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I love all things political, travel & sewing. I support Project Linus UK and the amazing kennel free @Dogs4Rescue.bsky.social
"We're clamping down on this and smashing the business model of criminals selling these abused and smuggled puppies."
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The ultimate irony of halving net immigration numbers:
You can do it without reducing small boats crossings at all!!
This is Nigel Farage’s immigration doom-loop & Starmer is up to his neck in the death trap like the Tories before him 🤦♀️
EASTER SUNDAY SCHOOL episode out now.
Join @pimlicat.bsky.social and @sturdyalex.bsky.social as they talk about:
🏳️⚧️: ramifications of the SC decision on the Equality Act,
🇺🇸🇺🇦🇷🇺: Trump’s failure to get peace in 24 hours
🇫🇷🇬🇧: the latest plan for asylum seekers
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Brilliant economic analysis by Marcus Hutchins @malwaretech.com
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🎉BONUS EPISODE: Grin & Share It 😀
Join @pimlicat.bsky.social and @sturdyalex.bsky.social for an entire show dedicated to good news only. And given this week, boy do we need it! 🌼🌈🦫🔬
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I loved today's podcast. I wanted to support you, but I can't commit every month. I notice you have removed the one-off payment option - is it possible to reinstate this please?
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🍊 Tariff Day Special: TRUMPONOMICS 🍊
I get nervous when everyone agrees. So I asked top economist Vicky Pryce to help me properly kick the tyres of Trump's economic policies. And - whisper it - but could they actually work?
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Some news: I'm presenting and co-writing a new short Radio 4 series, Untaxing.
It's about how tax affects our lives: from the Laffer Curve, to the Beatles, to Jaffa Cakes, and modern day avoidance.
1.45pm on Radio 4, every day next week, and on BBC Sounds as each episode airs.
Great value restaurant food in central London. The House of Commons restaurant. Great prices😉
22.03.2025 10:22 — 👍 25 🔁 17 💬 2 📌 0
Another great piece from Material World author Ed Conway @edconway.bsky.social
Something for your Saturday read with coffee 👇👇👇
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S1E1: Narcissus & Echo - The Influencer & The Follower
Most of what you think you know about the story of Narcissus, is wrong. This isn’t a tale of pride or vanity.
Let @sturdyalex.bsky.social take you on a journey.
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🐀 NEW Sunday School: Rats-in-Sack Latest 🐀
Reform UK turn on each other. The Trump cabinet turn on each other. Pour the schadenfreude straight in your ears with @pimlicat.bsky.social and @sturdyalex.bsky.social.
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🚨NEW RESEARCH🚨
Closer ties with the EU could deliver growth of up to 2.2%.
Clawing back up to half of the damage caused by Brexit.
Delivering double the impact of a UK-US trade deal, according to the govt's own analysis.
And all within Starmer's red lines.
www.thetimes.com/article/8423...
A bird's-eye view of a former Auschwitz II-Birkenau camp showing a wide dirt pathway flanked by parallel rows of barbed-wire fences. Groups of visitors walk along the path, surrounded by the remnants of brick structures and barracks, now reduced to foundations. Green grass contrasts with the somber history of the site, as the path leads toward a guard tower in the distance.
Auschwitz was at the end of a long process. It did not start from gas chambers.
This hatred was gradually developed by humans. From ideas, words, stereotypes & prejudice through legal exclusion, dehumanization & escalating violence... to systematic and industrial murder.
Auschwitz took time.
🔴Twenty More Government Reforms the Media Hasn’t Been Telling You About
You probably won’t have read much about these announcements over the past few weeks
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I remember writing my dissertation 32 years ago on ‘Will the Republikaner succeed?’ at Brunel University (Gillian Robb). Thank you for arranging for me to spend my third year placement at Stuttgart University. It still remains as one of my best experiences.
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It’s with a heavy heart that I’ve been forced to write to Claire Coutinho again.
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Picture of James MacCleary MP delivering speech.
💥 It passes!! 💥
The Youth Mobility (EU Countries) Bill has just passed its first reading.
No opposition voiced by the govt. your thousands of emails stopped them shutting it down.
Well done @jamesmaccleary.bsky.social on a superb speech. 👏👏👏
❗ TODAY ❗
I'm proud to present my 🇪🇺 Youth Mobility Scheme Bill 🇬🇧 – a vital step to give young Brits the chance to live, work, and study across Europe.
The botched Brexit deal robbed them of these opportunities. It's time to fix that and reset our relationship with the EU.
Myself and Alba are often tired in the evening (me from helping dogs, her from her illness).
I often think about skipping the little 50 yard hike up to the rock. But I've never regretted us going up there once.
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Snow day for our sanctuary dog Bear 🐶❄️ Her double layer fur is keeping her nice and warm
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If you managed to log off over Christmas and the New Year, you might be wondering why right-wing politicians are suddenly calling for a new inquiry into child grooming gangs, how Elon Musk is involved, and how the govt is responding.
Here's what you need to know - a timeline👇1/
Just in from mammoth interview session to two bits of news. One that a DV perp got locked up because of something I did and that a vulnerable constituent had a a massive wrongful debt written off after our intervention. This is why I came to politics, this is why I'll just keep cracking on.
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Have written about Meta's really important decision to ape Musk's vision of online publishing. It poses big Qs for the EU/UK about whether there's the will to regulate these companies, and with Silicon Valley and MAGA in alliance, whether there's even the means.
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NEW: Andrew Norfolk broke the grooming gang story, 15 years ago. His exclusive interview on today’s News Agents
is deeply powerful, not least for his anger about those political figures now exploiting it and the victims for their own purposes.
Listen 👇
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💒 NEW: Sunday School - Elon hearts Tommy. Nigel, not so much.📚
@pimlicat.bsky.social & @sturdyalex.bsky.social talk through the weeks news, Musk’s British obsession, as well as Braverman’s GCSE Geography fail.
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