People fatally shot by UK police in 2024/25: 2 People fatally shot by US law enforcement in 2025: 1280

This is vandalism! Trump withdraws US from dozens of UN and other international entities. He is seeking to undermine what remains of a rules-based international order by ending US participation in multiple frameworks of international cooperation www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

Trump’s America: - ICE agents murder US citizen driving away from them - kidnaps foreign head of state - threatens to invade allies - soft on Russian invasion of Ukraine - unilaterally tears up trade agreements - backs far-right parties in Europe - sabotages climate treaties - leaves WHO

The public thinks that Brexit “has made everything worse”, new poll reveals www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...

So, if Trump’s line that “it’s our hemisphere” means he objects to Greenland being Danish, is he also going to object to the Falklands being British, Guyane being French and Curacao being Dutch?

Hesitations about Britain fully participating in Europe’s single market appear to be because of fears about freedom of movement causing a surge in immigration. But, as I wrote years ago, that fear is unfounded: labourlist.org/2018/06/rich...

Looks like this is topical again! My piece on why the single market and customs union matter so much: labourlist.org/2025/07/uk-r...

BREAKING: “What is becoming increasingly apparent is the falsehoods that were peddled by Nigel Farage and others at the time of the Brexit referendum…all you had to do was leave the EU & you would have £350m a week for your NHS, well it hasn’t materialised” PM Keir Starmer

Trump's attack on Venezuela, like Putin's attack on Ukraine, both tear international law to shreds. It returns us to an era where states use miltary force to gain resources or territory irrespective of the deaths and destruction they create.

50%~31% => 19% don’t know/don’t care. If you take them out of the calculation and count only those with an opinion (and much more likely to vote), that means a breakdown of: 62% to 38% in favour of rejoining the European Union. And this lead continues to grow slowly but steadily.

Delay to post-Brexit deal costs UK £100m a week, analysis shows www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...

Sky News @SkyNews has a sensational scoop! Fireworks! Who’d have guessed?

Happy New Year 2026 ! 🎈🎶✅❤️🍾🥂🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇬🇧🇪🇺🇺🇳🌹

So Boris Johnson, Prince Phillip, Andrew Bonar Law, Freddie Mercury, George I, George II, Richard E Grant, Douglas Carswell, Rudyard Kipling, Cliff Richard, Joanna Lumley and Spike Milligan weren't British? Interesting www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Brexit: the trillion pound ‘mistake’ yorkshirebylines.co.uk/opinion/brex...

Keir Starmer should simply say that he inherited the Abd El-Fattah case from the Conservatives and made the mistake of assuming that previous Tory governments, who had given him British nationality and asked Egypt to release him, had made the necessary basic checks before doing so.

🚨 This 👇 confirms it. The US is using the collapsed tech/AI deal to force Britain to accept chlorinated chicken and hormone-treated beef. Food standards are the leverage point and the red line. You can’t align with US tech power and stay aligned with Europe. www.farminguk.com/news/chlorin...

Into the void: how Trump killed international law | @patrickwintour.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/law/ng-inter...

TUC”s Paul Nowak calls on Labour to forge closer relationship with Europe www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Brexit: the trillion pound ‘mistake’ yorkshirebylines.co.uk/opinion/brex...

Trump’s authoritarian threat to Europe, including Britain yorkshirebylines.co.uk/politics/tru...

Overwhelming majority of UK businesses say that closer EU ties are a ‘strategic necessity’. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

London’s loss is Madrid’s gain as global tourism body abandons UK due to Brexit www.independent.co.uk/travel/news-...

Another cabinet minister acknowledges that the economy will only recover if we repair our relationship with Europe www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

“Europe has maintained productivity levels equal to or superior to those of the US for decades, thanks to investments in education, healthcare, and infrastructure. We need to stop self-deprecation and invest more!” says Thomas Piketty, illustrating the point with this graph:

“Finally, Labour is finding its nerve and getting Britain’s bad Brexit deal undone” says Polly Toynbee www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

What does M&S want for Christmas? A UK-EU food deal to undo damage from Brexit www.standard.co.uk/news/politic...

