@arianebogain.bsky.social
Senior lecturer in French and IR Northumbria University. Personal account.
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The entirety of British politics now just consists of all parties from across the political spectrum making increasingly deranged statements about how and why they are going to deport people
The Conservative party’s policy also includes stripping people of their British citizenship when they are found guilty of a crime ⬇️
All criminals with dual nationality must be deported, say Tories
The Conservative party’s policy also includes stripping people of their British citizenship when they are found guilty of a crime
www.thetimes.com
December 8, 2025 at 10:40 PM
The entirety of British politics now just consists of all parties from across the political spectrum making increasingly deranged statements about how and why they are going to deport people
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Cakeism, MAGA style
Latest on how Washington can't decide what it really wants from Europe
pascallth.substack.com/p/magas-cake...
Latest on how Washington can't decide what it really wants from Europe
pascallth.substack.com/p/magas-cake...
MAGA’s cakeist policy on Europe
The US Security Strategy is a tangle of contradictions
pascallth.substack.com
December 8, 2025 at 7:02 PM
Cakeism, MAGA style
Latest on how Washington can't decide what it really wants from Europe
pascallth.substack.com/p/magas-cake...
Latest on how Washington can't decide what it really wants from Europe
pascallth.substack.com/p/magas-cake...
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This is the same administration that attacks the EU for trying to impose the most minimal of regulation on Musk and X
Hmmm, so you’ll be ‘policing’ people’s ’thoughts,’ that’s a novel idea
December 8, 2025 at 3:05 PM
This is the same administration that attacks the EU for trying to impose the most minimal of regulation on Musk and X
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800 this week? Let's make it happen! Please sign and share: www.megaphone.org.uk/petitions/no...
Northumbria Pay and Pension Petition: Stop the Steal!
If Northumbria does this, other universities will too.
These cuts will harm thousands of people, their students, families, and their local communities now and into the future.
www.megaphone.org.uk
December 8, 2025 at 6:56 AM
800 this week? Let's make it happen! Please sign and share: www.megaphone.org.uk/petitions/no...
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So this week shall I write about how killing unarmed civilians is murder or about how unwise it would be to limit the human right against torture.
Western liberal democracies in 2025.
Western liberal democracies in 2025.
December 8, 2025 at 7:57 AM
So this week shall I write about how killing unarmed civilians is murder or about how unwise it would be to limit the human right against torture.
Western liberal democracies in 2025.
Western liberal democracies in 2025.
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Landmark British photographer Martin Parr dies aged 73
Landmark British photographer Martin Parr dies aged 73
Parr said his brightly coloured, closely observed pictures of British life were ‘disguised as entertainment’ but they became hugely popular
Martin Parr, the British documentary photographer who captured the peculiarities of the nation with clarity and hilarity, has died aged 73. He had been diagnosed with cancer in May 2021.
Known for his acute observations of the English class system, Parr’s images covered sunbathers and Conservative clubs, village fetes and coffee mornings, often in vivid colour and with more than a dash of humour. His iconic 1986 photobook The Last Resort: Photographs of New Brighton captured working-class holidaymakers in the Wirral, Liverpool and helped mark a sea change in British documentary photography, from the gritty, black and white style of the past towards a cheekier and more colourful style. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
December 7, 2025 at 1:12 PM
Landmark British photographer Martin Parr dies aged 73
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The “Labour” Party finds itself arguing ordinary workers, carers and others are “takers”.
Hey everyone, here's the news, if you aren't a high earner, entrepreneur or a "skilled frontline worker" (whatever the fuck that means) the "Labour" Party says you aren't contributing, you're a taker!
This is so disgusting.
December 7, 2025 at 9:23 AM
The “Labour” Party finds itself arguing ordinary workers, carers and others are “takers”.
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Le plus grand honneur d'une vie : recevoir un truc créé pour toi pour te cirer les grolles.
C'est très "placard de médailles du ministre de la défense russe" comme truc.
C'est très "placard de médailles du ministre de la défense russe" comme truc.
Donald Trump said it was 'one of the great honours' of his life to receive Fifa’s inaugural Peace Prize on Friday. on.ft.com/4piJZVf
December 5, 2025 at 9:52 PM
Le plus grand honneur d'une vie : recevoir un truc créé pour toi pour te cirer les grolles.
