Gary Bridge 🔶
@garybridge1964.bsky.social
North East England based Clarinettist / Bass Clarinettist, RAF Veteran, Humanist, Greece, Travel, European 🇪🇺
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🇺🇸✈️🇮🇳 @AirIndiaX is taking delivery of its first line fit 737-8 MAX. VT-RNT honors Ratan Naval Tata “The Visionary” with a unique livery and namesake registration. Follow the first leg of the delivery flight to Iceland at www.flightradar24.com/AXB001/3daa0...
Full route: BFI-KEF-KWI-DEL
Full route: BFI-KEF-KWI-DEL
December 27, 2025 at 12:15 AM
🇺🇸✈️🇮🇳 @AirIndiaX is taking delivery of its first line fit 737-8 MAX. VT-RNT honors Ratan Naval Tata “The Visionary” with a unique livery and namesake registration. Follow the first leg of the delivery flight to Iceland at www.flightradar24.com/AXB001/3daa0...
Full route: BFI-KEF-KWI-DEL
Full route: BFI-KEF-KWI-DEL
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Russia just bombed the main highway leading into Kharkiv - heavy traffic with families returning home after Christmas - cars are burning with people in them.
And we discuss signing something with them?
And we discuss signing something with them?
December 26, 2025 at 2:50 PM
Russia just bombed the main highway leading into Kharkiv - heavy traffic with families returning home after Christmas - cars are burning with people in them.
And we discuss signing something with them?
And we discuss signing something with them?
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KIMMEL, to the UK:
“.. It may not seem like it, but we love you guys. .. We’re going through a bit of a wobble right now, but we’ll come around. .. Give us about three years.”
@jimmykimmel.com
“.. It may not seem like it, but we love you guys. .. We’re going through a bit of a wobble right now, but we’ll come around. .. Give us about three years.”
@jimmykimmel.com
December 26, 2025 at 3:27 AM
KIMMEL, to the UK:
“.. It may not seem like it, but we love you guys. .. We’re going through a bit of a wobble right now, but we’ll come around. .. Give us about three years.”
@jimmykimmel.com
“.. It may not seem like it, but we love you guys. .. We’re going through a bit of a wobble right now, but we’ll come around. .. Give us about three years.”
@jimmykimmel.com
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"Across Scotland, youth organisations, student groups and campaigners are pushing to make their voices heard during discussions about the country’s future. They are asking difficult questions: What kind of society do we want? How do we build a future with opportunity and fairness?"
Brexit stole our future: young people are demanding it back
Scotland’s young people face limited opportunities after Brexit but could their vision for the future re-shape Scotland’s place in Europe?
bylines.scot
December 26, 2025 at 10:15 AM
"Across Scotland, youth organisations, student groups and campaigners are pushing to make their voices heard during discussions about the country’s future. They are asking difficult questions: What kind of society do we want? How do we build a future with opportunity and fairness?"
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"I hope when you’re out in the mountains or hills close to home, that you take time to notice the species that coexist alongside us."
Nevis Conservation Officer Julia reflects on our relationship with mountains for #InternationalMountainDay: www.johnmuirtrust.org/whats-new/ne...
Nevis Conservation Officer Julia reflects on our relationship with mountains for #InternationalMountainDay: www.johnmuirtrust.org/whats-new/ne...
December 11, 2025 at 11:14 AM
"I hope when you’re out in the mountains or hills close to home, that you take time to notice the species that coexist alongside us."
Nevis Conservation Officer Julia reflects on our relationship with mountains for #InternationalMountainDay: www.johnmuirtrust.org/whats-new/ne...
Nevis Conservation Officer Julia reflects on our relationship with mountains for #InternationalMountainDay: www.johnmuirtrust.org/whats-new/ne...
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Wishing you all a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year from everyone at LNER!
December 25, 2025 at 9:30 AM
Wishing you all a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year from everyone at LNER!
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Just when you couldnt be any prouder to be British, here's Joseph Banks describing Xmas 1768 on Cook's Endeavour
"all hands get abominably drunk so that at night there was scarce a sober man in the ship, wind thank god very moderate or the lord knows what would have become of us”.
"all hands get abominably drunk so that at night there was scarce a sober man in the ship, wind thank god very moderate or the lord knows what would have become of us”.
