Daniel R
@danielrob001.bsky.social
Software developer. Mangler of the written language. Temporarily embarrassed trillionaire.
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“The unthinkable has happened. The US is Europe’s adversary. The stark, profound betrayal contained in the Trump administration’s national security strategy should stop any further denial and dithering in Europe’s capitals.“
Brilliant piece from, Dr Johnny Ryan, on why Europe needs to confront directly on AI and tech regulation.
Every chancellery in Europe has should read this.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Every chancellery in Europe has should read this.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
This is Europe's secret weapon against Trump: it could burst his AI bubble | Johnny Ryan
Growth in the US economy – and the president’s political survival – rest on AI. The EU must use its leverage and stand up to him, says the Irish Council for Civil Liberties’ Johnny Ryan
www.theguardian.com
December 17, 2025 at 11:12 AM
“The unthinkable has happened. The US is Europe’s adversary. The stark, profound betrayal contained in the Trump administration’s national security strategy should stop any further denial and dithering in Europe’s capitals.“
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Bad news for Starmer- union ally Christina Mcanea loses Unison General Secretary election. Replaced by Andrea Egan, who ran from the left, and has promised to review Unison's relationship with Labour.
www.politicshome.com/news/article...
www.politicshome.com/news/article...
Andrea Egan Wins Unison Race In Blow For No 10
Keir Starmer critic Andrea Egan has won the race to be general secretary of Unison, Britain's biggest trade union and a key Labour Party affiliate,...
www.politicshome.com
December 17, 2025 at 11:28 AM
Bad news for Starmer- union ally Christina Mcanea loses Unison General Secretary election. Replaced by Andrea Egan, who ran from the left, and has promised to review Unison's relationship with Labour.
www.politicshome.com/news/article...
www.politicshome.com/news/article...
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🇺🇸🇪🇺🇺🇦Trump administration pressures EU countries to abandon plan to use €210 billion in frozen Russian assets to finance Ukraine, - Politico
December 17, 2025 at 10:54 AM
🇺🇸🇪🇺🇺🇦Trump administration pressures EU countries to abandon plan to use €210 billion in frozen Russian assets to finance Ukraine, - Politico
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HURRAH! Petitions are crap at making gov'ts do things they don't want to. But they are good for two things: First, making them explain why they won't do something, but second (and more important) nudging/giving them permission to do something they DO want, but that's been crowded out bandwidth-wise.
UK to hold inquiry into foreign financial interference in domestic politics
Review, which will focus on effectiveness of political finance laws, follows conviction of former Reform politician for accepting bribes
www.theguardian.com
December 16, 2025 at 4:03 PM
HURRAH! Petitions are crap at making gov'ts do things they don't want to. But they are good for two things: First, making them explain why they won't do something, but second (and more important) nudging/giving them permission to do something they DO want, but that's been crowded out bandwidth-wise.
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Correction “there has no been no proper inquiry into foreign interference into previous elections and referdums” but plenty of evidence (DCMS/ISC) it wa attempted
LibDem Calum Miller, "Will the review look back.. Including the 2014 and 2016 Referendums?"
Steve Reed, "It will be forward looking, there will be no relitigating of previous elections or referendum"
"There have been no findings that any elections to date were affected by foreign interference"
Steve Reed, "It will be forward looking, there will be no relitigating of previous elections or referendum"
"There have been no findings that any elections to date were affected by foreign interference"
December 16, 2025 at 10:52 PM
Correction “there has no been no proper inquiry into foreign interference into previous elections and referdums” but plenty of evidence (DCMS/ISC) it wa attempted
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A review of foreign interference in British democracy might close down some of the loopholes which make laundering foreign donations pretty straightforward.
www.gov.uk/government/n...
www.gov.uk/government/n...
Urgent review into foreign financial interference in UK politics
An independent review, led by Philip Rycroft, into foreign financial interference in UK politics has been commissioned by the government.
www.gov.uk
December 16, 2025 at 10:53 PM
A review of foreign interference in British democracy might close down some of the loopholes which make laundering foreign donations pretty straightforward.
www.gov.uk/government/n...
www.gov.uk/government/n...
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Paul Doyle’s X account follows 11 others. Three are Nigel Farage, Andrew Tate & Elon Musk. There’s a back story to the rage that entitled him to ram 100 victims with his large car.
