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@haynick.bsky.social

Retired radio and online journalist. Former chair of governors. Cycling for pleasure. Missing close ties with Europe.

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β€ΌοΈπŸš¨Sophie Ridge: β€œYou’ve secured trading terms with the US that are worse than they were before Brexit.”

Wes Streeting: β€œI don’t dispute that.”

πŸ”₯ And there it is πŸ”₯

Brexit made Britain weak and that’s why it will continue to make us poorer until with rejoin the EU.

06.01.2026 09:26 β€” πŸ‘ 126    πŸ” 52    πŸ’¬ 6    πŸ“Œ 2

Top Dutch Brussels correspondent on how the Americans have put incredible pressure on EU government leaders to ensure that they do not touch Russian assets at Euroclear.
(English translation of key paragraph attached.)

20.12.2025 09:49 β€” πŸ‘ 18    πŸ” 8    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 6

The EU never gets praise even when it acts. There is so much constant EU negging that commentators struggle to praise when it delivers. The EU did what it needed to do. Take the win.

Last night was a big step for Ukraine and the European project.

First, the EU got the money for Ukraine 1/

19.12.2025 13:25 β€” πŸ‘ 586    πŸ” 218    πŸ’¬ 23    πŸ“Œ 38
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Donald Trump v the British Broadcasting Corporation: the battle begins The president filed a claim this week more about exerting leverage than legal niceties

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Donald Trump v the British Broadcasting Corporation: the battle begins

The president filed a claim this week more about exerting leverage than legal niceties

By me, at @prospectmagazine.co.uk

www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/law/th...

19.12.2025 12:24 β€” πŸ‘ 112    πŸ” 45    πŸ’¬ 7    πŸ“Œ 0
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SUPERB and angrily unvarnished response, by former BBC chairman, Lord Patten.

"I don't think that we should allow ourselves to be bullied into thinking that the BBC is only any good, if it reflects the prejudice of the last person who shouted at it." ~AA

10.11.2025 18:40 β€” πŸ‘ 4128    πŸ” 1320    πŸ’¬ 75    πŸ“Œ 82
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Rob whistle | Robert Hutton | The Critic Magazine The day had begun with Robert Jenrick accused of racism. This is of course quite unfair. Racists believe in something. Some of us remember Jenrick as a chubby-cheeked fan of David Cameron fighting the…

It's quite wrong to suggest Robert Jenrick is a racist. Racists believe in something. My SKETCH.

07.10.2025 16:51 β€” πŸ‘ 181    πŸ” 43    πŸ’¬ 13    πŸ“Œ 11
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Rob whistle | Robert Hutton | The Critic Magazine The day had begun with Robert Jenrick accused of racism. This is of course quite unfair. Racists believe in something. Some of us remember Jenrick as a chubby-cheeked fan of David Cameron fighting…

"The day had begun with Robert Jenrick accused of racism. This is of course quite unfair. Racists believe in something." Absolutely fantastic sketch by @roberthutton.co.uk. Every line is a banger:

07.10.2025 17:36 β€” πŸ‘ 193    πŸ” 61    πŸ’¬ 8    πŸ“Œ 11

The ITV exposΓ© on COVID now turns its sights on testing. I was stunned in 2020 when Sir Paul Nurse - Director of the Francis Crick Institute - told me he’d written to the government to offer the services of the Crick (the biggest biomeolecular lab in the country) - and never got a reply…

21.09.2025 22:04 β€” πŸ‘ 1019    πŸ” 353    πŸ’¬ 37    πŸ“Œ 5
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Kemi Badenoch's 'Free Speech' Conservatives Ban Byline Times From Party Conference The ban on covering the party's annual gathering came despite Badenoch's repeated commitment to "fight" for free speech and a free press

'The Conservative party, whose leader Kemi Badenoch has repeatedly pledged to fight for β€œfree speech”, has banned Byline Times from attending her party’s annual conference'
bylinetimes.com/2025/09/04/k...

04.09.2025 10:27 β€” πŸ‘ 507    πŸ” 253    πŸ’¬ 17    πŸ“Œ 25
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Well, there's a thing.

