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🇬🇧🇪🇺 UK scraps food safety checks on EU fruit & veg imports - 6th delay since Brexit 🍅Tomatoes, 🍇grapes, 🌶️peppers escape border controls until Jan 2027 as UK hopes new EU deal will make checks "redundant" #Brexit #UKTrade #EURelations By @chrishorseman.bsky.social borderlex.net/2025/06/03/u...

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Jonathan Joss was murdered in a homophobic hate crime during pride month in Texas. Read this carefully, because this is what the far right (and nepo baby hate grifters like Fox) want to import here by rolling back the rights of LGBT people. This is horrifying and enraging in equal measure.

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Every time I see "Plan for Change" a bit of sick pops into my mouth. Does Labour not have ANY capable comms people at all?

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“Broadly only the Secretary of State can trigger a special administrative regime - and if he does the businesses of the water companies can be purchased for a price that enables the underlying problem to be fixed (this doesn't need to be nationalisation). He does not pay market value.”

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Exactly this ⬇️Please share.

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There's a basic lie in the Government's position on water companies - and unless it confronts it the problem won't get fixed. 🧵

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Thames Water's buyer has pulled out, it is time to freeze their bills, cripple them with fines, let them go bankrupt. Then replace them with an entirely new Government run Water Company.

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🤑 Oil and gas companies make billions while our planet burns. 🌎 It's time for a permanent windfall tax to pay for a just transition.

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"Israel cannot be allowed to continue trampling on filmmakers’ freedom of expression" 👏👏👏

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This is really rather good comms

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This will probably come as no surprise to anyone but… www.thelondoneconomic.com/politics/ref...

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There's a long tradition in British politics of calls for "unity", which mean "everyone must agree with me, and opposition must be crushed". This is a classic of the genre by Christabel Pankhurst in 1918, running for election against a Labour candidate in Smethwick.

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Useful 🧵

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Corals were almost wiped out at the end of the Permian; two majors orders (rugose and tabulate corals) became extinct. In fact, there were no coral reefs for 30 million years before modern stony corals appeared in the Middle Triassic.

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US 🇺🇸 anti‑abortion cash floods UK 🇬🇧 free speech frontlines “US anti‑abortion lawyer funding Toby Young’s Free Speech Union, while Alliance Defending Freedom’s UK spending soars.” That’s what happened when the Repub of Ireland held an abortion ref democracyforsale.substack.com/p/us-antiabo...

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Friends from Poland, Please share your thoughts after the elections Poland is so important for European security.What happens there matters a lot 🇺🇦 is very grateful to Poland for all the help&support you've provided&continue to provide Friends from other countries what do your media say about 🇵🇱 ?

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EU Commission proposes that EU conclude (ie ratify) Council of Europe treaty on artificial intelligence - ec.europa.eu/transparency...

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🚨🚨Major seminal ruling in #Kinsa now delivered by @eucourtofjustice.bsky.social . There is a need to read the judgment in more detail but it looks like a major win for EU asylum law and fundamental rights. 🧵 curia.europa.eu/jcms/upload/...

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texted @jayhulmepoet.bsky.social and asked him if he could go to a certain church and count how many radiators are in the building for me and he just knew off the top of his head

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Just for the idiots in the back Nigel Farage will get rid of the NHS, he WONT cut your taxes, and you will have to pay £10,000 a year just to have the option of paying 10x what healthcare costs to get it. Everyone else can die at home like they did before 1946.

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What’s a ‘Strombolian eruption?’ A volcanologist explains what happened at Mount Etna theconversation.com/whats-a-stro...

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Thames Water should be made an example of, arrest all their executives, let the company go bankrupt dissolving all their debts. Nationalise with no debt. It will teach the criminal bosses, the irresponsible lenders and the greedy shareholders all at once. And you pay nothing.

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🇵🇱Former Polish President and Nobel Peace Prize laureate Lech Wałęsa on populist Nawrocki’s presidential victory: “Democracy in #Poland collapsed on June 1, 2025...

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Israeli government ministers and officials told us exactly what they intended to do in #Gaza, then went ahead and did it. There will be no justice until they are brought before the ICC to face charges of genocide.

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I don't know how I missed this book but so happy to get a copy from the one and only @katyhayward.bsky.social and I look forward to reading it. The more time I spend in NI, the more I understand just how much I need to read this book.

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I read this last year and it is very illuminating. And a reminder how little Northern Ireland is understood, and, to make things worse, how little it is often at least considered. @katyhayward.bsky.social

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Huge news for the lady slipper orchid - the first new wild plant for 100 years found in the UK! 🌱 We've been involved in a partnership to recover this precious species for years! Check out these wild plants (left) and a tiny young seedling from our in vitro lab (right) 👇 pa.media/blogs/pa-edi...

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5,000 English nature sites are at risk from the Planning Bill - and MPs vote on it next Monday & Tuesday. Tell your MP to remove Part 3 of the Bill - use the Wildlife Trusts' email tool here: action.wildlifetrusts.org/page/171483/... And send your MP this: www.theguardian.com/environment/...

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Cippus perusinus has 45 lines of Etruscan. It is a boundary stone found in 1822 memorising a legal contract between two Etruscan families, Velthina (from Perugia) and Afuna (from Chiusi), regarding a cemetery plot. It dates to the 3rd or 2nd century BC. #EpigraphyTuesday

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@clairebradley.bsky.social FYI. Saw this and thought of you :)

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Pompeii is pretty awesome.

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This is some incredible observational work into a quite possibly unique galactic object. This is worth reading and sharing please.

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🧵 A unique celestial object, known as ASKAP J1832–0911, is capturing the attention of astronomers. Discovered 15,000 ly from Earth, this enigmatic object, located in our galaxy, behaves in a way never seen before. ➡️ chandra.si.edu/press/25_rel... Identified thanks to⤵️ 🔭 🧪 #science #galactic

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This majestic owl was captured mid-flight by Tahir Abbasawan www.viewbug.com/member/tahir...

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Nigel Farage says abortion laws are “utterly ludicrous.” MPs are watching. We have days to show them: the public backs abortion rights. Join me and sign the petition now! you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/de...

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Much of the climate emergency is about chemistry and physics but Reform seems to think that the 'force of will' of Mr Farage can alter what is basic scientific fact. That most presenters of #r4today #wato and #bbcpm are clueless about science is a real problem when it comes to interviewing them.

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This is such an important point. Many polls (including those re the EU) ask questions that don't confront people with the real choices they face, and as a result the outcome of those polls is effectively meaningless.

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It's amazing how stories come back again and again. The problem was obvious as soon as it was first announced that developers could kick some money into a central environmental remediation pot instead of worrying about the environment local to the development... www.theguardian.com/environment/...

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Here’s a prophesy from 1982 👇

submitted 19 hours ago • 5 comments

Ok. I’ll bite. How are we supposed to reduce the backlog when the Crown Court DCS takes 8 minutes to load a single page?

submitted 11 days ago • 1 comment