@suesuzanne.bsky.social
Anglo-French oldie. Ex-publisher. Politically Left-leaning EUrophile. Loves growing flowers, vegetables and succulents, birdwatching, walking the Cornish coastal paths, reading novels.
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💥 The independence of @electoralcommission.org.uk must be fully restored to safeguard the UK’s electoral integrity from a future authoritarian government, our new report warns. Covered exclusively by Rowena Mason in today’s @theguardian.com 👇
UK government urged to restore Electoral Commission’s independence to protect democracy
Oversight of watchdog could be abused by a future authoritarian government, report warns
www.theguardian.com
September 28, 2025 at 1:39 PM
💥 The independence of @electoralcommission.org.uk must be fully restored to safeguard the UK’s electoral integrity from a future authoritarian government, our new report warns. Covered exclusively by Rowena Mason in today’s @theguardian.com 👇
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Extraordinary level of blatant lying on the Mail’s front page this morning.
No, Keir Starmer Didn't Say That People Who Are Worried About Immigration Are Racist
www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/no-kei...
www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/no-kei...
No, Keir Starmer Didn't Say That People Who Are Worried About Immigration Are Racist
Nigel Farage resorts to misinformation following PM's attack on Reform plan to deport immigrants who have lived in UK for decades.
www.huffingtonpost.co.uk
September 29, 2025 at 6:48 AM
Extraordinary level of blatant lying on the Mail’s front page this morning.
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Musk is inciting violence on London's streets.Tommy Robinson is financed by US tech bros. These are all very direct attempts to destabilise the British state.
Starmer needs to stand up to this. A government that doesn't defend its country's values against these blatant attacks is not doing its job.
Starmer needs to stand up to this. A government that doesn't defend its country's values against these blatant attacks is not doing its job.
My colleague @thejohnsimpson.bsky.social has done a terrific deep dive into the financial links between US tech billionaires and Tommy Robinson
Well worth a read
observer.co.uk/news/nationa...
Well worth a read
observer.co.uk/news/nationa...
US cash turned Tommy Robinson into the poster boy of UK f...
Outside the Old Bailey in 2018, a reinvented Tommy Robinson flashed his perfect new teeth to 2,000 diehard supporters at a “free Tommy” rally on a stage ...
observer.co.uk
September 14, 2025 at 7:30 AM
Musk is inciting violence on London's streets.Tommy Robinson is financed by US tech bros. These are all very direct attempts to destabilise the British state.
Starmer needs to stand up to this. A government that doesn't defend its country's values against these blatant attacks is not doing its job.
Starmer needs to stand up to this. A government that doesn't defend its country's values against these blatant attacks is not doing its job.
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The Charlie Kirk assassination is that little dot on the map of gun deaths in 2025.
September 13, 2025 at 1:16 PM
The Charlie Kirk assassination is that little dot on the map of gun deaths in 2025.
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This must be a watershed moment. The government's continued use of X is no longer simply negligent. It is an act of conscious assistance to violent extremism.
The common sense meaning should make this Elon Musk's "rivers of blood" moment
Though I think he goes further than Enoch Powell in a couple of important ways
Though I think he goes further than Enoch Powell in a couple of important ways
Elon Musk spoke by video to Tommy Robinson's anti-immigrant rally in the UK today.
"You're in a fundamental situation here where, whether you choose violence or not, violence is coming to you," said Musk. "You either fight back or you die."
"You're in a fundamental situation here where, whether you choose violence or not, violence is coming to you," said Musk. "You either fight back or you die."
September 14, 2025 at 7:28 AM
This must be a watershed moment. The government's continued use of X is no longer simply negligent. It is an act of conscious assistance to violent extremism.
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Yup.
net immigration fell by more than half last year and the politics has gone in the complete opposite direction. It's not really about the numbers
September 3, 2025 at 11:10 AM
Yup.
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It's always really good to be able to publish the stories of people paying it forward in this world. This is a profile of the One And All Aid charity, based in Penzance, Cornwall.
westcountryvoices.co.uk/one-and-all-...
westcountryvoices.co.uk/one-and-all-...
