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Michelle Everson
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Professor of Law, European and economic law are specialities; also sheep selfies.

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Michelle Everson @eversonmeverson.bsky.social · 2h
In my day goths levitated quite a lot, but largely due to the upper cuts of the local Devon scallywags, who were somehow incensed by young men in high black suede heels and frilly Lord Byron shirts intoning 'Bella Lugosi is dead' at half past two of a merry morning.

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Michelle Everson @eversonmeverson.bsky.social · 2h
Oh good grief: all the happy clappy senior managers go back to the planning board. No hold up lads, forget the China link ups, we just need to show we have 'embedded skills teaching' a la Government edict 3007 and we are made! UCU/VCs this is the stuff we need to fight (together).

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Michelle Everson @eversonmeverson.bsky.social · 2h
Can we have t-shirts made? 'I voted for a leftwing coalition of chaos!' Oh yes, bring that chaos on.....

Reposted by Michelle Everson, Björn Heile

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Ben Ansell @benansell.bsky.social · 2h
On Bregman, I was there in the audience and I can’t see what the BBC have gained by removing this line except more bad publicity. I will say that no such edits or censorship occurred when I gave the Reith Lectures and free-speech defenders might want think about whether this is the world they want.

Reposted by Michelle Everson

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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 2h
Looking at polling averages, Reform has dipped a little recently but it's largely because of Labour 24 voters who had been saying "don't know" now saying Green.

As DKs they were excluded but as Greens they are not, so Reform drop even though they have the same number of people supporting them.

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Michelle Everson @eversonmeverson.bsky.social · 3h
He had worsened the lives of so very many people. Has he made any better? Maybe some older people for 5 minutes as the companionship of Brexit, Reform campaigns fills the lonely part of their lives. Beyond that, he's just made rascists feel good.

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Will Jennings📉🗳️ @drjennings.bsky.social · 3h
This seems bad...
rutgerbregman.com Rutger Bregman @rutgerbregman.com · 5h
I wish I didn’t have to share this. But the BBC has decided to censor my first Reith Lecture.

They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1

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Sue Wilson MBE @suewilson91.bsky.social · 4h
Farage never "tried to hurt anybody".
He hurt the UK.
He hurt the European Union.
He promoted division & hate.
He destroyed our once tolerant society.
But, never mind. He doesn't remember.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Nigel Farage responds to racism claims saying he never ‘tried to hurt anybody’
Reform leader denies racist or antisemitic behaviour ‘with intent’ at school, but says he can’t remember everything from 49 years ago
www.theguardian.com

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Dave Keating @davekeating.substack.com · 4h
BREAKING: This is huge news, the EU's equivalent of the 🇺🇸Supreme Court's 2015 Obergefell v. Hodges ruling.

🇪🇺Court of Justice just ruled all 🇪🇺countries must recognise same-sex marriages granted in other member states.

This effectively legalises gay marriage across 🇪🇺
www.reuters.com

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Rutger Bregman @rutgerbregman.com · 5h
I wish I didn’t have to share this. But the BBC has decided to censor my first Reith Lecture.

They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1

Reposted by Michelle Everson

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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 7h
When the racist comedian Bernard Manning fell out of fashion in more tolerant times and stopped appearing on TV he defended his long history of appalling offensive "jokes" as nothing more than "banter"and insisted that he "had a go at everyone".

This is the Bernard Manning defence.

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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 20h
Robbie Gibb describes the BBC's Political Editor Chris Mason as the "unsung hero of covering politics" and "absolutely first rate"

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Michelle Everson @eversonmeverson.bsky.social · 1d
Count yourself lucky you don't have to produce crispy roast potatoes at the same time: although, us English have the weekly Sunday roast practice at least... p.s. parboil the carrots (day before), roll them in balsamic vinegar, and roast them to perfection...

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Max Berger @maxberger.bsky.social · 1d
If I’m understanding this correctly, X is owned by a white nationalist who pays poor people of color in developing countries to pretend to be working class white Americans to scare other white Americans into being afraid poor people of color from developing countries are going to ruin America?

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Michelle Everson @eversonmeverson.bsky.social · 2d
Brilliant. Thank you.

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Paintings of London @paintingsoflondon.bsky.social · 2d
🎵 If you're interested, all the songs this week came from a mammoth playlist I put together earlier this year of songs about and inspired by London 🎵

Over 18 hours for your listening pleasure.
open.spotify.com/playlist/6sZ...
Songs of London
open.spotify.com

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Michelle Everson @eversonmeverson.bsky.social · 3d
There is a legendary ARD interview with Helmut and Loki Schmidt, both well over 90, puffing away so that the camera could barely see them for the smoke. I think an exception had been made to the no smoking on TV rule. They were brilliant 👏.

