Tom Jenkins

No decision taken on resumption of EU-US ordinary legislative procedures today. Up to EP negotiating team to do so before @EP_trade committee of 23-24 February. EP negotiating team will meet again next Wednesday, 4 February, to reassess the situation

YouTube video by Billy Bragg BILLY BRAGG - CITY OF HEROES

I wrote this yesterday about the hero city of Minneapolis

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

Sepp Blatter suggests fans should not travel to US for World Cup. Is this👇growing legs? www.theguardian.com/football/202...

Spot the difference

🔥Wow. “After 250 years, we now resemble the British more than the Patriots, except the Red Coats had the courage to show their faces”.

Given that an attack on Canada is more likely to come from the South nowadays, handing the adversary control of your defences makes little sense

The wets resurface. Bad news for the libs imo

We are opening an investigation into Grok because we believe that X may have breached the DSA.

We have seen antisemitic content, non-consensual deepfakes of women, and child sexual abuse material.

In Europe, no company will make money by violating our fundamental rights.

link.europa.eu/Fh8h84

Commission investigates Grok and X\'s recommender systems under the Digital Services Act The European Commission has launched a new formal investigation against X under the Digital Services Act (DSA).

@ec.europa.eu investigates Grok and X's recommender systems under the Digital Services Act. Includes risks related to the dissemination of illegal content in the EU eg manipulated sexually explicit images, including content that may amount to child sexual abuse material ec.europa.eu/commission/p...

UK and Europe sign historic pact to drive clean energy future Energy Secretary Ed Miliband signs a historic clean energy security pact.

Energy Secretary Ed Miliband has today signed a historic clean energy security pact – the Hamburg Declaration – with European allies to bolster energy security for families and businesses across the UK and Europe, in an era of global instability. www.gov.uk/government/n...

EU Commission to open proceedings against Grok - report The ⁠EU Commission will open proceedings against Elon Musk's AI chatbot Grok under the Digital Services Act today, Germany's Handelsblatt has reported, ⁠citing three high-ranking ⁠EU officials.

Press reporting that the EU Commission will open proceedings against Grok today - www.rte.ie/news/busines...
The Commission register of documents today indeed lists the opening of a proceeding under the Digital Services Act (no further details)

Trump Has Abandoned the World Gordon Brown emphasizes that America’s withdrawal from 66 international organizations is at odds with global public opinion.

"It is a spectacular moral failure, and it shames us all". Gordon Brown on US withdrawing from 66 (and counting) international organisations @socialeurope.bsky.social www.socialeurope.eu/trump-has-ab...

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Will she explain what Bulgaria is doing in Trump's 'Board of Peace'?

Philip K Dick ahead of his time

PM call with President Trump of the United States: 24 January 2026 The Prime Minister spoke to the President of the United States, Donald Trump, this afternoon.

PM call with President Trump of the United States. "The leaders discussed the importance of the UK-US relationship, which continues to stand the test of time". 🤷‍♂️ www.gov.uk/government/n...

UK-SA Trade Pact Unlocks Tariff Savings for Local Exporters UK–SA Economic Partnership marks 5 years, saving tariffs on R50bn exports. Businesses urged to use deal to avoid R3.8bn in unnecessary tariffs and boost growth.

UK-SA Trade Pact Unlocks Tariff Savings for Local Exporters. This 'trade pact' is, of course, based on the EU EPA with SA www.gov.uk/government/n...

EU and Council of Europe agree to set up an advance team for the Special Tribunal for the Crime of Aggression against Ukraine The European Union and the Council of Europe have signed an agreement on the financing of an advance team to establish the Special Tribunal for the Crime of Aggression against Ukraine, within the fram...

EU @eudiplomacy.bsky.social and @coe.int agree to set up an advance team for the Special Tribunal for the Crime of Aggression against Ukraine with the mandate to prosecute senior political and military leaders ec.europa.eu/commission/p...

@davekeating.substack.com 🧵explains more bsky.app/profile/dave...

Important question by @ec.europa.eu to @eucourtofjustice.bsky.social

* @rosatkins.bsky.social

@inta.europarl.europa.eu meet today. According to this👇report from @euractiv.com , its Chair @bernd-lange.bsky.social isn't inclined to go ahead with the Scotland agreement despite Trump's TACO on Greenland sanctions newsletter.euractiv.com/mail/e21ff08...

Ros is one of the good ones. His time at the BBC must, therefore, be surely limited.

Unless you "both sides" this clearly visible truth, you're not towing the line. I've actually seen better reporting on Comcast's Sky News; and a 'harder' line on Trump, e.g. on its Trump100 podcast. Surprising.

Thank goodness for Ros Atkins, almost single-handedly propping up BBC (past) standards of integrity

Like awarding Spitfire construction to Messerschmitt rather than Supermarine in 1936

Awarding Skynet 6 contract to Airbus vs Lockheed Martin should be a no-brainer. How can the UK rely on US any longer for its defence? 1/2 www.ft.com/content/55af...

America should listen. But I expect Trump will react as the scumbag he is

US interest in defending Greenland (not)

Nigel Farage racks up £151,000 in donor-funded flights to support Donald Trump Most recently, Farage attended an event at Trump’s Mar A Lago resort celebrating US Military Veterans just months before Trump’s vile slur dismissing the sacrifice of British troops who served in Afgh...

Doesn't look like Farage is distancing himself from Trump www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...

@usdawunion.bsky.social is Loyal. Interestingly, this union's HQ is in Manchester