@coletteaustin.bsky.social
Brexile in Italy 🇮🇹 🇪🇺. Ex-lawyer, serial student of International Relations, Politics (BA; LLB, LLM; MSt Cantab), focus on nuclear strategy, EU Security. Student of web design, garden design. Foodie. Men/bots who only follow women will be blocked.
Hegseth: "We will keep pushing, keep advancing. No quarter, no mercy for our enemies."
No quarter is the refusal to take prisoners and instead just execute everyone. It's been considered a war crime for over a century.
'Rightwing politicians, Tufton Street junktanks and the billionaire press tell us our energy security will be enhanced and our bills will fall if we abandon net zero policies, ditch renewables and reinvest in North Sea gas'
Fantastic from George Monbiot
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Europe’s defensive measures to shield its democracies from hybrid attacks are no longer enough. If Europeans want to protect their peace and prosperity, the time is to fight back, write Will Brown, @jkobzova.bsky.social, @nicupopescu.bsky.social and José Ignacio Torreblanca.
https://bit.ly/4bebWIe
The UN investigation found genocide. Keep denying, and revelling in your theories of victimhood. Where would your identity be without them?
www.ohchr.org/en/press-rel...
No, I don’t. I know that an actual genocide doesn’t need inverted commas, though.
Which particular misfortunes? The Israeli genocide of Palestinians? Or perhaps the US-Israel illegal war?
Scapegoats for what?
I don’t think unconditional surrender is imminent.
Italy’s PM Giorgia Meloni said:
I strongly condemn the massacre of young girls that took place at a school in the southern Iranian city of Minab. I express full solidarity with the families of the young victims and call for those responsible for this tragedy to be identified as soon as possible.
America’s ‘standing’ was already on the floor.
Nor in America.
Bellingcat analysis makes a strong case that a US tomahawk hit that girl's school in Iran, contrary to U.S. government claims
www.bellingcat.com/news/2026/03...
Europe needs to avoid this outcome
War in Iran exposed that Europe failed to stand up to a business lobby that slowed decarbonisation
It committed a "strategic error of slowing a transformation necessary for security & independence....truth is that rearguard action on fossil dependence is bad for business"
www.ft.com/content/a6be...
People advocating for more indigenous oil & gas have lost the plot.
It will make zero difference to today's rocketing fossil fuel energy prices if governments opt to bring more oil & gas reservoirs onstream in 2031-2040.
But it will lock in CO2 emissions and help destroy economies and society.
Oil prices wouldn't be all over the news today if more of our economy was powered by local, secure renewable energy.
This isn't an "energy crisis". It's a fossil fuel crisis.
44% of UK electricity came from renewables in 2025. More of that plus an electrified economy => no more oil shocks.
“What more proof is needed that the US, an outlaw state like Israel, is a hostile power that fundamentally threatens the UK?”
100%
Curse of Private Equity
US evidence shows:
When private equity incentives collide with clinical care, patients—especially those who are sicker, poorer, or harder to treat—are more likely to be killed or harmed.
Yet UK handing more of the NHS to PE, enabling it to make profits.
The impact of Brexit on UK immigration - new research by @johnspringford.bsky.social & me for @centreeuropeanref.bsky.social & @ukandeu.bsky.social
Brexit
a) reduced EU-origin employees by 785K (2.3% of workforce)
b) increased non-EU origin employees by 992K (2.95%)
www.cer.eu/insights/imp...
Thursday’s @thetimes.com cartoon times.newsprints.co.uk/morten-morla...
You've got to be kidding me...
And in other news
Humanity heating planet faster than ever before
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Excellence? It now looks like the US destroyed a primary school full of children.
I think it’s even pettier than that - Trump resents the respect and admiration that Zelenskyy inspires in the West. Moments like the spontaneous cheers and applause on Z’s entrance at Pope Francis’ funeral, for example, must have irked the thin-skinned, jealous man-child.
Unbelievable. King Charles is STILL set to fly to the US to celebrate with Trump in April. With everything Trump is saying and doing right now - and the hate and chaos he's spreading - this trip must be cancelled. Agree? Add your name to the petition today: you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/ca...
