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Alan Beattie @alanbeattie.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
My Trade Secrets today: Lucky Saint Mark. Carney's canonisation as the righteous trade warrior against Trump owes quite a lot to good fortune. Having first crafted tricky proposals which put him in a quandary, the Trump administration then escalated to absurd demands that Canada could only refuse.
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An offer Canada could only refuse
Saint Mark Carney’s canonisation owes much to Donald Trump’s inept bullying
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xuorac.bsky.social @xuorac.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
www.ft.com/content/34f8...
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Bellingham brace carries England past Norway into World Cup semi-final
Real Madrid star outshines Harry Kane and Erling Haaland as Thomas Tuchel’s side claim 2-1 extra-time win
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xuorac.bsky.social @xuorac.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
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Greta Thunberg, Sally Rooney and Brian Eno defy Palestine Action ban in letter to judges
Exclusive: Scholars, writers and artists risk arrest with message of support for proscribed group before next week’s appeal hearing
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xuorac.bsky.social @xuorac.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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Man who heckled Shabana Mahmood dismisses ‘laughable’ white liberal claim
Protester says he migrated from Malaysia as a child and describes home secretary’s immigration policies as cruel
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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
Note: DOJ did NOT charge Allen with 18 USC 111, which they would have if they knew he shot the USSS who was shot. So ... possibly friendly fire.
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Albert Pinto @70sbachchan.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
273/ Mearsheimer: "We came into this war with four big demands: end nuclear enrichment, stop supporting resistance groups, get rid of missiles and regime change. We have failed on all four counts. We have made the situation worse." 0/4. A masterclass in strategic failure x.com/OunkaOnX/sta...
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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
"Enemy from within." "Communists, Marxists, fascists, radical left thugs, vermin." "Garbage" Somalis, "low IQ people." "She's an evil, sick, crazy, b..." Republicans want the left to tone down the rhetoric. Erm, have they listened to Donald Trump?? Zeteo put together this Trump montage:
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Albert Pinto @70sbachchan.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
"Spain’s ability to produce the bloc’s cheapest renewable energy is no longer a local success story but a geopolitical challenge to traditional Franco-German hegemony." "Berlin and Paris are now viewing Spain as a competitor in the race to become the continent’s industrial core."
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How Madrid is trying to use renewables to redesign Europe’s industrial map
In his weekly column, Marc López Plana, editor and director of 'Agenda Pública,' warns of the risk of institutional dumping under the European Commission’s Industrial Accelerator Act. The EU’s industr...
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MaddowBlog @maddowblog.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
"The math only adds up if you're trying to build a police state." Miles Taylor, former DHS chief of staff, tells Rachel Maddow that the system of immigration prisons that Donald Trump wants to assemble is much bigger than the stated purpose of the prisons; unless Trump has some other use in mind.
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Simon Kuestenmacher @simongerman600.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
How many paid vacation days do you get across Europe? The French have 42 - that's twice as many as Montenegro. Source: buff.ly/XW19OF1
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Financial Times @financialtimes.com · 28/04/2026
Iran war shows Latin America has left its original sin behind ft.trib.al/8ryJ3XD | opinion
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Iran war shows Latin America has left its original sin behind
For 30 years, every oil shock broke Latin American bonds. This one didn’t
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Financial Times @financialtimes.com · 28/04/2026
The real lesson of Reform’s war on the history curriculum ft.trib.al/92qzOKq | opinion
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The real lesson of Reform’s war on the history curriculum
Proposals for a new patriotic syllabus reveal the ambiguous appeal of rightwing populism
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xuorac.bsky.social @xuorac.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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A brutal wrestle on a plane, passengers outraged, attendants helpless: I saw the UK’s deportation policy at work | Hugh Muir
On the runway at Gatwick, the visceral reality of forced removals was laid bare. If only more could see what is done in our name, says Hugh Muir, executive editor, Opinion
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Daniel Moser @dmoser.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
Pollution levels in Paris after 10 years of advancing sustainable transport.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 27/04/2026
Mark Carney: "Many of our former strengths, built on our close ties to the US, have become weaknesses. The US has changed. That's their right. And we're responding ... we're deepening our partnerships with our closest allies, including the EU, the Nordic countries, and Australia."
