to “white-genocide theory.” @matteowong.bsky.social on how Musk is constructing a parallel universe in his image:
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What Elon Musk’s Version of Wikipedia Thinks About Hitler, Putin, and Apartheid
The next step in Musk’s propaganda machine
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The London Economic @thelondoneconomic.bsky.social · 13/10/2025
When Reform promise you savings on your council tax bill, what else could you expect
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Mike Galsworthy @mikegalsworthy.bsky.social · 13/10/2025
This poll in The Times is still open. Go to —> compass.pressekompass.net/compasses/ti...
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Cornish Skipper #FBPE #RejoinEU 🇪🇺🔶🌹💚💙 @cornishskipper.wsocial.eu · 16/08/2025
“Lord David Frost labelled ‘fully delusional’ for claiming #Brexit has been a success. "It's like saying the Titanic maiden voyage was a success because it made it over halfway to New York."” leftfootforward.org/2025/08/lord...
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Lord David Frost labelled ‘fully delusional’ for claiming Brexit has been a success
"It's like saying the Titanic maiden voyage was a success because it made it over halfway to New York."
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David Short 🇪🇺 🏳️‍🌈 🇵🇸 🚴🏻‍♂️ @dwasmkuk.bsky.social · 05/07/2025
www.theguardian.com/technology/2... More reasons to boycott the Swasticars!
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‘The vehicle suddenly accelerated with our baby in it’: the terrifying truth about why Tesla’s cars keep crashing
Elon Musk is obsessive about the design of his supercars, right down to the disappearing door handles. But a series of shocking incidents – from drivers trapped in burning vehicles to dramatic stops o...
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David Short 🇪🇺 🏳️‍🌈 🇵🇸 🚴🏻‍♂️ @dwasmkuk.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
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Palestine Action spraying paint is not terrorism. As ministers abuse their powers, I feel a duty to speak out | Juliet Stevenson
We have laws to deal with crimes linked to protest. What this is really about is ministers complicit in the Gaza atrocities seeking to silence dissent, says actor Juliet Stevenson
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Daniel Hannan celebrates his chronicle of Brexit idiocy foretold | John Crace
Back in 2016, Dan prophesied about what the post-EU sunlit uplands would be like on this very day – no spoiler alert needed
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fife4europe #FBPE #RejoinEU @fife4europe.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
This powerful new documentary reveals how Russia’s hybrid warfare infiltrated British democracy, amplified the Brexit campaign, and helped deliver a result that aligned perfectly with Putin’s strategic goals: 𝗮 𝗳𝗿𝗮𝗰𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗲𝗱 𝗘𝘂𝗿𝗼𝗽𝗲, 𝗮 𝘄𝗲𝗮𝗸𝗲𝗻𝗲𝗱 𝗨𝗞, 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗮 𝗱𝗶𝘃𝗶𝗱𝗲𝗱 𝗪𝗲𝘀𝘁. youtu.be/7geWA0YYYaQ?...
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Putin and Brexit: The interference they tried to bury. The untold story of Russian influence.
