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Immigrant living in Vienna, podcasts, politics, educator, science, neurodiversity
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The country must bolster its security. The rich must pay their share. The old order is dead and with it lies broken promises. But out of the ashes, a new, stronger Britain can be born. @theleaduk.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/theleadu...

Welcome to cinema promos, film production company idents...oh and one or two films. See if this gets your groove tonight... Just a little break from all the bad and sad news. I hope you enjoy it. 😊

"The sooner the [UK] government gets to grips with what the new world is like, the sooner it can get on with re-establishing collective European defence with European allies." At Munich people were asking "Were are the Brits?" #r4today #bbcaq

Next retro video coming soon... Cinema/theater intros and a few film production idents from the 1980s and early 1990s, all edited together with a cool tune for your viewing an listening pleasure....I hope!

🚨🚨THIS ONE IS AN ACTUAL EMERGENCY 🚨🚨 Mike Martin MP on Ukraine, the end of the Western Alliance and what comes next. podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/b...

Pick up today's print edition of @haaretzcom.bsky.social to read my feature looking at the upcoming German election from a foreign policy perspective. I talk to experts about defence, security, Europe, and trade. It'll be posted online soon.

"Mum, can I watch some telly?" "Do you have any homework?" "Er...well, not really, just art..." (and the rest) "Ok, go on then" Biscuits? Check Squash? Check Time for some Children's BBC!

💥💥💥 WE HAVE CAMPAIGNED ON THIS FOR YEARS 💥💥💥. We drafted policy, proved its popularity, socialised the idea widely & made several podcast episodes on it. Exciting!

🔴 BREAKING: Campaign success as supporters welcome Starmer's offer of a two year Youth Mobility Scheme with the EU, in line with Best for Britain and the UK Trade and Business Commission proposals www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...

Movies you've watched more than six times, gifs only

Sydney, 1979-1982. At any time of the day, all I had to do was shout for the dogs next door: “Doggies!!!” They’d all jump over the fence to greet me. I remember the day we left Australia to come back to England - didn’t want to go. The taxi waiting to drive us away - time for one last goodbye.

New: DOGE's spending has been secret. No longer. My colleagues have uncovered it. www.propublica.org/article/doge...

Do you want franchises with that? Here's fast video about #1980s fast food in the USA. I think I captured all the big ones and spent far too long editing tiny details. I went back and forth with Subway being included, but in the end I did. Even if you hate the food, I hope you like the video.

Having failed to exclude Zelenskyy, they sought to bully him. Having failed to bully him, they sought to bribe him. Having failed to bribe him, they sought to discredit him. Maybe they will get round him one way or another, but you can see how frustrated they are at him holding on.

"The notion of America as selfless protector of Europe is bogus. Take NATO bases. Without any forward operating points in Greece, in Turkey, in Malta, in Cyprus, how does America protect its Middle-East interests, if something happens? Where's its closest ship? Where's its closest aircraft?”

Here’s a little video I made about UK advertising in 1966…

NEW 🛋️ Sunday School: Make Europe Great Again 🇺🇸 @sturdyalex.bsky.social & @pimlicat.bsky.social discuss Trump's comically disastrous attempts at diplomacy and trade policy. Also, is a Tory-Reform Merger really on the cards? 🎧 open.spotify.com/episode/2P0F... 🍏 podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/q...

"Pete Hegseth just sat down at the poker table with his cards facing our opponents. The damage is done. You can't walk that back. You can't ask the other players to unsee the cards you just showed them."

Donald Trump refuses to commit the US to defend Ukraine’s sovereignty. Europe must agree how to fill the vacuum to have a hope of influencing negotiations with Russia, writes @armida.bsky.social.

Standing Ovations auf der Münchner Sicherheitskonferenz für den ukrainischen Präsidenten Wolodymyr Selenskyj. #msc2025

🚨🚨 "There’s a Term for What Trump and Musk Are Doing How regime change happens in America". Stellar piece by @anneapplebaum.bsky.social making sense of the dramatic constitutional crisis which is underway under the new Trump administration. 🧵 www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

Musk, Vance & Trump all misrepresent democracy. When they say “democracy”, they mean a free-for-all with no rule of law, where the winner takes all. When Europe says “democracy”, we mean proportional representation, collaborative politics, citizen rights, and agreed guide rails guaranteed by law.

Good morning to this man, and this man only #bbcqt

🌍 BONUS QUIET RIOT “What is needed is a moment of political clarity. Our politics is based on the nostalgic idea that we can go back to industrial and political dominance. Those days are gone.” @mikepeeljourno.bsky.social 🏮 open.spotify.com/episode/08yp... 🍏 podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/q...

I'm delighted to share the first in a major two-part interview series with the iconic Austrian documentary filmmaker Ruth Beckermann. In part one, we look back on her earliest political movies and her trilogy of outstanding documentaries that confront the Austrian past. Look out for part two!

🏫 Sunday School: Hold Your Nerve 📚 @pimlicat.bsky.social and @sturdyalex.bsky.social discuss a stunning new report on the UK/EU reset, Musk's vandalism of US federal depts & dark clouds on the Reform UK horizon. Spotify 🎧 open.spotify.com/episode/4K4v... Apple 🍏 podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/q...

The cruelty and the confusion IS the point. “USAID has a tiny budget. $40bn in the context of a $7Tn annual federal budget is nothing. It gets Trump and Musk nowhere near the trillions they said they'd cut. It is performative, chosen precisely because of the ripple effect in such sensitive areas.”

Hard to keep up with all the inaccuracies here so let's just take the clanger. Brexit has cost growth. About 4% wiped off UK GDP according to the Government's independent economic watchdog #Newsnight @pimlicat.bsky.social

Bring back the Biden economy.

I still think this thing is overvalued.