@mcchris85.bsky.social
Political & cultural history & memory, national identity. Lots on sport, food & travel. Some disability stuff. Polish/Polski speaker. Views my own.
Never thought it would be possible, but I just found an even worse historical take than the one in the video.
November 27, 2025 at 2:51 PM
Never thought it would be possible, but I just found an even worse historical take than the one in the video.
I think this was my biggest issue with the series. Using the past to illustrate & talk about the present is nothing new, but it felt as if doing so both lost the history & skewed it to make it fit modern talking points
November 27, 2025 at 1:08 PM
I think this was my biggest issue with the series. Using the past to illustrate & talk about the present is nothing new, but it felt as if doing so both lost the history & skewed it to make it fit modern talking points
Kraków's Christmas market features heavily in lists of Europe's best, but it's long been a draw mainly for foreign tourists, with prices too high for many locals.
It's also often used as a exemplar by the far right in never needing to take the same safety precautions as markets in Germany & the UK
It's also often used as a exemplar by the far right in never needing to take the same safety precautions as markets in Germany & the UK
Authorities in the southern Polish city of Krakow have installed concrete barriers around its annual Christmas markets, which are popular with locals and tourists, as a precaution against a potential terrorist attack.
Krakow Christmas markets protected by concrete barriers
Other European cities have taken similar steps after a terror attack in Germany last year.
tvpworld.com
November 27, 2025 at 12:32 PM
Kraków's Christmas market features heavily in lists of Europe's best, but it's long been a draw mainly for foreign tourists, with prices too high for many locals.
It's also often used as a exemplar by the far right in never needing to take the same safety precautions as markets in Germany & the UK
It's also often used as a exemplar by the far right in never needing to take the same safety precautions as markets in Germany & the UK
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Remember -
Net migration rises: The government has lost control of the borders
Net migration fails: The government has trashed the country so badly that no one wants to come here
Net migration rises: The government has lost control of the borders
Net migration fails: The government has trashed the country so badly that no one wants to come here
November 27, 2025 at 12:04 PM
Remember -
Net migration rises: The government has lost control of the borders
Net migration fails: The government has trashed the country so badly that no one wants to come here
Net migration rises: The government has lost control of the borders
Net migration fails: The government has trashed the country so badly that no one wants to come here
I can't remember the last time I watched something which made my brain hurt so much.
November 27, 2025 at 11:57 AM
I can't remember the last time I watched something which made my brain hurt so much.
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Net migration fell sharply agaim to 204,000 in the year to June 2025, having been 344k in 2024 and 848k in 2023. But falling immigration has been the biggest secret - and it is time for the media and political debate to catch up with this change
www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cn...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cn...
UK net migration fell to 204,000 in year to June - live updates
Net migration, the difference between those entering and leaving the country, was 345,000 in 2024 according to revised figures.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 27, 2025 at 9:36 AM
Net migration fell sharply agaim to 204,000 in the year to June 2025, having been 344k in 2024 and 848k in 2023. But falling immigration has been the biggest secret - and it is time for the media and political debate to catch up with this change
www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cn...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cn...
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Keep your receipt guys, you’ve been had. That polar bear is, in fact, what’s known as a “cow”.
November 25, 2025 at 8:58 AM
Keep your receipt guys, you’ve been had. That polar bear is, in fact, what’s known as a “cow”.
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Average guess for asylum is a third of immigration. We make people allocate 100% on a slider to work, study, asylum, family. Get bigger overestimates if just ask for a % (as people's answers would often sum to well over 100%)
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The public also thinks asylum makes up a much larger share of UK immigration than it does. The average estimate is 33%, while the real figure is about 14%, with far more people arriving for work and study.
November 27, 2025 at 8:41 AM
Average guess for asylum is a third of immigration. We make people allocate 100% on a slider to work, study, asylum, family. Get bigger overestimates if just ask for a % (as people's answers would often sum to well over 100%)
bsky.app/profile/brit...
bsky.app/profile/brit...
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New net migration figures at 930am.
