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El venezolano se despide esta temporada de la formación angelina, tras 17 años como su director musical

Filarmónica de Los Ángeles celebró el legado de Gustavo Dudamel

El venezolano se despide esta temporada de la formación angelina, tras 17 años como su director musical

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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 1d

No doubt this de-banking will also be splashed across the front pages of every single newspaper in the country and lead BBC bulletins for weeks on end too? www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Pro-Palestine activist couple have UK bank account closed without explanation

John Nicholson and Norma Turner’s joint retirement savings account was shut by Yorkshire Building Society

www.theguardian.com

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Colin Yeo @colinyeo.bsky.social · 1d

From yesterday: Date set for commencement of new student, graduate and work immigration rules | Colin Yeo

Date set for commencement of new student, graduate and work immigration rules - Free Movement

New immigration rules were published today affecting a wide range of immigration routes. Most of the changes had already been announced in the earlier

freemovement.org.uk

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David Beech @davidbeech.bsky.social · 1d

I'm 51 years of age, and for all my adult life, the one constant in politics is 'we need to talk about immigration'. Could we try just try shutting the fuck up about it, actually?

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Jonathan Portes @jdportes.bsky.social · 1d

A much needed corrective by @chrisgiles.ft.com to the "welfare is out of control" narrative, drawing on research by my colleague @benbgeiger.bsky.social

www.ft.com/content/ee67...

No need for a moral panic about the welfare system

It’s far from perfect, but the UK’s spending is broadly controlled and employment is high

www.ft.com

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dag @davidallengreen.bsky.social · 1d

Good analysis here by @rmcunliffe.bsky.social of today’s PMQ on the dropped prosecution. It also kindly quotes my blog.

Rachel Cunliffe @rmcunliffe.bsky.social · 1d

"Starmer seemed personally affronted as both a lawyer and a politician by the idea the government might get involved with a witness statement. But if the whole point is to provide evidence of the government’s position, how can this be the case?"

PMQs thoughts...
www.newstatesman.com/politics/uk-...

PMQs review: Starmer and Badenoch clash over a Chinese spy scandal that makes no sense

The Prime Minister claims the Tories are to blame for the collapse of the trial. Does that add up?

www.newstatesman.com

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dag @davidallengreen.bsky.social · 1d

In essence:

- the CPS somehow misunderstood a Court of Appeal judgment and so needlessly asked HMG for further evidence

- HMG somehow misunderstood what should go in a witness statement and so wrongly did not provide it

Prosecution then dropped

So either two concurrent cockups

Or something else

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Rep. Jerry Nadler @nadler.house.gov · 1d

As I previously said, the Trump Administration’s actions in the Caribbean Sea are illegal and unconstitutional.

Today’s military assault off of the coast of Venezuela is just the next in a series of criminal acts committed by President Trump and Secretary Hegseth.

Six killed after US strikes another boat off coast of Venezuela | CNN Politics

The US military conducted yet another strike on a boat alleged to be trafficking drugs off the coast of Venezuela, killing six people on board, President Donald Trump announced Tuesday.

www.cnn.com

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Matt Deatherage @mdeatherage.bsky.social · 1d

It should be noted that American companies did this in Venezuela for about eight decades, leading to the revolution that brought Chavez and Maduro to power.

Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 1d

Nobel Peace Prize recipient María Corina Machado appeared on Donald Trump Jr.’s podcast.

She touted the oil reserves in Venezuela (the largest in the world) and vowed to privatize the oil industry to enable American corporations to exploit and profit from the country’s resources if she gains power.

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Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 1d

Nobel Peace Prize recipient María Corina Machado appeared on Donald Trump Jr.’s podcast.

She touted the oil reserves in Venezuela (the largest in the world) and vowed to privatize the oil industry to enable American corporations to exploit and profit from the country’s resources if she gains power.

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Davenant 📸 @marcdavenant.bsky.social · 1d

The BBC reversed the footage to pretend that the miners attacked the police rather than the other way around and that remains the agreed media narrative. It was government propaganda and has undermined fatally any idea that the BBC news is politically neutral and trustworthy.

