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Steve Peers @stevepeers.bsky.social · 3h

Commercial law, human rights law, EU law

Ryan Teague Beckwith @ryanbeckwith.bsky.social · 1d

Editor in chief, city editor, features editor

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euobserver — EU news that matters @euobserver.com · 3h

The centre-right European People's Party is siding with far-right groups to slash EU sustainability and corporate due diligence rules, while business leaders and former EU heavyweights are urging to keep climate and human rights reporting rules intact.

EPP ready to join far-right in watering down EU sustainability rules

The centre-right European People's Party is siding with far-right groups to slash EU sustainability and corporate due diligence rules, while business leaders and former EU heavyweights are urging to keep climate and human rights reporting rules intact.

euobserver.com

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Patrick Dunleavy @patrickdunleavy.bsky.social · 1d

Yet another Australian Commonwealth Government fiasco: The @Deloitte scandal discredits both this high (taxpayer) paid consultant and AI (artificial intelligence). Before it was cut and paste. Now AI has been exposed making stuff up. False/fraudulent. Elizabeth Knight/SMH 👇

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Tony Yates @t0nyyates.bsky.social · 9h

Also ‘that stuff you want to study is rubbish’ is a hard sell.

Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 9h

If you want to win over younger voters, telling them they can't go to university is probably not going to help.

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Dr Viviane Gravey @vgravey.bsky.social · 9h

News like this makes me even more delighted we'll be offering a joint degree in Anthropology and Sociology next year at Queen's.

Ben Stanley @benstanley.eu · 9h

Maybe they should learn to code instead. Oh, wait…..

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Ben Coates @bencoates1.bsky.social · 1d

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Birmingham Green Party @brumgreens.bsky.social · 1d

You should be angry at private companies making massive profits from our taxes to house the most desperate people in appalling conditions... And NOT the people forced to live in them.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Asylum hotel provider makes £180m profit despite claims of inedible food and rationed loo paper

Asylum seekers and charities tell BBC of

www.bbc.co.uk

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Dr. Christine Sarteschi, LCSW @drsarteschi.bsky.social · 2d

Australia takes bold action against sovereign citizens

Dr. Christine Sarteschi, LCSW @drsarteschi.bsky.social · 2d

Novel idea: “If you believe you don’t have to abide by the law of Western Australia, then there is no way you can be considered a fit and proper person to be able to hold a licence to own and possess a firearm.” thenightly.com.au/australia/so...

Aussie state becomes first to disarm ‘sovereign citizens’

The deaths of two police officers in Victoria have prompted a major crackdown in another jurisdiction.

thenightly.com.au

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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 2d

'The Ministry of Defence (MoD) spends about £1m a year sending children to private schools in north Wales because "state schools teach some or all lessons in the Welsh language".

It paid £1,019,000 in day school allowance in north Wales for 83 children of service personnel in 2024-2025'.

Discuss.

MoD spends millions on private schools to avoid Welsh language

Military personnel receive a private education allowance to avoid lessons in Welsh in state schools.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Dr Viviane Gravey @vgravey.bsky.social · 6d

Euh. Il y a plein de raisons hein 😱.

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WWF EU @wwf.eu · 7d

🚌 Ready to roll!

Our own OmniBus is hitting the streets today

Citizens are speaking up against the deregulation of environmental laws, and we’re bringing their message

@ec.europa.eu: don’t throw nature under the bus!
#HandsOffNature

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Simon Usherwood @simonusherwood.bsky.social · 6d

It's #EPC day once again, so a reminder of who's coming and what's being discussed

PDF: bit.ly/UshGraphic131
@ukandeu.bsky.social

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Dr Viviane Gravey @vgravey.bsky.social · 8d

Delighted to see that my brilliant colleague Kieran Connell's book is shortlisted for the Wolfson History Prize 👇

Some fantastic historical research (and teaching) happening at Queen's!

Kieran Connell @kieranconnell.bsky.social · 8d

I’m honoured that my book, MULTICULTURAL BRITAIN: A PEOPLE’S HISTORY has been shortlisted for the Wolfson History Prize. Hugely grateful to the judges and the many people who have supported this work along the way

@wolfsonhistory.bsky.social

www.wolfsonhistoryprize.org.uk/2025-wolfson...

2025 Wolfson History Prize shortlist announced

The Wolfson History Prize has revealed its 2025 shortlist, with six books in contention for the UK's most prestigious history writing prize.

www.wolfsonhistoryprize.org.uk

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Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 8d

Krishnan Guru Murthy, "Isn't it a bit insulting to say to an Indian doctor who is working 60-70 hours a week that in order to get settled status he's got to volunteer?"

Rachel Reeves, "We want people to contribute if they come to our country"

Labour have gone utterly bonkers

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Ben Sanderson @benmsanderson.bsky.social · 8d

Paris-Berlin sleeper: low carbon, 2 years old, constantly full, but currently losing SNCF a few million EUR/yr

Intl Jet fuel tax exemptions are 80 years old and cost the EU 22 million EUR/yr for the Paris-Berlin route alone.

And you're cutting... the sleeper?

www.theguardian.com/travel/2025/...

