William
@itjob106.bsky.social
#FBPE Retired Engineer, 🚍Travelling Wilbury, Pro EU 🇪🇺,Mamil🚴 ,Art, History,He/Him.
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It’s convenient for British tabloids to blame Meghan Markle for Prince Harry wanting to leave England when they’re the ones who made his life there hell: people.com/prince-harry...
Prince Harry Receives Apology from Murdoch Tabloids for 'Serious Intrusion' Into Princess Diana's 'Private Life'
News Group Newspaper's apology to Prince Harry around a settlement over allegations of illegal information gathering also mentioned Princess Diana.
people.com
January 22, 2025 at 4:42 PM
It’s convenient for British tabloids to blame Meghan Markle for Prince Harry wanting to leave England when they’re the ones who made his life there hell: people.com/prince-harry...
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I dedicated years of my life to reporting on January 6 and exposing what happened. I was there that day, co-wrote a book, and published a series of major stories on my own, for Rolling Stone, and for TPM.
I hope it mattered. I hope history will remember and understand what happened.
I hope it mattered. I hope history will remember and understand what happened.
January 21, 2025 at 4:54 AM
I dedicated years of my life to reporting on January 6 and exposing what happened. I was there that day, co-wrote a book, and published a series of major stories on my own, for Rolling Stone, and for TPM.
I hope it mattered. I hope history will remember and understand what happened.
I hope it mattered. I hope history will remember and understand what happened.
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EU and Malaysia agree to relaunch negotiations on a free trade agreement ec.europa.eu/commission/p...
January 20, 2025 at 8:55 AM
EU and Malaysia agree to relaunch negotiations on a free trade agreement ec.europa.eu/commission/p...
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As always @nialloconghaile.bsky.social you speak common sense. UK establishment continues to be incapable of seeing things beyond a UK perspective of want UK wants.
It remains basic stuff: if you want the club benefits - and UK does: it *needs* them - join the bloody club ...like everybody else does
It remains basic stuff: if you want the club benefits - and UK does: it *needs* them - join the bloody club ...like everybody else does
December 18, 2024 at 11:04 AM
As always @nialloconghaile.bsky.social you speak common sense. UK establishment continues to be incapable of seeing things beyond a UK perspective of want UK wants.
It remains basic stuff: if you want the club benefits - and UK does: it *needs* them - join the bloody club ...like everybody else does
It remains basic stuff: if you want the club benefits - and UK does: it *needs* them - join the bloody club ...like everybody else does
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For years Nigel Farage has banged on about billionaire George Soros influencing the political climate in Britain and the rest of the world.
Now - Farage's Reform is poised to take a rumoured £100 million from Elon Musk and the right wing media doesn't bat an eyelid.
Now - Farage's Reform is poised to take a rumoured £100 million from Elon Musk and the right wing media doesn't bat an eyelid.
December 18, 2024 at 9:08 AM
For years Nigel Farage has banged on about billionaire George Soros influencing the political climate in Britain and the rest of the world.
Now - Farage's Reform is poised to take a rumoured £100 million from Elon Musk and the right wing media doesn't bat an eyelid.
Now - Farage's Reform is poised to take a rumoured £100 million from Elon Musk and the right wing media doesn't bat an eyelid.
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If we’d been shown this headline in 2016, we may have struggled to believe such a mess could be possible. But here we are, 8 years on, being asked to consider concessions on fish and opportunities for young people.
And the inescapable crappiness and tedium of it all is.. well.. just so very sad.
And the inescapable crappiness and tedium of it all is.. well.. just so very sad.
December 16, 2024 at 7:26 AM
If we’d been shown this headline in 2016, we may have struggled to believe such a mess could be possible. But here we are, 8 years on, being asked to consider concessions on fish and opportunities for young people.
And the inescapable crappiness and tedium of it all is.. well.. just so very sad.
And the inescapable crappiness and tedium of it all is.. well.. just so very sad.
