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AlexTaylorNews @alextaylornews.bsky.social · 2d

De simples phrases peuvent changer le cours d'une vie. La mienne par exemple. En 1981 Badinter a prononcé celle-ci 👇inouïe à l'époque. Tout le contraire de Thatcher et sa Clause 28 "interdisant toute promotion de l'homosexualité"
Je venais d'arriver en France. Je suis resté ❤️🇫🇷
Merci Monsieur

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AlexTaylorNews @alextaylornews.bsky.social · Aug 8

Me in a boater, 1976
Nearly 50 yrs separate this pic↙️ from ↘️of me back this week for the 1st time, chuffed to be one of Pembroke College, Oxford's "400 for its first 400 years"
Seems a lifetime away (it was 😀)

The past is another country, but it was indeed a wonderful one

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AlexTaylorNews @alextaylornews.bsky.social · Aug 3

Les GB regrettent le Brexit - carrément - seuls 29% voteraient aujourd'hui pour quitter l'UE .....
(et la moitié voudrait même un nouveau référendum)
Sondage Sunday Times 👇
🇪🇺🇬🇧

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AlexTaylorNews @alextaylornews.bsky.social · Jul 14

Souvenir de mon passage en 2006 au dîner "God save the Queen" dans "93, Faubourg St-Honoré"👇chez Ardisson

On se sentait at home. Un journaliste qui s'en fichait des clichés

Ardisson. Un homme en noir. Un journaliste qui cassait les codes🖤

www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ItW...

Dîner "God save the Queen" au 93, Faubourg Saint-Honoré chez Thierry Ardisson | INA Arditube

YouTube video by INA Arditube

www.youtube.com

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AlexTaylorNews @alextaylornews.bsky.social · Jul 14

Goosebumps ! For 1 day each year my little French town tells the whole world just how proud it is to be🇫🇷❤️

I saw many great 14th July fireworks in Paris, but they were somehow distant. Last night, standing right in front of our Town Hall this totally blew me away !
My montage - Sound absolutely on !

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AlexTaylorNews @alextaylornews.bsky.social · Jul 11

I subtitled this from Macron because no UK politician has ever said, or indeed would DARE say this so clearly (most notably Labour) for fear of offending Brexit voters

It was Brexit which CAUSED the small boats problem by ditching all existing legal EU/UK frameworks

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AlexTaylorNews @alextaylornews.bsky.social · Jul 11

"When I look at Macron and Starmer talking now, it just demonstrates the narcissism of the arguments we had around Brexit and the extent our country turned in on itself. Looks ridiculous with hindsight."

And that's Sir Alex Younger, the longest serving head of MI6
@bbcnewsnight.bsky.social

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AlexTaylorNews @alextaylornews.bsky.social · Jun 16

This is hilarious/embarrassing/humiliating

Trump talks about the great UK deal before dropping it, forcing the "great Prime Minister of the UK" to skivvy around picking the thing up only to hear Trump refer to it, uncorrected, as "a great agreement with the European Union"🤡🤡🤡

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AlexTaylorNews @alextaylornews.bsky.social · Jun 11

Décidément les GB ne font rien comme les autres - ici le nouveau chef de l'extrême droite racontant comment il conduisait à travers une forêt avec le fantôme de sa grand-mère dans le coffre, fait vérifié par un medium qui, rentrant en contact avec celle-ci, tenta de l'étrangler🤡

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AlexTaylorNews @alextaylornews.bsky.social · Jun 7

"Would you say your English is as good as your German ?"

What a skull-numbingly dumb question to ask the 🇩🇪Chancellor !

Trump, the most powerful man in international affairs, has seemingly never grasped the difference between a mother language and one someone learns
🤡

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AlexTaylorNews @alextaylornews.bsky.social · May 31

"In an extraordinary solution, Dover will have a virtual border. To ensure its integrity, buses will have their doors physically sealed with tape for the 1.4-mile journey across town to the ferry. Irregular movements will be monitored by AI"🤡

Taking back control of borders ...

