Dottoressa Maggie

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Two villains, one goal - the cover of the latest issue of German magazine Der Spiegel.

Read the article here: https://learndirt.com/learn/growing-alpine-strawberries-indoors/

Tribunal Statistics Quarterly: July to September 2025

A 123% increase in tribunal receipts, predominately driven by asylum appeals, majority successful, caused by poor initial decision making.
This is what happens when you focus on denials over processing applications properly. It doesn't cut the "backlog", just shifts it.
www.gov.uk/government/s...

Instead, adopt someone who really needs a home 🙏

🎨 VeganFTA

Latest monthly visa application figures are out.

Skilled workers? Still dropping.
Health & care workers? Still dropping.

Slow clap.

Ahhhhhhh.

EU overlooks the UAE's arming of the Rapid Support Forces paramilitary in the Sudanese civil war and ongoing Darfur attrocities. And the UAE's backing of separatists fighting in Yemen. As well as the UAE's strong relationship with Russia. 🤔

Rich get richer. Poor get poorer. The landlords and estate agents profit at the expense of the ordinary person.

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YouTube video by Earth Rover Program Global Launch of Earth Rover Program and Report Soilsmology: Transforming Our Understanding of Soil

10. Many apologies if we don’t respond to everyone immediately: the volume of correspondence is huge. But we’ll get there. In the meantime, here’s the recording of last week’s webinar. Many thanks. 10/10 youtu.be/wfrEBbmviu0

DT’s act of piracy against Venezuelan oil tanker, Machado’s Nobel Peace Prize - timing entirely coincidental?

😁Very true, thanks!

Starmer v Starmer: why is the former human rights lawyer so cautious about defending human rights? The long read: Many of his supporters hoped the prime minister would restore the UK’s commitment to international law. Yet Labour’s record over the past year has been curiously mixed

On this topic, I cannot recommend highly enough @trillingual.bsky.social's Starmer v Starmer profile. It is brilliantly put together, from title to final sentence. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Guardian cover 10 Dec with lead story "PM urges Europe to curb human rights laws to halt rise of populism".

I guess this is one way for a former human rights lawyer to be elected, become head of government, and then wish everyone a happy international human rights day.

😐😑🙄🫠

Lovely and lovable, just like my ex-feral JB 🌈

Staffordshire council leader quits after social media probe Ian Cooper had already had his Reform UK membership revoked by the party.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

😳

I wonder if
@eddavey.libdems.org.uk and
@zackpolanski.bsky.social
know about this? 😞

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Are they sure it’s the flu in every case? (Making masks even more of a necessity)

*What would you do for love* baffles me.

Tighter visa rules will cost UK up to £10.8bn Home Office assessment shows impact of latest changes to immigration regime over next five years

Tighter visa rules will cost UK up to £10.8bn on.ft.com/4a1qjR6

Surely the administrative costs of implementing these sweeping changes and monitoring/assessing the adherence to them will be sky-high too.

‘Food and fossil fuel production causing $5bn of environmental damage an hour’ UN GEO report says ending this harm key to global transformation required ‘before collapse becomes inevitable’

The Global Environment Outlook (GEO) report—a major report produced by 200 researchers for the UN—says the climate crisis can no longer be seen as simply environmental crises and suggests measures such as a universal basic income, taxes on meat, and subsidies for healthy, plant-based foods.

Guys, if you want to carry on pretending nothing can be done about viruses, so doctors with #LongCovid can't successfully sue you for Health & Safety at Work violations, this letter rather lets the 🐈 out of the bag!

Everyone knows #CovidisAirborne

Unite announces Metrolink NYE strikes across Greater Manchester Tram drivers are striking on key dates across the upcoming festive period, including New Years Eve.

Greater Manchester tram drivers to strike on 19, 20 and 31 December. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

OTD in 1994 The Budapest Memorandum was signed. It remains the most spectacular waste of paper, ink, and geopolitical optimism in the history of humankind.

​The deal was simple: Ukraine disarms. Russia, the UK, and the USA promised, in return, to guarantee our security and territorial integrity.

Thanks v muchly! I’ll try that and have now read the thrust of the article and the response. Of course it confirms what I thought!