@arianebogain.bsky.social
Senior lecturer in French and IR Northumbria University. Personal account.
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Scorpion vows no more stinging if frog treats him with respect.
December 19, 2025 at 6:19 PM
Scorpion vows no more stinging if frog treats him with respect.
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The 'betrayal of Brexit' response to rejoining Erasmus is obviously predictable, and stupid (Brexit = leaving EU). But what's more striking is how *dated* it seems, like someone still waving a 'Thatcher out' placard.
December 17, 2025 at 8:13 PM
The 'betrayal of Brexit' response to rejoining Erasmus is obviously predictable, and stupid (Brexit = leaving EU). But what's more striking is how *dated* it seems, like someone still waving a 'Thatcher out' placard.
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French MPs adopt social security budget, suspend pension reform
French MPs adopt social security budget, suspend pension reform
France's lower house of parliament, the Assemblée Nationale, adopted a social security budget for 2026 on Tuesday. The bill suspends implementation of a pension reform in a concession to secure the backing of Socialist MPs.
www.lemonde.fr
December 16, 2025 at 6:26 PM
French MPs adopt social security budget, suspend pension reform
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I’m sure this will be welcomed right across the EU -
Welcome back to our British colleagues and friends to the EU Erasmus Plus programme.
A small step in the direction of greater cooperation and better futures for young people. 🇪🇺🇬🇧🥃
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/d...
Welcome back to our British colleagues and friends to the EU Erasmus Plus programme.
A small step in the direction of greater cooperation and better futures for young people. 🇪🇺🇬🇧🥃
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/d...
UK to rejoin EU’s Erasmus student exchange programme
Exclusive: British students will be able to participate in EU-wide scheme from January 2027, sources say
www.theguardian.com
December 16, 2025 at 6:39 PM
I’m sure this will be welcomed right across the EU -
Welcome back to our British colleagues and friends to the EU Erasmus Plus programme.
A small step in the direction of greater cooperation and better futures for young people. 🇪🇺🇬🇧🥃
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/d...
Welcome back to our British colleagues and friends to the EU Erasmus Plus programme.
A small step in the direction of greater cooperation and better futures for young people. 🇪🇺🇬🇧🥃
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/d...
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Only took three months for the US to weaponize the US-UK Tech deal: "British officials on Monday confirmed the US suspended the deal last week, with one saying the Trump administration was pushing for UK concessions in areas of trade outside the tech partnership."
www.ft.com/content/afd4...
www.ft.com/content/afd4...
US suspends technology deal with the UK
Washington pushes for concessions from London on the broader trade relationship
www.ft.com
December 16, 2025 at 4:14 PM
Only took three months for the US to weaponize the US-UK Tech deal: "British officials on Monday confirmed the US suspended the deal last week, with one saying the Trump administration was pushing for UK concessions in areas of trade outside the tech partnership."
www.ft.com/content/afd4...
www.ft.com/content/afd4...
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MAGA: Down with snowflakes and hurrah for FREE SPEECH!
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MAGA: You can't come to America unless you show us your social media posts and prove that you've never said hurty words about our president...
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MAGA: You can't come to America unless you show us your social media posts and prove that you've never said hurty words about our president...
December 12, 2025 at 8:34 AM
MAGA: Down with snowflakes and hurrah for FREE SPEECH!
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MAGA: You can't come to America unless you show us your social media posts and prove that you've never said hurty words about our president...
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MAGA: You can't come to America unless you show us your social media posts and prove that you've never said hurty words about our president...
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A little signal that Trump's powers to control his party through bullying are waning.
BREAKING:
The Indiana Senate just REJECTED the gerrymandered congressional map that Trump and his allies pressured Republicans to support.
The GOP-controlled chamber voted down the map, 31-19.
The Indiana Senate just REJECTED the gerrymandered congressional map that Trump and his allies pressured Republicans to support.
The GOP-controlled chamber voted down the map, 31-19.
December 11, 2025 at 9:45 PM
A little signal that Trump's powers to control his party through bullying are waning.
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Note: Trump's plummeting rating on the economy has pierced the crucial Darwin Threshhold...the point at which his approval rating on handling the economy (31 percent) is actually lower than the number of Americans who do not believe in evolution (33-37 percent), the once solid core of Trump support.
There's still room to drop further. "Trump’s handling of the economy is at its lowest point in AP-NORC polling" apnews.com/article/trum...
With CUSMA negotiations w/Canada & Mexico, as well as the renewal of the one-year tariff truce w/China in 2026, expect more market-moving new tariffs next year.
With CUSMA negotiations w/Canada & Mexico, as well as the renewal of the one-year tariff truce w/China in 2026, expect more market-moving new tariffs next year.