One And All Aid: a Cornish charity punching above its weight
One And All Aid is a small charity based in Penzance, Cornwall, but one that punches above its weight. Its trustees, Shelley Meister and I set up the charity in 2018 after a few years spent collecting...
westcountryvoices.co.uk
August 19, 2025 at 8:03 PM
It's always really good to be able to publish the stories of people paying it forward in this world. This is a profile of the One And All Aid charity, based in Penzance, Cornwall.
westcountryvoices.co.uk/one-and-all-...
westcountryvoices.co.uk/one-and-all-...
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Facts dont care about your feelings.
August 19, 2025 at 5:56 AM
Facts dont care about your feelings.
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Looks like the additional sanctions on Russia he’s been threatening since January just got TACOed again.
August 6, 2025 at 5:09 PM
Looks like the additional sanctions on Russia he’s been threatening since January just got TACOed again.
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Article I Sections 9 & 10 of the U.S. Constitution—which limit presidential power over tariffs and protect habeas corpus—have disappeared from Congress’s website. They claim a coding error is to blame.
Sections of the U.S. Constitution Missing from Government Website
Articles I, Sections 9 and 10 are inaccessible on Congress-run portal, raising concerns over transparency and public access.
meidasnews.com
August 6, 2025 at 3:57 PM
Article I Sections 9 & 10 of the U.S. Constitution—which limit presidential power over tariffs and protect habeas corpus—have disappeared from Congress’s website. They claim a coding error is to blame.
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The main thing you need to know about the "Russia hoax"? It's not a hoax
from @dgraham.bsky.social www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...
from @dgraham.bsky.social www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...
What, Exactly, Is the ‘Russia Hoax’?
To start with, it’s not a hoax.
www.theatlantic.com
August 6, 2025 at 6:54 AM
The main thing you need to know about the "Russia hoax"? It's not a hoax
from @dgraham.bsky.social www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...
from @dgraham.bsky.social www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...
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I asked a group of students how many asylum seekers were admitted to the UK in 2024. Most estimates were over a million. Real number is about 40,000. People like Farage talk about "invasion;" as in my house was invaded when my niece came for tea and brought her husband too.
August 6, 2025 at 6:46 AM
I asked a group of students how many asylum seekers were admitted to the UK in 2024. Most estimates were over a million. Real number is about 40,000. People like Farage talk about "invasion;" as in my house was invaded when my niece came for tea and brought her husband too.
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Reminder that, even as we were rolling out the vaccines after a heroic international effort, A THOUSAND PEOPLE A DAY were dying of Covid in the UK, and only renewed lockdown stopped it being more. Without vaccines, that was our long-term reality.
Amongst Farage's other idiocies in his clip, it seems that despite 'growing up with vaccines' he doesn't understand the concept of a 'booster'. The prospect of this malevolent dullard getting anywhere close(r) to power is becoming more and more alarming.
Nigel Farage demonstrates he doesn't understand how the covid vaccines work
"They basically lied to us.. Having the jab did not stop you from passing on covid.. Did not stop you from catching covid again"
"They basically lied to us.. Having the jab did not stop you from passing on covid.. Did not stop you from catching covid again"
July 20, 2025 at 5:45 PM
Reminder that, even as we were rolling out the vaccines after a heroic international effort, A THOUSAND PEOPLE A DAY were dying of Covid in the UK, and only renewed lockdown stopped it being more. Without vaccines, that was our long-term reality.
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UK’s ally and £16 billion trading partner Saudi Arabia has executed a journalist for doing his job, reports @RSF_inter
August 1, 2025 at 5:52 AM
UK’s ally and £16 billion trading partner Saudi Arabia has executed a journalist for doing his job, reports @RSF_inter
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Tulsi's Q Drop
open.substack.com/pub/clairebe...
open.substack.com/pub/clairebe...
Tulsi's Q Drop
The Creation of the Russia Hoax-Hoax
open.substack.com
July 29, 2025 at 12:49 PM
Tulsi's Q Drop
open.substack.com/pub/clairebe...
open.substack.com/pub/clairebe...
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@anneapplebaum.bsky.social:
“The West doesn’t understand the extremism of Putinism…that (its) goals involve the destruction of the transatlantic alliance & maybe of the EU…The path to peace is through convincing Putin that he won’t win the war, that it’s hopeless.”
(ht: @berlinbridge.bsky.social)
“The West doesn’t understand the extremism of Putinism…that (its) goals involve the destruction of the transatlantic alliance & maybe of the EU…The path to peace is through convincing Putin that he won’t win the war, that it’s hopeless.”
