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Dave Keating @davekeating.substack.com · 1h

Yet again, the EU surrenders to Trump. After facing pressure from the US State Department, @kajakallas.bsky.social's EU foreign service pulled out of a conference this week at the last minute – because one of the panels dared to discuss American disinfo in Europe.

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EU drops sponsorship of disinformation conference at Trump officials’ request

Lithuania and Canada were also pressured to withdraw, and days before #Disinfo2026, logos were wiped off website

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Lee Hurley @hleehurley.com · 03/10/2026

I implore all cis people to read this.

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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I've been a member of the lobby for well over a decade. Not a single one of my lobby colleagues has said a word about the Conservatives banning me from their conferences, without any explanation. Contrast with the US where even Fox News stood in solidarity when Trump banned news outlets he disliked

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Kemi Badenoch's Conservatives Block Byline Times From Conference After Condemning Reform for Journalist Ban

The ban comes just weeks after the Conservative leader called Reform's barring of critical journalists from their conference an "authoritarian" attack on the free press

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Dan Sohege @danielsohege.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

It's all either hints, as in this case, or blatantly misconstruing what she's doing, as with claiming previous "safe asylum routes" with increased restrictions are "new routes". She's still implementing the most hostile anti-immigration policies in a generation. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

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Shabana Mahmood hints she could water down controversial care worker visa plans

Home secretary under pressure over changes to indefinite leave to remain that would penalise foreign care workers

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 27/09/2026

Google finally updated some of its satellite images of Gaza and my god, it's horrific. The entirety of Rafah has been demolished. The majority of Khan Younis is in ruins. Entire towns completely leveled and erased of the map.

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Dan Sohege @danielsohege.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

As unprofessional as it may be, I suspect I will be shouting "we have been saying this for years" a lot today. Harsher immigration policies don't just ruin individual lives, they damage the economy, reduce jobs, and generally harm the whole country.

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Musa Okwonga @okwonga.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Excellent analysis. There is no sugarcoating what is happening here in Germany. Most of the political centre is enabling if not actively supporting the rise of fascism. The Left‘s remarkable performance in the Berlin elections is not being heralded as an earthquake but treated as a threat.

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Steve Peers @stevepeers.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Slow marching being an obvious threat to public safety meriting prosecution, unlike blocking ports and knifing boats with someone still on board /s

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Max Schrems @maxschrems.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

🤯 EU Member States propose a #ReverseRobinHood: Take personal data from Millions of people and give it to the US-Billionaires. Data gathering for "AI processing" made automatically legal under the #GDPR. #DigitalLandGrab www.irishtimes.com/business/202...

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Lisa O’Carroll @lisaocarroll.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Swedes still deporting pre Brexit residents Brits, despite prospective new government promises new laws to give them a second chance. I met this man hours after he was deported - he was distraught to say the least www.theguardian.com/world/2026/s...

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‘I have nothing in the UK at all’: British man torn from his Swedish wife and home

Charles lands at Heathrow with just two bags and nowhere to go as a result of Brexit and Stockholm’s hardline immigration position

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British in Europe @britishineurope.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Notwithstanding the election results in Sweden last week, won by opposition parties who said they would look again at Swedish implementation of the Withdrawal Agreement, SE continues to deport UK citizens post-Brexit. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/s...

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‘I have nothing in the UK at all’: British man torn from his Swedish wife and home

Charles lands at Heathrow with just two bags and nowhere to go as a result of Brexit and Stockholm’s hardline immigration position

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Musa Okwonga @okwonga.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

The AfD have been telling everyone who they are for years but people have been calling it a "protest vote". Protest against what? Humanity?

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Peter Geoghegan @petergeoghegan.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

🔴 Something Tom Watson won't tell you: Five police forces in the East Midlands working with Palantir on a controversial surveillance programme are ending their involvement Exclusive by Democracy for Sale and Liberty Investigates. democracyforsale.substack.com/p/revealed-f...

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Revealed: Five police forces to drop Palantir surveillance tool

Exclusive: Palantir's UK policing ambitions take a hit as East Midlands forces end their involvement in a controversial data pilot.

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Emma Yeomans @yeomans.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

The RNLI has said the abuse of volunteers in Portsmouth has forced it to close the lifeboat station there and stop operating since September 10. Nearby stations have been providing cover to the area instead. One of the UK's largest coastal cities without a lifeboat because of the far-right.

