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Something is shifting. They are still breaking things and stealing things. And they will keep trying to break and to steal. But the propaganda magic around the oligarchical coup is fading. (1/2)

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I read that Hegseth has now fired all top JAG (Judge Advocate General) top lawyers. This doesn’t bode well for military law, international humanitarian law or the rule of law.

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"The occupant of the Oval Office – the leader of the free world – seems happier to side with the brutal tyrant Putin than to support America’s allies. It feels like we have fallen through the looking glass." - Ed Davey MP, Leader Lib Dems 🔶 www.independent.co.uk/voices/ed-da...

submitted 14 hours ago • 4 comments

45% of all mobile users in the UK are on Apple. That's tens of millions of people that have now had their online security put at risk by Labour. Experts are aghast.

submitted 1 day ago • 33 comments

Peter Kellner's article in @theneweuropean.bsky.social sets out the issues that Brexit has caused to the British economy before hitting this key argument: The problems come from being a third country. 1

submitted 3 days ago • 13 comments

America first means Britain needs a customs union with Europe www.cityam.com/america-firs...

submitted 5 days ago • 65 comments

In which @j-amesmarriott.bsky.social‬ delivers one of the most elegant expressions I've read of the 'F*ck around and find out' thesis.

submitted 5 days ago • 13 comments

From YouGov: latest favourability ratings

submitted 5 days ago • 6 comments

💥 Well how about that. After years of Brexiteers saying we had to leave the EU to avoid being forced into a European army… … it turns out that Brits are fine with the idea. With the UK explicitly included. A plurality of Tory voters support it - and even a fair chunk of Reform. How times change…

submitted 6 days ago • 50 comments

This episode of Origin Story on the myth of "cultural marxism", a conspiracy theory with antisemitic roots, is essential listening. It's a phrase, alongside "critical race theory", that always indicates bad faith. @iandunt.bsky.social @dorianlynskey.bsky.social open.spotify.com/episode/1ywU...

submitted 6 days ago • 12 comments

In this new world, if you're not around the table, you're on the menu. If China, Russia, US are allowed to decide Europe's future, our future won't be ours. European leaders...lead! on.ft.com/3CQFzlI

submitted 7 days ago • 89 comments

‼️Confirmed: Macron will hold a crisis meeting tomorrow afternoon in Paris with the leaders of Germany, U.K., Italy, Poland, Spain, Netherlands and Denmark as well as Costa, von der Layen and Rutte, to discuss the future of security in Europe

submitted 7 days ago • 9 comments

The irony of the richest man in the world almost single-handedly destroying an agency designed to help the world’s poor, so that the U.S. federal budget has more room for another giant tax cut for the richest man in the world and his pals, should not be lost on anyone. [Cartoon by Mike Luckovich]

submitted 8 days ago • 942 comments

Incompetence in Washington puts every American at risk, no matter how you voted. No one should be happy that the DOGE team - the same folks who randomly published classified U.S. security information online today - wants access to your bank account & Social Security numbers.

submitted 8 days ago • 2697 comments

Europe can’t rely on the strength of the transatlantic relationship to help contain Russia’s threat – it must lead from the front and be the true force of support that Ukraine needs. Not just for Ukraine’s sake, but for a free and sovereign Europe.

submitted 8 days ago • 2399 comments

And the cool thing is that this petition is now on 113,000… Crossing the 100K mark only accelerated it. 🚀

submitted 10 days ago • 132 comments

“Gov’t knows where the public is. The polling is very clear. The single most influential group that needs to step up right now is business - every size, every industry, every location - to push the gov’t towards EU alignment during this critical period. Now is the time of maximum impact.”

