Orla K
@orlaocean.bsky.social
Londoner. Political. Eclectic. I post music & art I love. Also enjoy a bit of craic. Beatles Kate Bush Dylan fan. No DM's pls. #c4news #ledzep #Macca #Shakespeare
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Orla K
@orlaocean.bsky.social
· Dec 2
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Music and art to enjoy: Here Comes the Sun cover by the magnificent Nina Simone.
A Misty Sunrise 1956 by UK artist Laura Knight #musicandart #womensart #ninasimone
Music and art to enjoy: Here Comes the Sun cover by the magnificent Nina Simone.
A Misty Sunrise 1956 by UK artist Laura Knight #musicandart #womensart #ninasimone
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This is what they call a historic turning point
“The independent forecaster Frontier Economics reckons that the impact of US tariffs will shrink UK GDP by 0.7%, while a deeper deal with the EU could instead lift GDP by 1.5%, despite US tariffs”
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
“The independent forecaster Frontier Economics reckons that the impact of US tariffs will shrink UK GDP by 0.7%, while a deeper deal with the EU could instead lift GDP by 1.5%, despite US tariffs”
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Donald Trump is now badly wounded. Europe can seize an advantage | Will Hutton
It’s time to fashion a new global trade order without the US
www.theguardian.com
April 12, 2025 at 10:55 PM
This is what they call a historic turning point
“The independent forecaster Frontier Economics reckons that the impact of US tariffs will shrink UK GDP by 0.7%, while a deeper deal with the EU could instead lift GDP by 1.5%, despite US tariffs”
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
“The independent forecaster Frontier Economics reckons that the impact of US tariffs will shrink UK GDP by 0.7%, while a deeper deal with the EU could instead lift GDP by 1.5%, despite US tariffs”
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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Roman sarcophagi frequently display touches of humor, depending on the sculptor!😊
April 9, 2025 at 9:24 PM
Roman sarcophagi frequently display touches of humor, depending on the sculptor!😊
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#ReliefWednesday Phaedra, in love w/ stepson Hippolytus, turns head away shamed. H rides off on hunt. 2) Nurse connives w/ H. 3) Eros kisses Psyche; Anteros laughs. 4) Dog scratches fleas. @lightacandle.bsky.social @linda2.bsky.social @robinburcell.bsky.social 🪔 #AncientBlueSky 2-4: My 📷s. VatMus
April 9, 2025 at 9:21 PM
#ReliefWednesday Phaedra, in love w/ stepson Hippolytus, turns head away shamed. H rides off on hunt. 2) Nurse connives w/ H. 3) Eros kisses Psyche; Anteros laughs. 4) Dog scratches fleas. @lightacandle.bsky.social @linda2.bsky.social @robinburcell.bsky.social 🪔 #AncientBlueSky 2-4: My 📷s. VatMus
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The policy of the US under Trump can be fairly summarised in three impulses.
To be cruel to those they can be cruel.
To intimidate those whom they can intimidate.
And to gain leverage in respect of those they want to manipulate.
Almost everything comes down to one or more of these impulses.
To be cruel to those they can be cruel.
To intimidate those whom they can intimidate.
And to gain leverage in respect of those they want to manipulate.
Almost everything comes down to one or more of these impulses.
April 6, 2025 at 8:51 AM
The policy of the US under Trump can be fairly summarised in three impulses.
To be cruel to those they can be cruel.
To intimidate those whom they can intimidate.
And to gain leverage in respect of those they want to manipulate.
Almost everything comes down to one or more of these impulses.
To be cruel to those they can be cruel.
To intimidate those whom they can intimidate.
And to gain leverage in respect of those they want to manipulate.
Almost everything comes down to one or more of these impulses.
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Intrigued by this narrative that Britain has done well here.
-10% is still v significant.
-We're a big exporter of cars to the US which will be subject to 25%. Terrible for UK auto industry.
-Even if we get a deal we can't avoid the major economic shock to global trade overall.
-10% is still v significant.
-We're a big exporter of cars to the US which will be subject to 25%. Terrible for UK auto industry.
-Even if we get a deal we can't avoid the major economic shock to global trade overall.
April 2, 2025 at 10:39 PM
Intrigued by this narrative that Britain has done well here.
-10% is still v significant.
-We're a big exporter of cars to the US which will be subject to 25%. Terrible for UK auto industry.
-Even if we get a deal we can't avoid the major economic shock to global trade overall.
-10% is still v significant.
-We're a big exporter of cars to the US which will be subject to 25%. Terrible for UK auto industry.
-Even if we get a deal we can't avoid the major economic shock to global trade overall.
