Carolyn Brown
@cbrown75.bsky.social
I’m from the UK and took an interest in politics after the 2016 referendum. Brexit has not worked and now there is Trump again. I’m a 75 year old Granny who likes gardening and history especially the Tudors. I’m enjoying Blue Sky.
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The i Paper: UK visas for 44,000 European under-30s could seal new Brexit deal
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UK visas for 44,000 European under-30s could seal new Brexit deal
A deal could see tens of thousands of British under-30s travel, work or study in the EU
inews.co.uk
December 9, 2025 at 8:42 PM
The i Paper: UK visas for 44,000 European under-30s could seal new Brexit deal
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The richest 10 percent of the world's population owns three-quarters of all personal wealth.
Where in the world are wealth and income most unequal?
The richest 10 percent of the world's population owns three-quarters of all personal wealth.
bit.ly
December 10, 2025 at 9:00 AM
The richest 10 percent of the world's population owns three-quarters of all personal wealth.
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So today I found out that my TED talk ‘This is What a Digital Coup Looks Like’ was TED’s most watched talk of the year.
It’s sort of amazing & terrifying. Because this *is* what a digital coup looks like.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=TZOo...
It’s sort of amazing & terrifying. Because this *is* what a digital coup looks like.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=TZOo...
This Is What a Digital Coup Looks Like | Carole Cadwalladr | TED
YouTube video by TED
www.youtube.com
December 9, 2025 at 10:29 PM
So today I found out that my TED talk ‘This is What a Digital Coup Looks Like’ was TED’s most watched talk of the year.
It’s sort of amazing & terrifying. Because this *is* what a digital coup looks like.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=TZOo...
It’s sort of amazing & terrifying. Because this *is* what a digital coup looks like.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=TZOo...
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I had fun reading to some Burke Elementary students at the Chicago Public Library today. When the Obama Presidential Center opens next year, we’ll have a new branch of the library for the community to enjoy.
December 10, 2025 at 12:37 AM
I had fun reading to some Burke Elementary students at the Chicago Public Library today. When the Obama Presidential Center opens next year, we’ll have a new branch of the library for the community to enjoy.
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🇬🇧 🇺🇸 WATCH — @mrjamesob.bsky.social: “I’m going to say this slowly… The President of The United States of America has sided with Putin against the United Kingdom. He has put the whole of Europe in the crosshairs.”
December 9, 2025 at 6:25 PM
🇬🇧 🇺🇸 WATCH — @mrjamesob.bsky.social: “I’m going to say this slowly… The President of The United States of America has sided with Putin against the United Kingdom. He has put the whole of Europe in the crosshairs.”
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It is absolutely wild that the guy who won’t stop yelling about law and order is now personally stepping in to keep January 6 documents hidden from the police officers who were attacked that day. He knows exactly what’s in those files and he is terrified the country will see it.
December 9, 2025 at 9:26 PM
It is absolutely wild that the guy who won’t stop yelling about law and order is now personally stepping in to keep January 6 documents hidden from the police officers who were attacked that day. He knows exactly what’s in those files and he is terrified the country will see it.
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Great news that the Lib Dem motion to join the EU Customs Union passed, so that it can now be debated properly in Parliament.
Special thanks to the 13 Labour MPs who supported the bill, but maybe it should have been more?
It’s obvious to everyone that the current deal is not sufficient.🇪🇺
#LibDems🔶
Special thanks to the 13 Labour MPs who supported the bill, but maybe it should have been more?
It’s obvious to everyone that the current deal is not sufficient.🇪🇺
#LibDems🔶
🚨BREAKING🚨
MPs have voted to PASS our bill to establish a UK-EU customs union.
The Prime Minister must now listen to his own MPs, drop his self-imposed red lines and finally go for proper growth through an ambitious trade deal with the EU.
MPs have voted to PASS our bill to establish a UK-EU customs union.
The Prime Minister must now listen to his own MPs, drop his self-imposed red lines and finally go for proper growth through an ambitious trade deal with the EU.
December 9, 2025 at 7:06 PM
Great news that the Lib Dem motion to join the EU Customs Union passed, so that it can now be debated properly in Parliament.
Special thanks to the 13 Labour MPs who supported the bill, but maybe it should have been more?
It’s obvious to everyone that the current deal is not sufficient.🇪🇺
#LibDems🔶
Special thanks to the 13 Labour MPs who supported the bill, but maybe it should have been more?
It’s obvious to everyone that the current deal is not sufficient.🇪🇺
#LibDems🔶
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Reform councils have spent twice as much on private sector contracts in the six months since the election compared to a year previously
www.newstatesman.com/politics/uk-...
www.newstatesman.com/politics/uk-...
