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Author, philosophy prof., European.

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06.01.2026 12:06 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 4    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

We've gone from teaching Latin in schools to teaching remedial English. - One thing studying Latin did was to make us conscious of history. Compare an outlook equipped with Latin & history with one ignorant of both.

10.06.2025 07:23 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 19    ๐Ÿ” 2    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Question: the vindictive & childish bullying by Trump: are there really not 6 Republicans in Congress who can call a halt to the madness?

27.05.2025 11:58 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 23    ๐Ÿ” 11    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

We must give the Harvard Finger to the bullies in Washington. While they squat in its desolate halls, the US should go into purdah from the perspective of the more civilised world.

17.04.2025 07:40 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 25    ๐Ÿ” 5    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Go Harvard.

16.04.2025 11:29 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 58    ๐Ÿ” 10    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1

Labour gov continues in the exact opposite direction from sanity on Europe. EU citizens to pay for a permit to come here? Lunatic. Burden on tourism
& hospitality is the least of
It - we should be rejoining EU not increasing barriers.

02.04.2025 16:54 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 134    ๐Ÿ” 36    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 10    ๐Ÿ“Œ 4

Did David Attenborough - forbidden by the BBC to speak on Brexit (he told me so himself) smuggle in an opinion in the opening remarks to 'Our Planet II' when he says 'All life on earth depends on our freedom to move' - ?

28.03.2025 20:55 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 67    ๐Ÿ” 23    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1

Greenland should follow Trump's example & deny visas - to US citizens. This would stop the Mrs Vance 'unofficial delegation' in its tracks.

25.03.2025 07:40 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 34    ๐Ÿ” 12    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 3    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

I hope Starmer reads the NYTimes, reporting how Hesgeth 'loathes helping Europe' - time to Rejoin the EU.
@nytimes.com today 25/3/25

25.03.2025 07:25 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 131    ๐Ÿ” 38    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 11    ๐Ÿ“Œ 3

Scraping the BTOM of the barrel - Brexitland's ruinous separation from the EU descends further into inanity.

24.03.2025 18:02 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 18    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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How Labour can avoid defeat in 2029 Attlee and Wilson were punished for delaying the inevitable. Starmer can avoid their fate โ€“ if he acts fast

Yes and yes again: we must rejoin the Single Market:
kellnerp.substack.com/p/how-labour...

24.03.2025 08:26 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 70    ๐Ÿ” 25    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2    ๐Ÿ“Œ 4
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All UK families โ€˜to be worse off by 2030โ€™ as poor bear the brunt, new data warns Keir Starmer has been dealt a fresh blow to his living standards pledge in advance of the spring statement

When will Labour finally give up on the stupidity of Brexit?
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

23.03.2025 08:01 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 139    ๐Ÿ” 59    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 12    ๐Ÿ“Œ 2

bsky.app/profile/ksla...

01.03.2025 17:09 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 82    ๐Ÿ” 20    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 3    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1
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Eric got itโ€ฆ

01.03.2025 13:07 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1574    ๐Ÿ” 298    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 16    ๐Ÿ“Œ 4

Never forget this day, February 28, 2025, when an American president abused and betrayed a democratic ally in the midst of a barbaric war with Russia. This grotesque stain will never wash away.

28.02.2025 22:08 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 42680    ๐Ÿ” 10898    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1017    ๐Ÿ“Œ 368
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Disgusting in every way

01.03.2025 11:31 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 21497    ๐Ÿ” 4968    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 363    ๐Ÿ“Œ 194

After the Oval Office disaster, letโ€™s remember :

Europe is wealthy,

Europe is strong,

If it wants to, Europe can deal with this.

Demand EU leaders take action! How? ๐Ÿ‘‡

01.03.2025 13:35 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2592    ๐Ÿ” 618    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 73    ๐Ÿ“Œ 24
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Opinion | A Day of American Infamy A dreadful moment for Ukraine, for the free world, for the legacy of an America that once stood for the principles of the Atlantic Charter.

