Michelle Everson

@eversonmeverson.bsky.social

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Professor of Law, European and economic law are specialities; also sheep selfies.

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Political science 51%

Law 14%

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Ed Davey @eddavey.libdems.org.uk · 12h

Trump and his cronies have the BBC in their sights. Leaders can’t stay silent while one of our great institutions is attacked.

We must defend its independence, end political appointments, and remove Robbie Gibb from the Board.

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Journal of Common Market Studies (JCMS) @jcms-eu.bsky.social · 19h

New in JCMS: Stefano Greco & Tapio Raunio explore how Europarties use social media to shape EU democracy and are strong on visibility, but weak on mobilisation.

🔗Read here: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10....

#Europarties #EUPolitics #JCMS #UACES

Forming European Political Awareness and Facilitating Civic Engagement? Mainstream Europarties in Social Media

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onlinelibrary.wiley.com

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Peter Kay @theonlypeterkay.bsky.social · 19h

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Michael Prescott sat on the BBC’s Editorial Guidelines & Standards Committee — the body meant to police impartiality.
But Prescott isn’t just any adviser. He’s a senior lobbyist from Hanover Comms — founded by a former Tory press chief.

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

The BBC is facing a coordinated, politically motivated attack. With these resignations, it has given in | Jane Martinson

The corporation should have stood up to the Telegraph, Trump and the Tories. Now, its enemies know how little it takes for it to fold, says Jane Martinson, professor of financial journalism

www.theguardian.com

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Dan Snow @thehistoryguy.bsky.social · 21h

An essential precondition for authoritarianism is the neutering of sources of real news.

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Molly Scott Cato @greenpartymolly.bsky.social · 22h

Fascinating that Nick Robinson names Robbie Gibb as the instigator of the coup at the BBC

He was promoted to ensure that Brexit went ahead

He is the sort of shadowy character who is essential to the unpicking of democracy

This should be the end of his time on the BBC board

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Disappointed Optimist @disappoptimism.bsky.social · 1d

Gary Lineker for DG of BBC.

Let the piss boil

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Ed Davey @eddavey.libdems.org.uk · 1d

The resignations of Tim Davie and Deborah Turness must be an opportunity for the BBC to turn a new leaf, rebuild trust and resist those like Nigel Farage who want to destroy it

We must stand up for a strong, independent BBC, to stop Trump’s America becoming Farage's Britain.

Reposted by Steve Peers, Leigh Sparks, Mary Corcoran , and 6 more Steve Peers, Leigh Sparks, Mary Corcoran, John Foot, Michelle Everson, Michael Morris, Michael H. Whitworth, Mark Priestley, Stuart White

Chaminda Jayanetti @cjayanetti.bsky.social · 1d

the right winger who was appointed to lead the BBC in the hope of appeasing right wingers has been driven out by right wingers for not appeasing right wingers enough and the BBC has the chance to do the funniest thing ever

Michelle Everson @eversonmeverson.bsky.social · 1d

A lonesome crane in North Germany on the bleak old Devil's moor. I hope no bird flu, and just resting, waiting for the next group to go by. But... worrisome at the moment.

A crane, large white migrant bird alone in a field.

A bleak view of the Devil's moor, North Germany.

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 1d

“I want you to understand what it is like to live in Chicago during this time.”

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I want you to understand what it is like to live in Chicago during this time.

Every day my phone buzzes. It is a neighborhood group: four people were kidnapped at the corner drugstore. A friend a mile away sends a Slack message: she was at the scene when masked men assaulted and abducted two people on the street. A plumber working on my pipes is distraught, and I find out that two of his employees were kidnapped that morning. A week later it happens again.

An email arrives. Agents with guns have chased a teacher into the school where she works. They did not have a warrant. They dragged her away, ignoring her and her colleagues’ pleas to show proof of her documentation. That evening I stand a few feet from the parents of Rayito de Sol and listen to them describe, with anguish, how good Ms. Diana was to their children. What it is like to have strangers with guns traumatize your kids. For a teacher to hide a three-year-old child for fear they might be killed. How their relatives will no longer leave the house. I hear the pain and fury in their voices, and I wonder who will be next.

Understand what it is to pray in Chicago.

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PatriotTakes 🇺🇸 @patriottakes.bsky.social · 2d

Guests eating fancy dinners in Trump’s Mar-a-Lago ballroom as American families stand in line at food banks

Michelle Everson @eversonmeverson.bsky.social · 3d

Now, you might laugh, but having been stuck on a train for 5 hours last week between Frankfurt and Bremen with @werder.de fans, the wokest in the Bundesliga after @fcstpauli.com, I know this is already happening. The 'Wir sind das Stadtbild' chant is genius, a modern cris du coeur of Verfremdung.

Reposted by Steven French, Leigh Sparks, Michelle Everson , and 1 more Steven French, Leigh Sparks, Michelle Everson, Marie-Laure Basilien-Gainche

Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 3d

A criminal court in Brussels on Wednesday convicted two Polish nationals – including a current European Parliament assistant – of misusing EU funds tied to political entities associated with Brexit-backer Nigel Farage.

https://bit.ly/4oSrA0R

Belgian court convicts two for EU funds misuse linked to Nigel Farage's Brexit group | Euractiv

Verdict ends decade-long probe into alleged misuse of EU funds by associates of top Brexit campaigner

www.euractiv.com

Reposted by Daniela Gabor, Michelle Everson, Alan McNally

Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 4d

The Spectator are confused.

