Chris Rivers
@chrisrivers50.bsky.social
Ex-Gtr Manchester, resident in Almeria 🇪🇸.
Centre left, lifelong Labour, NetZeroDad.
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Centre left, lifelong Labour, NetZeroDad.
FBPE 🇪🇺. Pro🇺🇦. ¡NO DMs!
~Child protection/Social work/Family courts/Politics of UK/EU/US/Sociology/Urban history/Economics/Tennis/TV-Film~
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We have a Goldie but this seemed daft: “My team and I analysed the genetic code & behaviour of 1,300 golden retrievers, looking for genes associated with their behavioural traits. Genes in humans, inherited from the same evolutionary ancestor, were identified”
theconversation.com/golden-retri...
theconversation.com/golden-retri...
Golden retriever and human behaviour may be linked by the same genes – new research
You may have more in common with your pet than you may think.
theconversation.com
November 29, 2025 at 9:59 AM
We have a Goldie but this seemed daft: “My team and I analysed the genetic code & behaviour of 1,300 golden retrievers, looking for genes associated with their behavioural traits. Genes in humans, inherited from the same evolutionary ancestor, were identified”
theconversation.com/golden-retri...
theconversation.com/golden-retri...
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Israel kill at least 13 people during a raid on a Syrian village
➡️ https://l.euronews.com/UXLj
➡️ https://l.euronews.com/UXLj
November 29, 2025 at 9:55 AM
Israel kill at least 13 people during a raid on a Syrian village
➡️ https://l.euronews.com/UXLj
➡️ https://l.euronews.com/UXLj
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Regarding the Gill (and potential others) Russian bribery case..
A person in a very senior role at the European Parliament has told me the UK authorities have not contacted the Parliament to ask for information, records etc.
As both a former Crown Prosecutor and former MEP, I'm surprised by that.
A person in a very senior role at the European Parliament has told me the UK authorities have not contacted the Parliament to ask for information, records etc.
As both a former Crown Prosecutor and former MEP, I'm surprised by that.
November 28, 2025 at 2:03 PM
Regarding the Gill (and potential others) Russian bribery case..
A person in a very senior role at the European Parliament has told me the UK authorities have not contacted the Parliament to ask for information, records etc.
As both a former Crown Prosecutor and former MEP, I'm surprised by that.
A person in a very senior role at the European Parliament has told me the UK authorities have not contacted the Parliament to ask for information, records etc.
As both a former Crown Prosecutor and former MEP, I'm surprised by that.
“Historic reports of racist behaviour – & Farage’s reaction – give us an insight into the leader of the UK’s main far-right party. Anyone who has paid attention to Farage’s political career will not be surprised by the nature of the childhood beliefs he espoused”
theconversation.com/nigel-farage...
theconversation.com/nigel-farage...
Nigel Farage’s alleged teenage comments are a distraction from the damage of his politics
Reports of such appalling behaviour – and Farage’s reaction – give us an insight into the leader of the UK’s rising far-right party.
theconversation.com
November 29, 2025 at 9:53 AM
“Historic reports of racist behaviour – & Farage’s reaction – give us an insight into the leader of the UK’s main far-right party. Anyone who has paid attention to Farage’s political career will not be surprised by the nature of the childhood beliefs he espoused”
theconversation.com/nigel-farage...
theconversation.com/nigel-farage...
“The Government is working with providers to introduce alternatives — such as public transport — to save taxpayer money”
Surely obvious. Were the Tories from 2018 onwards not already doing this? They consider themselves the Commonsense party & taxpayer’s friend
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...
Surely obvious. Were the Tories from 2018 onwards not already doing this? They consider themselves the Commonsense party & taxpayer’s friend
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...
Asylum seekers banned from taking taxis in new government crackdown
Ms Mahmood said the Government is working with providers to introduce alternatives
www.independent.co.uk
November 29, 2025 at 9:47 AM
“The Government is working with providers to introduce alternatives — such as public transport — to save taxpayer money”
Surely obvious. Were the Tories from 2018 onwards not already doing this? They consider themselves the Commonsense party & taxpayer’s friend
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...
Surely obvious. Were the Tories from 2018 onwards not already doing this? They consider themselves the Commonsense party & taxpayer’s friend
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...
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Huge respect to the papers for finding both an 88 year old worried about the tax bill on her 6 bedroom Kensington house and a 20 year old fretting about only being able to save £12k a year tax free.
Top work all around. These are not easy case studies to find.
