Being part of the SM will bring +3-4% GDP to UK. Some claim 8%. This is truly massive, and there is no practical government measure or programme that yields this type of growth (or even 1/10 of of that).

What a paragraph. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Oh boy! What a headline... Ask yourself: "What am I being asked to believe?" "Who am I being told to blame?" Take a few seconds to imagine what the Daily Mail (And Telegraph, GB News and Express) WANT you to think is going on. Let's see what's ACTUALLY happening...🧵 1/21

Plumber wins by-election for Greens From the new Private Eye, in shops now.

Rough rule of thumb: 10% *sustained* oil price rise adds about 0.4/0.5% to inflation and reduces GDP growth by around 0.1/0.2%

The massive decline in the use of physical currency has probably made the pound much less symbolically important to younger generations. It's just numbers on a screen now, and when one of those numbers is the commission for paying in a different currency, the benefits of the euro become clearer.

As more files are released, I have a feeling that the association of Farage with Epstein & Bannon etc could potentially be his downfall.

The more I watch this from Hannah Spencer, two things happen: 1. The more I like it and her. 2. The more it makes me want to get out and do what she says by volunteering. ... I'm surprisingly moved by 2, as I can physically feel it breaking through the armour of scepticism I've built around myself.

Chris Rea, rock and blues singer-songwriter, dies aged 74

Sky saying Chelsea have now joined the race for Semenyo.

Happy 9th birthday to the greatest ever Christmas tweet.

Mone company liquidated and unlikely ever to repay money obtained for supply of defective surgical gowns sold during the pandemic www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

🚨🚨Major very welcome news of the day: EU’s #Erasmus scheme to reopen to UK students for first time since #Brexit. Hopefully a return to more constructive EU-UK relationship. 🧵 www.theguardian.com/education/20...

Really good and thoughtful write-up of one of the most positive changes Labour is attempting to make, this:

🏆 And the EU Access City Award 2026 goes to… Zaragoza, Spain! Congratulations for making streets, transport, housing, and digital services fully accessible, improving life for everyone. You are leading the way in building a barrier-free Europe! More: europa.eu/!F3jQCB

The economic impacts of Brexit: new research from my @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social colleague Paul Mizen et al brings together macro (top-down) and micro (bottom-up) evidence. They find a large and persistent negative impact on GDP, output and productivity. ukandeu.ac.uk/brexits-impa...

Tributes to Bonds flood in www.kumb.com/story.php?id... #koyi #whufc

The teams are out. Here's Percy's look ahead to what promises to be an emotionally-charged afternoon in Stratford. youtu.be/D54gGZyUWSY

Hard to believe that this species once roamed the tundra, the desert and the jungle, felling mighty beasts with intelligence, teamwork and guile. Now it has to look at me like this in the desperate hope of some cheese. Mind you. She did get the cheese. #DogsOfBluesky

Just cancel your Netflix subscription and stop buying avocados. You'll be fine

Wow - this guy must be really, REALLY bad with money if an extra £208 per month will “ruin” his retirement. Let’s take a look at his situation based on what he told the @Telegraph Because this does NOT add up! No, this is not a “poor pensioner” scrabbling around for pennies… 🧵1/9

The map: taxpolicy.org.uk/2025/11/27/m... More info and instructions below.

“Brexit was a waste of money that, now more than ever, we simply cannot afford.” The political refusal to admit how badly they screwed us over with Brexit keeps us trapped in inevitable, snowballing failure. We can’t let them dodge this reality forever. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Alastair Campbell, "Of the mistakes I have made, the biggest is Brexit..It has made us al weaker and poorer..A campaign won by liars and conmen" From a hypothetical scenario of what AC would do if he was PM

Amazing capture by Brad Dennis

Farage: epic grifter

Michelle Mone would rather you did not see this £75mn restraint order

Nearly five years on, PPE Medpro, the company linked to Michelle Mone, will have to pay back £122m for the defective gowns it sold the government. Now it’s time to go after the ministers who handed out contracts worth billions to their political chums. https://bit.ly/46RjgY4

It's absolutely astonishing: In just about 13 years, Norway has skyrocketed from virtually no sales of zero-emission battery electric vehicles to nearly 100% of all new passenger car purchases.

Ed Davey, "Nigel Farage helped cause the small boat problems, because before Brexit we had 27 return agreements with the EU" - maybe call them Brexit boats?

Timeline cleanse

Fernandes is a Hammer www.kumb.com/story.php?id... #koyi #whufc

This is my flag.

They still don't get the link between #Brexit and the current migrant crisis. @peterrhauge on 'X'

This is a significant moment for the UK, reported in Bloomberg: Italy's GDP per head has caught the UK. As the article points out, this is a result of inflation, low productivity and low-skilled migration, among other things. But underlying it all is Brexit. 1

🔴 Temperatures màximes Palma fins a les 19:30h 17/08/2025 #Palma #Mallorca 1️⃣ Son Roqueta, Palma (115m): 41.9°C - wu 2️⃣ Son Sardina, Palma: 41.8°C - wu 3️⃣ Sa Indioteria Rural, Palma: 41.5°C - wu 🔗 Més informació: whatsapp.com/channel/0029... chat.whatsapp.com/LOceLkyRWyj3...

So, back doing a little bit of work down in Spain before congés. Been here a lot this year This is a remarkable country. Here are five reasons to love Spain: α. Spain was a dictatorship and basically a theocracy in living memory. Yet it has built a vibrant liberal democracy and healthy society 🧵

WU-TANG FOREVER 👐🏽

Sky News interviewed the country's most reasonable person about the Southend plane crash. ~AA

Brexit:

Happy Daniel Hannon Day to all who celebrate it. I hope you all enjoy the fireworks as we mark perhaps the worst piece of political forecasting going. www.reaction.life/p/britain-lo...

Nine years ago the godfather of Brexit, Lord Daniel Hannan, predicted life in Brexit Britain in June 2025. Roll the tape… (VO by @gavinesler.bsky.social. Part 2 below👇)

MORNING ALL! Today is the 9th anniversary of the Brexit vote. How do we all think it’s gone so far?

I guess the only question that matters, nine years on to the day from that #Brexit vote is this: Do you feel that you have "taken back control" in any meaningful way? ~AA

www.majorcadailybulletin.com/news/local/2... Filing this under - not going to happen

*European Movement Business Impact Report is really worth reading* . In their own words, businesses explain the impact of the UK leaving the EU. Access to the report via a link on the web page. Sign this petition from the European Movement UK: www.europeanmovement.co.uk/business-rep...

Cómo ha ido vuestro domingo? 🥲

A truly terrible development, for everyone. Things will not be ok in this country until liberal conservatism returns, but by God there isn't much sign of that.

I wonder what happened in 2016? …another picture to save to your phone and share everywhere.