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The hysteria is palpable, and also rather amusing.

We are now thoroughly in the agonal gasps of 2025. Would anyone like to join me in asking this year to politely take its things and fuck straight off? 🐻

024: Keir Starmer, "I firmly believe that the British public want... to make Brexit work" 2025: Guardian, "UK failure to seal EU tax exemption hands industry mountain of paperwork" End the madness #RejoinEU

Investment in UK unlikely to significantly and lastingly improve until we are back in the single market. Other G7 members are either in it (FR, DE, IT) have huge own market (US) and/or have geographical and resource advantages UK does not (Canada, Japan).

The psychopathic dictator is at it again.

Even in these times of rapidly shifting norms, there was something shocking about the recent Home Office change in internal guidance, slipped in without the need for legislative scrutiny, to deny British citizenship to anyone arriving in the UK “in an unauthorised manner”;

Free speech is dead in Trump’s America. Like all authoritarian states, free speech doesn’t extend to criticism of their regime and leader. Educators, lawmakers, newspapers, critics, are all being threatened and silenced while history is being erased and rewritten - it’s all so familiar

Brexit betrayal!! Whether Brexiters truly believe their cries of betrayal, surely it’s time to challenge the rhetoric From former Tory ministers, a GB news presenter or an Express ‘journalist’, the sour grapes attitude smacks of irony @suewilson91.bsky.social @yorkshirebylines.co.uk

Same far-right hacks now crying that Polish workers are going back, despite having pushed daily hatred towards them for decades. Piss off, Daily Mail.

My first ever Ask Me Anything: With some chat about wealth taxes, the Middle East, The Manic Street Preachers, fit blokes, drugs and beauty in politics iandunt.substack.com/p/ask-me-any...

Cover of Der Spiegel, Germany's renowned and influential magazine “Two villains, one goal”

FYI.

The fact that Donald Trump, JD Vance, and Elon Musk attack the UK and the EU over the ‘erosion’ of freedom of speech, yet not Russia is so telling Plus - Here’s the latest World Press Freedom Index: 21 out of the top 30 were European.. The US ranked 57 and falling, with Russia at 162.

Rejoining the Customs Union would deliver clear advantages for the UK, and two thirds of 2024 Labour voters already support the move: it's time for Westminster to catch up.

Brexodus! The exodus of UK citizens is being driven by tens of thousands of Eastern Europeans moving home after gaining citizenship or taking British partners with them In total, central & eastern European countries reported an increase of more than 100,000 British citizens among their populations

Email from @suewilson91.bsky.social and @bremaininspain.com. I agree with what is said.

Another criminal ‘patriot’ - He’s being pursued for an eight-year sentence in Spain over claims of fraud and membership of a criminal group. www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news...

Reform UK went into Durham Council promising to find huge savings. They have managed to GROW the authority's deficit by over £11m *in the last two months*. Grimes recommends “serious consideration” to increasing council tax “by the maximum 5%.” ~AA northeastbylines.co.uk/news/politic...

The Culture War Calendar Based on the UK but I’m fairly sure many countries will have similar campaigns of seasonal, manufactured rage

Wonderful.

Prof Garton Ash renowned historian & political writer We talk a lot about strategies keeping anti-liberal, nationalist populists out of power. Trump’s daily wielding of a wrecking ball shows that it’s equally important to reinforce your democracy so it can withstand a period of populists in power

Seems I raised three far-left extremists 😉

Confirming what we knew. Foreign actors destabilising democracy Users on X seized examples of huge pro-Trump accounts outside the US Also anti-Trump accounts with misleading locations too, but nothing like the size of followers. How X's new location feature exposed big US politics accounts

What’s more expensive: investing in renewables, or dealing with the £38 trillion annual cost of unchecked climate damage?

Reform-led Lancashire County Council is closing a number of care homes with a direct impact on my constituents. The consultation on the proposal is still not finalised but I have heard from a number of constituents that family members have been already asked to make arrangements to leave.

Fun fact, the ONLY people that have ever “banned Christmas” were puritanical Christians who banned it between 1659 to 1681.

It’s already in full swing 🙄

They are so sensitive

An awful and all to familiar story More than 400 women & girls were abused & exploited in Mohamed Al Fayed’s Harrods enterprise. This author is one of them Patterns of sexual exploitation - range of associates, affiliates & assets from Ritz Paris to private jets, yachts & global residences

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So Donald Trump is now saying that Republicans should vote to release the Epstein files; therefore, we should assume any incriminating references or evidence to him or any other powerful men who kiss his ring have been removed.

"Yorkshire Water was privatised in 1989 under the Water Act, launched debt-free and promoted as the start of a new, efficient era. Today, the company carries almost £7bn in debt...."

What a difference. When they come for one minority, they come for us all. Whether it’s Muslims, Jews, asylum seekers, migrants, the LGBTQI community or women. We must stand in solidarity. There needs to be zero tolerance for all hate and division

We certainly aren’t all like this, but it’s no wonder Brits have a terrible reputation when abroad. The exceptionalism and ignorance is enraging

He’s right! Most of the UK’s economic problems since Brexit would have been avoided if it had stayed in the European Single Market and Customs Union and it’s time to move closer to the EU, writes former Belgian Prime Minister Guy Verhofstadt

I cannot believe UK Labour are floating this. It’s utterly abhorrent. The depths they are willing to sink to is sickening A centre left, progressive party does not act like this. They are morphing like the Tories did into something grotesque to appease the unappeasable

No — it’s an anti-Brexit win. ✊

The country's economy has seen slower than expected growth of 0.1%, and Chancellor Rachel Reeves has said there's "more to do to build an economy that works". Perhaps we could start by working more with the EU?

Brexiters - Project fear they said We don’t mind being poorer they said Now they blame migrants and asylum seekers for the mess they made The ‘Brexit effect’ is only getting worse

We seem engulfed by a kind of hysterical need; an obsession to push every question to its extremes. Nuance has not simply faded; it has been drowned out by a full-throated embrace of “black & white” thinking, often without even the faintest consideration of the bigger picture @northeastbylines.co.uk

Next year, from Sat 23 May to Friday 5 June, the @marchforrejoin.co.uk team are planning the Rejoin Ramble They will walk 255 miles from London to Brussels & deliver a booklet full of your comments on why we want to rejoin the EU. Get involved All info below or see @marchforrejoin.co.uk/ramble

Our friends at the British Council are celebrating 120 years of the Languages Assistants Programme. Repost, tell your story, share an old photo or record a video testimonial and post it using hashtag #LanguageAssistant120 🥂🍾 👏

The farming sector has been one of the most affected since Brexit. Farmers are experiencing a loss of profit after a drop in subsidies after we left the EU. It’s essential that we work with Europe to save British farming.

The aftermath of Brexit has divided the nation - a reminder that isolation comes at a cost. It's evident that cooperation with our European neighbours is the way forward.

They smell blood... even Russia is wading in. The BBC is not perfect, but globally it is the number one trusted broadcaster. Private individuals can be bought and manipulated— publicly owned, not so much. It's why they want to destroy it, and why we should protect it. Cartoon Ben Jennings

Elon Musk also said this about empathy yesterday, which I hadn’t see. When I posted this. This man is a danger to us all.

😂 What a burn 🔥 GB News host, Camilla Tominey is upset the BBC isn’t calling Mamdani a communist This response from Jessica Simor, KC (King’s Councillor) is something to behold.

Mamdani: "New York will remain a city of immigrants, a city built by immigrants, powered by immigrants, and as of tonight, led by an immigrant."