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Chris Bertram @crookedfootball.bsky.social · 6h

We'll face exactly the same checks, only without accumulating lots of stamps in our passports. A complete non-story

Chris Bertram @crookedfootball.bsky.social · 6h

This is a complete non-story afaics, since countries like France already enforce the 90/180 rule and people (like me) who spend a lot of time in the EU are careful to check our compliance.

Frédéric Moreau @goodclimate.bsky.social · 22h

This lurid headline is about British tourists no longer getting away with overstaying in Schengen. Or being 'illegals', as it's often called in the UK.

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Chris Bertram @crookedfootball.bsky.social · 6h

Necessary work by the Guardian here.

Young lives cut short on an unimaginable scale: the 18,457 children on Gaza’s list of war dead

Every name on a list compiled by health authorities in Gaza of the child victims of Israel’s offensive

www.theguardian.com

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Dan Davies @dsquareddigest.bsky.social · 22h

I don't want to get all Chesterton's Fence here, but if you don't understand that a "microscopic snail" is an indicator species that's protected for the health of the entire ecosystem, you probably shouldn't be forming "good relationships" with developers
www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Rachel Reeves clears planning blockage amid ‘good relationship’ with developer

Exclusive: Chancellor says 20,000 homes were being held up due to ‘some snails that are a protected species or something’

www.theguardian.com

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Chris Bertram @crookedfootball.bsky.social · 1d

Specially dedicated to Robert Jenrick

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Chris Bertram @crookedfootball.bsky.social · 1d

I can't be the only person who thought of this album today

Steel Pulse - Handsworth Revolution - 01 - Handsworth Revolution

YouTube video by ReggaeRootsChannel

www.youtube.com

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Chris Bertram @crookedfootball.bsky.social · 1d

Sad that my favourite 2nd-hand bookshop in Pézenas is closing permanently at the end of the month. Selling everything off for 1€.

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David Owen @artsofdenial.bsky.social · 1d

Asylum hotel provider makes £180m profit despite claims of inedible food and rationed loo paper - BBC News
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Asylum hotel provider makes £180m profit despite claims of inedible food and rationed loo paper

Asylum seekers and charities tell BBC of

www.bbc.co.uk

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Chris Bertram @crookedfootball.bsky.social · 1d

I like to think the British public is intelligent enough to see through political parties whose plans for the future amount to

1. get rid of the immigrants
2. ?

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Chris Bertram @crookedfootball.bsky.social · 1d

Interesting piece by @sarahoconnorft.ft.com but it seems perverse to pursue a plan for sectoral bargaining in social care while kicking the can down the road on how social care will work in the future as successive government have done

The most radical Labour plan you haven’t heard about

Collective bargaining in social care could save an ailing sector — but only if it’s done properly

www.ft.com

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Chris Bertram @crookedfootball.bsky.social · 1d

Brezhnev, Andropov and Chernenko were all younger than Trump is now when they ruled the USSR. The Soviet Union was ridiculed in the West as a gerontocracy.

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Chris Bertram @crookedfootball.bsky.social · 2d

There's also the vexed question of who counts as a "foreigner". Long-term Commonwealth residents? Irish citizens? No doubt Badenoch has thought it all through ....

Chris Bertram @crookedfootball.bsky.social · 2d

So latest Tory wheeze is to ban foreigners from accessing benefits. Naturally there's no detail. Refugees already recognized as such by the UK? People on spousal visas? Will foreigners who have paid NICs for decades be stripped of their pensions? I hope journalists are asking Stride and Badenoch.

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Chris Bertram @crookedfootball.bsky.social · 2d

So latest Tory wheeze is to ban foreigners from accessing benefits. Naturally there's no detail. Refugees already recognized as such by the UK? People on spousal visas? Will foreigners who have paid NICs for decades be stripped of their pensions? I hope journalists are asking Stride and Badenoch.

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Chris Bertram @crookedfootball.bsky.social · 2d

Crikey is that number PM number 7 for Macron and the third in a year? As Oscar Wilde might have said, to look a couple of PMs might be a misfortune but seven looks like extreme carelessness.

EN DIRECT, démission de Sébastien Lecornu : le premier ministre démissionnaire déplore « les appétits partisans » et appelle à l’« effacement de certains egos »

Le premier ministre a présenté lundi matin sa démission à Emmanuel Macron, qui l’a acceptée. L’annonce de la composition de son gouvernement, dimanche soir, était critiquée de toutes parts. Il a pris ...

www.lemonde.fr

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Chris Bertram @crookedfootball.bsky.social · 2d

J'aimerais bien savoir comment ce cas a été résolu: si elle était expulsé, si elle a réussi à garder la nationalité française.... (C'est pour un article que j'écris.)

Quarante-huit heures pour quitter la France : une Franco-Algérienne sous le coup d’une OQTF incompréhensible

Une mère de famille de 58 ans, qui vit en France depuis 1993 et possède une double nationalité, a été retenue tout un après-midi par la police aux frontières de Roissy. Elle conteste l’obligation de q...

www.lemonde.fr

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Chris Bertram @crookedfootball.bsky.social · 3d

It also led the the Windrush scandal, and I don’t think that can have helped them

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Chris Bertram @crookedfootball.bsky.social · 3d

And how did this work out for the Tories?

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Chris Bertram @crookedfootball.bsky.social · 3d

The fact that 3 parties are now competing for the votes of the most bigoted and uninformed voters really ought to give some opportunities to the Greens and LibDems

Tories to pledge to create immigration taskforce modelled on Trump’s Ice

Proposed ‘removals force’ will be tasked with deporting 150,000 people a year in bid to tackle illegal immigration

www.theguardian.com

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David Owen @artsofdenial.bsky.social · 3d

In a desperate attempt to boost their poll standing, Tories propose to abandon the rule of law
www.bbc.com/news/article...

Conservatives pledge to remove 750,000 migrants under borders plan

The party unveils new policies on illegal migration as its annual conference begins in Manchester.

www.bbc.com

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Chris Bertram @crookedfootball.bsky.social · 3d

The British state failing in its obligations again.

‘They are treated with the most appalling hostility’: the...

The number of unaccompanied children seeking asylum in Britain has soared, and many are being put at risk having got here

observer.co.uk

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Chris Bertram @crookedfootball.bsky.social · 3d

I got a google notification and clicked! Read until I ran into the "these pages excluded from this sample" part.

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Chris Bertram @crookedfootball.bsky.social · 3d

Well IMO they have some excellent journalists. Not all, but some.

Chris Bertram @crookedfootball.bsky.social · 4d

Congrats, though it seems a pretty ghastly rag

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Chris Bertram @crookedfootball.bsky.social · 4d

The greatest crime of this Labour government (and you can say the same of most of European social democracy) is that it removes any rational hope of achieving a just society by democratic means. That conclusion leads either to cynicism and apathy or to ultimately self-defeating violence.

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Chris Bertram @crookedfootball.bsky.social · 4d

Stefan Zweig, The World of Yesterday, p. 436

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