Kathy Love
@kathylove.bsky.social
Commercial lawyer, lifelong engagement with the European project. Newnham, Gray’s Inn, College of Europe. Now, Dutch citizen. Appreciative European. Lifelong choral singer. Mum of three. Now studying legal aspects of the Gascon wine trade 1152-1453
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Kathy Love
@kathylove.bsky.social
· Sep 16
Robert Redford playing a gentle incarnation of death, coming for a frightened old woman in The Twilight Zone episode "Nothing in the Dark" (1962). An extraordinary performance then, terribly bittersweet today
This is actually exquisite.
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„Quiet, Piggy!“ Just think about that for a minute, and what it means to live in a time when a President can assault a woman in public like that without any consequences.
It‘s quite a testimony to the age of regression we live in.
It‘s quite a testimony to the age of regression we live in.
November 23, 2025 at 6:09 PM
„Quiet, Piggy!“ Just think about that for a minute, and what it means to live in a time when a President can assault a woman in public like that without any consequences.
It‘s quite a testimony to the age of regression we live in.
It‘s quite a testimony to the age of regression we live in.
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You can tell someone’s Reform from weapons grade hypocrisy they use so freely.. take Nathan Gill’s profile on X for example👇🏼👇🏼
“Love my God, my family and my country. Not afraid or ashamed to be patriotic.”
10 years in prison for taking bribes from our enemy Russia is as unpatriotic as it gets❗️😡🤷🏼♂️
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“Love my God, my family and my country. Not afraid or ashamed to be patriotic.”
10 years in prison for taking bribes from our enemy Russia is as unpatriotic as it gets❗️😡🤷🏼♂️
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November 24, 2025 at 10:54 AM
You can tell someone’s Reform from weapons grade hypocrisy they use so freely.. take Nathan Gill’s profile on X for example👇🏼👇🏼
“Love my God, my family and my country. Not afraid or ashamed to be patriotic.”
10 years in prison for taking bribes from our enemy Russia is as unpatriotic as it gets❗️😡🤷🏼♂️
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“Love my God, my family and my country. Not afraid or ashamed to be patriotic.”
10 years in prison for taking bribes from our enemy Russia is as unpatriotic as it gets❗️😡🤷🏼♂️
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Trump’s ‘peace plan’ was a pro-Kremlin abomination whose failure is a glimmer of hope for Ukraine | Rajan Menon
#Trump
#Trump
Trump’s ‘peace plan’ was a pro-Kremlin abomination whose failure is a glimmer of hope for Ukraine | Rajan Menon
Following criticism, the president accused Ukraine of ingratitude but also added the plan was ‘not my final offer’. Which parts of it will survive?, says Rajan Menon of the City College of New York
www.theguardian.com
November 24, 2025 at 4:28 PM
Trump’s ‘peace plan’ was a pro-Kremlin abomination whose failure is a glimmer of hope for Ukraine | Rajan Menon
#Trump
#Trump
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Turkey has a customs union with Europe and there's no such thing as a single market only for goods. If services are regulated differently then one side will enjoy cheaper finance. This will distort the goods market
November 24, 2025 at 8:12 AM
Turkey has a customs union with Europe and there's no such thing as a single market only for goods. If services are regulated differently then one side will enjoy cheaper finance. This will distort the goods market
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Imagine - after you have fought a brutal invader for almost 4 years who has killed tens of thousands of your people and ravished your country - that an orange man far away declares you have to surrender territory to the invader who will get immunity. apnews.com/article/ukra... 🤮
Ukraine peace plan darkens the mood across a war-torn nation
A proposed peace plan for Ukraine led by the United States has been met with anguish by many Ukrainians, who fear a post-war amnesty for Russian forces would erase accountability for alleged atrocitie...
apnews.com
November 24, 2025 at 11:15 AM
Imagine - after you have fought a brutal invader for almost 4 years who has killed tens of thousands of your people and ravished your country - that an orange man far away declares you have to surrender territory to the invader who will get immunity. apnews.com/article/ukra... 🤮
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November 24, 2025 at 6:21 AM
More encouraging and positive news!
British and Australian chemists have discovered a powerful new antibiotic called pre-methylenomycin C lactone, hiding in a well-known soil bacterium. This molecule kills drug-resistant bacteria without triggering resistance. buff.ly/YlXaONo
#ShareGoodNewsToo
#ShareGoodNewsToo
Scientists find hidden antibiotic 100x stronger against deadly superbugs
A team of scientists discovered a hidden antibiotic 100 times stronger than existing drugs against deadly superbugs like MRSA. The molecule had been overlooked for decades in a familiar bacterium. It…
buff.ly
November 24, 2025 at 11:04 AM
More encouraging and positive news!
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"My NHS colleagues & I weren’t willing to let the bodies pile high in their thousands. Boris no longer mentions them at all."
My piece on the responses to the UK Covid-UK Inquiry report that try to airbrush the dead away.
Sincere thanks, @theobserveruk.bsky.social.
observer.co.uk/news/nationa...
My piece on the responses to the UK Covid-UK Inquiry report that try to airbrush the dead away.
