Kotsreveb
@kotsreveb.bsky.social
Cymro ac Ewropeaidd, Welshman and European. MA East European Studies.
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Ministers now admit growth is difficult within the existing EU trade framework.
@jennyrhodes42.bsky.social on how this year is already showing signs of a change in UK-EU relations.
#OurPlaceinEurope #Brexit #Breturn
@jennyrhodes42.bsky.social on how this year is already showing signs of a change in UK-EU relations.
#OurPlaceinEurope #Brexit #Breturn
New year developments mean government deadlock on the EU can’t continue
Shifting tides in UK-EU relations: new developments spark cautious hope for closer alignment in 2025
eastangliabylines.co.uk
January 25, 2025 at 12:14 PM
Ministers now admit growth is difficult within the existing EU trade framework.
@jennyrhodes42.bsky.social on how this year is already showing signs of a change in UK-EU relations.
#OurPlaceinEurope #Brexit #Breturn
@jennyrhodes42.bsky.social on how this year is already showing signs of a change in UK-EU relations.
#OurPlaceinEurope #Brexit #Breturn
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Chomsky: Greenland is clearly in US sphere of influence. Denmark should trade land for peace
Mearsheimer: Great powers always ruthlessly pursue their own interests. Denmark should be pragmatic
Varoufakis: Denmark's aggressive joining of EU provoked Trump. It's their own fault.
Mearsheimer: Great powers always ruthlessly pursue their own interests. Denmark should be pragmatic
Varoufakis: Denmark's aggressive joining of EU provoked Trump. It's their own fault.
January 25, 2025 at 7:46 PM
Chomsky: Greenland is clearly in US sphere of influence. Denmark should trade land for peace
Mearsheimer: Great powers always ruthlessly pursue their own interests. Denmark should be pragmatic
Varoufakis: Denmark's aggressive joining of EU provoked Trump. It's their own fault.
Mearsheimer: Great powers always ruthlessly pursue their own interests. Denmark should be pragmatic
Varoufakis: Denmark's aggressive joining of EU provoked Trump. It's their own fault.
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Day 1057 of my 3 day war.
Bad News: Gazprom are cutting 1600 jobs due to war
Good news: There are 1600 "volunteers" who can die in the war that caused their job cuts
I remain a master strategist.
Bad News: Gazprom are cutting 1600 jobs due to war
Good news: There are 1600 "volunteers" who can die in the war that caused their job cuts
I remain a master strategist.
January 14, 2025 at 8:32 AM
Day 1057 of my 3 day war.
Bad News: Gazprom are cutting 1600 jobs due to war
Good news: There are 1600 "volunteers" who can die in the war that caused their job cuts
I remain a master strategist.
Bad News: Gazprom are cutting 1600 jobs due to war
Good news: There are 1600 "volunteers" who can die in the war that caused their job cuts
I remain a master strategist.
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🔴MPs Cashed in More Than £1 Million From GB News and Other Media and Speaking Gigs Last Year
New Byline Times analysis reveals the scale of earnings being raked in by Members of Parliament on top of their £91,346 salaries
bylinetimes.com/2025/01/14/m...
New Byline Times analysis reveals the scale of earnings being raked in by Members of Parliament on top of their £91,346 salaries
bylinetimes.com/2025/01/14/m...
MPs Cashed in More Than £1 Million From GB News and Other Media and Speaking Gigs Last Year
New analysis by Byline Times reveals the scale of earnings being raked in by Members of Parliament on top of their £91,346 salaries.
bylinetimes.com
January 14, 2025 at 10:05 AM
🔴MPs Cashed in More Than £1 Million From GB News and Other Media and Speaking Gigs Last Year
New Byline Times analysis reveals the scale of earnings being raked in by Members of Parliament on top of their £91,346 salaries
bylinetimes.com/2025/01/14/m...
New Byline Times analysis reveals the scale of earnings being raked in by Members of Parliament on top of their £91,346 salaries
bylinetimes.com/2025/01/14/m...
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remarkable to me that far from seeming cool or masculine zuck seems like an even bigger loser — the kind of nerd who preemptively gives his lunch money to the bully and thanks him for the opportunity
January 11, 2025 at 4:06 PM
remarkable to me that far from seeming cool or masculine zuck seems like an even bigger loser — the kind of nerd who preemptively gives his lunch money to the bully and thanks him for the opportunity
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Over 60 German universities quit social media platform X.
Platform accused of failing to uphold values of diversity, freedom, and scholarship.
Platform accused of failing to uphold values of diversity, freedom, and scholarship.
Over 60 German universities quit social media platform X
Platform accused of failing to uphold values of diversity, freedom, and scholarship - Anadolu Ajansı
www.aa.com.tr
January 12, 2025 at 12:27 PM
Over 60 German universities quit social media platform X.
Platform accused of failing to uphold values of diversity, freedom, and scholarship.
Platform accused of failing to uphold values of diversity, freedom, and scholarship.
