Malcolm Warin🔶🏴🇬🇧
@malcolmdw.bsky.social
OUR FLAGS! NOT THEIRS! North East England - Christian, Lib Dem, love family, travel, reading, food, laughter and wildlife. Committed to social justice, Europe and a fairer, more sustainable world.
The damage will never be undone!
Rejoining the EU will be a long and fraught process, if it can be achieved.
I'd love to think it can, sooner rather than later, but there are many obstacles.
Rejoining the EU will be a long and fraught process, if it can be achieved.
I'd love to think it can, sooner rather than later, but there are many obstacles.
Tinkering around the edges will never achieve enough. Only rejoining the EU will undo the damage.
blogs.lse.ac.uk/europpblog/2...
blogs.lse.ac.uk/europpblog/2...
Functional, not federal – why pragmatism now defines the EU-UK relationship - EUROPP
Almost a decade on from the Brexit referendum, a new EU-UK relationship is now emerging that focuses on pragmatic cooperation rather than integration.
blogs.lse.ac.uk
November 26, 2025 at 9:45 PM
The damage will never be undone!
Rejoining the EU will be a long and fraught process, if it can be achieved.
I'd love to think it can, sooner rather than later, but there are many obstacles.
Rejoining the EU will be a long and fraught process, if it can be achieved.
I'd love to think it can, sooner rather than later, but there are many obstacles.
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#USDemocracy #MomSky
Tennessee's 7th Congressional District
Vote for Aftyn Behn!
Remaining voting opportunities fall on these 2 days:
• Wednesday, November 26th (today)
• Tuesday, December 2nd
Tennessee's 7th Congressional District
Vote for Aftyn Behn!
Remaining voting opportunities fall on these 2 days:
• Wednesday, November 26th (today)
• Tuesday, December 2nd
November 26, 2025 at 7:14 PM
#USDemocracy #MomSky
Tennessee's 7th Congressional District
Vote for Aftyn Behn!
Remaining voting opportunities fall on these 2 days:
• Wednesday, November 26th (today)
• Tuesday, December 2nd
Tennessee's 7th Congressional District
Vote for Aftyn Behn!
Remaining voting opportunities fall on these 2 days:
• Wednesday, November 26th (today)
• Tuesday, December 2nd
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This woman spent several years and a lot of money to prosecute one of the largest bunches of election deniers and tried to put justice to work, in one day the asshole who took over put that all to waste! This is why people have no faith in the justice system! Shame on Georgia!
a woman in a pink dress is sitting in front of a microphone with the words pbs news hour on the bottom
ALT: a woman in a pink dress is sitting in front of a microphone with the words pbs news hour on the bottom
media.tenor.com
November 26, 2025 at 9:33 PM
This woman spent several years and a lot of money to prosecute one of the largest bunches of election deniers and tried to put justice to work, in one day the asshole who took over put that all to waste! This is why people have no faith in the justice system! Shame on Georgia!
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Raising the Minimum Wage is welcome news to low paid workers but unless we also see real growth for businesses, we risk jobs disappearing.
The Government must revitalise our high streets with a VAT cut for hospitality until 2027 & secure a stronger deal with the EU to unleash growth.
The Government must revitalise our high streets with a VAT cut for hospitality until 2027 & secure a stronger deal with the EU to unleash growth.
Minimum wage to rise again from April to £12.71 for over-21s
The move has been welcomed, but some experts say it will not cover the current cost of living.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 26, 2025 at 11:24 AM
Raising the Minimum Wage is welcome news to low paid workers but unless we also see real growth for businesses, we risk jobs disappearing.
The Government must revitalise our high streets with a VAT cut for hospitality until 2027 & secure a stronger deal with the EU to unleash growth.
The Government must revitalise our high streets with a VAT cut for hospitality until 2027 & secure a stronger deal with the EU to unleash growth.
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It absolutely wasn't. Might be showing my age here, but 20 years ago was not actually that long ago, in terms of this
Nigel Farage asked about Reform MS Laura Anne Jones (who the Senedd Commissioner found had used a racist term in a staff WhatsApp chat in August 2023 while discussing TikTok writing: “No chinky spies for me.”)
"Well, she used a word that colloquially, probably was meant in a nice way 20 years ago."
"Well, she used a word that colloquially, probably was meant in a nice way 20 years ago."