Net migration fell half a million to 344,000 in 2024 from 848k in 2023
56% of people think it went up last year
17% think stayed the same
14% think it went down
2025 figure to be lower again
16% expect that
38% think it will be up
31% about the same
Net migration fell half a million to 344,000 in 2024 from 848k in 2023
56% of people think it went up last year
17% think stayed the same
14% think it went down
2025 figure to be lower again
16% expect that
38% think it will be up
31% about the same
November 27, 2025 at 7:54 AM
New net migration figures at 930am.
Net migration fell half a million to 344,000 in 2024 from 848k in 2023
56% of people think it went up last year
17% think stayed the same
14% think it went down
2025 figure to be lower again
16% expect that
38% think it will be up
31% about the same
Net migration fell half a million to 344,000 in 2024 from 848k in 2023
56% of people think it went up last year
17% think stayed the same
14% think it went down
2025 figure to be lower again
16% expect that
38% think it will be up
31% about the same
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Renoir painting of son sold for $1.68 million at auction reut.rs/4afmN5D
Renoir painting of son sold for $1.68 million at auction
A rarely seen painting by French impressionist Pierre-Auguste Renoir, depicting his son and his nursemaid, was sold for 1.45 million euros ($1.68 million) at an auction held by Drouot on Tuesday in Paris.
reut.rs
November 25, 2025 at 10:50 PM
Renoir painting of son sold for $1.68 million at auction reut.rs/4afmN5D
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OBR says lower net migration will hurt overall productivity
November 26, 2025 at 12:31 PM
OBR says lower net migration will hurt overall productivity
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New PIP claims are starting to decline
November 26, 2025 at 12:40 PM
New PIP claims are starting to decline
It's a decision based at least partly on the image & perception of the cars in question.
Those makes are seen as luxury products, yet it is still possible to get a similarly priced top of the range Citroën through Motability.
Those makes are seen as luxury products, yet it is still possible to get a similarly priced top of the range Citroën through Motability.
November 26, 2025 at 12:40 PM
It's a decision based at least partly on the image & perception of the cars in question.
Those makes are seen as luxury products, yet it is still possible to get a similarly priced top of the range Citroën through Motability.
Those makes are seen as luxury products, yet it is still possible to get a similarly priced top of the range Citroën through Motability.
Perhaps, or perhaps there are some for whom Hitler's name doesn't resonate in the same way as it does in Europe & North America
There's an interesting question in why that's the case, perhaps it's because he is seen as an enemy of former imperial Western powers
There's Hitler ice cream, after all
There's an interesting question in why that's the case, perhaps it's because he is seen as an enemy of former imperial Western powers
There's Hitler ice cream, after all
November 26, 2025 at 12:47 AM
Perhaps, or perhaps there are some for whom Hitler's name doesn't resonate in the same way as it does in Europe & North America
There's an interesting question in why that's the case, perhaps it's because he is seen as an enemy of former imperial Western powers
There's Hitler ice cream, after all
There's an interesting question in why that's the case, perhaps it's because he is seen as an enemy of former imperial Western powers
There's Hitler ice cream, after all
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From the CWS Archives. June 2020.
October 29, 2025 at 6:37 PM
From the CWS Archives. June 2020.
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Every time I think this administration has plumbed the depths of incompetence, it goes down another level. Will this make Putin think he should end the war? Or will it make him think that if he keeps pushing, the US will offer him even more?
"Now, me to you, I know what it’s going to take to get a peace deal done: Donetsk and maybe a land swap somewhere."
-- Steve Witkoff, in his call to Putin aide Yuri Ushakov
Read the whole transcript of the Oct 14 call. It's amazing.
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-- Steve Witkoff, in his call to Putin aide Yuri Ushakov
Read the whole transcript of the Oct 14 call. It's amazing.
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www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Witkoff Discusses Ukraine Plans With Key Putin Aide: Transcript
The following is a transcript of an Oct. 14 phone call lasting just over 5 minutes between Steve Witkoff, Donald Trump’s special envoy for peace missions, and Yuri Ushakov, Vladimir Putin’s most senio...
www.bloomberg.com
November 25, 2025 at 8:37 PM
Every time I think this administration has plumbed the depths of incompetence, it goes down another level. Will this make Putin think he should end the war? Or will it make him think that if he keeps pushing, the US will offer him even more?
Oh look, another member of Reform comes out in favour of Russia.
November 25, 2025 at 8:37 PM
Oh look, another member of Reform comes out in favour of Russia.
