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Breaking news: The European Commission is issuing burner phones and basic laptops to some US-bound staff to avoid the risk of espionage — a measure traditionally reserved for trips to China www.ft.com/content/20d0...

submitted 23 days ago • 869 comments

British Steel slimmed down its operations in the North East after Reform UK's Richard Tice's company threatened to hike the rent on their facility.

submitted 25 days ago • 2 comments

Is there a limit to the number of Executive Orders that can be issued in 1 Year / Term by a US President?

submitted 36 days ago • 0 comments

On the tariff front, this doesn’t get discussed much in the news. But the President has zero power to do tariffs. Entirely a Congress power. There is a law which allows the President to impose tariffs on an emergency basis. All of this is based on that law.

submitted 38 days ago • 148 comments

The former ambassador to Denmark for the United States, Rufus Gifford, posted this video on his Facebook account: Ht: @hpsc24.bsky.social

submitted 39 days ago • 201 comments

www.nytimes.com/2025/03/27/w... Fascinating... I'm no economist but it strikes me that Trump underestimates the level of antagonism he has created in CAN / EU / UK / AUS. I don't see them bending

submitted 41 days ago • 0 comments

Imagine being Europe and reading this

submitted 43 days ago • 1769 comments

Vance: UK importing too much cheap labor. From 2020-22, people born outside US made up 68% of US crop farmworkers. Almost 1/3 of US construction workers are foreign-born (up to 40% in Texas and California). Vance knows this. Rationalizing blatant hypocrisy is the point.

submitted 49 days ago • 41 comments

I just signed the petition to to demand the Government tax the super rich to rebuild our NHS, schools, and other public services. Will you sign too? you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/pr...

submitted 49 days ago • 0 comments

Paying tribute to John ‘Paddy’ Hemingway DFC, the last pilot from the Battle of Britain, who passed away in Dublin last night, 17 March 2025, aged 105. Paddy also served at Dunkirk, & during the Normandy campaign, & was shot down 4 times during the war. #peraduaadastra #lestweforget

submitted 50 days ago • 4 comments

LET IT GROW ... ... Canada (UK & Commonwealth) in EU to strengthen all individual states against physical and economic war and aggression ... an EU with a common defence ...

submitted 52 days ago • 5 comments

Automatic hourly headline updater

submitted 55 days ago • 0 comments

Seeing a gradual slide from people who pay attention from "I'm not sure its ethical to visit the US now" to "I'm not sure it's safe to visit the US now."

submitted 55 days ago • 38 comments

I suggest we let Trump have his petulant tariff rants and kist quietly stop buying US products in the UK & EU, swapping them out for Canadian products... hard to do in the short term, but worth it to get away from the tactics of a bullying "friend" #tariffs

submitted 56 days ago • 0 comments

When Trump was sworn in, Elon Musk's corporations were under more than 32 investigations conducted by at least 11 federal agencies. Most of the cases are now closed or likely to be closed soon, and the federal agencies are being defanged by DOGE. Funny how that works, huh?

submitted 59 days ago • 341 comments

🍁 Calling all Canadians! BIG NEWS - we’ve just launched European Movement Canada 🇨🇦 🇪🇺 …to rapidly build much closer relations between Canada & Europe on all fronts. Sign up interest here —> europeanmovement.eu/publication-... My TikTok video on it here —> vm.tiktok.com/ZNdeRmhEa/ Please share!

submitted 63 days ago • 146 comments

How long until Zelenskyy asks China how much they would pay for the mineral rights?

submitted 67 days ago • 0 comments

There is a huge opportunity for UK growth, by enticing the best science minds (esp the top Females) to come and work in the UK and get away from the anti-DEI nonsense in the US

submitted 73 days ago • 0 comments

I absolutely love how quickly Canadians started placing signs in their businesses to discourage customers from buying any American products and I also love how Prime Minister Justin Trudeau specifically targeted Red States in retaliation. I love you Canada, I’m rooting for you.

submitted 93 days ago • 632 comments

I read that part of Trump’s grievances with the EU is that it doesn’t buy enough American cars and food… perhaps if the cars fit European roads, were better built and designed, and the food had less crap in it he might have a point…

submitted 93 days ago • 0 comments

Really struck today by how many of the people most responsible for the Brexit shitshow were actively rewarded for their stupidity/dishonesty. Knighthoods, Damehoods, peerages, newspaper columns, seats in the House of Commons… It’s a mark of how deep the rot has gone into the fabric of our society.

submitted 96 days ago • 174 comments

My first and definitely last time working with the Los Angeles Times. Editing out the most urgent point of an OpEd in the minutes before sending to press while then also assigning a title and image that suggest an argument entirely opposite to the author’s clear intent is pretty shitty.

submitted 96 days ago • 499 comments

We're seeing a toxic surge of anti-LGBTQ rhetoric on GB News. This is what advertisers such as Sky are enabling. If Ofcom continues failing to enforce its own rules, then MPs need to step in and hold it to account. bylinetimes.com/2025/01/31/g...

submitted 96 days ago • 17 comments

"For all the easy, cheap nonsense being peddled - changes 𝘸𝘦𝘳𝘦 made." Andrew Norfolk confirms Keir Starmer "completely changed the rules" as DPP to help prosecute grooming gangs - directly countering Musk's claim of a coverup. @maitlis.bsky.social @lewisgoodall.com

submitted 119 days ago • 5 comments

Do you know a UK-based wheelchair user who works in a lab and would be willing to user-test our prototype of what is believed to be the first-ever lab coat adapted for wheelchair users? Please share far & wide! Interest form: forms.office.com/e/66FhcQjqRT More info: www.ucl.ac.uk/ucl-east/new...

submitted 120 days ago • 62 comments