Sarah Cowley
@bournemouth4eu.bsky.social
No such group now as Bournemouth for Europe - it morphed into Dorset for Europe, which is thriving, so personal views here.
Pro-European, #FBPE #FB99%
Former academic and health visitor, DBE 2013
Grandma, political (UK), hate injustice and inequalities
Pro-European, #FBPE #FB99%
Former academic and health visitor, DBE 2013
Grandma, political (UK), hate injustice and inequalities
Reposted by Sarah Cowley
Reposted by Sarah Cowley
I don't think it's my imagination that the Liberal Democrats are actually getting mentioned by the BBC more regularly now that the Director General & Head of news have gone
A month ago Lib Dems would not have been mentioned in these headlines
A month ago Lib Dems would not have been mentioned in these headlines
November 25, 2025 at 1:09 PM
I don't think it's my imagination that the Liberal Democrats are actually getting mentioned by the BBC more regularly now that the Director General & Head of news have gone
A month ago Lib Dems would not have been mentioned in these headlines
A month ago Lib Dems would not have been mentioned in these headlines
Reposted by Sarah Cowley
(Boss) Chris do you have a message to share for the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women?
(me, on the spot) Uhhh how about “men, shoulder your responsibility”?
(boss) uh no I think it should be gender neutral
… 🫤
(me, on the spot) Uhhh how about “men, shoulder your responsibility”?
(boss) uh no I think it should be gender neutral
… 🫤
November 25, 2025 at 1:09 PM
(Boss) Chris do you have a message to share for the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women?
(me, on the spot) Uhhh how about “men, shoulder your responsibility”?
(boss) uh no I think it should be gender neutral
… 🫤
(me, on the spot) Uhhh how about “men, shoulder your responsibility”?
(boss) uh no I think it should be gender neutral
… 🫤
Reposted by Sarah Cowley
John Major
share.google/WQOkNKmC187x...
share.google/WQOkNKmC187x...
November 25, 2025 at 1:10 PM
John Major
share.google/WQOkNKmC187x...
share.google/WQOkNKmC187x...
Reposted by Sarah Cowley
A very bizarre interview by the leader of Reform UK...
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c87lx0981nro
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c87lx0981nro
Nigel Farage says he's 'never directly racially abused anybody'
The Reform UK leader was responding to reports he made racist remarks to his peers in school in the 1970s.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 25, 2025 at 1:10 PM
A very bizarre interview by the leader of Reform UK...
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c87lx0981nro
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c87lx0981nro
Reposted by Sarah Cowley
Apple is anti-union.
Tesla is anti-union.
Amazon is anti-union.
McDonald's is anti-union.
Starbucks is anti-union.
Google is anti-union.
Walmart is anti-union.
These mega-corporations aren’t on workers’ side and their actions make it painfully clear.
Tesla is anti-union.
Amazon is anti-union.
McDonald's is anti-union.
Starbucks is anti-union.
Google is anti-union.
Walmart is anti-union.
These mega-corporations aren’t on workers’ side and their actions make it painfully clear.
November 24, 2025 at 11:05 PM
Apple is anti-union.
Tesla is anti-union.
Amazon is anti-union.
McDonald's is anti-union.
Starbucks is anti-union.
Google is anti-union.
Walmart is anti-union.
These mega-corporations aren’t on workers’ side and their actions make it painfully clear.
Tesla is anti-union.
Amazon is anti-union.
McDonald's is anti-union.
Starbucks is anti-union.
Google is anti-union.
Walmart is anti-union.
These mega-corporations aren’t on workers’ side and their actions make it painfully clear.
Reposted by Sarah Cowley
Yup— did not review on an individual basis their past records like he said he would.
November 25, 2025 at 1:10 PM
Yup— did not review on an individual basis their past records like he said he would.
