A new report finds that the UK’s arm’s length public bodies are highly vulnerable to politicisation By Helen Johnston

New report finds UK’s top scientific institutions have inadequate institutional defences to prevent potential political interference. yorkshirebylines.co.uk/politics/str... @yorkshirebylines.co.uk @grassrootsforeurope.org @chrischirp.bsky.social

Some photos from our fellow campaigners out at the Stop Trump demo #StopTrump @grassrootsforeurope.org @hj4euinspain.bsky.social

✍️ Tracking Trump’s actions Democracy under siege: how Trump’s authoritarian playbook threatens both US and European institutions By Helen Johnston @hj4euinspain.bsky.social

The two main Leave campaigns broke the law in 2016 & robbed us of a fair referendum. Had the referendum been mandatory, as the Brexit elite pretended, it would have been ruled void. Like Mafia lawyers, the government exploited a legal loophole. Brexit was a coup.

EU Passport checks finally go digital yorkshirebylines.co.uk/news/brexit/... @suewilson91.bsky.social @bremaininspain.com

📩 We’re introducing our new monthly newsletter: Tracking the Rise of Authoritarianism in Georgia. This isn’t just news — it’s context, connections, and clarity. ▶️ Sign up here: oc-media.org/pages/tracki...

This is a write up of a recent webinar, in which I share my views on threats to American democracy under Trump; joined by @richardcorbett to consider implications for UK/Europe. In short - it’s bad. Very bad. I also think Republicans will rig 2026 elections, and Trump try to run for 3rd term.

Resisting the Trump assault: will American democracy survive and what can we do to help? yorkshirebylines.co.uk/politics/res... @alexhh.bsky.social @richardcorbett.bsky.social @grassrootsforeurope.org

✍️ Democracy on the Brink in Georgia “Democracy can collapse faster than we think”: urgent warnings from Georgia spotlight rising authoritarian threats across Europe and the West By Helen Johnston @hj4euinspain.bsky.social

How can anyone look at State-level comms putting out shit like this, and do anything other than envelope into a vacuum of eternal embarrassment FUCK ME

Crackdown on Palestine protesters sparks outrage across UK yorkshirebylines.co.uk/politics/cra... @suewilson91.bsky.social @bremaininspain.com

‘The growth strategy no one will say out loud: rejoin the European Union’ labourlist.org/2025/07/uk-r... – via LabourList @richardcorbett.bsky.social @bremaininspain.com @grassrootsforeurope.org

Every oppressive structure we put in place today, Nigel Farage will be able to use tomorrow. The Democrats made huge mistakes setting up Donald Trump with these unaccountable powers to strip citizenship - we can still fix it here before it's too late!

EU is looking into sanctioning Georgia for its democratic backslide, crackdown against political opposition and civil activists - but the usual suspects (Hungary, Slowakia) are blocking a united response. Meanwhile, Latvia has added 55 Georgians as persona non grata. www.rferl.org/a/eu-georgia...

“A catastrophic data breach.” For two years, the government took The News Agents to court over a leaked MOD document - under a super injunction. Now it’s lifted. @lewisgoodall.com reports on the hidden court that tried to silence us. Watch here. ▶️ www.globalplayer.com/videos/2JsSc...

For the 228th consecutive day, Rustaveli avenue is blocked. ✅ Georgians keep resisting and protesting every day in 8+ cities. 🇬🇪✊

✍️ Democracy in Hungary and Poland Fears of far-right rise as Nawrocki wins in Poland and Orbán clamps down in Hungary, warn experts at pro-Europe forum By Helen Johnston @hj4euinspain.bsky.social

Coverage of idiots claiming ‘betrayal’ or ‘surrender’ isn’t just bad journalism, it’s a dereliction of our duty to explain things. I’d actually forgotten just how bad it got but here we are, straight back to treating liars & spivs like authorities of equal weight to experts & honest brokers.

Appalling response from Starmer. Had to watch it twice to believe it. And Angela Rayner staring into a void like she’s being held hostage. It’s just sad.

Huge thanks to @carolinelucas.bsky.social for taking part in this month’s Bremainers Ask feature Caroline is Co-President of @europeanmovement.co.uk served as UK’s 1st Green Party MP 2010 - 2024 & 10 yrs as an MEP in European Parliament Read in full here www.bremaininspain.com/bremainers-a...

Some lessons I took from last Monday power cuts for anyone planning to travel abroad this summer

The Telegraph's inevitable main headline. Good Morning.

**** EU citizens travelling to UK today is the first day of new ETA system. I am flying from Spain to UK now and I've just seen a couple of Spanish people turned back at passport control who didn't know they needed it. @bremaininspain.com

Let's not forget this Brexit scam on British citizens started with Putin's wish to separate the UK from the EU, his agressive campaign in the shadows and the greed of a few politicians with no real interest for the citizens.

