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Retired dual national EU dweller. Trying to make it all make sense. #FBPE

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The Empty City @davidallengreen.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
NEW The letter the BBC could send back to Trump A proposal for a reply to his $1bn claim By me. Enjoy. emptycity.substack.com/p/the-letter...
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The letter the BBC could send back to Trump
A proposal for a reply to his $1bn claim
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Dr Delyth Badder @folklorewales.com · 05/10/2025
Six weeks ago, I picked up a year-old tawny owl with a broken leg off the main road near our home and dropped him off at our nearest vet. After a few days, I received one of the most bizarre phone calls I’ve ever had, asking “So when are you coming to pick up your owl?” 🧵
Tawny owl
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British in Europe @britishineurope.bsky.social · 25/09/2025
British in Europe fully supports the statement from @the3million.bsky.social published on 22 September 2025 in response to Reform’s attack on the fundamental rights of millions of EU citizens and their non-EU family members living in the UK. 1/ the3million.org.uk/news/2025-09...
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the3million | the3million’s statement on Reform’s plan to scrap indefinite leave to remain | Giving a voice to EU citizens in the UK
Life in the UK shouldn’t be only for the rich. A serious government doesn’t play games with people’s lives.
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Nye @sjbnye.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
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Sharon 🪳🌹 @sharonk.bsky.social · 13/09/2025
"There is in our future a TV or Internet populism, in which the emotional response of a selected group of citizens can be presented and accepted as the Voice of the People." Umberto Eco, ‘Ur-Fascism’
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nypapajoe.bsky.social @nypapajoe.bsky.social · 30/08/2025
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 17/08/2025
USAID funded roughly half the world’s supply of ready-to-use therapeutic food. The dismantling of the agency has disrupted the global supply chain that provides the packets, leaving thousands of malnourished children at risk of dying.
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A $45 Treatment Can Save a Starving Child. US Aid Cuts Have Frozen the Supply
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Robert Saunders @robertsaunders.bsky.social · 21/07/2025
It's worse than that: because populism can't deliver its promises, it has to keep finding new traitors & enemies to blame. It has to keep tearing at the walls of its imagined prison. The more it fails, the more it turns people against each other. And the more it seeks to destroy anything in its way
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James Nye @jamesnye.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
A little write up about my work on unpublished pieces by Erik Satie. Alexandre Tharaud has recorded some of them (Warner Classics digital album out tomorrow), and the whole collection will be in print next week to commemorate 100th anniversary of Satie's death. www.theguardian.com/music/2025/j...
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Unheard works by Erik Satie to premiere 100 years after his death
Pianist Alexandre Tharaud performs previously lost material by experimental French composer on a new album
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The Empty City @davidallengreen.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
This thread is spot-on, especially on the constitutional/legal points.
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Hendrik Klaassens #FBPE #BanX #NoAfD #FBR @aurorablogspot.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
"The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the convinced Communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction (i.e., the reality of experience) and the distinction between true and false (i.e., the standards of thought) no longer exist." ~ Hannah Ahrendt
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Brynn Tannehill @brynntannehill.bsky.social · 01/06/2025
"The death of human empathy is one of the earliest and most telling signs of a culture about to fall into barbarism." - Hannah Arendt
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Nicolas Tenzer @nicolastenzer.bsky.social · 31/05/2025
This 136th long read on my strategy blog is not a summary in English of my latest book, The End of Great Power Politics, but rather a discussion that builds on it, drawing on fruitful and candid exchanges with friends and colleagues on its main theses. tenzerstrategics.substack.com/p/about-the-...
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About The End of Great Power Politics
Beyond my New Book: an Attempt at a Strategic Road-Map
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Barack Obama @barackobama.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
At a time when people are understandably focused on the daily chaos in Washington, these articles describe the rapidly accelerating impact that AI is going to have on jobs, the economy, and how we live.
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Behind the Curtain: Top AI CEO foresees white-collar bloodbath
Hardly anyone is paying attention.
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Gerd Leonhard - For the Human Future @futuristgerd.com · 29/05/2025
👉 Join me at 6pm UK 1pm EST 8am PST etc... today (in 2.5 hours:) Livestream Session on Artificial Intelligence and the Future of the Creative Industries (Gerd Leonhard) buff.ly/zo1HosE
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Artificial Intelligence and the Future of the Creative Industries (Gerd Leonhard)
I gave a talk on this topic at ScreenForce 2025 in Zurich, a few days ago in German, and may people have asked me to produce it in English as well, so.... he...
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Neil deGrasse Tyson @neildegrassetyson.com · 19/05/2025
If a foreign adversary snuck into our Federal budget and cut science research and education the way we’re cutting it ourselves — strategically undermining America’s long-term health, wealth, and security — we would likely consider it an act of war.
