3 ways Trump has undermined civil rights since Monday open.substack.com/pub/christin...

From European Movement International "Defending Europe’s Democracy: EU Civil Society Strategy and the European Democracy Shield" signup.europeanmovement.eu/policy-focus...

Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/12/u...

9 Nov: attacking enemies, helping allies, cowing institutions and purging the military... open.substack.com/pub/christin...

Poland’s Prime Minister Donald Tusk has floated the idea of withdrawing from the European Convention on Human Rights. Five Polish human rights law scholars explain why this would be a dangerous move – and why the Convention remains vital for Poland: verfassungsblog.de/what-is-the-...

FAO @europeanmovement.co.uk @grassrootsforeurope.org @marchforrejoin.co.uk @mikegalsworthy.bsky.social - please follow Oxford for Europe's new account @oxford4europe.bsky.social

"These estimates suggest that by 2025 Brexit had reduced UK GDP by 6% to 8%, with the impact accumulating gradually over time." New NBER report is quietly devastating about the impact of Brexit on the UK economy. We need to cut away the drag anchor of Brexit. We need to rejoin the EU!

“We estimate that investment was reduced by between 12% & 18%, employment by 3% to 4% and productivity by 3% to 4%. These large negative impacts reflect a combination of elevated uncertainty, reduced demand, diverted management time, & increased misallocation of resources” Devastating.

Excellent investigation of Russian misuse of international investigatory & judicial machinery.

🚨 Dominic Cummings Lobbied Officials to Hand ‘Test and Trace’ Contracts to Palantir After Secret Meeting With Peter Thiel + New emails released to Byline reveal Cummings involvement in VIP Lane deals. Read my latest @bylinetimes.bsky.social report here: bylinetimes.com/2025/10/31/d...

What is the price for freedom from tyranny? kentandsurreybylines.co.uk/politics/mig... Memories of fear, flight and refuge by @csibike1.bsky.social

www.facebook.com/colin.gordon... Interesting from Nick Lowles @shinehead.bsky.social @europeanmovement.co.uk @grassrootsforeurope.org

Chronicles of infamy, continued. christinapagel.substack.com/p/whats-happ...

demos.co.uk/research/ver... From Eliot Higgins of Bellingcat, "an intelligence agency for the people". @mikegalsworthy.bsky.social @chrischirp.bsky.social

What happened in America this weekend... open.substack.com/pub/christin...

demos.co.uk/wp-content/u... Worth a serious look.

We Made History ✊

Eight things that have happened in Trump's America since Wednesday open.substack.com/pub/christin...

John Gaskell, chair of @grassrootsforeurope.org at No Tyrants Day, US Embassy London 18 10 2025. Pro-Europeans against Trump's regime change agenda in Europe, support US citizens resisting fascism.

this is obviously appalling - and he should lose his job - but it's also really quite shocking; I first met Calgie when he was a baby reporter in his early twenties and sure, he was always a Tory, but he was....fine and normal? right-wing radicalisation is out of control in SW1

“In Finland, the number of homeless people has fallen sharply. Those affected receive a small apartment & counselling with no preconditions. 4 out of 5 people affected make their way back into a stable life. And all this is CHEAPER than accepting homelessness.” It costs a lot less to house people.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... Commendable work by BBC during the Moldova elections @sineadobrien.bsky.social

Five authoritarian things since Monday open.substack.com/pub/christin...

What happened this weekend in Trump's America? open.substack.com/pub/christin...

Clearly this is some kind of lèse-majesté, but what do we call it precisely? Cranial upskirting?

inews.co.uk/opinion/labo... Cautiously daring, modestly radical.

We have now reached the ‘Brexit could actually kill you’ stage of the sunlit uplands.

"Britain’s most experienced commentator on the law" seems to agree with the Home Secretary that it is "supremely unhelpful" - maybe also contempt of court? - for the Council of Europe’s Irish human rights commissioner to ask the UK to comply with the ECHR. rozenberg.substack.com/p/policing-p...

www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/country-and-... @europeanmovement.co.uk @yorkshirebylines.co.uk

This.

This deserves more attention than it has received. Gove: "we were too anxious as a government to secure those deals in order to show that Brexit was working". Exactly as so many of us warned at the time, and as the government denied at the time. www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/country-and-...

www.ft.com/content/fa59... " www.ft.com/content/fa59... <<my admiration was mixed with a sneaking suspicion that Mazower’s careful spadework would not be richly rewarded. Alleviating a great confusion is an intellectual generosity, but only to those who wish to be unconfused.>>

It Turns Out, Americans Don't Want a Police State open.substack.com/pub/contrari...

One of our smartest and best UK-US historians looked at the future after Trump's win. Mark Mazower has just published an important book on antisemitism, ending in very recent events, very near to home. He teaches at Columbia University. How do things look today? www.ft.com/content/4195...

Evidence abandoned: Trump’s cabinet and the fallout for science open.substack.com/pub/christin...

The Bars, Faculty and Law Societies in the UK have come together and accused politicians of "irresponsible and dangerous" language that is putting lawyers at risk. www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...

It's clearer by the day that Columbia making a deal with Trump in July was a catastrophe for higher education as a whole. It gave terrible people a bottomless appetite for extortion. The other eight universities must follow MIT's lead. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/10/u...

The regime gets more deranged every day. A rightwing conspiracy theorist assassinated a Democratic lawmaker - which the attorney general presents as an example of leftwing political violence in order to justify an authoritarian crackdown on the opposition… We’re in incredibly dangerous territory.

Soros is as close as the world’s strongmen get to a cross-border demon. Hundreds of human rights groups, investigative journalists, democracy advocates and other disobedient types have received Soros grants. No global philanthropist comes close to Soros’ $32 bn funding of such cases.

“President Trump’s so-called proposed ‘compact’ is nothing short of a hostile takeover of America’s universities. It would impose strict government-mandated definitions of academic terms, erase diversity, & rip control away from campus leaders to install government-mandated conservative ideology.”

Sound familiar, Hungarians?

The initiative, championed by the Czech Republic, is part of a fresh set of sanctions being drawn up by Brussels in response to Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine. The package requires unanimous support to be adopted. Hungary, the last country opposed to the measure, has dropped its veto

🚨 BREAKING: The European Commission will probe reports that Hungarian leader Viktor Orbán's spies targeted EU officials in Brussels. Read the developing story: ow.ly/vSbA50X93ss

"We call on Ukraine to refrain from further attacks on the oil pipeline to Hungary and not to jeopardise the security of our country's energy supply!" Who could forget HUN FM Szijjártó's statement after the August attack on the Druzhba oil pipeline? Perhaps he should have protested to his 🇺🇸 friends?

‘Under Costa’s proposal, so-called negotiating clusters — key legal steps on the path to membership — could be opened with the assent of a qualified majority of EU countries rather than unanimous agreement. Closing a cluster would still require [unanimity]’ www.politico.eu/article/anto...