And by the way, the guy the wonderful Dutch🎉 just chose as their probable next PM ↙️ over far right Wilders - also - happens to be gay and married to an Argentine field hockey player↘️💪

THIS👇is how you beat populism💪 "It's time to reclaim our flag from a small group of shouting people. Wilders is the one threatening Dutch identity ! Our proud, crazy little country is so much better together, Dutch and European" 🇳🇱probable next PM @RobJetten My English s/t

J'étais le 1er animateur TV en France à dire "je suis gay" en 90 déjà, lorsque j'animais Continentales sur France 3 Comment imaginer, 35 ans après, que ce soit toujours aussi difficile en milieu politique, et qu'on en soit encore là ? Bravo à @jbmarteau.bsky.social 👇 (en replay sur la 5)👇 !

Really fascinating Emmanuel Macron today on Russian interference "on steroids" in our democracies "A formidable cocktail of unbridled capitalism and the illegitimate heirs of communism with us, in between, desperately trying to sort truth from lies with our "tweezers" My English s/t👇

This is really moving ! In Budapest's Heroes Square Hungary's opposition leader @magyarpeterMP calls on the spirit of the 1956 Hungarian uprising against Russia and its thirst for freedom to defeat Orbán in front of hundreds of thousands of Hungarians🇭🇺🇪🇺 My English s/t👇

Vraiment passionnante la journée que je viens d'animer au Conseil de l'Europe à Strasbourg sur l'enseignement de l'histoire dans notre continent. Comment éviter la manipulation ? Quel récit, par qui ? Des professeurs et surtout des étudiants de plus de 40 pays ont débattu ensemble. Top ! @OHTE

Que nenni ! cher @inOUI haha👇 "Your luggage 𝒊𝒔 precious" Luggage (bagages) est indénombrable - comme advice, information et news The news, advice etc is good, jamais "are" Your luggage is here, vos bagages sont là "Un" bagage - a piece of luggage You're welcome 😁

De simples phrases peuvent changer le cours d'une vie. La mienne par exemple. En 1981 Badinter a prononcé celle-ci 👇inouïe à l'époque. Tout le contraire de Thatcher et sa Clause 28 "interdisant toute promotion de l'homosexualité" Je venais d'arriver en France. Je suis resté ❤️🇫🇷 Merci Monsieur

Me in a boater, 1976 Nearly 50 yrs separate this pic↙️ from ↘️of me back this week for the 1st time, chuffed to be one of Pembroke College, Oxford's "400 for its first 400 years" Seems a lifetime away (it was 😀) The past is another country, but it was indeed a wonderful one

Les GB regrettent le Brexit - carrément - seuls 29% voteraient aujourd'hui pour quitter l'UE ..... (et la moitié voudrait même un nouveau référendum) Sondage Sunday Times 👇 🇪🇺🇬🇧

Souvenir de mon passage en 2006 au dîner "God save the Queen" dans "93, Faubourg St-Honoré"👇chez Ardisson On se sentait at home. Un journaliste qui s'en fichait des clichés Ardisson. Un homme en noir. Un journaliste qui cassait les codes🖤 www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ItW...

Goosebumps ! For 1 day each year my little French town tells the whole world just how proud it is to be🇫🇷❤️ I saw many great 14th July fireworks in Paris, but they were somehow distant. Last night, standing right in front of our Town Hall this totally blew me away ! My montage - Sound absolutely on !

I subtitled this from Macron because no UK politician has ever said, or indeed would DARE say this so clearly (most notably Labour) for fear of offending Brexit voters It was Brexit which CAUSED the small boats problem by ditching all existing legal EU/UK frameworks

"When I look at Macron and Starmer talking now, it just demonstrates the narcissism of the arguments we had around Brexit and the extent our country turned in on itself. Looks ridiculous with hindsight." And that's Sir Alex Younger, the longest serving head of MI6 @bbcnewsnight.bsky.social

This is hilarious/embarrassing/humiliating Trump talks about the great UK deal before dropping it, forcing the "great Prime Minister of the UK" to skivvy around picking the thing up only to hear Trump refer to it, uncorrected, as "a great agreement with the European Union"🤡🤡🤡

