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I'm sorry but I don't agree. For years and years we were sent to prison, told we couldn't do this, or that because we are gay. Now we can, it's worth mentioning it to redress the balance. One day, hopefully soon, it won't be worth mentioning but we're definitely not there yet.

And by the way, the guy the wonderful Dutch🎉 just chose as their probable next PM ↙️ over far right Wilders - also - happens to be gay and married to an Argentine field hockey player↘️💪

THIS👇is how you beat populism💪

"It's time to reclaim our flag from a small group of shouting people. Wilders is the one threatening Dutch identity ! Our proud, crazy little country is so much better together, Dutch and European"
🇳🇱probable next PM
@RobJetten

My English s/t

J'étais le 1er animateur TV en France à dire "je suis gay" en 90 déjà, lorsque j'animais Continentales sur France 3

Comment imaginer, 35 ans après, que ce soit toujours aussi difficile en milieu politique, et qu'on en soit encore là ?

Bravo à @jbmarteau.bsky.social 👇
(en replay sur la 5)👇 !

Really fascinating Emmanuel Macron today on Russian interference "on steroids" in our democracies

"A formidable cocktail of unbridled capitalism and the illegitimate heirs of communism with us, in between, desperately trying to sort truth from lies with our "tweezers"

My English s/t👇

This is really moving !
In Budapest's Heroes Square Hungary's opposition leader
@magyarpeterMP calls on the spirit of the 1956 Hungarian uprising against Russia and its thirst for freedom to defeat Orbán in front of hundreds of thousands of Hungarians🇭🇺🇪🇺

My English s/t👇

Vraiment passionnante la journée que je viens d'animer au Conseil de l'Europe à Strasbourg sur l'enseignement de l'histoire dans notre continent. Comment éviter la manipulation ? Quel récit, par qui ?
Des professeurs et surtout des étudiants de plus de 40 pays ont débattu ensemble. Top ! @OHTE

Que nenni ! cher @inOUI haha👇

"Your luggage 𝒊𝒔 precious"

Luggage (bagages) est indénombrable - comme advice, information et news

The news, advice etc is good, jamais "are"

Your luggage is here, vos bagages sont là
"Un" bagage - a piece of luggage

You're welcome 😁

De simples phrases peuvent changer le cours d'une vie. La mienne par exemple. En 1981 Badinter a prononcé celle-ci 👇inouïe à l'époque. Tout le contraire de Thatcher et sa Clause 28 "interdisant toute promotion de l'homosexualité"
Je venais d'arriver en France. Je suis resté ❤️🇫🇷
Merci Monsieur

Me in a boater, 1976
Nearly 50 yrs separate this pic↙️ from ↘️of me back this week for the 1st time, chuffed to be one of Pembroke College, Oxford's "400 for its first 400 years"
Seems a lifetime away (it was 😀)

The past is another country, but it was indeed a wonderful one

Les GB regrettent le Brexit - carrément - seuls 29% voteraient aujourd'hui pour quitter l'UE .....
(et la moitié voudrait même un nouveau référendum)
Sondage Sunday Times 👇
🇪🇺🇬🇧

YouTube video by INA Arditube Dîner "God save the Queen" au 93, Faubourg Saint-Honoré chez Thierry Ardisson | INA Arditube

Souvenir de mon passage en 2006 au dîner "God save the Queen" dans "93, Faubourg St-Honoré"👇chez Ardisson

On se sentait at home. Un journaliste qui s'en fichait des clichés

Ardisson. Un homme en noir. Un journaliste qui cassait les codes🖤

www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ItW...

Goosebumps ! For 1 day each year my little French town tells the whole world just how proud it is to be🇫🇷❤️

I saw many great 14th July fireworks in Paris, but they were somehow distant. Last night, standing right in front of our Town Hall this totally blew me away !
My montage - Sound absolutely on !

