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Politico: "The vote for Brexit inflicted a GDP blow of between 6 percent and 8 percent in the decade following the referendum — even worse than predicted beforehand, according to U.S. think tank the National Bureau of Economic Research"

Don't imagine this will end up on many Faragist front pages...

Be fair, who hasn't taken a bone saw into a room and accidentally dismembered a respected journalist?

Zelenskyy faces pressure to fire top aide Yermak amid corruption scandal The president looks set to respond to the swelling political crisis on Thursday — and will have to allay fears among Ukraine’s war allies over the rule of law.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy is under fierce pressure to fire his powerful top aide Andriy Yermak amid a corruption scandal that risks spiraling into the country’s biggest domestic political crisis since Russia’s full-scale invasion.

Epping Council loses challenge to use of hotel as asylum accommodation - Free Movement Epping Forest District Council has lost its legal challenge in which it sought an injunction to prevent the Bell Hotel being used as asylum accommodation. The

In case you missed it: Epping Council loses challenge to use of hotel as asylum accommodation | Sonia Lenegan

Ukraine commemorates the Holodomor on 22 November. Stalin's 1932-33 famine killed millions.
A survivor recounts: 40 relatives died. The Bolsheviks confiscated all their grain. They beat the boy to death; he took 5 onions in a field. The entire family perished.

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Opinion | Jamal Khashoggi: What the Arab world needs most is free expression The Arab world needs a modern version of the old transnational media so citizens can be informed about global events.

I will never forget having to edit Jamal’s final, posthumous piece for the Washington Post, after he was murdered.

He was calling for free expression in the Arab world. You can read it here :

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FFS. She has gone all Cruella Bravaman but worse ! Why do these MPs with ethnic minority background have to be so cruel against migrants and asylum seekers? This policy is racist and Fascist. It's truly horrible. We are better than those who seek to divide us, because that's exactly what this does.

Appeals against deportation on human rights grounds are vanishingly rare - less than one per cent of foreign national offenders remain in the UK on human rights grounds. So changing how the Convention is interpreted won’t make a material difference to migration figures

Ban a Pro-Palestinian Group? The U.K. Government Thought Few Would Care.

A new wave of protests against the Palestine Action ban is starting today in cities across Britain

More than 2,000 people have already been arrested under the Terrorism Act for holding signs, in a campaign of civil disobedience that wasn't predicted by the government
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Major AI project to tackle drug-resistant superbugs The UK turns to artificial intelligence (AI) to reverse the rising numbers of infections that shrug off antibiotics.

#BBCNews - Major UK project launched to tackle drug-resistant superbugs with AI
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Bitcoin just erased its gains for this year | CNN Business Bitcoin is in the red for the year — and investors say more turbulence could be in store.

Bitcoin is in the red for the year — and investors say more turbulence could be in store.

Carbon monoxide gives no clues.

No smell. No taste. No sound.

The only warning comes from a working alarm.

Fit carbon monoxide alarms in key rooms at home.

Test them every month to make sure they will alert you.

#COAwarenessWeek

'will you be deporting thousands of children to a place they've never been minister' is a big enough & obvious enough Q that govt has to know the answer to it before they unveil the whole package - it surely has a material effect on costs, numbers, political impact, maybe legality. So either..

Listening to Steve Reed explain on the radio today that he can't say what Mahmood's plan means for kids of people who give birth after they've been granted asylum because that's a hypothetical Q govt can't be expected to answer right now made me think these reforms are going to unravel quite fast

#R4Today

This from @stephenkb.bsky.social cuts to the heart of the matter. Does the government not understand how toxic this argument is? Do they think they can somehow weaponise it? The last governments at least had the merit not of making this kind of foul claim.

New study reveals the real costs - and opportunities - of our agricultural system. The social cost-benefit analysis brings unprecedented clarity to societal impacts of Dutch agriculture.
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Alf Dubs is right. We need more compassion in our politics.

Labour adopting anti-refugee rhetoric risks emboldening Reform to promote even more racist and radical measures against migrant communities.

"Ukraine gave up nuclear weapons in exchange for security guarantees and then got hammered.

So if it ends badly for Ukraine, this is going to be a massive catalyst for nuclear proliferation."

@fromtga.bsky.social on the Russo-Ukraine war and global disorder

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Leaving the ECHR and the Refugee Convention - UK in a changing Europe Catherine Barnard explains the political and legal consequences of leaving the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) and the Refugee Convention.

🤔 Is it possible to leave the ECHR? If so, how? And, less radically, can these conventions be reformed?

With the UK's membership in the European Convention on Human Rights and what that means under increasing scrutiny, @cbarnard.bsky.social has the answers👇

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Petition: Call a public inquiry into Russian influence on UK politics & democracy We are concerned about reported efforts from Russia to influence democracy in the US, UK, Europe and elsewhere. We believe we must establish the depth and breadth of possible Russian influence campaig...

Please repost and share this petition calling for a public inquiry into Russian influence on UK politics.

Given Farage's poll lead, this is the most important issue in British politics.
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This needs a bit of a push. Please sign and share.

So if AI succeeds loads of people lose their jobs as they're replaced by AI, and if AI fails, loads of people lose their jobs as the economy crashes?

Winter Tree ID...but how? Tue 18. November at 19:30 - 21:00 GMT

Great online tree ID event tonight, organised by our friends at D&G Woodlands.

Places still available.

Government’s asylum proposals ‘cross a dangerous line’, warn campaigners and MPs "This is headline chasing, not problem solving - a Government bowing to anti-immigrant, anti-rights politics."

Charities and MPs have condemned the government's hardline asylum proposals

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Lawrence Summers to step back from public roles over ties to Epstein Former US Treasury secretary sought paedophile’s advice over relationship he was pursuing

My sense of Epstein is that he weaponized the ability to get guys to share humiliating or illegal sexual desires and activities with him, which he could then exploit for favors or blackmail. An ancient profession no doubt but one I hadn’t thought about so clearly. on.ft.com/49uRtjb

Six months ago, before Keir Starmer's "island of strangers" speech, the Greens were polling at 9%

Defence of Labour asylum policy reveals backsliding on racism Home secretary’s framing of failures is partly low politics, but also a result of ministers’ poor approach to race relations

Labour’s “we have to do it, or racism will get worse” argument is striking. Any other public policy failures British ethnic minorities should be on the hook for? Can we be blamed en bloc for Rachel Reeves’ budget next week too? www.ft.com/content/37b0...

Asylum seekers’ jewellery could be seized to pay for processing costs, says Home Office minister Idea borrowed from Denmark is latest attempt to reduce number of people seeking asylum in UK

All the things that once made us proud to be British are now being trashed by this right-wing #Labour government 😢
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ICE-style raids on Britain's streets: that's all Labour's brutal asylum reforms will achieve | Stella Creasy If we want to ‘stop the boats’, we need to stop the BS when it comes to what creates refugees, and how to respond to them, says Labour MP Stella Creasy

ICE-style raids on Britain's streets: that's all Labour's brutal asylum reforms will achieve: Stella Creasy

“That the number of people seeking refuge in the UK has increased in the past year reflects not a generosity of our system, but the chaos of our world”

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