That rarest of things. Truly excellent news. www.theguardian.com/world/live/2...

To be serious here for a moment: The most worrisome aspect of this incident isn't that they were conducting war planning on Signal, or even that they didn't clock who was in the group. It's the response. A government incapable of EVER admitting error and a Congress unwilling to force them to.

Rachel Reeves is all about growth. So why won’t she admit that Brexit is its worst enemy? | Polly Toynbee www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

See, it's funny cuz it's true. 🤣 (also: #sad) 😞

The British Embassy in Spain is urging all British nationals resident in Spain to get a Tarjeta de Identidad de Extranjero (TIE card) as soon as possible following new information from the Spanish government that the old ‘Green Certificate’ will not be recognised by the EU’s Entry/Exit System (EES)

A page on the Defense Department’s website celebrated Pfc. Ira Hayes, a Pima Indian who was one of the six Marines photographed hoisting a U.S. flag at Iwo Jima in 1945. The page, along with many others about minority service members, has now been erased.

Bravo 👏 London Mayor Sadiq Khan continues to go against the Labour Party line on Brexit Set to tell EU diplomats “Brexit was a mistake” & renew calls for closer alignment & youth mobility scheme & will tell delegates Britain’s withdrawal from the trading bloc “continues to have a negative impact”

An open admission here that the UK outside of the EU is too weak to stand up to Trump’s tariffs We will say it again. Brexit weakened Britain and was a gift to Putin

Some photo!

Tbilisi. Day 99 of nonstop, nationwide protests in Georgia. 🇬🇪🇪🇺 #GeorgiaProtests chants: “Police everywhere, justice nowhere! No justice, no peace! Unjust court! Fear the power of the people! We won’t stop! Schedule new elections! Listen to the voice of the people! People demand justice!” ✊🔥🔥🔥

There's no end to it, is there. Every day, every hour, another concerted effort to sabotage and sacrifice Ukraine. The idea that Trump might offer something even approximating an acceptable peace is increasingly impossible to maintain.

Donald Trump tried and failed to find a chink in the EU’s armor through a trade war in his first term. But now he’s found a more vulnerable spot: The massive security crisis he’s engineered by withdrawing U.S. support for Ukraine is exposing potentially lethal cracks in the 27-nation bloc.

So basically Farage is doing what he’s always done. He toes the Russian line, repeats the Russian narrative The man is a traitor to the UK. Not content in damaging Britain & gifting Brexit to Putin he would happily see Europe exposed & suffer further too He’s the lowest of the low.

@europeanmovement.co.uk President and former Attorney General Dominic Grieve

Dominic Grieve, former UK government Attorney General "It is hard not to see the entire week as a performative pantomime orchestrated by Trump. A deliberate and choreographed attack on President Zelensky, a visiting head of state, that guaranteed the failure of his visit."

Almost 20 European leaders, incl Emmanuel Marcon & Friedrich Merz, plus VDL, have posted in support of @ZelenskyyUa after White House showdown. Notably, Keir Starmer has not. No 10 is referring reporters to PM’s comments this week on a just & lasting peace, with Ukraine at heart of talks.

Remember: the televised punishment & humiliation meted out to Zelensky just now could be done to any NATO ally facing similar aggression. The sense of sneering hostility & contempt by Trump & Vance isn’t specific to Ukraine.

I have never seen anything as disgusting as that. Genuinely no words.

A reminder to the British press: Donald Trump just says stuff. Reporting what he says as though it’s fact will inevitably make you look like an idiot. There’s not going to be a US/UK trade deal imminently and Trump really doesn’t care about the UK, even if he likes being flattered.

Carry on as if everything is normal, folks. It'll go away if we don't think about it.

Quite aside from anything else this immigration stuff from the government doesn't work politically because the Reform-minded think you'll never do it, and the liberals think you shouldn't. Classic case of unconvincing centrist governments playing the populist game.

Moonbat: "This might sound astonishing, but the UK government’s core programme now appears to be the same as Donald Trump’s: dismantling the administrative state. There’s less theatre, but the results could prove harder to contest. Absurd?" YES, OF COURSE IT'S ABSURD YOU LUNATIC.

"That's great news for Vichy Nige, terrible news for anyone who gives a damn about this country, about other people, the living world, fairness, equality, kindness etc. Under Starmer, the Labour government is currently in a self-imposed death spiral. The time to pull out is now".

A Labour government was supposed to be better than the Tories, wasn't it? www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Be brave on Europe, Keir Starmer sussexbylines.co.uk/politics/be-...