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submitted 12 days ago • 886 comments

Sooo… Looks like this is happening tonight. That counter is going to tick over 100,000 🔥 Keep signing —> petition.parliament.uk/petitions/70...

submitted 12 days ago • 61 comments

Great point.

submitted 13 days ago • 1224 comments

Sea otter showing off his favorite rock to a fisherman

submitted 15 days ago • 251 comments

Five years on from Brexit and 57% would now vote to rejoin the EU The polling guru Sir John Curtice discusses this statistic from the latest Redfield & Wilton poll for UKICE👇 ukandeu.ac.uk/five-years-o...

submitted 15 days ago • 4 comments

🚨🚨 Stellar thread by Michael on #brexit, custom and regulatory borders, bureucracy, food standards and red tape. Tldr; everything (all misery etc) is an inevitable implication of the hard #brexit arrangement chosen in the EU-UK TCA by Johnson and Frost. 👇

submitted 17 days ago • 1 comment

Ultimately it matters not if your constitution is written or unwritten or codified or uncodified… …once those in power do not recognise political or legal rules higher than their own personal or partisan advantage it is constitutional ‘game over’. Constitutions need constitutionalism, most of all.

submitted 18 days ago • 8 comments

Judge rules that Black church in DC, which won a $2.8 million default judgment against the Proud Boys, now gains control over the trademark “Proud Boys.” The far-right group is barred from selling any related merchandise or symbols without the consent of the church. Gift link:

submitted 19 days ago • 1186 comments

Indivisible is urging people to visit their senators' local offices between now and Thursday to demand that they use every tool—including denying a quorum and blocking unanimous consent—to fight the confirmation of Project 2025 architect Russell Vought for head of OMB docs.google.com/document/d/1...

submitted 20 days ago • 539 comments

There it is. Any British people still backing Trump are backing a threat to the independence of a Commonwealth country.

submitted 20 days ago • 28 comments

Starmer’s Brexit reset crawls: EU optimism sours as UK clings to red lines, vague plans. Six months, minimal progress; Brussels lowers hopes. Global crises take priority; UK-EU ties stagnate in slow, unambitious talks.

submitted 20 days ago • 22 comments

EXC: Dominic Cummings secretly advised Jeremy Corbyn's team on path to No 10 at the height of the Brexit impasse Vote Leave supremo provided Labour leadership with a plan to make Corbyn PM by voting for Theresa May's Brexit deal First extract from GET IN www.thetimes.com/article/0bb8...

submitted 23 days ago • 33 comments

"It's been almost 10 years since we voted to leave the EU, five years since we actually did. And my word a lot has happened in those years..." UKICE Director Anand Menon introduces our major new report ukandeu.ac.uk/reports/the-brexit-files-from-referendum-to-reset Your weekend reading, sorted.

submitted 23 days ago • 1 comment

🔥 FINALLY! The BBC are finally doing the public education service on Brexit that they always should have. Have a read. 👇👇

submitted 23 days ago • 90 comments

Read Professor Sir John Curtice on the brand new Redfield & Wilton poll for UKICE confirming that on the 5th anniversary of Brexit, 57% would now vote to rejoin the EU: ukandeu.ac.uk/five-years-o...

submitted 23 days ago • 0 comments

Trump is trying to “flood the zone” so we focus on a few outrages that we find most offensive and lose sight of the big picture. Some thoughts on how to maintain focus. robertreich.substack.com/p/keep-your-...

submitted 23 days ago • 98 comments

“The truth is [FPTP] is failing on its own terms. It’s becoming less and less representative and producing more and more random results.” 🗳️ @alexsobel.co.uk calls on the govt to establish a National Commission for electoral reform Thread covering the full debate 🧵🔽

submitted 24 days ago • 3 comments

“Nigel Farage — ringmaster of the right — proved so successful in ensuring his Tory opponents danced to his tune that they forgot he was an adversary. “A populist pied piper, he marched the Tories to and from issues and, eventually, off an electoral cliff edge.” www.politics.co.uk/5-minute-rea...

submitted 24 days ago • 3 comments

what's particularly bonkers is the sheer expense, political effort, complicated negotiations and pain for exporters - for a result which the public have now largely disowned

submitted 24 days ago • 35 comments