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Nigel Farage paid £189,000 last year by gold company to work part-time
Nigel Farage paid £189,000 last year by gold company to work part-time
Reform UK leader’s work for GB News and social media income bring total earnings since July to almost £600,000
Nigel Farage was paid £189,000 last year as a brand ambassador for a gold company, taking his total income since July’s election to just under…
www.theguardian.com
January 7, 2025 at 6:41 PM
Nigel Farage paid £189,000 last year by gold company to work part-time
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Hundreds of thousands of people in Moldova’s breakaway region of Transnistria are facing the prospect of winter without heating or power after Russia ended the flow of natural gas to the unrecognized republic.
Russia cuts off gas to Moldovan separatists, risking humanitarian crisis
The Moscow-backed breakaway region is unable to heat homes after being cut off by Kremlin patrons.
www.politico.eu
January 1, 2025 at 12:54 PM
Hundreds of thousands of people in Moldova’s breakaway region of Transnistria are facing the prospect of winter without heating or power after Russia ended the flow of natural gas to the unrecognized republic.
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With Assad’s fall, Putin’s dream of world domination is turning into a nightmare | Peter Pomerantsev
With Assad’s fall, Putin’s dream of world domination is turning into a nightmare | Peter Pomerantsev
Complaints about the president are growing among Russian military and business leaders. Now is the time for the west to turn up the heat
As Bashar al-Assad fell, Russian nationalist military bloggers turned on the Kremlin. “Ten years of our presence,”…
www.theguardian.com
December 22, 2024 at 9:49 AM
With Assad’s fall, Putin’s dream of world domination is turning into a nightmare | Peter Pomerantsev
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🔴Left-Wing Media Mogul? Environmental Campaigner Dale Vince ‘Interested’ in Funding Breakaway Observer Title
The owner of energy firm Ecotricity tells @josiah.writes.news he is open to funding a new media project staffed by Observer journalists opposed to its sale to Tortoise Media,
The owner of energy firm Ecotricity tells @josiah.writes.news he is open to funding a new media project staffed by Observer journalists opposed to its sale to Tortoise Media,
Left-Wing Media Mogul? Environmental Campaigner Dale Vince 'Interested' in Funding Breakaway Observer Title
The owner of energy firm Ecotricity tells Byline Times he is open to funding a new media project staffed by Observer journalists opposed to its sale to Tortoise Media
bylinetimes.com
December 21, 2024 at 12:19 PM
🔴Left-Wing Media Mogul? Environmental Campaigner Dale Vince ‘Interested’ in Funding Breakaway Observer Title
The owner of energy firm Ecotricity tells @josiah.writes.news he is open to funding a new media project staffed by Observer journalists opposed to its sale to Tortoise Media,
The owner of energy firm Ecotricity tells @josiah.writes.news he is open to funding a new media project staffed by Observer journalists opposed to its sale to Tortoise Media,
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Have you noticed that Iran & North Korea providing long range weapons for use on civilians is never called an "escalation"?
No? Good. Carry on.
No? Good. Carry on.
As of 2022, the russians killed more than 12.3 thousand Ukrainian civilians and injured more than 27.8 thousand, — UN
It is noted that the reason for the death of 42% of the civilian population in Ukraine in November is the use of long-range weapons by the russians.
It is noted that the reason for the death of 42% of the civilian population in Ukraine in November is the use of long-range weapons by the russians.
December 21, 2024 at 12:41 PM
Have you noticed that Iran & North Korea providing long range weapons for use on civilians is never called an "escalation"?
No? Good. Carry on.
No? Good. Carry on.
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Day 1032 of my 3 day war. Inflation will be solved by ensuring those Russians not killed in Ukraine have nothing to buy.
I remain a master strategist.
I remain a master strategist.
December 21, 2024 at 1:35 PM
Day 1032 of my 3 day war. Inflation will be solved by ensuring those Russians not killed in Ukraine have nothing to buy.
I remain a master strategist.
I remain a master strategist.
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Had to change this down in the bunker.
December 17, 2024 at 2:57 PM
Had to change this down in the bunker.
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Ukraine is studying European models of electoral law, including electronic voting, with an eye toward holding elections soon after the end of its war with Russia.
Ukraine, eyeing post-war elections, looks to European models
Kyiv, which last held a national election in 2019, has been unable to stage another since Russia’s invasion in early 2022.
www.politico.eu
December 17, 2024 at 8:01 PM
Ukraine is studying European models of electoral law, including electronic voting, with an eye toward holding elections soon after the end of its war with Russia.
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British politics in 2024 is a lot more amusing if you recall that 10 years ago, the whole point of having the EU referendum from the perspective of the Tory leadership was to eliminate completely the threat Nigel Farage posed to them.
December 17, 2024 at 11:51 AM
British politics in 2024 is a lot more amusing if you recall that 10 years ago, the whole point of having the EU referendum from the perspective of the Tory leadership was to eliminate completely the threat Nigel Farage posed to them.
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OTD in 1994 Russia signed the Budapest Memorandum, guaranteeing Ukraine's territorial integrity in exchange for their nukes,
44 Ukrainian heavy bombers (Tu-22) and 1,068 Kh-55 cruise missiles.
Which have been fired at Ukraine in this war.
