Jonathan
@callimachus05.bsky.social
Classicist and Lawyer. Staunchly anti-Brexit. All for soothing anger where I can. Euripides, Medea 1265/6: “τί σοι φρενοβαρὴς / χόλος προσπίτνει . ...;".
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⬇️ Brexit has led to 1.8 million fewer jobs in the UK.
🇪🇺 Want better jobs? Encourage investment from business and knock down our disastrous trade barriers with our largest and closest market.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cdxrp7znkdlo
🇪🇺 Want better jobs? Encourage investment from business and knock down our disastrous trade barriers with our largest and closest market.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cdxrp7znkdlo
UK unemployment rate rises to 5% as jobs market weakens
Latest official data ahead of the Budget later this month shows it is the highest rate since 2021.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 11, 2025 at 1:10 PM
⬇️ Brexit has led to 1.8 million fewer jobs in the UK.
🇪🇺 Want better jobs? Encourage investment from business and knock down our disastrous trade barriers with our largest and closest market.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cdxrp7znkdlo
🇪🇺 Want better jobs? Encourage investment from business and knock down our disastrous trade barriers with our largest and closest market.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cdxrp7znkdlo
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“tell the nation not only that it is time we recognised the folly of Brexit but also that it is in our trading and budgetary interests to apply to rejoin the single market and the customs union.”
observer.co.uk/news/busines...
observer.co.uk/news/busines...
Reeves can no longer ignore ‘mammoth in the broom cupboard’ | The Observer
observer.co.uk
November 9, 2025 at 2:41 PM
“tell the nation not only that it is time we recognised the folly of Brexit but also that it is in our trading and budgetary interests to apply to rejoin the single market and the customs union.”
observer.co.uk/news/busines...
observer.co.uk/news/busines...
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It can’t make any sense to tax electric car drivers for not burning fossil fuels while allowing people that fly to pay no tax for burning fossil fuels. The answer is simple, extend the charging per mile to the airline industry. Fair, climate effective and tax raising - all at the same time.
November 9, 2025 at 4:29 PM
It can’t make any sense to tax electric car drivers for not burning fossil fuels while allowing people that fly to pay no tax for burning fossil fuels. The answer is simple, extend the charging per mile to the airline industry. Fair, climate effective and tax raising - all at the same time.
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That the UK - one of the architects of this fund, designed to save the world’s forests - is now refusing to put any money into it is frankly shameful. Starmer’s claim that he still continues to back the fund is meaningless without resources - so much for climate leadership
November 6, 2025 at 9:54 AM
That the UK - one of the architects of this fund, designed to save the world’s forests - is now refusing to put any money into it is frankly shameful. Starmer’s claim that he still continues to back the fund is meaningless without resources - so much for climate leadership
Difficult to fathom the rationale for this proposal. In the meantime one notes that aviation fuel duty relief remains untouched, the government gives the green light to airport expansion plans, no wealth tax on extreme personal wealth … more disappointing news from Labour.
November 6, 2025 at 11:49 AM
Difficult to fathom the rationale for this proposal. In the meantime one notes that aviation fuel duty relief remains untouched, the government gives the green light to airport expansion plans, no wealth tax on extreme personal wealth … more disappointing news from Labour.
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A great day for the golden rule of political analysis: when the right wins it is a resounding ideological victory that humiliates the left and when the left wins it is a precarious fluke that will surely end up humiliating the left. Conservatives are power’s landlords and the left merely tenants
November 5, 2025 at 10:35 AM
A great day for the golden rule of political analysis: when the right wins it is a resounding ideological victory that humiliates the left and when the left wins it is a precarious fluke that will surely end up humiliating the left. Conservatives are power’s landlords and the left merely tenants
It’s very simple: if Labour wishes to avoid making “the necessary choices”, including the obvious choice of taking the UK back into (at least) the single market, my vote will go elsewhere.
November 4, 2025 at 9:39 AM
It’s very simple: if Labour wishes to avoid making “the necessary choices”, including the obvious choice of taking the UK back into (at least) the single market, my vote will go elsewhere.
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YOUNG PEOPLE. LISTEN UP.
Today Nigel Farage said the government should cut the minimum wage for young people
...to “raise aspiration” and “boost business"
It's £10ph FFS!
Lower your pay so you’ll dream bigger
DO YOU SEE IT NOW?
Spread far & wide.
bylinetimes.com/2025/11/03/n...
Today Nigel Farage said the government should cut the minimum wage for young people
...to “raise aspiration” and “boost business"
It's £10ph FFS!
Lower your pay so you’ll dream bigger
DO YOU SEE IT NOW?
Spread far & wide.
bylinetimes.com/2025/11/03/n...
Nigel Farage Says Minimum Wage Should Be Cut for Young People
The Reform leader said cutting the minimum wage for young people would boost business, as he attacked plans to raise taxes on the wealthy
bylinetimes.com
November 3, 2025 at 2:03 PM
YOUNG PEOPLE. LISTEN UP.
Today Nigel Farage said the government should cut the minimum wage for young people
...to “raise aspiration” and “boost business"
It's £10ph FFS!
Lower your pay so you’ll dream bigger
DO YOU SEE IT NOW?
Spread far & wide.
bylinetimes.com/2025/11/03/n...
Today Nigel Farage said the government should cut the minimum wage for young people
...to “raise aspiration” and “boost business"
It's £10ph FFS!
Lower your pay so you’ll dream bigger
DO YOU SEE IT NOW?
Spread far & wide.
bylinetimes.com/2025/11/03/n...
