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David Chance @davidchance.bsky.social · 2d

Don’t shop Amazon.

Bookshop.org @bookshop.org · 2d

Amazon is helping fund a $300 million build of a ballroom for the White House.

Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity.

They are not the same.

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Private Eye Magazine @privateeyenews.bsky.social · 3d

Minority representation on TV causes outrage

From the new Private Eye, in shops now.

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Marc Daney de Marcillac 🇪🇺🇫🇷🇬🇧 FBPE @callicramed.bsky.social · 5d

Priti Patel was the master of performative politics under performative maestro Boris Johnson. Make continuous policy announcements, ensure Telegraph, Mail and Express (and therefore BBC) run with the stories, but do nothing tangible except think about the next meaningless policy announcement.

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Marc Daney de Marcillac 🇪🇺🇫🇷🇬🇧 FBPE @callicramed.bsky.social · 6d

Will you actually do your job as a journalist and probe the policy vacuum at the heart of Reform, and their total inability to implement , whether Danny Kruger participates or not?

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Has Turkey Joined @hasturkeyjoined.bsky.social · 7d

No.

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Marc Daney de Marcillac 🇪🇺🇫🇷🇬🇧 FBPE @callicramed.bsky.social · 9d

Property ownership is a different legal proposition to residence. There is no law that links them and gives you that right. Just get a visa!

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Marc Daney de Marcillac 🇪🇺🇫🇷🇬🇧 FBPE @callicramed.bsky.social · 9d

It also means « stuffing « as in food. I think the Mail should get stuffed

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Marc Daney de Marcillac 🇪🇺🇫🇷🇬🇧 FBPE @callicramed.bsky.social · 9d

Owning a property in the EU does not give you a legal right to reside there or indeed stay over the limits applied to any third country. I have British friends with a residence in France, and they have a visa that allows them to stay beyond the 90/180 limits. Do the same!

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Marc Daney de Marcillac 🇪🇺🇫🇷🇬🇧 FBPE @callicramed.bsky.social · 9d

The same is true of Nigel Farage, and his party is leading the polls…

a man in a suit and tie is making a funny face while standing in front of a blue wall .

ALT: a man in a suit and tie is making a funny face while standing in front of a blue wall .

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Marc Daney de Marcillac 🇪🇺🇫🇷🇬🇧 FBPE @callicramed.bsky.social · 9d

It’s incredible to think that less than a decade ago, the Conservatives - like them or hate them - were a mainstream political party. Cameron’s « swivel eyed loons » are now firmly in charge. Brexit has destroyed them.

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Marc Daney de Marcillac 🇪🇺🇫🇷🇬🇧 FBPE @callicramed.bsky.social · 10d

Yes but SIMPLE solutions to NON-EXISTANT problems are easy to sell.

a man in a suit and tie is making a funny face while standing in front of a blue wall .

ALT: a man in a suit and tie is making a funny face while standing in front of a blue wall .

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Marc Daney de Marcillac 🇪🇺🇫🇷🇬🇧 FBPE @callicramed.bsky.social · 11d

Looking at the behaviour of the last few (Labour and Conservative) Home Secretaries, I’m convinced that there is some kind of ultra nationalist lobotomy operation as they take office, which is then reversed when they leave.

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Marc Daney de Marcillac 🇪🇺🇫🇷🇬🇧 FBPE @callicramed.bsky.social · 11d

Why would anyone want this? Populist politicians would, because the simple message « let’s kick out low wage immigrants » is one that their supporters understand, and none of said supporters has the desire (or the intellectual staying power?) to wade through a 10 part nuanced social media post.

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Marc Daney de Marcillac 🇪🇺🇫🇷🇬🇧 FBPE @callicramed.bsky.social · 11d

Which begs the question: if the UK starts kicking out foreign pensioners, what about, say, the half a million or so Brits living in Spain, a large proportion of whom are retirees, and what would the impact be on the NHS of all these old people coming back to live in the UK?

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Marika Mikiashvili 🇬🇪🇺🇦🇪🇺 @marikamikiashvili.bsky.social · 12d

Much gratitude to Marianna Prysiazhniuk and @euromaidanpress.bsky.social for this in-depth article describing it all about Georgia, also featuring my interview.

