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Keir Starmer needs to stand up for the BBC against Trump's outrageous $5bn lawsuit and protect licence fee payers from being hit in the pocket.
Trump wants to interfere in our democracy and undermine our national broadcaster. We cannot let him.
Trump wants to interfere in our democracy and undermine our national broadcaster. We cannot let him.
December 16, 2025 at 8:49 AM
Keir Starmer needs to stand up for the BBC against Trump's outrageous $5bn lawsuit and protect licence fee payers from being hit in the pocket.
Trump wants to interfere in our democracy and undermine our national broadcaster. We cannot let him.
Trump wants to interfere in our democracy and undermine our national broadcaster. We cannot let him.
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New post just out:
"The Overshoot"
Net migration is collapsing, and will fall further over the coming years. We could even have net emigration.
What does that mean for the country and the political narrative as we head towards the next election?
(£/free trial)
open.substack.com/pub/samf/p/t...
"The Overshoot"
Net migration is collapsing, and will fall further over the coming years. We could even have net emigration.
What does that mean for the country and the political narrative as we head towards the next election?
(£/free trial)
open.substack.com/pub/samf/p/t...
The Overshoot
What happens to politics, and the country, as net migration collapses?
open.substack.com
December 16, 2025 at 8:46 AM
New post just out:
"The Overshoot"
Net migration is collapsing, and will fall further over the coming years. We could even have net emigration.
What does that mean for the country and the political narrative as we head towards the next election?
(£/free trial)
open.substack.com/pub/samf/p/t...
"The Overshoot"
Net migration is collapsing, and will fall further over the coming years. We could even have net emigration.
What does that mean for the country and the political narrative as we head towards the next election?
(£/free trial)
open.substack.com/pub/samf/p/t...
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News from all around most UK Higher Education: it's lapsing into a chaotic state and parts are non-functional. If it were a state I would say large tracts are in a pre-revolutionary state of disintegration. I don't say this lightly.
December 16, 2025 at 8:18 AM
News from all around most UK Higher Education: it's lapsing into a chaotic state and parts are non-functional. If it were a state I would say large tracts are in a pre-revolutionary state of disintegration. I don't say this lightly.
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If you’d like to read the actual 33-page defamation lawsuit Donald Trump has filed “for damages not less than $5,000,000,000”, then here it is:
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
Complaint – #1 in TRUMP v. BRITISH BROADCASTING CORPORATION (S.D. Fla., 1:25-cv-25894) – CourtListener.com
COMPLAINT against BBC STUDIOS DISTRIBUTION LIMITED, BBC STUDIOS PRODUCTIONS LIMITED, BRITISH BROADCASTING CORPORATION. Filing fees $ 405.00 receipt number AFLSDC-19044737, filed by DONALD J. TRUMP. (A...
storage.courtlistener.com
December 16, 2025 at 8:27 AM
If you’d like to read the actual 33-page defamation lawsuit Donald Trump has filed “for damages not less than $5,000,000,000”, then here it is:
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
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The Donbas isn’t Putin’s end game.
If he gets it, he will demand more.
We know this from history and we should learn from history.
Extract of my doorstep ahead of today’s Foreign Affairs Council ↓
If he gets it, he will demand more.
We know this from history and we should learn from history.
Extract of my doorstep ahead of today’s Foreign Affairs Council ↓
December 15, 2025 at 9:22 AM
The Donbas isn’t Putin’s end game.
If he gets it, he will demand more.
We know this from history and we should learn from history.
Extract of my doorstep ahead of today’s Foreign Affairs Council ↓
If he gets it, he will demand more.
We know this from history and we should learn from history.
Extract of my doorstep ahead of today’s Foreign Affairs Council ↓
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Happy 1st birthday to the Northumberland Line
Well over 900,000 journeys taken on the line in the last year and keeping building on the success when Northumberland Park and Bedlington stations open.
Well done to Northern for all involved
Well over 900,000 journeys taken on the line in the last year and keeping building on the success when Northumberland Park and Bedlington stations open.