YouTube video by Jon Danzig
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David Short 🇪🇺 🏳️‍🌈 🇵🇸 🚴🏻‍♂️ @dwasmkuk.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
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No matter what Trump says, the US has gone to war – and there will be profound and lasting consequences | Simon Tisdall
Trump has fallen slap bang into the trap laid for him by Netanyahu. His reckless gamble makes a nuclear weapon for Iran more, not less, likely, says Guardian foreign affairs commentator Simon Tisdall
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David Short 🇪🇺 🏳️‍🌈 🇵🇸 🚴🏻‍♂️ @dwasmkuk.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
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Israel kills innocent Palestinians. Activists spray-paint a plane. Guess which the UK government calls terrorism | Sally Rooney
If Palestine Action becomes a proscribed group, writing these words of support could become a serious offence. It’s vital we fight this alarming attack on free speech, says writer Sally Rooney
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David Short 🇪🇺 🏳️‍🌈 🇵🇸 🚴🏻‍♂️ @dwasmkuk.bsky.social · 20/06/2025
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How bad is the HS2 fiasco now? So bad it's time to listen to Nigel Farage | Simon Jenkins
Labour now says the botched high-speed rail project will be further delayed. Why not just scrap it, as the Reform leader suggests? asks Guardian columnist Simon Jenkins
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David Short 🇪🇺 🏳️‍🌈 🇵🇸 🚴🏻‍♂️ @dwasmkuk.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
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MPs vote to decriminalise abortion in step forward for reproductive rights
Amendment to crime and policing bill will change law to end prosecution of women who terminate pregnancies
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David Short 🇪🇺 🏳️‍🌈 🇵🇸 🚴🏻‍♂️ @dwasmkuk.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
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British women are being jailed under archaic abortion laws. MPs can act to end that this week | Frances Ryan
Women will really have the right to choose if politicians vote to revoke this Victorian-era legislation, writes Guardian columnist Frances Ryan
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Why a professor of fascism left the US: ‘The lesson of 1933 is – you get out’
Marci Shore made news around the world when her family moved to Canada. She discusses Trump, teaching history and how terror atomises society
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David Short 🇪🇺 🏳️‍🌈 🇵🇸 🚴🏻‍♂️ @dwasmkuk.bsky.social · 14/06/2025
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We are Nobel laureates, scientists, writers and artists. The threat of fascism is back | Open letter
As in 1925, when Mussolini was in power, we must openly defy the brutal imposition of the fascist ideology
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Trump is deeply obsessed with US history – but he has learned all the wrong lessons from it | David Reynolds
His ostentatious birthday parade is his latest reimagining of America’s past. He’d do well to remember that pride must be rooted in honesty, says Cambridge historian David Reynolds
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David Short 🇪🇺 🏳️‍🌈 🇵🇸 🚴🏻‍♂️ @dwasmkuk.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
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The car made pedestrians second-class citizens. Don’t let driverless vehicles push us off the road altogether | Adam Tranter
If we want autonomous tech to succeed it must be designed to share space with us, rather than forcing us to adapt to it, says former cycling and walking commissioner Adam Tranter
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
🔥 “You’re on the wrong side of history. You should be standing here with us… you took an oath to the constitution, not the fascists in the White House— he’s laughing at you… You’re tough behind your masks & fatigues, but how do you feel on the inside?” 🇺🇸
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David Short 🇪🇺 🏳️‍🌈 🇵🇸 🚴🏻‍♂️ @dwasmkuk.bsky.social · 07/06/2025
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Five years since Colston fell, there have been setbacks – but those who demanded race equality have not gone away | Simon Woolley
When the enslaver’s statue was torn down in Bristol, it signified hope. Now the government must harness that to bring about real change, says Operation Black Vote co-founder Simon Woolley
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David Short 🇪🇺 🏳️‍🌈 🇵🇸 🚴🏻‍♂️ @dwasmkuk.bsky.social · 07/06/2025
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Musk and Trump are enemies made for each other – united in their ability to trash their own brands | Jonathan Freedland
What one did to Twitter and Tesla, the other is doing to the United States of America, says Guardian columnist Jonathan Freedland
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David Short 🇪🇺 🏳️‍🌈 🇵🇸 🚴🏻‍♂️ @dwasmkuk.bsky.social · 07/06/2025
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Russia is at war with Britain and US is no longer a reliable ally, UK adviser says
Government defence expert Fiona Hill warns UK to respond to threats by becoming more cohesive and resilient
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Trump v Musk: the two worst people in the world are finally having a big, beautiful breakup | Arwa Mahdawi
The bromance might be over but Trump has kissed and made up with his enemies before. Enjoy it while it lasts
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Mike Galsworthy @mikegalsworthy.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
How am I meant to sleep with memes like this popping up on my feed??