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Corporate Europe Observatory (CEO) @corporateeurope.org · 16/09/2026

It's #SOTEU day in Brussels! 🎉 von der Leyen will tell MEPs "our democracy protects what matters", while the Commission has spent the past year churning out deregulation omnibuses that do exactly the opposite. As Orwell would say: 2 + 2 = 5. 🙃 🎥 Watch our take 👇

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BUND Berlin @bundberlin.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Wie stehen Linke, CDU, Grüne und SPD zur Bebauung des Tempelhofer Feldes? @thf100.de hat die Positionen der Parteien übersichtlich zusammengetragen. #BerlinWahl #THFbleibt

Der Parteien-Check: Wer schützt das Tempelhofer Feld?
Deine Stimme zählt! Am 20. September wird in Berlin gewählt - und damit entscheidet sich auch das Schicksal des Tempelhofer Feldes.
Klar für den Erhalt: Die Linke
Elif Eralp: „Alles, was auf dem Tempelhofer Feld gebaut würde, wäre hochpreisig. Wir finden, dass man Grünflächen nicht gegen Wohnraum ausspielen sollte - wir Menschen brauchen beides.“
Klar für den Erhalt: Grüne
Werner Graf: „Wir wollen das Feld Schritt für Schritt nach den Bedürfnissen der Menschen weiterentwickeln. Für uns kommt eine Randbebauung des Tempelhofer Feldes nicht in Frage.“ -
Neue Linie nach der Kehrtwende?: SPD
Steffen Krach: „Wohnungen am Feldrand kommen nicht in Frage, solang die bisherigen Flächen in Berlin ungenutzt sind.“
Befürworter der Bebauung: CDU
Stefan Evers: ,,Der Volksentscheid liegt zwölf Jahre zurück, damals war die Not lange nicht so groß wie heute. Das kann ich doch nicht ignorieren.“

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BUND Berlin @bundberlin.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Beim Wahlforum der Berliner Mietenbewegung wurden CDU, SPD, Linke und Grüne gefragt: Warum sind Sie für oder gegen eine Bebauung des Tempelhofer Feldes? #Thfbleibt www.youtube.com/watch?v=jYud...

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Wahlforum 2026 - Warum sind Sie für oder gegen eine Bebauung des Tempelhofer Feldes?

YouTube video by Tempelhofer Feld

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Diego Velazquez @diegoinbxl.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

And politically: IT DOES NOT WORK. If this was the key to keeping the far right weak, we could discuss if the trade off is worth it. But since it's useless, we're being cruel to humans, wasteful with potential workforce and morally bankrupt FOR NOTHING. Except maybe normalizing the far right

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Will Jennings📉🗳️ @drjennings.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Politicians on the centre-left and centre-right simply don't seem to understand they are in an existential battle for the future of British democracy.

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Peter Geoghegan @petergeoghegan.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

This is completely on Andy Burnham Last week Labour could have stopped this. Now we have a single person giving more money than the entire general election spending limit for a political party www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/202...

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British in Europe @britishineurope.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

As British in Europe and the3million have consistently argued at meetings of the Specialised Committee on Citizens' Rights there can be no meaningful reset without full and effective implementation of citizens' rights in the Withdrawal Agreement.

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Musa Okwonga @okwonga.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

For me there is no mystery to these people. I grew up in a street with plenty of them, where the British National Party felt confident enough to visit our doorsteps. There is no dignity to their hatred and it has been indulged far too long. It has already cost us enough time, enough lives. Enough.

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Dmitry Grozoubinski @explaintrade.com · 10/09/2026

If you're in government watching criminal-led blackshirt thugs in balaclavas wage war on the RNLI and you're hedging your bets because you're not sure who the majority of the country will side with, why do you even want to be in government? Why would you WANT to lead people you think so little of?

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Heather Stewart @guardianheather.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

“The idea that you could be here for the next 10, 15 years and you’d still have no legal right to remain in the country … how the hell do you plan?..It cuts across any effort to integrate at all.” www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

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‘Fundamentally unfair’: Burnham must overhaul migration reforms, says TUC general secretary

Paul Nowak says changes to immigration rules risk overstretching social care and fuelling far-right sentiment

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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

The balaclava blackshirted thugs are a result of a decade of politicians, tabloids and the broadcast media telling racists they have "legitimate concerns." The normalisation of actual fascism rhetoric and action has led to this and is a far greater "legitimate concern" than any migrant on a boat.

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Helene von Bismarck @helenebismarck.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

I am sorry, I may have said this before, but there really are moments when British politics are astonishingly naive, and I really think this may have something to do with the fact that the British have not experienced occupation, tyranny, displacemen within living memory.

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Colin Yeo @colinyeo.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Shabana Mahmood's settlement reforms would, if implemented, likely have a very damaging effect on integration. The parents of these children would be subjected to prolonged temporary status, tied to a specific job and financial penalties, all of which are socially and economically damaging.

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Sean Jones KC @seanjones.org · 07/09/2026

Astonishing to hear people say they'd rather asylum seekers drowned than be saved by the RNLI. Next comes letting people die in burning hostels rather than be saved by the fire brigade and letting people get kicked to death in the street rather than be saved by the Police. Don't platform this hate.

