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Not just a customs union. Service industries like mine - fashion photography - rely on FOM to trade in Europe. Without it there's really no option but to stay at home.

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Trump’s tariffs and Brexit red tape are hammering British manufacturers—I saw it firsthand today with @iansollom.bsky.social at a factory making vital components for the car industry. We need to stand up to Trump’s trade war and secure a UK–EU customs union to protect British businesses.

submitted 4 hours ago • 4 comments

Not just morally wrong but terrible negotiating strategy — senseless and nihilistic.

submitted 4 hours ago • 62 comments

Hi All, Just sent this post out on the ridiculous trade war Trump has launched with China (and US Allies). It’s a war he did not properly plan for, cannot force China to acquiesce on, and is incentivizing US allies to move closer to the Chinese because of. open.substack.com/pub/phillips...

submitted 11 hours ago • 14 comments

🔴‘What Is the Point of Labour Winning the Next General Election if It Governs as Reform-Lite?’ The political strategy being pursued by Keir Starmer and his advisers means that whichever party comes first in 2029, Nigel Farage wins, argues Neal Lawson bylinetimes.com/2025/04/14/w...

submitted 11 hours ago • 29 comments

Europe needs to be increasing its aid budget, not decreasing. Apart from the moral case, aid can also be a preventative for future higher costs as it can help prevent future wars, civil unrest and migrations of desperation www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

submitted 11 hours ago • 8 comments

UK govt's intervention on British Steel is only a stop gap measure. Nationalisation is needed. Failed privatisations, such as energy/water have made the industry unviable Why have Grangemouth and Port Talbot not been bailed out. Watch the video. www.youtube.com/watch?v=FnYf...

submitted 10 hours ago • 5 comments

This is what’s happening with 1.3C of global heating above preindustrial levels. We’re on track for 3C by 2100. Failure to leave fossil fuels in the ground is a devastating crime against humanity & against all other life on this, our one fragile earth

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They didn’t just send Abrego Garcia “back to El Salvador”, they sent him to a fucking torture prison. They didn’t send him “back to where he was from.” They sent him to his death. They cannot prove he was a “terrorist”. They took him by “mistake.” And they do not fucking care.

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Security expert @mikeclarke2020s.bsky.social: "This idea that somehow the Ukrainians got themselves invaded is just bizarre. Nobody knew about the coming attack except Putin. He lied to everyone... So what [Zelenskyy] was expected to negotiate about is a mystery known only to President Trump." ~AA

submitted 9 hours ago • 6 comments

We've been asked why we don't seek the report it looks as though NHS England is suppressing into trans suicides via FOIA. 1/

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🚨🚨 @edwardluce.bsky.social is rightly not mincing his words here. These words should not be used lightly but the fact that the US Government intentionally ignores a ruling of its highest court suggests not only a "constitutional crisis" but a "constitutional breakdown" of governance in the US. /1

submitted 9 hours ago • 8 comments

Yes Liz. Do it. This'll be the comedy event of the summer.

submitted 9 hours ago • 120 comments

🚨🚨 WOW: UK is prepared to retain some regulatory alignment with the EU and accept #CJEU supervision over a deal to cut checks on imports of foods & agricultural products- in a significant a move on the promised EU-UK #reset five years after #Brexit.🧵 www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

submitted 14 hours ago • 58 comments

Good to see our local MP engaging like this.

submitted 6 hours ago • 0 comments

1/ Are you a local business in the South Cotswolds? I want to hear from you! If you're facing challenges – whether it’s Trump’s tariffs or rising costs & National Insurance increases – please email me at: [email protected]. #BuyLocalBackBritain #SupportLocal

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The Trump admin underestimates Ukraine's sovereign resolve. Witkoff can regurgitate Kremlin's demands until the cows come home, but like Ru, he has no easy way of implementing them. @oxanashevel.bsky.social and I wrote about the dilemma Trump is facing: www.justsecurity.org/109084/putin...

submitted 8 hours ago • 3 comments

“Harvard’s Decision to Resist Trump Is ‘of Momentous Significance’ www.nytimes.com/2025/04/14/u...

submitted 8 hours ago • 29 comments

This is in fact what we have done. Foolish, shortsighted, appalling.