Sincere thanks, @theobserveruk.bsky.social.
observer.co.uk/news/nationa...
I’ll never forget the horror of the Covid wards | The Observer
observer.co.uk
November 23, 2025 at 9:18 AM
"My NHS colleagues & I weren’t willing to let the bodies pile high in their thousands. Boris no longer mentions them at all."
My piece on the responses to the UK Covid-UK Inquiry report that try to airbrush the dead away.
Sincere thanks, @theobserveruk.bsky.social.
observer.co.uk/news/nationa...
My piece on the responses to the UK Covid-UK Inquiry report that try to airbrush the dead away.
Sincere thanks, @theobserveruk.bsky.social.
observer.co.uk/news/nationa...
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Spain takes most asylum seekers. The difference? We have a govt that speaks warmly, truthfully & welcomingly about them
Per 100,000 people in 2024, UK came fifth for most applicants (156) after Spain (340), Germany (275), Italy (256) & France (191). EU average last year was 203 per 100,000 people
Per 100,000 people in 2024, UK came fifth for most applicants (156) after Spain (340), Germany (275), Italy (256) & France (191). EU average last year was 203 per 100,000 people
As UK imposes radical asylum rules, how do the numbers really compare to Europe?
Home secretary Shabana Mahmood is carrying out one of the largest reforms to the asylum system the UK has ever seen. But is the overhaul really proportionate to the numbers arriving on UK shores? Alex...
www.independent.co.uk
November 24, 2025 at 10:48 AM
Spain takes most asylum seekers. The difference? We have a govt that speaks warmly, truthfully & welcomingly about them
Per 100,000 people in 2024, UK came fifth for most applicants (156) after Spain (340), Germany (275), Italy (256) & France (191). EU average last year was 203 per 100,000 people
Per 100,000 people in 2024, UK came fifth for most applicants (156) after Spain (340), Germany (275), Italy (256) & France (191). EU average last year was 203 per 100,000 people
Important not to be misled by the media into thinking everything is going to hell in a handbag. There are some truly extraordinary and absolutely wonderful things happening in the world!
November 24, 2025 at 10:52 AM
Important not to be misled by the media into thinking everything is going to hell in a handbag. There are some truly extraordinary and absolutely wonderful things happening in the world!
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Meta halted internal research that purportedly showed (young) people who stopped using Facebook became less depressed and anxious, according to an unredacted legal filing released on Friday. www.cnbc.com/2025/11/23/m...
Meta halted internal research suggesting social media harm, court filing alleges
Meta is alleged to have halted internal research suggesting social media harm, according to court documents.
www.cnbc.com
November 24, 2025 at 12:31 AM
Meta halted internal research that purportedly showed (young) people who stopped using Facebook became less depressed and anxious, according to an unredacted legal filing released on Friday. www.cnbc.com/2025/11/23/m...
This is an unusual and thought-provoking analysis of the US economy (both the figures and the psychological response) that may well apply more widely. Definitely worth reading.
This is a fabulous read. The figures might be specific to the USA, but the principle applies wherever neocapitalism has been applied. Read it, and feel it in your bones.
Mike Green is writing some amazing stuff at the moment. It's not in the delta, it's in the level and the cost structure. Read this and you will understand Angrynomics on a new level: www.yesigiveafig.com/p/part-1-my-...
November 24, 2025 at 8:59 AM
This is an unusual and thought-provoking analysis of the US economy (both the figures and the psychological response) that may well apply more widely. Definitely worth reading.
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Baruch Spinoza, Dutch Jewish 'Prince of philosophers', whose rationalism influenced Western thought, born #OTD 1632; author of Ethica, landmark treatise written 1661-75, published posthumously 1677, first known English translation by George Eliot 1856.
Portrait Anon, c. 1665 Herzog August Bibliothek
Portrait Anon, c. 1665 Herzog August Bibliothek
November 24, 2025 at 6:05 AM
Baruch Spinoza, Dutch Jewish 'Prince of philosophers', whose rationalism influenced Western thought, born #OTD 1632; author of Ethica, landmark treatise written 1661-75, published posthumously 1677, first known English translation by George Eliot 1856.
Portrait Anon, c. 1665 Herzog August Bibliothek
Portrait Anon, c. 1665 Herzog August Bibliothek
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🇺🇦 Zelensky: The crux of the entire diplomatic situation is that it was Russia, and only Russia, that started this war, and it is Russia, and only Russia, that has been refusing to end it throughout the full-scale invasion.
November 23, 2025 at 5:13 PM
🇺🇦 Zelensky: The crux of the entire diplomatic situation is that it was Russia, and only Russia, that started this war, and it is Russia, and only Russia, that has been refusing to end it throughout the full-scale invasion.
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Kharkiv tonight after russian drone attack on our city. Private houses are on fire.
November 23, 2025 at 9:46 PM
Kharkiv tonight after russian drone attack on our city. Private houses are on fire.
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One of my favorite social media redundancies is when people respond to a list of facts with, “I disagree!”
Ma’am and sirs — Mirs, if you will — that isn’t how anything works. You cannot “disagree” with the color of the sky or a timestamped event.