C'est très "placard de médailles du ministre de la défense russe" comme truc.
C'est très "placard de médailles du ministre de la défense russe" comme truc.
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NEW: Strike ballot opens Monday at Northumbria Uni
Management is forcing staff out of the industry standard Teachers' Pension Scheme through the threat of a pay freeze.
Our members say no!
@ucunorthumbria.bsky.social
www.ucu.org.uk/article/1428...
Management is forcing staff out of the industry standard Teachers' Pension Scheme through the threat of a pay freeze.
Our members say no!
@ucunorthumbria.bsky.social
www.ucu.org.uk/article/1428...
Strike ballot launched at Northumbria University in pay and pensions row
Staff at Northumbria University will be balloted for strike action in their fight against plans to pressure them to leave the Teachers' Pension Scheme.
www.ucu.org.uk
December 5, 2025 at 11:15 AM
NEW: Strike ballot opens Monday at Northumbria Uni
Management is forcing staff out of the industry standard Teachers' Pension Scheme through the threat of a pay freeze.
Our members say no!
@ucunorthumbria.bsky.social
www.ucu.org.uk/article/1428...
Management is forcing staff out of the industry standard Teachers' Pension Scheme through the threat of a pay freeze.
Our members say no!
@ucunorthumbria.bsky.social
www.ucu.org.uk/article/1428...
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Just a vicious, lawless regime.
The spectacle of masked gangs of state vigilantes, ripping people out of cars in full view of the street, is a terrible reminder of how quickly the unthinkable can become normal in a democratic society.
The spectacle of masked gangs of state vigilantes, ripping people out of cars in full view of the street, is a terrible reminder of how quickly the unthinkable can become normal in a democratic society.
Agents in Key Largo, Florida ripped this woman wearing medical scrubs out of her car as she screamed she is a US citizen. Agents cuffed her and put her in one of their cars.
She was eventually let go, per David Goodhue of the Miami Herald, who also took this footage:
She was eventually let go, per David Goodhue of the Miami Herald, who also took this footage:
December 4, 2025 at 2:20 PM
Just a vicious, lawless regime.
The spectacle of masked gangs of state vigilantes, ripping people out of cars in full view of the street, is a terrible reminder of how quickly the unthinkable can become normal in a democratic society.
The spectacle of masked gangs of state vigilantes, ripping people out of cars in full view of the street, is a terrible reminder of how quickly the unthinkable can become normal in a democratic society.
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I just find it hilarious that his whole cabinet is sloberring praise all over him with ridiculous hyperbole and he is falling asleep while they're doing it.
You couldn't write comedy better than this. It's better than VEEP.
You couldn't write comedy better than this. It's better than VEEP.
December 2, 2025 at 7:57 PM
I just find it hilarious that his whole cabinet is sloberring praise all over him with ridiculous hyperbole and he is falling asleep while they're doing it.
You couldn't write comedy better than this. It's better than VEEP.
You couldn't write comedy better than this. It's better than VEEP.
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I’m sure this sleeping will transfix the marquee media just as Biden’s infirmities did.
Trump dozes while Marco Rubio speaks to him directly next to him. Just insane optics.
December 2, 2025 at 7:25 PM
I’m sure this sleeping will transfix the marquee media just as Biden’s infirmities did.
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Vient de paraître: Olivier Costa, "Les élections européennes de 2024: une étape de plus dans la parlementarisation de l’Union européenne?", Revue européenne des sciences sociales, 63-2 | 2025, 233-252.
journals.openedition.org/ress/12142
journals.openedition.org/ress/12142
Les élections européennes de 2024 : une étape de plus dans la parle...
Malgré une nette progression des forces politiques les plus critiques à l’endroit de l’intégration européenne, les élections européennes de 2024 ont été l’occasion de franchir de nouvelles étapes d...
journals.openedition.org
December 2, 2025 at 9:18 PM
Vient de paraître: Olivier Costa, "Les élections européennes de 2024: une étape de plus dans la parlementarisation de l’Union européenne?", Revue européenne des sciences sociales, 63-2 | 2025, 233-252.
journals.openedition.org/ress/12142
journals.openedition.org/ress/12142
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Complying in advance
Even before Reform is certain to win power
Even before Reform is certain to win power
This is the most alarming story I’ve read today. Giving up the fight before it’s started
November 30, 2025 at 11:23 AM
Complying in advance
Even before Reform is certain to win power
Even before Reform is certain to win power
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Well
November 29, 2025 at 7:48 PM
Well
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This peace deal only has 3 steps.
