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Lucy Harrold @lrharrold.bsky.social · 9d

This should be compulsory listening for the whole government. We need some facts to be made widely known to the public. That’s what government is supposed to do- public service information.

Arthur Snell @snellarthur.bsky.social · 9d

It’s out! I spoke to @zoejardiniere.bsky.social about migration, the realities, the challenges and how to confront the real threat of far right takeover of our country on a platform of fear and disinformation.

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Lucy Harrold @lrharrold.bsky.social · 10d

Theory of knowledge is excellent in the IB Diploma. UK state schools should have something similar in the Sixth Form.

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Lucy Harrold @lrharrold.bsky.social · 10d

Hard not to despair. They are just fighting on farage’s turf. So depressing. Also the international student levy. They don’t even need to be seen as immigrants and it will hurt the HE sector enormously.

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Lucy Harrold @lrharrold.bsky.social · 10d

I know it’s a different point but I feel it’s related- law, both national and international- especially when it derives from natural law and human rights can help with a line - I’m struck by how few people turn to the concept of law now (which is at its purest a series of codified societal lines).

Lucy Harrold @lrharrold.bsky.social · 11d

Totally agree, he was totally underwhelming. The UK always likes someone who is Labour but somehow feels like he could even be a Tory.

Lucy Harrold @lrharrold.bsky.social · 17d

The British public will respond to someone who understands right and left at a visceral level. Only one senior Labour MP had left wing & right wing grandparents. Streeting needs to be let out to argue with the far right and not locked up or wherever he is. Changing PM is mad but let others speak.

Lucy Harrold @lrharrold.bsky.social · 17d

Yes 100% this- far right all come for this eventually. I do wonder who really wants to live in a world like this it’s so dystopian and miserable. It’s also the inevitable end point of the hard brexit project but we aren’t allowed to say that.

Lucy Harrold @lrharrold.bsky.social · 17d

Everyone who can, should apply for citizenship pronto but of course then they come for citizenship- naturalization etc..but we have to do what we can individually to protect ourselves and our friends etc. Horribly expensive though.

David Henig @davidheniguk.bsky.social · 17d

So Reform / Farage want to deport hundreds of thousands, possibly millions of UK residents, turning the country into an effective police state, breaking treaties, and impoverishing the economy and health service?

Just focus on all that. The moral gutter of politics.

Duncan Weldon @duncanweldon.bsky.social · 17d

Retrospectively removing indefinite leave to remain would be immoral and economically damaging. It would tear families apart.
Attacking it as ‘potentially illegal’ is completely beside the point.
Argue with the (awful) idea. Don’t try ’well, actually you can’t do that’.

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Lucy Harrold @lrharrold.bsky.social · 17d

But if dark internet ads can flip small numbers of people in a small number of important constituencies and you can get a parliamentary landslide with under 40% of the voting public, belief in the public at large is irrelevant.

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Lucy Harrold @lrharrold.bsky.social · 17d

I do believe in the British public the problem is first past the post & tech companies- dark political ads on the internet will target and persuade a tiny slither of people in a tiny number of constituencies and the rest of us are irrelevant. Plus the left has ceded ground to the right over Brexit.

Lucy Harrold @lrharrold.bsky.social · 17d

It’s getting really real. Totally agree we need everyone to stand against this- Labour, old style Tories, Lib Dems, Greens. Even if people think this movement is about “just immigration” it’s not, it’s coming for everyone- eg in US trying to undermine women’s use of painkillers during pregnancy.

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Lucy Harrold @lrharrold.bsky.social · 18d

This is good. I presume from what happened at Windsor Castle that the government has decided not to regulate AI in line with the EU but I haven’t seen anything about that yet.

Lucy Harrold @lrharrold.bsky.social · 24d

Ok but what about doing so on the same day? Is that too much to ask when something is so blatantly wrong?

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Lucy Harrold @lrharrold.bsky.social · 25d

Crikey- is this what the government is going with? What about people in Britain who are feeling very frightened by what they saw yesterday? They deserve representation.

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Frog and Toad Bot @frogandtoadbot.bsky.social · 27d

Frog and Toad looked into a mirror.

“We look brave,” said Frog.

“Yes, but are we?” asked Toad.

Frog and Toad gaze at their own reflections in a mirror. Toad holds in his hands a book titled "Fairy Tales."

From "Dragons and Giants"
In *Frog and Toad Together*

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Lucy Harrold @lrharrold.bsky.social · 27d

My kids are at a British international school and parents say the UK has also become too expensive for them- not just international tuition fees compared to European fees but accommodation costs are very high.

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Lucy Harrold @lrharrold.bsky.social · 28d

Quite. Today I just thought- good riddance. Yet again.

Miranda Green @greenmirandahere.bsky.social · 28d

Hands up who's old enough to remember the drama of all the other Mandelson forced resignations? *wearily puts on kettle and forebears from muttering I told you so*

Lucy Harrold @lrharrold.bsky.social · Jul 18

Not sure about that. Mine wouldn’t. (Anecdotal I realise). Maybe there’s data on it.

Lucy Harrold @lrharrold.bsky.social · Jul 8

Such an interesting listen from my two favourite experts on international relations.

Disorder Podcast @disordershow.bsky.social · Jul 8

What is Britain's role in the world?

This week – @alexhh.bsky.social and @snellarthur.bsky.social discuss Britain's "progressive realism" approach to foreign policy.

Listen 👉 tr.ee/ksicr-3Wty

Lucy Harrold @lrharrold.bsky.social · Jun 24

The devastating consequences of not complying with international law will be with us for decades. This is the Iraq war on steroids. That undermined many political systems and voter trust. There is some amnesia and some group think going on. You cannot order the disorder without international law.

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Byline Times @bylinetimes.bsky.social · Jun 24

🔴 Ten Big Questions the US Airstrikes on Iran Leave Unanswered

Only one thing is clear about the events of the past week. We are now living in an age of chaos, argues the author and former diplomat @snellarthur.bsky.social

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Ten Big Questions the US Airstrikes on Iran Leave Unanswered

Only one thing is clear about the events of the past week. We are now living in an age of chaos, argues the author and former diplomat Arthur Snell

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Lucy Harrold @lrharrold.bsky.social · Jun 24

An extraordinary lack of understanding of the importance of international law. Without international law, we have a lawless world. Just imagine we had no law in the UK, what do we think might happen? Shops looted, vengeance, people taking over other people’s property with a gun? Then extrapolate…

Lucy Harrold @lrharrold.bsky.social · Jun 18

Thanks Arthur, that’s reassuring!

Lucy Harrold @lrharrold.bsky.social · Jun 18

Yes sorry. I always thought the military view was we couldn’t go into Ukraine and defend it with troops or aircraft or that would be WW3 (and that means nuclear) but Trump seems about to do this very thing. Today or tomorrow.

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Lucy Harrold @lrharrold.bsky.social · Jun 18

Arthur, what happens if America joins Israel- what will China & Russia do? Is proxy WW3 turning explicit? Is there a situation in which Russia and China just abandon Iran? Is that our best hope? Without international law where do we go from here?

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