Anita Pearce
@neatapeata.bsky.social
Pet parent, multi racial European. Current affairs & politics junky #fbppr #fbpe
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My latest. Love the pic.
In filing a claim against the BBC he probably won’t win, Donald Trump is trying to exert leverage so the broadcaster’s executives capitulate, writes @davidallengreen.bsky.social.
Donald Trump v the British Broadcasting Corporation: the battle begins
The president filed a claim this week more about exerting leverage than legal niceties
www.prospectmagazine.co.uk
December 19, 2025 at 3:01 PM
My latest. Love the pic.
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NEW
Donald Trump v the British Broadcasting Corporation: the battle begins
The president filed a claim this week more about exerting leverage than legal niceties
By me, at @prospectmagazine.co.uk
www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/law/th...
Donald Trump v the British Broadcasting Corporation: the battle begins
The president filed a claim this week more about exerting leverage than legal niceties
By me, at @prospectmagazine.co.uk
www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/law/th...
Donald Trump v the British Broadcasting Corporation: the battle begins
The president filed a claim this week more about exerting leverage than legal niceties
www.prospectmagazine.co.uk
December 19, 2025 at 12:24 PM
NEW
Donald Trump v the British Broadcasting Corporation: the battle begins
The president filed a claim this week more about exerting leverage than legal niceties
By me, at @prospectmagazine.co.uk
www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/law/th...
Donald Trump v the British Broadcasting Corporation: the battle begins
The president filed a claim this week more about exerting leverage than legal niceties
By me, at @prospectmagazine.co.uk
www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/law/th...
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🚨🚨Breaking: #EU has secured essential funding through a loan to #Ukraine of EUR 90 billion for the years 2026-2027 but failed to secure agreement on a deal on sending Russian #frozenassets to Ukraine after a 16-hour summit in Brussels. 🧵 www.consilium.europa.eu/en/press/pre...
European Council, 18 December 2025, Ukraine
The European Council discussed the latest developments as regards Ukraine.
www.consilium.europa.eu
December 19, 2025 at 8:21 AM
🚨🚨Breaking: #EU has secured essential funding through a loan to #Ukraine of EUR 90 billion for the years 2026-2027 but failed to secure agreement on a deal on sending Russian #frozenassets to Ukraine after a 16-hour summit in Brussels. 🧵 www.consilium.europa.eu/en/press/pre...
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Loving your work! Thank you! ❤️
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At a time when billionaires and oligarchs own the majority of our press, when local journalism is in decline, and social media is rife with misinformation and abuse, there has never been a greater nee...
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December 19, 2025 at 10:26 AM
Loving your work! Thank you! ❤️
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EU summit conclusions now published, including the text on financing for Ukraine, as further explained in my thread. There's also a separate additional statement on Ukraine, supported by 25 Member States www.consilium.europa.eu/en/press/pre...
December 19, 2025 at 3:19 AM
EU summit conclusions now published, including the text on financing for Ukraine, as further explained in my thread. There's also a separate additional statement on Ukraine, supported by 25 Member States www.consilium.europa.eu/en/press/pre...
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This makes a lot of sense.
Foreign interventions being used to trigger domestic legal powers.
Foreign interventions being used to trigger domestic legal powers.
I keep saying this but no one is connecting the dots. The war is to satisfy legal preconditions for mass removal *domestically* of Latinos (i.e., suddenly a lot of people are going to be “Venezuelan” for purposes of removal). This is 100% Stephen Miller…oil claim is to make grandpa go along
There is no national security logic that would impel the US to want to do regime change in Venezuela. It's simply not that important. I'm not even sure wag the dog is the right metaphor for what's happening here. Seems like an insane misallocation of US national security assets and attention.
December 19, 2025 at 7:36 AM
This makes a lot of sense.
Foreign interventions being used to trigger domestic legal powers.
Foreign interventions being used to trigger domestic legal powers.
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Great @yorkshirebylines.co.uk write up of my recent talk about Trump for grassroots Europe
yorkshirebylines.co.uk/politics/tru...