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We desperately need housing supply. But we also desperately need interesting, innovative, well built developments and new towns. We need not only to talk about how much we're building, but what and how. When we only talk about the former we just get shoddily built, identikit houses which won't last.
December 12, 2024 at 10:32 AM
We desperately need housing supply. But we also desperately need interesting, innovative, well built developments and new towns. We need not only to talk about how much we're building, but what and how. When we only talk about the former we just get shoddily built, identikit houses which won't last.
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Your regular reminder that there are only 2 countries in the world with religious clerics guaranteed seats in government or parliament: Iran… and the UK.
Yet again, peers from across the House have called for the removal of the bishops. We agree. No seats should be given as of right to one religion or belief. The Bill to remove Hereditary peers is welcome, but should extend to Lords Spiritual too. humanists.uk/2024/12/12/p...
Peers call for end to bishops in the Lords
Yesterday peers from across the Lords raised the unfair and undemocratic place of the bishops in the House of Lords at the second reading of the House of Lords (Hereditary Peers) Bill. Currently 26 bi...
humanists.uk
December 12, 2024 at 4:58 PM
Your regular reminder that there are only 2 countries in the world with religious clerics guaranteed seats in government or parliament: Iran… and the UK.
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Short, clear explainer of what exacty you can expect from the much ballyhooed "UK-EU reset", what has already been done, what has been promised, what is likely, and what is possible. ~AA
www.bestforbritain.org/what_is_the_...
www.bestforbritain.org/what_is_the_...
What is the UK-EU reset?
Following Labour’s ascension to Government there has been a conscious effort to reset the relationship between the EU and the UK. From Starmer meeting von der Leyen, Lammy attending the EU Foreign Aff...
www.bestforbritain.org
December 10, 2024 at 4:50 PM
Short, clear explainer of what exacty you can expect from the much ballyhooed "UK-EU reset", what has already been done, what has been promised, what is likely, and what is possible. ~AA
www.bestforbritain.org/what_is_the_...
www.bestforbritain.org/what_is_the_...
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🚨🚨 🐟🦈 again! As always impeccable reporting by @pmdfoster.bsky.social and @andybounds.bsky.social on the very unsurprising demand by the EU for extended fishing rights (the other key one is youth mobility) in order for UK-EU reset to move further. #Brexit 🧵
www.ft.com/content/327d...
www.ft.com/content/327d...
EU will demand early fish deal in UK reset talks
Requirement among red lines drawn up by Brussels ahead of 2025 negotiations
www.ft.com
December 9, 2024 at 10:59 AM
🚨🚨 🐟🦈 again! As always impeccable reporting by @pmdfoster.bsky.social and @andybounds.bsky.social on the very unsurprising demand by the EU for extended fishing rights (the other key one is youth mobility) in order for UK-EU reset to move further. #Brexit 🧵
www.ft.com/content/327d...
www.ft.com/content/327d...
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Some Labour baby steps on Europe.
Rachel Reeves says closer UK and EU ties will boost economic growth
Labour has ruled out rejoining the European Union but wants to
www.bbc.co.uk
December 9, 2024 at 10:58 AM
Some Labour baby steps on Europe.
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It would have been a hard sell before the referendum. But the queueing since then really does annoy honest Britons because it just highlight what they've lost and how they've gained nothing from Brexit.
December 7, 2024 at 7:42 AM
It would have been a hard sell before the referendum. But the queueing since then really does annoy honest Britons because it just highlight what they've lost and how they've gained nothing from Brexit.
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“Some 56% of farmland bought in 2023 was sold to landowners who were not working farmers. The revenue per acre is too low to warrant the purchase, unless you are extremely wealthy and are avoiding inheritance tax”
Whose land? Tax avoidance and the broken economics of British farming
Noise in the billionaire press about inheritance tax changes hides a basic fact: the non-farming rich own too much land
yorkshirebylines.co.uk
December 6, 2024 at 9:27 AM
“Some 56% of farmland bought in 2023 was sold to landowners who were not working farmers. The revenue per acre is too low to warrant the purchase, unless you are extremely wealthy and are avoiding inheritance tax”
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There is no "90/180 problem".
