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Scottish and Européenne. Lucky to live in France. Reads stuff. #ClimateEmergency #RejoinEU

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Gwen @gwenross7519.bsky.social · 27/04/2025
Can't be repeated often enough.
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Financial Times @financialtimes.com · 14/04/2025
Breaking news: The European Commission is issuing burner phones and basic laptops to some US-bound staff to avoid the risk of espionage — a measure traditionally reserved for trips to China www.ft.com/content/20d0...
Old mobile phones and keyboards. Overlaid text reads: FT Exclusive: EU issues US-bound staff with burner phones to avoid espionage
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Mr RobertBob @mrrobertbob.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
The Lords has become over stuffed with wildly inappropriate and over promoted self servers.
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Mr RobertBob @mrrobertbob.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
How exactly has this man added positively to society, made anyone’s life better or improved our standard of living? What a disgrace. www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...
independent.co.uk
Michael Gove ‘to be awarded peerage’ in Rishi Sunak’s honours list
Others on the list could include former Scottish secretary Alister Jack, former chief whip Simon Hart and ex-transport secretary Mark Harper
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acgrayling @acgrayling.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
Greenland should follow Trump's example & deny visas - to US citizens. This would stop the Mrs Vance 'unofficial delegation' in its tracks.
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acgrayling @acgrayling.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
Did David Attenborough - forbidden by the BBC to speak on Brexit (he told me so himself) smuggle in an opinion in the opening remarks to 'Our Planet II' when he says 'All life on earth depends on our freedom to move' - ?
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acgrayling @acgrayling.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
Labour gov continues in the exact opposite direction from sanity on Europe. EU citizens to pay for a permit to come here? Lunatic. Burden on tourism & hospitality is the least of It - we should be rejoining EU not increasing barriers.
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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
Jeez. Donald Trump has put Elon Musk in charge of investigating group chat blunder www.thelondoneconomic.com/politics/don...
thelondoneconomic.com
Donald Trump puts Elon Musk in charge of investigating group chat blunder
Donald Trump has given his 'first buddy' Elon Musk the task of investigating how a journalist was added to a top-level government group chat.
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Steve Peers @stevepeers.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
CJEU, environmental law Italy fined €10 million, plus ongoing penalty payments, for failure to comply with prior judgment on water pollution curia.europa.eu/jcms/jcms/Jo...
Press release summary of the judgment. Full text in the link.
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Richard Murphy @richardjmurphy.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
What was important about the Spring Statement from Rachel Reeves was what it did not say - like mortgage rates are going to rise by at least one percent, alongside house prices. We really are in a mess. youtu.be/4n2pqFOpz9U?...
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Rachel Reeves’ spring statement shows we’re in an economic crisis, and she’s out of her depth.
YouTube video by Richard J Murphy
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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
Hybrid workers ‘take fewer sick days’ than those in the office Working from home survey found a third of hybrid workers were not off ill as often and 68 per cent suffered fewer stress-related physical symptoms www.thetimes.com/uk/society/a...
thetimes.com
Hybrid workers ‘take fewer sick days’ than those in the office
Working from home survey found a third of hybrid workers were not off ill as often and 68 per cent suffered fewer stress-related physical symptoms
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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
Nato allies are meeting without the US to discuss a peacekeeping mission lead by the UK and France as fears grow over Washington’s concessions to Russia www.thetimes.com/world/russia...
thetimes.com
Keir Starmer in Paris for talks on ‘pacifist’ Ukraine force
Nato allies are meeting without the US to discuss a peacekeeping mission lead by the UK and France as fears grow over Washington’s concessions to Russia
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Caroline Lucas @carolinelucas.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
Reeves is right - the world has changed. So why won’t she change her strategy to reflect it? Obsession with arbitrary fiscal rules & ruling out wealth taxes is political choice that’s causing huge pain as well as laying out the welcome mat for populist Reform UK #SpringStatement
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Mr RobertBob @mrrobertbob.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
Our economy is on life support, America increases tariffs, the world is more unsafe and unstable than I recall it ever being since the cold war and yet Labour continue to with their ridiculous and dangerous ‘Make Brexit Work’. You can’t, it wont. #RejoinEU now,
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a blue flag with yellow stars in a circle
Alt: a blue flag with yellow stars in a circle
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Jacob Öberg @profjacob.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
🚨🚨 #Ukraine The language of (partial) #ceasefire deals with Russia is noise and large unhelpful to understand things. The reality is that Russia strikes with even more intensity recently coinciding with the new Trump administration policy of Russia appeasement. 🧵 www.politico.eu/article/russ...
politico.eu
Ceasefire? What ceasefire? Killer Russian drones rain down across Ukraine
“And against this backdrop, speaking about easing pressure on Russia, lifting sanctions, and so on, is definitely inappropriate and unhelpful,” says Ukrainian leader Volodymyr Zelenskyy.
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
A narrative is recited almost everywhere: that Rachel Reeves is being "forced" to cut benefits, and is faced with "hard choices" or "no choice". This story, a staple of neoliberal doctrine, is completely false, as @richardjmurphy.bsky.social explains: www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2025/03...
taxresearch.org.uk
Is Rachel Reeves constrained by the City?
Is the City really stopping Rachel Reeves from doing what Labour wants, or is she just using it as a convenient excuse for her neoliberal austerity? This is the audio version: This is the transc...
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Mr RobertBob @mrrobertbob.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
Labour are damaging us and the country by not doing this.
EU and Union flags with text saying ‘Germany pushes UK to rejoin the EU.
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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
You should laugh at anyone who says the president should have unlimited power because he was elected. His power has to be limited *because* he's the president. This is fifth grade level social studies
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Mr RobertBob @mrrobertbob.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
It is vital for Europe and its allies to urgently reposition themselves to fill the gap Trump’s America is leaving. Moving forward we must not be reliant on the USA in any way.
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
Here in South Devon, there is (or was) a technical term for the state in which we now find ourselves: Discumknockerated all to buggery.
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Guy Verhofstadt @guyverhofstadt.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
After the Oval Office disaster, let’s remember : Europe is wealthy, Europe is strong, If it wants to, Europe can deal with this. Demand EU leaders take action! How? 👇
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Gwen @gwenross7519.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
Hmm. Might not be much of a head srcratcher.
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Steve Peers @stevepeers.bsky.social · 14/01/2025
Trump does not stand for liberty or free markets (cf international trade) either. His "Anglosphere union" includes bullying/annexation of Canada and his ally Musk's support of a coup in the UK. Hannan is as delusional as ever.
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Lisa O’Carroll @lisaocarroll.bsky.social · 14/01/2025
How can EU tackle big tech? 1. Speed up DSA probe. 2. Pressure Ireland. 3. Use the existing EU rules "to switch big tech’s algorithms off at a stroke.....People, rather than big tech’s algorithms, would again decide what they say/see". By tech expert/litigator www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
theguardian.com
Big tech is picking apart European democracy, but there is a solution: switch off its algorithms | Johnny Ryan
The latest actions of Musk and Zuckerberg are a sign of things to come, but the EU already has the power to give people back control, says Johnny Ryan, director of Enforce, a unit of the Irish Council...
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Financial Times @financialtimes.com · 13/01/2025
The man in charge of social media platforms used by billions should show some moral courage, writes @jemima.bsky.social www.ft.com/content/682c...
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AlexTaylorNews @alextaylornews.bsky.social · 13/01/2025
Spending cuts ! Dodgy security deals with the Chinese ! Fantastical AI fantasies ! Anything ! Anything !!👇 rather than letting young Brits live, work and study all over Europe again in exchange for the OBVIOUS AND BY FAR THE EASIEST road to a quick-fire upsurge in growth ! 🤡
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Mike Galsworthy @mikegalsworthy.bsky.social · 12/01/2025
Over 60 German universities quit social media platform X. Platform accused of failing to uphold values of diversity, freedom, and scholarship.
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Over 60 German universities quit social media platform X
Platform accused of failing to uphold values of diversity, freedom, and scholarship - Anadolu Ajansı
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 13/01/2025
It's precisely because British media outlets have long been fixed in favour of the neoliberal junktanks which wrote her mini-budget that the Truss disaster happened.
Liz Truss says UK will fail unless British media outlets are ‘fixed’

Former PM says outlets not focused on important issues such as ‘grooming gang scandal’ highlighted by Elon Musk
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Richard Branson @richardbranson.bsky.social · 13/01/2025
Fantastic to see the UK’s first drug consumption room finally open its doors in Glasgow. Congratulations to all those who made this happen. As the experience from more than 200 drug consumption rooms around the world shows, The Thistle will save many lives: www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
theguardian.com
‘All eyes are on Glasgow’: UK’s first legal drug consumption room ready to open
The Thistle will be available 365 days a year and provide a supervised space where drugs can be injected safely
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 12/01/2025
Sums it up nicely.
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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 13/01/2025
They need to keep you angry about skin colour, so you don't get mad at their outrageous greed.
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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 13/01/2025
Tories now permanently stuck in Brexit-failure shit creek, demanding they flounce out of every institution with ‘European’ in its name, to avoid the rules and responsibilities that all our neighbours share. The notion that these evil morons should oversee our human rights is sinister in the extreme.
David Frost quote posts Steve Barclay saying he is 100% correct:

Steve Barclay #@SteveBarclay

We now need to be bold and admit that it's time the UK left the European Convention on
Human Rights.
Doing so is the only way to allow tough action to stop small boat arrivals and deport foreign criminals.
Read my piece for the @Telegraph
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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 13/01/2025
Dropping red lines to get a deal with the EU will boost confidence in jittery Britain “It’s time to stand up to those who still claim exiting the EU was a good idea – and those eye-rolling because they fear “Get Brexit Done” remains politically immovable” 👏 inews.co.uk/opinion/stel...
inews.co.uk
Stella Creasy: Dropping red lines to get a deal with the EU will boost confidence in jittery Britain
This is not about rerunning Brexit, write Creasy and Queen Mary's Dr Karl Pike, but making it easier for Britain to do business
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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
END Brexit.
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Jacob Öberg @profjacob.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
🚨🚨 A new report by @thecitp.bsky.social shows that #Brexit deals £3bn blow to UK food exports as British food sales to the EU have fallen by almost a fifth since the end of the Brexit transition period. Grim #brexitdisaster 🧵 www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...
independent.co.uk
Brexit hits UK food exports by £3bn as Starmer urged to strike deal with Brussels
British food sales to the EU have fallen by almost a fifth since the end of the Brexit transition period, a new report shows
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Dmitry Grozoubinski @explaintrade.com · 02/12/2024
I don't love it either, but I'm not sure how you tell a man that he should let his only surviving son rot in prison to respect norms, institutions, and the rule of law, when the country you devoted your life to serving just pretty comprehensively voted they don't give a shit about any of that.
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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 01/12/2024
Having bought the US election, Musk now wants to buy ours. This ketamine-infused menace thinks global domination is his to buy. And Farage is grasping for his money.These repulsive men weaponise prejudice for power. They feed off ignorance, resentment and inadequacy. If they succeed, we have failed.
From The Sunday Times:

Will Elon Musk give Nigel Farage $100m to make him PM? 

The Tesla boss who used his immense fortune to help Donald Trump’s campaign is turning his attention to Britain.

Labour and Tory supporters will hope this is fake news. 

Elon Musk has already declared war on Keir Starmer and last week suggested that Nigel Farage’s Reform party would be the next government.  This weekend, leading businessmen and Conservative Party officials believe there is a credible prospect that Musk is preparing to give $100 million to Farage as a “f*** you Starmer payment” with a view to transforming British politics.
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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 01/12/2024
I mean this obviously can't stand. You can't have a foreign extremist, who used social media to encourage & facilitate far-right violence, plough huge donations to his favoured British political party. www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/is-elo...
huffingtonpost.co.uk
Is Elon Musk Planning To Make A 'F*** You Starmer' $100 Million Donation To Reform UK?
The tech billionaire has been at war with the PM for months.
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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
Despite the relentless refusal to honestly scrutinise Brexit, the public (generally) isn’t nearly as stupid as some would hope and know it makes sense to prioritise working with our own continent, rather than kidding ourselves that Trump is any kind of answer. liveapp.inews.co.uk/category/bri...
Extract from article: 
Starmer has insisted that he will try to “make Brexit work” by securing better trading arrangements with the EU but also claimed he wants to agree better trading terms with the US as well.

Bar chart that shows:
68% of labour voters want a closer trading relationship with the EU compared with 36% of Tories. (49% overall favour EU)

The govt has been warned that that may prove impossible given the need to ensure some level of regulatory alignment in order to maximise the opportunities for business
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News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
An incredible photo posted today by French President Emmanuel Macron. The floor of Notre Dame Cathedral is filled with the workers involved in the 5 year project to restore the building following the devastating fire in 2019. 1/2
Hundreds of workers, some in high viz vests, cover the floor of Notre Dame cathedral with a photo taken from above, looking down the length of the restored building.
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Liz Webster 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🇬🇧🇪🇺 @lizwebster.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
Why is Starmer not targeting the £6bn of untracked funds funnelled through companies registered in British Overseas Territories to buy 🇬🇧 properties since Brexit? 90%+ 💰 originated from British Virgin Islands to buy 494 🇬🇧 properties since 2018, mostly in London. www.telegraph.co.uk/money/woking...
telegraph.co.uk
The dull Berkshire town that’s become a laundromat for the world’s dirty cash
Homes are being bought with ‘suspect wealth’ channelled through offshore tax havens
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Liz Webster 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🇬🇧🇪🇺 @lizwebster.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
"The trouble for both the UK plants started with Brexit. It caused a lot of uncertainty within business, and business doesn’t like uncertainty.” "When you’ve got two plants that export 80% of their build, then tariff confusion and no clarity really hurt the two plants.” www.bbc.com/news/article...
bbc.com
Vauxhall’s troubles started with Brexit - former Luton plant boss
Mark Noble says export tariffs were one factor leading to the closure of the Luton plant.
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Steve Rosenberg @bbcstever.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
Protests continue in the centre of Tbilisi. What we saw Friday night. Camera Anton Chicherov Producer @bentavener.bsky.social
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Bothy Cat @bothycat53.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
R.I.P. Legend.
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Jacob Öberg @profjacob.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
🚨🚨 Excellent thread by Steve on the forthcoming Fish dispute between the EU and the UK. This might- if not contained- turn into a real obstacle for the reshaping or reset of EU-UK relations. Fishing rights is tbh one of the key asks from the EU in the reset negotiations.
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Gwen @gwenross7519.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
@sydesjokes.bsky.social Hi Colin, what's the general public reaction to this in Finland? ⬇️ www.theguardian.com/world/2024/n...
theguardian.com
‘Would you survive 72 hours?’ Germany and the Nordic countries prepare citizens for possible war
Apps and booklets are offering advice on how to build a bunker, stockpile food and live without electricity in case the worst happens
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Gwen @gwenross7519.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
⬇️⬇️ www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
theguardian.com
Brexit makes no sense in a world dominated by Trump. Britain’s place is back in the EU | Jonathan Freedland
From defence to trade, the incoming US president is upending the old order – and standing apart from our neighbours leaves us dangerously exposed, says Guardian columnist Jonathan Freedland
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Mr RobertBob @mrrobertbob.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
It’s Friday and Brexit is still a shit storm Labour is ignoring. 🤷‍♂️
media.tenor.com
a blue flag with yellow stars on it is waving in the wind
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