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Rory Cellan-Jones @rorycj.bsky.social · 2d

A decent walk with #sophiefromromania - met one of her admirers who we hadn’t seen for a while and my back held up reasonably well after a procedure yesterday

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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 2d

Carole Cadwalladr was right and we’d be in a better world if more people had listened.

Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 18d

This tweet has been doing the rounds on Twitter now that Nathan Gill has pleaded guilty.

If only someone had tried to investigate UKIP & Russian interference 🧐

There’s another timeline where the Guardian supported me, doubled down on the investigation & I look 5 years younger ..

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John Rain🥇 @johnrain.co.uk · 1d

BREAKING: Shabana Mahmood announces that immigrants must have a unquenchable thirst for Tripods S3.

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Museum of Science @museumofscience.bsky.social · 2d

Ada Lovelace used mathematics to design the world’s first algorithm intended for a machine. This was done decades before computers were even built!

Who is a woman in STEM that inspires you? 👩‍🔬🧪

#AdaLovelace #WomeninSTEM #Science

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iWalk Cornwall 〓〓 @iwalkcornwall.co.uk · 1d

Remains of Tivoli Park on the Lerryn to St Veep #walk 👣 (https://iwkc.co.uk/w/217)

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Samira Ahmed @samiraahmeduk.bsky.social · 1d

Lovely long view!

Doug Saunders @dougsaunders.bsky.social · 2d

It's Ada Lovelace Day, so worth noting that the era during which coders were mainly women (starting with her machine-language explication of the Bernoulli sequence in 1843) lasted about 130 years whereas the male-dominated period has lasted less than half that long

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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 2d

Holding govts to ransom.

Goldman Sachs warns Rachel Reeves against tax rises on banks.

Banks happy to be bailed out, take QE, mis-sell products, not to be prosecuted for frauds, hike charges, pay lousy rates on savings.

Need windfall taxes. Raise top rate of income tax.

Goldman chief delivers warning to Reeves over bank tax hikes

David Solomon urged the chancellor during a private meeting last week not to hit the industry with savage tax rises in her crucial budget statement next month, Sky News learns.

news.sky.com

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Paul Bernal @paulbernal.bsky.social · 2d

BREAKING: Shabana Mahmood announces that immigrants will have to recite Beowulf in its entirety in Old English, without notes, before being allowed entry to the U.K.

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 2d

As if they keep writing all these headlines - and our membership numbers and polling just keeps shooting up. 🚀

Now at 110,000. Over 55% increase in just one month!

Lower bills. Fund NHS. Tax the super rich.

Join.greenparty.org.uk

Polanski is talking nonsense about wealth taxes.

Greens who want to save the world by destroying britain

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Iris Cook @montrose.bsky.social · 2d

www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Swinney says Scottish government will sponsor visas for foreign care workers

First minister tells SNP conference older people should not ‘pay the price for Westminster’s prejudice’ over immigration

www.theguardian.com

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Sara Mitchell @sbmitche.bsky.social · 2d

I wrote about embracing failures almost a decade ago and I described my shadow CV that tracks them. I agree that we must train young scholars to handle rejections, an important part of the academic career. Good tips from @catherinedevries.bsky.social

relationsinternational.com/embracing-ou...

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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 2d

An example of the government not having a project: only yesterday the government was trumpeting new measures to make it easier to build things. We'll work out who actually builds stuff later on.

András Forgács W @andraswf.bsky.social · 2d

Well this will certainly do it www.gov.uk/government/n...

Migrants will be required to pass A Level standard of English

Migrants will be required to pass tough new English language requirements under a law introduced in Parliament today.

www.gov.uk

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James Bowes @jamesbowes01.bsky.social · 2d

They have changed the rules so that the full suitability rules now apply to people applying for right to family or private life under Article 8 of the ECHR. It’s been snuck in really.

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Cheryl Tegan @cheryltegan.bsky.social · 2d

Such a pretty sunset at the beach. Love the soft pinks and the beautiful reflection 🩷

#beach #sunset #sky #clouds #travel #vacation #Florida #reflection #photography #ocean

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