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Musa Okwonga @okwonga.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

The only reason I can see (and it’s a bad one): England thinks it is a superior civilisation to Germany and is therefore incapable of that level of dehumanisation. (This sense of superiority is also at the heart of why Germany is struggling to accept the hatred at the heart of the AfD project.)

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British in Europe @britishineurope.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

It is good to see that our urgent advocacy in August to the UK got and the EU Commission resulted in action on their parts but it was too little and too late. Hundreds of people deported and families separated despite years of warnings to SE, the UK and EC from our volunteers in SE and us.

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British in Europe @britishineurope.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

It seems that we were right all along. Sweden carried out no information activities to inform UK citizens living in Sweden about the impact of Brexit, their data is not fit for purpose and they have deported far more UK citizens per capita after Brexit than any other EU state. bit.ly/4rhOQIp

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EXCLUSIVE: EU pressing Sweden for answers on deportations of vulnerable Brits

Internal government emails obtained by The Local show the European Commission pressuring Sweden over treatment of vulnerable British citizens, following media reports of deportation orders given to a ...

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Polly Pallister-Wilkins @pollypw.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

When I lived in the UK none of my concerns e.g. affordable housing, climate action, increases in welfare spending, scrapping tuition fees, an ethical foreign policy, were ever framed as legitimate concerns. lnstead I was routinely told to fuck off by most political parties for having such concerns.

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Steve Peers @stevepeers.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Note how the moral panic about blocking the roads disappears if it's the far right doing it

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Gregory Norminton @gregorynorminton.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Now let’s get one hundred climate protestors in balaclavas to block a road and see how little talk there is from politicians and the BBC about ‘legitimate concerns’, even though it’s impossible to think of concerns that could be more legitimate.

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Sean Jones KC @seanjones.org · 05/09/2026

I’m flat out begging politicians to stop trying to win votes with a little light xenophobia. All you do is feed the racists without ever satiating them. Stop legitimizing hate

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Cllr Dr Alex Powell @apowelllaw.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

What the fuck do they mean 'spontaneous protest'? 1000 people spontaneously taking a walk around Dover with Balaclavas? Look at the social media of every Far-Right organiser in the UK... This was so clearly planned. This tells every Far-Right thug in the country that they have utter impunity.

BBC news reporting on the Far-Right blockade of Dover in which Kent Police call the activity a 'spontaneous protest'

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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

As a very basic thing, we as citizens should not accept the presence of a private army of masked racist thugs on the streets of our towns... intimidating others and threatening to overthrow the state... There are some fairly obvious precedents for this stuff.

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elia ayoub @ayoub.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

In the UK, blackshirts can get away with almost anything while elderly nuns get arrested for opposing the Gaza genocide

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FionainLU @fionainlu.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

People protesting against the genocide in Gaza you know what to do: Just dress in black and blockade a major UK port in the summer and you won’t get arrested.

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Jonn Elledge @jonnelledge.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

I simply do not understand what's going on in Labour that renders its leaders incapable of finding a TV camera and speaking out against street violence. Even if you assume they agree about immigration, violence is wrong, unpopular AND against the interests of any even vaguely left wing govt.

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Musa Okwonga @okwonga.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Yes. I feel the same. I have experienced this all my life but this is a dangerous new level. The mass violence being directed against people who look like us at Europe‘s borders will soon come inland. It’s only a matter of time.

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Dan Sohege @danielsohege.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Among many other things, the Withdrawal Agreement is international law and supposed to protect the rights of EU citizens who were living in the UK pre-Brexit. What Reform is proposing is a significant violation of that, undermining relations with the EU on other areas. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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Reform UK benefits ban for foreign nationals would include EU citizens

The move would require renegotiating the UK's Brexit deal and could risk stripping British expats living in the EU of similar rights.

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Lisa O’Carroll @lisaocarroll.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

BBC World Service doing piece on Sweden's deportations of Brits in Sweden before Brexit. 1.30pm London time. They'll be looking at case of George Mason, told to leave Sweden next week. He's suffers dementia, parkinsonsism and cannot make decisions for himself. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a...

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British man with dementia told to leave Sweden after losing migration case

Horace Mason, 74, who has lived in Sweden for 25 years, faces being deported after court ruling

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Musa Okwonga @okwonga.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

What a broken country.

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British in Europe @britishineurope.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Time is running out. If you are British, live in the EEA/CH and qualify to go to uni in the UK in 2027 apply this year. And don’t take a gap year unless you can afford international fees. In the meantime, do you really want to add to this crisis @lucympowell.bsky.social bit.ly/3SwtFFm

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UK universities face ‘financial crisis’ amid collapse in international students

Higher education figures call on Labour to reverse tax on fees and warn institutions at risk of ‘going under’

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British in Europe @britishineurope.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

It seems to us that nobody in the UK government or the university sector is thinking about any of this. But we are and our community is. Our inbox is full of enquiries from parents saddened that one child will get a UK university education but their sibling won’t.

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