November 26, 2025 at 8:19 PM
It absolutely wasn't. Might be showing my age here, but 20 years ago was not actually that long ago, in terms of this
The disaster hasn't just been economic! Britain has become more isolated and less attractive because of Brexit.
🚨BREXIT BUDGET🚨
Daisy Cooper MP: "There is a £90 billion hit to treasury income as a result of the Brexit deal."
"Brexit has been a disaster for our country. It has been a disaster for our economy."
Daisy Cooper MP: "There is a £90 billion hit to treasury income as a result of the Brexit deal."
"Brexit has been a disaster for our country. It has been a disaster for our economy."
November 26, 2025 at 9:32 PM
The disaster hasn't just been economic! Britain has become more isolated and less attractive because of Brexit.
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Supporters of Ukraine just unfurled the world’s biggest 🇺🇦 flag on the White House ellipse calling for the U.S. not to abandon the country in its efforts to resist the Russian attack.
March 8, 2025 at 7:27 PM
Supporters of Ukraine just unfurled the world’s biggest 🇺🇦 flag on the White House ellipse calling for the U.S. not to abandon the country in its efforts to resist the Russian attack.
I hope they're very disappointed!
Putin and Russia are counting on their asset, the US Government, giving them the win in Ukraine that their overrated and incompetent army couldn’t deliver.
November 26, 2025 at 9:29 PM
I hope they're very disappointed!
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Thanks to Pete Hegseth's incompetence and inebriation, everyone is now talking about Mark Kelly's numerous medals.
You may have seen Pete Hegseth & Buzz Patterson mock @captmarkkelly.bsky.social U.S. Navy uniform and erroneously claim medals are misplaced (they are not).
Every military uniform is a walking resumé.
Let's take a tour of Sen. Kelly's impressive career:
Thread by @charlotteclymer.bsky.social
Every military uniform is a walking resumé.
Let's take a tour of Sen. Kelly's impressive career:
Thread by @charlotteclymer.bsky.social
November 26, 2025 at 7:16 PM
Thanks to Pete Hegseth's incompetence and inebriation, everyone is now talking about Mark Kelly's numerous medals.
What a shame! I really don't feel sorry for him.
The founder of an investment company who bought an £8.5 million London flat after supplying 50 million faulty PPE masks during the pandemic has had a criminal restraint order imposed on the property.
www.thetimes.com/uk/crime/art...
www.thetimes.com/uk/crime/art...
Financier’s £8.5m flat frozen amid tax investigation over PPE deal
Tim Horlick bought the Pimlico property shortly after his company was awarded the now-contentious £255m contract by the government
www.thetimes.com
November 26, 2025 at 9:27 PM
What a shame! I really don't feel sorry for him.
Yes, we know that. Wee need a full investigation of everything. National and independent!
Lib Dem leader Edward Davey calls for a national investigation into Russian political interference in British politics:
"Given Reform won't, he must. So will he know launch a national investigation into Russian infiltration into our politics?"
Starmer: "Reform is riddled with pro-Putin propaganda"
"Given Reform won't, he must. So will he know launch a national investigation into Russian infiltration into our politics?"
Starmer: "Reform is riddled with pro-Putin propaganda"
November 26, 2025 at 7:04 PM
Yes, we know that. Wee need a full investigation of everything. National and independent!
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'Mansion tax' barely even touches the sides. Wholesale reform of council tax is needed.
Labour again lack the courage to tax the wealthiest adequately & the conviction to properly support the millions struggling to pay their rent & bills
My view: www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Labour again lack the courage to tax the wealthiest adequately & the conviction to properly support the millions struggling to pay their rent & bills
My view: www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Has Rachel Reeves made the right calls in this budget? Our panel responds | Polly Toynbee and others
After a tumultuous run-up to a make-or-break moment for the government, has the chancellor struck the right balance?
www.theguardian.com
November 26, 2025 at 4:03 PM
'Mansion tax' barely even touches the sides. Wholesale reform of council tax is needed.
Labour again lack the courage to tax the wealthiest adequately & the conviction to properly support the millions struggling to pay their rent & bills
My view: www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Labour again lack the courage to tax the wealthiest adequately & the conviction to properly support the millions struggling to pay their rent & bills
My view: www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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That's the first piece of advice he's given that's of any value at all.
Don't listen to anything he has to say about your health.
Don't listen to anything he has to say about your health.
