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Elodie Fabre

@elofabre.bsky.social
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Lecturer in Politics at Queen’s University Belfast. Political parties, devolution. French politics and the puzzle of Macron’s party. Slow but committed knitter

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Elodie Fabre @elofabre.bsky.social · 5h
A National Rally mayor cancels the programmation of a play about a warehouse worker's struggle against Amazon. Ah, yes, the RN, great defenders of working class
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Renaud Epstein @renaudepstein.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Ligne de défense osée des amis de Bardella... S1E02
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Elodie Fabre @elofabre.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Je ne regrette pas un seul centime de mon abonnement
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Elodie Fabre @elofabre.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Of course, it's not the worst thing about Mediapart's story about Bardella's antisemitism, but his spelling and grammar are atrocious (might I even say that it's a detail in the history of the guy's antisemitism?) www.mediapart.fr/journal/poli...
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« Les banques sont toutes détenues par des juifs » : Jordan Bardella face à ses écrits antisémites
« Mediapart » a mis la main sur des échanges de l’actuel président du RN, au début de sa carrière politique. On y découvre l’antisémitisme obsessionnel de celui qui rêve de devenir premier ministre. …
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Centre for Cross Border Cooperation @crossborder.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
31st Beyond Borders debate - "Skills Portability Initiative: Easing labour mobility across borders" Exploring skills and qualifications recognition for cross-border workers. Organised by @ec.europa.eu's Border Focal Point Network. 📅 8 October 🕓 9am 💻 Online futurium.ec.europa.eu/en/border-fo...
Promotional flyer on the Beyond Borders Breakfast Debate.
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Ruth Dassonneville @rdassonneville.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
‼️ A new paper with Patrick Fournier and @zeynsom.bsky.social is now out in @wepsocial.bsky.social! We examine citizens’ perceptions of parties that combine left/progressive stances on some issues with right/conservative stances on other issues - which we refer to as ideological inconsistency. 🧵
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Voters’ perceptions of ideologically inconsistent parties
There is a growing consensus in party politics that new fault lines are emerging, and scholars increasingly characterise competition as multidimensional. In a multidimensional space, parties can ad...
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Markus Kollberg @markuskollberg.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Do you want to understand whether investments in public services can make democracies more resilient? Come and do your PhD with @heikekluever.bsky.social and me! We offer great conditions, a supportive team, and lots of room to develop your own ideas. Any questions? Please, do reach out!
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Illia Ponomarenko @ioponomarenko.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
The story of how Nestle and Auchan refused to leave Russia in 2022, only for Putin to eventually seize their businesses with a single stroke of the pen, deserves to be told by sages as a biblical parable.
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Dan Sohege @danielsohege.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
There has been a noticeable lack of serious reaction over Turkish persecution of LGBTQIA+ community from the global community. As in many other countries, Türkiye tries to mask persecution by claiming being LGBTQIA+ isn't illegal and then using "obscenity laws". www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
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Turkey detains dozens in crackdown on LGBTQ+ activists and journalists
Protesters teargassed as minister claims widespread raids and arrests under obscenity laws were to ‘protect families’
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Elodie Fabre @elofabre.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
After speaking in Urdu, a language spoken by about 100 people on his constituency, Polanski addresses a much larger group: French-speakers. The French, famously relaxed about their language (For pedants, yes I know that we're not the only French speakers)
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Richard J @preachypreach.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
quite something this paragraph.
After meeting with delegates from the two sides in South Florida, Kushner and Witkoff emerged with a peace plan that would have required Ukraine to accept nearly all of Russia’s demands: ceding territory, promising never to join NATO, and drastically shrinking its army. Karoline Leavitt, Trump’s press secretary, hailed the proposal as “a good plan for both Russia and Ukraine.” But, when the plan became public, it collapsed under a wave of outrage. Even Rubio reportedly derided it as “Russia’s wish list.”
Some observers suspect that Russia has effectively offered the Americans business deals in exchange for a favorable peace agreement. “This is the generally held view,” the former U.S. official in the region told me. A classified report produced by a European intelligence agency states that Trump and people around him have discussed several potential contracts in Russia. The report is not dated, but the European official who gave it to me said that the details were first discussed sometime after Trump invited Putin to Anchorage, in August, 2025. Twice that year, Kirill Dmitriev, the head of Russia’s sovereign wealth fund, was allowed to enter the U.S., where he talked about investment opportunities. “The privatization of American foreign policy is quite far along,” the official who gave me the report said. (A spokesman for Kushner denied that U.S. officials would profit from the deals under discussion.)
The document lists ten potential ventures, which it says appear to “have been originally designed by the Kremlin’s political and business elites.” They include reopening the Nord Stream 2 pipeline under American control, resuming ExxonMobil’s operations in Sakhalin, and drilling for oil in the Sea of Okhotsk. According to the report, there was discussion of unfreezing Russian assets that are held under American sanctions. The document mentions people who might participate, including Trump, Witkoff, and Kushner. It also names Richard Grenell, the former Presidential en…
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Claire Mullaly @clairemullaly.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
The motion: congress.tuc.org.uk/motion-17-op...
Motion 17 Oppose the EHRC Code of Practice (Services, Public Functions and Associations)
carried motion
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Received from: TUC LGBT+ Conference