44 Ukrainian heavy bombers (Tu-22) and 1,068 Kh-55 cruise missiles.
Which have been fired at Ukraine in this war.
December 5, 2024 at 6:59 AM
OTD in 1994 Russia signed the Budapest Memorandum, guaranteeing Ukraine's territorial integrity in exchange for their nukes,
44 Ukrainian heavy bombers (Tu-22) and 1,068 Kh-55 cruise missiles.
Which have been fired at Ukraine in this war.
44 Ukrainian heavy bombers (Tu-22) and 1,068 Kh-55 cruise missiles.
Which have been fired at Ukraine in this war.
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The easiest way to get invaded by russia is to sign a treaty with us.
December 5, 2024 at 8:39 AM
The easiest way to get invaded by russia is to sign a treaty with us.
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OTD in 1978 USSR & Afghanistan signed a "friendship treaty". We invaded them a year later.
So you can trust us with a peace deal now.
So you can trust us with a peace deal now.
December 5, 2024 at 8:19 AM
OTD in 1978 USSR & Afghanistan signed a "friendship treaty". We invaded them a year later.
So you can trust us with a peace deal now.
So you can trust us with a peace deal now.
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Trump's peace plans are as well thought through as my invasion plan was.
December 4, 2024 at 12:58 PM
Trump's peace plans are as well thought through as my invasion plan was.
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More bad news for the Muskrat.
This is going to be a huge hit to his already ruined social media site.
I love this for him.
This is going to be a huge hit to his already ruined social media site.
I love this for him.
European Federation of Journalists to stop posting content on X
The EFJ represents over 295,000 journalists in 44 countries.
www.thelondoneconomic.com
December 4, 2024 at 2:57 PM
More bad news for the Muskrat.
This is going to be a huge hit to his already ruined social media site.
I love this for him.
This is going to be a huge hit to his already ruined social media site.
I love this for him.
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Nigel Farage, who has repeatedly accused migrants of making women in the UK unsafe, is now refusing to act against a fellow Reform MP who was jailed for beating up his own girlfriend, and is now calling for a 'debate' on restricting women's reproductive rights
bylinetimes.com/2024/11/29/n...
bylinetimes.com/2024/11/29/n...
Nigel Farage Teams Up With Extreme Anti-Abortion Group and Calls for Debate on Restricting Abortion Rights in UK
The Reform Leader is joining forces with a US-based Christian legal group, which campaigns for abortion to be outlawed around the world
bylinetimes.com
December 4, 2024 at 2:41 PM
Nigel Farage, who has repeatedly accused migrants of making women in the UK unsafe, is now refusing to act against a fellow Reform MP who was jailed for beating up his own girlfriend, and is now calling for a 'debate' on restricting women's reproductive rights
bylinetimes.com/2024/11/29/n...
bylinetimes.com/2024/11/29/n...
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A bunch of new Brexit red tape coming next week which will be bad for British businesses. I'm sure the usual suspects will write it up as "Why is the EU punishing us for Brexit again?" in the usually clueless fashion.
December 4, 2024 at 4:50 PM
A bunch of new Brexit red tape coming next week which will be bad for British businesses. I'm sure the usual suspects will write it up as "Why is the EU punishing us for Brexit again?" in the usually clueless fashion.
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A critical issue for the future of our democracy and social cohesion more widely. Transparency and strong laws on foreign funding are essential. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Revealed: UK politics infiltrated by ‘dark money’ with 10% of donations from dubious sources
Cash from dictatorships and shell companies is entering the political system via legal loopholes
www.theguardian.com
December 1, 2024 at 8:33 AM
A critical issue for the future of our democracy and social cohesion more widely. Transparency and strong laws on foreign funding are essential. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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Dear @keirstarmer2.bsky.social,
Please move the laws around political & campaign financing to the top of your list
Or…
Expect 1 term that ends in handing power of this country to a foreign billionaire proxy PM and his little puppet
Yours,
The people of this country paying attention.
Please move the laws around political & campaign financing to the top of your list
Or…
Expect 1 term that ends in handing power of this country to a foreign billionaire proxy PM and his little puppet
Yours,
The people of this country paying attention.
December 1, 2024 at 9:23 AM
Dear @keirstarmer2.bsky.social,
Please move the laws around political & campaign financing to the top of your list
Or…
Expect 1 term that ends in handing power of this country to a foreign billionaire proxy PM and his little puppet
Yours,
The people of this country paying attention.
Please move the laws around political & campaign financing to the top of your list
Or…
Expect 1 term that ends in handing power of this country to a foreign billionaire proxy PM and his little puppet
Yours,
The people of this country paying attention.
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Bluesky engagement is punching way above its weight. I can attest to that👏
sherwood.news/tech/bluesky...
sherwood.news/tech/bluesky...
Bluesky engagement seems to be punching way above its weight
While Meta pushes every Instagram user to Threads and X tries to shore up a disintegrating userbase, the plucky indie social network is picking...
sherwood.news
November 29, 2024 at 9:15 PM
Bluesky engagement is punching way above its weight. I can attest to that👏
sherwood.news/tech/bluesky...
sherwood.news/tech/bluesky...