โ€œIf Roosevelt had told Churchill to sue for peace on any terms with Adolf Hitler and to fork over Britainโ€™s coal reserves to the United States in exchange for no American security guarantees, it might have approximated what Trump did to Zelensky.โ€ www.nytimes.com/2025/02/28/o...

01.03.2025 11:11 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3805    ๐Ÿ” 1196    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 59    ๐Ÿ“Œ 32

What a disgusting display of bullying & stupidity by Vance and Trump in the meeting with Zelensky. Shameful - & the US betrayal of Ukraine is even more shameful.

28.02.2025 23:12 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 39    ๐Ÿ” 12    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 5    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1
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Trumpโ€™s true enemy isnโ€™t China or Russia but liberal democracy The new Cold War between Europe and America

โ€œTrumpโ€™s America has started its own cold war against liberal democracy. His weapons include the withdrawal of military support, the elevation of Vladimir Putin from pariah to partner, propaganda attacks, & subversionโ€

Superb read from @nickcohen.bsky.social
nickcohen.substack.com/p/trumps-tru...

16.02.2025 22:07 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 546    ๐Ÿ” 193    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 30    ๐Ÿ“Œ 6

Rejoining the EU would be pretty beneficial as well.

Given the current situation with Trump, Ukraine and Putin, it's now essential to fully realign with Europe and the EU as soon as possible.

Starmer's red lines need to go. Now.

16.02.2025 11:23 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 32    ๐Ÿ” 12    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1

Oh dear.

11.02.2025 11:16 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 9    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Someone hacked my Twitter a/c @acgrayling & is posting pro-Musk tweets on it. Disgusting. I can't get into it to change the password. Any tips? I haven't left Twitter because I don't want to yield the terrain to the Illegitimi.

09.02.2025 23:34 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 10    ๐Ÿ” 7    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 11    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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More Britons would rather have the EU than the US as Britain's closest trading partner

The EU: 53% (+2 from 2 Mar 2020)
The US: 21% (+4)
Neither: 7% (-3)

yougov.co.uk/topics/inter...

21.01.2025 16:11 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 448    ๐Ÿ” 192    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 24    ๐Ÿ“Œ 37
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Donald Tusk: "I am aware this is a dream: that instead of a #Brexit, we will have a #Breturn. Perhaps I am labouring under an illusion. But I'd rather be an optimist and harbour these dreams in my heart. Sometimes they come true in politics." ~AA

17.01.2025 17:47 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2363    ๐Ÿ” 629    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 116    ๐Ÿ“Œ 153
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Only in America.

16.01.2025 08:52 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2645    ๐Ÿ” 892    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 95    ๐Ÿ“Œ 33
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This is a good description of the GOP:

The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest, best financed, most applauded and, on the whole, least successful exercises in moral philosophy. That is the search for a truly superior moral justification for selfishness.

~ John Kenneth Galbraith

11.01.2025 09:18 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1063    ๐Ÿ” 286    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2    ๐Ÿ“Œ 21
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Jimmy Carter in 2015 on the role of money in American politics.

Spot on.

09.01.2025 20:07 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 4858    ๐Ÿ” 1267    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 79    ๐Ÿ“Œ 49
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Meta is Not Returning to its Free Speech Origins โ€“ Itโ€™s Preparing for an Autocratic Future | TechPolicy.Press Letโ€™s take what Zuckerberg is saying seriously and admit that we are entering โ€“ once again โ€“ uncharted waters, writes Joรฃo C. Magalhรฃes.

There is nothing normal about a company that helps define what almost half of humanity sees on their screens explicitly promising to support a far-right leader, writes Joรฃo C. Magalhรฃes.

08.01.2025 16:39 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 225    ๐Ÿ” 49    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 5    ๐Ÿ“Œ 6

I think the best, & only sensible option, is for the rest of the world to just say no to Trump for the next 4 years, and just let the dementia take him.
Heโ€™s a convicted felon, rapist, insurrectionist & utter melon, nobody owes him their sanity.
Let him & his techbro sideboobs eat each other alive.

07.01.2025 20:37 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 133    ๐Ÿ” 30    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 8    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

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