Dave Clark
@daveclarkreports.bsky.social
News reporter, AFP
Immigrant: France
Emigrant: UK
Migrant: Kosovo, Nigeria, Iraq, US, Belgium
Immigrant: France
Emigrant: UK
Migrant: Kosovo, Nigeria, Iraq, US, Belgium
Thanks to Brexit the nimble UK can get ahead of the game and our centre left can pivot far right while Brussels is still going through the centre right to far right stage
the EU's centre-right (controls the EU commission) is allying with the far-right to dismantle all sorts of protections that took decades to win
they've already come for for human rights rules in business supply chains. next it's digital privacy, labour rights, chemical safety, wildlife protection
they've already come for for human rights rules in business supply chains. next it's digital privacy, labour rights, chemical safety, wildlife protection
European Commission accused of ‘massive rollback’ of digital protections
Proposed changes to AI Act would make it easier for tech firms to use personal data to train models without consent
www.theguardian.com
November 20, 2025 at 8:57 AM
Thanks to Brexit the nimble UK can get ahead of the game and our centre left can pivot far right while Brussels is still going through the centre right to far right stage
They can only be called veggieburgers if they're made in the Veggieburg municipality in Ruritania
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
Ban on veggie ‘burgers’: plant-based products may lose meaty names in UK under EU law
Exclusive: Trade agreement means UK is subject to some food labelling rules, with vote on vegetarian food terms this week
www.theguardian.com
November 20, 2025 at 7:06 AM
They can only be called veggieburgers if they're made in the Veggieburg municipality in Ruritania
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
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How long until Trump orders Pam Bondi to appoint special counsel to investigate why the very biased fake news media wasn't banging ALL the 2020 candidates?
November 18, 2025 at 7:48 AM
How long until Trump orders Pam Bondi to appoint special counsel to investigate why the very biased fake news media wasn't banging ALL the 2020 candidates?
All this reminds me of the time when I was still a Washington reporter, tinkering with the fountains outside my three-storey Georgetown house, pruning my bamboo
November 18, 2025 at 8:01 AM
All this reminds me of the time when I was still a Washington reporter, tinkering with the fountains outside my three-storey Georgetown house, pruning my bamboo
I say expose yourself to the space storm
November 12, 2025 at 3:58 PM
I say expose yourself to the space storm
Usually prefer BSky before the Americans are out of bed, but when there's a BBC in crisis story and a former French president legal drama I can't wait until the Yanks wake up and start arguing about why their opposition party is to blame for everything
November 11, 2025 at 9:19 AM
Usually prefer BSky before the Americans are out of bed, but when there's a BBC in crisis story and a former French president legal drama I can't wait until the Yanks wake up and start arguing about why their opposition party is to blame for everything
His publishers are going to have to use big type in the prison memoir
November 10, 2025 at 1:19 PM
His publishers are going to have to use big type in the prison memoir
That'll be the G19 then?
TRUMP: NO U.S. GOVERNMENT OFFICIAL WILL ATTEND G20
November 7, 2025 at 10:07 PM
That'll be the G19 then?
It's like maths on cocaine
November 7, 2025 at 6:09 AM
It's like maths on cocaine
Reposted by Dave Clark
I like how the caption on this photo reads as if he's making a claim that could not be independently verified.
November 6, 2025 at 8:19 PM
I like how the caption on this photo reads as if he's making a claim that could not be independently verified.
Half the posters on Blue Sky are using Twitter to get screen grabs to show how bad using Twitter is
Sky News using Twitter to tell you how bad using Twitter is.
November 6, 2025 at 10:15 AM
Half the posters on Blue Sky are using Twitter to get screen grabs to show how bad using Twitter is
Reposted by Dave Clark
Nice juxtaposition of skeets here. #halloween #puppies
October 31, 2025 at 1:24 PM
Nice juxtaposition of skeets here. #halloween #puppies
οὐδ᾽ ἀλαοσκοπιὴν εἶχε κρείων ἐνοσίχθων:
PUTIN: POWER OF POSEIDON SIGNIFICANTLY EXCEEDS THAT OF OUR MOST PROMISING INTERCONTINENTAL MISSILE SARMAT
October 29, 2025 at 12:00 PM
οὐδ᾽ ἀλαοσκοπιὴν εἶχε κρείων ἐνοσίχθων:
News agency vowel drought imminent
Madagascar cabinet announced
October 28, 2025 at 10:32 AM
News agency vowel drought imminent
I would've gone with boosté.
October 28, 2025 at 8:46 AM
I would've gone with boosté.
Not for the first time, I'm not sure I agree with the president of the United States
Trump: At some point common sense will prevail
October 22, 2025 at 9:20 PM
Not for the first time, I'm not sure I agree with the president of the United States
The Louvre gets robbed and the British Museum is strapped for cash? Hmmmm ....
October 20, 2025 at 12:28 PM
The Louvre gets robbed and the British Museum is strapped for cash? Hmmmm ....
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See stoat, say stoat, stoated
having lived on an upland farmstead and seen one or two things, I have to reluctantly get behind this, but then we keep a cat so any logic is out of the window
October 20, 2025 at 9:03 AM
See stoat, say stoat, stoated
Louvre burglary: First picture of suspects
October 19, 2025 at 11:46 AM
Louvre burglary: First picture of suspects
Reposted by Dave Clark
"Parking is such sweet sorrow"
Shakespeare family home damaged by reversing driver
Shakespeare family home damaged by reversing driver
A 17th-century building that housed William Shakespeare's family has been left damaged after a driver reversed into it.
news.sky.com
October 19, 2025 at 10:45 AM
"Parking is such sweet sorrow"
Reposted by Dave Clark
🔵 International and US news outlets including AFP, AP, The New York Times and Fox News have refused to sign new restrictive Pentagon media rules, meaning they will be stripped of their press access credentials.
AFP's statement ⬇️
AFP's statement ⬇️
October 15, 2025 at 3:01 PM
🔵 International and US news outlets including AFP, AP, The New York Times and Fox News have refused to sign new restrictive Pentagon media rules, meaning they will be stripped of their press access credentials.
AFP's statement ⬇️
AFP's statement ⬇️
Under the terms of the so-called "backstop" EU applicants who can recite the Seamus Heaney translation can live in Northern Ireland
BREAKING: Shabana Mahmood announces that immigrants will have to recite Beowulf in its entirety in Old English, without notes, before being allowed entry to the U.K.
October 15, 2025 at 11:38 AM
Under the terms of the so-called "backstop" EU applicants who can recite the Seamus Heaney translation can live in Northern Ireland
Reposted by Dave Clark
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Yes! Yes! Yes!
Yes! Yes! Yes!
Margaret Thatcher had two extramarital affairs, claims new book ⬇️
Margaret Thatcher had two extramarital affairs, claims new book
Tina Gaudoin claims in The Incidental Feminist that the former prime minister had two affairs: one early in her career as an MP and one with another politician
www.thetimes.com
October 14, 2025 at 9:04 PM
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Yes! Yes! Yes!
Yes! Yes! Yes!
Settle in cnuts
No medieval filter here! A modern recreation of a Viking ruler for Denmark’s National Museum, based on the depiction of Cnut in the New Minster Liber Vitae and on clothes found at a grave in Mammen, Denmark. #medievalsky
October 10, 2025 at 10:56 PM
Settle in cnuts