Patrick Seurre
@patrick.seurre.com
Professional bit wrangler and multiple kidney transplant recipient. A regular user of the NHS for 30 years. Interested in FoI, data protection, Brexit & science fiction/fantasy.
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@wulfhelm.bsky.social I hear squirrels have the same sort of problem drinking. They're lightweights.
Raccoon gets drunk at a Virginia liquor store and passes out in bathroom
Raccoon gets drunk at Ashland ABC store and passes out in bathroom
Talk about a trashed panda.
www.axios.com
December 3, 2025 at 1:08 PM
@wulfhelm.bsky.social I hear squirrels have the same sort of problem drinking. They're lightweights.
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You know what? I really don't think it is. Great domestic political posturing, but Labour have no plans to go beyond the 'reset' agenda, certainly none the EU are likely to accept. This will be talk to little if any action.
Starmer declaring “we have to keep moving towards a closer relationship with the EU” is a significant moment.
Reflects transformation in public opinion + need for economic growth.
Reflects transformation in public opinion + need for economic growth.
December 3, 2025 at 11:04 AM
You know what? I really don't think it is. Great domestic political posturing, but Labour have no plans to go beyond the 'reset' agenda, certainly none the EU are likely to accept. This will be talk to little if any action.
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This is getting properly unhinged
A former junior champion said Reeves did not hold the official British girls’ under-14 title, and critics ask broader questions about her CV and career claims ⬇️
Rachel Reeves accused of overstating junior chess title
A former junior champion said Reeves did not hold the official British girls’ under-14 title, and critics ask broader questions about her CV and career claims
www.thetimes.com
December 2, 2025 at 10:05 PM
This is getting properly unhinged
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The idea that I would ever work with Tories is absurd. If you don't believe me just ask Lee Anderson, Nadine Dorries, Danny Kruger, Andrea Jenkyns, Jonathan Gullis, Sarah Pochin, Jake Berry, Marco Longhi, Peter Bone...
December 3, 2025 at 8:08 AM
The idea that I would ever work with Tories is absurd. If you don't believe me just ask Lee Anderson, Nadine Dorries, Danny Kruger, Andrea Jenkyns, Jonathan Gullis, Sarah Pochin, Jake Berry, Marco Longhi, Peter Bone...
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I just find it hilarious that his whole cabinet is sloberring praise all over him with ridiculous hyperbole and he is falling asleep while they're doing it.
You couldn't write comedy better than this. It's better than VEEP.
You couldn't write comedy better than this. It's better than VEEP.
December 2, 2025 at 7:57 PM
I just find it hilarious that his whole cabinet is sloberring praise all over him with ridiculous hyperbole and he is falling asleep while they're doing it.
You couldn't write comedy better than this. It's better than VEEP.
You couldn't write comedy better than this. It's better than VEEP.
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If the United States can no longer sustain hegemony the fear among adversaries and respect among allies it was once able to instill will rapidly curdle into contempt.
December 3, 2025 at 10:37 AM
If the United States can no longer sustain hegemony the fear among adversaries and respect among allies it was once able to instill will rapidly curdle into contempt.
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“Labour warned of fresh economic hit as Brexit accelerates high-skilled ‘brain drain’…warnings from a senior executive at one of the world’s leading recruitment companies that the brain drain from the UK because of #Brexit is worse than previously believed.” www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...
Warning of fresh economic hit as Brexit accelerates UK ‘brain drain’
‘None’ of the Labour chancellor’s measures will ‘have a material effect’ on growth, Richard Hughes, the chair of the OBR, has said
www.independent.co.uk
December 2, 2025 at 6:13 PM
“Labour warned of fresh economic hit as Brexit accelerates high-skilled ‘brain drain’…warnings from a senior executive at one of the world’s leading recruitment companies that the brain drain from the UK because of #Brexit is worse than previously believed.” www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...
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If Hegseth was watching the whole thing LIVE, why not stop the second strike on survivors—a move that he knew was illegal under U.S. and international law?
December 2, 2025 at 6:15 PM
If Hegseth was watching the whole thing LIVE, why not stop the second strike on survivors—a move that he knew was illegal under U.S. and international law?
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Abolish the Home Office
The Home Office has started taking action on cases of Syrian refugees with pending settlement applications. People are being sent letters saying they have 21 days to provide evidence as to why they should not be returned to Syria. Panic is spreading.