Ma’am and sirs — Mirs, if you will — that isn’t how anything works. You cannot “disagree” with the color of the sky or a timestamped event.
November 23, 2025 at 4:18 PM
One of my favorite social media redundancies is when people respond to a list of facts with, “I disagree!”
Ma’am and sirs — Mirs, if you will — that isn’t how anything works. You cannot “disagree” with the color of the sky or a timestamped event.
Ma’am and sirs — Mirs, if you will — that isn’t how anything works. You cannot “disagree” with the color of the sky or a timestamped event.
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🕯️🕯️🕯️🕯️🕯️🕯️Murdered by russians in Ternopil, Ukraine this week. Russia is a terrorist state!
November 23, 2025 at 10:40 PM
🕯️🕯️🕯️🕯️🕯️🕯️Murdered by russians in Ternopil, Ukraine this week. Russia is a terrorist state!
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"’Trump’s plan to force Ukraine to give up more territory, to cut its Army by more than half, to never join NATO nor let foreign troops in its territory is an abomination’, Rep Bacon wrote. ‘This agreement weakens Ukraine and leaves them vulnerable to new Russian invasions in years to come’.”
November 23, 2025 at 6:17 PM
"’Trump’s plan to force Ukraine to give up more territory, to cut its Army by more than half, to never join NATO nor let foreign troops in its territory is an abomination’, Rep Bacon wrote. ‘This agreement weakens Ukraine and leaves them vulnerable to new Russian invasions in years to come’.”
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A new low for Donald Trump and his fellow travellers
Trump accuses Ukrainian leaders of having 'zero gratitude'
Trump accuses Ukrainian leaders of having 'zero gratitude'
Ukraine war: Trump says Ukraine ungrateful as officials meet to convince Kyiv to accept peace proposals
Ukraine's allies have expressed concern that the plan favours Russia, but Zelensky says Kyiv's interests could be included.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 23, 2025 at 5:10 PM
A new low for Donald Trump and his fellow travellers
Trump accuses Ukrainian leaders of having 'zero gratitude'
Trump accuses Ukrainian leaders of having 'zero gratitude'
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Day 361 of #GeorgiaProtests ✊🏻🇬🇪🇪🇺
On the 22nd anniversary of the Rose Revolution, a large crowd is marching through Tbilisi — despite dozens of unlawful, unprovoked arrests this week. Police are making them stick to the tiny sidewalks.
Day 361 of uninterrupted protests in Georgia.
Day 361 of uninterrupted protests in Georgia.
November 23, 2025 at 4:40 PM
Day 361 of #GeorgiaProtests ✊🏻🇬🇪🇪🇺
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This is from Dnipro, Ukraine. You go to sleep, and in the next moment drones and missiles are crashing into your home. If you’re lucky, you survive. This is what Russians are doing to us every single day.
November 23, 2025 at 5:01 PM
This is from Dnipro, Ukraine. You go to sleep, and in the next moment drones and missiles are crashing into your home. If you’re lucky, you survive. This is what Russians are doing to us every single day.
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I tell people everywhere (& remind myself often) that bad things make the news headlines because they are not ordinary happenings.
The good stuff gets buried because it IS ordinary. It's not "news", it's happening everywhere. If you look for helpers & kind people, you will always find them. Always.
The good stuff gets buried because it IS ordinary. It's not "news", it's happening everywhere. If you look for helpers & kind people, you will always find them. Always.
Just my occasional reminder to not let news about crime in UK from sources biased Left & Right or even the best least biased like Reuters, make you assume we live in a hellhole.
Extremely horrible crime is far from the norm.
Check crime databases for context.
Be vigilant sure but don't get PARANOID.
Extremely horrible crime is far from the norm.
Check crime databases for context.
Be vigilant sure but don't get PARANOID.
Why We Forget That Most People Are Good
It seems everyone thinks the world is full of terrible people. But in fact people are mostly good, even if we all have the capacity to be shitty to one another sometimes.
markmanson.net
November 22, 2025 at 12:19 PM
I tell people everywhere (& remind myself often) that bad things make the news headlines because they are not ordinary happenings.
The good stuff gets buried because it IS ordinary. It's not "news", it's happening everywhere. If you look for helpers & kind people, you will always find them. Always.
The good stuff gets buried because it IS ordinary. It's not "news", it's happening everywhere. If you look for helpers & kind people, you will always find them. Always.
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20 November 1936 | W A French Jewish girl, Madeleine Szwalberg, was born in Paris.
She was deported to Auschwitz from Drancy on 31 July 1944 and was murdered in a gas chamber after arrival selection. Her brother Georges survived in hiding.
She was deported to Auschwitz from Drancy on 31 July 1944 and was murdered in a gas chamber after arrival selection. Her brother Georges survived in hiding.
November 22, 2025 at 6:00 AM
20 November 1936 | W A French Jewish girl, Madeleine Szwalberg, was born in Paris.
She was deported to Auschwitz from Drancy on 31 July 1944 and was murdered in a gas chamber after arrival selection. Her brother Georges survived in hiding.
She was deported to Auschwitz from Drancy on 31 July 1944 and was murdered in a gas chamber after arrival selection. Her brother Georges survived in hiding.
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