Reposted by Sarah Cowley
Analysis by @johnspringford.bsky.social, an associate fellow at the @centreeuropeanref.bsky.social, is more optimistic, predicting a GDP boost of between 0.3 & 0.7 % over 10 years as a result of the agreement. The biggest uplifts, he claims, would come from a youth mobility deal.
buff.ly/HeJWZ0O
buff.ly/HeJWZ0O
Don’t bank on Britain’s post-Brexit trade deals to save the economy
With a difficult budget looming, chancellor Rachel Reeves has turned her gaze overseas in her elusive search for economic growth.
www.politico.eu
November 25, 2025 at 12:00 PM
Analysis by @johnspringford.bsky.social, an associate fellow at the @centreeuropeanref.bsky.social, is more optimistic, predicting a GDP boost of between 0.3 & 0.7 % over 10 years as a result of the agreement. The biggest uplifts, he claims, would come from a youth mobility deal.
buff.ly/HeJWZ0O
buff.ly/HeJWZ0O
Reposted by Sarah Cowley
Trump never had a fan base.
He had an army of bots who sold his racism and misogyny and xenophobia to uneducated Americans who took voting advice from bald eagle profiles posting Tweets from Eastern Europe.
It’s as stupid as it sounds.
He had an army of bots who sold his racism and misogyny and xenophobia to uneducated Americans who took voting advice from bald eagle profiles posting Tweets from Eastern Europe.
It’s as stupid as it sounds.
November 25, 2025 at 1:01 PM
Trump never had a fan base.
He had an army of bots who sold his racism and misogyny and xenophobia to uneducated Americans who took voting advice from bald eagle profiles posting Tweets from Eastern Europe.
It’s as stupid as it sounds.
He had an army of bots who sold his racism and misogyny and xenophobia to uneducated Americans who took voting advice from bald eagle profiles posting Tweets from Eastern Europe.
It’s as stupid as it sounds.
Reposted by Sarah Cowley
If you receive legal threats from Nigel Farage for your reporting of Reform, please get in touch.
We have employed a defamation lawyer specifically for this purpose and would love to help (and we do so on non-commercial terms). www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
We have employed a defamation lawyer specifically for this purpose and would love to help (and we do so on non-commercial terms). www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Reform’s ‘Trumpian’ legal threats hint at more aggressive approach to media
Ultimatums sent to publications appear to intensify as Nigel Farage’s party rises in polls
www.theguardian.com
November 25, 2025 at 8:29 AM
If you receive legal threats from Nigel Farage for your reporting of Reform, please get in touch.
We have employed a defamation lawyer specifically for this purpose and would love to help (and we do so on non-commercial terms). www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
We have employed a defamation lawyer specifically for this purpose and would love to help (and we do so on non-commercial terms). www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Reposted by Sarah Cowley
Reposted by Sarah Cowley
This petition calling for a public inquiry into Russian influence on UK politics & democracy already has over 30,000 signatures. Let’s get it to 100,000 this week.
Please sign and share 🙏
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/74...
Please sign and share 🙏
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/74...
Petition: Call a public inquiry into Russian influence on UK politics & democracy
We are concerned about reported efforts from Russia to influence democracy in the US, UK, Europe and elsewhere. We believe we must establish the depth and breadth of possible Russian influence campaig...
petition.parliament.uk
November 25, 2025 at 7:32 AM
This petition calling for a public inquiry into Russian influence on UK politics & democracy already has over 30,000 signatures. Let’s get it to 100,000 this week.
Please sign and share 🙏
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/74...
Please sign and share 🙏
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/74...
Reposted by Sarah Cowley
👩🚒The State Emergency Service showed footage of clearing rubble after the Russian shelling of Kyiv.
95 State Emergency Service specialists and 26 units of equipment, including heavy engineering equipment, are involved.
95 State Emergency Service specialists and 26 units of equipment, including heavy engineering equipment, are involved.
November 25, 2025 at 10:21 AM
👩🚒The State Emergency Service showed footage of clearing rubble after the Russian shelling of Kyiv.
95 State Emergency Service specialists and 26 units of equipment, including heavy engineering equipment, are involved.
95 State Emergency Service specialists and 26 units of equipment, including heavy engineering equipment, are involved.
Reposted by Sarah Cowley
I wish I didn’t have to share this. But the BBC has decided to censor my first Reith Lecture.