December 25, 2025 at 9:05 AM
Just when you couldnt be any prouder to be British, here's Joseph Banks describing Xmas 1768 on Cook's Endeavour
"all hands get abominably drunk so that at night there was scarce a sober man in the ship, wind thank god very moderate or the lord knows what would have become of us”.
"all hands get abominably drunk so that at night there was scarce a sober man in the ship, wind thank god very moderate or the lord knows what would have become of us”.
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Merry Christmas! 🎁🎄🎅
From all of us at the Liberal Democrats, we’re wish you and your loved ones a joyful and peaceful festive season.
From all of us at the Liberal Democrats, we’re wish you and your loved ones a joyful and peaceful festive season.
December 25, 2025 at 8:27 AM
Merry Christmas! 🎁🎄🎅
From all of us at the Liberal Democrats, we’re wish you and your loved ones a joyful and peaceful festive season.
From all of us at the Liberal Democrats, we’re wish you and your loved ones a joyful and peaceful festive season.
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Merry Christmas from European Movement UK! 🎄 May this festive season remind us that cooperation brings us further than isolation: Christmas is better when we’re together, just like Europe.
December 25, 2025 at 8:30 AM
Merry Christmas from European Movement UK! 🎄 May this festive season remind us that cooperation brings us further than isolation: Christmas is better when we’re together, just like Europe.
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From all at Fife4Europe, wishing everyone a very merry Christmas
a merry christmas card with a christmas tree
ALT: a merry christmas card with a christmas tree
media.tenor.com
December 24, 2025 at 5:37 PM
From all at Fife4Europe, wishing everyone a very merry Christmas
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Merry Christmas
Merry Christmas to all. Wishing everyone a very happy and peaceful festive period
Juntos somos más fuertes Together we are stronger
🌲 🇪🇺
Juntos somos más fuertes Together we are stronger
🌲 🇪🇺
December 24, 2025 at 5:53 PM
Merry Christmas
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Merry Christmas, London.
Have a safe, peaceful and joyful celebration.
Have a safe, peaceful and joyful celebration.
December 24, 2025 at 5:50 PM
Merry Christmas, London.
Have a safe, peaceful and joyful celebration.
Have a safe, peaceful and joyful celebration.
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Trump has revived his ambitions to incorporate Greenland into US territory citing national security, prompting European leaders to voice support for Denmark. 'Greenland belongs to its people - and Denmark is its guarantor.'
www.euronews.com/my-europe/20...
www.euronews.com/my-europe/20...
Europeans show solidarity with Denmark after Trump’s Greenland threat
Trump has revived his ambitions to incorporate Greenland into US territory citing national security, prompting European leaders to voice support for Denmark. 'Greenland belongs to its people - and Den...
www.euronews.com
December 24, 2025 at 10:47 AM
Trump has revived his ambitions to incorporate Greenland into US territory citing national security, prompting European leaders to voice support for Denmark. 'Greenland belongs to its people - and Denmark is its guarantor.'
www.euronews.com/my-europe/20...
www.euronews.com/my-europe/20...
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Trump announces a new "Trump Class" of battleships 100 times more powerful than any previous battleship.
abcnews.go.com/Politics/tru...
abcnews.go.com/Politics/tru...
December 24, 2025 at 3:29 PM
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BBC: UK campaigners among five denied US visas
Clare Melford and Imran Ahmed, who have campaigned against hate speech and disinformation online, have been banned from entering the US
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Clare Melford and Imran Ahmed, who have campaigned against hate speech and disinformation online, have been banned from entering the US
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
UK campaigners among five denied US visas
The Trump administration bans five people who have called for tech regulation from entering the country.
www.bbc.co.uk
December 24, 2025 at 2:03 PM
BBC: UK campaigners among five denied US visas
Clare Melford and Imran Ahmed, who have campaigned against hate speech and disinformation online, have been banned from entering the US
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Clare Melford and Imran Ahmed, who have campaigned against hate speech and disinformation online, have been banned from entering the US
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Another sanction by the Trump administration that exceeds the Kremlin’s wildest dreams, and shows exactly how and why Putin’s agenda lines up with the tech bros
www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...
www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...
