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Duncan Hothersall @dhothersall.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Thornberry as ever was trying to be clever in this interview and blur the lines between Schengen and FoM to make it all sound like it could be up for debate. Kudos to the presenters for challenging her on this. FoM would not be optional. If we're going to debate rejoining, we need to do so honestly.

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Peter Charles @petercharles.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

It is sad how the success of HS1 (London to Channel Tunnel) has been memory-holed within British and international media

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Peter Charles @petercharles.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I would be interested to know who the lender was

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Chris Terry-Enescu @cjterry.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

I've got the new suggested names for AI to improve its PR, boss. Yeah all all really implicitly threatening, just like you asked.

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Peter Charles @petercharles.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Guys, not everything suggested by the public is worth parliamentary time

Screenshot from the article: 'The MPs' hearing will be part of the committee's State of Play inquiry, where members of the public or others can request an evidence session to be held into a particular subject that interests or concerns them.'

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Peter Charles @petercharles.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Alas, what really matters at the end of the day

Screenshot of an article from the FT: But at last week’s meeting of ambassadors from EU member states to prepare for Carney’s visit, one remarked that the bloc was “not a ‘middle power’” and the much smaller Canada should not expect any special treatment, according to people briefed on the exchange.

“Many capitals feel that there needs to be a bit of a sense of realism,” said a fifth diplomat. He pointed to the fact that 10 countries, including France and Italy, have yet to ratify Canada’s 2017 free trade deal with the EU (Ceta), which was held up over objections from several national assemblies to provisions that would give Canadian investors more rights to sue governments and to lower tariffs for agricultural goods.

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👻 Jack Djinn Wail 🧞 @jacktindale.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Again, what does this actually mean? About eight percent of Canada's trade is with the EU, with the United States it's over sixty percent. I'm all for diversifying but if there's one thing we've learnt from Brexit, all the hope and effort in the world doesn't change the realities of geography.

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Peter Charles @petercharles.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Toying with the idea that this would be an interesting proof of concept, deterring anyone else from thinking about separation

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Peter Charles @petercharles.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

I remain bewildered by claims that AI has or will revolutionise productivity. If I use chatGPT for a work task, the process actually takes longer compared with if I did not use an AI.

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Dr Dave Hitchcock @davehitchcock.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

It is such a tired and sad move by Smith to make this about universities when it plainly is about politics, and about the home office.

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Very Grumpy Statistician @statistic.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Feel like shit, just want concorde back.

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Peter Charles @petercharles.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Repatriate the production of circuses stage of decline

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👻 Jack Djinn Wail 🧞 @jacktindale.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

I say this a lot but this like is in the mid-1950s and the Soviets had three different internal security agencies, all of which were informing on one another.

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Peter Charles @petercharles.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

The hikers were trespassing on the marmot's land

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Peter Charles @petercharles.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

ADHD seems to be the canary for a wider attack on neurodivergence. Could it be because it is more easily misunderstood than other conditions, such as dyslexia?

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Peter Charles @petercharles.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

I understand this is a minor point, but I also do not like her prose. The sentence structures are uneven, and there is an excessive use of semi-colons in subsequent paragraphs.

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Peter Charles @petercharles.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Whilst I am offended by this piece by Kathleen Stock, it does reveal how little she knows about such conditions

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Peter Charles @petercharles.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

I blame the 'see it, say it, sorted' culture that has permeated across society

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Steve Peers @stevepeers.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

It's publication day for the 5th edition of the European Union Law textbook edited by Catherine Barnard and me! Thanks as always to my co-editor, the brilliant contributors and the OUP production team global.oup.com/ukhe/product...

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BlueSkar @bluskar.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

Happy Canaday 🇨🇦🥳

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Jonathan Portes @jdportes.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

As others have pointed out, this doesn't make the point @mattyglesias.bsky.social is claiming - it's almost entirely driven by the rise in the minimum wage (which has pushed up the bottom decile a *lot*.). Across the rest of the distribution, much less change (eg 90-50 ratio has hardly changed)

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Om🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇬🇧↙️↙️↙️ @chakravartin.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

There are those who want a united Europe because they’re internationalists and want a more united world. There are those who want a united Europe because they want a white ethnostate. Pro-Europeans, not just in Britain but across Europe, should oppose the 2nd vision and fight against it.

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Dan Snow @thehistoryguy.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

Britain had one Prime Minister for the whole of the period of conflict in N America during the Revolutionary War. Result: Britain got rinsed Britain had seven Prime Ministers during the French Wars that followed. Result: British triumph PMs are not necessarily an indicator of national fortunes

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Alan Owlport 🦉 🎃 @alanallport.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

Disagree only in the sense that the real watershed was the 2008 crisis which the UK has never really structurally recovered from. Brexit in that sense was just a symptom of a deeper malaise. Cameron’s relatively long premiership which was only maintained through coalition now looks the exception.