New research from Oxford University says that misleading media coverage is shaping UK public debate on immigration, human rights and the European Convention on Human Rights #ECHRπŸ‘‡

πŸ”— www.ox.ac.uk/news/2025-09... via @bonavero.bsky.social

04.09.2025 10:19 β€” πŸ‘ 644    πŸ” 303    πŸ’¬ 35    πŸ“Œ 25

The EU Entry/Exit system and EU travel authorisation system https://commonslibrary.parliament.uk/the-eu-entry-exit-system-and-eu-travel-authorisation-system/

07.08.2025 17:10 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 4    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1
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How Britain privatised itself into failure Britain outsourced its state – now private firms profit while public services crumble. In Failed State, Sam Freedman explains what went wrong

🚨How Britain privatised itself into failure.🚨

Britain outsourced its state – now private firms profit while public services crumble.

In 'Failed State', Sam Freedman explains what went wrong.

27.07.2025 05:54 β€” πŸ‘ 1366    πŸ” 575    πŸ’¬ 67    πŸ“Œ 35
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Want to import toxic chemicals into Britain with scant scrutiny? Labour says: go right ahead | George Monbiot Jacob Rees-Mogg’s Tory fantasy of a post-Brexit bonfire of regulations is coming true. Our bodies and ecosystems will pay the price, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

Sorry to burden you with another jaw-dropping scandal. But what the government intends to do to chemicals regulation in the UK is chilling. Its consultation was slipped out so quietly that most of us missed it. When I read it, I saw why.
This week's column:
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

23.07.2025 06:37 β€” πŸ‘ 1287    πŸ” 766    πŸ’¬ 69    πŸ“Œ 55

Hey, UK media!
Are you just going to let Farage dump another steaming pile of populist bullshit on us *without ever* properly scrutinising his ideas or him…his funding, his riots, his links to Putin and Trump, his Brexit shitshow, his grifting side gigs, his lies, his ignorance…?
Call. Him. TF. Out.

21.07.2025 17:02 β€” πŸ‘ 828    πŸ” 272    πŸ’¬ 32    πŸ“Œ 7

There is a lot of deflection taking place by politicians this morning, suggesting that the court kept the superinjunction in place and that had to be overcome.

That's not true or not complete- the government kept it in place by repeatedly applying for its renewal.

16.07.2025 08:36 β€” πŸ‘ 487    πŸ” 173    πŸ’¬ 28    πŸ“Œ 14
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Rachel Reeves says the UK is open for business with the US, EU and India deals:

But we only get Β£22 billion:
- Β£3.4 billion from UK-US tariff deal
- Β£14 billion from UK-EU reset
- Β£4.8 billion from UK-India

Rejoining the EU Single Market would give us Β£140 billion

16.07.2025 09:24 β€” πŸ‘ 443    πŸ” 209    πŸ’¬ 26    πŸ“Œ 10

First past the post is bad enough, β€˜safe seats’ like Tatton are an insult to democracy but this practice of jumping ship after you’ve been voted in, is pure pisstaking. If you defect, your seat should be up for grabs. Voters deserve better than this. Even in rock solid Tory Tatton.

16.07.2025 07:50 β€” πŸ‘ 452    πŸ” 115    πŸ’¬ 52    πŸ“Œ 4
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Oh dear πŸ€¦β€β™€οΈ

16.07.2025 10:21 β€” πŸ‘ 33    πŸ” 8    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

If the only way you'll ever hear someone call out Nigel Farage's destructive, divisive politics on the BBC is for me to do it, then so be it.

