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Happily retired early, some say opinionated, very centrist, done with X, anti Brexit & anti Reform
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Reduction of pollution in Paris over the past ten years through the deprioritisation of cars

submitted 14 hours ago • 3 comments

🚨🚨 WOW: UK is prepared to retain some regulatory alignment with the EU and accept #CJEU supervision over a deal to cut checks on imports of foods & agricultural products- in a significant a move on the promised EU-UK #reset five years after #Brexit.🧵 www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

submitted 14 hours ago • 58 comments

So once again the right wing press sought to transfer their own little first world problems onto the masses.. the looming catastrophe of VAT on independent schools fees turns out to have been utter shite 🤷‍♂️ apple.news/AvP74C2IcSGK...

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

Well who would have thought 🤷‍♂️ apple.news/AX34u-KGIQ1q...

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

The people need to wake up & smell the coffee.. Trump is a dud apple.news/ANdJTHSE0SEq...

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

Donald Trump bends to the power of the markets | Opinion https://www.ft.com/content/0ceca1e0-8cf1-4c2d-8199-f32c87c38c88

submitted 5 days ago • 9 comments

Latest from @thetimes.com campaign in favour of keeping Britain as a tax haven for foreigners, regardless of how long they have lived here. What a pity it won’t tell us how Henley Partners, which has skin in the game, came up with its data. Its last “survey” was “modelled” on 250 LinkedIn profiles!

submitted 6 days ago • 14 comments

‘We can’t sit back and watch’ Former MI6 boss says Britain must get ready for war as Putin threatens Europe shorturl.at/VJDhB

submitted 10 days ago • 4 comments

Life is so unpredictable - never thought my social media account would be so full of penguins! And such insightful ones like those in @heardislandgov.bsky.social And I certainly didn’t predict the scale of the rallies across the US today - really suggests the resistance has begun

submitted 10 days ago • 2 comments

Starmer offered big US tech firms tax cuts in return for lower Trump tariffs

submitted 14 days ago • 45 comments

You can’t placate a dictator because next time they just want more and then you’re in a fix. Would prefer to see UK solidarity with Europe.

submitted 14 days ago • 0 comments