1. Russia gets the land
2. Trump gets a bribe
3. Ukraine gets an empty promise
1. Russia gets the land
2. Trump gets a bribe
3. Ukraine gets an empty promise
November 28, 2025 at 5:53 PM
This peace deal only has 3 steps.
1. Russia gets the land
2. Trump gets a bribe
3. Ukraine gets an empty promise
1. Russia gets the land
2. Trump gets a bribe
3. Ukraine gets an empty promise
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It takes a special kind of right-wing British political party to literally sell black shirts.
Are you going to tell them?
Or shall I?
Are you going to tell them?
Or shall I?
November 28, 2025 at 1:55 PM
It takes a special kind of right-wing British political party to literally sell black shirts.
Are you going to tell them?
Or shall I?
Are you going to tell them?
Or shall I?
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The "don't have an extra kid if you can't afford it" brigade get awfully upset when you suggest they don't stay in their £2m house if they can't afford it, don't they?
November 27, 2025 at 6:09 PM
The "don't have an extra kid if you can't afford it" brigade get awfully upset when you suggest they don't stay in their £2m house if they can't afford it, don't they?
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Another opportunity missed to stress the positive contribution migrants make. Instead Mahmood goes again for the mythical returning Reform voter convinced the net effect is a burden on communities. Barely is the ink dry on the Budget supposed to appeal to the left.
Labour immigration policy explained:
✅ Net immigration rising: CRACKDOWN REQUIRED
✅ Net immigration plummeting: CRACKDOWN REQUIRED
✅ Net immigration rising: CRACKDOWN REQUIRED
✅ Net immigration plummeting: CRACKDOWN REQUIRED
November 27, 2025 at 8:15 PM
Another opportunity missed to stress the positive contribution migrants make. Instead Mahmood goes again for the mythical returning Reform voter convinced the net effect is a burden on communities. Barely is the ink dry on the Budget supposed to appeal to the left.
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Except in the U.S.
Lesson: Never plot a coup.
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Brazil's Bolsonaro exhausts appeals, will have to serve 27-year sentence: court
November 25, 2025 at 6:03 PM
Except in the U.S.
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I'd like to see the response to this if the question added "if that that means universities have less money to spend on UK students".
With Rachel Reeves reportedly set to apply a new tax on tuition fees paid by overseas students, most Britons support such a move at the previously mooted level of 6%
Support: 57%
Oppose: 18%
yougov.co.uk/topics/socie...
Support: 57%
Oppose: 18%
yougov.co.uk/topics/socie...
November 24, 2025 at 4:41 PM
I'd like to see the response to this if the question added "if that that means universities have less money to spend on UK students".
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As I said at the time this was the landmine in the immigration white paper. It will cost unis much more than they're getting from inflationary rises in domestic fees.
i: Reeves to unveil £600m raid on foreign student
university fees #TomorrowsPapersToday
university fees #TomorrowsPapersToday
November 23, 2025 at 10:27 PM
As I said at the time this was the landmine in the immigration white paper. It will cost unis much more than they're getting from inflationary rises in domestic fees.
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Famously migration from the Middle East to Europe dried up after the US and allies invaded Iraq
Cracks me up how you could just replace Venezuela and Venezuelans with Iraq and Iraqis and it’d be indistinguishable from something written in 2002
November 23, 2025 at 10:39 PM
Famously migration from the Middle East to Europe dried up after the US and allies invaded Iraq
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The UK government:
November 21, 2025 at 10:19 AM
The UK government:
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The press secretary of Potus clarified that Potus does not want democratic members of Congress to be executed.
Oh the times we live in.
Oh the times we live in.
November 20, 2025 at 11:00 PM
The press secretary of Potus clarified that Potus does not want democratic members of Congress to be executed.
Oh the times we live in.
Oh the times we live in.