16.07.2025 10:35 β€” πŸ‘ 1594    πŸ” 464    πŸ’¬ 141    πŸ“Œ 31

Wes Streeting has defended only paying for half the population to get an NHS dentist

Current Β£3 billion budget for England is only enough to fund NHS dental care for half the population,just think about that

Shocking new data shows nearly 14 MILLION ADULTS unable to access NHS dentistry in England

15.07.2025 06:10 β€” πŸ‘ 233    πŸ” 115    πŸ’¬ 15    πŸ“Œ 6
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Normalising the far-right in the media As Reform gains ground, the media faces a stark choice: scrutinise its far-right populism – or risk normalising it

✍️ Normalising the far-right in the media

As Reform gains ground, the media faces a stark choice: scrutinise its far-right populism – or risk normalising it

By Julian Petley

15.07.2025 11:02 β€” πŸ‘ 49    πŸ” 17    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 2
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πŸ”PLEASE SIGN ✍🏽 & SHARE!πŸ”

🚨Incredibly, a candidate for MP is not required to be registered to vote or be resident in the UK.🚨

The petition asks the Government to fix this.

Check it out here: petition.parliament.uk/petitions/71...

PS No idea why there’s a pic of Richard Tice in Dubai here.

07.07.2025 22:08 β€” πŸ‘ 83    πŸ” 57    πŸ’¬ 8    πŸ“Œ 1
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πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§Macron Snubs Farage During UK Visit - and He’s Right to Do So French President Emmanuel Macron is meeting leaders with real political weight, not poll-chasing populists like Nigel Farage.

Nice one France πŸ‡«πŸ‡·

www.frenchdispatch.eu/p/macron-snu...

07.07.2025 20:52 β€” πŸ‘ 635    πŸ” 117    πŸ’¬ 33    πŸ“Œ 5
Everyone knows Labour has made mistakes. What is more worrying is why those mistakes were made. Every political journalist has been writing their one year assessment of the Labour government. The general view is that Labour is in cris...

New post: Everyone knows Labour has made mistakes. What is more worrying is why those mistakes were made.
mainlymacro.blogspot.com/2025/07/ever...
If Labour thinks that an Osborne sized state is sustainable, and that the way to defeat Farage is to repeat his rhetoric, it will continue to fail.

08.07.2025 08:12 β€” πŸ‘ 86    πŸ” 29    πŸ’¬ 5    πŸ“Œ 7

But will anyone listen?πŸ₯ΊThe BBC consistently provide a platform for ReformUK. Other MSM do likewise thus making them acceptable. If only they would examine their utterances & make them totally accountable in the way they do the Lib Dem’s & Greens!☹️

08.07.2025 10:18 β€” πŸ‘ 12    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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I don't care if they win the next election or not, there is no way i'm letting this cabal of lowest-common-denominator baiting racist troglodytes collect my personal data.

02.07.2025 10:08 β€” πŸ‘ 8    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

Ok, British media. You have here all the information you need to scrutinise Farage/Reform’s latest populist, headline-grabbing tosh.
If you’re still handing out free β€˜Robin Hood’ passes to them now we have the details, then you are actively deceiving voters and undermining democracy.
Just don’t.

23.06.2025 12:33 β€” πŸ‘ 661    πŸ” 284    πŸ’¬ 27    πŸ“Œ 4
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Britain’s got an EU deal β€” but the Brexit red tape keeps coming U.K. plows ahead with unpopular β€˜Not for EU’ labels in Northern Ireland, despite planned deal with Brussels.

🚨🚨 Whilst the EU-UK deal was a clear improvement and win for Starmer, we should not forget that it does not change the major premises of relationship which is enshrined in the TCA and that #brexit still is a long and dragging beast of misery and pain. 🧡
www.politico.eu/article/brit...

19.06.2025 07:36 β€” πŸ‘ 287    πŸ” 127    πŸ’¬ 19    πŸ“Œ 10
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Thames Water creditors demand protection from environmental laws Bondholders’ rescue plan for utility hinges on waivers from regulations and fines, documents show

Thames Water’s creditors want to be exempt from key environmental laws.

Exempt from dumping sewage, causing disease, destroying marine life, biodiversity.

Lawlessness to boost profits.

Must prosecute companies/directors.

End profit motive. Nationalise water, curb corporate power
archive.ph/WaCN1

19.06.2025 08:25 β€” πŸ‘ 294    πŸ” 152    πŸ’¬ 19    πŸ“Œ 4

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