Christoph Meyer

Just wondered how old the tea sieve I’m still using actually is. Turns out you can use things like this for longer than I thought—and it’s still good. Happy Tag der Deutschen Einheit! 🇩🇪

How is it that Zia Yusuf can falsely claim Starmer ‘incited violence’ against Farage and not even be challenged?

With the weather in London, the state of the world, and an urgent need for comfort food, I hereby declare Sunday Roast Season officially open.

Listening to Nicola Sturgeon on the @newsagents.bsky.social criticising Starmer for legitimising Farage’s claim about immigration being the main issue and not offering real solutions made me contemplate her own core promise of what would solve Scotland’s problems and how grounded it is in reality.

I fear if you don’t challenge such assumptions you are already on lost ground.

Yes, but isn’t the crazy part that she’s equating today’s refugees with Nazi soldiers, instead of with the Jewish refugees who fled the Nazis — many of whom were taken in? Only Lisa Smart alluded to that.

A lady on Sky News' Immigration debate just suggested that "if it was 1942 and we had the people that we currently have coming accross the channel in small boats, we would not have hesitated to deploy the navy and to line our shores with soldiers to protect us" and no one really challenged that.

That was a very lengthy way of saying: „I don’t know what a free press is there for.“

Imagine an EU-UK-summit in Brussels and the PA and BBC are not allowed in…well that’s the equivalent of what is going on here at the moment. Sounds like things are going very well with this reset.

The FPA is dismayed by Sir Keir Starmer's press accreditation policy for the EU-UK Summit of Monday 19th May. The vast majority of EU news outlets have been denied access. We have written to @10DowningStreet to urge him to reconsider.
@EUdelegationUK, @EU_Commission, @RSF_inter

This won't help the final talks on the UK-EU summit

www.instagram.com/p/DJug3ifou8...

So we have a big EU-UK reset summit on Monday in London, but most of the European correspondents accreditations were rejected ? (ARD’s too)
What exactly is this about ? @cabinetofficeuk.bsky.social

Unpopular opinion? The UK better get itself a written constitution that can’t be changed without a two-thirds majority—sooner rather than later.

Bluebell-sunset

Trump ‘makes trade deal with UK second-order priority’ in blow to ministers US officials have split negotiations with countries into three phases, sources say, with South Korea taking priority

Sounds like the UK being at the back of the queue, eh?

Had exactly the same thought!

It’s bluebell season! 🥳

They’ll deflect, lie, and pin the blame on others.

I can’t let the recent buzz around tariffs pass without highlighting the intriguing etymology of President Trump’s favorite word. “Tariff” is actually an Arabic loanword, derived from “تعريف” (taʿrīf), meaning “notification”.

Comparing Trump to Caesar and Vance to Augustus would make more sense in my eyes. History will tell..

EU threatens countermeasures and Asian markets plunge after Trump tariff announcement – business live Ursula von der Leyen says tariffs a ‘major blow’ to world economy after US President Trump targets allies on what he dubbed ‘liberation day’

“A group of barren, uninhabited volcanic islands near Antarctica, covered in glaciers and home to penguins, have been swept up in Donald Trump’s trade war, as the US president hit them with a 10% tariff on goods.”

How to protect a democracy from its enemies:

Donald Trump is seeking to erase the United States as we know it | Laurence H Tribe What we are currently living through is nothing less than an erasure of the building blocks of our republic – a distortion of what it means to be American

Giving voice to the despair about events in the us, @tribelaw.bsky.social , an icon amongst teachers of constitutional law worldwide www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Danish foreign minister giving JD Vance a lesson in diplomacy: "This is not how you speak to your close allies"

Opinion | The AP’s Freedom of Speech—and Yours A brazen attempt to punish us for using words Trump dislikes.

What Trump‘s „Gulf of America“-row with AP is really about. 👇🏼

Der Fall Letby: Monströse Mordserie oder fatales Fehlurteil?

Ist eine der angeblich schlimmsten Serienmörderinnen Großbritanniens in Wahrheit Opfer eines furchtbaren Justizirrtums? Meine Story zum Fall Lucy Letby.

They have voted for a policy change and received a system change, which was obvious beforehand but they chose to ignore.

I do that while tidying up, cleaning, washing dishes, folding laundry, shopping groceries…all much easier while listening to a podcast.

Latest issue of Germany’s “Focus” magazine

#BREAKING: German Greens vow to block constitutional changes needed for CDU/SPD plans to invest massively in military and infrastructure.