Roger K
@southsiderog.bsky.social
Northern Irish Edinburgh resident. Citizen of 🇬🇧🇮🇪🇪🇺
This is a travesty.
This is not a peace plan. It is a proposal that weakens Ukraine and divides America from Europe, preparing the way for a larger war in the future. In the meantime, it benefits unnamed Russian and American investors, at the expense of everyone else.
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
Trump Has a Recipe for War and Corruption, Not Peace
Who would benefit from the White House’s 28-point proposal for Ukraine?
www.theatlantic.com
November 22, 2025 at 12:47 PM
This is a travesty.
I’m old enough to remember being called a traitor by the likes of Comrade Nathan for voting remain.
Former Reform in Wales leader Nathan Gill jailed for pro-Russian bribery
Nathan Gill, 52, is sentenced to 10 and a half years in prison after admitting taking bribes while an MEP.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 21, 2025 at 5:02 PM
I’m old enough to remember being called a traitor by the likes of Comrade Nathan for voting remain.
This band changed my life. One of the greatest debut albums ever. ‘Kiss me where the sun don’t shine, the past was yours, the future’s mine’.
#stoneroses #RIPMani
#stoneroses #RIPMani
November 20, 2025 at 6:55 PM
This band changed my life. One of the greatest debut albums ever. ‘Kiss me where the sun don’t shine, the past was yours, the future’s mine’.
#stoneroses #RIPMani
#stoneroses #RIPMani
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Good news, everyone!
I researched every attempt to stop fascism in history. The success rate is 0%.
Once they win elections, it's already too late.
cmarmitage.substack.com
August 27, 2025 at 8:35 AM
Good news, everyone!
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A day of shame for the UK. A political party proposes mass deportations and the response from other political parties is not to condemn this as going further than even Mosley or the National Front.
No10 spokesman not prepared to criticise anything about Farage speech today.
Not his description of "invasion", not his prediction that the UK on brink of civil war, not plans to pay the Taliban or Iran to take back migrants, or indeed to rule out doing so themselves.
Not his description of "invasion", not his prediction that the UK on brink of civil war, not plans to pay the Taliban or Iran to take back migrants, or indeed to rule out doing so themselves.
August 26, 2025 at 12:56 PM
A day of shame for the UK. A political party proposes mass deportations and the response from other political parties is not to condemn this as going further than even Mosley or the National Front.
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I understand. We understand.
We understand the importance that Europe had in your lives and the sense of biting loss for many of you.
We understand what Brexit has done.
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We understand the importance that Europe had in your lives and the sense of biting loss for many of you.
We understand what Brexit has done.
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June 19, 2025 at 6:32 AM
I understand. We understand.
We understand the importance that Europe had in your lives and the sense of biting loss for many of you.
We understand what Brexit has done.
2
We understand the importance that Europe had in your lives and the sense of biting loss for many of you.
We understand what Brexit has done.
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This has just broken me. No matter how old you are, or what responsibilities you take on, treasure your imagination, your creativity, your soul and your cuddly tiger.
May 30, 2025 at 6:45 AM
This has just broken me. No matter how old you are, or what responsibilities you take on, treasure your imagination, your creativity, your soul and your cuddly tiger.
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Column, on the prime minister who had room to manoeuvre and chose to besiege himself instead. Again. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Keir Starmer is caught in yet another trap of his own making | Rafael Behr
The prime minister’s immigration approach follows a now-familiar pattern: letting fear of a difficult argument get in the way of policy that might work, says Guardian columnist Rafael Behr
www.theguardian.com
May 14, 2025 at 6:12 AM
Column, on the prime minister who had room to manoeuvre and chose to besiege himself instead. Again. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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And politically stupid, too. Alienates core vote (& they do have places to go) in pursuit of votes he'll rarely get, & demolishes his core policy agenda of growth, making his re-election more unlikely. Even those (inc. me) willing to cut him a lot of slack feel betrayed. A truly awful day for UK.
Hard to say how disappointing this morning‘s speech really was. Morally AND intellectually.
Agree with every line here by @iandunt.bsky.social 👇
Agree with every line here by @iandunt.bsky.social 👇
Starmer is as bad as those who came before him. What a bitter disappointment
Echoing the far right on immigration, his moral and intellectual stature has fallen away
inews.co.uk
May 12, 2025 at 5:35 PM
And politically stupid, too. Alienates core vote (& they do have places to go) in pursuit of votes he'll rarely get, & demolishes his core policy agenda of growth, making his re-election more unlikely. Even those (inc. me) willing to cut him a lot of slack feel betrayed. A truly awful day for UK.
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me this morning www.nytimes.com/2025/04/09/o...
April 9, 2025 at 1:16 PM
me this morning www.nytimes.com/2025/04/09/o...
To be fair, Meta has given some good advice on the threat from POTUS through its AI chat bot.
However, i can probably never visit the USA again.
However, i can probably never visit the USA again.
March 30, 2025 at 8:22 PM
To be fair, Meta has given some good advice on the threat from POTUS through its AI chat bot.
However, i can probably never visit the USA again.
However, i can probably never visit the USA again.
