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Seasons greetings Bluesky buddies. Whoever you are, wherever you are, I hope you’ll be spending some time in the next few days with people you care about and who care about you. Happy Holidays

Merry Christmas!

Happy Christmas Eve from everyone at European Movement UK! 🎄 We hope you all have a safe and relaxing holiday season ❄️

Andrew and Andrew alone is responsible for his actions. However, it’s implausible that the royal family and its machinery didn’t know exactly what he was up to. And they failed to stop it. And we, the taxpayer, funded it.

"In 1,000 days of war, Russia seized less than 1% of Ukraine's territory and failed to achieve its strategic goals." - Finnish President Stubb. He also noted that the Russian economy is stagnating: zero growth, exhausted reserves, high interest rates, and inflation.

My sympathy for farmers ebbed many many years ago. They're all Tory, Reform and Brexit voting, tax-dodging river polluters.

They still won't vote labour....

Major new concession on farm inheritance tax bit.ly/3Y9rdDX on top of normal reliefs farmers can leave £2.5m tax free - up from £1m - and heirs pay half normal tax on rest. Left to a spouse all is taxfree and then spouse’s heirs gets double - could total £6 million free of Inheritance Tax.

This world is so bloody frustrating. There's a manchild with low IQ in America & a despot with xenophobia in Russia, neither of which the world are willing to call out & all the while its ordinary people who pay the price for their insanity.

#UncannyCommunity, GET YOUR XMAS JUMPERS READY! Because the experiences that Diane Morgan will share in tomorrow’s #Uncanny Xmas Special will chill you to the bone🥶 Listen to Case 9: The Uncanny Christmas Casebook TOMORROW on BBC Sounds or wherever you get your podcasts!

The economic damage caused by Brexit cannot be overstated, and neither can the importance of the solution - negotiating a bespoke UK-EU customs union is vital for economic recovery.

Britain’s economy has been damaged by Brexit. But what should ministers do about it?

And may every day be another wonderful secret.

Donald Trump has great power but he, nor any person, cannot destroy knowledge & science. He & other political climate deniers can promote disinformation & propaganda to brainwash society against knowledge & science. For how this has happend in the US see www.routledge.com/Climate-Deni...

Climate scientists dismissed as global research centre closed down by US govt bit.ly/4jfHn8I criticised for not supporting fossil fuel industry

When Trump dies, he should be redacted from history in the same way he redacted himself from the Epstein files.

Wes Streeting has suggested Britain should join a customs union with Europe, as a poll for The Times shows eight out of ten Labour voters support the move 👏 www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...

The Trump administration is trying to legislate trans people out of existence | Judith Levine

I’m on #CelebrityMastermind tomorrow at 7:30pm on BBC Two! I'll be answering questions on The Mandalorian, competing against Maryam Moshiri, Chesney Hawkes and Desiree Burch to raise money for charity! Here are some photos from when we filmed it📸 Tune in to see what I got right and what stumped me!

Far right scum have been out harrassing the homeless on the streets & they are proud of it. The folks at @calaisappeal.bsky.social are doing everything they can to stand up to the hate 🙏 please stand with us 🙏 www.youtube.com/shorts/bxFVG...

Merry Yule! It’s the shortest day of the year and we can now look forward to the return of the light! The Romans seem to have been a bit confused about measuring the daylight and celebrated Sol on 25th December instead. That will never catch on! www.instagram.com/reel/DSStf1u...

Several of Jeffrey Epstein’s victims said that they were frustrated by the heavy redactions of photos and documents that the Justice Department released on Friday.

This is not transparency. #EpsteinFiles

If you've not already done so, do watch this 3 part documentary about the monarchy by David Dimbleby. Excellent broadcasting. We desperately need to reform our constitutional arrangements, and certainly how public money flows to these unelected billionaires. www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...

Jeffrey Epstein files latest: New files, including transcripts, released by Department of Justice on Saturday

Several hundred thousand pages still have not been released. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

U.S. plans to stop recommending most childhood vaccines, defer to doctors www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...

WHO IS EXCITED for the #Uncanny Christmas Special 2025?!‼️👻🎄 One of the cases Ciarán O’Keeffe and celebrity guest Diane Morgan help me investigate comes from BBC Newsreader Maryam Moshiri😱 Listen to Case 9: The Uncanny Christmas Casebook NEXT TUESDAY on BBC Sounds or wherever you get your podcasts!

@matthewpennycookmp.bsky.social What about the existing shared-equity govmt-backed leasehold flats that were miss-sold? www.estateagenttoday.co.uk/breaking-new...

From March banks will be free to remove the £100 limit on contactless cards bit.ly/3MQDFpG bringing them in line with contactless payments through a smartphone. Banks are being encouraged to let customers choose their limit - 76% of those surveyed did not want any change

Really looking forward to taking a trip down Mermaid Avenue with Woody and Wilco and playing a solo set of my own at Wilco's SolidSoundFest, June 26-28 at MASS MoCA in North Adams, MA! ✨ For tickets and info visit solidsoundfestival.com

Why is @kemibadenough.bsky.social so out of touch with reality? Ignoring homegrown misogyny in favour of racist dogwhistles will not help society. 20% of young males admire Andrew Tate - that figure should be 0.

Unfortunately, due to unforeseen delays, the government has not been able to publish the draft Commonhold and Leasehold Reform Bill before the Commons Christmas Recess. My letter to the Chair of the Select Committee making clear we expect to be in a position to do so early in the new year 👇🏻

I don’t know who made this, but it’s spot on!!

Our landmark Planning and Infrastructure Bill has just received Royal Assent - that means it is now an Act of Parliament and the law. Through the measures in this Act we will speed up and streamline the delivery of new homes and critical infrastructure. #GetBritainBuilding

Unbelievably, it's been 25 years since we lost Kirsty MacColl yet the beauty of her music and her memory still resonate. Here's a song I wrote for her to sing in the 1995 movie 'Mad Love'. www.youtube.com/watch?v=aWjl...

Sorry, what is it exactly he wants back? I don't ever remember Venezuela stealing a single American state! This man is absolutely barking mad and bloody dangerous!

The Trump administration said it will be dismantling the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Colorado, one of the world’s leading Earth science research institutions.

“Oil… oil… oil… oil… oil… oil…” TLDR: It was never about drugs

Truss is as vindictive as Trump, they both also share inflated & unrealistic senses of themselves.

Trump just announced he will address the nation tomorrow night from the White House. Probably to declare war on Venezuela. We all knew he was going to pull some last-second shit to distract from the Epstein files.

Yup.

The BBC should counter sue. Trump is now smearing them by insisting his words were fake and that AI was used. Most of the world will have witnessed his Jan 6th speech by now & know that he's lying.

The UK gets a bloodied nose and finds out the hard way that you cannot trust or be friends with a bully…. #DonnyDiaper does it again! www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Trump is coming after our BBC. He’s suing it for $10 billion, and the Conservatives and Reform are cheering him on. The BBC must not pay Trump a penny. Instead of rolling over, it should sue Trump back for the lies he’s telling about it.

The funniest thing about this is that Liz (Britain’s female equivalent to Einstein) Truss is cited as a relevant authority on “bias at the BBC” She is of course the UK’s shortest-serving prime minister - 45 disastrous days in office. www.theguardian.com/media/2025/d...