The calls from America this weekend to "abolish the EU" are for one simple reason: the EU is the only thing that can keep European nation-states from becoming Russian or American vassals.

US administration's awful far right behaviour. Needs to be wholeheartedly rejected, and in the UK. More and more have been seduced, but hopeful that the reality of such ideology will become clearer and be thrown out. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Justice secretary David Lammy tells Times Radio that Brexit was "hugely mis-sold" to the public by its supporters. Echoes the comments made by Keir Starmer in his Guildhall speech last night. www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/keir-s...

Many Fighting Climate Change Worry They Are Losing the Information War Shifting politics, intensive lobbying and surging disinformation online have undermined international efforts to respond to the threat. By Lisa Friedman & @stevenleemyers.bsky.social 1/5

Oh dear BBC www.theguardian.com/media/2025/n...

I’m a past winner of the Orwell Prize & won partly because I exposed Vote Leave’s unlawful activities. Michael Gove was its co-convener & refused to answer a single q. He’s now a judge of the prize & our world is truly one that Orwell would recognise bylinetimes.com/2025/11/25/m...

Great news. All the good stuff by labour being done quietly so as not to upset the press? Sadly unknown to voters too.

Witkoff transcript. Sad, embarrassing www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

"By 2025, Brexit had reduced UK GDP by 6% to 8%, with the impact accumulating gradually over time. We estimate that investment was reduced by between 12% and 18%, employment by 3% to 4% and productivity by 3% to 4%" Read the Stanford report: siepr.stanford.edu/publications...

"If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear." update

I wish I didn’t have to share this. But the BBC has decided to censor my first Reith Lecture. They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1

COP 30, not a waste of time. Lots of positives and possibilities.

#r4today farage not racist? Laughable.

Still reeling from the Stanford report on Brexit. Reduced GDP by up to 8% and investment by as much as 18%. The UK Treasury would have £40 billion more each year if Britain had remained in the EU. Devastating self-immolation.

This is excellent. But if you read this you’re one of the people who’s already asking yourself what the social networks of the past have become. And I’m on my way to Brugge to run a comms training course. Where few attendees will care about this.

Elon Musk's poison hall of mirrors from @cwarzel.bsky.social www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...

Plenty of optimism after COP. Don't believe the narrative that it was just a waste of time. Fascinating long read below. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

"Ukraine must stop talking about war crimes, cut the size of its army, promise never to join NATO, never to invite European troops onto its territory & even hold elections within 100 days, a demand not made of Russia, a dictatorship that has not held free elections for over 2 decades."

Jonathan Freedland finally says it: Britain is drowning bc there’s a Brexit-shaped hole in the roof and Labour refuses to fix it. Reeves can juggle taxes but nothing improves until we face the truth. We’re poorer bc of Brexit. We stay poor if Labour protects it. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

🔥 BREAKING: Bank of England confirms Brexit’s economic damage is *DOUBLE* whatOBR predicted 🔥 a 6–8% GDP hit, collapsing investment, and lasting harm to services. The biggest self-inflicted economic shock in modern 🇬🇧 history. Labour are committed to Brexit destroying 🇬🇧 archive.ph/2025.11.20-2...

Bookmark this. And then give it or read it to anyone who tells you they "might even vote Reform", or "may have no choice but to vote Reform" This is farage, and those around him clearly share the same views. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Russia's ambassador to the UK, Yakovenko, boasted about Brexit to another diplomat: “We have crushed the British to the ground. They are on their knees and will not rise for a very long time” Today, Farage’s close ally, leader of Reform in Wales, was sentenced to 10yrs for taking bribes from Russia.

The journalist who asked is Mary Bruce. Kudos to her for asking.

@channel4news.bsky.social Well worth listening to interview with From tonight re Epstein saga on Channel 4 news tonight and how this has a long way to run.. Doesn't seem to be clipped on bluesky

What the fuck does trump mean people didn't like khashoggi? Just baloney? Just an investigative journalist causing trouble for crooks like trump? Not seen any analysis on this...

