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Eunice Goes @eunicegoes.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

The Home Office is run by psychopaths from the top cabinet secretary to the manager who is making mundane decisions about passport applications. Performative cruelty is its motto. www.theguardian.com/money/2026/o...

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Father was asked for DNA test to get a passport for his daughter

New post-Brexit rules mean that dual nationals cannot enter the UK unless they have a British passport

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Eunice Goes @eunicegoes.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Shame on you for denying her tenure. I’m afraid you can’t claim credit for this.

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Eunice Goes @eunicegoes.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Elsinore is as good as everyone says it is and more. Quite the rollercoaster of emotions: You laugh at the beginning with the easy jokes and you leave in a flood of tears. The cast is incredible and Andrew Scott is magnificent. share.google/Km6sMnjMkWfs...

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ELSINORE Official Trailer (2026) Andrew Scott, Olivia Colman ...

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Eunice Goes @eunicegoes.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Sánchez may loose the November election but a focus on affordability will not be the reason for that defeat.

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Eunice Goes @eunicegoes.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Affordability is not an issue that affects mostly the centre-left as the Republican Party in the US is about to find out and as countless centre-right parties n Europe have found out.

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Eunice Goes @eunicegoes.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

The insular fingerprints of the zombie starmerite right of the Labour Party are all over this article that fails to mention that Sanchez is the longest-serving PM in Europe (let’s hope Burnham fails as badly as the PSOE with 8 years in power) magazine.newstatesman.com/2026/10/07/s...

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Spain’s warning to Andy Burnham

The Prime Minister must avoid social democracy’s affordability trap

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Eunice Goes @eunicegoes.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

‘Mob rule’ is the argument normally deployed by those who hate democracy.

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Eunice Goes @eunicegoes.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Great piece, Anthony. Democracy in every postcode is a wonderful idea!

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Eunice Goes @eunicegoes.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I totally agree. Support for the welfare state is based on universal provision. The erosion of welfare state provision is related to the beginning of means-testing welfare provision. If the state wants the rich to pay more taxes, they should also enjoy the benefits of the welfare state.

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Eunice Goes @eunicegoes.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

As ever, anonymous investors welcomed the news because fascism is so good for business.

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Eunice Goes @eunicegoes.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Bolo de Arroz is the best comfort food!

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Anand Menon @anandmenon.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

We're going to get a lot of this. And we should take the numbers with an enormous dollop of salt. The negotiations would be tough, the terms less favourable than those we rejected in 2016. These numbers will move ' however 'mega' the poll! www.theguardian.com/world/2026/o...

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Half of UK wants to rejoin EU and backing it could drive up Labour vote, megapoll finds

Exclusive: Findings will bolster those in No 10 who want to negotiate on re-entry but some senior figures remain wary

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Parkscope Joe @parkscopejoe.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

This is insane.

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NEW: According to a bombshell report in the New York Times, Anthropic co-founder Chris Olah threatened to walk out of Pope Leo XIV's Al encyclical launch in May because the pope rejected the idea that machines can be conscious.
Olah's team then privately lobbied the pope's advisers "to take the possibility of model consciousness seriously." Pope Leo XIV held firm.
For months, Anthropic has wined and dined theologians and religious scholars under nondisclosure agreements, hoping they would bless the idea that Claude has moral standing.

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Eunice Goes @eunicegoes.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

If anything, Burnham’s speech has shown us a Labour leader and PM who is not afraid of his beliefs, who is not afraid to be called a socialist and who seems ready to make the case for a different type of politics. None of these things are insignificant. www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...

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Burnham says he would put PR in Labour manifesto and scrap triple lock to fund social care – UK politics live

PM, in first speech to party conference as leader, insists his plans are a ‘good deal’ for older people

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Eunice Goes @eunicegoes.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Loved it and had the same reaction to Éluard’s beautiful poem.

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Eunice Goes @eunicegoes.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

And there was even a beautiful declamation of Paul Éluard’s poem Liberté.

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Eunice Goes @eunicegoes.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

It was also refreshing to see a film that shows the liberation of Paris as it happened: Paris liberated by French troops.p

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Eunice Goes @eunicegoes.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I’ve just saw Antonin Baudry’s De Gaulle: Liberté and it’s as brilliant as the first part though clearly more patriotic. Nonetheless it’s good to see a film that shows how Roosevelt was ready to do business with the Vichy regime and occupy France at the end of the war.

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Eunice Goes @eunicegoes.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Cercas account is not one of glory. He shows that Suarez’s bravest moment - when he sat still in the Cortes when the Tejero fired his gun - was the beginning of his road into political oblivion. And that is the lesson. There is no gratitude in politics. Time is pretty merciless.