Thanks @colinngordon.bsky.social for inviting me back!
yorkshirebylines.co.uk/politics/tru...
Thanks @colinngordon.bsky.social for inviting me back!
Trump’s authoritarian threat to Europe and the UK
No room for complacency: the signs are that US authoritarianism will spread here – and we must be prepared
yorkshirebylines.co.uk
December 19, 2025 at 9:57 AM
Great @yorkshirebylines.co.uk write up of my recent talk about Trump for grassroots Europe
yorkshirebylines.co.uk/politics/tru...
Thanks @colinngordon.bsky.social for inviting me back!
yorkshirebylines.co.uk/politics/tru...
Thanks @colinngordon.bsky.social for inviting me back!
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Had another lovely afternoon recording this great little podcast.
Enjoy! 🥳👇
Enjoy! 🥳👇
NEW EPISODE: The space between peace and war
☠️ Europe's choice on Ukraine: be galvanised or paralysed
😎 How spies are waging their own war on us
🧞 Inevitable pantomime references
🎧 SPOTIFY open.spotify.com/episode/1Qn9...
🍏 APPLE podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/q...
@annettedittert.bsky.social
☠️ Europe's choice on Ukraine: be galvanised or paralysed
😎 How spies are waging their own war on us
🧞 Inevitable pantomime references
🎧 SPOTIFY open.spotify.com/episode/1Qn9...
🍏 APPLE podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/q...
@annettedittert.bsky.social
The Space Between Peace And War
open.spotify.com
December 18, 2025 at 2:08 PM
Had another lovely afternoon recording this great little podcast.
Enjoy! 🥳👇
Enjoy! 🥳👇
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Looks like flu is wave is likely to be "normal bad" shifted earlier and not bigger this year after all.
Latest hospital data came out this afternoon.
Latest hospital data came out this afternoon.
December 18, 2025 at 5:19 PM
Looks like flu is wave is likely to be "normal bad" shifted earlier and not bigger this year after all.
Latest hospital data came out this afternoon.
Latest hospital data came out this afternoon.
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It's hard to find the words for how disgusting this is. It completely silences girls' experiences of male violence. It fails to recognise the importance of education for prevention. It ignores the drivers of men's violence. And it's racist.
Oh and for good measure, which party cut police numbers?
Oh and for good measure, which party cut police numbers?
December 18, 2025 at 4:55 PM
It's hard to find the words for how disgusting this is. It completely silences girls' experiences of male violence. It fails to recognise the importance of education for prevention. It ignores the drivers of men's violence. And it's racist.
Oh and for good measure, which party cut police numbers?
Oh and for good measure, which party cut police numbers?
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“If they can't even agree on a loan to support Ukraine, they may as well go home... You can't be going all over the place announcing that "we're at war", and then acting in the same way you were when you were talking about fishing quotas.”
NEW EPISODE: The space between peace and war
☠️ Europe's choice on Ukraine: be galvanised or paralysed
😎 How spies are waging their own war on us
🧞 Inevitable pantomime references
🎧 SPOTIFY open.spotify.com/episode/1Qn9...
🍏 APPLE podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/q...
@annettedittert.bsky.social
☠️ Europe's choice on Ukraine: be galvanised or paralysed
😎 How spies are waging their own war on us
🧞 Inevitable pantomime references
🎧 SPOTIFY open.spotify.com/episode/1Qn9...
🍏 APPLE podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/q...
@annettedittert.bsky.social
The Space Between Peace And War
open.spotify.com
December 18, 2025 at 1:34 PM
“If they can't even agree on a loan to support Ukraine, they may as well go home... You can't be going all over the place announcing that "we're at war", and then acting in the same way you were when you were talking about fishing quotas.”
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Eight Palestine Action activists are being left to die in prison – all without even facing trial.
We must force the government to act, before it’s too late ⬇️
https://goodlaw.social/3e3320
We must force the government to act, before it’s too late ⬇️
https://goodlaw.social/3e3320
December 18, 2025 at 10:54 AM
Eight Palestine Action activists are being left to die in prison – all without even facing trial.
