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One of my abiding impressions of Brexit is the way it slammed doors of opportunity in the faces of young people several rungs below Boris Johnson’s countless children on the ladders of privilege & advantage.
"Negotiators are aiming to finalise a deal by January that would allow the UK to participate in Erasmus from 2027 onwards, according to two UK and EU officials."
www.theguardian.com/education/20...
www.theguardian.com/education/20...
UK aims to secure agreement to rejoin Erasmus student exchange scheme
Britain quit EU programme after Brexit, when Boris Johnson claimed it did not offer good value for money
www.theguardian.com
December 2, 2025 at 7:46 AM
One of my abiding impressions of Brexit is the way it slammed doors of opportunity in the faces of young people several rungs below Boris Johnson’s countless children on the ladders of privilege & advantage.
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Former Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernández was convicted of running a narco state. Now he is on the cusp of freedom, with President Trump promising to end his prison sentence with a pardon.
He Was Convicted of Running a Narco State. Now Trump Plans to Pardon Him.
Former President Juan Orlando Hernández was sentenced to 45 years in prison for receiving millions of dollars for protecting drug smugglers.
on.wsj.com
December 2, 2025 at 8:12 AM
Former Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernández was convicted of running a narco state. Now he is on the cusp of freedom, with President Trump promising to end his prison sentence with a pardon.
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Keir Starmer: UK still facing consequences of Brexit vote's 'wild promises'
www.itv.com/news/2025-12...
www.itv.com/news/2025-12...
December 2, 2025 at 8:14 AM
Keir Starmer: UK still facing consequences of Brexit vote's 'wild promises'
www.itv.com/news/2025-12...
www.itv.com/news/2025-12...
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Could we run out of water? “People would be shocked if they knew just how close we’ve come", a former Environment Agency officer told me. To many on this damp little island, the idea’s preposterous. But it’s a very real threat. Here's what I know...
watershedinvestigations.com/day-zero-is-...
watershedinvestigations.com/day-zero-is-...
December 1, 2025 at 9:42 AM
Could we run out of water? “People would be shocked if they knew just how close we’ve come", a former Environment Agency officer told me. To many on this damp little island, the idea’s preposterous. But it’s a very real threat. Here's what I know...
watershedinvestigations.com/day-zero-is-...
watershedinvestigations.com/day-zero-is-...
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“the combat decisions HE has made”
If Admiral Bradley didn’t realize before that these cowards were setting him up to take the fall, he knows it now. Time to hire a good lawyer.
December 2, 2025 at 2:08 AM
“the combat decisions HE has made”
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Labour haven't lied about anything, & already delivered (or are on target to deliver) 55 of their 86 Election pledges - so you can hardly suggest they lied to the electorate about what they'd do in power.
They are probably the most effective, fastest delivering Govt ever
fullfact.org/government-t...
They are probably the most effective, fastest delivering Govt ever
fullfact.org/government-t...
Government Tracker – Full Fact
Full Fact is monitoring the government’s delivery on its promises
fullfact.org
December 1, 2025 at 2:02 PM
Labour haven't lied about anything, & already delivered (or are on target to deliver) 55 of their 86 Election pledges - so you can hardly suggest they lied to the electorate about what they'd do in power.
They are probably the most effective, fastest delivering Govt ever
fullfact.org/government-t...
They are probably the most effective, fastest delivering Govt ever
fullfact.org/government-t...
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NEWS: A federal appeals court has unanimously ruled that Alina Habba is disqualified from serving as U.S. Attorney in New Jersey — calling her appointment unlawful and void. The 3rd Circuit panel upheld a prior decision that her tenure violated federal appointment law.
December 1, 2025 at 3:21 PM
NEWS: A federal appeals court has unanimously ruled that Alina Habba is disqualified from serving as U.S. Attorney in New Jersey — calling her appointment unlawful and void. The 3rd Circuit panel upheld a prior decision that her tenure violated federal appointment law.
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Energy transitions can happen faster than we think:
In 2000 almost 90% of Denmark's electricity was from fossil fuels.
In 2024 less than 10% of Danish electricity was from fossil fuels.
In 2000 almost 90% of Denmark's electricity was from fossil fuels.
In 2024 less than 10% of Danish electricity was from fossil fuels.