Sharing with a little delay. Apologies.
euromaidanpress.com/2025/10/14/u...

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Rusudan Djakeli @rusudandjakeli.bsky.social · 12d

Despite mass arrests and rainy, windy weather, Rustaveli Avenue remains blocked for the 327th consecutive day. 🇬🇪

Around two dozen protesters are currently in jail for blocking the avenue. Repeated “offenses” can lead to up to two years in prison.

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Rusudan Djakeli @rusudandjakeli.bsky.social · 12d

As a sign of solidarity with the German Ambassador and Finland’s Foreign Minister, German and Finnish flags are front and center on Rustaveli Avenue today. 🇩🇪🇫🇮🇬🇪

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Marc Daney de Marcillac 🇪🇺🇫🇷🇬🇧 FBPE @callicramed.bsky.social · 12d

That's the problem with populists. They seek to please by being "popular" but never seem to have the skills required to govern. The exemplar was Boris Johnson.

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Marc Daney de Marcillac 🇪🇺🇫🇷🇬🇧 FBPE @callicramed.bsky.social · 13d

a man wearing a hat and trench coat says " does your dog bite ? "

ALT: a man wearing a hat and trench coat says " does your dog bite ? "

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Marc Daney de Marcillac 🇪🇺🇫🇷🇬🇧 FBPE @callicramed.bsky.social · 13d

Just wait until the « settled status » of a million or so aged UK immigrants in the EU were to be revoked in response, with the impact on the NHS and care sector. Not even Farage would go through with such idiocy.

Marc Daney de Marcillac 🇪🇺🇫🇷🇬🇧 FBPE @callicramed.bsky.social · 13d

In my country (France) gambling is strictly controlled. I assume that in the UK those controls were eroded and eventually emasculated by gambling industry corruption - oh - sorry - lobbying - by the gambling industry. Apologies if my cynicism is misplaced.

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Marika Mikiashvili 🇬🇪🇺🇦🇪🇺 @marikamikiashvili.bsky.social · 14d

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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 15d

Well this is a proper head scratcher.
But yeah, fiddling around with tax and getting rid of consumer protections should sort it.
Wonder what those ‘former chancellors and prime ministers’ had to say about this shitshow. Any mention of Brexit at all??

(Times and Private Eye)

UK standards of living set to fall behind
Max Kendix Political Correspondent
Living standards in Britain will fall behind those of Lithuania in less than five years and Turkey's in less than 20 years, according to forecasts.
The UK will fall from the 30th richest country this year to the 46th richest by 2050, according to research by the Centre for Economics and Business Research (Cebr). The Czech Republic will eclipse British GDP per capita in 2031, and Poland will do the same in 2034.
The research was commissioned by the authors of a new book, Prosperity Through Growth, who interviewed former chancellors and former prime ministers to come up with policies to prevent the relative decline.
Douglas McWilliams, the founder of Cebr, said: "With GDP per capita in the UK growing extremely sluggishly, we are likely to be overtaken by more dynamic economies unless we change policy." The book suggests merging national insurance and income taxes into one flat tax, cutting business regulation and refocusing public spending on infrastructure and defence.

BREXIT
NUMBER
CRUNCHING

0.08% Expected growth by
2038 from 'Brexit win' of Trans-Pacific CPTPP trade deal
0.08% Expected growth by
2035 from Australia trade deal
0.07% Expected growth by 2035 from CEPA trade deal with Japan 0.03% Expected growth by
2035 from New Zealand trade deal

-4% Long-term loss of growth caused by the Brexit that enabled these 'wins'

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Marc Daney de Marcillac 🇪🇺🇫🇷🇬🇧 FBPE @callicramed.bsky.social · 16d

After the stewardships of May, Johnson and Truss, the Conservatives were in intensive care. Badenoch has sent them straight to the hospice, en route to the mortuary.

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Marc Daney de Marcillac 🇪🇺🇫🇷🇬🇧 FBPE @callicramed.bsky.social · 16d

It seems that brexiteers are furious about getting everything they were promised during the referendum campaign.

Hilarious but tragic. Farage is now making promises that will turn out the same if enough people are silly enough to vote for his company.

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