We must force the government to act, before it’s too late ⬇️
https://goodlaw.social/3e3320
We must force the government to act, before it’s too late ⬇️
https://goodlaw.social/3e3320
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The ‘Raise the Colours’ campaign, widely praised by politicians and commentators as a "grassroots" campaign for "unity" has now pivoted to harassing migrants and charity workers on the beaches of France.
Activists were seen stabbing dinghies and releasing dogs to intimidate migrant and aid workers
Activists were seen stabbing dinghies and releasing dogs to intimidate migrant and aid workers
Nigel Farage-Backed 'Raise the Colours' Campaign Pivots to Racially Abusing Migrants and Harassing Aid Workers on French Beaches
Far-right activists were seen stabbing dinghies and releasing dogs to intimidate migrants and aid workers
bylinetimes.com
December 18, 2025 at 11:09 AM
The ‘Raise the Colours’ campaign, widely praised by politicians and commentators as a "grassroots" campaign for "unity" has now pivoted to harassing migrants and charity workers on the beaches of France.
Activists were seen stabbing dinghies and releasing dogs to intimidate migrant and aid workers
Activists were seen stabbing dinghies and releasing dogs to intimidate migrant and aid workers
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Apparently there are new government comms directors, huge teams of press officers, and scores of comms Spads for ministers.
So what are they doing? How can they apparently have issued virtually nothing about the value of Erasmus?
Or are there those in Number 10 who don't want more EU reset?
So what are they doing? How can they apparently have issued virtually nothing about the value of Erasmus?
Or are there those in Number 10 who don't want more EU reset?
On which note (UK government effort) - pretty dismal in terms of pushback against costs of Erasmus plus. Potentially forgotten if other negotiations deliver in a year's time. But a reminder that far better government comms over EU ties are needed in both London and Brussels.
December 18, 2025 at 11:18 AM
Apparently there are new government comms directors, huge teams of press officers, and scores of comms Spads for ministers.
So what are they doing? How can they apparently have issued virtually nothing about the value of Erasmus?
Or are there those in Number 10 who don't want more EU reset?
So what are they doing? How can they apparently have issued virtually nothing about the value of Erasmus?
Or are there those in Number 10 who don't want more EU reset?
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There is much to applaud in Labour's new inquiry into foreign interference in British politics
But it needs to go much further if it's to tackle how foreign influence really works - and properly protect British democracy
New by me on Democracy for Sale democracyforsale.substack.com/p/labours-fo...
But it needs to go much further if it's to tackle how foreign influence really works - and properly protect British democracy
New by me on Democracy for Sale democracyforsale.substack.com/p/labours-fo...
Labour’s foreign interference inquiry needs to go *much* further
Plus: Mark Galeotti on Russia’s foreign political influence, the war in Ukraine and how crime organises the world
democracyforsale.substack.com
December 18, 2025 at 9:40 AM
There is much to applaud in Labour's new inquiry into foreign interference in British politics
But it needs to go much further if it's to tackle how foreign influence really works - and properly protect British democracy
New by me on Democracy for Sale democracyforsale.substack.com/p/labours-fo...
But it needs to go much further if it's to tackle how foreign influence really works - and properly protect British democracy
New by me on Democracy for Sale democracyforsale.substack.com/p/labours-fo...
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🚨🌲NEW BLOGPOST🌲🚨
It's a Christmas special! [Free]
Signing off for the year with a quiz to keep you entertained over the break. Test how much you have remembered of the year, and a few other categories too - and no cheating.
open.substack.com/pub/joxleywr...
It's a Christmas special! [Free]
Signing off for the year with a quiz to keep you entertained over the break. Test how much you have remembered of the year, and a few other categories too - and no cheating.
open.substack.com/pub/joxleywr...
Merry Quizmas
The now apparently annual Joxley Writes quiz of the year
open.substack.com
December 18, 2025 at 8:12 AM
🚨🌲NEW BLOGPOST🌲🚨
It's a Christmas special! [Free]
Signing off for the year with a quiz to keep you entertained over the break. Test how much you have remembered of the year, and a few other categories too - and no cheating.
open.substack.com/pub/joxleywr...