December 2, 2025 at 6:11 PM
Abolish the Home Office
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Keir Starmer, "The Brexit vote was a fair democratic expression, and I will always accept that"
"The idea that leaving the EU was the answer to all our cares and concerns has clearly been proved wrong"
"That same spurious argument is now being made about the European Convention on Human Rights"
"The idea that leaving the EU was the answer to all our cares and concerns has clearly been proved wrong"
"That same spurious argument is now being made about the European Convention on Human Rights"
December 1, 2025 at 10:23 PM
Keir Starmer, "The Brexit vote was a fair democratic expression, and I will always accept that"
"The idea that leaving the EU was the answer to all our cares and concerns has clearly been proved wrong"
"That same spurious argument is now being made about the European Convention on Human Rights"
"The idea that leaving the EU was the answer to all our cares and concerns has clearly been proved wrong"
"That same spurious argument is now being made about the European Convention on Human Rights"
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Looks like everything is a-ok with the UK's police and criminal justice system eh?
December 2, 2025 at 1:30 PM
Looks like everything is a-ok with the UK's police and criminal justice system eh?
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Phonemakers have been ordered to pre-install the Indian government’s “Sanchar Saathi” cyber safety app on all new devices and ensure it cannot be “disabled or restricted.”
Apple Rejects India’s Order Forcing Smartphone Makers To Install State-Run App, Report Says
Phonemakers have been ordered to pre-install the Indian government’s “Sanchar Saathi” cyber safety app on all new devices and ensure it cannot be “disabled or restricted.”
www.forbes.com
December 2, 2025 at 2:00 PM
Phonemakers have been ordered to pre-install the Indian government’s “Sanchar Saathi” cyber safety app on all new devices and ensure it cannot be “disabled or restricted.”
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“From 2016, as Foreign Secretary with oversight of..MI6 and GCHQ, Boris Johnson was constantly — often covertly — in contact with a senior member of Russia’s political and espionage elite, in what have been described as compromising social circumstances.”
#Brexit
bylinetimes.com/2025/12/02/b...
#Brexit
bylinetimes.com/2025/12/02/b...
Boris Johnson and Alexander Lebedev Must Be Investigated in a New Public Inquiry into Russian Influence
If you think the Gill conviction is bad, linking the Reform UK Party leader's closest aide to the Kremlin, wait till you hear about another Leave campaigner and his connections to Putin's inner circle
bylinetimes.com
December 2, 2025 at 4:33 PM
“From 2016, as Foreign Secretary with oversight of..MI6 and GCHQ, Boris Johnson was constantly — often covertly — in contact with a senior member of Russia’s political and espionage elite, in what have been described as compromising social circumstances.”
#Brexit
bylinetimes.com/2025/12/02/b...
#Brexit
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Antibiotics sprayed on crops.
PFAS approved for commerce.
Carcinogens kept on the market.
The EPA isn’t protecting the public. It’s protecting the industries driving both a public-health crisis and an insect apocalypse.
apple.news/AoVwrXNDwTBa...
PFAS approved for commerce.
Carcinogens kept on the market.
The EPA isn’t protecting the public. It’s protecting the industries driving both a public-health crisis and an insect apocalypse.
apple.news/AoVwrXNDwTBa...
EPA urged to ban spraying of antibiotics on US food crops amid resistance fears — Guardian US
Use of 8m pounds of antibiotics and antifungals a year leads to superbugs and damages human health, lawsuit claims
apple.news
December 2, 2025 at 3:47 AM
Antibiotics sprayed on crops.
PFAS approved for commerce.
Carcinogens kept on the market.
The EPA isn’t protecting the public. It’s protecting the industries driving both a public-health crisis and an insect apocalypse.
apple.news/AoVwrXNDwTBa...
PFAS approved for commerce.
Carcinogens kept on the market.
The EPA isn’t protecting the public. It’s protecting the industries driving both a public-health crisis and an insect apocalypse.
apple.news/AoVwrXNDwTBa...
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While "peace" negotiations continue, remember that Russia could simply stop the war at any time.
December 2, 2025 at 2:04 PM
While "peace" negotiations continue, remember that Russia could simply stop the war at any time.
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Listening to David Lammy on @BBCr4today attempting to justify abolishing trial by jury, it is increasingly and terrifyingly clear that he simply does not understand the issues.
December 2, 2025 at 8:45 AM
Listening to David Lammy on @BBCr4today attempting to justify abolishing trial by jury, it is increasingly and terrifyingly clear that he simply does not understand the issues.
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One more on this: for some kids - a significant number - the biggest danger is the parents. The kids need protection and an escape from their parents.
“"We stand firm on the side of parents and not on the platforms," Wells said.”
Yeah, because you think this is a conflict between parents and platforms, and the *kids* themselves don’t enter your thoughts.
It should be the kids’ rights and needs that matter.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Yeah, because you think this is a conflict between parents and platforms, and the *kids* themselves don’t enter your thoughts.
It should be the kids’ rights and needs that matter.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Social media ban: Australia won't be intimidated by tech firms, minister tells BBC
Anika Wells says she is 'ready to help' nations that wish to copy Australia's social media ban for under-16s.
www.bbc.co.uk
December 2, 2025 at 7:23 AM
One more on this: for some kids - a significant number - the biggest danger is the parents. The kids need protection and an escape from their parents.
