Stephanie

There were 115 prisoners mistakenly released in the final year of the last Conservative Government alone.

Interesting that it only becomes a major national scandal the second these releases can be blamed on a Labour government

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🇫🇷Rapturous applause for Macron in Parliament!

"Let's fix it. Let's work together in order to facilitate the exchange of students, researchers, intellectuals, artists.This is so important."

"Let's allow our children to have the same opportunities as the one we had."

screengrab from BBC news: "Humiliation for Starmer as he loses control of Commons Sir Keir Starmer is pictured in a close-up with a backdrop of trees blurred out. Image source,Getty Images Image caption, Sir Keir Starmer on Tuesday Chris Mason Political editor @ChrisMasonBBC Henry Zeffman Chief Political correspondent Published 2 July 2025 4800 Comments The extraordinary thing about Tuesday's welfare reform vote is it felt, albeit perhaps just fleetingly, like the fraught and chaotic parliamentary rows about Brexit. Or even the bumpy moments for Boris Johnson and Liz Truss."

screengrab from BBC news: "it felt, albeit perhaps just fleetingly, like the fraught and chaotic parliamentary rows about Brexit. Or even the bumpy moments for Boris Johnson and Liz Truss."

Causing the death of tens of thousands during a pandemic...
Having to resign after 44 days as PM...
Misleading the Queen and unlawfully proroguing Parliament...

All of them "bumpy moments", apparently.

Thanks, Chris. Thanks, Henry. Top insight.

(h/t @paulastell.bsky.social)

Imagine if a referendum were held in which 52% of those who voted declared that the Earth was flat.

And that subsequently everyone in the UK was forced to behave as if the Earth was indeed flat, and all main parties said "Ok, flat it is. Evidence be damned."

That's Brexit.

Fewer.

I would far rather see the back of Tim Davie on Sunday, than Gary Lineker....
It's this guy who sets the weather on the BBC for the likes of Farage.

Reminder: it is 2025.

Today's 25 year olds didn't get a chance to vote on Brexit.

(Actually the cut-off is in 1998 but "this century" is easier to remember.)

Amazing. Lutnick says they tariffed Heard & McDonald Is. to close a loophole.

He thinks, to avoid a tariff, Australia would actually ship millions of tonnes of cargo 4000km south to the Antarctic, to an island with penguins & no infrastructure.

These people have no business near government.

Trade and the current account 2.54 The forecast assumes continued weak growth in trade volumes over the coming years. Exports fell 2.2 per cent in 2024, but we expect the level of exports to recover in 2025 and growth to average 0.8 per cent a year over 2026 to 2029. Imports rose 1.6 per cent in 2024, but we expect the level to stabilise in 2025 and growth to average 1.0 per cent over 2026 to 2029. Weak growth in imports and exports over the medium term partly reflect the continuing impact of Brexit, which we expect to reduce the overall trade intensity of the UK economy by 15 per cent in the long term.12 Our central forecast does not explicitly account for the impact of recently announced tariff increases by the US and other countries. In Box 2.2, we explore alternative scenarios assessing how different US and global trade policies could impact the UK economy.

🚨NEW OBR forecast released with the Spring Statement says Brexit is expected to reduce the overall trade intensity of the UK economy by 15% in the long term.

Trying to grow the economy under these conditions is like driving with the handbrake on.

Royal Society decides not to take disciplinary action against Elon Musk Exclusive: Fellows argue Musk has violated code of conduct but council believes investigation ‘could do more harm than good’

I’m finding it very hard to understand the stance of the Royal Society here. Science is part of society, not separate from it, existing in some strange metaphysical bubble. I look across the Atlantic, aghast at the damage being done to science and scientists.
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No second state visit for Trump Unbelievable. Keir Starmer has handed Donald Trump a letter from King Charles, inviting him for a second state visit to the UK. It’s totally unprecedented, and should not go ahead.  This is the...

Donald Trump sparked outrage with his shocking display of bullying at the Oval office meeting with Ukraine’s President Zelensky. Now, over 150,000 of us are calling to cancel his second UK state visit - will you join the backlash too? you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/no...