Top work all around. These are not easy case studies to find.
November 29, 2025 at 9:24 AM
Huge respect to the papers for finding both an 88 year old worried about the tax bill on her 6 bedroom Kensington house and a 20 year old fretting about only being able to save £12k a year tax free.
Top work all around. These are not easy case studies to find.
Top work all around. These are not easy case studies to find.
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In total, Moscow launched around 36 missiles and almost 600 drones at Ukraine on Friday night into Saturday, Zelensky said. Large parts of the capital, Kyiv, are without power. https://cnn.it/3XoYnPy
November 29, 2025 at 9:30 AM
In total, Moscow launched around 36 missiles and almost 600 drones at Ukraine on Friday night into Saturday, Zelensky said. Large parts of the capital, Kyiv, are without power. https://cnn.it/3XoYnPy
Paul Mason supports abolition of the OBR but absorption of some of its functions into the Treasury.
htsf.substack.com/p/obr-reform...?
htsf.substack.com/p/obr-reform...?
November 29, 2025 at 9:35 AM
Paul Mason supports abolition of the OBR but absorption of some of its functions into the Treasury.
htsf.substack.com/p/obr-reform...?
htsf.substack.com/p/obr-reform...?
Ukraine frontline is not facing imminent collapse despite Kremlin assertions. Putin claimed during a press conference on 27 Nov that Russia is making significant gains such that Ukraine should concede to his demands before the situation worsens
understandingwar.org/research/rus...
understandingwar.org/research/rus...
Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, November 28, 2025
The frontline in Ukraine is not facing imminent collapse despite recent Russian gains and Kremlin assertions.
understandingwar.org
November 29, 2025 at 9:28 AM
Ukraine frontline is not facing imminent collapse despite Kremlin assertions. Putin claimed during a press conference on 27 Nov that Russia is making significant gains such that Ukraine should concede to his demands before the situation worsens
understandingwar.org/research/rus...
understandingwar.org/research/rus...
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The UK, where the day after a decision to take half a million children out of poverty, the media & political world has been full of sneering at those same children & their families, labelling them as ‘Benefits Street’, while the same people are moaning about a tax on £2m mansions. Shameful stuff.
November 27, 2025 at 8:22 PM
The UK, where the day after a decision to take half a million children out of poverty, the media & political world has been full of sneering at those same children & their families, labelling them as ‘Benefits Street’, while the same people are moaning about a tax on £2m mansions. Shameful stuff.
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Photographer Kathrin Swoboda captured amazing images of a red wing blackbird's song, visible via the bird's breath in cold air and early light #WomensArt
November 29, 2025 at 5:34 AM
Photographer Kathrin Swoboda captured amazing images of a red wing blackbird's song, visible via the bird's breath in cold air and early light #WomensArt
“Scroungers” are back, courtesy of the Tory party and the right-wing press
By Anoosh Chakelian
www.newstatesman.com/politics/soc...
By Anoosh Chakelian
www.newstatesman.com/politics/soc...
November 29, 2025 at 4:38 AM
“Scroungers” are back, courtesy of the Tory party and the right-wing press
By Anoosh Chakelian
www.newstatesman.com/politics/soc...
By Anoosh Chakelian
www.newstatesman.com/politics/soc...
Ethan Croft on Blue Labour, that Tory mindset stuck in the wrong party
www.newstatesman.com/politics/lab...
www.newstatesman.com/politics/lab...
November 29, 2025 at 4:26 AM
Ethan Croft on Blue Labour, that Tory mindset stuck in the wrong party
www.newstatesman.com/politics/lab...
www.newstatesman.com/politics/lab...
November 29, 2025 at 4:16 AM
November 29, 2025 at 4:09 AM
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New: @theins.press saw the Witkoff-Dmitriev plan six months ago in draft form—except it was all Dmitriev. Bloomberg reports now Dmitriev told Ushakov he’d pass along a Russian plan and the Americans “can present it as their own”: theins.press/en/politics/...
Made in Moscow: The “U.S. peace plan” for Ukraine was substantially formulated months ago by Kremlin operative Kirill Dmitriev
Since it was first published on Nov. 20, the much-discussed 28-point plan for ending the war in Ukraine has borne all the signs of a Kremlin information operation. In fact, many of its most controvers...
theins.press
November 26, 2025 at 1:19 PM
New: @theins.press saw the Witkoff-Dmitriev plan six months ago in draft form—except it was all Dmitriev. Bloomberg reports now Dmitriev told Ushakov he’d pass along a Russian plan and the Americans “can present it as their own”: theins.press/en/politics/...