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ETSC - European Transport Safety Council @etsc.eu · 03/06/2025
Study on London 20 mph limits shows: - collisions ⬇️ 35% - casualties ⬇️ 36% - fatal/serious injuries ⬇️ 34% - child casualties ⬇️ 46% - child deaths ⬇️ 75% - walkers, cyclists, motorcyclists killed/seriously injured ⬇️ 28% etsc.eu/20mph-limits...
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20mph limits in London linked to sharp fall in road injuries and deaths, new report finds
A new study published by Transport for London (TfL) has shown that the introduction of 20mph speed limits and zones on local authority-managed roads in London between 1989 and 2013 led to significant…
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David Short 🇪🇺 🏳️‍🌈 🇵🇸 🚴🏻‍♂️ @dwasmkuk.bsky.social · 06/06/2025
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Urgent: Stop the ship of death! ✊
A ship meant to be loaded with military equipment for Israel is docked in France - but courageous dockworkers are refusing to load it. They’re taking a stand for peace, justice, and Palestine. Let’s s...
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David Short 🇪🇺 🏳️‍🌈 🇵🇸 🚴🏻‍♂️ @dwasmkuk.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
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Our Gutenberg Moment
Fear of AI risks chaining us to the status quo. That’s not how progress works.
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David Short 🇪🇺 🏳️‍🌈 🇵🇸 🚴🏻‍♂️ @dwasmkuk.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
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Ella Baron on Donald Trump’s unhappiness at the ‘taco’ jibes – cartoon
‘Trump always chickens out’ has become a popular refrain on Wall Street over the tariffs stand-off
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David Short 🇪🇺 🏳️‍🌈 🇵🇸 🚴🏻‍♂️ @dwasmkuk.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
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Ben Jennings on Israel’s aid to Gaza – cartoon
The US distances itself from the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation as Israel continues its assault on the Strip
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David Short 🇪🇺 🏳️‍🌈 🇵🇸 🚴🏻‍♂️ @dwasmkuk.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
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Why do so many Americans join the Israeli military? | Ahmed Noor
Tens of thousands of Americans serve in the country’s ranks amid genocide, investing in and propagating occupation
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SeaYou #FBPE 🇪🇺 @seayou.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
#USA 🇺🇸 #Tariffs
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www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m... #Gaza #Genocide
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Zadie Smith and Ian McEwan among 380 writers and groups to call Gaza war ‘genocide’
Letter also signed by Hanif Kureishi and Russell T Davies urges ceasefire and unrestricted distribution of aid
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David Short 🇪🇺 🏳️‍🌈 🇵🇸 🚴🏻‍♂️ @dwasmkuk.bsky.social · 27/05/2025
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How we can smash Britain’s two-party system for good at the next election | George Monbiot
Labour is beyond repair. Time for a co-ordinated strategy to support progressive parties committed to electoral reform, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
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David Short 🇪🇺 🏳️‍🌈 🇵🇸 🚴🏻‍♂️ @dwasmkuk.bsky.social · 27/05/2025
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m... Step the #genocide in #Gaza
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UK must impose sanctions on Israel to meet legal obligations, say more than 800 lawyers
Exclusive: Letter to PM signed by retired supreme court justices among others says lack of action will imperil international legal system
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David Short 🇪🇺 🏳️‍🌈 🇵🇸 🚴🏻‍♂️ @dwasmkuk.bsky.social · 26/05/2025
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I was Hitler’s neighbour: ‘If he’d known we were Jewish, we’d have been sent to Dachau’
In 1929, Edgar Feuchtwanger was five years old and living with his family in Munich when Adolf Hitler moved into a flat opposite. At first, his parents thought they were safe hiding in plain sight – u...
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Dave Vetter @davidrvetter.bsky.social · 25/05/2025
Rebecca Solnit on compromise: "If I think the world is round and you think the world is flat, I don't really make the world better by saying it's kind of a squashed oblong."
