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Anne Deighton @annedeighton.bsky.social · 17m

not really an obviously good or well researched comparison?

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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 6h

One very very lonely Tory voice on the letters page of The Times.
Sorry, Robert. It’s too late. Your party has gone completely nuts. Driven mad by 14 years of failure, Farage and your monumentally stupid Brexit.
You can ask them to put the petrol can down but they’re mesmerised by the fire.

Leaving the ECHR could split Union Sir, In his article "Leaving the ECHR won't fix illegal migration" (Oct 6; letters, Oct 7), David Gauke makes the point that the Conservatives' decision to support complete withdrawal from the European convention of human rights is, at best, wholly unnecessary and at worst will make international co-operation on migration control and deportation much more difficult.
He is right to do so. It is time for Tories to stop heading for the exit every time there is perceived tension caused by so-called foreign institutions that my party actually helped to create in the first place.
To claim that ECHR withdrawal will not affect the Northern Ireland Good Friday agreement is naive. Not only will it risk undermining trust in policing and criminal justice cross-border co-operation, it will trigger a breach of article 2 of the Windsor framework and a climate of instability that can only assist advocates of a border poll that could lead to the break-up of the Union. For the Conservative Party to advocate such a move is a betrayal of Conservative principles.
Sir Robert Buckland KC
Former lord chancellor and justice secretary; former chair, Northern Ireland Affairs Select Committee

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Anne Deighton @annedeighton.bsky.social · 3h

why not write something on the
reinventing of the apprenticeship idea - seems we are slowly going back to what used to happen, including advanced, residential apprenticeships

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Anne Deighton @annedeighton.bsky.social · 3h

Tell them to fix potholes first please. They are a real danger to all sorts of bikes. (Then maybe even dedicated bike lanes - though dream on on that) And insist on proper helmets for all those on bikes

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Anne Deighton @annedeighton.bsky.social · 3h

Early Mondrian - should inspire the little'uns

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Anne Deighton @annedeighton.bsky.social · 3h

what do they know that we don't know? This on death of a monarch. commonslibrary.parliament.uk/research-bri...

The death of a monarch

The death of a monarch – and the accession of a new sovereign – involves the Cabinet, the Privy Council, Parliament, Buckingham Palace and the Church of England. This paper outlines the historical pre...

commonslibrary.parliament.uk

Anne Deighton @annedeighton.bsky.social · 1d

well worth listening to - when she's not interrupted by interviewer... on this clip, she sounds like a powerful and effective politician - and brave, too

Channel 4 News @channel4news.bsky.social · 1d

‘I’m not sure it’s going to bring peace’: Israeli Knesset member on talks

We spoke to Palestinian politician and activist Aida Touma Suleiman. She's one of Israel's two million Arab citizens and a member of the parliament, the Knesset, for the left wing Hadash coalition.

www.channel4.com

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Channel 4 News @channel4news.bsky.social · 1d

Israel’s arms imports from UK hit record high values

Last week, our FactCheck team exclusively revealed that Israel’s imports of UK arms hit a record high value in June. Now, we can reveal new figures showing September was the second highest month on re...

www.channel4.com

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Alex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 3d

Here is a thing that I hear from *almost every British Jew I know* but have barely heard expressed in any of these programmes: No single person has done more to make Jewish people globally less safe than Benjamin Netanyahu.

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John Kampfner @johnkampfner.bsky.social · 3d

Had the privilege of seeing Daniel Barenboim conducting the Berlin Phil last night, Schubert's 'Unfinished' and Beethoven's 7th. He was so frail but he commanded the orchestra, and the audience was in raptures. What a servant to music and the cause of peace in Israel/Palestine

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@westerneuropean @westerneuropean.bsky.social · 3d

More than 2 million people across Italy rallied in over 100 cities Friday for a one-day general strike to support the residents of Gaza and a humanitarian aid mission, Italy’s largest union said.

2 million rally in Italy for Gaza as general strike halts key services

Over 2 million people across Italy have rallied in more than 100 cities for a one-day general strike.

apnews.com

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Anne Deighton @annedeighton.bsky.social · 3d

Lib Dems?

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Anne Deighton @annedeighton.bsky.social · 4d

He gabbled that, too! Podcasts - he was advertising his- a bit like a private, chums' party

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Anne Deighton @annedeighton.bsky.social · 4d

They both gabbled and interrupted but she'd be a formidable headteacher ( she is a head)

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Paul Marvin @paulmarvin.bsky.social · 5d

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Anne Deighton @annedeighton.bsky.social · 6d

Yes, thank you: an authoritarian change that moves quietly but in full sight while we grapple with its meaning, and also are looking elsewhere - Gaza, Sudan, Algeria, Ukraine of course....lasting damage cd be done before we begin to grasp the implications, but too late to row back?..

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Richard Morris @ahistoryinart.bsky.social · 6d

Samuel Palmer's 'Oak Tree and Beech, Lullingstone Park,' (1828) is a world you can peer into. You can put a magnifying glass to the bark of the ancient oak and pick out its minutiae.

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Anne Deighton @annedeighton.bsky.social · 6d

100 years ago we had a try at this game, and made a fearful mess of what became an increasingly impossible situation. the imperial urge is SO powerful, is it not?

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Anne Deighton @annedeighton.bsky.social · 7d

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre... much of what Anand Menon says is right (except on champagne) but what to do: 4th pillar? WEU reborn? Europ-solo-NATO? back to nation state? These are the hard questions. We need repliies!

The European Union was designed for peace – it is never going to be a war machine | Anand Menon

Reacting to the Russian military threat would require the bloc to be agile and decisive. It is many great things, but it is not that, says Anand Menon, director of UK in a Changing Europe

www.theguardian.com

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Anne Deighton @annedeighton.bsky.social · 7d

You flagged it- it's clearly a cider security attack

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Anne Deighton @annedeighton.bsky.social · 7d

Smiling is good for us at times like this

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Cas Ⓜ️udde @casmudde.bsky.social · 10d

I feel like this needs to be said, as I don’t feel many Americans get this:

THIS IS NOT NORMAL!!!

No, not even for authoritarian leaders in nominally democratic regimes.

In Hungary, Poland, even Turkey*, authoritarian leaders do/did not regularly send the military into its peaceful cities!

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Trish Greenhalgh @trishgreenhalgh.bsky.social · 16d

I took paracetamol in both my pregnancies for minor joint troubles. I had a better pregnancy experience because I wasn't in pain. Neither of my kids is autistic. The high-quality studies and reviews confirm there is NO evidence that paracetamol taken by the mother causes autism in the child. 🧪

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Anne Deighton @annedeighton.bsky.social · 16d

congratulations!

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Anne Deighton @annedeighton.bsky.social · 16d

Look forward to reading the book!

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