Well done to Northern for all involved
December 15, 2025 at 9:12 AM
Happy 1st birthday to the Northumberland Line
Well over 900,000 journeys taken on the line in the last year and keeping building on the success when Northumberland Park and Bedlington stations open.
Well done to Northern for all involved
Well over 900,000 journeys taken on the line in the last year and keeping building on the success when Northumberland Park and Bedlington stations open.
Well done to Northern for all involved
How many lives did Ahmed al Ahmed save through his actions?
The number of dead following the Bondi Beach shooting has risen to 16, including one child, New South Wales Health Minister Ryan Park tells ABC.
It's not currently clear if the updated death toll includes either of the gunmen.
www.bbc.com/news/live/ck...
It's not currently clear if the updated death toll includes either of the gunmen.
www.bbc.com/news/live/ck...
Bondi shooting death toll rises to 16, including a child, after gunmen targeted Jewish festival
It is unclear whether the latest death toll includes either of the gunmen, with police earlier saying one had been killed and the other was in critical condition.
www.bbc.com
December 14, 2025 at 7:34 PM
How many lives did Ahmed al Ahmed save through his actions?
Dementia writ large and yet silence from the US media...
“We would win California by a lot” — a delusional Trump claims he won California in 2024
December 14, 2025 at 7:31 PM
Dementia writ large and yet silence from the US media...
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Lighting the Chanukiah in Oxford tonight.
Praying for light from the darkness, and an end to violence.
Praying for light from the darkness, and an end to violence.
December 14, 2025 at 5:48 PM
Lighting the Chanukiah in Oxford tonight.
Praying for light from the darkness, and an end to violence.
Praying for light from the darkness, and an end to violence.
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A notably “warm” start to meteorological winter across Europe only far north of Norway, Finland and Sweden have escaped.
The first half has been perhaps been the warmest on record this December though is not expected to exceed 2015... (1/2)
The first half has been perhaps been the warmest on record this December though is not expected to exceed 2015... (1/2)
December 14, 2025 at 3:04 PM
A notably “warm” start to meteorological winter across Europe only far north of Norway, Finland and Sweden have escaped.
The first half has been perhaps been the warmest on record this December though is not expected to exceed 2015... (1/2)
The first half has been perhaps been the warmest on record this December though is not expected to exceed 2015... (1/2)
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PSA: Local Hero is on Film4 at the moment, starting on Film4+1 at 2.30pm
December 14, 2025 at 1:57 PM
PSA: Local Hero is on Film4 at the moment, starting on Film4+1 at 2.30pm
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Dec 13, 2000: GO Transit announces that for the first time it has carried forty million passengers in one year. A Scarborough commuter was chosen as GO's symbolic forty-millionth passenger of the year and was given a free twelve-month pass. 1/2
December 14, 2025 at 4:33 AM
Dec 13, 2000: GO Transit announces that for the first time it has carried forty million passengers in one year. A Scarborough commuter was chosen as GO's symbolic forty-millionth passenger of the year and was given a free twelve-month pass. 1/2
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Reports of a mass shooting at Bondi Beach, Sidney, at or near a Hanukkah event which was taking place on the beach. I have seen videos of two men in black shooting down to the beach, but I'm not sure if those are the assailants or LEO. Reports of many casualties.
December 14, 2025 at 8:37 AM
Reports of a mass shooting at Bondi Beach, Sidney, at or near a Hanukkah event which was taking place on the beach. I have seen videos of two men in black shooting down to the beach, but I'm not sure if those are the assailants or LEO. Reports of many casualties.
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The findings, described in the journal Nature, push back the earliest known date for controlled fire-making by roughly 350,000 years. Until now, the oldest confirmed evidence had come from Neanderthal sites in what is now northern France dating to about 50,000 years ago.