(ht: @berlinbridge.bsky.social)
July 29, 2025 at 3:40 PM
@anneapplebaum.bsky.social:
“The West doesn’t understand the extremism of Putinism…that (its) goals involve the destruction of the transatlantic alliance & maybe of the EU…The path to peace is through convincing Putin that he won’t win the war, that it’s hopeless.”
(ht: @berlinbridge.bsky.social)
“The West doesn’t understand the extremism of Putinism…that (its) goals involve the destruction of the transatlantic alliance & maybe of the EU…The path to peace is through convincing Putin that he won’t win the war, that it’s hopeless.”
(ht: @berlinbridge.bsky.social)
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There’s nothing really “ideological” about either Donald Trump or Jair Bolsonaro. Their commonality is their corruption and criminality.
He is sanctioning judges linked to the prosecution of Jair Bolsonaro, his ideological ally
Donald Trump’s unprecedented attack on Brazil’s judiciary
He is sanctioning judges linked to the prosecution of Jair Bolsonaro, his ideological ally
www.economist.com
July 31, 2025 at 11:16 AM
There’s nothing really “ideological” about either Donald Trump or Jair Bolsonaro. Their commonality is their corruption and criminality.
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Just another day where the Director of National Intelligence opines that I must be guilty of something for not posting on X.
This is not normal. This is what it looks like when the Trump administration is targeting their political opponents.
This is not normal. This is what it looks like when the Trump administration is targeting their political opponents.
July 31, 2025 at 4:28 PM
Just another day where the Director of National Intelligence opines that I must be guilty of something for not posting on X.
This is not normal. This is what it looks like when the Trump administration is targeting their political opponents.
This is not normal. This is what it looks like when the Trump administration is targeting their political opponents.
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The government still hasn't reviewed its use of X, and refuses to explore communicating through less problematic platforms, like Bluesky
✍️ - @josiah.writes.news for @bylinetimes.bsky.social
bylinetimes.com/2025/07/31/k...
✍️ - @josiah.writes.news for @bylinetimes.bsky.social
bylinetimes.com/2025/07/31/k...
Keir Starmer's Government Still Hasn't Reviewed Use of Musk's X Despite Platform 'Amplifying Hate Speech and Misinformation'
Downing Street continues to refuse to explore communicating through alternative platforms, like Bluesky, despite the role of X in last summer's violent disorder
bylinetimes.com
July 31, 2025 at 8:42 AM
The government still hasn't reviewed its use of X, and refuses to explore communicating through less problematic platforms, like Bluesky
✍️ - @josiah.writes.news for @bylinetimes.bsky.social
bylinetimes.com/2025/07/31/k...
✍️ - @josiah.writes.news for @bylinetimes.bsky.social
bylinetimes.com/2025/07/31/k...
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My latest, exploring with numbers how the millennial household budget is basically incomprehensible to retired boomers.
WASPInomics and the magic avocado tree
Why boomers struggle to make sense of the millennial world.
open.substack.com
July 29, 2025 at 7:29 AM
My latest, exploring with numbers how the millennial household budget is basically incomprehensible to retired boomers.
US media and its leaders have ignored the famine in Gaza until now, when it is too late to prevent an even worse outcome. How can starving people trek to collect food?
fair.org/home/media-l...
fair.org/home/media-l...
Media Largely Ignored Gaza Famine When There Was Time to Avert Mass Starvation
Gaza's conditions of famine have been out in the open for well over a year, and yet it was considered barely newsworthy in US news media.
fair.org
July 30, 2025 at 8:28 AM
US media and its leaders have ignored the famine in Gaza until now, when it is too late to prevent an even worse outcome. How can starving people trek to collect food?
fair.org/home/media-l...
fair.org/home/media-l...
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Trump says Epstein ‘stole’ Virginia Giuffre from Mar-a-Lago staff role www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Trump says Epstein ‘stole’ Virginia Giuffre from Mar-a-Lago staff role
President says pair fell out because Epstein poached staffers, including Epstein accuser who died in April
www.theguardian.com
July 30, 2025 at 6:33 AM
Trump says Epstein ‘stole’ Virginia Giuffre from Mar-a-Lago staff role www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...