December 1, 2025 at 4:18 PM
Energy transitions can happen faster than we think:
In 2000 almost 90% of Denmark's electricity was from fossil fuels.
In 2024 less than 10% of Danish electricity was from fossil fuels.
In 2000 almost 90% of Denmark's electricity was from fossil fuels.
In 2024 less than 10% of Danish electricity was from fossil fuels.
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👏🏽"We must all now confront the reality that the Brexit deal significantly hurt our economy. We have to keep reducing frictions. We have to keep moving towards a closer relationship with the EU. And we have to be grown up about it. To accept that it will require trade-offs."👏🏽
Music to my ears. ~AA
Music to my ears. ~AA
December 1, 2025 at 12:55 PM
👏🏽"We must all now confront the reality that the Brexit deal significantly hurt our economy. We have to keep reducing frictions. We have to keep moving towards a closer relationship with the EU. And we have to be grown up about it. To accept that it will require trade-offs."👏🏽
Music to my ears. ~AA
Music to my ears. ~AA
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Why? Because stories like this one are not priority news mainstream media:
More than 1,000 people have died & thousands were left stranded after heavy monsoon rains, exacerbated by #CycloneDitwah & supercharged by #climatechange, wrought havoc across #SouthAsia.
www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/12...
More than 1,000 people have died & thousands were left stranded after heavy monsoon rains, exacerbated by #CycloneDitwah & supercharged by #climatechange, wrought havoc across #SouthAsia.
www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/12...
Floods in Indonesia, Sri Lanka, Thailand leave more than 1,140 dead
Heavy rains have left Sri Lanka and parts of Indonesia's Sumatra, southern Thailand and northern Malaysia under water.
www.aljazeera.com
December 1, 2025 at 4:32 PM
Why? Because stories like this one are not priority news mainstream media:
More than 1,000 people have died & thousands were left stranded after heavy monsoon rains, exacerbated by #CycloneDitwah & supercharged by #climatechange, wrought havoc across #SouthAsia.
www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/12...
More than 1,000 people have died & thousands were left stranded after heavy monsoon rains, exacerbated by #CycloneDitwah & supercharged by #climatechange, wrought havoc across #SouthAsia.
www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/12...
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Seems to be a widespread concerted effort by corporate mainstream media to misinform.
bsky.app/profile/wayf...
bsky.app/profile/wayf...
Mainstream Media
Owned and operated by corporations to promote and influence for their own corporate interests and financial gain.
Big Five U.S.
#CorporateMedia #MainstreamMedia #Disney #ABC
Owned and operated by corporations to promote and influence for their own corporate interests and financial gain.
Big Five U.S.
#CorporateMedia #MainstreamMedia #Disney #ABC
December 1, 2025 at 3:08 PM
Seems to be a widespread concerted effort by corporate mainstream media to misinform.
bsky.app/profile/wayf...
bsky.app/profile/wayf...
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Department of Defense Law of War Manual, Sec. 18.3.2.1 states the "requirement" to refuse illegal orders.
What’s its key example? Wait for it . . . It’s "orders to fire upon the shipwrecked."
What’s its key example? Wait for it . . . It’s "orders to fire upon the shipwrecked."
December 1, 2025 at 1:49 PM
Department of Defense Law of War Manual, Sec. 18.3.2.1 states the "requirement" to refuse illegal orders.
What’s its key example? Wait for it . . . It’s "orders to fire upon the shipwrecked."
What’s its key example? Wait for it . . . It’s "orders to fire upon the shipwrecked."
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America is not being governed, it’s being looted. Those in power don’t believe the civil war ever ended and they’ve been handed absolute power.
December 1, 2025 at 6:02 AM
America is not being governed, it’s being looted. Those in power don’t believe the civil war ever ended and they’ve been handed absolute power.
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What a Public Inquiry Into Russian Influence in British Politics Must Also Investigate: Boris Johnson and Alexander Lebedev
If you think the Nathan Gill conviction is bad, wait to you hear about another Leave campaigner and his connections to Putin's inner circle
open.substack.com/pub/pdjukes/...
If you think the Nathan Gill conviction is bad, wait to you hear about another Leave campaigner and his connections to Putin's inner circle
open.substack.com/pub/pdjukes/...