#Archaeology
#Archaeology
Study finds humans were making fire 400,000 years ago, far earlier than once thought
Archaeologists in Britain say they have found the earliest known evidence of deliberate fire-making, dating to around 400,000 years ago.
apnews.com
December 14, 2025 at 9:20 AM
The findings, described in the journal Nature, push back the earliest known date for controlled fire-making by roughly 350,000 years. Until now, the oldest confirmed evidence had come from Neanderthal sites in what is now northern France dating to about 50,000 years ago.
#Archaeology
#Archaeology
Why do they keep spouting "this isn't what I voted for"?
IOWA — “I’m a very pissed off conservative Christian woman. I almost died because I was denied medical care after being diagnosed with a fatal fetus… Cornered by the system… pro life? Choose me. Choose the mother.”
It had to happen to her to get this? #ForcedBirthNation
It had to happen to her to get this? #ForcedBirthNation
December 14, 2025 at 2:01 AM
Why do they keep spouting "this isn't what I voted for"?
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Absolutely crazy December warmth continues in
CENTRAL ASIA
In mountainous areas temperatures are locally more than 20C above normal.
Unbelievable in KYRGYZSTAN Mountains
Ak Terek 1748m asl yesterday max. 15.5C
today min +3.0 (like in September)
Should be DEEP freezing.
CENTRAL ASIA
In mountainous areas temperatures are locally more than 20C above normal.
Unbelievable in KYRGYZSTAN Mountains
Ak Terek 1748m asl yesterday max. 15.5C
today min +3.0 (like in September)
Should be DEEP freezing.
December 13, 2025 at 5:18 PM
Absolutely crazy December warmth continues in
CENTRAL ASIA
In mountainous areas temperatures are locally more than 20C above normal.
Unbelievable in KYRGYZSTAN Mountains
Ak Terek 1748m asl yesterday max. 15.5C
today min +3.0 (like in September)
Should be DEEP freezing.
CENTRAL ASIA
In mountainous areas temperatures are locally more than 20C above normal.
Unbelievable in KYRGYZSTAN Mountains
Ak Terek 1748m asl yesterday max. 15.5C
today min +3.0 (like in September)
Should be DEEP freezing.
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This sounds like defensive briefing straight from a Morgan McSweeney Whatsapp group in denial about how an ineffective leader unwilling to face the breakdown of US-Europe relations might not be the best figure to lead the UK into a post-American order
December 13, 2025 at 10:47 AM
This sounds like defensive briefing straight from a Morgan McSweeney Whatsapp group in denial about how an ineffective leader unwilling to face the breakdown of US-Europe relations might not be the best figure to lead the UK into a post-American order
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Amazing, the @dailymail.co.uk manages to publish an entire lengthy feature bewailing (!!!!) the exodus of Poles from Britain without once mentioning Brexit. Apparently this outcome (which is surely exactly what they campaigned for in 2016) is all the fault of Keir Starmer.
mol.im/a/15379789
mol.im/a/15379789
The great exodus: How Poles are ditching UK for their booming homeland
New statistics reveal that while 7,000 Poles arrived in the year ending last June, 25,000 returned home: a net outflow of 18,000. The UK's total Polish population has shrunk to 750,000.
mol.im
December 13, 2025 at 9:26 AM
Amazing, the @dailymail.co.uk manages to publish an entire lengthy feature bewailing (!!!!) the exodus of Poles from Britain without once mentioning Brexit. Apparently this outcome (which is surely exactly what they campaigned for in 2016) is all the fault of Keir Starmer.
mol.im/a/15379789
mol.im/a/15379789
If this doesn't shake the Labour Party, I am not sure what will.
Whitburn & Blackburn (West Lothian) Council By-Election Result [1st Prefs]:
➡️ RFM: 32.0% (+15.7)
🎗️ SNP: 28.0% (-0.9)
🌹 LAB: 17.1% (-13.9)
🙋 Ind: 13.2% (+1.3)
🌳 CON: 3.5% (-3.2)
🔶 LDM: 2.8% (+0.0)
🌍 GRN: 2.7% (+0.2)
🙋 Ind: 0.7% (New)
Reform GAIN from Labour - Stage 8.