submitted 7 hours ago • 701 comments

Word of the day is ‘bugiard’ (17th century): one who distorts the truth beyond all recognition to fit their own agenda.

submitted 7 hours ago • 67 comments

Is it me or is the Oval Office starting to look like St Petersburg?

submitted 7 hours ago • 176 comments

"Trump administration officials [..] believe that, with enough pressure, Ukraine can be made to submit to any terms. But if they think so, they underestimate and misunderstand Ukraine" @oxanashevel.bsky.social and I wrote last month: www.justsecurity.org/109084/putin...

submitted 7 hours ago • 3 comments

"the president defied a Supreme Court ruling to return a man mistakenly sent to a gulag... and spoke of sending Americans to foreign concentration camps. This is the beginning of an American policy of state terror, and it has to be identified as such to be stopped" snyder.substack.com/p/state-terror

submitted 7 hours ago • 485 comments

Exactly.

submitted 7 hours ago • 86 comments

Space adventure and exploration should be for the benefit of all humankind, not the whimsy of a few.

submitted 6 hours ago • 252 comments

Your Tax Day reminder that trickle-down economics is a cruel hoax designed to enrich the wealthy and corporations while draining money for the middle class and the poor. Don't let billionaires fool you into thinking we shouldn't tax the rich.

submitted 6 hours ago • 66 comments

We need massive interest rate cuts now www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2025/04... Without interest rate cuts - to 2%, or less - the recession coming our way is going to be very much worse than it need be.

submitted 14 hours ago • 2 comments

Utah!! "The arena has a roughly 15,000-seat capacity, according to the university. An estimated 1,000 more packed the arena floor, and about 4,000 crowded outside the arena..." utahnewsdispatch.com/2025/04/13/b...

submitted 1 day ago • 340 comments

Trump to Bukele: "Home-growns are next. The home-growns. You gotta build about five more places. It's not big enough."

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We will not allow hate to win.

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US and Salvadoran presidents refuse to repatriate wrongly deported migrant https://www.ft.com/content/dd9467c5-b4c4-48e6-acf0-7f74277ad263

submitted 1 day ago • 25 comments

Will be fascinating to watch submersible technology experts become U.S. treasury and bond market experts in the coming weeks.

submitted 1 day ago • 38 comments

HE IS PROMISING TO SEND AMERICANS TO FOREIGN DEATH CAMPS. This is it. This is where America ends.

submitted 1 day ago • 1598 comments

Trump is denying due process to foreign nationals here legally before ripping them from their families and deporting them. Do we really believe this regime will follow any sort of due process for American citizens before Trump tries to deport them? Call it what it is: fascism.

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It's not clear Trump really understands what he has started. www.asiafinancial.com/china-halts-...

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This makes me really angry! Perhaps I'm even more angry at the EU for keeping Hungary in than I'm with Orban at this point! Shameful! @vonderleyen.ec.europa.eu @eucopresident.consilium.europa.eu

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This is insane. No university worth the name could agree to it, and any which did would soon not be worthy of the name.

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Any American not scared for our future today is a fool or not paying attention. Sociopathic sadists don't politely wait at the end of your block to ensure their depravities never touch you or yours. Every MAGA who's 🤣 over Trump saying he'll send Americans to concentration camps has suffering ahead.

submitted 1 day ago • 25 comments

Trump to Bukele on Salvadoran concentration camps: “Home-growns are next. You’re going to have to build about five more places.”

submitted 1 day ago • 126 comments

My grandchild is a Harvard student and because today her University stood strong for what is right, she is learning something more more valuable than the academics. Thank you Harvard!!!

submitted 1 day ago • 47 comments

Trump wants to spend $45B to expand ICE detention — and let the private prison companies who bankrolled his campaign run at least a half dozen new detention centers. This won't make us safer, but it will make the border-industrial complex even richer.

submitted 1 day ago • 50 comments

For clarity - he has never been charged, let alone convicted, of any crime.

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To everyone who told me to “calm down” in 2016 - The sociopathic sexual predator business fraud felon you put back in the office he tried to steal just stood in the White House & said that he wants to send American citizens to concentration camps in El Salvador. So, fuck you.

submitted 1 day ago • 314 comments