This is maddening. Is there no journalist who actually understands Motability available?
Contributions are taken out of PIP. Making additional payments means you're using your own money
This feels like another knee-jerk reaction from government to idiots who think disabled people deserve basic
Contributions are taken out of PIP. Making additional payments means you're using your own money
This feels like another knee-jerk reaction from government to idiots who think disabled people deserve basic
Don’t want to be too moralistic about this, but it is an active disgrace what people are doing to a profoundly liberational scheme that costs relatively piddling amounts on the basis of a couple of right wing shitposters misrepresenting it on Twitter.
November 25, 2025 at 6:44 PM
This is maddening. Is there no journalist who actually understands Motability available?
Contributions are taken out of PIP. Making additional payments means you're using your own money
This feels like another knee-jerk reaction from government to idiots who think disabled people deserve basic
Contributions are taken out of PIP. Making additional payments means you're using your own money
This feels like another knee-jerk reaction from government to idiots who think disabled people deserve basic
This is all my X feed is now. Paid for Russian stooges distorting reality.
November 24, 2025 at 11:23 PM
This is all my X feed is now. Paid for Russian stooges distorting reality.
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We urgently need to know how many of these accounts have been spreading/amplifying hate, division and instability in Britain. We already know that a foreign actor - Elon Musk - promoted violent overthrow of the government. Has his platform been enabling foreign adversaries to do the same?
This is one of the big accounts boosting Tommy Robinson, Farage and Reform and ‘English Patriots’.
It’s Russian.
It’s Russian.
November 24, 2025 at 10:09 AM
We urgently need to know how many of these accounts have been spreading/amplifying hate, division and instability in Britain. We already know that a foreign actor - Elon Musk - promoted violent overthrow of the government. Has his platform been enabling foreign adversaries to do the same?
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Poland’s justice minister has pledged to take action after far-right leader Grzegorz Braun gave an anti-Jewish speech outside the former Auschwitz death camp.
Braun accused the government of "implementing directives presented by various Jewish organisations".
Braun accused the government of "implementing directives presented by various Jewish organisations".
Polish justice minister pledges investigation into far-right leader's Auschwitz speech
notesfrompoland.com
November 24, 2025 at 9:24 AM
Poland’s justice minister has pledged to take action after far-right leader Grzegorz Braun gave an anti-Jewish speech outside the former Auschwitz death camp.
Braun accused the government of "implementing directives presented by various Jewish organisations".
Braun accused the government of "implementing directives presented by various Jewish organisations".
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Has science finally solved mystery of the vanishing Vermeer?
Girl With a Flute is under dispute as an artificial intelligence company and a US national gallery disagree over whether it was painted by the Dutch master
Girl With a Flute is under dispute as an artificial intelligence company and a US national gallery disagree over whether it was painted by the Dutch master
Has science finally solved mystery of the vanishing Vermeer?
Has science finally solved mystery of the vanishing Vermeer?
www.thetimes.com
November 24, 2025 at 9:26 AM
Has science finally solved mystery of the vanishing Vermeer?
Girl With a Flute is under dispute as an artificial intelligence company and a US national gallery disagree over whether it was painted by the Dutch master
Girl With a Flute is under dispute as an artificial intelligence company and a US national gallery disagree over whether it was painted by the Dutch master
Another article on the rapid development of Poland & the surpassing of the UK. This time it's a comparison between the twinned Gliwice & Darlington.
Time to learn Silesian, I think.
share.google/1w4shKllU3pj...
Time to learn Silesian, I think.
share.google/1w4shKllU3pj...
November 23, 2025 at 11:28 PM
Another article on the rapid development of Poland & the surpassing of the UK. This time it's a comparison between the twinned Gliwice & Darlington.
Time to learn Silesian, I think.
share.google/1w4shKllU3pj...
Time to learn Silesian, I think.
share.google/1w4shKllU3pj...
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Hi @secrubio.govpeeps.us - I just heard you haven't seen any counterplan from the Europeans.
Here you go! Please see below:
Here you go! Please see below:
November 23, 2025 at 7:59 PM
Hi @secrubio.govpeeps.us - I just heard you haven't seen any counterplan from the Europeans.
Here you go! Please see below:
Here you go! Please see below: