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Is he dead yet? 🇺🇦🇵🇸 @anton-decque.bsky.social · 5h

Yes it would be a tragic coincidence if that happened.

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Auke Hoekstra @aukehoekstra.bsky.social · 13h

If you want an explanation of why China is kicking the EU car industry to the curb, look no further than the criminally knuckle dragging EU car makers demanding new loopholes so they don't have to meet any meaningful low emission targets for cars in the EU.
www.ft.com/cIfontent/5a...

Carmakers demand EU eases ‘rigid’ 2035 petrol car ban

Environmental groups say carmakers’ demands risk halving electric vehicle sales in Europe

www.ft.com

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Roland Smith @rolandmcs.bsky.social · 13h

It's worth adding that Hamit Coskun is an asylum seeker - what Jenrick would call 'an illegal immigrant' - and one who has self-evidently 'got into trouble with the law in our country'.

But to Jenrick, Coskun is clearly the right sort of 'illegal immigrant' in the right sort of trouble.

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Yorkshire Paddy @yorkshirepaddy.bsky.social · 15h

He has fully FAFO'd

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Dorian Lynskey @dorianlynskey.bsky.social · 15h

It’s extraordinary that Biden’s main weaknesses were inflation and cognitive decline and now America has inflation and cognitive decline as well as tariffs, authoritarianism, blatant corruption, etc

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Yorkshire Paddy @yorkshirepaddy.bsky.social · 16h

I have never heard anyone say something nice about Vaughters.

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timoconnorbl.bsky.social @timoconnorbl.bsky.social · 16h

Thibaut has always been a rather good judge of character, I feel.

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Dan Snow @thehistoryguy.bsky.social · 2d

We have built a society in which people of different skin tones, religious backgrounds & cultures get along, share power, work alongside each other, procreate with each other, recognise the each other’s humanity and democratic rights. It is a STUNNING ACHIEVEMENT OF WORLD HISTORIC PROPORTIONS.

Omar Khan @omaromalleykhan.bsky.social · 3d

I know statistics are poorly understood and are misused. But facts matter

Between the 1991, 2001, 2011 and 2021 Census *every* ethnic group in the UK has become *less* geographically segregated and *all* groups, majority and minorities, are more likely to interact with people not like them

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Prof Christina Pagel @chrischirp.bsky.social · 1d

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The UK’s independent scientific bodies are highly vulnerable to politicisation - over the past 5 months I've been working with @martinmckee.bsky.social to map out their vulnerabilities and it's not good news.

Today our report is published!
www.ucl.ac.uk/policy-lab/n...

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UK’s arm’s length public bodies are highly vulnerable to politicisation

Seven in ten Britons say it is important for top scientific institutions to be independent in exclusive new polling.

www.ucl.ac.uk

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 1d

Is there a better indication of how superficial and unhelpful mainstream media has become than that they are cutely musing about whether the domestic terrorist who changed "The Department of Defense" to "The Department of War" will get a Nobel Peace Prize—instead of reporting the fascism/terrorism.

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Yorkshire Paddy @yorkshirepaddy.bsky.social · 17h

Totally agree.

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Lewis Goodall @lewisgoodall.com · 1d

I do wonder if Labour might look at the sorts of people dominating the discourse and dominating the content wars and maybe, just maybe, rethink the sorts of grey figures they routinely put up for interviews, instructed at that to be as cautious as possible. Things have changed. Their comms hasn’t.

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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 17h

Louise V Durham, stained glass and driftwood sculpture, Shoreham by Sea, UK #WomensArt

Photo of a vertical driftwood sculpture inlaid with rainbow coloured stained glass, the sculpture is sited on a wet looking shoreline by the sea under a sky with silver clouds and pale blue light

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 1d

Johnson and Lauer are stalling.

If Grijalva isn’t sworn in, it gives them time to pressure one of the 4 Republicans who signed the discharge petition to flip.

The reason they’re working this hard to shield the Epstein files is because Trump’s name is all over them.

RELEASE THE EPSTEIN FILES

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Yorkshire Paddy @yorkshirepaddy.bsky.social · 1d

I think that is a much better description of what happened.

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Yorkshire Paddy @yorkshirepaddy.bsky.social · 1d

I'd have Johnson level with Badenoch. His leadership was abysmal. He doesn't get any credit for winning an election. That goes to the right wing press who stoked paranoia about Corbyn, and Corbyn for providing enough evidence to make it believable.

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Yorkshire Paddy @yorkshirepaddy.bsky.social · 1d

Not only do we know who they are, but the mix is outstanding. They have done an amazing job. Probably because they had no shortage of people wanting to participate.

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Yorkshire Paddy @yorkshirepaddy.bsky.social · 1d

Everyone knows that Antifa was the real problem in 1930s Germany.

Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 2d

Incredible.

Jack Posobiec references the earliest version of antifa -- the anti-fascists in the Weimar Republic who were opposed to the Nazi Party -- as the bad guys.

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timoconnorbl.bsky.social @timoconnorbl.bsky.social · 2d

Ah, I see the inside-thought/outside-thought barrier has completely eroded away.

“We took the freedom of speech away” - that’s a nice useful quote.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

Trump: "We took the freedom of speech away because that's been through the courts and the courts said you have freedom of speech, but what has happened is when they burn a flag it agitates and irritates crowds."

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Tim Bale @timbale.bsky.social · 1d

Leunig, a former gov adviser, said scrapping it — while it would boost growth and productivity — would be “a very, very big tax cut for rich people”. One effect would be to boost house prices, making the main beneficiaries the existing owners of expensive properties in the south-east of England.

Should stamp duty be scrapped in the UK?

Conservative party says property tax deters people from moving house and stifles productivity

www.ft.com

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Yorkshire Paddy @yorkshirepaddy.bsky.social · 2d

Regressing to his teens was very funny but also beautifully observed.

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Yorkshire Paddy @yorkshirepaddy.bsky.social · 2d

That article is satire, right?

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Yorkshire Paddy @yorkshirepaddy.bsky.social · 2d

So what he said is that without stealing, the AI industry isn't viable?

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Yorkshire Paddy @yorkshirepaddy.bsky.social · 2d

Does she think that nuclear and civil engineers have been sidelined by defining womanhood.?

Can we just tell these idiots to go away abruptly. Why should I be losing any mental capacity being assaulted by their inane views?

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Yorkshire Paddy @yorkshirepaddy.bsky.social · 2d

Having read you're excellent sketch, I read an Artillery Row column by a former Tory MP. It's either satire, or he is completely unhinged. Eg 'Under Jenrick, members would know what the party stands for!'