It's not going to be cost free.

Billionaires are going to pay more.

Join.greenparty.org.uk

Like Zohran, Zack offers the thrill of cost free rebellion.

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Prof Sheena Cruickshank @sheencr.bsky.social · 4d

Important report critiquing how uk has been or not been supporting scaling up science innovations. Notably also scathing about vast costs for visas for researchers too- hope this will be noted and acted upon🧪

U.K. science sector is ‘bleeding to death,’ lawmakers say in report

House of Lords committee urges government to stem exodus of science and technology companies

www.science.org

Reposted by David M. Farrell, Steve Peers, Maarten Vink , and 2 more David M. Farrell, Steve Peers, Maarten Vink, Tobias Lock, Michelle Everson

Jo Shaw @joshaw.bsky.social · 4d

Are you a PhD or early career researcher in EU law and politics? Come to the Europa Institute of the University of Edinburgh to give a paper at our PhD/ECR Workshop on the topic of "Defending the European Union". Dates: 23-24 April 2026. Details here: www.law.ed.ac.uk/news-events/...

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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 4d

Vital piece of investigative reporting from Sky. They've uncovered the X algorithm which feeds users extremist right wing material from the moment they join the site. It is a far-right radicalisation engine, by design.

news.sky.com/story/the-x-...

Elon Musk is boosting the British right - and this shows how

news.sky.com

Michelle Everson @eversonmeverson.bsky.social · 4d

Love them! Dippers and tree creepers just make me smile and smile and smile.

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Twlldun @twlldun.bsky.social · 5d

Was at the local Tesco earlier getting sausages and found myself singing “sausages, sausages” to the chorus of Saturday Night’s Alright For Fighting. Which 70s classic single do you sing when purchasing foodstuffs that half rhyme with it?

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Patrick - Here for the craic 👍🏼 @paddyopatrick.bsky.social · 5d

Who said “Reform Councillors are all as dodgy AF”❗️

Lancashire’s Reform-run council plans to turf old ppl out closing 5 council-run care homes & 5 day centres to sell off the land for £4 million

And get this - a cabinet member owns a private care company with his wife so could make £’s from it
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Lancashire’s Reform-run council plans to close care homes and day centres to sell off land

Questions about potential conflict of interest as council’s Reform cabinet member for social care owns private care company

www.theguardian.com

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Sara-Jane Vigneault @sjvigneault.bsky.social · 5d

I’ll be presenting 'Queering the Rhineland: Same-Sex Intimacies and Interracial Fantasies during the Occupation' at the Modern European History Seminar @camhistory.bsky.social next Tuesday (11.11) at 5:15 pm.

Nov. 11: 'Queering the Rhineland: Same-Sex Intimacies and Interracial Fantasies during the Occupation' Sara-Jane Vigneault (Cambridge)

Michelle Everson @eversonmeverson.bsky.social · 5d

Although also a bit of a production of its time: has always jarred just a tick with me in terms of the 1930s underlying sense of entitlement; might be part of the point of course, and I stand to be corrected.

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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 5d

⚠️ "I'm told that calling the left the party of murder, and saying violence is coming, and you better fight back or you die, is not enough to prosecute this odious man. But we don't have to do business with him, do we?"

Michelle Everson @eversonmeverson.bsky.social · 5d

More so Fiona. Farage is what he is. Starmer is a kidney stone in the waters of progressive socialism (progressive liberalism even...); and that from a lack of political nous rather than from an ideological position. Absurd.

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 5d

What a morning to be on Ridge & Frost to celebrate Zohran Mamdani's win!

Improving people's lives. Focusing on inequality and empowering communities.

This is how you do it.

Michelle Everson @eversonmeverson.bsky.social · 5d

Thanks George. Excellent reminders. Don't forget the integrative power of the green lanes into cities (for me, Epping forest/Essex marshes/Lea Valley etc..) and the way they get demonised as criminal/aberrant too. I always hear Benjamin Zaphaniah's 'It was the first of May' when that starts up.

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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 5d

What happens now is that every dropped piece of trash, every inch of graffiti, every broken down subway train, every disappointing sandwich, every rat in Central Park, and every single crime gets blamed on Zohran Mamdani... by racists who never go near NYC.

My tip as a Londoner. Shrug and carry on.

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Steve Carter @shieldaig.bsky.social · 5d

Singing in the rain.

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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 5d

The UK Must Urgently Distance Itself From Elon Musk and Space X, Warns Parliamentary Report

The UK’s infrastructure has become far too reliant on the far-right billionaire, who could ‘politicise’ our reliance upon his companies, the report warns

bylinetimes.com/2025/11/04/t...

The UK Must Urgently Distance Itself From Elon Musk and Space X, Warns Parliamentary Report

The UK's infrastructure has become far too reliant on the far-right billionaire, who could 'politicise' our reliance upon his companies, the report warns

bylinetimes.com

Reposted by Michelle Everson, Aurélien Mondon, Lisa Diedrich , and 1 more Michelle Everson, Aurélien Mondon, Lisa Diedrich, Stuart White

Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 5d

Zohran's campaign was his determination to make New York a city everyone can afford to live in. Huge congratulations!

His success will resonate throughout the world. A story where no one is left behind.

It's time to write that story across England & Wales too.

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