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
November 25, 2025 at 9:26 AM
I wish I didn’t have to share this. But the BBC has decided to censor my first Reith Lecture.
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
Reposted by Sarah Cowley
"If liberty means anything at all it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear,"
November 25, 2025 at 9:51 AM
"If liberty means anything at all it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear,"
Reposted by Sarah Cowley
🔥 Rachel Reeves says there’s a “hole” in the public finances.
A new decade-long Brexit study quantifies it:
A 6–8% hit to GDP
That's £180bn-£240bn a year
It means less tax revenue and so less money for everything.
Brexit made Britain MUCH poorer.
A new decade-long Brexit study quantifies it:
A 6–8% hit to GDP
That's £180bn-£240bn a year
It means less tax revenue and so less money for everything.
Brexit made Britain MUCH poorer.
New: Boris Johnson’s ‘Brexit Titanic success’ was half right
Nearly ten years on, the first full assessment of Brexit confirms what millions warned: Britain made itself poorer
eastangliabylines.co.uk
November 25, 2025 at 6:56 AM
🔥 Rachel Reeves says there’s a “hole” in the public finances.
A new decade-long Brexit study quantifies it:
A 6–8% hit to GDP
That's £180bn-£240bn a year
It means less tax revenue and so less money for everything.
Brexit made Britain MUCH poorer.
A new decade-long Brexit study quantifies it:
A 6–8% hit to GDP
That's £180bn-£240bn a year
It means less tax revenue and so less money for everything.
Brexit made Britain MUCH poorer.
Reposted by Sarah Cowley
We will struggle to explain to future generations how something so transparent and stupid was able to take place youngvulgarian.substack.com/p/arent-you-...
November 21, 2025 at 12:16 PM
We will struggle to explain to future generations how something so transparent and stupid was able to take place youngvulgarian.substack.com/p/arent-you-...
Reposted by Sarah Cowley
This is a clown-car government elected on a seriousness ticket iandunt.substack.com/p/a-clown-go...
November 21, 2025 at 12:08 PM
This is a clown-car government elected on a seriousness ticket iandunt.substack.com/p/a-clown-go...
Reposted by Sarah Cowley
“Rachel Reeves is studiously ignoring the cause of Britain’s woes: the Brexit-shaped hole in its roof”, says Jonathan Freedland
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Rachel Reeves is studiously ignoring the cause of Britain’s woes: the Brexit-shaped hole in its roof | Jonathan Freedland
The autumn budget will mop up some damage, but the true source of the economic crisis is clear. The government should now fix it – tragically, it won’t, says Guardian columnist Jonathan Freedland
www.theguardian.com
November 22, 2025 at 12:12 PM
“Rachel Reeves is studiously ignoring the cause of Britain’s woes: the Brexit-shaped hole in its roof”, says Jonathan Freedland
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Reposted by Sarah Cowley
One of the worst atrocities and one of the least discussed.
Today is Holodomor remembrance day, one of the worst human rights atrocities of the 20th century.
If you are wanting to know more, this episode of @originstorypodcast.bsky.social is excellent, featuring justifiable moral outrage from @iandunt.bsky.social and @dorianlynskey.bsky.social
If you are wanting to know more, this episode of @originstorypodcast.bsky.social is excellent, featuring justifiable moral outrage from @iandunt.bsky.social and @dorianlynskey.bsky.social
🚨NEW EPISODE🚨 Welcome back to Origin Story: The Story of Socialism as we resume the story of Lenin, Trotsky and Stalin in part three @iandunt.bsky.social and @dorianlynskey.bsky.social discuss Terror 👉 linktr.ee/originstoryp...
#originstory #lenin #trotsky #stalin
#originstory #lenin #trotsky #stalin
November 22, 2025 at 1:30 PM
One of the worst atrocities and one of the least discussed.
Cui Bono?