This Conference notes the issuing of new guidance on the implications of the Supreme Court judgement of April 2025 on Thursday 21 May 2026.

Conference unequivocally condemns the EHRC’s proposed Code of Practice as a direct attack on LGBT+ equality.
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mathieu gallard @mathieugallard.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
🇫🇷📊 Dans le détail, ce sont les jeunes femmes qui portent le plus la gauche, mais elle domine aussi largement chez les jeunes hommes. Le "gender gap" en faveur de l'extrême-droite est surtout fort chez les jeunes et les seniors, alors qu'il y a peu d'écart chez les 35-59 ans.
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Elodie Fabre @elofabre.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Donation caps go hand in hand with public funding. If you like these low caps, you need to accept that lost income must be compensated by the public purse, and that means for all parties with parliamentary representatives, whether you like them or not
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Elodie Fabre @elofabre.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Trump's pro-united Ireland comment will disappoint pro-Trump unionists (#notallunionists) and simultaneously embarrass progressives in favour of a UI who will hate supporting something that he does (annoying the Brits & a nationalist project - pick your order of preference)
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Will Jennings📉🗳️ @drjennings.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
This story is a perfect example of how broken reporting of the mobs roaming Britain's streets now is - and the political response. What would have been the appropriate response if this hadn't been a sports team? Trash the hotel? Force them out into the street? What about other people staying there?
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Group entered hotel of Pakistan cricketers mistaken for migrants
Protesters congregated at a Portsmouth hotel after false rumours that a coach of migrants had arrived.
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Dr. Sarah Wagner @sarahwagner.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
A few thoughts on the role of the BSW in Saxony-Anhalt. Many thanks to @uk.theconversation.com for the quick turnaround. theconversation.com/why-a-small-...
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Why a small leftist party may help the radical right to power in Germany
A small party with socialist roots stands as possible kingmaker in Saxony-Anhalt.
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Emmanuelle Chaze @emmanuellechaze.com · 09/09/2026
This summer, Moscow destroyed more than half of Ukraine's annual book production—approximately 13 million volumes, including over 1 million textbooks. For Ukrainians, the goal is clear: to erase their culture, language, and identity. 📽️ Report for @france24.com 👇 www.france24.com/en/video/202...
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FRANCE 24 report reveals Russia’s war on Ukraine’s books and cultural identity
In Ukraine, the war is not being fought solely on the battlefield. This summer, Russian strikes severely affected the publishing industry, destroying dozens of warehouses and logistics centres. Millio...
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Professor Daniele Albertazzi @dralbertazziuk.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Well, we were talking about this the other day, @aphclarkson.bsky.social... What's in it for Bardella being seen as Farage's gendarme? Turns out that that bit of the "agreement" does not feature in the French version of the document...
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Elodie Fabre @elofabre.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
None of them are in power, BBC! And given who we're dealing with, it's probably not worth the (large piece of) paper it's printed on BBC News: Farage unveils small boats deal with French National Rally party www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Nigel Farage unveils small boats deal with Jordan Bardella at Reform conference
Reform says it would use the Navy to intercept boats and return migrants to France, if the party wins power.
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Elodie Fabre @elofabre.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
They'll even deport the dead (love that the new republic was like 'nah, you liked him? You can keep him' when he died)
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Rhys Kaminski-Jones @rhyskamjones.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
What should a university do when their guy is deliberately using his position to recruit students into the organisation for whom he seemingly does electoral crime?
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Peter Jukes @peterjukes.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Just a reminder, Professor James Orr, Reform UK head of policy, teaches 'ethics' to undergraduates at Cambridge University youtu.be/aXut3s90rUI
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Rob Mullins @robertmullins.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Stop asking me questions about my secret postgraduate farm. It's a normal thing all academics have.
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Catherine E. de Vries @catherinedevries.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
We’re hiring! Poli Sci & IR department at IE University in Madrid is hiring three tenure-track Assistant Professors, starting 1st of September 2027, in: Comparative Politics: lnkd.in/ePDfwjJB International Relations: lnkd.in/eDu5vGTf Political Economy: lnkd.in/eciDukTA 1/3
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Daniel Sugarman @danielsugarman.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
The world's most notorious custard-pie thrower is dead. What an obituary. He got Bernard-Henri Lévy seven times.
​Known to his army of fans as L’Entarteur or Georges le Gloupier, Godin launched his career as a serial deflator of egos in 1969, when he planted a tarte à la crème on the face of the French novelist Marguerite Duras (“She has a kind of intelligence and cleverness that serves only her own vanity,” he complained), and he went on to “pie” a cast list of celebrities for sins ranging from pomposity to “choosing to function in the service of the capitalist status quo”.The same could not be said of Bernard-Henri Lévy, one of France’s “new philosophers,” whose provocative views on sex, frequent appearances on television and penchant for white silk shirts unbuttoned practically to the navel, had made him a cult figure – and one of Godin’s most satisfying victims.