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Howard French @hofrench.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
As I said (below) a couple of days ago: www.ft.com/content/0a66...
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US being ‘humiliated’ by Iran, says German Chancellor Friedrich Merz
Atlanticist leader says ill-prepared war is hurting Europe’s largest economy
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Jan Rosenow @janrosenow.bsky.social · 25/04/2026
Denmark's coal-to-wind transition is one of the most dramatic energy transformations of the past three decades. In 1990, coal provided 90% of Danish electricity. Today it is under 3%. Wind now covers roughly 60% of electricity generation. The last coal plant is scheduled to close by 2028.
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Dan McCrum @mccrum.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
An expert opinion that the scam reported by the BBC wouldn’t work, and so was a scam on applicants not the system, seems like important context
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Albert Pinto @70sbachchan.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
“Dies after attack”… Come on. - @assalrad x.com/AssalRad/sta... bsky.app/profile/clan...
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Defend Our Juries @defendourjuries.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
Filton 24 activists facing re-trial today are being denied the chance to tell jurors the whole truth under threat of charges of contempt. It was this corrupting of the right to a fair trial that lead Trudi to hold her sign in 2023, which replicates a 1670 Old Bailey placard.
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Defend Our Juries @defendourjuries.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
After a year-long ordeal being pursued by the highest legal authority in the UK government, she won her case and proved that it is not unlawful to hold a sign outside a court reminding jurors of their rights. Today, history repeats itself. Fight back: www.wedonotcomply.org
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Defend Our Juries @defendourjuries.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
WATCH - Trudi Warner arrested, handcuffed, and carried for holding a placard with the law written on it outside Woolwich Crown Court. “There’s a High Court Ruling about this law” Trudi ought to know, because the case was “the Secretary General vs Trudi Warner”, and Trudi won.
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 23/04/2026
Former boss at Lucy Letby’s hospital arrested on suspicion of perverting course of justice
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Former boss at Lucy Letby’s hospital arrested on suspicion of perverting course of justice
Suspect is one of three ex-senior leaders also arrested last year on suspicion of gross negligence manslaughter A former boss at the hospital where Lucy Letby worked has been arrested on suspicion of perverting the course of justice. Police arrested the suspect on Wednesday as part of an investigation into allegations of gross negligence manslaughter by ex-senior leaders at the Countess of Chester hospital. Continue reading...
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xuorac.bsky.social @xuorac.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
www.ft.com/content/836e... Escape from Hormuz: the oil tankers running the Iranian gauntlet
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Escape from Hormuz: the oil tankers running the Iranian gauntlet
How trading houses Vitol, Trafigura and Mercuria have managed to get some of their vessels out of the Gulf
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 23/04/2026
Migrant care workers to leaflet Shabana Mahmood constituents over longer wait to settle
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Migrant care workers to leaflet Shabana Mahmood constituents over longer wait to settle
Campaign is said to be first time Labour-affiliated Unison is lobbying en masse against a key party policy Migrant workers and the UK’s largest union will carry out a mass leafleting campaign in Shabana Mahmood’s Birmingham constituency to protest against a planned change in immigration policy. The Labour-affiliated Unison union says the changes will adversely affect migrant care workers. About one-third of all care workers and one-fifth of all NHS workers are migrants. Continue reading...
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Le Monde @lemonde.fr · 23/04/2026
Emmanuel Macron veut appliquer la méthode « Notre-Dame » à 150 projets industriels stratégiques
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Emmanuel Macron veut appliquer la méthode « Notre-Dame » à 150 projets industriels stratégiques
Inaugurant, mercredi, une mine de lithium dans l’Allier, le chef de l’Etat veut s’inspirer de la simplification et de l’accélération des procédures mises en œuvre pour la reconstruction de la cathédrale de Paris pour faire aboutir 150 grands projets.
