@dotdarling.bsky.social
Dual US/Dutch citizen living in UK. Freelance translator. Ink drinker & over-thinker.
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I really wish Labour had some cojones.
This is an excellent, level-headed, informative piece. I'd kill for a government which could discuss the issue with the same sense of objectivity and calm.
Here's this week's column. Please - please - can we stop talking about migration in a way that's completely detached from the facts? www.theguardian.com/business/202...
November 30, 2025 at 1:07 PM
I really wish Labour had some cojones.
This is the most alarming story I’ve read today. Giving up the fight before it’s started
November 30, 2025 at 1:05 PM
I used to live in The Hague. Hegseth should visit it. Soon.
🧵A legal scholar finds the killing by special forces of survivors in the Navy attack on an alleged drug boat to be a war crime and murder.
"the currently governing DOD Manual in Section 5.9 states clearly that persons “placed hors de combat may not be made the object of attack.” ...
"the currently governing DOD Manual in Section 5.9 states clearly that persons “placed hors de combat may not be made the object of attack.” ...
A Dishonorable Strike
Indulging all assumptions in favor of the administration’s boat strikes, killing helpless men is murder
open.substack.com
November 29, 2025 at 11:08 PM
I used to live in The Hague. Hegseth should visit it. Soon.
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"No one's going to build a factory based on a tariff that's on on Monday, off on... Tuesday, the president's changed his mind by Wednesday, he gets hormonal by Thursday and someone says something nasty in the middle school cafeteria on Friday and they're back on again."
November 29, 2025 at 12:52 PM
"No one's going to build a factory based on a tariff that's on on Monday, off on... Tuesday, the president's changed his mind by Wednesday, he gets hormonal by Thursday and someone says something nasty in the middle school cafeteria on Friday and they're back on again."
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The sheer scale of media outrage this week about plans to lift hundreds of thousands children out of poverty, by taxing millionaire homeowners, tells you everything you need to know about the real priorities of the British press
www.adambienkov.co.uk/p/the-real-b...
www.adambienkov.co.uk/p/the-real-b...
The Real 'Benefits Street' Protecting Britain's Wealthiest
The sheer scale of outrage about plans to lift children out of poverty, by taxing millionaire homeowners, tells you everything you need to know about the priorities of the British press
www.adambienkov.co.uk
November 29, 2025 at 4:29 PM
The sheer scale of media outrage this week about plans to lift hundreds of thousands children out of poverty, by taxing millionaire homeowners, tells you everything you need to know about the real priorities of the British press
www.adambienkov.co.uk/p/the-real-b...
www.adambienkov.co.uk/p/the-real-b...
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If Kamala Harris were President today Sarah Beckstrom would still be alive and Andrew Wolfe would not be in a Washington DC hospital ICU fighting for his life.
November 28, 2025 at 5:34 PM
If Kamala Harris were President today Sarah Beckstrom would still be alive and Andrew Wolfe would not be in a Washington DC hospital ICU fighting for his life.
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Lying in politics is wrong and should never be rewarded, says newspaper which pays Boris Johnson £1 million a year to be its star columnist
November 29, 2025 at 10:01 AM
Lying in politics is wrong and should never be rewarded, says newspaper which pays Boris Johnson £1 million a year to be its star columnist
Just takes a minute
November 29, 2025 at 9:01 AM
Just takes a minute
Maybe I should lend her my copy of SPQR by @wmarybeard.bsky.social
"In early Christian times, there was no state"
Kemi Badenoch there, turning everything we thought we knew about the Roman Empire on its head.
Kemi Badenoch there, turning everything we thought we knew about the Roman Empire on its head.
November 29, 2025 at 8:50 AM
Maybe I should lend her my copy of SPQR by @wmarybeard.bsky.social
Will you be discussing this with Simon Marks on Monday, @mrjamesob.bsky.social ?
November 29, 2025 at 8:47 AM
Will you be discussing this with Simon Marks on Monday, @mrjamesob.bsky.social ?
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'Six MPs and four factions' is an absolutely cracking line
‘We had six MPs and four factions’: inside Your Party’s toxic power struggles
A terrific read from @peterwalker99.bsky.social
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
A terrific read from @peterwalker99.bsky.social
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
‘We had six MPs and four factions’: inside Your Party’s toxic power struggles
Some say Jeremy Corbyn is too non-committal for project to work, while others blame Zarah Sultana’s combative nature
www.theguardian.com
November 28, 2025 at 8:07 AM
'Six MPs and four factions' is an absolutely cracking line
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It is time to seriously consider the possibility that this failed president doesn't even know what the term "vetting" means
November 28, 2025 at 3:40 AM
It is time to seriously consider the possibility that this failed president doesn't even know what the term "vetting" means
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The National Guard should never have been deployed to DC. They are being used to carry out an entirely political agenda that has no grounding in reality and now two members have been severely wounded. President Trump is ultimately responsible for creating this situation. This blood is on his hands.
