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cEUrmudgeon Reflective, orange faced, white bodied. Valid handle Suspect the Rail Safety (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 is Commission Regulation 1158/2010 with the words Member State crossed out and United Kingdom written in crayon.
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@waterstones.bsky.social are offering a 25% discount on all pre-orders of 'Anywhere But Here' from now until midnight on Monday. Pre-orders are crucial to ensure the book gets out there, so please consider buying at the discounted price. Just use code PREORDER25 here: bit.ly/4gBxHTV #WPreorder

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Thousands are here outside the Russian embassy in London to say "Russian troops out of Ukraine!" After Trump's treachery, our Governments must provide Ukraine with all the military and financial aid other needs to defeat Russia and win a just peace. Europe can do this🇪🇺🇬🇧🇺🇦 #StandWithUkraine

submitted 8 hours ago • 6 comments

I stand with Ukraine. 🫶🏼🫰🏼 Today there are marches of worldwide solidarity with Ukraine. Show Ukrainians that we haven’t forgotten them, that despite the government spin we know Russia is the aggressor and Ukraine is a Democratic, sovereign country protecting their borders, their language and culture.

submitted 5 hours ago • 2 comments

Worst. Episode. EVER.

submitted 18 hours ago • 800 comments

'Ukraine is fighting for its survival. Putin is fighting for his place in history. The West, however, still seems not to know what it is fighting for' - former Ukraine's foreign minister Dmytro Kuleba at the Royal Society of Arts, London

submitted 1 day ago • 6 comments

Brexit: “that great victory for the sovereign right to cock things up”… give ourselves food poisoning, lose control, swamp ourselves in red tape, pay more for stuff and stubbornly isolate ourselves from our own continent… A relentless, ruinous stupidity. (Private Eye)

submitted 2 days ago • 133 comments

A thread fact checking Trump's claims about Ukraine, which appears to have come directly from the Putin propaganda agency. 1/8

submitted 3 days ago • 7 comments

A friend in Mykolaiv just messaged—Russia’s drone attack completely destroyed power generation. Over 100,000 people without heat. Yet, three years in, some still buy Russia’s BS about Ukraine bombing itself.

submitted 6 days ago • 2 comments

Why hearing Trump’s statements first thing in the morning on a train heading east in Ukraine, am I more certain than ever of our future? Because Ukrainians stopped Russia three years ago—and they won’t let Ukraine fall now 🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦

submitted 3 days ago • 2 comments

I love the bus at 18 seconds that weighs four times the Cybertruck (without passengers and about six times with) that has surely passed and come back again, while the owner was cleaning ice off the corner of the vast windscreen unswept by the single wiper.

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

New @resfoundation.bsky.social report out from me today, on how low-to-middle income households’ earnings, benefits, taxes and housing costs have changed over the last 30 years. Here are some of the key findings:

submitted 5 days ago • 1 comment

Free speech update

submitted 5 days ago • 4 comments

Trump quotes Napoleon. Well Orwell quotes Mussolini. "Between democracy and totalitarianism there can be no compromise." His 1940 The Lion&The Unicorn observes "The two creeds cannot even, for any length of time, live side by side. So long as democracy exists, even in its very imperfect ..

submitted 6 days ago • 1 comment

containing the disappointing but predictable words "the home office acted unlawfully"

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

🇩🇪🤝🇺🇦 Zelensky discussed expanding cooperation with Rheinmetall CEO Armin Papperger. Ukraine is ready to scale up joint efforts in ammo, armored vehicles & air defense after successful tech repairs & production localization. A stronger Ukraine means a safer Europe, Zelensky added.

submitted 7 days ago • 5 comments

6yo left some questions for the tooth fairy under his pillow last night along with his tooth, so the tooth fairy broke out their fountain pen and wrote him a reply, which he has been clutching close to his chest since 5.30am this morning. 🦷 🧚 🖊️

submitted 7 days ago • 9 comments

Europe urgently needs its own plan of action concerning Ukraine and our security, or else other global players will decide about our future. Not necessarily in line with our own interest. This plan must be prepared now. There’s no time to lose.

submitted 7 days ago • 115 comments

Morning from Kyiv! At night? russian drone hit the shelter that shields the world from the radiation of the destroyed Unit No. 4 at the Chornobyl Nuclear Power Plant. The fire was extinguished. The radiation levels have not increased. I am going to have a #warcoffee

submitted 8 days ago • 66 comments

The 80th anniversary of Orwell’s Animal Farm heralds a new – and depressingly relevant – stage adaptation, says Natasha Tripney 👇 #BookSky

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments

Once again, a thread for the Brexit ignorant  1/ All countries start with their own market standards, regulated & customs territory. If an outsider wants to sell on it you must prove you meet its standards & pay a tariff at its border

submitted 77 days ago • 12 comments

At least 20 injured, several critically, after car drives into group in Munich

submitted 9 days ago • 9 comments

Is there a single industry that thinks Brexit has been beneficial? www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...

submitted 9 days ago • 18 comments

🚨🚨 #Ukrainewar: Significant Weimar+ Statement by Germany, France, Poland, Italy, Spain, the United Kingdom, European External Action Service and @ec.europa.eu expressing the need to enhance support for Ukraine.

submitted 9 days ago • 2 comments