What a Public Inquiry Into Russian Influence in British Politics Must Also Investigate: Boris Johnson and Alexander Lebedev
If you think the Gill conviction is bad, linking the Reform UK Party leader's closest aide to the Kremlin, wait to you hear about another Leave campaigner and his connections to Putin's inner circle
open.substack.com
December 1, 2025 at 12:00 PM
What a Public Inquiry Into Russian Influence in British Politics Must Also Investigate: Boris Johnson and Alexander Lebedev
If you think the Nathan Gill conviction is bad, wait to you hear about another Leave campaigner and his connections to Putin's inner circle
open.substack.com/pub/pdjukes/...
If you think the Nathan Gill conviction is bad, wait to you hear about another Leave campaigner and his connections to Putin's inner circle
open.substack.com/pub/pdjukes/...
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Yes we have a problem with it along with members of your own party.
November 30, 2025 at 10:33 PM
Yes we have a problem with it along with members of your own party.
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2014: “I admire Putin as an operator”
2010-14: Appeared on Russia today 17 times
2017: Knighted by a 7 year old girl on RT
2022: blames EU for Russian invasion
2024: “We provoked this war … of course it’s his fault – he’s used what we’ve done as an excuse”
Is this not dodgy?
2010-14: Appeared on Russia today 17 times
2017: Knighted by a 7 year old girl on RT
2022: blames EU for Russian invasion
2024: “We provoked this war … of course it’s his fault – he’s used what we’ve done as an excuse”
Is this not dodgy?
December 1, 2025 at 9:15 AM
2014: “I admire Putin as an operator”
2010-14: Appeared on Russia today 17 times
2017: Knighted by a 7 year old girl on RT
2022: blames EU for Russian invasion
2024: “We provoked this war … of course it’s his fault – he’s used what we’ve done as an excuse”
Is this not dodgy?
2010-14: Appeared on Russia today 17 times
2017: Knighted by a 7 year old girl on RT
2022: blames EU for Russian invasion
2024: “We provoked this war … of course it’s his fault – he’s used what we’ve done as an excuse”
Is this not dodgy?
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Don’t forget LBJ and the war on poverty. If the Dems could just divorce themselves from wall street and dirty money, grow a spine and a set of cajones, and walk the walk, that’d be super.
November 30, 2025 at 2:33 PM
Don’t forget LBJ and the war on poverty. If the Dems could just divorce themselves from wall street and dirty money, grow a spine and a set of cajones, and walk the walk, that’d be super.
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The phone call does not appear to have helped ease the situation.
Trump Says He Spoke to Venezuela’s Maduro Amid Tensions
www.newsweek.com
December 1, 2025 at 9:53 AM
The phone call does not appear to have helped ease the situation.
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There are reports that Chinese military officers were seen at the El Libertador Air Base in Maracay, amid growing military tension between Venezuela and the United States
November 30, 2025 at 8:53 PM
There are reports that Chinese military officers were seen at the El Libertador Air Base in Maracay, amid growing military tension between Venezuela and the United States
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This chart from OBR is very telling. Right wing press are very quiet on why UK is now paying vast £££ on debt interest.
It's very simple - put in measures to bring down debt interest and debt risk premiums then overall cost goes down. This means that more headroom to pay for other things.
It's very simple - put in measures to bring down debt interest and debt risk premiums then overall cost goes down. This means that more headroom to pay for other things.
December 1, 2025 at 9:07 AM
This chart from OBR is very telling. Right wing press are very quiet on why UK is now paying vast £££ on debt interest.
It's very simple - put in measures to bring down debt interest and debt risk premiums then overall cost goes down. This means that more headroom to pay for other things.
It's very simple - put in measures to bring down debt interest and debt risk premiums then overall cost goes down. This means that more headroom to pay for other things.
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People should turn off the Amazon sidewalk setting in mass. It’ll really hurt amazons coverage and surely they won’t be too happy about that
Surveillance state about to get worse
2 Days until Nationwide Facial Recognition! Surveillance with Ring & Flock
YouTube video by Daniel Boctor
youtu.be
November 30, 2025 at 3:17 PM
People should turn off the Amazon sidewalk setting in mass. It’ll really hurt amazons coverage and surely they won’t be too happy about that
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Priorities from the dude pretending to be president. 🙄
November 30, 2025 at 8:24 PM
Priorities from the dude pretending to be president. 🙄