Sickening that ex Tory peer Michelle Mone & husband can put their company into liquidation and so avoid repaying the money illicitly obtained through a corrupt contract, avoid tax, and escape paying damages, while continuing their millionaire lifestyle www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

The details of the announcement reveal that Britain is not just rejoining Erasmus, but also the EU internal energy market, a first small step to reversing the economic damage of Brexit: ec.europa.eu/commission/p...

Interesting “warning for Keir Starmer: Brexit is falling apart, but if you are not bold on Europe, your Labour rivals will be” from Tom Baldwin www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Am about to go on TimesRadio to welcome the likelihood that Britain will rejoin EU’s Erasmus youth & student exchange scheme - the exit from which was cultural vandalism by Boris Johnson

“Labour’s dilemmas in post Brexit Britain” My article for an Italian Newspaper: www.italianieuropei.it/it/ie-online...

𝗥𝗘𝗝𝗢𝗜𝗡𝗘𝗥𝗦 𝗢𝗨𝗧𝗡𝗨𝗠𝗕𝗘𝗥 𝗥𝗘𝗙𝗢𝗥𝗠 Farage dominates headlines, but the polling tells a different story. Full piece here 👇 Facebook: tinyurl.com/FB-JDW-Rejoi... LinkedIn: tinyurl.com/LI-Rejoiners YouTube: tinyurl.com/YT-Rejoiners Instagram: tinyurl.com/INS-Rejoiners

Nigel Farage’s Russian Influence Advent Calendar… bylinetimes.com/2025/12/10/n...

Britain should also rejoin European civil protection - a practical solidarity mechanism to help each other when we are hit by floods, earthquakes, wildfires, pandemics, etc ukandeu.ac.uk/why-uk-shoul...

Nearly 90% of Russia’s frozen assets are in Belgium and Britain. It’s time to use them to help Ukraine…

UK set to turn back clock on Brexit and rejoin the EU Erasmus student exchange programme

"The UK can’t stay neutral in the battle for democracy." Brexit has already cost us economically, but the real danger is an uncertain ally in the US. Read more on why the UK's future depends on Europe. @eastangliabylines.co.uk @paulbrowne55.bsky.social

UK set to turn back clock on Brexit and rejoin the EU Erasmus student exchange programme

"The big question for Europe is: when are you gonna fight back, guys?" ask former Obama staffers Tommy Vietor and Ben Rhodes. "He doesn't respect you, he's interfering in your political affairs, he's talking shit...at some point stop lathering him with praise" open.spotify.com/episode/6USY...

Glad that the Labour Party debate on Europe is catching up with what I wrote over a year ago about the costs of staying out of the customs union and the single market: www.chartist.org.uk/what-should-... via @chartist48.bsky.social

EU’s Costa warns US against interference in Europe www.politico.eu/article/eu-c...

Covid fraud under the Tories cost the UK taxpayer £10.9bn. VIP lanes and crony contracts. Lack of anti-fraud controls in Covid scheme. Money handed out for non-existent employees Newly formed companies got public money No competitive tenders Poor checks on quality. How much would be recovered?

‘The only idea around’: will Labour return to a customs union with the EU? www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

I am about to go on LBC radio to discuss the need for Labour’s re-set with the EU to go much further and faster…

Confirmation that Trump is actively supporting far-right parties across Europe, peddling false narratives, and hoping to destroy the European Union www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

EU slaps €120M fine on Elon Musk’s X for breaking the law, despite threats from Trump : www.politico.eu/article/eu-s...

World trade, transatlantic relations and the EU-UK 'Reset': The FT's Peter Foster concludes that without rejoining the single market and the custolms union, UK growth will stagnate | Encompass Podcasts url:https://encompass-europe.com/podcasts/world-trade-transatlantic-relations-and-the-eu-uk-reset