Bruce Daisley
@brucedaisley.com
Pop music & tennis loving he.
Used to work in tech now talks workplace culture. Isn’t fun the best thing to have?
Used to work in tech now talks workplace culture. Isn’t fun the best thing to have?
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In a normal world, this should be an immense scandal in Europe.
Le Monde has a long article describing the hellish life of Nicolas Guillou, a French judge at the ICC in The Hague, due to U.S. sanctions punishing him for authorizing arrest warrants against Netanyahu and Gallant for war crimes in Gaza.
Guillou's daily existence has been transformed into a Kafkaesque nightmare. He cannot: open or maintain accounts with Google, Amazon, Apple, or any US company; make hotel reservations (Expedia canceled his booking in France hours after he made it); conduct online commerce, since he can't know if the packaging is American; use any major credit card (Visa, Mastercard, Amex are all American); access normal banking services, even with non-American banks, as banks worldwide close sanctioned accounts; conduct virtually any financial transaction.
He describes it as being "economically banned across most of the planet," including in his own country, France, and where he works, the Netherlands.
That's the real shocking aspect of this: the Americans are:
- punishing a European citizen
- for doing his job in Europe
- applying laws Europe officially supports
- at an institution based in Europe
- that Europe helped create and fund
and Europe is not only doing essentially nothing to protect him, they're actively enforcing America's sanctions against their own citizen - European banks closing his accounts, European companies refusing him service, European institutions standing by while Washington destroys a European judge's life on European soil.
Again, in a normal world, European leaders and citizens should be absolutely outraged about this. But we've so normalized the hollowing out of European sovereignty that the sight of a European citizen being economically executed on European soil for upholding European law is treated, at best, as an unfortunate technical complication in transatlantic
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Actually thought the Lily Allen album was significantly better than the Dave one.
Shows the importance of having something to say.
Shows the importance of having something to say.
October 24, 2025 at 11:49 AM
Actually thought the Lily Allen album was significantly better than the Dave one.
Shows the importance of having something to say.
Shows the importance of having something to say.
I played laser quest with Tim Westwood.
October 9, 2025 at 6:24 PM
I played laser quest with Tim Westwood.
I know the brief with Where the Hell is My Husband? was to create an Amy/Beyonce style anthem, but Raye totally nailed it.
Shame the Taylorgeddon is going to sweep it from the top end of the charts.
Shame the Taylorgeddon is going to sweep it from the top end of the charts.
October 6, 2025 at 8:53 PM
I know the brief with Where the Hell is My Husband? was to create an Amy/Beyonce style anthem, but Raye totally nailed it.
Shame the Taylorgeddon is going to sweep it from the top end of the charts.
Shame the Taylorgeddon is going to sweep it from the top end of the charts.
My use of TikTok is just to post lovely comments under videos I love.
Every time I open it I have two dozen messages of people saying “ahh thank you”. Makes me so happy.
Every time I open it I have two dozen messages of people saying “ahh thank you”. Makes me so happy.
October 3, 2025 at 9:16 AM
My use of TikTok is just to post lovely comments under videos I love.
Every time I open it I have two dozen messages of people saying “ahh thank you”. Makes me so happy.
Every time I open it I have two dozen messages of people saying “ahh thank you”. Makes me so happy.
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does no-one stop to think how insane it is to suggest it’s dishonourable to the memory of two murder victims to protest the blockade of relief for a man-made famine
The Home Secretary says protests yesterday about Israels actions were fundamentally unBritish & dishonourable
You know whats dishonourable Shabana Mahmood? The UK govt saying nothing when a UK vessel is attacked & seized in intl waters & the people on board are kidnapped
You know whats dishonourable Shabana Mahmood? The UK govt saying nothing when a UK vessel is attacked & seized in intl waters & the people on board are kidnapped
October 3, 2025 at 7:41 AM
does no-one stop to think how insane it is to suggest it’s dishonourable to the memory of two murder victims to protest the blockade of relief for a man-made famine
Max Martin’s at 29 Billboard number 1s for songwriting. McCartney is at 32. There’s maybe (maybe) 3 on this album. They’re not obvious though.
October 3, 2025 at 7:53 AM
Max Martin’s at 29 Billboard number 1s for songwriting. McCartney is at 32. There’s maybe (maybe) 3 on this album. They’re not obvious though.
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This pic of Jasmine Paolini is going viral
Honestly, I would have just gone with "Baolini".
forty-deuce.ghost.io
September 29, 2025 at 3:28 AM
Me: I want to walk somewhere.
Google Maps: I’ll calculate an ETA that will have slack for you to grab a coffee, browse local bookshops and snap some photos.
Me: I want to drive somewhere.
Google Maps: here’s the ETA if you break the speed limit and jump lights all the way. Hurry up you loser.
Google Maps: I’ll calculate an ETA that will have slack for you to grab a coffee, browse local bookshops and snap some photos.
Me: I want to drive somewhere.
Google Maps: here’s the ETA if you break the speed limit and jump lights all the way. Hurry up you loser.
September 28, 2025 at 6:53 PM
Me: I want to walk somewhere.
Google Maps: I’ll calculate an ETA that will have slack for you to grab a coffee, browse local bookshops and snap some photos.
Me: I want to drive somewhere.
Google Maps: here’s the ETA if you break the speed limit and jump lights all the way. Hurry up you loser.