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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 12/05/2025
National Care Association's Nadra Ahmed: "Unskilled, low-paid" political rhetoric damages domestic recruitment. International recruitment is expensive and a last resort. "If we can't get the workforce, we can't deliver the care. If we can't deliver the care, providers will not be in the sector."~AA
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Brian Klaas @brianklaas.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
The idea that it’s currently easy is also insane. I spent £17,000 over 12 years before I got indefinite leave to remain. Every time I changed visa type—which I needed to do multiple times—it took my time in the country back to zero. Each visa extension costs thousands of pounds.
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 26/04/2025
The spreadsheet “names more than 800 firms, assigning them to one of five stark categories: “Caved to Administration” “Complying in Advance” “Other Negative Action” “Stood Up Against Administration’s Attacks” .. or “No Response.” @klasfeldreports.com www.allrisenews.com/p/skadden-st...
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Law students organize to give Trump-caving firms a recruitment problem
By creating a spreadsheet, Georgetown Law students sparked national headlines, along with PR headaches and staffing challenges inside the world's most powerful firms.
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On a clear day @icanseeforever1.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
This moment when the penny drops that trying to implement bathroom bans is an impossibility for the former Tory Chief Secretary Simon Clarke is delicious.
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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
Four Seasons Total Landscaping is once again ready to host the circus!
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Outspoken™️ @out5p0ken.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
“Anyone who builds a wall rather than a bridge to keep out migrants is not a Christian.” - Pope Francis. R.I.P.
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The Mary Rose Museum @maryrosemuseum.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
On the anniversary of the sinking of the Titanic, we thought we'd answer a question that's often asked, "If they raised the Mary Rose, why not raise the Titanic?" Allow our scaled diagram to explain...
A light blue diagram depicting the sea, with the water's surface at the top, and just below it is an outline of the Mary Rose, with the depth (12m, 40ft or 6.7 fathoms). There is a line showing the seabed, which takes a rapid dive into the vertical...
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Noah Oskow @noahoskow.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
Oh to be a red-eared snapper turtle sunning oneself in a pond at a centuries-old zen temple in the ancient shogunal capital.
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
1. White House, Monday, on a 90-day pause: “Fake news.” 2. Bessent, today: a 90-day pause was discussed on Sunday. “This was his strategy all along.” www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
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Tracey Ryniec @traceyryniec.bsky.social · 06/04/2025
This chart is being shared over on the other app. But it tells the story of how "Buy American" is so difficult and why it would take a decade to do so, and at great cost. This Boeing plane may be "made in America" but it's parts come from all over the world.
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Fionna O’Leary @fascinatorfun.bsky.social · 06/04/2025
1/ This is excellent from @faisalislam.bsky.social on the Trump trade fiasco. Well worth 10 mins of your day as it discusses 2 very different world views Is Trump really aiming at funding US public spending substantially from tariff income? 🤣 🧵 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Trump has turned his back on the foundation of US economic might
What made the US step back from the system that it profited handsomely from for decades?
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Nye @sjbnye.bsky.social · 06/04/2025
Which means the benefit goes to the owners of US manufacturing, not US workers
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Bremain in Spain @bremaininspain.com · 02/04/2025
REMINDER ETA STARTS TODAY Many people still don't know about it, and have already been turned away from travelling. UK citizens and Irish passport holders don't need to apply www.gov.uk/guidance/app...
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Apply for an electronic travel authorisation (ETA)
What an ETA is, who can get one and how to apply before coming to the UK.
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Gareth Oakland 🇫🇷🏏🏉 @goakl.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
This is how you report the Le Pen case. Guilty.
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RTL Today Radio @todayradiobyrtl.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
A clear message has emerged from the White House in Washington: street names that mention John F Kennedy must be changed worldwide – including in Luxembourg. (Check date) today.rtl.lu/news/luxembo...
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Including Luxembourg: Trump orders JFK streets to be renamed worldwide
A clear message has emerged from the White House in Washington: street names that mention John F Kennedy must be changed worldwide – including in Luxembourg.
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Brexit Bin 🇪🇺 🇬🇧 🇩🇪 @brexitbin.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
In case you missed it ... EU Commission President Ursula von der Leyen (and many other EU leaders) want and expect the UK to rejoin the EU. #RejoinEU 🇬🇧🇪🇺
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EU’s von der Leyen urges youth to reverse Brexit
European Commission president says politicians ‘goofed it up’ in 2016 and the next generation will ‘have to fix it.’ But both Tories and Labour shun the idea.
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Libération @liberation.fr · 31/03/2025
Marine Le Pen inéligible : loin d’un scandale démocratique, et si c’était juste normal ? ✍️ Le billet de @bouchetpetersen.bsky.social :
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Marine Le Pen inéligible : loin d’un scandale démocratique, et si c’était juste normal ?
La peine dont a écopé la leader du RN est la stricte application de la loi, et le résultat des graves délits dont elle a été reconnue coupable.
