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Both joined at the same time making, we thought & fervently hoped, would make the border irrelevant

Brexit was never a new thing & the same exceptionalist sentiment had been nourished for centuries which, though we were aware of it, we considered it ancient 🐎💩 which reality would inevitably crush 😜

There's a 70s to mid 80s tranche of folk who'd have encountered IT in their 50s & never quite grasped it; eg they'd ask someone to print their work diaries

With smartphones some make an effort to know the basics, others blunder into the swamp

Those who disappear into rabbit holes imv it's all ages

Trust me, it's not design by any stretch of the imagination

One word & its endless definitions sums it up: sovereignty

8 things boomers still do that prove they're completely out of touch with modern life There’s something both endearing and frustrating about baby boomers.On one hand, they’ve lived through immense change—rotary phones to smartphones, handwritten letters to instant messages, and a world...

I don't know who Lachlan Brown is but it seems unlikely he's ever met anyone older than his (European) shoe size

That said I hope he preserves this piece of silliness (in the Cloud obvs) to read on his 59th birthday...
#boomer
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Does he now? The Oz & NZ trade deals were always bad for farmers, then and now

Has Gove forgotten he was there too?

A slight word change would depict the reality of Trump's Magaland 😕

Trump administration issues layoff notices to more than 4,000 workers during government shutdown More than 4,000 workers across seven agencies will receive notices that their jobs are being cut, the government disclosed in a court filing.

In what universe does any of this make America "great"; is there another definition of the word we missed?

Trump's babysitters seem to want an empire for a new American age run by fundamentalist God botherers; the man-baby who can barely tie his shoelaces is expendable
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England v Republic of Ireland: Riot marred Lansdowne Road friendly Inside story of the last match between England and the Republic of Ireland in 1995, abandoned because of serious crowd trouble

The other games in 1973 were away in Cardiff & Edinburgh.

When England football "fans" turned up in Lansdowne Road in 1995, many weren't there for the football & when they kicked off, they were dealt with accordingly by the Gardaí. Ironically, it was a "friendly"
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Six Nations: The Ireland-England game still remembered 50 years on Fifty years ago there was uncertainty if England would play against Ireland in Dublin at all.

Both the Wales & Scotland had refused to travel to Dublin in 1972 after Bloody Sunday in Derry, followed by the British Embassy being burned down afterwards so expectations for England turning up in 1973 were very low

But that's rugby & Ireland won too 😃
More here ⬇️
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Nigel Farage 'stunned' ex-Wales Reform leader Nathan Gill took bribes Nathan Gill has admitted taking money for pro-Russian statements as a European Parliament member.

Everything he's reported to have said in this BBC piece sounds like he's desperately trying to distance himself, knowing that the connection is real and toxic. If the press were investigating Farage with the same enthusiasm they went for Rayner, he'd be done for.

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

Was Farage speaking in a biblical sense when he said he didn’t “know” Nathan Gill well?

I think we should be told…

Remarkable article many thanks

I was at Lansdowne Road when England was the only five nations team that turned out there that season

It felt like the well-deserved applause would never end 😃

Hockey too if anyone asks 😉

NI rugby players would mostly play for Ireland

The IRFU is all Ireland organisation with ties to the provinces too

At the anti–far right protest in Cork 🇮🇪
Ireland is built on community, unity & compassion — a nation of emigrants who once sought kindness abroad.
Hate has no home here.
We stand for love, peace & democracy.
We are ONE. ✊💚

Farage whining about tampons

🚨 Don’t look at me, I don’t know Nathan Gill, never met him either, cried Nigel plaintively

But look over there instead at the woke NT …
👀👀👀

Ever since I finished Question Time, Reform have massively been on the attack.

Including a rant from Richard Tice entirely designed to distract from Reform and Russia.

Everyone should know about Nathan Gill, the bribes from Russia and the link to Reform.

It’s ostrich politics at play in both jurisdictions

If we don’t discuss it, we needn’t be concerned about it until it’s someone else’s problem; and inevitably, it will be a problem for all of us

Westminster parties have no interest in stirring the pot & being left to providence is not an option

If voters, like those in Clacton, are dim enough to elect a bunch of self-serving grifters, why would or should they complain about their lack of representation in parliament?

Anyone who might feel aggrieved because “they forgot” to vote are equally culpable 🤷‍♂️

They have guns, lots of guns in Oklahoma too…

But it’s not just Farage is it?

It was Cameron’s appeasement to UKIP tendency in his own party & then gave up any pretence of trying to defend UK’s EU membership by running away

Farage may rightly blamed for the racism, lies & deceit; but it was Johnson & his Tory mates who truly ballsed it up 🤬

Mutual hand jobbing... ?

Watch out for an Executive Order creating the US Noble Peace Prize ...

All true & personally I'd prefer the advantages of an ID card rather than the hotchpotch at present

The naysayers, few if any have experienced state surveillance, will always quote the "what if" scenarios using the execrable Farage as their goto villain, the likelihood of whose being PM is zero

Somehow it's doubtful the man-child will stop his incessant whining...
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The double insult of awarding the Peace Prize to a Venezuelan should be enough to blow the fuse 🤯
#nobel

Großbritanniens Demokratie: Auch in England gewinnen die Extremen an Zulauf Die britische Demokratie ist uralt. Sie gilt als sagenhaft stabil und immun gegen irrationale Emotionen. Damit ist es nun vorbei.

Die deutsche Blick auf Grossbritannien ist von jeher durch Mythen, Kitsch und Sentimentalitäten verstellt. Auch deshalb weil die Engländer sich gerne selbst so sehen.
Die Realität sieht ein wenig anders aus.
Ein sehr kluges Stück von Eva Ladipo. @faznet.bsky.social

Trump's uncountable detractors should have found a better way for him to diss Obama than have him banging on about the gong, although I fear it's now far too late

For the man-baby, his loathing for Obama is what motivates everything

We should hope that the breaking point for both Trump & Putin arrives sooner rather than later, preferably before the damage becomes irreparable

That said, in both hinterlands, there are the enablers whose future influences, without their useful idiots, including Vance, become harder to predict

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A particularly fabulous episode of my current favourite podcast here - as @aiannucci.bsky.social and @nataliehaynes.bsky.social discuss bad rhetoric, the ghost of Goebbels, the persistence of Cicero and chocolate for Britian. Listen, listen, listen!
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