It’s goodnight Vienna as Paris sleeper train to Austria and Berlin hit by cuts

Some Nightjet services suspended from mid-December after French withdrawal amid public budget crisis

www.theguardian.com

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Sandra Regol @sandraregol.bsky.social · 9d

🚂🇪🇺 Quelques années seulement après leur relance, les lignes de train de nuit Paris-Strasbourg-Berlin et Paris-Strasbourg-Vienne sont supprimées faute de subventions de l’État.

Ces lignes étaient une alternative à l’avion très plébiscitée par les usager·es. Elles ne peuvent pas disparaître.

Les trains de nuit Vienne-Paris et Berlin-Paris ne circuleront plus à partir du 14 décembre - ici

Les lignes ferroviaires qui circulent la nuit entre Vienne et Paris et Berlin et Paris vont s'arrêter à partir du 14 décembre, a annoncé la compagnie autrichienne ÖBB ce lundi. L'État français met fin...

www.francebleu.fr

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Ben Ansell @benansell.bsky.social · 9d

I really would like to interview some of the UK's political journalists to find out how much they know about ILR - I suspect very little indeed, despite opining about it with great confidence.

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Emissary Of Night | ليلى @diplomatofnight.com · 12d

The Prime Minister of Spain, the Vice President of the European Commission, two former Prime Ministers of Sweden, and the leader of the Democrats in Italy call for an EU-Palestinian trade deal and for sanctions on Israel in an editorial in the Guardian.

Recognising statehood is the minimum – now the EU must protect Palestine with money

As Europe’s socialist leaders, we call for a trade deal and aid package for Palestine – along with sanctions on Israel to halt the genocide, say European leaders

www.theguardian.com

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Ben Stanley @benstanley.eu · 12d

If anyone ever tells you academics are some privileged caste that imposes its woke agenda on a guileless political class, you can point to the sheer, stubborn refusal even to entertain the lessons of a significant current of research about far-right normalisation.

Tarik Abou-Chadi @tabouchadi.bsky.social · 12d

For the Guardian, @turnbulldugarte.com and I discuss our research that clearly shows one thing: Labour's anti-immigration strategy will only strengthen Reform and weaken its own electoral prospects. It won't win voters back but ultimately normalizes the far right

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Our research makes it clear: by capitulating to the right, Labour is driving voters to Reform UK | Tarik Abou-Chadi and Stuart Turnbull-Dugarte

Mimicking Farage on immigration is senseless. Labour voters feel betrayed; anti-immigration voters see through the ruse, say academics Tarik Abou-Chadi and Stuart Turnbull-Dugarte

www.theguardian.com

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Marie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · 12d

I realise the audience for this would just be "me, and also maybe other foreigners" but I would love to read something on why Brits, who are happy to live in a country where their every movement outside is filmed by CCTV, hate the idea of having ID cards, something plenty of countries happily have

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Dr Viviane Gravey @vgravey.bsky.social · 12d

Topical viewing tonight of incredible documentary on the Sarkozy/Khadafi affair - Sarkozy's audacity and callousness throughout is really quite something 😬 www.mediapart.fr/vod/personne...

Personne n’y comprend rien

Achetez ou louez la VOD de « Personne n’y comprend rien », le film documentaire co-produit par Mediapart sur l’affaire libyenne, sorti à l’occasion du procès Sarkozy-Kadhafi.

www.mediapart.fr

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Moira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social · 15d

I wrote about the Trump administration’s false claims about Tylenol, and the moral—not scientific—burdens they place on pregnant women’s bodies. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Pregnant women do not lack for judgmental, frightening and dubiously factual instructions about their health. Everywhere, they are told that they risk the health of their fetus by partaking in a series of banal everyday activities – be it jogging or having coffee or eating a certain cheese – that they are told will lead, by obscure mechanisms that are never quite explained, to impossible and devastating health outcomes for their children-to-be. The admonishments are multiple and often contradictory, but they all tend to agree on one thing: that it is always good for women to deprive themselves of joy and relief – and to suffer more – for the sake of their fetuses.

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Dylan Difford @dylandifford.bsky.social · 16d

Imagine you're in a weird romcom where Paul Hollywood is your rival. Do you go "let's have a bread baking competition" or do you emphasise your own relative strengths?

Because that in short has been the central problem with the traditional two's approach to anti-immigration voters and Reform UK.

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Environmental Politics @environmentalpol.bsky.social · 15d

New guest post!

How do pioneer cities work to maintain climate action in a context of increasing polarisation of climate policies? Jennifer Bergman discusses the research from her recently published article in Environmental Politics.

environmentalpoliticsjournal.net/guest-posts/...

In this guest post, Jennifer Bergman discusses the research from her recently published article in Environmental Politics: The multilevel governance of polarised climate politics: how a pioneer city navigates a dynamic political context, co-authored with Alexandra Buylova, James Jackson, Naghmeh Nasiritousi, Lisa Sanderink & Paul Tobin.

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Manuel Müller @manuelmueller.foederalist.eu · 16d

Before #EP2024, I predicted the far right to gain power in EU institutions "not through sweeping victory, but creeping normalisation":
fiia.fi/en/publicati...

Now, @beckermax.bsky.social et al. have analysed the "creeping integration of far-right parties in Europe".

I wish I'd been more wrong.

The Creeping Integration of Far-right Parties in Europe

Where Far-right Parties Are Integrated into the EU System and Where They Are Not

www.swp-berlin.org

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