It's a Christmas special! [Free]
Signing off for the year with a quiz to keep you entertained over the break. Test how much you have remembered of the year, and a few other categories too - and no cheating.
open.substack.com/pub/joxleywr...
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www.ft.com/content/1a60... will you look at that
Auditors raise red flags at public body run by Ben Houchen
EY said errors included ‘material misstatements’ in latest setback for Conservative metro mayor Lord Houchen
www.ft.com
December 18, 2025 at 8:58 AM
www.ft.com/content/1a60... will you look at that
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How Nigel Farage is walking straight into the Government's trap on its inquiry into foreign financial interference
bylinetimes.com/2025/12/17/k...
bylinetimes.com/2025/12/17/k...
Keir Starmer Is Setting a Trap for Nigel Farage With Foreign Interference Inquiry
As Reform opens the door to crypto donations, the Government is finally starting to take action against the threat of foreign financial interference in our politics, reports Adam Bienkov
bylinetimes.com
December 17, 2025 at 11:20 AM
How Nigel Farage is walking straight into the Government's trap on its inquiry into foreign financial interference
bylinetimes.com/2025/12/17/k...
bylinetimes.com/2025/12/17/k...
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NEW
A guided tour of President Trump's 33-page, $5 billion lawsuit against the British Broadcasting Corporation
How some parts are strong, some parts are weak - and why a strict legalistic analysis will not tell the whole story.
By me
emptycity.substack.com/p/a-guided-t...
(£) at least for now
A guided tour of President Trump's 33-page, $5 billion lawsuit against the British Broadcasting Corporation
How some parts are strong, some parts are weak - and why a strict legalistic analysis will not tell the whole story.
By me
emptycity.substack.com/p/a-guided-t...
(£) at least for now
A guided tour of President Trump's 33-page, $5 billion lawsuit against the British Broadcasting Corporation
How some parts are strong, some parts are weak - and why a strict legalistic analysis will not tell the whole story.
emptycity.substack.com
December 16, 2025 at 1:38 PM
NEW
A guided tour of President Trump's 33-page, $5 billion lawsuit against the British Broadcasting Corporation
How some parts are strong, some parts are weak - and why a strict legalistic analysis will not tell the whole story.
By me
emptycity.substack.com/p/a-guided-t...
(£) at least for now
A guided tour of President Trump's 33-page, $5 billion lawsuit against the British Broadcasting Corporation
How some parts are strong, some parts are weak - and why a strict legalistic analysis will not tell the whole story.
By me
emptycity.substack.com/p/a-guided-t...
(£) at least for now
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Uk to rejoin Erasmus scheme - set to be confirmed formally tomorrow
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/d...
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/d...
UK to rejoin EU’s Erasmus student exchange programme
Exclusive: British students will be able to participate in EU-wide scheme from January 2027, sources say
www.theguardian.com
December 16, 2025 at 6:38 PM
Uk to rejoin Erasmus scheme - set to be confirmed formally tomorrow
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/d...
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/d...
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This is a great piece about how scientists can defend both their science and democracy by brilliant US organisation Protect Democracy.
And I'm proud to have contributed a quote.
www.ifyoucankeepit.org/p/courage-is...
And I'm proud to have contributed a quote.
www.ifyoucankeepit.org/p/courage-is...
December 16, 2025 at 5:33 PM
This is a great piece about how scientists can defend both their science and democracy by brilliant US organisation Protect Democracy.
And I'm proud to have contributed a quote.
www.ifyoucankeepit.org/p/courage-is...
And I'm proud to have contributed a quote.
www.ifyoucankeepit.org/p/courage-is...
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Three ways the Trump Administration endangered public health last week...
youtube.com/shorts/ytiKr...
youtube.com/shorts/ytiKr...
How did the US endanger Americans' health last week?
YouTube video by Professor Christina Pagel
youtube.com
December 16, 2025 at 5:34 PM
Three ways the Trump Administration endangered public health last week...
youtube.com/shorts/ytiKr...
youtube.com/shorts/ytiKr...