Trump's handling of the economy is at its lowest point in AP-NORC polling
A new AP-NORC poll finds President Donald Trump’s approval on the economy has fallen substantially since he reentered the White House.
apnews.com
December 11, 2025 at 11:11 PM
Note: Trump's plummeting rating on the economy has pierced the crucial Darwin Threshhold...the point at which his approval rating on handling the economy (31 percent) is actually lower than the number of Americans who do not believe in evolution (33-37 percent), the once solid core of Trump support.
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December 11, 2025 at 1:22 PM
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this isn’t very free speech-y of the free speech champs
Citizens of countries including the UK and France will have to disclose the past five years of their social media history to visit the US even though they are covered by visa waiver schemes, under new proposals by the Trump administration.
www.ft.com/content/683b...
www.ft.com/content/683b...
US to require social media disclosure for visa-waiver requests
Change would affect visitors from countries including the UK, France and Australia
www.ft.com
December 10, 2025 at 8:09 PM
this isn’t very free speech-y of the free speech champs
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France: l'Assemblée nationale valide le budget de la Sécurité sociale pour 2026
France: l'Assemblée nationale valide le budget de la Sécurité sociale pour 2026
Avec 227 voix pour et 86 contre, les députés de l'Assemblée nationale ont voté favorablement le volet « dépenses » du budget de la Sécurité sociale, ce mardi 9 décembre, après avoir validé le volet « recettes » vendredi dernier. Ils ont ensuite voté de justesse le Projet de loi de financement de la Sécurité sociale (PLFSS) 2026 avec 247 voix pour et 234 contre.
rfi.my
December 9, 2025 at 6:57 PM
France: l'Assemblée nationale valide le budget de la Sécurité sociale pour 2026
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"We need to look after our own first."
Home Office Ministers state publicly, on the record, that they are deliberately making life worse for older people and people with disabilities who depend on care services, but it's worth it because it reduces net migration.
December 9, 2025 at 6:45 PM
"We need to look after our own first."
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For the afternoon crowd: got a new piece up with @liberalcurrents.com that explores the new Trump National Security Strategy, especially how culture war obsessions now define the Trump administration' conception of global politics.
www.liberalcurrents.com/sovereignty-...
www.liberalcurrents.com/sovereignty-...
Sovereignty For Me, None For Thee
Donald Trump's 2025 National Security Strategy reveals a radical blood-and-soil conception of national strategy based on maintaining white patriarchal Christian domination at home and abroad.
www.liberalcurrents.com
December 9, 2025 at 7:57 PM
For the afternoon crowd: got a new piece up with @liberalcurrents.com that explores the new Trump National Security Strategy, especially how culture war obsessions now define the Trump administration' conception of global politics.
www.liberalcurrents.com/sovereignty-...
www.liberalcurrents.com/sovereignty-...
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The entirety of British politics now just consists of all parties from across the political spectrum making increasingly deranged statements about how and why they are going to deport people
The Conservative party’s policy also includes stripping people of their British citizenship when they are found guilty of a crime ⬇️
All criminals with dual nationality must be deported, say Tories
The Conservative party’s policy also includes stripping people of their British citizenship when they are found guilty of a crime
www.thetimes.com
December 8, 2025 at 10:40 PM
The entirety of British politics now just consists of all parties from across the political spectrum making increasingly deranged statements about how and why they are going to deport people
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Cakeism, MAGA style
Latest on how Washington can't decide what it really wants from Europe
pascallth.substack.com/p/magas-cake...
Latest on how Washington can't decide what it really wants from Europe
pascallth.substack.com/p/magas-cake...
MAGA’s cakeist policy on Europe
The US Security Strategy is a tangle of contradictions
pascallth.substack.com
December 8, 2025 at 7:02 PM
Cakeism, MAGA style
Latest on how Washington can't decide what it really wants from Europe
pascallth.substack.com/p/magas-cake...
Latest on how Washington can't decide what it really wants from Europe
pascallth.substack.com/p/magas-cake...
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This is the same administration that attacks the EU for trying to impose the most minimal of regulation on Musk and X
Hmmm, so you’ll be ‘policing’ people’s ’thoughts,’ that’s a novel idea
December 8, 2025 at 3:05 PM
This is the same administration that attacks the EU for trying to impose the most minimal of regulation on Musk and X
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800 this week? Let's make it happen! Please sign and share: www.megaphone.org.uk/petitions/no...
Northumbria Pay and Pension Petition: Stop the Steal!
If Northumbria does this, other universities will too.
These cuts will harm thousands of people, their students, families, and their local communities now and into the future.
www.megaphone.org.uk
December 8, 2025 at 6:56 AM
800 this week? Let's make it happen! Please sign and share: www.megaphone.org.uk/petitions/no...
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So this week shall I write about how killing unarmed civilians is murder or about how unwise it would be to limit the human right against torture.
Western liberal democracies in 2025.