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-We may have a 10% Brexit 'dividend' but the cost of that dividend is the significant lost output since Brexit and trade dislocation with the EU, which the somewhat more generous US treatment does not even nearly compensate for.
April 2, 2025 at 10:39 PM
-We may have a 10% Brexit 'dividend' but the cost of that dividend is the significant lost output since Brexit and trade dislocation with the EU, which the somewhat more generous US treatment does not even nearly compensate for.
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For Americans who didn’t get the joy of living through the Truss/Kwarteng budget, this is the point where the government starts to call the stock market left-wing and/or woke.
April 3, 2025 at 2:49 PM
For Americans who didn’t get the joy of living through the Truss/Kwarteng budget, this is the point where the government starts to call the stock market left-wing and/or woke.
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just randomly inflicting economic hardship on different groups of Americans, as well as foreigners, for no particular reason
April 2, 2025 at 8:36 PM
just randomly inflicting economic hardship on different groups of Americans, as well as foreigners, for no particular reason
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He's just pulling these tariff numbers from the air, isn't he
April 2, 2025 at 8:34 PM
He's just pulling these tariff numbers from the air, isn't he
Yeah UK is currying favour prostrating ourselves in the most humiliating way before fkn Trump. Brexit driven no doubt, but I hate what Labour r doing and they need to use this miraculous opportunity of the unhinged Trump Presidency/Tariffs to rejoin SM & CU. FFS! #c4news
April 2, 2025 at 6:24 PM
Yeah UK is currying favour prostrating ourselves in the most humiliating way before fkn Trump. Brexit driven no doubt, but I hate what Labour r doing and they need to use this miraculous opportunity of the unhinged Trump Presidency/Tariffs to rejoin SM & CU. FFS! #c4news
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I'm sure Tesla, which has collapsed because everyone hates Musk, will be turned around by the increased participation of... *checks notes*... Musk
#c4news
#c4news
April 2, 2025 at 6:04 PM
I'm sure Tesla, which has collapsed because everyone hates Musk, will be turned around by the increased participation of... *checks notes*... Musk
#c4news
#c4news
Why is it that (just like the MP’s in UK during the Brexit aftermath and the dud Deal) the Senators and Congressmen in US put THEIR job security so completely above “National Interest”?
Yet they don’t care at ALL about the jobs lost and businesses ruined by both Brexit and Trump/Musk? #c4news
Yet they don’t care at ALL about the jobs lost and businesses ruined by both Brexit and Trump/Musk? #c4news
April 2, 2025 at 6:12 PM
Why is it that (just like the MP’s in UK during the Brexit aftermath and the dud Deal) the Senators and Congressmen in US put THEIR job security so completely above “National Interest”?
Yet they don’t care at ALL about the jobs lost and businesses ruined by both Brexit and Trump/Musk? #c4news
Yet they don’t care at ALL about the jobs lost and businesses ruined by both Brexit and Trump/Musk? #c4news
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Word of the day is ‘foxy’ (19th century), used of weather that misleads you into thinking it’s extremely warm when in reality it’s pretty chilly.
April 2, 2025 at 10:24 AM
Word of the day is ‘foxy’ (19th century), used of weather that misleads you into thinking it’s extremely warm when in reality it’s pretty chilly.
@channel4news.bsky.social Surely Farage can put a word in with his best buddy Trump on Britain’s behalf? After all he promised us a huge Brexit dividend… #fuckallsquared #c4news
April 1, 2025 at 6:09 PM
@channel4news.bsky.social Surely Farage can put a word in with his best buddy Trump on Britain’s behalf? After all he promised us a huge Brexit dividend… #fuckallsquared #c4news
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Ask yourself:
Why would anyone who wasn’t an asset of the Russian government do this?
Why would any decent human being do this?
Why would anyone who wasn’t an asset of the Russian government do this?
Why would any decent human being do this?
March 18, 2025 at 5:37 PM
Ask yourself:
Why would anyone who wasn’t an asset of the Russian government do this?
Why would any decent human being do this?
Why would anyone who wasn’t an asset of the Russian government do this?
Why would any decent human being do this?
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"A triumph of creative and technical artistry."
Philip Barantini and Stephen Graham's latest one-take drama, #Adolescence, is streaming now on Netflix.
Read our review: www.empireonline.com/tv/reviews/a...
Philip Barantini and Stephen Graham's latest one-take drama, #Adolescence, is streaming now on Netflix.
Read our review: www.empireonline.com/tv/reviews/a...
March 13, 2025 at 6:56 PM
"A triumph of creative and technical artistry."