Décidément les GB ne font rien comme les autres - ici le nouveau chef de l'extrême droite racontant comment il conduisait à travers une forêt avec le fantôme de sa grand-mère dans le coffre, fait vérifié par un medium qui, rentrant en contact avec celle-ci, tenta de l'étrangler🤡

"Would you say your English is as good as your German ?" What a skull-numbingly dumb question to ask the 🇩🇪Chancellor ! Trump, the most powerful man in international affairs, has seemingly never grasped the difference between a mother language and one someone learns 🤡

"In an extraordinary solution, Dover will have a virtual border. To ensure its integrity, buses will have their doors physically sealed with tape for the 1.4-mile journey across town to the ferry. Irregular movements will be monitored by AI"🤡 Taking back control of borders ...

🇬🇧media : "Reform, Reform, Reform, Reform, Reform, Reform, Reform, Reform, Reform, Reform, Reform, Reform, Reform etc" Also 🇬🇧media : "In an amazing development, Reform is now leading the polls ..." 🤡

The sheer lunacy of "taking back control" of borders against people who provide you with 75% of your food imports👇 You spend millions on this monstrosity, keep putting off using it when it dawns on you you actually need to eat, and now you have to get rid of the sodding thing🤡

Here's how today's 🇪🇺🇬🇧 summit has just been covered on main France 2 news - no report, just a 15 second voice-over 20 mins down the running order 👇(contrary to UK news which has been covering it non-stop all day) The EU really has moved on😀 (my subtitles👇 all 4 of them🤡)

"When people come to our country, they should commit to integration, to learning our language"👇 Sorry, but UK exceptionalism on steroids. What about the millions of UK "Place in the Sun" e̴x̴p̴a̴t̴s̴ migrants who never learn Spanish or French and don't exactly integrate here ?

"Bargaining needs to be done in strength. The UK is not that big. If the UK had joined the EU in bargaining, you could have done it. That's exactly what Trump wanted, piece by piece, taking the weakest country first"👇 Economics Nobel Prize @josephestiglitz.bsky.social

Look at this graph👇just broadcast on #bbclaurak which shows clearly when UK immigration figures changed DRAMATICALLY👇 In the 20 min interview with Home Sec @YvetteCooperMP was the word "Brexit" mentioned once ? Of course it wasn't When Labour denialism meets BBC denialism

Ode to Joy live under the Arc de Triomphe just now, mixed with pictures of the liberation of Paris to mark 80 years of peace Goosebumps - chair de poule, 100%👇 ❤️🇪🇺🇫🇷🇬🇧🇺🇸

"L'extrême droite de Farage" - 🇬🇧 "far right" French press calls it likes it sees it 👇 (contrairement aux médias 🇬🇧)

Great ! EU flags allowed back at the Eurovision Song Contest (Sweden ludicrously banned them last year) 💪🇪🇺 #Eurovision2025

Why can't you get a decent cup of tea on the continent ? 🙏👏 @channel4tv.bsky.social #FoodUnwrapped for providing the easy answer which I for one, who's been cursing tea on said for 4 decades have never twigged There's twice the tea in 🇬🇧bags🤡 Typical 🇫🇷 teabag : I.57g 🇵🇹1.51g 🇬🇧👇2.89g !

As I often say atm😀🇬🇧really is going to have to choose between 🇺🇸&🇪🇺 It can't have both If it does choose Trump, his interference in UK life will make Brussels look like "une promenade dans le parc" 🤡↙️↘️(just today) and btw 3x as many GBs favour trade with🇪🇺 over🇺🇸 - but hey

This is wonderful ! Swedish TV today begins its live stream with multiple cameras of “Den stora älgvandringen ” - “The Great Elk Trek” as moose migrate from the North towards their summer grazing pastures Up to 9 million Swedes follow it live here 👇 ❤️🇸🇪 www.svtplay.se/video/8rQo4R...

