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Tom Calver @tomcalver.bsky.social · 1d

🇵🇱 My @thetimes column: Poland’s economic miracle

12 out of 17 Polish regions are now richer than West Wales. It has faster internet, cheaper electricity and more high speed rail than Britain

When it comes to regional development it’s the UK, not Poland, that needs to catch up

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Chris Grey @chrisgrey.bsky.social · 11h

This deserves more attention than it has received.

Gove: "we were too anxious as a government to secure those deals in order to show that Brexit was working".

Exactly as so many of us warned at the time, and as the government denied at the time.
www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/country-and-...

Michael Gove admits that post-Brexit trade deals were bad for farmers

Michael Gove has admitted for the first time that the Australia and New Zealand trade deals negotiated by the former Tory government did not protect Britain’s farmers.

www.yorkshirepost.co.uk

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Captain Haddock @realcaptainhaddock.bsky.social · 7h

Curiouser and curiouser

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KS_1968 @karenroberts.bsky.social · 8h

Yeah sure

Unofficial BBCNews (UK) Bot @bbcnews-uk-rss.bsky.social · 8h

Tommy Robinson refused to give police phone Pin to protect 'journalistic material'

The far-right activist was charged under the Terrorism Act over an incident at the Channel Tunnel in July 2024.

www.bbc.com

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Captain Haddock @realcaptainhaddock.bsky.social · 11h

Ugh - no, pls no

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Captain Haddock @realcaptainhaddock.bsky.social · 11h

Am now at the point where I block social media using AI generated images pretty much on sight whenever I spot it

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Captain Haddock @realcaptainhaddock.bsky.social · 12h

A solution still looking for a problem to
Solve

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Captain Haddock @realcaptainhaddock.bsky.social · 1d

Is that the Powers Booth one?

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Captain Haddock @realcaptainhaddock.bsky.social · 1d

Are you now working for Britain Remade?

Captain Haddock @realcaptainhaddock.bsky.social · 1d

Do tell

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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.bsky.social · 1d

The Trump administration has promoted the anti-vax, anti-science movement which has now produced an epidemic www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...

Hundreds of U.S. students quarantined amid measles outbreaks

At least 270 unvaccinated kids are staying home from school as measles continues to spread nationwide. "Expect more," one expert said.

www.nbcnews.com

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Captain Haddock @realcaptainhaddock.bsky.social · 1d

If you think UK defence procurement is bad then have a load of this from SA

R7.7 billion and 18 years later: Badger project has delivered zero vehicles

defenceweb.co.za/land/r7-7-bi...

R7.7 billion and 18 years later: Badger project has delivered zero vehicles - defenceWeb

The South African National Defence Force (SANDF) has still not received any Badger Infantry Fighting Vehicles (IFVs), despite first signing a contract with

defenceweb.co.za

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Captain Haddock @realcaptainhaddock.bsky.social · 1d

Quite

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James O'Malley @jamesomalley.co.uk · 1d

It's almost exactly four years since Tim Shipman's notorious "Boris Johnson squats like a giant toad" tweet.

Seems like important context given how we often talk as though the next election – four years away – is a done deal.

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Peter Ungphakorn @coppetainpu.bsky.social · 1d

'Well – no. Bluesky may or may not be, as one ... friend who felt unwelcome put it, “self-righteous island”. But the idea that’s why we went is nonsense.'

My reason was simpler. I can't stand X's owner + Bluesky had momentum. I'm under no illusion about toxicity on any platform. It's human nature.

Jonn Elledge @jonnelledge.bsky.social · 2d

The platform formerly known as Twitter may be horrible, but it is still shaping policy. So were we all wrong to leave?

Was the left wrong to leave X for BlueSky?

The platform formerly known as Twitter may be horrible, but it's still shaping policy

www.newstatesman.com

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Captain Haddock @realcaptainhaddock.bsky.social · 1d

You don’t hear so much about states’ rights these days

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Tatarigami @tatarigami.bsky.social · 1d

Our exclusive report on Russia’s tank production is out. Using internal files and state contracts, we show production plans for the next decade and current output. A short thread will follow soon, but for now, you can read the report

frontelligence.substack.com/p/exclusive-inside-russias-20262036

Exclusive: Inside Russia’s 2026–2036 Tank Fleet Modernization and Buildup Plans

In the spring and summer of 2025, as part of our own operation, our team obtained exclusive documents that provide new insight into Russia’s tank-production plans and confirm the existence of a little...

frontelligence.substack.com

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Captain Haddock @realcaptainhaddock.bsky.social · 1d

Avoiding choices is his mode of operation

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Captain Haddock @realcaptainhaddock.bsky.social · 1d

You can’t beat the algorithm

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Hamilton Nolan @hamiltonnolan.bsky.social · 1d

Has lived in the US since he was NINE MONTHS OLD.

Lynn Becker @cmgiulini.bsky.social · 1d

After spending 43 years in prison for a crime he didn't commit, evidence hidden by the prosecution reversed his conviction. Rather than finally enjoying freedom, ICE abducted him for deportation

Depraved.

www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...

He was wrongfully imprisoned for 43 years. Moments after being released, ICE took him

Subramanyam “Subu” Vedam now faces deportation.

www.miamiherald.com

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Captain Haddock @realcaptainhaddock.bsky.social · 1d

“institutional norms, no matter how deeply rooted, cannot survive determined bad faith.”

True also for the UK

open.substack.com/pub/cmarmita...

What Can Be Done When the Supreme Court Is Fully Corrupted?

The answer cuts to the heart of democratic fragility.

open.substack.com

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Captain Haddock @realcaptainhaddock.bsky.social · 1d

Dude her catalogue is huge

Captain Haddock @realcaptainhaddock.bsky.social · 2d

Nena in London

Who’d have thunk it

She’s f’ing good for 65 - though high as a 🪁

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TommasinaResist⚜️🇨🇦🦋🐈‍⬛🇺🇦 @tommasinaresist.bsky.social · 2d

Pope Leo says Catholic politicians must be judged on the full range of their policy positions.

"Someone who says I'm against abortion but is in favor of the death penalty...or agrees with the inhuman treatment of immigrants in the US,
is not really pro-life."
#USDemocracy #Voices4Victory

Pope Leo XIV says 'inhuman treatment of immigrants' in the U.S. isn't 'pro-life'

Pope Leo XIV weighed in on U.S. politics, saying that Catholic politicians must be judged on the full range of their policy positions and suggesting that the country's immigration policy is "inhuman."

www.npr.org

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Captain Haddock @realcaptainhaddock.bsky.social · 2d

All very Thunderbirds

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