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davidblunt.bsky.social
Former diplomat; Ambassador to Kosovo then Croatia. After FCO, worked in renewable energy sector. Appalled by Brexit and those who advocated it. Loves family, classical music, sailing, skiing, languages.
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Wow, Orange Hitler’s parade seats are filling up fast! 🙄🤣🤣

submitted 13 days ago • 48 comments

Kseniia Petrova, a Russian scientist at Harvard Medical School, was detained at Logan Airport after returning from France and sent to an ICE detention in Louisiana, The Insider reports. A big critic of Putin and the war in Ukraine, she may now be deported to Russia.

submitted 92 days ago • 443 comments

BREAKING: People are being suspended on X in Turkey for posting videos of these protests against Erdoğan’s corrupt and repressive regime. Keep sharing everywhere.

submitted 96 days ago • 330 comments

No one seemed to object when Churchill turned up at the White House in the clothes he fought the war in.

submitted 118 days ago • 24 comments

With all my heart, I stand with Ukraine!

submitted 121 days ago • 2 comments

Richard Tice in 2018 on George Soros' donation to UK political groups: "He doesn't live here. He doesn't pay taxes here. What right has he got to interfere with our democracy?" Richard Tice in 2024 ahead of Elon Musk's donation to Reform UK: "If Mr Musk can legally donate... We'd be delighted."

submitted 191 days ago • 52 comments

Dear @keirstarmer2.bsky.social, Please move the laws around political & campaign financing to the top of your list Or… Expect 1 term that ends in handing power of this country to a foreign billionaire proxy PM and his little puppet Yours, The people of this country paying attention.

submitted 208 days ago • 125 comments

So a reminder: It’s not ‘liberals’ saying Hegseth abuses women. It’s his mom. It’s not ‘liberals’ comparing Trump to Hitler. It’s his vice-president. It’s not ‘liberals’ calling Musk a liar and a racist. It’s his own child. For the record.

submitted 209 days ago • 527 comments

👇🏾

submitted 222 days ago • 2 comments

The excellent @snellarthur.bsky.social on Trump's latest appointments. Two extraordinary paragraphs that barely seem possible open.substack.com/pub/arthursn...

submitted 225 days ago • 116 comments

More and more supporters of Ukraine are coming to Bluesky❤️‍🔥 Can you help our UAO account to grow? Please share or quote this post to spread the word💪

submitted 228 days ago • 18 comments

Letter in The Times that cuts through the nasty noise.

submitted 232 days ago • 27 comments

Well, if you needed yet another reason for the UK to join the EU - here it is.

submitted 233 days ago • 36 comments

We Europeans (including the UK) have no time to be depressed, to be angry, or to be scared. Too much time has been wasted over the past two years. No more burying one’s head in the sand, no more hoping for the best. Time to step up. For our security, for Ukraine, for our future.

submitted 233 days ago • 52 comments

A dark day for women. A dark day for Ukraine. A dark day for Gaza. A dark day for our planet.

submitted 233 days ago • 7 comments

One reason that James Dyson is so angry could be that he bought 36,000 acres of British farmland with a view to saving roughly £100 million in inheritance tax. Curiously The Times’ news article fails to mention this. 🤔

submitted 235 days ago • 43 comments

Garry Kasparov endorses Harris thedispatch.com/article/us-d...

submitted 236 days ago • 2 comments

"People need to decide if they want to live in a U.S. version of an oligarchy, whether they want us to go down the same kind of path as Russia. They’ll make that decision at the ballot box." www.politico.com/news/magazin...

submitted 241 days ago • 8 comments

Like Brexit, a policy of leaving the ECHR would split the Tory party Like Brexit, there is no consensus on what would replace it, beyond nebulous references to the common law or Raab’s fatuous Bill of Rights It would breach the Good Friday Agreement It could only weaken the protection of rights

submitted 258 days ago • 16 comments

I am tired of MSM continually giving Boris Johnson a platform. I would be happy never to see or hear from him again.

submitted 261 days ago • 8 comments

Donald Trump sent covid tests to Russia when the US had a shortage of them.

submitted 261 days ago • 3 comments

Deleted the app for the other toxic, musky place. Mixture of (a little) sadness and (considerable) relief.

submitted 273 days ago • 0 comments

Yes. Yes. And yes.

submitted 277 days ago • 1 comment

Why should we listen to Laura K failing to hold this greedy, lying grifter to account for the profound damage he’s done to our country, our politics and standards in public life? Seriously why does Johnson get airtime to promote his book and chat shit when he abused his office and lied to us all?

submitted 282 days ago • 57 comments

A statement from Linda Ronstadt

submitted 288 days ago • 46 comments