Two British anti-hate speech campaigners sanctioned by US state department – UK politics live
Imran Ahmed and Clare Melford among five Europeans hit with visa bans over claims they wish to ‘suppress American viewpoints they oppose’
www.theguardian.com
December 24, 2025 at 11:09 AM
Another sanction by the Trump administration that exceeds the Kremlin’s wildest dreams, and shows exactly how and why Putin’s agenda lines up with the tech bros
www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...
www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...
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Reports that Palestine Action activists on hunger strike have been hospitalised due to seriously deteriorating health send chills down the spine.
The Government should agree to meet their representatives whilst prosecutors must take steps to end this excessively lengthy pre-trial detention.
The Government should agree to meet their representatives whilst prosecutors must take steps to end this excessively lengthy pre-trial detention.
December 24, 2025 at 2:14 PM
Reports that Palestine Action activists on hunger strike have been hospitalised due to seriously deteriorating health send chills down the spine.
The Government should agree to meet their representatives whilst prosecutors must take steps to end this excessively lengthy pre-trial detention.
The Government should agree to meet their representatives whilst prosecutors must take steps to end this excessively lengthy pre-trial detention.
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Even in these times of rapidly shifting norms, there was something shocking about the recent Home Office change in internal guidance, slipped in without the need for legislative scrutiny, to deny British citizenship to anyone arriving in the UK “in an unauthorised manner”;
Denying refugees citizenship? How low can we go?
The Labour leadership can and must do better
bylines.scot
December 23, 2025 at 8:54 PM
Even in these times of rapidly shifting norms, there was something shocking about the recent Home Office change in internal guidance, slipped in without the need for legislative scrutiny, to deny British citizenship to anyone arriving in the UK “in an unauthorised manner”;
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December 24, 2025 at 9:39 AM
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tЯump has begun lifting American sanctions on companies that sell weapons to the Russian military.
The Russians have finally offered enough money to the tЯump family and tЯump is 100% on Russia's side now.
This is blatant corruption...
The Russians have finally offered enough money to the tЯump family and tЯump is 100% on Russia's side now.
This is blatant corruption...
December 22, 2025 at 10:21 PM
tЯump has begun lifting American sanctions on companies that sell weapons to the Russian military.
The Russians have finally offered enough money to the tЯump family and tЯump is 100% on Russia's side now.
This is blatant corruption...
The Russians have finally offered enough money to the tЯump family and tЯump is 100% on Russia's side now.
This is blatant corruption...
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Channel 4 News has obtained a document that shows how, despite decades of denial, the Post Office and Fujitsu were able to centrally alter subpostmaster accounts, writes Chief Correspondent Alex Thomson.
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Post Office scandal: Secret Fujitsu contract revealed over Horizon system anomalies
Channel 4 News has obtained a document that shows how, despite decades of denial, the Post Office and Fujitsu were able to centrally alter subpostmaster accounts, writes Alex Thomson.
channel4news.substack.com
December 23, 2025 at 3:27 PM
Channel 4 News has obtained a document that shows how, despite decades of denial, the Post Office and Fujitsu were able to centrally alter subpostmaster accounts, writes Chief Correspondent Alex Thomson.
📩 Read our latest newsletter:
channel4news.substack.com/p/post-offic...
📩 Read our latest newsletter:
channel4news.substack.com/p/post-offic...
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The government is right to say that animals should be spared avoidable pain, suffering and distress when they are killed.
That's why reforms to animal welfare laws must include the banning of non-stun slaughter.
www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...
That's why reforms to animal welfare laws must include the banning of non-stun slaughter.
www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...
Boiling live lobsters to be banned under animal rights reforms
Downing Street has published its welfare strategy, which sets out a series of new farming and food standards and banning trail hunting
www.thetimes.com
December 23, 2025 at 2:09 PM
The government is right to say that animals should be spared avoidable pain, suffering and distress when they are killed.
That's why reforms to animal welfare laws must include the banning of non-stun slaughter.
www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...
That's why reforms to animal welfare laws must include the banning of non-stun slaughter.
www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...
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Wes Streeting, the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, has finally admitted what has been clear for some time: negotiating a bespoke customs union is essential to repairing the damage Brexit has done to the economy. The Government must now listen, and act.
December 23, 2025 at 1:39 PM
Wes Streeting, the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, has finally admitted what has been clear for some time: negotiating a bespoke customs union is essential to repairing the damage Brexit has done to the economy. The Government must now listen, and act.