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youtu.be/pvT3aQjLxdE Here's a 🎶 twist on Coldplay's thumping #VivaLaVida we're calling "Puppets on a Kremlin String?" It reflects on the grotesque media spectacle hosted by #Trump & #Vance yesterday at the White House. In solidarity with Zelensky & Ukraine. #SlavaUkraini #Dontabandonthem

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So great to see this

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Every single one of the Trump supporters sounds like a domestic abuser. "You should've let him hit you, you shouldn't have complained in public, you're never grateful, you never say thank you."

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Titanic paper from @andrewduffeu.bsky.social, which I missed at the time While there may be some stuff to quibble about, and some of this will be hard reading for Europeans, as well as for some in the UK, as a whole this is what needs to be said. This should be the focus for join. A reaction 🧵

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Does the British government appreciate the magnitude of the crisis we're in? From this, it doesn't sound encouraging.

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“NATO may have already died - in the sense that, if the Article 5 commitment is no longer believable, if it is not something you can bank on, we may already be at a point when we need to start looking at something else, which looks a bit like NATO but doesn’t involve the US.”

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The latest @chrisgrey.bsky.social piece is about the reaction Trump, in particular the @bestforbritain.bsky.social paper on Europe recognising UK standards as "equivalent". Advise strongly to read it, as it's quite subtle. Quick🧵reaction chrisgreybrexitblog.blogspot.com/2025/02/how-...

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Love this thread

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Great speech. Well done Canada 🇨🇦

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Welcome to the National Library of Scotland's Bluesky account! We're chuffed to be joining you all here 🦋 Lets run through some introductions!

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I did not think they could be more on point. Dare I say best one yet!

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Brilliant 🤣

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Hats off to @jessphillipsmp.bsky.social and sod off to Elon Musk. Here's a 🎶 parody of Leonard Cohen's "Bird on the Wire" about Musk's recent spate of diarrhoea tweets about the UK, called "Turd on a Wire" (with an attempted nod to the wonderful k.d. lang version ❤️). youtu.be/G_N4UmUjJeo

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And free to read at this link!

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The real "difficult conversations" Kemi Badenoch should be having about Elon Musk. Why the Conservative leader's refusal to distance herself from Elon Musk is an act of moral cowardice that should exclude her from ever regaining high office. bylinetimes.com/2025/01/06/k...

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Things NOT to do in a bird hide🤦‍♀️ #nature #birds #awkward

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“What is Nigel Farage’s strategy? Why is Elon Musk so interested in Britain?” Lewis Goodall responds to @vicderbyshire.bsky.social - saying ministers are “asleep” to the potential effects of the world’s richest man donating millions of dollars to Reform UK #Newsnight

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A letter to my MP re the government’s consultation on copyright and AI

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New Christmas lights just went up in Clacton. (Farage is still the MP who makes most money from second jobs. By a long way.)

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An incredible photo posted today by French President Emmanuel Macron. The floor of Notre Dame Cathedral is filled with the workers involved in the 5 year project to restore the building following the devastating fire in 2019. 1/2

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Seriously, read this if you haven't already. It's a fascinating story, both important and moving.

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Etymology of the day: before a tapering piece of hanging ice was called an ‘icicle’ it was an ‘ickle’. In the Middle Ages people decided to add ‘ice’ for extra oomph and (tautologically) called it an ‘ice ickle’, until the two words eventually blended together.

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A great example of why evidence is no longer sufficient to command #PublicHealth policy. How should PH professionals effectively advocate for what works (or for what is right, in the absence of strong evidence) without getting vilified/attacked?

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I see @suzyburn.bsky.social shared this. Totally not surprised. Attagirl. 👊🏻📚 🛌

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Y'all, I found it: The single greatest post EVER

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Post-Brexit Britain’s Trump problem goes much deeper than trade tariffs. New post on my Brexit & Beyond Blog. The discussion of how the UK might respond to Trump's tariffs is already confused, and anyway misses the bigger challenge they betoken: chrisgreybrexitblog.blogspot.com/2024/11/post...

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When we said this years ago on Twitter… based on maths… they said it was ridiculous. Slowly, slowly… this train is pulling out of the station. We’ll see what full speed looks like. www.ineteconomics.org/perspectives...

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The original ‘tosspot’, in the 16th century, was someone who ‘tossed back’ their ‘pot’ of beer and then immediately went back for another.

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A List of Things People Blamed on Radio 🧵

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Short 🧵 but perfectly to the point.

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As I'm currently working on an article discussing yesterday's farmers' protest over the inheritance tax reform, I'd encourage people to whet their appetites with this from @georgemonbiot.bsky.social, which provides some relevant context. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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Good, thoughtful response from the Landworkers Alliance (which, unlike the NFU, actually speaks for farm labourers, tenant farmers, small-scale farmers) to the Labour budget; ELMS; APR. landworkersalliance.org.uk/reflections-...

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I sense it is time to remind people of Roy Jenkins famous quip that IHT is “a voluntary levy paid by those who distrust their heirs more than they dislike the Inland Revenue”.

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