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The very real condition of government announcement-itis in which repeated claims of new investments, simplified regulations, public funds, and various other initiatives cumulatively don't actually add up to very much at all.
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Reeves launches ‘blitz’ on red tape in bid to save £6bn a year for UK business
Chancellor aims to scrap ‘pointless paperwork’ and will also pledge to make M&A rules more transparent
www.ft.com
October 21, 2025 at 10:03 AM
The very real condition of government announcement-itis in which repeated claims of new investments, simplified regulations, public funds, and various other initiatives cumulatively don't actually add up to very much at all.
www.ft.com/content/cffa...
www.ft.com/content/cffa...
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Brexit impact on UK economy
'negative for foreseeable future’, Bank of England chief says
news.sky.com/story/brexit...
'negative for foreseeable future’, Bank of England chief says
news.sky.com/story/brexit...
Brexit impact on UK economy 'negative for foreseeable future,' Bank of England chief says
The bank's governor, Andrew Bailey, said for nearly a decade he had been careful to "take no position on Brexit" but when asked directly about its impact on economic growth he "had to answer that ques...
news.sky.com
October 18, 2025 at 9:57 PM
Brexit impact on UK economy
'negative for foreseeable future’, Bank of England chief says
news.sky.com/story/brexit...
'negative for foreseeable future’, Bank of England chief says
news.sky.com/story/brexit...
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Oh.
The British voted for Brexit because of immigration.
But now, they want to turn back the clock in favor of the pre-2021 border system.
But now, they want to turn back the clock in favor of the pre-2021 border system.
Brits are pining for the pre-Brexit migration system
The idea was that leaving the bloc would give the U.K. back “control” of its borders and create a fairer system. But the widespread perception is it didn’t turn out that way.
www.politico.eu
October 16, 2025 at 7:41 AM
Oh.
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"15 years ago, Polish workers came here to find opportunity. Now Poland is growing twice as fast as we are," says Kemi Badenoch.
Any ideas what may have happened in the interim?
Any ideas what may have happened in the interim?
October 8, 2025 at 10:33 AM
"15 years ago, Polish workers came here to find opportunity. Now Poland is growing twice as fast as we are," says Kemi Badenoch.
Any ideas what may have happened in the interim?
Any ideas what may have happened in the interim?
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Your right to life
Your right not to be tortured
Your right not to be enslaved
Your right to liberty
Your right to a fair trial
Your right to privacy
Your right to practice your religion
Your right to freedom of expression
Your right not to be discriminated against
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Your right not to be tortured
Your right not to be enslaved
Your right to liberty
Your right to a fair trial
Your right to privacy
Your right to practice your religion
Your right to freedom of expression
Your right not to be discriminated against
www.bbc.com/news/article...
UK will leave ECHR if Tories win election, Badenoch says
The European Convention on Human Rights has become a focal point in debates around changing immigration policy.
www.bbc.com
October 4, 2025 at 12:03 PM
Your right to life
Your right not to be tortured
Your right not to be enslaved
Your right to liberty
Your right to a fair trial
Your right to privacy
Your right to practice your religion
Your right to freedom of expression
Your right not to be discriminated against
www.bbc.com/news/article...
Your right not to be tortured
Your right not to be enslaved
Your right to liberty
Your right to a fair trial
Your right to privacy
Your right to practice your religion
Your right to freedom of expression
Your right not to be discriminated against
www.bbc.com/news/article...
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The Convention on Human Rights is one of the greatest achievements of European civilisation following one of its greatest tragedies. To join Russia in leaving it would be one of the biggest acts of national self-sabotage in history and have zero positive consequences www.bbc.com/news/article...
UK will leave ECHR if Tories win election, Badenoch says
The European Convention on Human Rights has become a focal point in debates around changing immigration policy.
www.bbc.com
October 4, 2025 at 10:35 AM
The Convention on Human Rights is one of the greatest achievements of European civilisation following one of its greatest tragedies. To join Russia in leaving it would be one of the biggest acts of national self-sabotage in history and have zero positive consequences www.bbc.com/news/article...
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Leaving the ECHR is just another "cause" that right-wing lunatics can latch onto.
It's Brexit 2.
And like the original most people backing, it don't understand it, don't really believe in what they
are doing and do not care one jot what havoc it causes.
It's Brexit 2.
And like the original most people backing, it don't understand it, don't really believe in what they
are doing and do not care one jot what havoc it causes.
October 4, 2025 at 4:18 PM
Leaving the ECHR is just another "cause" that right-wing lunatics can latch onto.
It's Brexit 2.
And like the original most people backing, it don't understand it, don't really believe in what they
are doing and do not care one jot what havoc it causes.
It's Brexit 2.
And like the original most people backing, it don't understand it, don't really believe in what they
are doing and do not care one jot what havoc it causes.
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Hardly a surprise that the UK's trade deal with the US wouldn't be the end of the story. What is more noteworthy is how little the UK government delivered from the state visit, and that the EU's ceiling now seems in many ways a better deal. www.politico.eu/article/us-d...
Trump tariff threats punch holes in UK trade deal
A flurry of new tariff announcements on pharma, trucks and movies have left British officials scrambling to keep up.
www.politico.eu
October 3, 2025 at 8:24 AM
Hardly a surprise that the UK's trade deal with the US wouldn't be the end of the story. What is more noteworthy is how little the UK government delivered from the state visit, and that the EU's ceiling now seems in many ways a better deal. www.politico.eu/article/us-d...