November 26, 2025 at 10:17 PM
The National Guard should never have been deployed to DC. They are being used to carry out an entirely political agenda that has no grounding in reality and now two members have been severely wounded. President Trump is ultimately responsible for creating this situation. This blood is on his hands.
Hey @bbcnewsnight.bsky.social , maybe you should discuss this…
"If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear." update
November 27, 2025 at 6:00 PM
Hey @bbcnewsnight.bsky.social , maybe you should discuss this…
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Victoria Derbyshire rinsed Baldwin - a washed-up Shadow Business hack from the 14-years-of-chaos Tory circus - after she moaned about Labour’s Budget. Derbyshire hit back: everything they whine about now is what they did while trashing the country. Fourteen years of ruin and they act brand new.
November 27, 2025 at 11:36 AM
Victoria Derbyshire rinsed Baldwin - a washed-up Shadow Business hack from the 14-years-of-chaos Tory circus - after she moaned about Labour’s Budget. Derbyshire hit back: everything they whine about now is what they did while trashing the country. Fourteen years of ruin and they act brand new.
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Place National Guard in harm’s way for no good reason. Two members are tragically and unnecessarily shot. The reckless regime’s response: We’re sending 500 more National Guard troops! What a disgrace.
November 26, 2025 at 11:10 PM
Place National Guard in harm’s way for no good reason. Two members are tragically and unnecessarily shot. The reckless regime’s response: We’re sending 500 more National Guard troops! What a disgrace.
Right on brand for Sky
On Sky Politics Hub, the whole budget was framed as if somehow the most consequential thing was the OBR accidentally publishing figures an hour early. There are 50 things in there more salient to viewers. I see no way to justify it editorially, other than to construct a hostile narrative. Poor.
November 26, 2025 at 8:49 PM
Right on brand for Sky
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1/ THREAD: This year ICE has sent a record 600 immigrant kids into federal shelters, more than in the previous four years combined. Data suggests some are being separated from their families.
For one 15-year-old, it began with a cracked windshield 👇
For one 15-year-old, it began with a cracked windshield 👇
November 25, 2025 at 2:01 AM
1/ THREAD: This year ICE has sent a record 600 immigrant kids into federal shelters, more than in the previous four years combined. Data suggests some are being separated from their families.
For one 15-year-old, it began with a cracked windshield 👇
For one 15-year-old, it began with a cracked windshield 👇
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Congress has the constitutional duty to make rules for the government and regulation of the land and naval forces (Article I, Section 8, Clause 14). It enacted the UCMJ, which specifies that service members must obey only “lawful” orders and,
November 25, 2025 at 12:31 PM
Congress has the constitutional duty to make rules for the government and regulation of the land and naval forces (Article I, Section 8, Clause 14). It enacted the UCMJ, which specifies that service members must obey only “lawful” orders and,
BBC has lost the plot.
I wish I didn’t have to share this. But the BBC has decided to censor my first Reith Lecture.
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
November 25, 2025 at 6:22 PM
BBC has lost the plot.
You really do wonder…
Imagine the Labour internal meeting that goes something like this
'Reform voters really detest us, they're never going to vote for us should we be chasing the votes of people that might actually vote for us instead?'
'No we want the Reform voters'
'Reform voters really detest us, they're never going to vote for us should we be chasing the votes of people that might actually vote for us instead?'
'No we want the Reform voters'
November 24, 2025 at 1:43 PM
You really do wonder…
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A - freaking - men
this should have torpedoed his presidency in and of itself
this should have torpedoed his presidency in and of itself
November 23, 2025 at 8:21 PM
A - freaking - men
this should have torpedoed his presidency in and of itself
this should have torpedoed his presidency in and of itself
@mrjamesob.bsky.social part of the reason that poor children have a higher rate of obesity than those from better off families is the fact that healthier food is often more expensive. Here’s the price difference between two equally sized packs of beef mince from Sainsbury’s:
November 24, 2025 at 11:41 AM
@mrjamesob.bsky.social part of the reason that poor children have a higher rate of obesity than those from better off families is the fact that healthier food is often more expensive. Here’s the price difference between two equally sized packs of beef mince from Sainsbury’s:
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Just an absolutely gutting essay by Tatiana Schlossberg, a writer, mother of two young children, and cousin of RFK Jr who is dying of leukemia.
www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
November 22, 2025 at 4:09 PM
Just an absolutely gutting essay by Tatiana Schlossberg, a writer, mother of two young children, and cousin of RFK Jr who is dying of leukemia.
www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...