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Committee to Protect Journalists @pressfreedom.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
Lebanese journalist Amal Khalil found dead after being trapped in rubble following Israeli strike, obstruction of rescue: cpj.org?p=583367
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CPJ calls for immediate rescue of Lebanese journalist Amal Khalil, trapped under rubble in southern Lebanon - Committee to Protect Journalists
UPDATE: On April 22, the Red Cross reported that they had found the body of Amal Khalil under the rubble. Beirut, April 22, 2026—The Committee to Protect Journalists is outraged that the Israeli Defen...
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Financial Times @financialtimes.com · 22/04/2026
House prices in London’s wealthiest boroughs suffer double-digit decline ft.trib.al/Z9j8G9O
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House prices in London’s wealthiest boroughs suffer double-digit decline
Westminster and Kensington and Chelsea property valuations sink close to 2013 levels
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 22/04/2026
Morgan McSweeney, Keir Starmer’s former chief of staff, to be questioned by MPs
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Morgan McSweeney, Keir Starmer’s former chief of staff, to be questioned by MPs
Exclusive: McSweeney summoned by foreign affairs select committee in rare step, as Mandelson vetting row continues * UK politics live – latest updates Morgan McSweeney, the prime minister’s former chief of staff, has been summoned before the foreign affairs select committee as the Peter Mandelson vetting row continued to undermine Keir Starmer’s premiership. As MPs attempt to unravel the facts, McSweeney is to appear next Tuesday to respond to allegations that Downing Street put huge pressure on the civil service to approve his appointment as the UK’s ambassador to Washington. Continue reading...
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Financial Times @financialtimes.com · 22/04/2026
In postwar West Germany, the link between cigarettes and cancer was ignored — with real and deadly effects. Tap here to read Tim Harford's latest column: ft.trib.al/SqE9QAa
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Financial Times @financialtimes.com · 22/04/2026
The military man trying to save US-Iran peace talks ft.trib.al/a9OGNus
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The military man trying to save US-Iran peace talks
Pakistan’s fatigue-wearing strongman Asim Munir takes unorthodox approach to mediating between two arch-enemies
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xuorac.bsky.social @xuorac.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
www.theguardian.com/news/ng-inte...
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We asked what repairing the harm of enslavement would look like. This is what we found
Our Legacies of Enslavement team has found humanity and dignity, not blame or guilt, are at the heart of the conversation
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
Narrator: "they voted yes."
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 21/04/2026
‘We were terrified they were going to kill us’: fishers who survived US boat strike speak out
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‘We were terrified they were going to kill us’: fishers who survived US boat strike speak out
An Ecuadorian fishing crew describe their ordeal as victims of Trump’s purported war on ‘narcoterrorists’
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Owen Jones @owenjones.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
The original sin of Starmerism is what will now destroy it. The Labour Party was taken over by a cynical, dishonest faction with no moral compass. How they operated in the party is how they operated in government. Starmer was just their convenient frontman.
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Richard Corbett CBE @richardcorbett.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
The world faces economic turmoil caused by Trump. Climate change threatens the future of the planet. Putin threatens European security. The UK has extra problems caused by Brexit Yet, British media & politics is obsessed about a stupid ambassador appointment 2 years ago…
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Dmitry Grozoubinski @explaintrade.com · 21/04/2026
The idea that you need to send corrupt sociopaths as Ambassadors to DC is so funny, because it's a standard we have never applied anywhere. We don't appoint corrupt gangsters to embassies in Moscow or religious fanatics to Tehran. Also, Mamdani is able to handle Trump fine without becoming him.
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Trump Action Tracker @trumpactiontracker.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
Todd Blanche says Americans should be 'happy' Trump is deeply involved in Department of Justice (DoJ). Asked in an interview with NBC News about a communication Trump sent to then-Attorney General Pam Bondi in which he publicly implored her to i... TAT: [Suppressing dissent | Undermining democracy]
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Todd Blanche says Americans should be 'happy' Trump is deeply involved in DOJ
The acting attorney general said in an interview with NBC News that he's not concerned when Trump "encourages or directs or expects the Department of Justice to do its job."