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Eunice Goes @eunicegoes.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Javier Cercas’s Anatomy of a Moment is a tremendous book. Such an incredible account of Spain’s transition to democracy and what an interesting analysis of political leadership. Adolfo Suárez had the character traits that turned him into the handmaid of Spanish democracy.

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Eunice Goes @eunicegoes.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Very cheeky of the @britishmuseum.bsky.social to not to let new members (who signed up after the 17 Sep) to book tickets for the Bayeux Tapestry in the members’ dates. I think I will cancel my membership before it starts…

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Eunice Goes @eunicegoes.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

In fact, it’s the laughter of people who think hundreds of masked men in the streets of Dover are merely expressing ‘legitimate concerns’ about immigration.

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Eunice Goes @eunicegoes.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Do we all agree with that? I’m not sure about that…the laughter of some members of the audience suggests that they wouldn’t mind about some fascism.

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Eunice Goes @eunicegoes.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Fascist speeches are not funny. As we see everyday they’re extremely dangerous. It’s been through nervous laughter that the Trumps, Farages, Venturas, Le Pens of this world win elections.

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Eunice Goes @eunicegoes.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

the fragility of democracy. The play is morally demanding and some members of the audience clearly did not know how to react. But it was strange to hear people laugh at the speech that berated all minorities and told women to behave respectfully and that celebrated the old fascist regime.

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Eunice Goes @eunicegoes.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

There are some funny moments which reminded of my dad who also teases his granddaughter (my daughter) for being vegan but who cooks her the most delicious vegan food including revolto (non-vegan) of asparagus. But the play is about the threat of fascism, the limits of tolerance and

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Eunice Goes @eunicegoes.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

On the way home, but I’m still shaking from Tiago Fernandes’s powerful play Catarina and the Beauty of Killing Fascists currently at @nationaltheatre.org.uk. It brought me so many memories.

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Eunice Goes @eunicegoes.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

And it took them this long to realise this? It would be welcome if the bureaucrats regulating higher education knew anything about it.

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👻 Jack Djinn Wail 🧞 @jacktindale.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

I think it says all you need to know about Mearsheimer that his own personal website is dominated by a portrait of himself in the style of Machiavelli.

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Will Jennings📉🗳️ @drjennings.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Funny how nobody ever talks about the “legitimate concerns” people have about the extreme concentration of wealth among a small number of billionaires.

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Reunite Families UK @rfuk.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

🚨 £5bn. The Home Office made almost £5bn in profit last year from visa, citizenship and immigration fees — more than it gets in corporation tax from energy, gas, water, sewage and hospitality combined. 🧵

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Eunice Goes @eunicegoes.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Adição?? Esta gente já não sabe falar português? A palavra correcta é vício.

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Eunice Goes @eunicegoes.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Both the book and the TV adaptation showed that the flawed (vain, power-angry) but the determined and talented Adolfo Suárez, Santiago Carrillo and Gutiérrez Mellado understood and did what was necessary (including betraying their own) to ensure that Spain became a democracy after Franco’s death.

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Eunice Goes @eunicegoes.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Loved the adaptation of Javier Cercas’s book to the TV screen and which was show at the London Spanish Film Festival. What a gripping account of the failed coup attempt of 1981 that almost derailed Spain’s democracy. It is also a fascinating study of power and political leadership.

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Eunice Goes @eunicegoes.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

The big weakness of British politics is that politicians need to cater to too well-paid but so ignorant and out of their depth class of media commentators. podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/t...

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Is Andy Burnham just Keir Starmer with TikTok?

Podcast Episode · The News Agents · 16 September · 34min

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Eunice Goes @eunicegoes.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Obstaculizar? Que Português terrível…

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Eunice Goes @eunicegoes.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

The result of all this was banalities and platitudes and sometimes plainly erroneous points being made.

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Eunice Goes @eunicegoes.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

What was fascinating was to see how public debate takes place within a confined framework. The speaker was a Nobel prize winner of Economics who harped on about working-class liberalism after informing the audience -wrongly - that left-wing voters are now supporting far-right parties

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Eunice Goes @eunicegoes.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

I’ve just been to an event organised by a big think-tank with a big public intellectual and the big heads only discussed banalities as if they were bold ideas. I would start by a simple rule for elites: read more books; serious books. They may learn about how normal people think and talk..

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Eunice Goes @eunicegoes.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

I’m afraid that Acemoglu has nothing to add to Robert Dahl and Charles Lindblom or Peter Mair’s analysis of liveral democracy.

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Eunice Goes @eunicegoes.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

It’s very hard to admire star economists who present as original ideas findings that have been the core of political science and political theorists since at least the 1960s.

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