Western liberal democracies in 2025.
December 8, 2025 at 7:57 AM
So this week shall I write about how killing unarmed civilians is murder or about how unwise it would be to limit the human right against torture.
Western liberal democracies in 2025.
Western liberal democracies in 2025.
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Landmark British photographer Martin Parr dies aged 73
Landmark British photographer Martin Parr dies aged 73
Parr said his brightly coloured, closely observed pictures of British life were ‘disguised as entertainment’ but they became hugely popular
Martin Parr, the British documentary photographer who captured the peculiarities of the nation with clarity and hilarity, has died aged 73. He had been diagnosed with cancer in May 2021.
Known for his acute observations of the English class system, Parr’s images covered sunbathers and Conservative clubs, village fetes and coffee mornings, often in vivid colour and with more than a dash of humour. His iconic 1986 photobook The Last Resort: Photographs of New Brighton captured working-class holidaymakers in the Wirral, Liverpool and helped mark a sea change in British documentary photography, from the gritty, black and white style of the past towards a cheekier and more colourful style. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
December 7, 2025 at 1:12 PM
Landmark British photographer Martin Parr dies aged 73
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The “Labour” Party finds itself arguing ordinary workers, carers and others are “takers”.
Hey everyone, here's the news, if you aren't a high earner, entrepreneur or a "skilled frontline worker" (whatever the fuck that means) the "Labour" Party says you aren't contributing, you're a taker!
This is so disgusting.
December 7, 2025 at 9:23 AM
The “Labour” Party finds itself arguing ordinary workers, carers and others are “takers”.
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Le plus grand honneur d'une vie : recevoir un truc créé pour toi pour te cirer les grolles.
C'est très "placard de médailles du ministre de la défense russe" comme truc.
C'est très "placard de médailles du ministre de la défense russe" comme truc.
Donald Trump said it was 'one of the great honours' of his life to receive Fifa’s inaugural Peace Prize on Friday. on.ft.com/4piJZVf
December 5, 2025 at 9:52 PM
Le plus grand honneur d'une vie : recevoir un truc créé pour toi pour te cirer les grolles.
C'est très "placard de médailles du ministre de la défense russe" comme truc.
C'est très "placard de médailles du ministre de la défense russe" comme truc.
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NEW: Strike ballot opens Monday at Northumbria Uni
Management is forcing staff out of the industry standard Teachers' Pension Scheme through the threat of a pay freeze.
Our members say no!
@ucunorthumbria.bsky.social
www.ucu.org.uk/article/1428...
Management is forcing staff out of the industry standard Teachers' Pension Scheme through the threat of a pay freeze.
Our members say no!
@ucunorthumbria.bsky.social
www.ucu.org.uk/article/1428...
Strike ballot launched at Northumbria University in pay and pensions row
Staff at Northumbria University will be balloted for strike action in their fight against plans to pressure them to leave the Teachers' Pension Scheme.
www.ucu.org.uk
December 5, 2025 at 11:15 AM
NEW: Strike ballot opens Monday at Northumbria Uni
Management is forcing staff out of the industry standard Teachers' Pension Scheme through the threat of a pay freeze.
Our members say no!
@ucunorthumbria.bsky.social
www.ucu.org.uk/article/1428...
Management is forcing staff out of the industry standard Teachers' Pension Scheme through the threat of a pay freeze.
Our members say no!
@ucunorthumbria.bsky.social
www.ucu.org.uk/article/1428...
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Just a vicious, lawless regime.
The spectacle of masked gangs of state vigilantes, ripping people out of cars in full view of the street, is a terrible reminder of how quickly the unthinkable can become normal in a democratic society.
The spectacle of masked gangs of state vigilantes, ripping people out of cars in full view of the street, is a terrible reminder of how quickly the unthinkable can become normal in a democratic society.
Agents in Key Largo, Florida ripped this woman wearing medical scrubs out of her car as she screamed she is a US citizen. Agents cuffed her and put her in one of their cars.
She was eventually let go, per David Goodhue of the Miami Herald, who also took this footage:
She was eventually let go, per David Goodhue of the Miami Herald, who also took this footage:
December 4, 2025 at 2:20 PM
Just a vicious, lawless regime.
The spectacle of masked gangs of state vigilantes, ripping people out of cars in full view of the street, is a terrible reminder of how quickly the unthinkable can become normal in a democratic society.
The spectacle of masked gangs of state vigilantes, ripping people out of cars in full view of the street, is a terrible reminder of how quickly the unthinkable can become normal in a democratic society.
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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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I’m sure this sleeping will transfix the marquee media just as Biden’s infirmities did.
Trump dozes while Marco Rubio speaks to him directly next to him. Just insane optics.
December 2, 2025 at 7:25 PM
I’m sure this sleeping will transfix the marquee media just as Biden’s infirmities did.