Levy once declared: “I am the most gifted writer of my generation,” and often boasted of his reasonableness and tolerance, but he was forced to endure footage being repeatedly shown on French television of himself, covered in cream, during a visit to the Belgian city of Liège, trying to strangle Godin and shouting: “Get up, or I’ll kick your head in.”Noël Godin was born on September 13 1945 and came to pie-throwing after a rebellious youth in which he scandalised the priests in the confessional by speaking of his “horrible sexual life”, and was thrown out of Liège University after emptying a pot of glue over the head of a law lecturer who had helped write the constitution for the Portuguese dictator António de Oliveira Salazar.

He found work at Friends of Film, an obscure magazine published by the Belgian Catholic League. It had a tiny readership, which was just as well, as Godin made up most of his articles. In one he claimed that Louis Armstrong had once been a cannibal and had invested in a film called The Vegetables of Good Will in which Claudia Cardinale played a giant endive.

In another he conjured up a fictional blind Thai filmmaker named Vivian Pei, describing her film, The Lotus Flower Will Never Again Grow on the Edge of Your Island, in such convincing terms that an Asian film specialist travelled to Thailand in an effort to track her down.“We’re very careful not to hurt people,’’ he explained. “Well, they are hurt, but always in their amour-propre.”

In 1995 Godin published an autobiography, Cream and Punishment. His other targets over the years included the New Wave director Jean-Luc Godard (who charmed his assailant by hailing the attack as a homage to silent film), the French politician Nicolas Sarkozy, the choreographer Maurice Béjart and the Ryanair chairman Michael O​’Leary. He tended not to pick Belgian victims, he explained, because few would notice if he did.
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Simon Usherwood @simonusherwood.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
An all-too-common example of British HE and how it treats staff these days
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Elodie Fabre @elofabre.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
'Under no circumstances should you make a deal with people like me'
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Tim Bale @timbale.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Fascinating insight into how the ideological centre of gravity has moved lately. By any standard definition, Meloni is a far right politician, yet here she's effectively presented as the leader of a sister party to Badenoch's Conservatives. Which party (leader) that says more about is a moot point.
One question for Farage: What he makes of an intervention by Italy’s Giorgia Meloni. The Italian PM advised Kemi Badenoch not to do a deal with Reform, telling her Tory pal on a visit to Rome: “Be your own woman and stand your ground,” according to the Times.

