Best country to live in ranked - www.remitly.com/us/en/landin...

100,000 signatures to #RejoinEU Now we need to get MPs to attend the debate when it is scheduled...

“A mind is like a parachute. It doesn’t work if it is not open.” — Frank Zappa

Since the UK heatwave seems to be sticking around a little longer, our Wordy Wednesday this week has a little “heat” connection too! It's a punchy, rhyming phrase equivalent to our “ignorance is bliss”. The phrase is commonly attributed to Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 🖋️

Palantir’s technologies are used by the powerful to attack the powerless. This company should not be involved in our public services. Sign this petition if you agree act.globaljustice.org.uk/get-palantir...

EU regulation is good for the public and limits monetistion of our private info : US lobbyists hate both. Guess why www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...?

🔴 "After these Local Elections there can be no doubt: Labour’s future lies in electoral reform..." 🗳️ Alex Sobel MP writes for LabourList 👇 labourlist.org/2026/05/labo...

we need PR and the EU

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...? UK take note of the final paragraphs👇

it seems like UK hasn‘t learned to situate itself among Europe’s wider geopolitical challenges and dynamics

Time Labour got bold on Europe and mutual freedom to roam for EU and UK citizens. Pretending otherwise brought Labour electoral defeat.

Nails it!

Back to the future A single market in goods was Thorneycroft’s big alternative to EEC in 1956 It failed then and will fail again - not least because the UK is a services economy that needs a single market in services (which needs FOM) www.ft.com/content/b13e...

Industry figures say government inertia and red tape is driving them to consider relocating to big-spending US Read more: trib.al/9mQFo9G

Caring for others has no gender.   Yet care services are still primarily carried out by women.   Parliament is calling for stronger action to close this gap and build a fairer care system across Europe.   Learn more: link.europa.eu/HvMbNt

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Sadik Kahn is doing what local governments elsewhere in Europe are doing. There are legitimate ethical reasons to block such deals using public data that endangers individuals‘ privacy for corporate profit www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

When Scotland and Wales lowered the voting age to 16, they also used the opportunity to extend the franchise to all residents. The UK Gov can follow suit. But that requires you to write to your MP & ask them to add their name to Amendment NC29 to the Elections Bill @inlimbobrexit.bsky.social

"As a non-EU member, Britain is not part of that conversation. It is still a nuclear-armed Nato member and, by European standards, a significant military power." "Those credentials matter, but they do not compensate for the loss of a seat at the EU top table."

The petition closes on June 8th 🔗 petition.parliament.uk/petitions/74...

When teaching law in context, we discuss the goals of legislation when it comes to influencing people's/ other legal entities behaviour. While I can appreciate there needed to be a maximum penalty, this is a great example of how poorly these are likely to deter big companies

So great to have such as expert write-up. "Makerfield as a whole is not [an] economically deprived" is I suspect a message that will be largely ignored because deprivation = Reform voting is so ingrained despite not being accurate

substack.com/@bestforbrit... Brexit beneits him apparently. How about you?

On Brexit Deputy PM David Lammy says “Farage said it would bring down immigration, it hasn’t it’s got worse, Farage said we would be better off, we’re much much poorer, everyone across the country realises that, there were promises made and we should hold their feet to the fire” 👏

‘Labour’s future lies in electoral reform’ labourlist.org/2026/05/labo... – via LabourList

EVERYONE wants us to fail! #RejoinEU

This is why Labour is fucked. They still don't get it! We need Reform Voters more than we need Green Voters. - Labour MP Luke Akehurst

⚠️ "The winner-takes-all system means that a party can secure a huge majority of seats on a minority of votes. This poses a major democratic risk." 🔊 Our Vice-Chair @elliechowns.bsky.social during Business Questions to the Leader of the House this morning:

Time to Scrap the Red Lines on Europe www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/smash-red-...? #JoinEU

pinched from LincolnforEurope

#DatacentreEnergyGobblers why the alleged miscalculations matter to us www.theguardian.com/technology/2...?

@theobserveruk.bsky.social Saturday 9 May 2026 Farage could face byelection over crypto king’s £5m donation. He faces two possible investigations over the undeclared gift from Christopher Harborne. A lengthy Commons suspension could lead to a recall petition – and end up costing him his Clacton seat

9 May Europe Day 2026 is the 76th anniversary of the Schuman Declaration, which led to the EU and peace, democracy, prosperity, integration and cooperation.The EU institutions will open to visitors. And buildings and monuments lit in EU colours.

PR …now

www.theguardian.com/environment/...?

www.ft.com shocking and irresponsible👀 lack of understanding of how our data is endangered

BREAKING: Number of council seats at 7:00am

How long before UK gives England proportional representation instead of unrepresentative, barmy first-past-the-post voting system?

Why Europe must refuse the data-sharing deal with the US Eric Pol EU insists: personal data belongs to the individual, not the state or corporations to be monetised for profit. US pressure to ‘get along’ and maintain security ties is used as a lever to pry open the personal lives of us all.

According to an analysis by The Guardian, the top 100 oil and gas companies will make up to €220 billion in extra profits by the end of this year if oil prices remain at current levels – and the EU could make them pay back, if it makes up its mind.

The Commission is reportedly preparing to cancel recently-passed legislation that would require companies to report methane leaks, citing the Iran War energy crisis as the reason. The reality is the US has been pressuring on the EU to do this for a year.

"The EU is an economic giant. Its 27 member states combine into the world’s second-biggest economy behind America and its third-most-populous internal market, behind India and China." Since Brexit, we have been out in the cold. Outside the EU and buffeted between a volatile US and calculated China.

EU govts and MEPs agree to ban ‚nudification‘ AI

Hornsea 3 – set to become the world’s largest offshore wind farm – linking up its first export cable and sending power ashore at Weybourne on the North Norfolk coast. bylinesnetwork.substack.com/p/best-of-by...