Reform's "DOGE" yet to tame outsourcers
Reform councils have spent twice as much on private sector contracts in the six months since the election compared to a year previously
www.newstatesman.com
December 9, 2025 at 6:58 AM
Reform councils have spent twice as much on private sector contracts in the six months since the election compared to a year previously
www.newstatesman.com/politics/uk-...
www.newstatesman.com/politics/uk-...
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New Home Office impact assessment finds that cutting skilled and social care visas will cost the UK up to £10 billion with a central estimate of -£5.4 billion.
It would be good if this got even a fraction of the coverage devoted to the endless debate about boats, flags and Turkish barber shops
It would be good if this got even a fraction of the coverage devoted to the endless debate about boats, flags and Turkish barber shops
December 9, 2025 at 2:36 PM
New Home Office impact assessment finds that cutting skilled and social care visas will cost the UK up to £10 billion with a central estimate of -£5.4 billion.
It would be good if this got even a fraction of the coverage devoted to the endless debate about boats, flags and Turkish barber shops
It would be good if this got even a fraction of the coverage devoted to the endless debate about boats, flags and Turkish barber shops
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What a victory! Today MPs narrowly backed our bill to cut the Brexit red tape and end this economic nightmare.
The PM must listen to Parliament and the public, drop his self-imposed red lines and go for growth with a new customs union.
The PM must listen to Parliament and the public, drop his self-imposed red lines and go for growth with a new customs union.
December 9, 2025 at 5:00 PM
What a victory! Today MPs narrowly backed our bill to cut the Brexit red tape and end this economic nightmare.
The PM must listen to Parliament and the public, drop his self-imposed red lines and go for growth with a new customs union.
The PM must listen to Parliament and the public, drop his self-imposed red lines and go for growth with a new customs union.
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Spoiler alert…
It wasn’t.
It isn’t.
They don’t.
It wasn’t.
It isn’t.
They don’t.
Trump: "It was a rigged election. It's gonna come out over the next couple months too, loud and clear. Because we have all the information."
December 9, 2025 at 6:55 PM
Spoiler alert…
It wasn’t.
It isn’t.
They don’t.
It wasn’t.
It isn’t.
They don’t.
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Leaders of a Catholic church in Massachusetts kept a Nativity display with an anti-ICE message in place on Monday, defying an order from the Catholic Archdiocese of Boston to remove it. The display shows Mary, Joseph and baby Jesus missing, replaced by a sign reading “ICE WAS HERE.” trib.al/adPW46y
December 9, 2025 at 4:59 PM
Leaders of a Catholic church in Massachusetts kept a Nativity display with an anti-ICE message in place on Monday, defying an order from the Catholic Archdiocese of Boston to remove it. The display shows Mary, Joseph and baby Jesus missing, replaced by a sign reading “ICE WAS HERE.” trib.al/adPW46y
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No Prince Philip either
With this there would have been no Mo Farah. No Freddie Mercury. No Lenny Henry. No George Michael. No Meera Syal. No Sadiq Khan. No Sajid Javid. No Salman Rushdie. No Hanif Kureishi.
December 9, 2025 at 12:15 PM
No Prince Philip either
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In Luxor. Astonishing.
December 9, 2025 at 7:11 PM
In Luxor. Astonishing.
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Just one more chapel in Sunderland this time... I promise!
This is a cracking little place of worship, and very typical of many Methodist congregations to go for a bit of a classical influence without the frolics or ornamentation.
This is a cracking little place of worship, and very typical of many Methodist congregations to go for a bit of a classical influence without the frolics or ornamentation.
December 9, 2025 at 4:41 PM
Just one more chapel in Sunderland this time... I promise!
This is a cracking little place of worship, and very typical of many Methodist congregations to go for a bit of a classical influence without the frolics or ornamentation.
This is a cracking little place of worship, and very typical of many Methodist congregations to go for a bit of a classical influence without the frolics or ornamentation.
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🔥 WE’RE changing the media.
Citizen journalism is peer-to-peer news, it’s forging information networks from the grassroots up, sidestepping the top-down mainstream media.
Utterly new and fresh.
Become a friend of the Bylines Network and stand with us as we build media as it should be. 👇👇
Citizen journalism is peer-to-peer news, it’s forging information networks from the grassroots up, sidestepping the top-down mainstream media.
Utterly new and fresh.
Become a friend of the Bylines Network and stand with us as we build media as it should be. 👇👇
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December 9, 2025 at 4:55 PM
🔥 WE’RE changing the media.
Citizen journalism is peer-to-peer news, it’s forging information networks from the grassroots up, sidestepping the top-down mainstream media.
Utterly new and fresh.
Become a friend of the Bylines Network and stand with us as we build media as it should be. 👇👇
Citizen journalism is peer-to-peer news, it’s forging information networks from the grassroots up, sidestepping the top-down mainstream media.
Utterly new and fresh.
