Sirkka Goodhind

As usual, Trump cannot help talking about himself.

Chris Mason: Reform conference shows party's growing ambition like never before The conference feels like that of a big party - but retains the insurgency vibe that the party is seeking to channel.

This isn’t journalism, it’s endorsement, a testament of shame for both BBC News and Chris Mason. I wonder why neither have BlueSky accounts? 🤔

If you're young
Or old
Or a woman
If you've got a disability
Or, you've a SEND
If you're LGBTQ+
Or you're from an ethnic minority
If you need care
Or you're in the forces
And if you're in Northern Ireland
Then Farage's plan to abolish human rights law is going to screw you

Aeroplane mode ready for the takeoff. My kitty is cooling off.

Predictions of £40bn hit to public finances from Brexit ‘correct’ Office for Budget Responsibility’s forecast of a 4 per cent productivity loss from leaving the EU has been largely borne out, says top economist

🚨🚨 #brexit anniversary: Office of Budget Responsibility predictions of £ 40 bn hit to public finances has proven correct according to research by top economist @johnspringford.bsky.social . www.thetimes.com/article/346e...

Liars Den

After the Brexit reset, how about a Brexit review? New post on my Brexit & Beyond Blog. The reset now needs to be delivered, including an SPS deal. Meanwhile, with the SDR we've had three defence reviews since Brexit, so why not a Brexit review? chrisgreybrexitblog.blogspot.com/2025/06/afte...

It will be Mrs Brown's Boys on a loop and more idiotic game shows to rot any remaining brain cells of anyone capable of critical thinking.

Exactly. TV, radio and social media then 'analyse' the print media who set the narrative to suit their owners' world view including co-ed pieces from a selection of loud scare mongers or fading ex politicians.

It's a made up 'woe is me' story in a paper best utilised as a cat's litter tray lining.

Oh my goodness, someone buy this guy a goldfish he can have a good old debate with, a true meeting of minds.

Crucial point by Sophia Gaston to Commons C'tee:

"The existence of a 'Brexit betrayals' narrative" has a "profoundly depressive" impact on how gov't is approaching the UK/EU relationship. And that is "problematic" because it does not even reflect public opinion, but "coerced by media opinion." ~AA

Go Fash
Get bashed.

Desperate Russia will pay schoolgirls $1,200 to have children to boost birth rates in wake of Ukraine War meat grinder From this year, girls in “full-time education,” will be eligible for the payment of 100,000 rubles ($1,200), Oryol’s regional Governor Andrei Klychkov announced in a statement.

Copying his mate Putin. nypost.com/2025/03/24/w...

What a depressing picture, complete with a spelling mistake.

Of course he would. He hates anything 'European' on a cellular level. His beloved Brexit did not quite work out so he ploughs on with performative nonsense to remain in the headlines.

The rules-based international order, initially known as the “ liberal international order,” emerged from the devastation of World War II. The vision was universal: to create a global system based on liberal democratic values, market capitalism and multilateral cooperation.And an ice hockey game.

Kananmunat | Suomi vastasi Yhdysvalloille: Tätä munakriisiä emme pysty ratkaisemaan Suomi on lähettänyt Yhdysvalloille vastauksen munakysymykseen, kertoo toiminnanjohtaja Veera Lehtilä Siipikarjaliitosta.

”Finland can’t solve the US egg crisis”

The US has asked at least Finland, Sweden, Denmark and the Netherlands for eggs amid the growing bird flu-induced egg shortage in the US. Responses have been rather lukewarm.

The audacity of first imposing tariffs and then asking for help is kinda pathetic

So according to Trump the EU was formed 'to screw US'.
I have seldom heard such a moronic statement. Perhaps it is worth recalling why the European Economic Community was established in 1958. This was the predecessor of today's EU.

Absolutely, my cat would agree that reading is a shared pleasure; I read and he snoozes secure in the knowledge that I don't move and disturb him.

Screenshot of a tweet from Professor Brian Cox on Feb 23, 2025 "My thought for the day. Single Market. Customs Union. More money for defence. Strengthen Europe. Place us firmly back at the heart of our continent economically, militarily and geopolitically"

Professor Brian Cox - brain the size of a planet

"My thought for the day. Single Market. Customs Union. More money for defence. Strengthen Europe. Place us firmly back at the heart of our continent economically, militarily and geopolitically."

This could get interesting - Trump's offer may not be the only one on the table.

Putin’s Three Years of Humiliation The Russian president can’t win his war against Ukraine unless he persuades its allies to betray it.

Putin planned to take Kyiv in three days, but he couldn't take Kyiv in three years.
The only way Putin wins now—the only way he finally succeeds in destroying Ukraine’s sovereignty—is by persuading Ukraine’s allies to abandon Ukraine.
www.theatlantic.com/internationa...

Absolutely, can't wait for a repeat performance 😜

Exhausted

Let's call this out for what it blatantly is. The Tories and their mates at the Telegraph, trying to thwart Labour meeting its growth targets. Griffiths doesn't want our country to succeed. No Brexiteer does. It's faux patriotism hiding their true goal of keeping us poor while hedge funds boom.

If Putin can do it, so can I ..

Tech campaign aims to build social media system free of billionaires A group of tech entrepreneurs wants to raise money to build a decentralised network of social media that does not have any influence from tech billionaires.

Euronews: Tech campaign aims to build social media system free of billionaires
www.euronews.com/next/2025/01...

X - Marks the Spot: Russia’s Second Front Peter Jukes looks at the mounting evidence that Elon Musk is using his social media platform as a vector to attack Ukraine and support Putin’s murderous invasion

From October: X Marks the Spot: Russia’s Second Front

Musk has transformed one of the world’s largest social media sites and source of news into an attack platform to assist a hostile foreign power during the biggest and bloodiest war in Europe since World War Two. 

bylinetimes.com/2024/10/25/e...

Stella Creasy: Dropping red lines to get a deal with the EU will boost confidence in jittery Britain This is not about rerunning Brexit, write Creasy and Queen Mary's Dr Karl Pike, but making it easier for Britain to do business

“Dropping red lines to get a deal with the EU will boost confidence in jittery Britain” @stellacreasy.bsky.social - Those Brexit era red lines deserve to be trashed, time for a new start.
inews.co.uk/opinion/stel...