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Brendan May @brendanmay.bsky.social · Mar 22

We have now reached the ‘Brexit could actually kill you’ stage of the sunlit uplands.

Colin Gordon @colinngordon.bsky.social · 13h

"Britain’s most experienced commentator on the law" seems to agree with the Home Secretary that it is "supremely unhelpful" - maybe also contempt of court? - for the Council of Europe’s Irish human rights commissioner to ask the UK to comply with the ECHR. rozenberg.substack.com/p/policing-p...

Policing protest prosecutions

Council of Europe human rights commissioner seeks to lay down the law

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Colin Gordon @colinngordon.bsky.social · 2d

They are an invisible conspiracy that controls everything! If you do not denounce the ones you know, that probably means you are one of them!

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Colin Gordon @colinngordon.bsky.social · 2d

Then there is Kakistotheocracy: government by the worst who think they are God.

Colin Gordon @colinngordon.bsky.social · 2d

www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/country-and-...

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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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Colin Gordon @colinngordon.bsky.social · 2d

This.

Chris Grey @chrisgrey.bsky.social · 2d

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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Chris Grey @chrisgrey.bsky.social · 2d

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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Colin Gordon @colinngordon.bsky.social · 2d

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Antisemitism by Mark Mazower — shifting senses

The British historian argues against conflating the antisemitism of the 19th and early 20th centuries with postwar anti-Zionism

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Colin Gordon @colinngordon.bsky.social · 2d

Most dangerous form of theocracy = theokakocracy

Colin Gordon @colinngordon.bsky.social · 2d

It Turns Out, Americans Don't Want a Police State
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It Turns Out, Americans Don't Want a Police State

Voters, Courts, and GOP Governors slam Trump’s militarization of cities

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Colin Gordon @colinngordon.bsky.social · 2d

Because…

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Colin Gordon @colinngordon.bsky.social · 2d

Which refers to this: ecfr.eu/publication/...

Reality show: Why Europe must not cave in Trump’s culture war

In today’s transatlantic relationship, Europe’s every concession on policy plays into Trump’s culture war—feeding an image of European weakness…

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Colin Gordon @colinngordon.bsky.social · 2d

Trump is waging culture war on Europe by promoting rightwing allies, report finds

Study finds US president seeks to interfere in elections and ‘move the ideological centre of gravity’ in European politics

www.theguardian.com

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Colin Gordon @colinngordon.bsky.social · 2d

Trump is waging culture war on Europe by promoting rightwing allies, report finds

Study finds US president seeks to interfere in elections and ‘move the ideological centre of gravity’ in European politics

www.theguardian.com

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Colin Gordon @colinngordon.bsky.social · 2d

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

European far right follows Trump in calling for antifa to be declared terrorists

Netherlands and Hungary move towards designation as draft resolution reportedly backed by 79 MEPs in 20 countries

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Colin Gordon @colinngordon.bsky.social · 2d

One of our smartest and best UK-US historians looked at the future after Trump's win.
Mark Mazower has just published an important book on antisemitism, ending in very recent events, very near to home.
He teaches at Columbia University.
How do things look today?
www.ft.com/content/4195...

Trump’s victory will change America. But Europe can have a different future

Democratic norms look unusually fragile in the US. Historian Mark Mazower argues that it is an outlier, not a precursor

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Colin Gordon @colinngordon.bsky.social · 2d

Evidence abandoned: Trump’s cabinet and the fallout for science
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Evidence abandoned: Trump’s cabinet and the fallout for science

Scientists need to stand for up science as the US administration shifts to deliberate attacks on evidence and evidence-based policy.

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The Bar Council @thebarcouncil.bsky.social · 3d

The Bars, Faculty and Law Societies in the UK have come together and accused politicians of "irresponsible and dangerous" language that is putting lawyers at risk.
www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...

Lawyers warn of death threats after Reform and Tories' 'two-tier' claims

In an unprecedented intervention, six legal bodies, representing 250,000 lawyers, expressed “grave concern” over the language being used toward legal professionals

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Kevin Carey @kevincarey1.bsky.social · 4d

It's clearer by the day that Columbia making a deal with Trump in July was a catastrophe for higher education as a whole. It gave terrible people a bottomless appetite for extortion. The other eight universities must follow MIT's lead.

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/10/u...

M.I.T. Rejects a White House Offer for Special Funding Treatment

www.nytimes.com

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Colin Gordon @colinngordon.bsky.social · 3d

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Thomas Zimmer @thomaszimmer.bsky.social · 3d

The regime gets more deranged every day. A rightwing conspiracy theorist assassinated a Democratic lawmaker - which the attorney general presents as an example of leftwing political violence in order to justify an authoritarian crackdown on the opposition…

We’re in incredibly dangerous territory.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 4d

Bondi: "We've been living through a horrific cycle of political violence in this country ... night after night antifa wrecks havoc on the streets of our cities. In Minnesota, a gunman murdered a state lawmaker and her husband."

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Katalin Halmai @eublogo.bsky.social · 14d

Soros is as close as the world’s strongmen get to a cross-border demon. Hundreds of human rights groups, investigative journalists, democracy advocates and other disobedient types have received Soros grants. No global philanthropist comes close to Soros’ $32 bn funding of such cases.

Why Trump is going for Soros

The philanthropist is as close as the world’s strongmen get to a cross-border demon

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Katalin Halmai @eublogo.bsky.social · 12d

“President Trump’s so-called proposed ‘compact’ is nothing short of a hostile takeover of America’s universities. It would impose strict government-mandated definitions of academic terms, erase diversity, & rip control away from campus leaders to install government-mandated conservative ideology.”

Trump administration demands universities sign up to ‘compact’ in return for funding

Critics say linking funds to adherence to the White House’s principles undermines academic freedom

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Katalin Halmai @eublogo.bsky.social · 9d

Sound familiar, Hungarians?

‘Enormous fear’: Trump’s threats against George Soros chill US non-profits

Civil society groups funded by billionaire’s charitable foundation feel vulnerable to administration’s attacks

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Katalin Halmai @eublogo.bsky.social · 8d

The initiative, championed by the Czech Republic, is part of a fresh set of sanctions being drawn up by Brussels in response to Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine. The package requires unanimous support to be adopted. Hungary, the last country opposed to the measure, has dropped its veto

EU to curb Russian diplomats’ travel as suspected spy attacks mount

Intelligence agencies say sabotage operations are often led by spies posing as diplomats

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