The EU's Court of Justice has confirmed that beneficiaries of temporary protection in the EU must be allowed to apply for other forms of protection. Analysis of the judgment, by Dr Meltem Ineli Ciger: eulawanalysis.blogspot.com/2025/11/misr...

Ukraine firmly rejected Trump’s peace plan. Zelensky emphasized Ukraine’s readiness for meaningful negotiations but will never recognizing Russian control over Ukrainian territory. The peace deal demanded major concessions, including ceding land, giving up arms & halting NATO ambitions.

Farage and Reform never seem far away from Russia connections🤔 away.https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2025/nov/21/cryptocurrency-farage-donor-used-for-russian-war-effort

General practice in Northern Ireland is in crisis. GPs have voted to begin collective action - we need an improved offer from the government that increases our core funding to avert a total crisis #GPsAreOnYourSide

ReformUK, the Russian spy, and the rolls of Kremlin cash: the inside story of Nathan Gill : www.theguardian.com/news/ng-inte...

Final result of #aras25: Electorate: 3,614,450 Votes cast: 1,656,436 (45.8%) Spoilt: 213,738 (12.9%) Valid poll: 1,442,698 Connolly: 914,143 (63.3%) Humphreys: 424,987 (29.5%) Gavin: 103,568 (7.2%) Catherine Connolly is elected the tenth President of Ireland.

this is hilarious. true, but, also hilarious. to say this out loud in chatham house is priceless! Home to the "think tanks" that led to brexit in the first place.

Kremlin propagandist Vladimir Solovyov once again threatened mass destruction, declaring: “There will be no life in Kharkiv, Odesa, Poltava, Mykolaiv! These cities won’t exist, nor will Kyiv!” He has been shouting this for over three years.

Ahh/ there it is. So much for the senate voting on sanctions. Another win for Putin

Mone not keen to return as Conservative peer (but not saying that she will resign as a member of the Lords) www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

"We've been forced into a 'free speech zone.' Its very existence implies that everywhere else is a non-free speech zone, that there are places where our First Amendment rights do not apply."

This👇👇👇 "Holley et al. inventoried the potential endowment of unrecovered critical minerals in active US mines compared with imports. Their assessment suggests that 90% recovery of existing by-products could meet nearly all domestic demand for critical minerals." www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

New Commentary: If Harvard Can’t Stand Up to Trump, Who Can? https://bit.ly/48eUm78

Live coverage as Andrea Jenkyns opens the wrap up conference gala night.

"America’s leading physician groups are now openly defying Kennedy. U.S. vaccine consensus has officially shattered." www.vox.com/health/45922...

Freedom of speech is not unlimited and the laws of this country restrict it for people who advocate others to be burned to death. It's not difficult.

Shout out to all the other political prisoners who openly called for the burning of human beings, entered a guilty plea, got released after doing 40% of their sentence, and were immediately free to go on supportive media channels to criticise the government that locked them up.

So, I notice bilateral-visa-waiver-agreenents getting tonnes of mentions in my replies, like they're the Second Coming. Some facts: - most of these agreements concern movement of diplomats - all of them predates Schengen - they're virtually unused - they will not work with EES 1

It is massive. Thanks to Peter Deppeler on Twitter for the footage. #GazaGenocide #MarchForHumanity

Mr @anandmenon.bsky.social is on @ohgodwhatnow.bsky.social this week about patriotism and also about the reset. Very much his wheelhouse Some reaction points: Firstly GSTK: you have to stop its use by the NI+ 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 ⚽, 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 🏉 + 🏏teams, etc, if you want it to be "national" 🧵

Someone is having a very bad birthday

U.S. Intel Says Iran Isn’t a Nuclear Threat. Israel Wants the U.S. to Bomb It Anyway. The U.S. is helping Israel wage war on Iran over its nuclear program. But U.S. intelligence says Iran is not building a bomb. theintercept.com/2025/06/17/i...

The Death of Empathy in American Governance www.meidasplus.com/p/the-death-...

From The Onion 🌰 theonion.com/trump-shares... "Trump [added] that he had narrowly avoided the attempt to eradicate white people and their culture by hiding for months in his 126-room Palm Beach resort"

Johnson isn't an MP, so he'd have to fight a potentially humiliating by-election before then engaging in a leadership battle... before taking over a party that is at its nadir. I'm not convinced he has the energy to fight a crisp packet caught in the wind these days, let alone do all that.

Beer brewed in Wisconsin anyone?

China is a violent dictatorship, arguably engaging in the destruction of ethnicities in its west,that engages in a whole range of mercantilist and sharp practices in trade Yet the geniuses in Washington have made the US the bad guys, and made China seem like adults edition.cnn.com/2025/04/12/b...

The thing is that China doesn’t need the US or Apple in order to make and sell ‘iPhones’ as I am sure we are about to discover. US tech hegemony depended on consumers having fuzzy feelings about the US.

In case you missed it ... When we were in the EU, there were signs all over the place showing how the EU was investing in our towns and regions. And best of all, EU funding was shared out EQUALLY and FAIRLY across all parts of the UK, regardless of which party was in power. #RejoinEU 🇬🇧🇪🇺

I've seen quite a few occasions recently when European citizens, including myself, were told that Britain and joining and relations with Europe were told in so many words to shut up, that it's none of our business. 1

This is wrong on so many levels! America’s largest egg producer saw profits triple last quarter after raking in millions in government assistance

I support the US garment industry. I don't believe in making life harder for immigrants or erecting blanket tariffs. So how can we reshore some of our US garment manufacturing without xenophobia or protectionism? Here's my view. 🧵

It's long past time to ban insider trading in Congress.

It's inexplicable why the Guardian still employ him. (Not just for this article, but he's dropped an oceanful of clangers over the years. Paid-up member of the "never knowingly right" club.)

“The ultimate goal of simplifying rules, cutting red tape, and promoting more joint purchases and production is to create a true European single market for defence.” Well yes but how to avoid the usual massive corruption in this area? That is a BIG issue!

🚨🚨 "Trump fails to get Putin to stop the shooting: Russia insists on terms to end the war that spell the end of democratic Ukraine, and has followed up the Trump call with an assault on Kyiv". @politico.eu summarises well the outcome of Putin-Trump call.🧵 www.politico.eu/article/dona...

Great scoop by my colleague Ethan Shone into one of the characters close to Farage and Reform UK, and his new company www.opendemocracy.net/en/dark-mone... @opendemocracy.net

If Andrew Neil couldn't see what millions of people could see clearly, based on the evidence of Trump's own words and deeds, why should he be taken seriously as a political commentator?

What rules of evidence and burden of proof apply, when an asylum seeker alleges that Frontex has participated in an illegal pushback? Analysis of another pending appeal against the EU border agency, by @kunsta.bsky.social - eulawanalysis.blogspot.com/2025/02/hamo...

Watching #trump ramble on at CPAC, flying off on tangents, reminds me of englands trump rambling on about peppa pig. Yet britons point the finger across the pond, laughing at americans for electing a hopeless narcissist, peddling r/w populism, into high office.

Friends, May we never forget that while negotiations,statements, addresses and the rest of the (undoubtedly important) diplomacy track are happening,exhausted #Ukrainian men &women in military uniform are holding back evil on the frontlines. Without them,there would be no diplomacy track at all.

The topos that a neighbouring country is not really a viable country and should be annexed is eerily familiar.

When she says "don't feel like Britain" it's not so much a dog whistle as a foghorn