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Bank of England warns of AI bubble risk, "sharp correction" in the value of major tech companies.
Repetition of dotcom mania, binge funded by banks.
Govt response - deregulation and lower capital requirements for banks.
Strategy for avoiding the crash?
Repetition of dotcom mania, binge funded by banks.
Govt response - deregulation and lower capital requirements for banks.
Strategy for avoiding the crash?
Bank of England warns of AI bubble risk
The central bank says US stock price valuations are their most stretched since the dotcom bubble burst.
www.bbc.co.uk
December 2, 2025 at 1:50 PM
Bank of England warns of AI bubble risk, "sharp correction" in the value of major tech companies.
Repetition of dotcom mania, binge funded by banks.
Govt response - deregulation and lower capital requirements for banks.
Strategy for avoiding the crash?
Repetition of dotcom mania, binge funded by banks.
Govt response - deregulation and lower capital requirements for banks.
Strategy for avoiding the crash?
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Trial by jury is not ‘tradition for its own sake’ FFS. It’s the cornerstone of a justice system that USED to be admired around the world.
Why not try honesty?
Lack of money has destroyed the courts.
If you want a decent society YOU. HAVE. TO. PAY. FOR. IT.
I’d love a govt that admitted that.
Why not try honesty?
Lack of money has destroyed the courts.
If you want a decent society YOU. HAVE. TO. PAY. FOR. IT.
I’d love a govt that admitted that.
December 2, 2025 at 7:24 AM
Trial by jury is not ‘tradition for its own sake’ FFS. It’s the cornerstone of a justice system that USED to be admired around the world.
Why not try honesty?
Lack of money has destroyed the courts.
If you want a decent society YOU. HAVE. TO. PAY. FOR. IT.
I’d love a govt that admitted that.
Why not try honesty?
Lack of money has destroyed the courts.
If you want a decent society YOU. HAVE. TO. PAY. FOR. IT.
I’d love a govt that admitted that.
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December 2, 2025 at 8:48 AM
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Today the news will be about the government's proposals for juries.
Please read this thread so as to be informed about the actual practical problems in the criminal justice system - problems which will not be solved by this misconceived and illiberal tinkering.
Please read this thread so as to be informed about the actual practical problems in the criminal justice system - problems which will not be solved by this misconceived and illiberal tinkering.
Here is a list of reasons why some of my hearings and trials this year have been delayed and kicked off into the long grass, stuck in our record court backlog. Serious allegations which will now be tried *years* after the event. 🧵👇
December 2, 2025 at 7:11 AM
Today the news will be about the government's proposals for juries.
Please read this thread so as to be informed about the actual practical problems in the criminal justice system - problems which will not be solved by this misconceived and illiberal tinkering.
Please read this thread so as to be informed about the actual practical problems in the criminal justice system - problems which will not be solved by this misconceived and illiberal tinkering.
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Every day we get to see the results in real time.
Reporter: Governor Walz called for the release of your MRI results
Trump: They were perfect like my phone call where I got impeached.
Reporter: Can you tell us what they were looking at?
Trump: I have no idea. It was just an MRI. It wasn’t the brain because I took a cognitive test and aced it.
Trump: They were perfect like my phone call where I got impeached.
Reporter: Can you tell us what they were looking at?
Trump: I have no idea. It was just an MRI. It wasn’t the brain because I took a cognitive test and aced it.
November 30, 2025 at 11:51 PM
Every day we get to see the results in real time.
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Brexit: the trillion pound ‘mistake’
The recent NBER report suggests the Treasury’s 2016 analysis – slammed by Brexiters as a ‘hoax’– actually understated the impact of Brexit
By Anthony Robinson
yorkshirebylines.co.uk/opinion/brex...
The recent NBER report suggests the Treasury’s 2016 analysis – slammed by Brexiters as a ‘hoax’– actually understated the impact of Brexit
By Anthony Robinson
yorkshirebylines.co.uk/opinion/brex...
Brexit: the trillion pound ‘mistake’
The recent NBER report suggests the Treasury’s 2016 analysis – slammed by Brexiters as a ‘hoax’– actually understated the impact of Brexit
yorkshirebylines.co.uk
December 1, 2025 at 6:56 PM
Brexit: the trillion pound ‘mistake’
The recent NBER report suggests the Treasury’s 2016 analysis – slammed by Brexiters as a ‘hoax’– actually understated the impact of Brexit
By Anthony Robinson
yorkshirebylines.co.uk/opinion/brex...
The recent NBER report suggests the Treasury’s 2016 analysis – slammed by Brexiters as a ‘hoax’– actually understated the impact of Brexit
By Anthony Robinson
yorkshirebylines.co.uk/opinion/brex...