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Peter Charles @petercharles.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

That is one way to describe a Young Offender Institute

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John Oxley @joxley.jmoxley.co.uk · 19/06/2026

Just hijacking this as a chance to post my favourite government web page. Timeline of country name changes in HMG use: 1919 to present - GOV.UK share.google/Ad884BKkcLGB...

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Timeline of country name changes in HMG use: 1919 to present

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sianushka.bsky.social @sianushka.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

That thread is absolutely batshit. 1984 is both a complex book and ... it's not that complicated to understand what it is talking about if you know anything about European history in the 1930s/40s. I mean, you could also consider POUM but you don't even really need to know about that!

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Matt Harrison @mattpharrison.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

Banning under-16s from social media will lead to a whole world of unintended consequences. Speaking from my own experience: taking pictures of buses is not a 'cool' activity, especially as a youngster. You're even less likely to find somebody in your immediate peer group who shares those interests.

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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

Yeah, this crystallises my unease with the 16-17 curfew: either you think sixteen year olds are sovereign adults, and therefore should vote, OR you put them on a different information regime to everyone else, but....not both.

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Peter Charles @petercharles.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

It is really important the judiciary pushes back against the use of AI by public authorities

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John Oxley @joxley.jmoxley.co.uk · 09/06/2026

Think as part of the rebuilding of democracy in America we should dispatch them some Returning Officers from North Eastern Labour seats that have 40k paper ballots counted in 70 minutes or so.

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Jason Read @jasonread.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan was released 44 years ago today. It remains the best cinematic adaptation of Moby Dick primarily because it is told from the perspective of the whales.

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Peter Charles @petercharles.bsky.social · 31/05/2026

Possession of pepper spray without lawful authority is an offence under the Firearms Act 1968, section 5. Use of pepper spray on someone would probably result in a prosecution for assault occasioning actual bodily harm.

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Dominic Dean @drdominicdean.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

I think there’s truth in this, and it seems likely that the combination of years of painful inflation with a loss of access to this kind of work has contributed to the rise of a relentless grifter/scam economy targeting young people (which emphasises the futility of 9-5 work in its advertising).

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Peter Charles @petercharles.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

And the services that come with goods?

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Chris Howe (Rail Focus) 🏳️‍🌈 @railfocus.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

Not helping my scepticism over GBR "Avanti West Coast said it had proposed removing some services with lower demand in response to a request from the Department for Transport (DfT) to cut costs." www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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Avanti West Coast cuts services after government asks for savings

Nearly 40 daily weekday services will be cut from timetables during a six-week period from 20 July.

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Chris Terry-Enescu @cjterry.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

I'll say it again. Birmingham is building a Dutch election through their own force of will.

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Peter Charles @petercharles.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

Reform v the common law will end badly for Reform

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Peter Charles @petercharles.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

Having studied EU law, I really can not emphasise enough how incompatible Canada is with the Single Market. But then all of these polls are just about vibes.

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Peter Charles @petercharles.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

This is really a story about delays in the County Court. One factor which the government does not acknowledge in its response: delays caused by litigants in person. Simple mistakes by a landlord can result in delays to eviction and a wasted hearing.

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Jacob Gifford Head @giffordhead.co.uk · 28/04/2026

One of the frustrations with a lot of this discourse is that it is actually a court funding issue more than anything else. For example: I was instructed in a possession case yesterday which was issued in October. It shouldn’t take 6 months to reach a first hearing.

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thepig993 @thepig993.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

Absolutely mental. Yet they call it "common sense"

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John Oxley @joxley.jmoxley.co.uk · 17/04/2026

This is what they took from us

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Wrath of God Bot @wrathofgodbot.bsky.social · 12/04/2026

All these things will be lost in time, like tears in rain

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Peter Charles @petercharles.bsky.social · 12/04/2026

I have two questions: 1. Why does the Home Office need to know the founding year of a university that a person will be attending? 2. Were either of these decisions appealled on the grounds of sheer unreasonableness?

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Adam @adamcobb.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

This is incredible. Close your eyes and pretend you're on a school computer at lunchtime circa 2003

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martin @tijgerstreep.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

ingenuousmag.substack.com/p/are-you-fe...

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Nik Sunil Williams @nikwilliams.bsky.social · 20/03/2026

My excellent colleague @katiedd.bsky.social has just published this remarkable investigation into rampant book banning in a Greater Manchester secondary school library. 193 books including The Da Vinci Code, Twilight, White Teeth and 1984 Graphic Novel www.indexoncensorship.org/2026/03/scho...

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School book banning escalates in the UK as Greater Manchester secondary school censors scores of books - Index on Censorship

A school librarian faced a disciplinary hearing and scores of books were removed from her school library after she stocked Laura Bates’ Men Who Hate Women

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Ruth Fox @ruthfox.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

A recurring pattern in UK politics. Labour in opposition: Parliament must scrutinise treaties and trade agreements properly. Labour in government: the current system works fine. Today's House of Lords debate (16 March) on treaty scrutiny will highlight the problem.

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