The 90/180 visa waiver is set up to serve 🇪🇺 citizens and MSs. It's works for us and allows open borders. It is an amazing totem of unity.
Attacking it is attacking Europe.
Because your problem is not our entry requirements; your problem is Brexit.
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The 90/180 visa waiver is set up to serve 🇪🇺 citizens and MSs. It's works for us and allows open borders. It is an amazing totem of unity.
Attacking it is attacking Europe.
Because your problem is not our entry requirements; your problem is Brexit.
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December 7, 2024 at 7:25 AM
There is no "90/180 problem".
The 90/180 visa waiver is set up to serve 🇪🇺 citizens and MSs. It's works for us and allows open borders. It is an amazing totem of unity.
Attacking it is attacking Europe.
Because your problem is not our entry requirements; your problem is Brexit.
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The 90/180 visa waiver is set up to serve 🇪🇺 citizens and MSs. It's works for us and allows open borders. It is an amazing totem of unity.
Attacking it is attacking Europe.
Because your problem is not our entry requirements; your problem is Brexit.
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Have you spoken to your boss about this?
“When we left the European Union people were promised more money into the NHS, your living standards will be better and the opposite has happened”
Deputy PM Angela Rayner
Deputy PM Angela Rayner
December 8, 2024 at 3:05 PM
Have you spoken to your boss about this?
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Bloody nose for Putin.
🚨 BREAKING: Romania’s top constitutional court has annulled the country’s presidential election, after security services warned the vote had been distorted by a mass Russian influence campaign to favor a far-right candidate.
Romanian court cancels presidential election amid Russian influence fears
Constitutional court throws Romanian politics into turmoil, 2 days before runoff vote was due to take place.
www.politico.eu
December 6, 2024 at 2:28 PM
Bloody nose for Putin.
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A Barnier is one Scaramucci short of two Trusses.
December 4, 2024 at 7:46 PM
A Barnier is one Scaramucci short of two Trusses.
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..and reflect on the lessons we can take forward in the Government's 2025 trade strategy in the face of potential future shocks!
www.resolutionfoundation.org/publications...
www.resolutionfoundation.org/publications...
Trading blows • Resolution Foundation
Recently the UK has faced tough times in trade, juggling twin shocks of Brexit and Covid. While service exports have stayed strong, goods trade has struggled. With a possible further disruption to goo...
www.resolutionfoundation.org
December 4, 2024 at 3:02 PM
..and reflect on the lessons we can take forward in the Government's 2025 trade strategy in the face of potential future shocks!
www.resolutionfoundation.org/publications...
www.resolutionfoundation.org/publications...
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Is exceptionalism a polite word for arrogance. Brexit people I spoke to didn't know or care about details. They were OK to kick out EU, FOM migrants, and accept facile stmts that it would fix everything. There was an implicit belief that UK was better and EU would bend over to give any deal wanted
December 4, 2024 at 11:05 AM
Is exceptionalism a polite word for arrogance. Brexit people I spoke to didn't know or care about details. They were OK to kick out EU, FOM migrants, and accept facile stmts that it would fix everything. There was an implicit belief that UK was better and EU would bend over to give any deal wanted
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People voted the way they voted.
The important thing is, that bold expansive relationship might be available *now*. That's what people need to start working on, not imagining that Brexit was imposed on the UK and. so excusing the electorate.
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The important thing is, that bold expansive relationship might be available *now*. That's what people need to start working on, not imagining that Brexit was imposed on the UK and. so excusing the electorate.
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December 4, 2024 at 11:26 AM
People voted the way they voted.
The important thing is, that bold expansive relationship might be available *now*. That's what people need to start working on, not imagining that Brexit was imposed on the UK and. so excusing the electorate.
