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We love blue skies and golden stars. We want ours back!
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#EMMK's
Bluesky presence. Anything relevant to the UK's relationship with the European Union, including our efforts to persuade our government to seek re-admission, will find a welcome place here.
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A simple solution
I always find it a bit cynical when parties like the Greens and the Lib Dems ask for Labour to stand aside so that they can beat the Tories or Reform.
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AI and the future
I am giving a talk at a school on the world of work today.
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3 days ago
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The future is orange
As someone said on social media, watching Lord Mandelson being arrested is the greatest thing they have seen since Margaret Thatcher was driven away from Downing Street in tears.
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Jonty Bloom
6 days ago
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Delusions
I only know of two films about ice hockey.
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7 days ago
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On the map
I got a little depressed the other day because of a map.
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Jonty Bloom
8 days ago
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Happy endings?
As more and more money and more and more power is concentrated in the hands of a small group of the ultra wealthy, you have to ask yourself, “ How do they think this is going to end?”
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9 days ago
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Compare and contrast
Compare and contrast was always one of my least favourite exam questions and that is a very long list.
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10 days ago
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Priced out
The news of the latest rise in UK unemployment this morning was immediately followed by some instant analysis from the NIESR, a very reputable economic organisation.
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11 days ago
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Fight back
If Sir Kier wants to fight back politically he could do little better than bringing forward huge levels of increased defence spending, today.
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14 days ago
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Dare you
I see Sir Jim ratcliffe has those same PR advisors who always come up with ways of NOT apologising.
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The New World
14 days ago
When Man United’s co-owner talks about being "colonised by immigrants”, does he mean Monaco? ✏️
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Why Sir Jim Ratcliffe is right
When Man United’s co-owner talks about being "colonised by immigrants”, does he mean Monaco?
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Sir Jim is right
I am sorry to have to admit it but Sir Jim Ratcliffe is right, his country has been “colonised by immigrants”, they have flooded the country and make virtually no contribution to its society.
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16 days ago
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Oh Canada
Trump is threatening to ban the opening of a new bridge between Windsor in Canada and Detroit, a bridge that he approved last time he was at the White House.
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Jonty Bloom
18 days ago
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Coming soon
Hong Kong’s so called High Court is sending media tycoon Jimmy Lai to prison for 20 years on the trumped up idea that supporting democracy is treason.
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20 days ago
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Good news? Bad news!
If their is any good news out of the Epstein affair it is that in Europe the findings and revelations have caused serious damage to numerous people, as they should and should continue to do.
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Jonty Bloom
21 days ago
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Truth sometimes changes nothing
One of my readers commented recently that he was fed up with being taxed up to the eyeballs for very little return.
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Jonty Bloom
22 days ago
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Another couple of hits like this....
The ever reliable NIESR brought out some research yesterday which will get very little publicity but which should be leading the debate on where the country is headed.
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Jonty Bloom
about 1 month ago
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No wonder
I never thought I would leap to the defence of Suella Braverman.
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about 1 month ago
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A touch of class
I don’t think anyone in my family is a massive royalist but I have to admit they do have several uses.
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Oh, Canada
A very tragic and sad day for Canada today, after his performance at Davos Mark Carney will now know that President Trump has withdrawn his offer for Canada to join the Board of Peace.
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Hail, the conquering hero!
Soon Trump will be back in Washington claiming a “really great, greatest, deal ever”; having shattered the NATO alliance, destroyed all trust in America and got sweet FA in return.
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about 1 month ago
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What we need
My brother apparently said when Trump tried to rename the Gulf of Mexico the Gulf of America, why didn’t he just call it the Gulf of Trump.
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Walking the plank
We are supposed to be happier about one reformed sinner than someone who never sinned at all, frankly it is not a sentiment I have ever shared.
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Breaking up is never easy
The British, and quite a few other European governments, are on the verge of making their biggest foreign policy decisions since 1945.
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Ice or nice?
I see that the City of London is so worried about the false negative publicity abut London that it is worried it is hitting investment and growth and it is therefore going to launch an advertising cam...