A familiar tale: Meloni, like Farage, is also facing a big challenge from the further right, in the form of a former army general. It’s well worth reading Steven Swinford’s story for the full readout of the hour-long chiacchierata in a Roman coffee shop on Monday. Tory Chair Kevin Hollinrake’s on the morning round, so may have a few more thoughts on questions of a pact.
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Elodie Fabre @elofabre.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Nice to see some things don't change: Russian press hope that Le Pen will win next year's presidential election to bring the 2 countries closer. They expect that she'd be more supportive of Russia's war on Ukraine
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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
This is the quality of online discourse behind inventing "Yookay" as a pejorative for Britain & ethnic minorities who think they are British. But we now have peers & MPs starting to use it bsky.app/profile/sund...
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Elodie Fabre @elofabre.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
When I saw the term 'Yookay' for the first time earlier, used by a Tory MP, I knew that as a new Brit, I wouldn't like what it meant. Frost's idea that the term UK is somewhat new is stupid from a historical perspective and shows that Brexit has taught him absolutely nothing about his own country
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Elodie Fabre @elofabre.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
If you're a guy whose appointment 'as a postdoc' resulted in a 19-page report by your new colleagues denouncing your appointment as irregular, complaining about how someone else's appointment was unfair was always going to be personally dangerous because that report is still there for all to see
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Elodie Fabre @elofabre.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
www.lemonde.fr/politique/ar...
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Présidentielle 2027 : le référendum constitutionnel de Marine Le Pen, « un coup d’Etat sur le fond et sur la forme »
En cas d’accession à l’Elysée, la candidate du RN promet la convocation d’un référendum pour réviser la Constitution et y inscrire les fondamentaux de l’extrême droite. En cas de recours à l’article 1...
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Elodie Fabre @elofabre.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
This week's New Statesman cover has aged like rancid wine
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Elodie Fabre @elofabre.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
We have a crumbling water infrastructure and Stormont wants to add data centre to the mix. Phenomenal
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Centre for European Reform @centreeuropeanref.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
The @centreeuropeanref.bsky.social is looking for an EU institutions & EU politics fellow to join its research team in Brussels. Please see the #job description and details on how to apply below 👇 Deadline for applications 18/09/26 buff.ly/AbxXqg3
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Byline Times @bylinetimes.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
📌 ICYMI: The Professor Arday story seems a bit of a mess for Cambridge, but it doesn't seem to invoke the foreign influence, Big Tech and safeguarding issues of the Professor Orr story Print Edition #whatthepapersdontsay
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Palantir Co-Founder Peter Thiel and Reform UK's Cambridge University Recruitment Pipeline Project Revealed
The world-renowned academic institution has nothing to say in response to a six-month investigation by Byline Times raising serious concerns about the safeguarding of students and foreign influence at Cambridge University. Why?
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Elodie Fabre @elofabre.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
If you're in GB, you may not have heard that over 1 million people have visited Belfast city centre over the past week: the city was hosting the Fleadh ('Flah'), a cultural event celebrating Irish music and dance with a bewildering range of competitions and events www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Fleadh: Week-long celebration of Irish music and culture comes to a close
The All-Ireland Fleadh is coming to a close, with visitor numbers set to exceed expectations.
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antibot4navalny | bot blocker | блокировщик ботов @antibot4navalny.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
BREAKING: Russian state has started a campaign targeting the upcoming 2027 presidential elections in France. Kremlin-aligned Matryoshka bot network posted a series of fake videos and magazine covers on X/Twitter today smearing Gabriel Attal, a candidate endorsed by Emmanuel Macron's party.