Google Maps: I’ll calculate an ETA that will have slack for you to grab a coffee, browse local bookshops and snap some photos.
Me: I want to drive somewhere.
Google Maps: here’s the ETA if you break the speed limit and jump lights all the way. Hurry up you loser.
Just went to Lime bike rank where 5 bikes have got flat tyres. It feels like someone has deliberately done it too.
September 27, 2025 at 10:51 AM
Just went to Lime bike rank where 5 bikes have got flat tyres. It feels like someone has deliberately done it too.
Great reporting. @londoncentric.media reports that TfL is paying £40 per passenger to transport cyclists under the Thames.
www.londoncentric.media/i/174323663/...
www.londoncentric.media/i/174323663/...
Nigel Farage's immigration plans would change London for good
Plus: Transport for London's cycle bus that costs £40 a passenger, a curious oligarch dream mansion in north London, and the Sadiq Khan Trump fightback.
www.londoncentric.media
September 24, 2025 at 12:03 PM
Great reporting. @londoncentric.media reports that TfL is paying £40 per passenger to transport cyclists under the Thames.
www.londoncentric.media/i/174323663/...
www.londoncentric.media/i/174323663/...
By the end of the series of The Paper it’s already showing signs of being brilliant. Glad they’ve recommissioned it.
September 15, 2025 at 6:39 PM
By the end of the series of The Paper it’s already showing signs of being brilliant. Glad they’ve recommissioned it.
What a player Alcaraz is.
Important he won here if he was to keep the balance of the rivalry. Wonderful era for the sport.
Important he won here if he was to keep the balance of the rivalry. Wonderful era for the sport.
September 7, 2025 at 9:45 PM
What a player Alcaraz is.
Important he won here if he was to keep the balance of the rivalry. Wonderful era for the sport.
Important he won here if he was to keep the balance of the rivalry. Wonderful era for the sport.
The first Bieber record was better, wasn't it?
September 5, 2025 at 12:15 PM
The first Bieber record was better, wasn't it?
Where’s this Bieber record?
September 5, 2025 at 7:14 AM
Where’s this Bieber record?
The Chappell song is Keane meets Roxette. Sorry I’ve only just commented.
August 1, 2025 at 7:57 PM
The Chappell song is Keane meets Roxette. Sorry I’ve only just commented.
No one needs the Trump Letter to drop more than the Coldplay Two.
July 18, 2025 at 5:10 PM
No one needs the Trump Letter to drop more than the Coldplay Two.
Brutal end to the Great Meme shortage that the Coldplay Two have had to pay.
July 18, 2025 at 2:38 PM
Brutal end to the Great Meme shortage that the Coldplay Two have had to pay.
Who knows what the production credits on this Bieber album are but it’s way better than anyone could have hoped.
July 11, 2025 at 11:20 AM
Who knows what the production credits on this Bieber album are but it’s way better than anyone could have hoped.
Go to our concentration camps or we will kill you. Ah yes the only democracy in the Middle East.
July 10, 2025 at 5:48 PM
Go to our concentration camps or we will kill you. Ah yes the only democracy in the Middle East.
Outstanding by Anisimova - delighted for her. What a brilliant match.
July 10, 2025 at 3:15 PM
Outstanding by Anisimova - delighted for her. What a brilliant match.
If these M&S hackers aren’t put to work hacking Russia then the penal system is wasting a brilliant resource.
July 10, 2025 at 12:25 PM
If these M&S hackers aren’t put to work hacking Russia then the penal system is wasting a brilliant resource.
People should be free to do their jobs. Especially doctors in a warzone.
Please ensure you watch Doctors Under Attack. It documents how medical staff have been routined targeted by Isr4el's occupying forces.
www.channel4.com/programmes/g...
Please ensure you watch Doctors Under Attack. It documents how medical staff have been routined targeted by Isr4el's occupying forces.
www.channel4.com/programmes/g...
Gaza: Doctors Under Attack
A forensic investigation into Israeli military attacks on hospitals in Gaza
www.channel4.com
July 4, 2025 at 9:55 AM
People should be free to do their jobs. Especially doctors in a warzone.
Please ensure you watch Doctors Under Attack. It documents how medical staff have been routined targeted by Isr4el's occupying forces.
www.channel4.com/programmes/g...
Please ensure you watch Doctors Under Attack. It documents how medical staff have been routined targeted by Isr4el's occupying forces.
www.channel4.com/programmes/g...
Carlos Alcaraz should be the global spokesman for the ADHD movement.
June 30, 2025 at 5:11 PM
Carlos Alcaraz should be the global spokesman for the ADHD movement.
Draper just needs to beat Djokokic, Sinner and then Alcaraz to win Wimbledon.
Thank god he got seeded.
EASY! EASY! EASY!
Thank god he got seeded.
EASY! EASY! EASY!
a wrestler wearing a yellow and white striped jacket and shorts with the word add on them walks through a ring
ALT: a wrestler wearing a yellow and white striped jacket and shorts with the word add on them walks through a ring
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June 27, 2025 at 9:37 AM
Draper just needs to beat Djokokic, Sinner and then Alcaraz to win Wimbledon.
Thank god he got seeded.
EASY! EASY! EASY!
Thank god he got seeded.
EASY! EASY! EASY!