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daveclarkreports.bsky.social
News reporter, AFP Currently: Paris Previously: Brussels, Baghdad, Lagos, DC, Pristina Recent trips: Ukraine, Afghanistan, Syria, Vatican, South Africa Originally: Newcastle
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What's your sign?

submitted 2 hours ago • 1 comment

"poopy powdery payload"

submitted 7 days ago • 0 comments

Bannon uses a rugby reference rather than hockey or any other contact sport to make the South African guy seem more foreign to American readers? www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

submitted 8 days ago • 1 comment

Great issue of @thecontinent.org in general, but special applause for this headline

submitted 8 days ago • 1 comment

Who took all the ket? Who took all the ket? You mad bastard. You mad bastard. You took all the ket.

submitted 10 days ago • 0 comments

So *now* can the EU and UK regulate or tax social media without facing US retaliation?

submitted 10 days ago • 0 comments

At least the UK can grow bendy bananas now

submitted 10 days ago • 0 comments

"I think we have a bias as people coming from the tech industry where we worked at companies, you know, such as Google, Facebook, these companies that have plenty of money, are funded by investors and have lots of people kind of sitting around doing nothing." www.npr.org/2025/06/02/n...

submitted 10 days ago • 21 comments

Long way to go to escape the ULEZ

submitted 10 days ago • 2 comments

France's President Emmanuel Macron and Italy’s Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni react as they meet at Chigi palace in Rome

submitted 12 days ago • 0 comments

18th century: Mechanical Turk 21st century: Actually Indians

submitted 12 days ago • 3 comments

Dick Schoof falls, dick sheath arrives. Via @dutchnewsnl.bsky.social

submitted 12 days ago • 0 comments

#BREAKING Russia confirms several of its military aircraft "caught fire" after a large-scale Ukrainian drone attack

submitted 14 days ago • 1 comment

What if counterfactual histories had never been invented?

submitted 14 days ago • 0 comments

Getting pretty noisy in le 93

submitted 15 days ago • 1 comment

State of the Union: Delirious. Royal Union Saint Gilloise @rusg.bsky.social are champions of Belgium again after 90 years. Normal service will resume on this feed tomorrow.

submitted 21 days ago • 3 comments

Enfin une bonne nouvelle ! Bravo, L'Union ! 💙💛 ____ Le héros Promise David réveille l’Union Saint-Gilloise du cauchemar pour un 1er titre depuis 90 ans - RTBF Actus www.rtbf.be/article/unio...

submitted 21 days ago • 0 comments

Let’s. Fucking. Go.

submitted 21 days ago • 3 comments

From where I'm sitting, the signs were all there

submitted 21 days ago • 0 comments

I've lived abroad for a bit, but when I'm home on a Tyneside, Sure Start comes up a lot as a thing people miss. Among disillusioned Labour supporters it's a rare thing they still credit Blair and Brown with

submitted 21 days ago • 0 comments

Tragically won't be at the @rusg.bsky.social match this afternoon, exiled as I am in Paris. I have found an appropriate gold and blue scene, however

submitted 21 days ago • 0 comments

Rishi Sunak absolutely bodied by BBC Sport live text

submitted 21 days ago • 8 comments

Could the DUP do me next? I need an EU passport and I can't find any Irish ancestors anywere

submitted 21 days ago • 0 comments

Advertise your account with a Simpson image

submitted 23 days ago • 0 comments

HI I’D LIKE TO ADD YOU TO MY PROFESSIONAL NETWORK ON LINKED IN

submitted 23 days ago • 10 comments

Best. "Stirs Debate". Ever. www.cnn.com/2025/05/23/s...

submitted 23 days ago • 0 comments

It's May, and Trump is messing with happy hour at the guinguette in Parc du Cinquantenaire

submitted 23 days ago • 2 comments

This photo is a classic of the @apiln.bsky.social genre

submitted 23 days ago • 0 comments

So does this money-spinner cross to Union, the real big Brussels club, next season?

submitted 23 days ago • 0 comments

AI prompt: Draw an image of diplomats talking while red lines clash around them

submitted 23 days ago • 0 comments

Then pause it, @financialtimes.com !

submitted 23 days ago • 0 comments

Anecdote not data, but FWIW: I went to report on an invasion of white-owned farmland outside Bloemfontein last year. I was at one point mistaken for the landowner. There were some raised voices, but I never felt in danger. And the squatters were evicted by police a week later

submitted 24 days ago • 0 comments