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Dr Chris Melvin

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Steel Nerd // CEng CSci // Chairboy living in Swansea // IOM3 FIMMM & Iron & Steel Leadership Group Secretary Public lecturer on Green Steel Transition Continuous Improvement Specialist

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God Gave Rock 'N' Roll To You II KISS Β· Revenge Β· Song Β· 1992

We really need Bill S Preston Esq & Ted Theodore Logan...

open.spotify.com/track/1jJenV...

04.06.2025 19:46 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Kevin Maguire - Trump is treating UK like Guatemala, it's time to rethink Brexit The Mirror's Associate Editor and politics columnist Kevin Maguire says it's high time Keir Starmer took a second look at reversing Brexit after US President Donald Trump imposed his rogue tariffs

β€œThat quitting the single market and customs union of our country’s largest trading partner inflicts damage Β­considerably worse than the US hit should be screamed from the rooftops, not ignored”

www.mirror.co.uk/news/kevin-m...

06.04.2025 19:36 β€” πŸ‘ 561    πŸ” 176    πŸ’¬ 10    πŸ“Œ 8
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US officials object to European push to buy weapons locally U.S. officials have told European allies they want them to keep buying American-made arms, amid recent moves by the European Union to limit U.S. manufacturers' participation in weapons tenders, five sources familiar with the matter told Reuters.

www.reuters.com/world/us-off...

Oh no, if it isn't the consequences of your actions

02.04.2025 10:51 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Have they tried to turn it off and on again?

10.03.2025 10:04 β€” πŸ‘ 132    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 6    πŸ“Œ 0

Absolutely shocking. I know Paul, her dad, really well from @swma-iom3.bsky.social & TATA Steel.

Still can't believe what we're seeing across the pond...

10.03.2025 08:26 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Becky Burke of Book Island (a picture book publisher in the UK founded by my fellow Tokarczuk translator Greet Pauwelijn) was "detained" by ICE at the Canadian border on 2/28. Her father asked that her story be shared in case someone can help her. He writes:

09.03.2025 17:02 β€” πŸ‘ 5043    πŸ” 3620    πŸ’¬ 197    πŸ“Œ 801

... but what about Elon's Chainsaw...

06.03.2025 22:42 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Canada has answered the call more times than many others.

One of the First in, One of the last Out.

06.03.2025 22:41 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Congratulations!

06.03.2025 19:28 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

(1/3) It needs repeating: in 1994, Ukraine was persuaded to give up its nuclear weapons to Russia in return for the US, the UK, and Russia guaranteeing Ukraine’s sovereignty, security, and territorial integrity.

04.03.2025 17:57 β€” πŸ‘ 76768    πŸ” 22892    πŸ’¬ 1789    πŸ“Œ 981

We cancelled our Elections in 1916 and 1940. People keep on forgetting the Great War....

03.03.2025 09:48 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Just on LBC calling Ukraine Corrupt...

Love him throwing out Putin talking points. Zelensky has been purging any corruption during his tenure as President...

03.03.2025 09:38 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Same with Boris. Given airtime in the early 2000s before he was Mayor.

03.03.2025 09:31 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

I'm amazed we give Farage so much airtime. Never seen @eddavey.libdems.org.uk or @carolinelucas.bsky.social given as much air as Farage over the years....

03.03.2025 09:28 β€” πŸ‘ 20    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Exactly; Making Capital from the disasters they helped cause
1, isolate the UK (Brexit)=2
2, destabilisation of Europe
3,Putin invades Ukraine
4,Trumps elected
5 Putin &Trump divide up European continent between them,the spoils of war
6,strip the assets #DisasterCapitalism
#StandUpSpeakUpActUp

01.03.2025 07:20 β€” πŸ‘ 195    πŸ” 71    πŸ’¬ 4    πŸ“Œ 2
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Red Dwarf

24.02.2025 20:37 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

You either die a hero, or live long enough to see yourself become the Villain...

24.02.2025 17:43 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

What will the Russia Hawks who have wanted us to get closer to the US and away from europe say....

24.02.2025 17:40 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Those who said we didn't need the EU or a European defence force because we had NATO are now seeing that if you can't rely on the latter you'll need the former. For the millionth time: In a world of nationalistic superpowers, Europe is a strong EU or nothing. We should be in it.

24.02.2025 11:50 β€” πŸ‘ 156    πŸ” 32    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 2
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given that god is infinite and that the universe is also infinite , would you like a toasted tea cake ALT: given that god is infinite and that the universe is also infinite , would you like a toasted tea cake
24.02.2025 11:55 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Can Europe resist Trump’s gangsterism? Does it have the willpower to even try?

β€œAfter Brexit, the fantasists who promoted withdrawal from EU were lost in a dream that Britain could join an β€œAnglosphere” dominated by the United States – a delusion the actual United States never showed smallest interest in sharing”
@nickcohen.bsky.social

nickcohen.substack.com/p/can-europe...

23.02.2025 14:21 β€” πŸ‘ 418    πŸ” 77    πŸ’¬ 8    πŸ“Œ 1
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Wake up Prime Minister Starmer, you must find your inner Churchill for Trump Starmer’s visit to Trump should be the beginning of a renewed show of strength and a reunited Europe, writes Anthony Seldon. He should make history in a way that Churchill grasped and Blair dropped

COMMENT | Wake up Prime Minister Starmer, you must find your inner Churchill for Trump

23.02.2025 14:34 β€” πŸ‘ 104    πŸ” 10    πŸ’¬ 5    πŸ“Œ 1
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a group of men are sitting in a row and one of them is holding his hand to his chin . ALT: a group of men are sitting in a row and one of them is holding his hand to his chin .
22.02.2025 21:26 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

My X feed has been full of Right Wing "Ads" for months.

21.02.2025 10:38 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

We also suspended in 1916

20.02.2025 21:39 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

The King has no clothes.

20.02.2025 11:08 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.

19.02.2025 21:29 β€” πŸ‘ 20    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Am old enough to remember when Trump was going to strengthen the Western alliance.

Those who said that are weirdly quiet tonight.

19.02.2025 20:36 β€” πŸ‘ 1041    πŸ” 131    πŸ’¬ 44    πŸ“Œ 5

The resistance will bring down Musk and Trump. Congress, wake up before your power is gone. The GOP begging Trump to release money to their states is patheticβ€”stand up to this tyranny. Congress controls the purse strings.

19.02.2025 18:33 β€” πŸ‘ 13146    πŸ” 2152    πŸ’¬ 225    πŸ“Œ 63

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