November 26, 2025 at 6:59 PM
That's the first piece of advice he's given that's of any value at all.
Don't listen to anything he has to say about your health.
Don't listen to anything he has to say about your health.
I know where I want him.
Moscow wants him exactly where he is.
November 26, 2025 at 6:37 PM
I know where I want him.
He's not an asset! Definitely a debit!
"We are freezing known Russian assets" says Rachel Reeves
"But let me be clear, I don't actually mean the member for Clacton"
"But let me be clear, I don't actually mean the member for Clacton"
November 26, 2025 at 6:36 PM
He's not an asset! Definitely a debit!
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A Reform councillor has been ordered to pay almost £40,000 in debts to the authority he sits on..
In addition County court judgments showed Barry Elliott's building companies had been ordered to pay a total of £140,000 in debts to customers he’d taken money from but not delivered
#ReformDodgyAF
In addition County court judgments showed Barry Elliott's building companies had been ordered to pay a total of £140,000 in debts to customers he’d taken money from but not delivered
#ReformDodgyAF
Councillor Barry Elliott ordered to pay debts owed to own council - BBC News
Reform UK's Barry Elliott has business rates and council tax arrears of almost £40,000.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 26, 2025 at 6:01 PM
Yes, Russia wants peace and it'll destroy anything and anyone to get the peace it wants.
Russia continues to destroy the city. A residential building in Kostyantynivka, Donetsk region, caught fire after yet another strike. Flames have engulfed parts of the area as emergency services battle the aftermath.
November 26, 2025 at 6:15 PM
Yes, Russia wants peace and it'll destroy anything and anyone to get the peace it wants.
As it should be! They make billions and cause massive damage to lives.
November 26, 2025 at 6:13 PM
As it should be! They make billions and cause massive damage to lives.
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Democrat Aftyn Behn is in striking distance of flipping a Republican House seat in Congress in a red district in Tennessee that Trump won by 22 points last year. The special election will be held December 2.
Democrats close to flipping Trump Tennessee District—Poll
Aftyn Behn was just two points behind Matt Van Epps in a district Donald Trump carried by 22 points in the 2024 presidential election.
www.newsweek.com
November 26, 2025 at 5:17 PM
Democrat Aftyn Behn is in striking distance of flipping a Republican House seat in Congress in a red district in Tennessee that Trump won by 22 points last year. The special election will be held December 2.
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Not the case if Trump has anything to do with it.
#CleanEnergy is now growing fast enough to meet all new global electricity demand, thanks to #solar, #wind, #water, and #batteries ☀️💨💧🔋. Clean power is adding 635 TWh (more than the world’s demand growth) and even pushing #fossil-fuel generation down in China (-0.7%) and India (-2.5%) 📉🌍.
Q3 Global Power Report: No fossil fuel growth expected in 2025 | Ember
Solar and wind power grew fast enough to keep up with rising electricity demand in the first three quarters of 2025, as fossil fuel growth should be stagnated. Ember forecasts no growth for fossil fue...
ember-energy.org
November 26, 2025 at 6:05 PM
Not the case if Trump has anything to do with it.
It might be great to be in a Reform controlled county - but if you're poor you're going to be a loser!
Is this what Reform promised?
Is this what Reform promised?
Local Reform UK has accelerated their refuk - Durham’s Reform-run council is punishing its own voters by scrapping full council-tax relief and forcing 26,000 low-income working-age residents to pay for the first time.
Source: North East Bylines
Source: North East Bylines
November 26, 2025 at 6:02 PM
It might be great to be in a Reform controlled county - but if you're poor you're going to be a loser!
Is this what Reform promised?
Is this what Reform promised?
The best thing that could happen to Matt is if we all simply ignore him. He's becoming nothing more than an attention seeking mouth!
Matt: we need measures to improve fertility - it's one of our biggest problems!
Also Matt: No not like that. I meant white people only.
Also Matt: No not like that. I meant white people only.
Reflections on the budget from the head of Students4Reform
November 26, 2025 at 5:59 PM
The best thing that could happen to Matt is if we all simply ignore him. He's becoming nothing more than an attention seeking mouth!
Demonstrably disgusting!
COP30 in Brazil was billed as the “implementation summit”, when hot air turned to action. But Edelman, the PR firm that won the contract to promote the climate summit, was pulling in two directions.
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November 26, 2025 at 5:51 PM
Demonstrably disgusting!