If the Reform Party plan to abolish indefinite leave to remain also abolishes settled status for EU citizens, that would be a breach of the withdrawal agreement, liable to lead to the EU retaliating by removing trade preferences.

Step one: stop biting the hand that votes for you. Peter Kyle is one of Labour's more effective communicators. So why did he go and basically call British students lazy? My newsletter, out now.

I wrote my first investigative piece raising concerns about Covid contracts in *April 2020*. Great to see this finally on screen

🚨🚨 "Surprise, surprise": #Moscow has devised a plan to interfere in the #Moldovan parliamentary elections and disrupt the country's path toward EU membership, @bloomberg.com reported on Sept. 22, citing documents it had seen. 🧵 kyivindependent.com/media-reveal...

Weer een voorbeeld. Rusland heeft dit ook bij het Ukraine referendum in Nederland gedaan. Hebben de initiatiefnemers van het tegengeluid geld ontvangen uit Rusland?

Surely another case of "Russia denies".

🇷🇺 : Inglorious basterds

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🚨🚨 "Surprise, surprise": #Moscow has devised a plan to interfere in the #Moldovan parliamentary elections and disrupt the country's path toward EU membership, @bloomberg.com reported on Sept. 22, citing documents it had seen. 🧵 kyivindependent.com/media-reveal...

⚡️ NATO was ready to 'use force' against Russia, Estonia says after airspace incursion.

🚨 BREAKING: Prime Minister Keir Starmer announced the UK will recognize a Palestinian state. Full story: www.politico.eu/article/uk-r...

22 September 1939 | Dutch Jewish boy, Abraham de Leeuve, was born in Zwolle. He was deported to #Auschwitz from Westerbork on 19 Oct 1942. He was murdered in a gas chamber after the selection with his mother, Dina. --- VIDEO: The first two gas chambers near Birkenau: https://youtu.be/Rr6lF75fDmU

Small boats: TV coverage - day after day after day after day.... PPE scandal: TV coverage - let's stick this powerful, enraging documentary on at quarter past ten on a Sunday night.

Any journalist quoting this absurd, invented £234 billion number cited by Farage/Reform should make absolutely clear that it has been withdrawn by *its own authors* (the Centre for Policy Studies) after they admitted it contained several major errors (1/3)

Article talks of betrayal of voters but fails to mention.. Farage’s precious Brexit caused the labour shortages that exploded legal migration.. And the Brexit/EU withdrawal agreement would need to be renegotiated with this latest stupid, nasty idea. Irresponsible politics. Irresponsible reporting.

Moscow thinks it can keep its war going. We are making sure it pays the price for it. Today, we present our 19th sanctions package. Every sanction reduces the Kremlin’s ability to wage war. We won’t stop putting pressure on Russia until it ends its war.

Russia is showing the full extent of its contempt for diplomacy and international law. So we're increasing the pressure. With our 19th package of sanctions covering energy, financial services and trade restrictions. → link.europa.eu/WYYwh3

Feel like we should bring back the old twitter follow friday to boost good people on here who maybe didn't get an initial boost from the starter packs. So follow @psurridge.bsky.social and @profjanegreen.bsky.social - two excellent and thoughtful political scientists.

📢Our members Prof. 𝗘𝘃𝗮𝗻𝗴𝗲𝗹𝗶𝗮 (𝗟𝗶𝗹𝗶𝗮𝗻) 𝗧𝘀𝗼𝘂𝗿𝗱𝗶 (@liliantsourdi.bsky.social ) and Prof. 𝗩𝗮𝗹𝘀𝗮𝗺𝗶𝘀 𝗠𝗶𝘁𝘀𝗶𝗹𝗲𝗴𝗮𝘀 have co-edited, together with Prof. Niovi Vavoula, the volume: “𝙄𝙣𝙩𝙚𝙧𝙩𝙬𝙞𝙣𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝘾𝙧𝙞𝙢𝙞𝙣𝙖𝙡 𝙅𝙪𝙨𝙩𝙞𝙘𝙚 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙄𝙢𝙢𝙞𝙜𝙧𝙖𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣 𝘾𝙤𝙣𝙩𝙧𝙤𝙡 𝙞𝙣 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙀𝙐” by Routledge. To buy a copy: www.routledge.com/Intertwining...