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AlexTaylorNews @alextaylornews.bsky.social · May 23

🇬🇧media : "Reform, Reform, Reform, Reform, Reform, Reform, Reform, Reform, Reform, Reform, Reform, Reform, Reform etc"

Also 🇬🇧media : "In an amazing development, Reform is now leading the polls ..."
🤡

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AlexTaylorNews @alextaylornews.bsky.social · May 23

The sheer lunacy of "taking back control" of borders against people who provide you with 75% of your food imports👇

You spend millions on this monstrosity, keep putting off using it when it dawns on you you actually need to eat, and now you have to get rid of the sodding thing🤡

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AlexTaylorNews @alextaylornews.bsky.social · May 19

Here's how today's 🇪🇺🇬🇧 summit has just been covered on main France 2 news - no report, just a 15 second voice-over 20 mins down the running order 👇(contrary to UK news which has been covering it non-stop all day)

The EU really has moved on😀
(my subtitles👇 all 4 of them🤡)

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AlexTaylorNews @alextaylornews.bsky.social · May 12

"When people come to our country, they should commit to integration, to learning our language"👇

Sorry, but UK exceptionalism on steroids. What about the millions of UK "Place in the Sun" e̴x̴p̴a̴t̴s̴ migrants who never learn Spanish or French and don't exactly integrate here ?

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AlexTaylorNews @alextaylornews.bsky.social · May 11

"Bargaining needs to be done in strength. The UK is not that big. If the UK had joined the EU in bargaining, you could have done it. That's exactly what Trump wanted, piece by piece, taking the weakest country first"👇

Economics Nobel Prize @josephestiglitz.bsky.social

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AlexTaylorNews @alextaylornews.bsky.social · May 11

Look at this graph👇just broadcast on #bbclaurak which shows clearly when UK immigration figures changed DRAMATICALLY👇

In the 20 min interview with Home Sec @YvetteCooperMP was the word "Brexit" mentioned once ? Of course it wasn't

When Labour denialism meets BBC denialism

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AlexTaylorNews @alextaylornews.bsky.social · May 9

Ode to Joy live under the Arc de Triomphe just now, mixed with pictures of the liberation of Paris to mark 80 years of peace

Goosebumps - chair de poule, 100%👇
❤️🇪🇺🇫🇷🇬🇧🇺🇸

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AlexTaylorNews @alextaylornews.bsky.social · May 3

"L'extrême droite de Farage" - 🇬🇧 "far right"

French press calls it likes it sees it 👇
(contrairement aux médias 🇬🇧)

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AlexTaylorNews @alextaylornews.bsky.social · Apr 25

Great ! EU flags allowed back at the Eurovision Song Contest (Sweden ludicrously banned them last year)
💪🇪🇺
#Eurovision2025

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AlexTaylorNews @alextaylornews.bsky.social · Apr 22

Why can't you get a decent cup of tea on the continent ?

🙏👏 @channel4tv.bsky.social #FoodUnwrapped for providing the easy answer which I for one, who's been cursing tea on said for 4 decades have never twigged
There's twice the tea in 🇬🇧bags🤡

Typical 🇫🇷 teabag : I.57g
🇵🇹1.51g
🇬🇧👇2.89g !

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AlexTaylorNews @alextaylornews.bsky.social · Apr 21

Merci ! Que de beaux souvenirs :)

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AlexTaylorNews @alextaylornews.bsky.social · Apr 17

As I often say atm😀🇬🇧really is going to have to choose between 🇺🇸&🇪🇺
It can't have both

If it does choose Trump, his interference in UK life will make Brussels look like "une promenade dans le parc" 🤡↙️↘️(just today)

and btw 3x as many GBs favour trade with🇪🇺 over🇺🇸
- but hey

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AlexTaylorNews @alextaylornews.bsky.social · Apr 15

This is wonderful ! Swedish TV today begins its live stream with multiple cameras of “Den stora älgvandringen ” - “The Great Elk Trek” as moose migrate from the North towards their summer grazing pastures

Up to 9 million Swedes follow it live here 👇
❤️🇸🇪
www.svtplay.se/video/8rQo4R...

Den stora älgvandringen – Idag 00:00

I flera tusen år har älgarna vandrat samma leder för att ta sig till sommarens rika betesmarker. Följ årets vandring, som är den sjunde säsongen då vi får se älgarna vandra i rutan och på SVT Play.

www.svtplay.se

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AlexTaylorNews @alextaylornews.bsky.social · Apr 15

Oh look ! Turns out after 8 years huffing & puffing, the UK is "open" to accepting the rules of its biggest trade partner so that it can sell & buy more food with it - again

Except that this time it has no say in those rules. Far from "taking back control" Brexit meant losing it

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