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The important thing is, that bold expansive relationship might be available *now*. That's what people need to start working on, not imagining that Brexit was imposed on the UK and. so excusing the electorate.
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Thanks for reading and kudos on getting down this far. Please retweet, as on Bluesky this is the only way to encourage other people to read this - perhaps difficult - thread.
Let's be honest and work together to a brighter European future.
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Let's be honest and work together to a brighter European future.
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December 4, 2024 at 7:30 AM
Thanks for reading and kudos on getting down this far. Please retweet, as on Bluesky this is the only way to encourage other people to read this - perhaps difficult - thread.
Let's be honest and work together to a brighter European future.
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Let's be honest and work together to a brighter European future.
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1) South Korean President declares martial law to try and go around parliament. Protests in the streets begin.
2) Parliament convenes and unanimously votes to negate the decree.
3) Soldiers withdraw and celebrations in the streets replace protests.
All in a matter of hours.
2) Parliament convenes and unanimously votes to negate the decree.
3) Soldiers withdraw and celebrations in the streets replace protests.
All in a matter of hours.
December 3, 2024 at 9:42 PM
1) South Korean President declares martial law to try and go around parliament. Protests in the streets begin.
2) Parliament convenes and unanimously votes to negate the decree.
3) Soldiers withdraw and celebrations in the streets replace protests.
All in a matter of hours.
2) Parliament convenes and unanimously votes to negate the decree.
3) Soldiers withdraw and celebrations in the streets replace protests.
All in a matter of hours.
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Georgia showed up for itself, Ukraine showed up for itself, Romania Showed up for itself, Syria showed up for itself. None of them waited to be helped, they picked up themselves and fought against corruption and impunity. They didn't beg, they didn't make excuses for themselves. They showed up.
December 3, 2024 at 1:41 PM
Georgia showed up for itself, Ukraine showed up for itself, Romania Showed up for itself, Syria showed up for itself. None of them waited to be helped, they picked up themselves and fought against corruption and impunity. They didn't beg, they didn't make excuses for themselves. They showed up.
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🚨🚨 The grim implications of #brexit is far from over. @jamesrball.com reports on a new bombshell coming on 13 December, the General Product Safety Regulations which is bound to be be a disaster for the UK’s small exporters. via @theneweuropean.bsky.social www.theneweuropean.co.uk/the-new-brex...
The new Brexit time bomb
A refresh of EU product safety standards, GPSR, will be a disaster for the UK’s small exporters, with the government little help
www.theneweuropean.co.uk
December 3, 2024 at 4:20 PM
🚨🚨 The grim implications of #brexit is far from over. @jamesrball.com reports on a new bombshell coming on 13 December, the General Product Safety Regulations which is bound to be be a disaster for the UK’s small exporters. via @theneweuropean.bsky.social www.theneweuropean.co.uk/the-new-brex...
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Growing up in Oldham I watched the Metrolink network transform Greater Manchester.
Connectivity has opened up so many opportunities and experiences for people across the region, especially young people.
I had no idea the expansion we’ve seen was in large part thanks to EU funding!
Connectivity has opened up so many opportunities and experiences for people across the region, especially young people.
I had no idea the expansion we’ve seen was in large part thanks to EU funding!
"network upgrades made possible in large part by European Union grants and inexpensive loans more than doubled the size of the Metrolink network from 24 miles to 57 miles, and more than tripled the number of trams on the system."
EU funding to expand Manchester’s tram network
Manchester's tram system benefited from grants and loans from Europe to extend the system to previously unserved suburbs of Manchester.
northwestbylines.co.uk
December 2, 2024 at 2:21 PM
Growing up in Oldham I watched the Metrolink network transform Greater Manchester.
Connectivity has opened up so many opportunities and experiences for people across the region, especially young people.
I had no idea the expansion we’ve seen was in large part thanks to EU funding!
Connectivity has opened up so many opportunities and experiences for people across the region, especially young people.
I had no idea the expansion we’ve seen was in large part thanks to EU funding!