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Rollover
There is a film starring Jane Fonda from 1981 called Rollover it is, to be fair, a pretty bad movie, it is about what happens if the oil and dollar rich Arab world dumps the dollar.
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You broke it, you own it.
The defection of Robert Jenrick to Reform raises the old issue that the right love so much.
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Dignity, at all times dignity
I would really like to hear one of the White house press corp ask Donald “ How much more dignified do you think you have made the Presidency?”
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about 2 months ago
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There is stupid and stupid
Trump has launched a legal campaign against the head of the Federal Reserve, Jay Powell.
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about 2 months ago
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How many backbones are there?
I have recently written a story about the plight of pubs in the UK, with the industry running a campaign to cut taxes and rates for the sector because your local boozer is the “backbone of the country...
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Humpty Dumpty
I remember that, I think it was in.
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about 2 months ago
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The way ahead
There are many reasons to feel sorry for Sir Kier and a lot of other Western political leaders, I mean how do you cope with the Orange Ape?
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about 2 months ago
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China wins
Amid all the confusion and doubt surrounding the blatantly illegal attack on.
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El Presidente
Baby Donnie wants a uniform, apparently no one got him one for Xmas, or Santa left the naughty boy off his list.
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about 2 months ago
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Where's the meat?
Sometimes politicians are better than a stand up comic, and Kemi Badenoch rarely disappoints.
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E-Road Diaries
about 2 months ago
There is one other north-south E-road in England, the E 13. Using the M1, London–Yorkshire motorway for much of its length, it splits from E 15 near the M62 and heads for London by a more westerly route.
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E-Road Diaries
about 2 months ago
The GPS in my car (a Renault Arkana) is provided by a company whose products I make every effort to avoid. But to my delight the screen obligingly reminds me, as I cross M20 entering or leaving Maidstone, that it is also a part of E15, in the European road system.
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about 2 months ago
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Happy New Year
A Happy New Year to you all, which is easy for me to say as I doubt that I have many readers from MAGA or even Reform for that matter.
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2 months ago
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Trumping Kennedy
Someone has pointed out that Donald Trump got his name on the Kennedy Centre so quickly that he must have ordered the lettering even before the board he appointed voted to let him put his name ahead o...
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2 months ago
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Not personal, purely business
As they say in The Godfather it is never personal, always business.
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2 months ago
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In praise of folly
Erasmus was apparently staying with Sir Thomas More in London when he wrote “In praise of folly”.
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No pleasure
I take no pleasure from the fact that it was only a few days ago that I wrote about the total absence of dignity in the Oval Office, and now Trump has demeaned his office even further.
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Brexit Bin 🇪🇺 🇬🇧 🇩🇪
2 months ago
In case you missed it ... The process of rejoining the EU is a long one, with many checks and balances along the way. The EU can pause it any time. So the idea that "we can't rejoin yet because [whatever]" is nonsense. And don't forget, many benefits are available DURING the application process! 🇬🇧🇪🇺
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3 months ago
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Why so sensitive?
I once had to do a story on the National Front getting their first and so far only seat at the European parliament, which involved having to listen to a lot of racists declaring that they were not rea...
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Dignity, dignity at all times
I am pretty sure that if you were to ask Trump if he has added much to the dignity of the great office he has the honour to hold, he would say something like “I am the most dignified President ever, t...
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Tough job interviews of our time
Trump is apparently interviewing candidates to be the next head of the Federal Reserve.
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3 months ago
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What times!
So, Trump is doubling down on his attacks on Europe and European democracy.
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Volvo and dentistry
I once visited Volvo in Sweden and was really impressed by their strategy of constant improvement, of even the smallest things.
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3 months ago
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The West is dead
Late last night the Trump administration nailed its colours to the mast and let the whole world know that it is no longer a super power, but is instead a racist, bigoted, rump, led by Russian supporti...
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Listen to the science
When someone as brilliant and important as Prof Sir Paul Nurse, says the government is “shooting itself in the foot” with its visa system for science researchers, the government should not just pay at...
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