Oh look ! Turns out after 8 years huffing & puffing, the UK is "open" to accepting the rules of its biggest trade partner so that it can sell & buy more food with it - again Except that this time it has no say in those rules. Far from "taking back control" Brexit meant losing it

"The EU was formed to do damage to the US, as a unified force against the US for trade" Trump 👇 To be fair, there was also the small matter of stopping wars which killed up to 60 million people, but hey, when you're a populist, you just tell lies about silly stuff like that, so ...

Bof

Dear Americans. You import a sixth of what you buy. From today that will all cost you a whole lot more. This in exchange for a populist promise of more factories, maybe, one day Just like those in🇬🇧 who voted for a populist promise to reduce immigration Today, 8 yrs down the line, it's quadrupled

Oh well that didn't last very long, then 🤡

FWIW - as someone who has lived in 🇫🇷 for 40 yrs - I think a lot of especially non-French commentary is getting this the wrong way round The "Le Pen" name has, thankfully, been for many voters a block to the far right since the 80s. Today makes its coming to power in 🇫🇷more, not less, likely. Alas

Le 20h, ciel bleu - bye bye l'hiver - ouf ! 😀

No more WH Smiths - shops to be rebranded This is me in 1978 (far left😜↙️) demonstrating outside WH Smith with newly formed Gaysoc in Oxford High Street because it refused to sell Gay News Have always felt a bit queasy shopping there ever since - brand damage lasts 💪🏳️‍🌈

So I spent the whole afternoon making these Cornish saffron buns👇 One single bite and adult me was transported all the way back to childhood memories Mainly forgotten memories about how much childhood me couldn't stand the things🤡 They certainly weigh heavy on the stomach !

Never has the EU had such a high approval rate. 74% think their country "benefits from being a member" Two-thirds want "a greater role for Europe in protecting them against global crises and security risks" Sorry Brexiteers, you were simply on the wrong side of history 💪🇪🇺

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It just got much worse👇 "DER SPIEGEL reporters have found mobile phone n°s, email addresses and even some passwords belonging to Trump's most important security advisers on the net" This means hostile intelligence services may have used this data to hack Signal conversations

Reeves to make even more welfare cuts tomorrow👇 Obviously because going for growth instead by slashing barriers with UK's biggest trade partner would anger the 2 people in Clacton who still believe in Brexit, let young Brits live all over Europe and upset strong & stable Donald Trump !

France's totally independent nuclear "force de frappe" appears wiser with each day that passes 👇 💪🇫🇷🇪🇺

Dramatic increase, all over the continent, in those who think their country has benefited from being in 🇪🇺 (74%) and in those thinking 🇪🇺 is best placed "to protect its citizens against global crises & security risks" with an overwhelming 89% who think 🇪🇺needs more unity 👇 💪🇪🇺

These goons👇have done more for European unity in 2 months than decades of wishy-washy speeches in Brussels 💪🇪🇺 Europe is now on its own, faced with a new 🇺🇸+🇷🇺alliance and 🇨🇳 (and 🇬🇧is not going to be able to sit the whole thing out on the fence for much longer)

Trade deal with Trump "the biggest Brexit benefit of all" eh ? 👇 For sure ! if you get off on massive tariffs applied willy-nilly overnight, being called "nasty" and told you're gonna be invaded (all this & bleach-tasting poultry and hormone-pumped bovines as added boons🤡)

Canada's new PM Carney at the Elysées now with Macron👇 Interesting his 1st visit is to Paris, 𝙩𝙝𝙚𝙣 London despite 🇨🇦&🇬🇧sharing head of state. Tragedy of Brexit is that it definitely wouldn't have been the case if the UK was still in the EU Faced with Trump, EU clout counts

Oh look ! Crispin Odey, who bankrolled Brexit then made a mint betting on it tanking the £, now banned from the City for showing reckless hedge-fund governance (which in itself takes the biscuit🤡) and is declared unfit "to perform any function related to regulated activities”

Well here's a thing. Australia increasingly queasy about having welded its nuclear capabilities hook, line and sinker to Trump (goaded on at the time by Johnson to spite the French) now wondering if France might, possibly, have them back ?🤡👇