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#r4today what awful tripe from gove. Haven't contributed via their ancestors since the dawn of the welfare state. Unreal Maybe Brexit? Coincidence that's where all the problems started. And of course any brave objective informed commentator would expect exactly that result.

Absolutely this. Fantastic @iandunt.bsky.social, thank goodness to read an accurate decent analysis of where we are on this awful story. "Why do they hate the BBC? It's not for the reason they give. In fact it is the opposite. They do not hate its bias. They want it to adopt their bias."

A good day to listen to our proud, joyous history of the BBC: One of the greatest British inventions of the 20th Century. An institution which, even at its worst, is far better than its detractors podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/t...

See what’s happening. A Trumpist US media company has taken over Channel 5. Another US company is gunning for ITV. Our social media is saturated by Musk’s calls for civil war in the UK. The BBC is the last thing standing, and Trump/Johnson are trying to bring it down

#r4today well said yelland earlier. A coup, yes. The nasty bunch don't want objective reporting of Israel, or Trump, or Reform or other populists and right wing nutters, who now want freedom to speak nasty, sometimes racist, filth. The BBC has moved their way, but for them, not enough.

"Maybe they are embittered and resentful that where their calculated, cynical, focus-grouped campaign strategy of insincerity and manipulation has failed, Mamdani’s unabashedly sincere campaign of joy and principle has succeeded." Labour need to learn from this. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Fantastic news, Mamdani and a great victory speech, taking on trump. Great also to wake up to hear that Sherill and Spanberger have won also. Fight US, stop trump.

Nope. Cluelessness far more important than being desperate. A total failure to understand the modern world, trade, geography, even international politics. Still not fixed. And in milder forms quite widespread across Europe.

And David Jones’s genius solution? Rip up any improvements made by Labour and huff out of the ECHR as well. And without any excuse for that ruinous idiocy either because they’ve had years to think about it. Made mad by prejudice.

‘I think we were so desperate to get out of the EU that at the time we basically came up with a very bad deal.’ Former Tory Brexit minister David Jones, who has since defected to Reform UK #Traitors

@rory-stewart.bsky.social Really desperate comments against green policy today. Weak justification. Really disappointed. Please wake up. Leadership needed and it can be a massive vote winner, regardless of the populist fossil fuel funded drivel about cost.

Get going guys. This plan sounds better than reasonable. It sounds just perfect. open.substack.com/pub/gregolea...

He needs to go! This is the first plan I’ve seen giving us a way forward! Not perfect, but much better than the runaway train we are on! @gregolear.bsky.social

@newsagents.bsky.social Pretty disappointed with some of the content/views recently. Biden wrong to pardon his family, John, without even commenting why he felt he had to do this (as proved essential by the retribution now being dished out)? Immigrant moved to France returns on a small boat? 1/2

Unmissable

Ed Luce watching democracy die in the United States of America

How long are we going to keep pretending that the fascist Trump regime is not a cabal of Nazis? Texts from Paul Ingrassia, Trump’s nominee to lead the Office of Special Counsel, reveal vile pro-Nazi and racist messages targeting Black people, Chinese people, and Indian people. 👇

If you’re a journalist who started following me bc of Paul Ingrassia this week, you should start with this story I wrote over a year ago.

Trump "repeatedly echoed talking points [Putin] had made in their call a day earlier." We are wasting our time waiting on the U.S. Europe must defend Europe. #DefendDemocracy

7 million people joined together & marched in the USA No Kings Protest making it the largest in American history! While other countries joined in our movement such as 🇨🇦🇲🇽🇦🇹🇫🇷🇩🇪🇮🇹🇵🇦🇵🇹🇪🇸🇸🇪🇨🇭🇬🇧🇦🇺🇩🇰🇮🇸🇻🇬🇳🇱🇯🇵 & many more It is not about the people in power. It’s about POWER of the PEOPLE! #DefendersOfDemocracy

People like me need to reflect & think about what it means for stopping the nasty populists. Genuine fear expressed by white conservative Americans. For others it may not manifest itself as fear, but many have been groomed to feel liberals are out to get them. www.thenewworld.co.uk/charlotte-mc...