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Clive Thompson @clivethompson.bsky.social · 30/03/2025
So, the DOGE kids intend to rewrite the social-security administration's COBOL code-base! and they want to do it ... ... in *a few months* I did a huge dive into COBOL a few years ago (www.wealthsimple.com/en-ca/magazi...) ... ... so let me explain why DOGE is *way* over its skis here 1/9
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James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 29/03/2025
Seriously, where are all the columnists, commentators, pundits, authors, broadcasters & politicians who kept telling us they cared passionately about ‘ freedom of speech in universities, even as they struggled to cite many examples of it being suppressed? timesofindia.indiatimes.com/world/us/hun...
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Hundreds of international students wake up to an email asking them to self deport for campus activism - The Times of India
US News: Hundreds of international students in the US are getting an email from the US Department of State (DOS) asking them to self-deport owing to campus act.
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Kenan Malik @kenanmalik.bsky.social · 30/03/2025
This Britain www.disabilitynewsservice.com/disabled-man...
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Disabled man dies in poverty and squalor after DWP removes his benefits, just as Labour cuts PIP by £4.5bn
The body of a disabled man was found in his flat in distressing, squalid conditions, just weeks after the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) wrongly removed his disability benefits because he h…
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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 30/03/2025
Potential for crisis in the US right now is huge. Stock market disinvestment, plummeting foreign student/tourist numbers, disease outbreak, cascading government failure, security breakdown. Any number of different ways in which you could see something catastrophic happen, especially in combination.
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Nye @sjbnye.bsky.social · 30/03/2025
A must read on Ukraine
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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 29/03/2025
'Europe is not only home to our traditional allies; it is an enviable zone of democracy, wealth and prosperity with which it benefits us to have good relations, and from which we can sometimes learn' Snyder on the new US imperialism open.substack.com/pub/snyder/p...
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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 29/03/2025
Brian Unwin, former President of the European Investment Bank, highlights the eye-watering levels of long-term financing we've lost because of Brexit in his letter to The Guardian. 📝
A screenshot of Brian's letter, which reads: Polly Toynbee demonstrates conclusively how much self-inflicted economic damage the UK is suffering from Brexit. She could also have mentioned the critical loss of investment from the EU’s long-term financing bank, the European Investment Bank (EIB). During the UK’s EU membership, the EIB invested some £150bn in mainly infrastructure projects in the UK, representing actual investment of two to three times that amount, taking account of the EIB’s ability to attract other long-term co-financers. This key stream of investment and growth ceased with Brexit, and the successor regional investment banks established by the government have not come remotely near to replacing the EIB’s level of finance. If, as Toynbee urges, the government were bold enough to face down the Brexiters, there would be at least an opportunity to renegotiate access to EIB finance. No other source of significant investment is in prospect.
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Arthur Snell @snellarthur.bsky.social · 29/03/2025
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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
A national economy does not work like a household credit card. In fact: the more the government is in "debt", that's the more money we have potentially flowing around our economy & improving our living standards. A self imposed rule to "balance the books" is dangerous nonsense.
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UCL Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose @iipp-ucl.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
⛓️‍💥Resisting Digital Feudalism. How can policymakers ensure that #AI serves the public interest and the common good? IIPP Professor @mazzucatom.bsky.social advocates for a different approach prioritizing public value over extraction. ✍️Read more here: buff.ly/MdMT2HE
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Jeffrey Vagle @jvagle.me · 25/03/2025
This seems like a good time to remind folks of what Hannah Arendt once wrote:
Total domination does not allow for free initiative
in any field of life, for any activity that is not entirely predictable. Totali-
tarianism in power invariably replaces all first-rate talents, regardless of
their sympathies, with those crackpots and fools whose lack of intelligence
and creativity is still the best guarantee of their loyalty.u
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
🔑 under-discussed point — why they were on signal:
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WIRED @wired.com · 24/03/2025
Companies in the EU are starting to look for ways to ditch Amazon, Google, and Microsoft cloud services amid fears of rising security risks from the US. But cutting ties won’t be easy.
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Trump’s Aggression Sours Europe on US Cloud Giants
Companies in the EU are starting to look for ways to ditch Amazon, Google, and Microsoft cloud services amid fears of rising security risks from the US. But cutting ties won’t be easy.
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Brian Moore @brianmoore666.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
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KSlatteryResist @kslatteryresist.bsky.social · 22/03/2025
Hello? Is this thing on?! 🎙️ A French scientist flew to the USA. Border Patrol seized his phone, read his social media comments, denied him entry, sent him back to France They did not like his THOUGHTS and WORDS. They refused him entry to the USA. Because of his thoughts. Orwellian Thought Police
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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 22/03/2025
The stomach-churning reality of Trump and Putin's so-called peace talks summed up in The Times letters page. 👇
A screenshot to a Letter to the Editor in the Times, which reads: "Sir, The present situation in Ukraine, with so-called peace talks between Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump, conjures up a vision of two vultures picking over the bones of the beleaguered nation. It sickens me to the pit of my stomach, just as it does, I hope, most other civilised people in Europe."
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