Disturbing details emerge about Paul Doyle:
“Paul Doyle, The Liverpool Rammer, was far from the family man he was said to be,
He followed and adored Nigel Farage and Andrew Tate on Twitter and also followed Elon Musk and was a MAGA and Trump supporter”. www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news...
“Paul Doyle, The Liverpool Rammer, was far from the family man he was said to be,
He followed and adored Nigel Farage and Andrew Tate on Twitter and also followed Elon Musk and was a MAGA and Trump supporter”. www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news...
Disturbing Paul Doyle twist that casts doubt on 'family man' claims
Before he carried out his atrocious Liverpool attack, Paul Doyle was reportedly well thought of by friends and neighbours. But his social media activity appears to show the "fantastic" family man in a...
www.mirror.co.uk
December 16, 2025 at 7:55 AM
Paul Doyle’s X account follows 11 others. Three are Nigel Farage, Andrew Tate & Elon Musk. There’s a back story to the rage that entitled him to ram 100 victims with his large car.
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As Russia’s war against the West continues, encompassing a range of activities including fake peace negotiations, I spoke to former MP, author and military officer Bob Seely about his new book on “Total War” and Russian strategy.
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December 16, 2025 at 8:13 AM
As Russia’s war against the West continues, encompassing a range of activities including fake peace negotiations, I spoke to former MP, author and military officer Bob Seely about his new book on “Total War” and Russian strategy.
podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/b...
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Haha, well, I'd say this is a new low in The Spectator's coverage of my Reith Lectures. There is so much wrong with the piece that it’s hard to know where to begin, but a few points stand out --> /1
Given the way things work in the BBC, it comes as no surprise that a Dutchman has been chosen to lecture us on modern British history.
✍️ Lawrence Goldman
✍️ Lawrence Goldman
The Reith lectures are a new low in BBC history
Given the way things work in the BBC, it comes as no surprise that a Dutchman has been chosen to lecture us on modern British history
www.spectator.co.uk
December 16, 2025 at 9:06 AM
Haha, well, I'd say this is a new low in The Spectator's coverage of my Reith Lectures. There is so much wrong with the piece that it’s hard to know where to begin, but a few points stand out --> /1
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The right-wing media vibeflation around Badenoch is noise. The Tories are polling in the doldrums against a world-beatingly unpopular government led by a prime minister who is detested by everyone except a few Bluesky clowndorks. Ed Miliband's Labour had ten-point leads. Come the fuck on already.
December 16, 2025 at 9:49 AM
The right-wing media vibeflation around Badenoch is noise. The Tories are polling in the doldrums against a world-beatingly unpopular government led by a prime minister who is detested by everyone except a few Bluesky clowndorks. Ed Miliband's Labour had ten-point leads. Come the fuck on already.
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In late 2020 a Chinese man called Guan Heng travelled to Xinjiang with our BuzzFeed map of detention facilities to provide ground truth for our work - he provided the first corroborating evidence for many sites.
He escaped to the US - then ICE detained him.
www.wsj.com/world/china/...
He escaped to the US - then ICE detained him.
www.wsj.com/world/china/...
ICE Holding Chinese Man Who Documented Uyghur Camps
Heng Guan is awaiting an immigration hearing on Monday that could lead to his removal from the U.S. and ultimately land him back in China, according to his lawyer and a New York-based activist group.
www.wsj.com
December 13, 2025 at 3:17 PM
In late 2020 a Chinese man called Guan Heng travelled to Xinjiang with our BuzzFeed map of detention facilities to provide ground truth for our work - he provided the first corroborating evidence for many sites.
He escaped to the US - then ICE detained him.
www.wsj.com/world/china/...
He escaped to the US - then ICE detained him.
www.wsj.com/world/china/...
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Britain's Right have gone completely off the deep end into an invented fantasy world. The country as a whole agrees with them on almost nothing - culture, identity, religion, human rights, Europe, public services. Yet they could easily hold power in just 3.5 years. Won't end well.
Just Harry Cole interviewing the guy who called for ethnicity checks on MPs, by the way
December 13, 2025 at 3:41 PM
Britain's Right have gone completely off the deep end into an invented fantasy world. The country as a whole agrees with them on almost nothing - culture, identity, religion, human rights, Europe, public services. Yet they could easily hold power in just 3.5 years. Won't end well.
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Just for the record
We really should start to take global warming seriously otherwise we are toast...
Or do you think the physics of a water planet know mercy?
#Climate #Earth
We really should start to take global warming seriously otherwise we are toast...
