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michael-a.bsky.social
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We have a chance to improve our relationship + trading terms with the EU, give musicians + young people more freedom and make travel easier… And Brexiters are howling about betrayal, fish, ‘holding all the cards’ and immigration. Same lies. Same prejudice. And same failure if we don’t ignore them.

submitted 42 days ago • 107 comments

I am getting increasingly frustrated by Labour bigwigs speechifying about how the world has changed and we need to be bold and then... not being bold

submitted 82 days ago • 172 comments

🚨BREAKING - Steve Reed has just launched the biggest review into the water sector since privatisation. But wait…..he says the commission can’t even consider public ownership. 🤯 We need to act quickly to change his mind. ⏰ Sign our petition now ✍️ weownit.org.uk/act-now/stev...

submitted 122 days ago • 50 comments

Blue Labour needs to get in the bin.

submitted 130 days ago • 5 comments

I’m not sure you can spend the last decade painting anyone who still supports membership of a trading partnership as a traitor then pivot to “we must give the authoritarian invader of Europe everything he wants” and not expect a teensy bit of Quisling chat back, if I’m honest.

submitted 131 days ago • 6 comments

For a mere human to get a sense of the immensity of eternity, one only has to watch “page 2 of 2” on a screen display at a train station.

submitted 144 days ago • 6 comments

On the 5th anniversary of Brexit, a throwback to David Frost in 2015, "It is in the UK's national interest to stay part of the EU, we benefit economically from it very much" "The EU Single Market adds uplift to GDP" "To somebody on an average salary that's about £1,500 a year"

submitted 149 days ago • 8 comments

It was never about "criminals" at all. It's about scooping up as many brown people as possible, meeting arrest quotas, and getting video of them being herded on to planes. Just take a step back and imagine it in black and white but a railroad car instead of a C-17.

submitted 153 days ago • 226 comments

In a world full of Elon Musk wannabes, be a Matt Damon.

submitted 189 days ago • 81 comments

Can someone explain why TikTok is a bigger national security concern than a social media platform run by a South African technofeudal oligarch actively interfering in our elections and sabotaging our national interests here and abroad?

submitted 164 days ago • 2316 comments

My thoughts exactly

submitted 178 days ago • 59 comments

Guests fly in tonight. Meantime musing that there is no problem for which a bifold shower door is a sensible long-term solution. Happy boxing day, one and all.

submitted 185 days ago • 0 comments

By far and away, my favourite thing about this spectacularly dumb post... Is that that's THE MATTERHORN

submitted 208 days ago • 827 comments

The biggest shock of the Haigh resignation is discovering that once upon a time the police actually investigated a stolen phone.

submitted 212 days ago • 46 comments