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Trump Action Tracker @trumpactiontracker.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
A small conservative legal group used direct access to the Federal Communications Commission chairman’s office last September to accelerate a complaint targeting Jimmy Kimmel and his employer, ABC TAT: [Corruption | Suppressing dissent]
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The FCC Has a Fast Lane for Complaints About Trump’s Media Critics
Internal emails obtained by WIRED reveal how a conservative legal group with a direct line into FCC chairman Brendan Carr’s office built the case against Jimmy Kimmel and his employees.
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Trump Action Tracker @trumpactiontracker.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
More than 2,500 troops remain in the nation’s capital, Washington DC, eight months after President Donald Trump declared a crime emergency, in a deployment that has grown increasingly routine with no clear end in sight. TAT: [Nationalism | Undermining democracy]
independent.co.uk
National Guard roams Washington with no end in sight to $1 million-per-day deployment
Even with pivotal elections looming this year, their lingering presence is barely mentioned
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xuorac.bsky.social @xuorac.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
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‘It’s a big loss’: what happens when a beautiful village loses its bus route?
Mousehole in Cornwall once had a butcher, post office and general store. Now it doesn’t even have an ATM – and one of its crucial bus services has been cut. Can residents save this vital resource?
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xuorac.bsky.social @xuorac.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Almost half of EU’s busiest flight routes are ‘hard or impossible’ to book on trains – report
‘Stone age’ system of booking cross-border rail tickets holding back climate action by consumers, says thinktank
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Simon Kuestenmacher @simongerman600.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
You can still “see” a 1100-year-old Viking frontier in England through place names. “-by” and “-thorpe” cluster in the former Danelaw, while “-ton” and “-ham” dominate elsewhere. Not a clean border, but a lasting cultural imprint. Source: buff.ly/NlTRNKY
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Albert Pinto @70sbachchan.bsky.social · 15/03/2026
7/ Iran war disruptions will accelerate electrification. Countries & ppl will want autonomy Solar already EU's biggest power source for first time. That is already making ppl more resilient. Some Solar booms that no one saw coming --Netherlands and Hungary-now over 40% solar, higher than Spain!
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Mary @myrtilda.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a...
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Israeli soldiers using sexual assault to force Palestinians out of West Bank, report says
Experts say attacks, also carried out by settlers, are leading girls to quit school and enter early marriages
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xuorac.bsky.social @xuorac.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
www.ft.com/content/0537... Ex-Foreign Office head to accuse Number 10 of pressuring him over Mandelson appointment
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Ex-Foreign Office head to accuse Number 10 of pressuring him over Mandelson appointment
Sir Olly Robbins to tell MPs about vetting of Labour grandee who briefly served as ambassador to US
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Prof Christina Pagel @chrischirp.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
All the talk is of a blue wave in the 2026 Midterms. But Republicans do not need to get more popular to hold the House - they just need to stop enough Democrats voting in key seats. I've done a deep dive in my latest post. christinapagel.substack.com/p/how-republ...
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How Republicans can win the Midterms – and how to stop them
A longer analysis of why the 2026 midterms may be far closer than they look, focusing on marginal districts and voter suppression
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xuorac.bsky.social @xuorac.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
www.aljazeera.com#flips-639346...
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Breaking News, World News and Video from Al Jazeera
News, analysis from the Middle East & worldwide, multimedia & interactives, opinions, documentaries, podcasts, long reads and broadcast schedule.
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xuorac.bsky.social @xuorac.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
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Daughter calls for investigation into death of man after police contact at Bristol protest
Exclusive: Retired NHS worker Nicholas Stone died after becoming unwell at protest against far-right Bristol Patriots
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xuorac.bsky.social @xuorac.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
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Ed Miliband to double down on net zero with measures to combat Iran energy shock
As fossil fuel prices soar ‘the era of clean energy security must come of age’, energy secretary will say
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