Become a friend of the Bylines Network and stand with us as we build media as it should be. 👇👇
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“Rep. Adelita Grijalva says she was pepper-sprayed during ICE raid!”
“I think that this is one of the problems, the biggest problem that we have in this community is that we have Trump has no regard for any due process, the rule of law, the Constitution,”
www.politico.com/news/2025/12...
“I think that this is one of the problems, the biggest problem that we have in this community is that we have Trump has no regard for any due process, the rule of law, the Constitution,”
www.politico.com/news/2025/12...
Rep. Adelita Grijalva says she was pepper-sprayed during ICE raid
The Arizona Democrat said she was seeking information from federal agents at the raid in Tucson.
www.politico.com
December 6, 2025 at 5:55 PM
“Rep. Adelita Grijalva says she was pepper-sprayed during ICE raid!”
“I think that this is one of the problems, the biggest problem that we have in this community is that we have Trump has no regard for any due process, the rule of law, the Constitution,”
www.politico.com/news/2025/12...
“I think that this is one of the problems, the biggest problem that we have in this community is that we have Trump has no regard for any due process, the rule of law, the Constitution,”
www.politico.com/news/2025/12...
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🚨BREAKING🚨
MPs have voted to PASS our bill to establish a UK-EU customs union.
The Prime Minister must now listen to his own MPs, drop his self-imposed red lines and finally go for proper growth through an ambitious trade deal with the EU.
MPs have voted to PASS our bill to establish a UK-EU customs union.
The Prime Minister must now listen to his own MPs, drop his self-imposed red lines and finally go for proper growth through an ambitious trade deal with the EU.
December 9, 2025 at 3:21 PM
🚨BREAKING🚨
MPs have voted to PASS our bill to establish a UK-EU customs union.
The Prime Minister must now listen to his own MPs, drop his self-imposed red lines and finally go for proper growth through an ambitious trade deal with the EU.
MPs have voted to PASS our bill to establish a UK-EU customs union.
The Prime Minister must now listen to his own MPs, drop his self-imposed red lines and finally go for proper growth through an ambitious trade deal with the EU.
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The move follows a listing by Texas last month. The NGO calls the designation 'unconstitutional' and 'defamatory'.
Florida lists Muslim rights group CAIR a ‘terror organisation’
The move follows a listing by Texas last month. The NGO calls the designation 'unconstitutional' and 'defamatory'.
bit.ly
December 9, 2025 at 11:00 AM
The move follows a listing by Texas last month. The NGO calls the designation 'unconstitutional' and 'defamatory'.
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Great idea not to mention that the entire saving was made in the year ending March 2025, two months before Reform took over.
December 9, 2025 at 8:38 AM
Great idea not to mention that the entire saving was made in the year ending March 2025, two months before Reform took over.
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Despite what you hear from fossil fuel-funded politicians, the U.K has just generated a record amount of clean, domestic wind energy.
Enough to power 23 million homes!
U.K decarbonisation policy is a recipe for energy security.
Enough to power 23 million homes!
U.K decarbonisation policy is a recipe for energy security.
December 9, 2025 at 9:27 AM
Despite what you hear from fossil fuel-funded politicians, the U.K has just generated a record amount of clean, domestic wind energy.
Enough to power 23 million homes!
U.K decarbonisation policy is a recipe for energy security.
Enough to power 23 million homes!
U.K decarbonisation policy is a recipe for energy security.
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"When the airstrike hit, I never imagined that the place I once called home would turn into a mound of shattered concrete and twisted metal.
In the span of a few seconds, the walls that held years of memories – laughter, family dinners, my children’s first steps – were reduced to debris"
In the span of a few seconds, the walls that held years of memories – laughter, family dinners, my children’s first steps – were reduced to debris"
A father standing on the rubble: life after my home fell apart
"My only hope is that someone out there will hear our story. I just want my children to have a roof again… a place where they can feel like kids"
northeastbylines.co.uk
December 9, 2025 at 10:55 AM
"When the airstrike hit, I never imagined that the place I once called home would turn into a mound of shattered concrete and twisted metal.
In the span of a few seconds, the walls that held years of memories – laughter, family dinners, my children’s first steps – were reduced to debris"
In the span of a few seconds, the walls that held years of memories – laughter, family dinners, my children’s first steps – were reduced to debris"
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Seeing this news is so weird for me because in 1989 when I was a baby 25-year-old corporate litigator in Manhattan, one of the first things I worked on was Warner Communications Inc.'s defense against a hostile takeover bid from Paramount Communications Inc.
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December 8, 2025 at 7:05 PM
Seeing this news is so weird for me because in 1989 when I was a baby 25-year-old corporate litigator in Manhattan, one of the first things I worked on was Warner Communications Inc.'s defense against a hostile takeover bid from Paramount Communications Inc.
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