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Teacher, Researcher, ardent Remainer, unashamedly #Woke; #ProEU #FBPE #RejoinEU, #SocDem; #Ubuntu | @Mabalel2 on X |
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By signing the Parky’s Charter, you’ll help everyone affected by Parkinson’s Disease and for all those not yet affected by it. 😘. A loved one, a family member, a friend, a colleague, a teacher, a local hero, a neighbour... please share. petition.parliament.uk/petitions/713714

Republicans have included 300 MILLION in the budget for......Trump's golf trips. You heard that right. But there is no money to feed hungry kids school lunch. #TrumpsBillWillKill

A most thought-provoking piece on a dilemma for Denmark, one of the few countries that I consider to be a proper “grown-up.” The world order is at high risk now that the topsy-turbulent USA has catapulted itself into the naughty corner, reserved for thugs. Just saying…

Christ… red lines are so expensive. (Private Eye)

“A huge shift is happening. The diversity of opinion in the Jewish community is becoming increasingly clear.” Read here about why I felt compelled to resign from the Board of Deputies. t.co/S2ikiJo8mI

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I see that Daniel Grossman is on BlueSky. Easy to find and well worth support and a follow.

Let’s reflect on “Fred” Goodwin’s “bringing the honours system into disrepute” as seen in today’s @Guardian. I can think of others undeserving of honours, e.g. the buffoons rewarded for Brexit. Who is your nominee for unworthy honours’ recipients? Mine is Fingers Jenkyns.

This is a vital beach in a protected area in Albania, and it’s under threat. Don’t let the insane craze of the Trump family to enrich themselves, deprive us of one of Europes’ last untouched natural resources. Please read, share, & support PPNEA @ppnea. Thank you! www.instagram.com/p/DJ0-uGdM5W...

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BREAKING: The EU's former top diplomat, Josep Borrell, has accused Israel of perpetrating genocide in Palestine, and “carrying out the largest ethnic-cleansing operation since the end of the second world war." www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...

"Farage is the sort of ‘Brit’ whose only interest in the rest of the Union is entirely transactional. Got a war to fight? Taxes to raise? Natural resources to plunder? Oh, yes, I’m your pal." Emma Armstrong, via @bellacaledonia.bsky.social bellacaledonia.org.u...

As Israel inflicts mass starvation on Gaza and now openly plans to carry out ethnic cleansing, the editorial board of the Financial Times has issued a statement saying that the US and Europe “should be ashamed of their silence” and must act to stop Israel’s crimes.

There’s a good chance this could backfire with generations of Barbie addicts, making yet another bumbling own goal from the Shite House. Seems they’re not skimping on an addiction to plundering.

Just forget appeasing these monsters. We must return to Europe and stop kidding ourselves we can have it all. We did that before and ended up with less than nothing. British politicians who support Trump betray Ukraine, betray us all. (Letter, Times)

Good time to subscribe to Wired. I used to think of it as a guilty pleasure at the newsstand, a holdover from nerdy youth. But they are doing an excellent job covering key elements of our political reality.

Political appointees within the Department of the Navy's leadership picked a list of books on antiracism, sexuality and gender to ban from the U.S. Naval Academy's library while keeping many favorites of white supremacists, like Mein Kampf and The Camp of the Saints www.nytimes.com/2025/04/11/u...

In @nytopinion.nytimes.com “Trump is engaging the full power of the presidency to settle scores,” our columnist Maureen Dowd writes. “The White House was not meant for petty tyrants on revenge tours. In the biggest job in the world, Trump seems like a very small man.”

From a UK perspective I would love to hear from the strangely quiet Trump fanboys, Farage, Johnson, Truss et al www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Wow. Looks as if Reform’s proclaimed promise to “defend #Scunthorpe” was yet another slippery empty calorie message.

Big tech’s new datacentres will take water from the world’s driest areas

I’m hoping enough someones will make sure our Prime Minister reads this: www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Poilievre is running scared. What politician has his questions prescreened? He's proving every day he's not qualified to be PM.

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JD Vance complains about state of Sweden's freedom/democracy. * Sweden 3rd in Reporters Without Borders Press Freedom ranking. US 55th. * Sweden tied 2nd in Freedom House ranking on political rights and civil liberties. US tied 17th. * Sweden 4th in The Economist Democracy Index. US 29th.

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