Kemi Badenoch Ditches Net Zero Target After Taking Donations From Funders of Tufton Street Climate Denial Group The Conservative leader and her Shadow Net Zero Secretary took funding from key backers of lobby groups campaigning to curb action against climate change

Was just on @lbc.co.uk talking to @mrjamesob.bsky.social about how Kemi Badenoch ditched her support for Net Zero after she and her Shadow Cabinet received multiple donations from individuals funding and chairing anti Net Zero lobby groups bylinetimes.com/2025/03/18/k...

I’d argue that with 1 MP convicted for repeatedly kicking a girl and another facing allegations of threatening behaviour towards women.. which makes up 40% of Reform MPs

Uncontrolled Reform MPs make Britain “a FAR more dangerous place for women and girls”❗️🤷🏼‍♂️

I note with interest right-wing media's total absence of any concerns about prominent BBC presenter Armstrong expressing his highly political opinions. As was always perfectly clear to many of us, the problem was not that Lineker had views, but the fact they didn't approve of his views.

In Trump’s SOTU address, he claims to be chosen by god and says he’ll take Greenland “one way or another”, “reclaim” Panama, impose punitive tariffs, end “wokeness”…
A masterclass in wild egomaniacal bullshit and ugly threat, delivered to standing ovations.
Christ America. You’ve completely lost it.

This is Winston Churchill visiting the White House during World War II.

Funny how he isn’t wearing a suit either. Almost like he was a wartime leader defending his country from being slaughtered and wiped out by an authoritarian aggressor.

#BlueskyResistance #Voices4Victory #ProudBlur
Advertisement at a London bus stop. Ya gotta love the British…

The “Golden Age of America” according to Liz Truss.

I would like to see a few British broadcasters read out every word of Trump’s latest ‘statement’ live on air & then remind us of their often lavish statements of support for him & then share some of their supportive words for Ukraine.

And then we can all watch their brains explode…

Great point.

Five years on and Brexit still defines the UK economy… and will continue to - UK in a changing Europe On the fifth anniversary of the UK leaving the EU, Stephen Hunsaker takes a look at the effects Brexit has had on the UK economy.

"Ultimately, Brexit has acted as a slow puncture, subtly reshaping the UK’s economic landscape, making it more economically fragile, vulnerable to disruptions and therefore less reliable in the eyes of investors." ~AA

ukandeu.ac.uk/five-years-o... @ukandeu.bsky.social

Absolutely spot on from Rory Stewart

She was remarkable, I can't believe that I have never heard of her before now. As a retired civil servant I had to deal with a great deal of misogynist s**t back in the day but what she had thrown at her was on an entirely different level.

YouTube video by Led By Donkeys Heil Tesla

The world’s richest man is promoting the far right in Europe. Don’t buy a Tesla
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Location: Tesla Gigafactory, Berlin

www.youtube.com/watch?v=NjWl...

Remember all these headlines describing a brief rise in government borrowing costs as being "market mayhem", followed by a week of demands for Rachel Reeves to quit?

Well one week later and it turns out UK gilts are now outperforming every other G7 country this year, aside from the US

Shameless cheap celebrity promoting rubbish. What’s the betting that not a single one of them has the slightest intention of moving let alone buying any of the properties featured. This is really poor programming. Rant over.

Sour and bitter front pages as usual. In what sane world is Khan less worthy of recognition than Andrea Jenkyns or Charlotte Owen?

How arrogant and entitled do you have to be to think this is the issue you need to focus on as an MP?
Poverty, Homelessness, A&E waiting times, Lack of Dentists, Teenage Mental Health...?
Nope!
Milk in your hotel!!
This man is insufferable! 🙄

Front page headline: PM accused of betraying historic 2016 vote to leave EU as 100-strong Whitehall unit is launched to tie Britain back to Brussels STARMER'S 'SURRENDER SQUAD' TO UNDO BREXIT

Oh god. The inevitable Daily Mail tantrum at a Labour govt edging towards a slightly less ruinous relationship with our own continent.
What do these idiotic nationalists want? Permanent hostility? Endless cost and loss?
‘Betraying’ Brexit is an act of patriotic necessity now, you howling clowns.