Changes w/ 2024.
➡️ RFM: 32.0% (+15.7)
🎗️ SNP: 28.0% (-0.9)
🌹 LAB: 17.1% (-13.9)
🙋 Ind: 13.2% (+1.3)
🌳 CON: 3.5% (-3.2)
🔶 LDM: 2.8% (+0.0)
🌍 GRN: 2.7% (+0.2)
🙋 Ind: 0.7% (New)
Reform GAIN from Labour - Stage 8.
Changes w/ 2024.
December 12, 2025 at 1:45 PM
If this doesn't shake the Labour Party, I am not sure what will.
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Spot on piece by @robertshrimsley.bsky.social. It will be the next Labour leader who makes the case for the UK to go back into the EU, not the current one. Keir Starmer does not have the credibility or political chops to do it - even if he wanted to. Labour MPs and members know this.
A Brexit survival strategy that shows Starmer’s days are numbered
Labour will need a different leader if it pursues a policy of rejoining the EU customs union or single market
www.ft.com
December 12, 2025 at 8:03 AM
Spot on piece by @robertshrimsley.bsky.social. It will be the next Labour leader who makes the case for the UK to go back into the EU, not the current one. Keir Starmer does not have the credibility or political chops to do it - even if he wanted to. Labour MPs and members know this.
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apparently there's 'falling growth' in the 'scientific research' sector, and yes, that is what will happen if you slash jobs in universities
UK economy unexpectedly contracts by 0.1% in October
Growth has slowed throughout the year
www.ft.com
December 12, 2025 at 7:58 AM
apparently there's 'falling growth' in the 'scientific research' sector, and yes, that is what will happen if you slash jobs in universities
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Lonely postbox, Isle of Yell, Shetland, 2004, photo by Martin Parr (Magnum).
December 11, 2025 at 7:17 PM
Lonely postbox, Isle of Yell, Shetland, 2004, photo by Martin Parr (Magnum).
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I'm recruiting a #PhDstudent ! Deadline Feb 10th!
Explore how forest management shapes peatlands, riparian zones, streams and the #biodiversity that depends on them. www.slu.se/en/about-slu...
Explore how forest management shapes peatlands, riparian zones, streams and the #biodiversity that depends on them. www.slu.se/en/about-slu...
December 11, 2025 at 8:08 AM
I'm recruiting a #PhDstudent ! Deadline Feb 10th!
Explore how forest management shapes peatlands, riparian zones, streams and the #biodiversity that depends on them. www.slu.se/en/about-slu...
Explore how forest management shapes peatlands, riparian zones, streams and the #biodiversity that depends on them. www.slu.se/en/about-slu...
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Le => #TER assuré par un => #X73500 entre Agen et Périgueux vient de franchir le #viaducdeLarzac (24) et par la tranchée qui entaille la colline dominant le village, fonce vers Belvès, Le Buisson, Les Eyzies ... en 11-15.
📷Bruno Marty, source : fongauffier-sur-nauze.blog4ever.com
📷Bruno Marty, source : fongauffier-sur-nauze.blog4ever.com
December 11, 2025 at 8:28 AM
Le => #TER assuré par un => #X73500 entre Agen et Périgueux vient de franchir le #viaducdeLarzac (24) et par la tranchée qui entaille la colline dominant le village, fonce vers Belvès, Le Buisson, Les Eyzies ... en 11-15.
📷Bruno Marty, source : fongauffier-sur-nauze.blog4ever.com
📷Bruno Marty, source : fongauffier-sur-nauze.blog4ever.com
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New @spiegel.de cover story catches the sentiment in Germany:
'Two bad guys, one goal: How Trump and Putin are attacking Europe'
'Two bad guys, one goal: How Trump and Putin are attacking Europe'
December 11, 2025 at 1:24 PM
New @spiegel.de cover story catches the sentiment in Germany:
'Two bad guys, one goal: How Trump and Putin are attacking Europe'
'Two bad guys, one goal: How Trump and Putin are attacking Europe'