I subtitled this from Macron because no UK politician has ever said, or indeed would DARE say this so clearly (most notably Labour) for fear of offending Brexit voters

It was Brexit which CAUSED the small boats problem by ditching all existing legal EU/UK frameworks

"When I look at Macron and Starmer talking now, it just demonstrates the narcissism of the arguments we had around Brexit and the extent our country turned in on itself. Looks ridiculous with hindsight."

And that's Sir Alex Younger, the longest serving head of MI6
@bbcnewsnight.bsky.social

This is hilarious/embarrassing/humiliating

Trump talks about the great UK deal before dropping it, forcing the "great Prime Minister of the UK" to skivvy around picking the thing up only to hear Trump refer to it, uncorrected, as "a great agreement with the European Union"🤡🤡🤡

Décidément les GB ne font rien comme les autres - ici le nouveau chef de l'extrême droite racontant comment il conduisait à travers une forêt avec le fantôme de sa grand-mère dans le coffre, fait vérifié par un medium qui, rentrant en contact avec celle-ci, tenta de l'étrangler🤡

"Would you say your English is as good as your German ?"

What a skull-numbingly dumb question to ask the 🇩🇪Chancellor !

Trump, the most powerful man in international affairs, has seemingly never grasped the difference between a mother language and one someone learns
🤡

"In an extraordinary solution, Dover will have a virtual border. To ensure its integrity, buses will have their doors physically sealed with tape for the 1.4-mile journey across town to the ferry. Irregular movements will be monitored by AI"🤡

Taking back control of borders ...

🇬🇧media : "Reform, Reform, Reform, Reform, Reform, Reform, Reform, Reform, Reform, Reform, Reform, Reform, Reform etc"

Also 🇬🇧media : "In an amazing development, Reform is now leading the polls ..."
🤡

The sheer lunacy of "taking back control" of borders against people who provide you with 75% of your food imports👇

You spend millions on this monstrosity, keep putting off using it when it dawns on you you actually need to eat, and now you have to get rid of the sodding thing🤡

Here's how today's 🇪🇺🇬🇧 summit has just been covered on main France 2 news - no report, just a 15 second voice-over 20 mins down the running order 👇(contrary to UK news which has been covering it non-stop all day)

The EU really has moved on😀
(my subtitles👇 all 4 of them🤡)

"When people come to our country, they should commit to integration, to learning our language"👇

Sorry, but UK exceptionalism on steroids. What about the millions of UK "Place in the Sun" e̴x̴p̴a̴t̴s̴ migrants who never learn Spanish or French and don't exactly integrate here ?

"Bargaining needs to be done in strength. The UK is not that big. If the UK had joined the EU in bargaining, you could have done it. That's exactly what Trump wanted, piece by piece, taking the weakest country first"👇

Economics Nobel Prize @josephestiglitz.bsky.social

Look at this graph👇just broadcast on #bbclaurak which shows clearly when UK immigration figures changed DRAMATICALLY👇

In the 20 min interview with Home Sec @YvetteCooperMP was the word "Brexit" mentioned once ? Of course it wasn't

When Labour denialism meets BBC denialism

Ode to Joy live under the Arc de Triomphe just now, mixed with pictures of the liberation of Paris to mark 80 years of peace

Goosebumps - chair de poule, 100%👇
❤️🇪🇺🇫🇷🇬🇧🇺🇸

"L'extrême droite de Farage" - 🇬🇧 "far right"

French press calls it likes it sees it 👇
(contrairement aux médias 🇬🇧)

Great ! EU flags allowed back at the Eurovision Song Contest (Sweden ludicrously banned them last year)
💪🇪🇺
#Eurovision2025

Why can't you get a decent cup of tea on the continent ?

🙏👏 @channel4tv.bsky.social #FoodUnwrapped for providing the easy answer which I for one, who's been cursing tea on said for 4 decades have never twigged
There's twice the tea in 🇬🇧bags🤡

Typical 🇫🇷 teabag : I.57g
🇵🇹1.51g
🇬🇧👇2.89g !

Merci ! Que de beaux souvenirs :)