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From Norn Irn. Happy with complex national identity, unhappy with Brexit. #Breturn After Engineering degree: Development, Sales, Product Management & 12 yrs as MD. Also BA & MA History, just because: decolonisation in Africa, nationalism, Ireland, UK.
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So far in 2025 Keir Starmer has had the following individual calls / meetings with world leaders: x4 Ukraine x2 Finland Poland Denmark USA Iraq x1 France Estonia Ireland Germany Netherlands Norway NATO EU Canada Kuwait Malaysia Qatar Israel Mauritus 1/2

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OK UK & EU. Time to facilitate the ex-USA refugee/brain drain.

submitted 3 hours ago • 0 comments

I see some guy called ‘Warren Buffet’ (?) is following my lead on investments, having switched my Pension pot out of all US share-holding funds before Trump’s inauguration. Now 80% in cash. (20% in European equities)* *This is not investment advice. I’m just a bloke on Bluesky.

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What are we even talking about This war can only end with the unconditional surrender of Russia and the prosecution of everyone involved in these war crimes

submitted 12 hours ago • 3 comments

Carry on as if everything is normal, folks. It'll go away if we don't think about it.

submitted 7 hours ago • 3 comments

"The Czech government was using the shortened form as far back as 1993. It wasn’t so much a rebrand as a reminder we’d all been rudely using the wrong name for decades, like we’ve been calling someone Mike when he’s actually named Matt."

submitted 11 hours ago • 19 comments

Indeed. And the BUF, whose members were locked up under Defence Regulation 18B, had been supported financially, and in the pages of the Daily Mail, by Lord Rothermere. In other news …

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How is it that we aren’t all referring to the kids carrying out a coup against the American constitution and way of life as…Muskovites?

submitted 5 days ago • 10 comments

The @SDLPlive made clear we wouldn’t be going to Washington this St Patrick’s Day. Pretending it’s business as usual and a fitting celebration of Irishness just isn’t in line with our values. Glad to see a growing consensus on this & spoke to RTE about it this evening.

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#NATO's Article 5 was only invoked once, by 🇺🇸 asking for defence after 9/11 As a result, 1,105 European and Canadian soldiers died in the 20-year Afghanistan war - 1/3 of all coalition casualties I don't recall the Europeans demanding America surrender its mineral wealth in exchange for their help

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For British viewers - Exxon appears as Esso here. So, Esso sponsored Mad King Donald and his betrayal of Ukraine.

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Any time I encounter someone with a North American accent, I’ll henceforth make sure I ask them “Are you Canadian?”

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Here's one of the warnings I gave in an article before the US election. It's devastating to see it all happening. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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Can we extend this programme to the UK and the EU, please?

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“I have you now, Mr Bond…”

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For British politicians of almost all stripes, pride in supporting Ukraine has been a sort of redemption for the foreign policy screw-ups of the 21st century. Strong from @duncanrobinson.bsky.social www.economist.com/britain/2025...

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Realised I was doom scrolling reading interpretation after interpretation of exactly the same story. And it wasn’t good for me. So, I’ll leave this here as an antidote. m.youtube.com/watch?v=kbJc...

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