Honest to god. I dread to think what the front pages of the tabloids are, given these are the supposedly serious papers. The immigration ‘debate’ has become a ruinous madness. (Trump also said he’d settled the war between Azerbaijan and Albania, so why are we listening to *anything* he says?)

"Free Speech!!!!"* * But only from a select few chosen by me.

And current UK Govt leadership is all "Yeah yeah, cool, we'll happily let you do all that here" 🙃

I wish people understood the theatrical principles of emotional preparation, foreshadowing, and dramatic anticipation. If this is you, four years from a GE, what pitch and volume do you hope to reach in 2029 when you finally announce, to absolutely nobody's surprise, you are endorsing another party?

🚨🚨A travesty of free speech- ie the dictatorial/autocratic version of free speech which is only allowed as long as you fall in line and say what the dictator wish to hear. /1

🚨🚨" . Without openly saying so, the United States is reorienting its foreign policy to protect governments that manipulate and censor information, both inside their own countries and around the world." Another excellent instalment by @anneapplebaum.bsky.social

I’m beginning to think they lied about liking free speech…

NEW: How Emmanuel Macron ended up manoeuvring France into the camp of the EU's climate blockers — putting at risk the EU's compliance with the Paris Agreement on the eve of the accord's 10th anniversary. Our story: www.politico.eu/article/emma...

Women's rights protestors have demanded the EU explore "all legal and diplomatic avenues" to prevent America from burning $10 million worth of contraceptives stored in Belgium due to changes in US aid programs.

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Every single country needs to disentangle itself from the US. The old order is dead .. Trump’s merica has seen to that

🌞DDC RESEARCH RETREAT TIME🌞 Our biannual research retreat in Nyborg by the sea is in full swing. This time, we welcome a number of new faces as well as our various core members and cooperation partners, presenting & engaging with our interdisciplinary work. Talking, walking, developing new ideas 💡

At the Digital Democracy Centre, we've just created this cool new starter pack featuring research institutions, researchers, NGOs, journals, and think tanks focused on how digital technologies and AI impact media, politics, and democracy. We'll be updating the list continuously!

Strong argument for moving Bluesky's data infrastructure to the EU

Coming to something when we have to depend on the European Commission to take a stand - but it’s a start.

🚨🚨 Excellent and poignant read by @sturdyalex.bsky.social.

"I need you to understand what this country feels like to those of us who look different, because only then might you glean what those flags going up signify to someone like me. They are a preemptive claim over contested space." - writes @sturdyalex.bsky.social. https://bit.ly/469g1Mz?

The EU Law Analysis blog passes 10 million page views! Thanks to all the readers and contributors over the years eulawanalysis.blogspot.com?m=1

🚨🚨 Yesterday's major #EUpolitics news was @ec.europa.eu's proposal to suspend parts of the EU-Israel Association agreement over Israel's actions in #gaza. It needs to be confirmed by MS but still a very strong signal (as Israel is heavily dependent on EU trade). 🧵 ec.europa.eu/commission/p...

British politics really needs to wake up to what is happening in America given we have imported a huge amount of its culture war politics. Maybe there are some clues about what would be on the cards here under a Reform government?

Indeed, as I wrote on Tuesday. It might sound alarmist, but it's pretty clear we're following down a similar track: national.thelead.uk/p/america-tr...

Why Maga’s next project is to fix ‘Broken Britain‘. V good analysis.

We should have been working to disentangle ourselves from the U.S. from day one.

Hes betting on his fellow anti-LGBT+ racist who never keeps promises and that description is of both, he’d have been better to do as he campaigned for leadership and Rejoin the EU

Focus on something good in a tough world. The @ddc-sdu.bsky.social morning 🏊 is a great, mind cleansing, team fun start to our seminar day. The water is still quite warm. Brave swimmers include @curdknupfer.bsky.social, @andre-k-rodarte.bsky.social @fprochazka.bsky.social @frejasorine.bsky.social

And it’s quite a column.

It's hardly even a bet. Just climbing willingly into the Reek cage. A massively cowardly betrayal which will lead to national disaster

Great indeed.

"What is really important I think here is that Mafia State leaders are not reliable partners." www.youtube.com/watch?v=hWFt...