This needs to be broadcast more.
“Why isn’t [Elon Musk] here explaining it? You know why. Because he wants to privatize Social Security.”
Representative John B. Larson
Representative John B. Larson
March 28, 2025 at 12:06 PM
This needs to be broadcast more.
This is just embarrassing.
March 24, 2025 at 7:18 PM
This is just embarrassing.
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The new issue of the UK’s Private Eye.
March 19, 2025 at 6:03 PM
The new issue of the UK’s Private Eye.
Great night in Edinburgh introducing my 15 year old daughter to the @newsagents.bsky.social
March 11, 2025 at 10:22 PM
Great night in Edinburgh introducing my 15 year old daughter to the @newsagents.bsky.social
I felt quite excited reading this.
Atlanticists are facing a ruinous refutation of their position: The attempted humiliation of Zelenskyy, JD Vance's dismissal of the British war dead. The emotional quality of the conversation makes it almost impossible to maintain a pro-American position iandunt.substack.com/p/the-dawn-o...
The dawn of a new Europe
From the London summit on Sunday to the Brussels summit on Thursday, we're seeing a new, confident, no-bullshit Europe take shape
iandunt.substack.com
March 7, 2025 at 7:22 PM
I felt quite excited reading this.
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Putin says Trump must go further before he’ll even agree to meet.
Putin is entirely in the driving seat. The US has alienated its own allies, given Russia nearly all of what it wanted, bought Putin’s warped view of reality, and can’t even guarantee a meeting. The art of the deal, indeed.
Putin is entirely in the driving seat. The US has alienated its own allies, given Russia nearly all of what it wanted, bought Putin’s warped view of reality, and can’t even guarantee a meeting. The art of the deal, indeed.
February 19, 2025 at 8:31 PM
Putin says Trump must go further before he’ll even agree to meet.
Putin is entirely in the driving seat. The US has alienated its own allies, given Russia nearly all of what it wanted, bought Putin’s warped view of reality, and can’t even guarantee a meeting. The art of the deal, indeed.
Putin is entirely in the driving seat. The US has alienated its own allies, given Russia nearly all of what it wanted, bought Putin’s warped view of reality, and can’t even guarantee a meeting. The art of the deal, indeed.
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➡️ January 20: FAA director fired
➡️ January 21: Air Traffic Controller hiring frozen
➡️ January 22: Aviation Safety Advisory Committee disbanded
➡️ January 28: Buyout/retirement demand sent to existing employees
➡️ January 29: First American mid-air collision in 16 years
Making America Great Again!
➡️ January 21: Air Traffic Controller hiring frozen
➡️ January 22: Aviation Safety Advisory Committee disbanded
➡️ January 28: Buyout/retirement demand sent to existing employees
➡️ January 29: First American mid-air collision in 16 years
Making America Great Again!
January 30, 2025 at 3:37 PM
➡️ January 20: FAA director fired
➡️ January 21: Air Traffic Controller hiring frozen
➡️ January 22: Aviation Safety Advisory Committee disbanded
➡️ January 28: Buyout/retirement demand sent to existing employees
➡️ January 29: First American mid-air collision in 16 years
Making America Great Again!
➡️ January 21: Air Traffic Controller hiring frozen
➡️ January 22: Aviation Safety Advisory Committee disbanded
➡️ January 28: Buyout/retirement demand sent to existing employees
➡️ January 29: First American mid-air collision in 16 years
Making America Great Again!
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WaPo cartoonist resigns after Post rejects her cartoon of billionaires paying tribute to Donald Trump, one of whom happens to be her boss, Jeff Bezos.
Satire has literally died.
anntelnaes.substack.com/p/why-im-qui...
Satire has literally died.
anntelnaes.substack.com/p/why-im-qui...
Why I'm quitting the Washington Post
Democracy can't function without a free press
anntelnaes.substack.com
January 4, 2025 at 9:27 AM
WaPo cartoonist resigns after Post rejects her cartoon of billionaires paying tribute to Donald Trump, one of whom happens to be her boss, Jeff Bezos.
Satire has literally died.
anntelnaes.substack.com/p/why-im-qui...
Satire has literally died.
anntelnaes.substack.com/p/why-im-qui...
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Also, people who are in any way macho about work - shouty management style, glamorising working on weekends, endlessly boasting about how 'competitive' they are. They're always cunts. And they always produce such shit quality work.
December 12, 2024 at 10:35 AM
Also, people who are in any way macho about work - shouty management style, glamorising working on weekends, endlessly boasting about how 'competitive' they are. They're always cunts. And they always produce such shit quality work.
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Taking Britain out of the Erasmus+ programme was a huge mistake. Labour must rejoin and accept the EU’s offer of a youth mobility scheme
Bring back Erasmus+ and youth mobility in Europe
Taking Britain out of the Erasmus+ programme was a huge mistake. Labour must rejoin and accept the EU’s offer of a youth mobility scheme
sussexbylines.co.uk
December 12, 2024 at 9:25 AM
Taking Britain out of the Erasmus+ programme was a huge mistake. Labour must rejoin and accept the EU’s offer of a youth mobility scheme
