@deborahstort.bsky.social
Building a safe space away from Twitter. Engaging more now rather than just liking and reposting. Pro EU, anti-Tory. Hate the Mail with a passion. Daily Express is just idiotic. I mess about with The Sims.
President of Colombia, Gustavo Petro,
"There is no superior race, gentlemen"
"There is no people chosen by God"
"Neither in the United States nor Israel"
"Ignorant far-right fundamentalists think this way"
"The people chosen by God is all of humanity"
FT: ‘“What I think is actually important for everybody to understand is that the US has been very clear that they want to divide Europe. They don’t like the European Union,” EU foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas told the FT, adding that Washington’s approach echoed tactics used by “our adversaries”.’
Does he know what it means or just thinks it sounds cool?
Not even the Nazis expressly announced they were committing war crimes. Indeed, at Nuremberg war crimes were denied.
But here, openly, the US Secretary for Defense is explicitly admitting to committing war crimes.
Isn't she the 'we're all going to die' woman? Filmed in a cemetery, if I remember correctly. No surprise then.
"Palantir CEO Alex Karp thinks his AI technology will lessen the power of 'highly educated, often female voters, who vote mostly Democrat' while increasing the power of working-class men."
Remind me again why Labour is shoving vast public contracts down its throat?
And the co-host of Peter Mandelson’s drinks reception before last year’s White House Correspondents Dinner was…
It's being presented by e.g. Goodwin as part of a 'war against the past', but these people evidently don't know much about the past: as a boy I used to collect old farthings (yes, I was a peculiar child) which had had a wren on them from 1937, replacing, gulp, Britannia!
Meanwhile in AI land the blue ticks of twitter just invented the Darien Scheme... worked so well last time.
“If the government wants to use the NHS as an instrument of growth, we should have a national conversation about that, not slip it through as quietly as possible,” writes @laylamoran.bsky.social.
Read here: https://bestforbritain.substack.com/p/the-trump-drug-deal-threatens-the
Talking about the economic impact of Brexit is one thing. Doing something about is something else entirely. Me for @ukandeu.bsky.social ukandeu.ac.uk/here-we-go-a...
In cases you were wondering . . . this is a photo that annoyed Pete Hegseth so much because he thought it was "unflattering" so he got the photographer barred. I encourage all of you to use it as often as possible.
Denmark strikes back.
And so, we inch, towards being less of a sham of a democracy. Worth remembering we still keep company with Iran as the only countries with clerics in their legislature...
Badenoch said if she was prime minister HMS Dragon would have left a week ago. Presumably with its doors hanging off and with no weapons onboard.
Bill removing hereditary peers from the House of Lords finally passes www.gov.uk/government/n...
I am so excited to announce my book "Who Cares About Wales" will be out this Friday! What is even more exciting is the reviews. When you pour a year of work into 95,000 words you start to question if what you have written is any good. 1/3
EXCLUSIVE: 7 months ago, Ukraine tried to sell the U.S. their battle-proven technology for downing Iranian-made drones.
The Trump administration dismissed the Ukrainians, only to reverse course last week after more-than-expected Iranian drone strikes.
It's Mothering Sunday in a week's time! If your mother's no longer around it can be hard. I will as usual be reading out the names of our Remembered Mums/Mams/Moms from halfway up this beauty - the Ashton Memorial in Lancaster. If you'd like me to read out your Mum's name, reply with #Mums26 ❤️ 👑
Mum died at the end of January. Her name is Doris Baker. Thank you Ian. #Mums26
The finest take down of the institution of monarchy and "class" and the grasping, greedy, venal, entitled, and very stupid people it enables that you will read today or any day.
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
That UK government as a whole has not yet recovered from 2016 is simultaneously trite and still the most important explainer of UK politics - a toxic brew of dishonesty, insularity, secrecy, naivety, and boosterism that this government failed to tackle when it could in 2024.
Whenever I see Pete Call of Duty incel Hegseth speak I think of this passage in Alice’s Restaurant.
Baby-brain nonsense to pretend this a matter of personal courage from the captains and crew, and not the straight-forward economics of prohibitively astronomical insurance costs.
Also, easy to be vicariously brave about sailing a giant floating bomb under Shaheds when you're safe in a Fox studio.
They've all just discovered the word 'decimated' but not bothered to look up what it means.
Agree with you there. Just not on the 'handsome'. 😀
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...
Handsome?????
The good part of war is blowing up elementary schools full of young girls and leaving sailors to drown after torpedoing their unarmed ship. To this administration, that stuff is porn.
I expect Trump will take the credit.