"It is not a peace plan. It is a proposal that weakens Ukraine and divides America from Europe, preparing the way for a larger war in the future. In the meantime, it benefits unnamed Russian and American investors, at the expense of everyone else."
open.substack.com/pub/anneappl...
"It is not a peace plan. It is a proposal that weakens Ukraine and divides America from Europe, preparing the way for a larger war in the future. In the meantime, it benefits unnamed Russian and American investors, at the expense of everyone else."
open.substack.com/pub/anneappl...
Cui Bono?
Who benefits from Trump's deals with the Russians and the Saudis? Not us
open.substack.com
November 22, 2025 at 8:53 PM
Cui Bono?
"It is not a peace plan. It is a proposal that weakens Ukraine and divides America from Europe, preparing the way for a larger war in the future. In the meantime, it benefits unnamed Russian and American investors, at the expense of everyone else."
open.substack.com/pub/anneappl...
"It is not a peace plan. It is a proposal that weakens Ukraine and divides America from Europe, preparing the way for a larger war in the future. In the meantime, it benefits unnamed Russian and American investors, at the expense of everyone else."
open.substack.com/pub/anneappl...
Reposted by Sarah Cowley
“In a world of rising protectionism, Britain is in danger of being left outside all of the big trade blocks”.
Why is a government beleaguered by economic woes not (yet) of its own making, failing to explain the damaging impacts of Brexit to the public at large?
Why is a government beleaguered by economic woes not (yet) of its own making, failing to explain the damaging impacts of Brexit to the public at large?
Willl Britain’s exceptionalism wreck the reset?
In a world of rising protectionism, Britain is in danger of being left outside all of the big trade blocks
sussexbylines.co.uk
November 20, 2025 at 1:28 PM
“In a world of rising protectionism, Britain is in danger of being left outside all of the big trade blocks”.
Why is a government beleaguered by economic woes not (yet) of its own making, failing to explain the damaging impacts of Brexit to the public at large?
Why is a government beleaguered by economic woes not (yet) of its own making, failing to explain the damaging impacts of Brexit to the public at large?
Reposted by Sarah Cowley
"New cars registered in Northern Ireland will need an EU type approval, while cars sold in the rest of the UK will need a GB type approval. Some big manufacturers are only opting for the GB certification, meaning they won't be able to be registered as new cars in Northern Ireland."
Brexit: New models from Vauxhall, Renault, Citroen, Peugeot and Jaguar Land Rover 'may not be sold in NI'
From January new cars registered in Northern Ireland will have to have an "EU-type" approval.
www.bbc.com
November 20, 2025 at 1:53 PM
"New cars registered in Northern Ireland will need an EU type approval, while cars sold in the rest of the UK will need a GB type approval. Some big manufacturers are only opting for the GB certification, meaning they won't be able to be registered as new cars in Northern Ireland."
Reposted by Sarah Cowley
Did I get this right?
Following manipulative propaganda, segmenting audiences, they held a non-binding opinion poll in the UK, excluded anyone who had benefited from FOM, and then pretended the uninformed opinions of 17.4 million people calling to destroy the country mattered more than the 48.6 million who did not.
November 20, 2025 at 1:47 PM
Did I get this right?
Reposted by Sarah Cowley
Farage. Epstein. Bannon ... and Farrari. ... "Ferrari had worked for Farage’s UKIP, and then ran the Institute for Direct Democracy in Europe – a Farage-linked think tank later accused of diverting EU funds into UKIP campaigning. Today, Ferrari is openly Farage’s partner."
Dinner with Mr Brexit: Bannon’s European Revolution – Planned with Farage, Backed by Epstein
Nigel Farage was the figurehead and his partner Laure Ferrari started it. Steve Bannon and convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein were providing almost daily support
bylinetimes.com
November 20, 2025 at 2:03 PM
Farage. Epstein. Bannon ... and Farrari. ... "Ferrari had worked for Farage’s UKIP, and then ran the Institute for Direct Democracy in Europe – a Farage-linked think tank later accused of diverting EU funds into UKIP campaigning. Today, Ferrari is openly Farage’s partner."