@joostdbr.bsky.social
UK correspondent, Het Financieele Dagblad
Others have noted that this means foreign-born people are LESS likely than UK-born people to be in prison. What I want to note is that The Times is now referring to foreign-born UK citizens as ‘foreigners’. This includes Boris Johnson, Sir Mo Farah, Emma Watson, Rory Stewart and little old me.
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Downing Street cabinet read out on Gaza:
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Map of railway lines in UK, France, Switzerland, Germany, Belgium, Netherlands, with various pins in the map too
Right
The 6️⃣0️⃣ stations I investigated during my #CrossChannelRail project have now all been mapped out and categorized
Interactive map 👇
umap.openstreetmap.fr/en/map/cross...
Sunday’s @thetimes.com cartoon times.newsprints.co.uk/morten-morla...
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Hundreds of tractors are seen 6-7 wide across Whitehall and the line stretches as far as you can see along the road. Some tractors have Union Jacks on the roof. The photo was shared by Edward Morello MP
UK farmers have blocked the streets of central London today in protest at the Labour government’s tax plans.
(📸 Edward Morello MP)
In Iowa hebben ze kennelijk een brexittijdreismachine neergezet www.ft.com/content/bed7...
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"what are you in for?"
"murder, what are you in for?"
"saying Liz Truss crashed the economy"
I see three distinct phases. Pre-Fox, when opinion was diverse but actual facts were indisputable.
Fox/Trump, where objective truth was subjected to the false equivalence of ‘alternative facts’ (ie lies).
And now, where media & tech platform owners collude with him to drown out the truth altogether.
1/ Ok, so instead of just making jokes about the EU Reset, I wanted to do a very simplified thread on:
- what the actual problem is Keir Starmer is trying to solve;
- the options on the table; and
- why this shit is hard.
This will be very long. I'm sorry.
Let's get wonky.