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Elodie Fabre @elofabre.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
Despite the scale of Ukraine's needs for rescue operations, they still generously send support to France to tackle its massive forest fires Slava Ukraini! 🇺🇦
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French Aid to Europe 🇫🇷🇪🇺 @aidefranceukr.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
According to the Ukrainian Interior Minister, 70 🇺🇦 rescuers and 15 vehicles have left for France to fight forest fires, following a phone call with his French counterpart. Ukraine is also prepared to provide additional State Emergency Service aviation support if required. unn.ua/en/news/ukra...
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Ukraine sent 70 firefighters and equipment to France to combat forest fires
УНН Society ✎ On the instructions of President Zelenskyy, 70 rescuers and 15 special vehicles have been sent to France. Ukraine is also ready to provide State Emerg…
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Elodie Fabre @elofabre.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
Le député-maire Rassemblement National de Vauvert Nicolas Meizonnet dans toute sa splendeur sexiste
Nicolas Meizonnet, député maire de Vauvert, porte un t-shirt sur le dos duquel il est écrit: 'une femme, c'est un peu comme une prise jack... si tu l'enfonce correctement t'as le son qui va avec'
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Tarik Abou-Chadi @tabouchadi.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
Being queer means being the target of violence. Every queer person knows this. It's deeply engraved in who we are. We live with it every day of our lives. Not because of terrorism but because it is structurally enshrined in our "free" societies. Violence against queer people is not an exception ...
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Elodie Fabre @elofabre.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
Nearly 50% of French respondents said tgat climate change was the main global threat, well ahead of mass migration (28%), so guess which topic is going to dominate the 2027 presidential election campaign? Answers on postcards
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Elodie Fabre @elofabre.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
A journalist reporting on the woman who was carrying a bomb up north misheard Saoradh and wrote Syria. So the lass did not spend any time in Syria. Instead she spent time with dissident republicans. The far right had loved the Syrian angle, and it's an error that's going to be hard to rectify
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Elodie Fabre @elofabre.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
Very depressing. A young woman allegedly tried to bring a bomb into Northern Ireland. Someone from the Republic who's known only peace BBC News - Law student is charged over intercepted bomb in car www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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County Monaghan bomb: Law student charged over device in car
An Irish court is told the accused, Isobella Perrie Sullivan, is studying to become a barrister.
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Sylvain Bourmeau @sylvainbourmeau.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
« Le financement de la campagne de Marine Le Pen est un enjeu démocratique. » En appui à la manœuvre de Matignon, cette phrase est imprimée dans Le Monde, et ce n’est pas une citation. Nous en sommes là. www.lemonde.fr/politique/ar...
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Présidentielle 2027 : comment Matignon négocie avec les banques françaises pour qu’elles acceptent de financer la campagne de Marine Le Pen
Un consortium de banques devrait permettre à la candidate d’extrême droite d’obtenir un emprunt en France. Le premier ministre est disposé à ce que ce prêt soit partiellement garanti par l’Etat, par l...
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Ruth Fox @ruthfox.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
🧵The House of Commons administration plans to abolish its world leading parliamentary outreach team. @aileenwalker.bsky.social & @estrangeirada.bsky.social explain why cutting in person public engagement across the UK in favour of digital only engagement is a mistake. Blog 🔗⬇️
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Elodie Fabre @elofabre.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
The man has nearly infinite resources and keeps giving himself unmanageable goals: going to Mars in 2 years' time (he said that several years ago, I believe), convincing people that the cybertruck is a serious car, making a historically accurate version of The Odyssey. No wonder he's always unhappy
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