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Astonishingly, sea ice still hasn't started to reform over the Barents Sea area yet of the #Arctic. This includes record low conditions around Svalbard as well. It's been a very bad few months across the region.
Check out more graphics here: zacklabe.com/arctic-sea-i...
Check out more graphics here: zacklabe.com/arctic-sea-i...
November 29, 2025 at 1:13 AM
Astonishingly, sea ice still hasn't started to reform over the Barents Sea area yet of the #Arctic. This includes record low conditions around Svalbard as well. It's been a very bad few months across the region.
Check out more graphics here: zacklabe.com/arctic-sea-i...
Check out more graphics here: zacklabe.com/arctic-sea-i...
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No barrel left unscraped.
November 28, 2025 at 7:36 AM
No barrel left unscraped.
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Despite his manifest inadequacies, Starmer is absolutely blessed in having Badenoch as Leader of the Opposition....
There was no state. Who does she think crucified him, an anarchist collective?
November 28, 2025 at 9:41 PM
Despite his manifest inadequacies, Starmer is absolutely blessed in having Badenoch as Leader of the Opposition....
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There's something mesmerising about Badenoch's combination of supreme intellectual confidence and "Jesus? Didn't he play for Real Madrid?" command of detail.
It's like somebody spliced the certainty of Margaret Thatcher with the work ethic of Boris Johnson.
It's like somebody spliced the certainty of Margaret Thatcher with the work ethic of Boris Johnson.
November 28, 2025 at 8:53 PM
There's something mesmerising about Badenoch's combination of supreme intellectual confidence and "Jesus? Didn't he play for Real Madrid?" command of detail.
It's like somebody spliced the certainty of Margaret Thatcher with the work ethic of Boris Johnson.
It's like somebody spliced the certainty of Margaret Thatcher with the work ethic of Boris Johnson.
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Poor Josh won’t be able to save more than £12k a year tax free! However will he cope?
Josh Hall, 20, is 'worried' about how the cash ISA allowance cut announced in Wednesday’s Budget will affect his long-term savings plans
➡#Read More: trib.al/UPCzygg
➡#Read More: trib.al/UPCzygg
November 28, 2025 at 5:34 PM
Poor Josh won’t be able to save more than £12k a year tax free! However will he cope?
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Scrapping the two-child cap is both anti-poverty & pro-learning.
Children don’t come to school ready to learn if they live in poverty. Teachers can’t focus on teaching if they’re plugging gaps elsewhere.
What goes on outside the school gates makes a big difference inside them.
Children don’t come to school ready to learn if they live in poverty. Teachers can’t focus on teaching if they’re plugging gaps elsewhere.
What goes on outside the school gates makes a big difference inside them.
November 28, 2025 at 5:40 PM
Scrapping the two-child cap is both anti-poverty & pro-learning.
Children don’t come to school ready to learn if they live in poverty. Teachers can’t focus on teaching if they’re plugging gaps elsewhere.
What goes on outside the school gates makes a big difference inside them.
Children don’t come to school ready to learn if they live in poverty. Teachers can’t focus on teaching if they’re plugging gaps elsewhere.
What goes on outside the school gates makes a big difference inside them.
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Populist Right: 'We're not racist, we just want immigrants to integrate & contribute.'
Immigrant gains BA, MA, works for charities, marries a 'Brit', becomes Brexit-supporting, lockdown-sceptic Tory MP, then Deputy Speaker of HoC.
Populist Right: 'People born abroad shouldn't be allowed to do this.'
Immigrant gains BA, MA, works for charities, marries a 'Brit', becomes Brexit-supporting, lockdown-sceptic Tory MP, then Deputy Speaker of HoC.
Populist Right: 'People born abroad shouldn't be allowed to do this.'
November 28, 2025 at 7:10 PM
Populist Right: 'We're not racist, we just want immigrants to integrate & contribute.'
Immigrant gains BA, MA, works for charities, marries a 'Brit', becomes Brexit-supporting, lockdown-sceptic Tory MP, then Deputy Speaker of HoC.
Populist Right: 'People born abroad shouldn't be allowed to do this.'
Immigrant gains BA, MA, works for charities, marries a 'Brit', becomes Brexit-supporting, lockdown-sceptic Tory MP, then Deputy Speaker of HoC.
Populist Right: 'People born abroad shouldn't be allowed to do this.'