Or do you think the physics of a water planet know mercy?
#Climate #Earth
A principal short on why we will likely reach 2 °C of warming around 2030
Sadly, we are not able to accept the new reality and are still in denial.
medium.com
December 13, 2025 at 10:24 AM
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The leading scholars of democratic decline say the US "has descended into competitive authoritarianism" - we "ceased to be a full democracy in the way that Canada, Germany, or even Argentina are democracies" - but caution that it can be contested and reversed
www.foreignaffairs.com/united-state...
www.foreignaffairs.com/united-state...
December 12, 2025 at 9:25 PM
The leading scholars of democratic decline say the US "has descended into competitive authoritarianism" - we "ceased to be a full democracy in the way that Canada, Germany, or even Argentina are democracies" - but caution that it can be contested and reversed
www.foreignaffairs.com/united-state...
www.foreignaffairs.com/united-state...
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When will our government (and our entire Parliament) stand up to the racist bully Donald Trump? www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Trump wants to destabilise European democracy. Where on earth is parliament? | John Crace
You’d think MPs would be lining up to decry the US president’s support for far-right nationalists. Instead, only backbenchers and a few junior ministers bothered to turn up
www.theguardian.com
December 11, 2025 at 8:55 PM
When will our government (and our entire Parliament) stand up to the racist bully Donald Trump? www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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White House Begins Christmas Season With Ceremonial Lighting Of Cross
December 10, 2025 at 10:00 PM
White House Begins Christmas Season With Ceremonial Lighting Of Cross
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Also, virtually nobody in the party (MPs or members) truly believes it apart from a few crackpot Blue Labour types.
Labour’s shift away from “immigration is good but it needs to be managed” to “it is bad” is a gift to essentially everyone they compete with, because it means that they don’t have the right position to be able to attack *anyone*.
I'm sorry, but these attacks are just not going to convince Green-curious voters, because Labour is so visibly out of step with those voters' core values
December 10, 2025 at 5:16 PM
Also, virtually nobody in the party (MPs or members) truly believes it apart from a few crackpot Blue Labour types.
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Genuinely fascinating to see Badenoch unable to keep up with her own shtick. The woman who thrives on being unpleasant and provocative in a defence of “free speech” now arguing that the problem is the impact of Farage’s words rather than the objective racism of them
December 10, 2025 at 3:20 PM
Genuinely fascinating to see Badenoch unable to keep up with her own shtick. The woman who thrives on being unpleasant and provocative in a defence of “free speech” now arguing that the problem is the impact of Farage’s words rather than the objective racism of them
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“I am so bored by AI. One of the things I love about the theatre is AI can’t do it.”
Ethan Hawke is a dude 👌🏻
Ethan Hawke is a dude 👌🏻
December 9, 2025 at 8:36 PM
“I am so bored by AI. One of the things I love about the theatre is AI can’t do it.”
Ethan Hawke is a dude 👌🏻
Ethan Hawke is a dude 👌🏻
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Everyone needs to get off X.
Now.
Government. Politicians. Your Aunty Judith.
All of them are fueling this racist extremist billionaire
Now.
Government. Politicians. Your Aunty Judith.
All of them are fueling this racist extremist billionaire
December 10, 2025 at 2:10 PM
Everyone needs to get off X.
Now.
Government. Politicians. Your Aunty Judith.
All of them are fueling this racist extremist billionaire
Now.
Government. Politicians. Your Aunty Judith.
All of them are fueling this racist extremist billionaire
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“Please listen to my views on how to stop the far right” says leader who, all polls suggest, is on course to lose badly to the far right.
December 10, 2025 at 3:27 PM
“Please listen to my views on how to stop the far right” says leader who, all polls suggest, is on course to lose badly to the far right.
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Or, indeed, his success at taking on a radical right party whose support has more than doubled in his 15 months in charge and now leads in the polls.
Nearly every Take relating to this has been done except one, which is - why would the European leaders take advice from Starmer on how to beat the far right? Who among them envies his popularity or admires the sagacity of his advisors?
www.theguardian.com/law/2025/dec...
www.theguardian.com/law/2025/dec...
Starmer urges Europe’s leaders to curb ECHR to halt rise of far right
Exclusive: PM calls for members of European convention on human rights to allow tougher action to protect borders
www.theguardian.com
December 10, 2025 at 3:26 PM
Or, indeed, his success at taking on a radical right party whose support has more than doubled in his 15 months in charge and now leads in the polls.