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Mad_as_hell (Maddie) @maddie-says.bsky.social · 25/05/2025
Minority rule on full display. The wealthy have made it clear that they purchase politicians to enhance their own wealth and power. Isn't it time for us, the taxpayers who fund these elected officials' salaries, to be properly represented? #DemVoice1 #ProudBlue #MomSky
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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 25/05/2025
I wrote a bit about the misguided effort by Democrats to replicate Joe Rogan the right-wing podcast ecosystem.
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Democrats Can't Buy Themselves A Joe Rogan
The effort to replicate the right's influencer network is destined to fail
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Steve Richards @steverichards.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
Brilliant article : www.newstatesman.com/cover-story/...
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Why George Osborne still runs Britain
Austerity was a radical economic experiment – but 15 years on, it has become the new orthodoxy.
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The Onion @theonion.com · 25/05/2025
Trump Shares Own Experiences As Victim Of White Genocide theonion.com/trump-s...
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Trump Shares Own Experiences As Victim Of White Genocide
WASHINGTON—Saying the plight of white South African farmers affected him on a deeply personal level, President Donald Trump issued a statement Thursday in which he shared his own experiences as a victim of white genocide. “I’ve kept quiet about my past out of a fear that I could still be persecuted, but I too know […]
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David Short 🇪🇺 🏳️‍🌈 🇵🇸 🚴🏻‍♂️ @dwasmkuk.bsky.social · 25/05/2025
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‘An autoimmune disorder’: how Trump is turning American democracy against itself
Unlike autocracies such as Russia or China, the US has strong liberal guardrails to prevent a dictatorship. But Trump has a plan for dismantling them
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David Short 🇪🇺 🏳️‍🌈 🇵🇸 🚴🏻‍♂️ @dwasmkuk.bsky.social · 24/05/2025
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‘Climate change is going to cull us as a species’: folk hero Peggy Seeger on Bob Dylan, the ultimate love song and touring at 90
The musician and activist answers your questions about her marriage to Ewan MacColl, being the inspiration for The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face, and her mother’s legacy
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David Short 🇪🇺 🏳️‍🌈 🇵🇸 🚴🏻‍♂️ @dwasmkuk.bsky.social · 24/05/2025
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre... I have had quite a long career and I could make a long list of white men who have been over promoted but I can only think of one woman
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Maga’s ‘DEI hire’ taunt is an age-old grievance reignited. And it’s spreading | Gaby Hinsliff
In this new climate, having an enviable job, while not being a straight white man, is grounds for suspicion, says Guardian columnist Gaby Hinsliff
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David Short 🇪🇺 🏳️‍🌈 🇵🇸 🚴🏻‍♂️ @dwasmkuk.bsky.social · 24/05/2025
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In Ukraine, I saw Trump’s ‘peace deal’ wouldn’t just trade away land – but lives, memories and homes | Timothy Garton Ash
Ukrainians I met in Kyiv and Lviv were grimly realistic about the end of the war. We should follow their example, says Guardian columnist Timothy Garton Ash
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David Short 🇪🇺 🏳️‍🌈 🇵🇸 🚴🏻‍♂️ @dwasmkuk.bsky.social · 24/05/2025
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A biblical hatred is engulfing both sides in the Gaza conflict – and blinding them to reason | Jonathan Freedland
Israel starving Palestinians, two killings at a Jewish museum: both are atrocities. But vanishingly few can see it, says Guardian columnist Jonathan Freedland
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David Short 🇪🇺 🏳️‍🌈 🇵🇸 🚴🏻‍♂️ @dwasmkuk.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
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From the day Britain left the EU, this reset was inevitable. What a pointless waste of time, money and effort | Simon Jenkins
Keir Starmer is not blameless when it comes to Brexit, but he is moving in the right direction. Even the Tories attacking him know that, says Guardian columnist Simon Jenkins
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