Philip Barantini and Stephen Graham's latest one-take drama, #Adolescence, is streaming now on Netflix.
Read our review: www.empireonline.com/tv/reviews/a...
Philip Barantini and Stephen Graham's latest one-take drama, #Adolescence, is streaming now on Netflix.
Read our review: www.empireonline.com/tv/reviews/a...
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All the news about the ceasefire appears to come down to the simple fact that Ukraine refused to be bullied into surrender by Trump.
And from that defiance, this has followed.
Slava Ukraini
And from that defiance, this has followed.
Slava Ukraini
March 11, 2025 at 9:45 PM
All the news about the ceasefire appears to come down to the simple fact that Ukraine refused to be bullied into surrender by Trump.
And from that defiance, this has followed.
Slava Ukraini
And from that defiance, this has followed.
Slava Ukraini
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Top Washington Post columnist quits after piece critical of Bezos is scrapped
www.theguardian.com/media/2025/m...
www.theguardian.com/media/2025/m...
Top Washington Post columnist quits after piece critical of Bezos is scrapped
Ruth Marcus dissented from paper’s new opinion policy of supporting only ‘personal liberties and free markets’
www.theguardian.com
March 11, 2025 at 10:36 AM
Top Washington Post columnist quits after piece critical of Bezos is scrapped
www.theguardian.com/media/2025/m...
www.theguardian.com/media/2025/m...
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Corinne West (1908–1991), US Abstract Expressionist who used a male pseudonym 'Micheal West' due to the lack of opportunities for women #WomensArt
March 7, 2025 at 5:25 AM
Corinne West (1908–1991), US Abstract Expressionist who used a male pseudonym 'Micheal West' due to the lack of opportunities for women #WomensArt
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Trump is Putin now.
Trump administration is planning to revoke temporary legal status for some 240,000 Ukrainians who fled the conflict with Russia, a senior Trump official and three sources familiar with the matter said, potentially putting them on a fast-track to deportation reut.rs/3F3B1cv
Trump to revoke legal status for 240,000 Ukrainians as US steps up deportations
U.S. President Donald Trump's administration is planning to revoke temporary legal status for some 240,000 Ukrainians who fled the conflict with Russia, a senior Trump official and three sources familiar with the matter said, potentially putting them on a fast-track to deportation.
reut.rs
March 6, 2025 at 1:03 PM
Trump is Putin now.
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"Washington has become the court of Nero, an incendiary emperor, submissive courtiers, and a jester high on ketamine in charge of purging the civil service.
This is a tragedy for the free world, but it is first and foremost a tragedy for the United States."
This is a tragedy for the free world, but it is first and foremost a tragedy for the United States."
March 6, 2025 at 3:40 PM
"Washington has become the court of Nero, an incendiary emperor, submissive courtiers, and a jester high on ketamine in charge of purging the civil service.
This is a tragedy for the free world, but it is first and foremost a tragedy for the United States."
This is a tragedy for the free world, but it is first and foremost a tragedy for the United States."
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Could not be put better.
French Senator Claude Malhuret:
"Washington has become Nero’s court, with an incendiary emperor, submissive courtiers and a jester high on ketamine... We were at war with a dictator, we are now at war with a dictator backed by a traitor."
"Washington has become Nero’s court, with an incendiary emperor, submissive courtiers and a jester high on ketamine... We were at war with a dictator, we are now at war with a dictator backed by a traitor."
March 5, 2025 at 5:39 PM
Could not be put better.
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French polling on Ukraine
Macron is giving a televised address tonight, likely on defence and security
So here's polling from this week on how French people see the war in Ukraine
First, 73% say the US isn't an ally of France
🧵
So here's polling from this week on how French people see the war in Ukraine
First, 73% say the US isn't an ally of France
🧵
March 5, 2025 at 8:54 AM
French polling on Ukraine
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BREAKING: Emmanuel Macron: 'I want to believe US will stand by our side but we have to be ready for that not to be the case
We need to be able to recognise the Russian threat & better defend ourselves in order to deter such attacks
The future of Europe cannot be decided in Washington or Moscow'
We need to be able to recognise the Russian threat & better defend ourselves in order to deter such attacks
The future of Europe cannot be decided in Washington or Moscow'
March 5, 2025 at 7:20 PM
BREAKING: Emmanuel Macron: 'I want to believe US will stand by our side but we have to be ready for that not to be the case
We need to be able to recognise the Russian threat & better defend ourselves in order to deter such attacks
The future of Europe cannot be decided in Washington or Moscow'
We need to be able to recognise the Russian threat & better defend ourselves in order to deter such attacks
The future of Europe cannot be decided in Washington or Moscow'