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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.bsky.social · 3d
This is not a peace plan. It is a proposal that weakens Ukraine and divides America from Europe, preparing the way for a larger war in the future. In the meantime, it benefits unnamed Russian and American investors, at the expense of everyone else.
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
Trump Has a Recipe for War and Corruption, Not Peace
Who would benefit from the White House’s 28-point proposal for Ukraine?
www.theatlantic.com

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James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 3d
Farage can now be easily boxed in to a corner where his only ‘defence’ becomes: “Yes I spouted Kremlin propaganda & Putin worship but, unlike Nathan Gill, I didn’t need bribes to do it.”
It is, once again, a question of whether interviewers have the temerity to shut down his whining obfuscations.

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Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 3d
Hypothesis: Starmer is obligated to Peter Mandelson. Why else did he give him plum Washington job?

He’s been sacked over his Epstein links. But he & Epstein had other common interests & contacts. Mandelson was friends with key Putin allies for years.

www.theguardian.com/politics/blo...
Peter Mandelson and the Russian oligarch: an explanation from a friend
Andrew Sparrow: If you're interested in the story about Peter Mandelson and his relationship with the Russian billionaire Oleg Deripaska read on
www.theguardian.com

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Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 3d
This is outrageous from Keir Starmer.

‘Russian links to Reform need investigating’, he says. So why is his government still fighting case now in Grand Chamber of Strasbourg court refusing to have such an investigation into Russian interference ??

news.sky.com/story/starme...
Starmer demands investigation into Reform-Russia links after party's ex-Wales leader jailed
The former leader of Reform in Wales, Nathan Gill, has been jailed for 10-and-a-half years after being paid £40,000 to make pro-Russian statements in the European Parliament.
news.sky.com

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Michelle Everson @eversonmeverson.bsky.social · 3d
Gosh, surprised by the Siberian dominance here. Brix looks so much like my old (rescued from breeding horror) British Blue that I would go for British short-hair (first time I've heard the character description and it fits perfectly). But folks, do avoid dodgy breeding traders. No to designer cats!

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Reform Party UK Exposed @reformexposed.bsky.social · 3d
Reform UK in Leicestershire Council are paying consultants Newton £1.4m to do the job they claimed DOGE would do.

Thats £4.72 per Council Tax paying household.

It could rise to £30m they are paying Newton. Thats £101 per household in Leicestershire.

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Michelle Everson @eversonmeverson.bsky.social · 3d
For those wanting to know the long history behind this vile, racist drivel: top academic research, accessible writing, worth its weight in gold, especially as regards the (to us) policy incoherence of a rascist/capitalist alt right.
Quinn Slobodian: Hayek's Bastards (Allen Lane).

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fife4europe #FBPE #RejoinEU @fife4europe.bsky.social · 3d
New Statesman: These are Farage’s boats – we must not let him off the hook
www.newstatesman.com/politics/uk-...
These are Farage's boats – we must not let him off the hook
We must bring Brexit into the equation
www.newstatesman.com

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Ed Davey @eddavey.libdems.org.uk · 3d
Ukraine is on the brink of an historic betrayal by Trump to Putin.

Keir Starmer must bring our European allies together to back Zelensky, starting by seizing frozen Russian assets to support Ukraine.

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Chris Grey @chrisgrey.bsky.social · 3d
Farage et al really mustn't be allowed to walk away from this scandal, and its wider implications:
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Former Reform in Wales leader Nathan Gill jailed for pro-Russian bribery
Nathan Gill, 52, is sentenced to 10 and a half years in prison after admitting taking bribes while an MEP.
www.bbc.co.uk

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 3d
More evidence that the Trump/Witkoff “peace plan” for Ukraine came straight from the Russians - it uses Russian syntax.
www.theguardian.com/world/live/2...

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Tim White @twmcltd.bsky.social · 3d
The Guardian points out that the document Trump is forcing Ukraine to sign was highly likely to have been written in Russian by a Russian. Then translated in a way not natural for a native English speaker.

Agent Orange is literally on the verge of doing Putin's work and killing a free nation.

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Laurence, Neasden asylum seeker @laurenceineu.bsky.social · 3d
I should like to see several former Tory government ministers in prison. Not for incompetence, because that isn't a crime, but for misconduct in public office associated with turning the pandemic into an enrichment opportunity and for gross negligence manslaughter.