Alcuin
@alcuinalhwin.bsky.social
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Attacking facts and science is a threat to free speech - it has to stop.
"The US president, JD Vance and Nigel Farage seem to believe that checking facts is a form of censorship. Nonsense: speech is only free when it is anchored in truth."
https://bit.ly/47aDMTx
"The US president, JD Vance and Nigel Farage seem to believe that checking facts is a form of censorship. Nonsense: speech is only free when it is anchored in truth."
https://bit.ly/47aDMTx
Trump’s anti-truth crusade is not just an attack on facts – it’s an unravelling of the Enlightenment | Polly Toynbee
The US president, JD Vance and Nigel Farage seem to believe that checking facts is a form of censorship. Nonsense: speech is only free when it is anchored in truth, says Guardian columnist Polly Toynb...
www.theguardian.com
October 17, 2025 at 6:15 PM
Attacking facts and science is a threat to free speech - it has to stop.
"The US president, JD Vance and Nigel Farage seem to believe that checking facts is a form of censorship. Nonsense: speech is only free when it is anchored in truth."
https://bit.ly/47aDMTx
"The US president, JD Vance and Nigel Farage seem to believe that checking facts is a form of censorship. Nonsense: speech is only free when it is anchored in truth."
https://bit.ly/47aDMTx
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⚠️ Higher prices, fewer opportunities, greater barriers, and an economy paying the price. A price that is ultimately paid by you.
Find out more about the Cost of Brexit using our tracker. All the facts. All the figures. All in one place...
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www.bestforbritain.org/brexit_impact
Find out more about the Cost of Brexit using our tracker. All the facts. All the figures. All in one place...
👇
www.bestforbritain.org/brexit_impact
The Cost of Brexit
Change Minds → Change Politics
www.bestforbritain.org
October 15, 2025 at 11:18 AM
⚠️ Higher prices, fewer opportunities, greater barriers, and an economy paying the price. A price that is ultimately paid by you.
Find out more about the Cost of Brexit using our tracker. All the facts. All the figures. All in one place...
👇
www.bestforbritain.org/brexit_impact
Find out more about the Cost of Brexit using our tracker. All the facts. All the figures. All in one place...
👇
www.bestforbritain.org/brexit_impact
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@pimlicat.bsky.social:
"Rachel Reeves is completely correct to highlight the severity and long-term damage of Brexit - which slashed UK GDP by 4% - but more importantly has been a calamity for Brits facing spiralling supermarket prices and rocketing energy bills."
bestforbritain.org/government_r...
"Rachel Reeves is completely correct to highlight the severity and long-term damage of Brexit - which slashed UK GDP by 4% - but more importantly has been a calamity for Brits facing spiralling supermarket prices and rocketing energy bills."
bestforbritain.org/government_r...
Government right to highlight Brexit impact ahead of Budget
Rachel Reeves is right to "highlight the severity and long-term damage of Brexit", in her comments ahead of the Budget, campaigners have said.
bestforbritain.org
October 15, 2025 at 2:05 PM
@pimlicat.bsky.social:
"Rachel Reeves is completely correct to highlight the severity and long-term damage of Brexit - which slashed UK GDP by 4% - but more importantly has been a calamity for Brits facing spiralling supermarket prices and rocketing energy bills."
bestforbritain.org/government_r...
"Rachel Reeves is completely correct to highlight the severity and long-term damage of Brexit - which slashed UK GDP by 4% - but more importantly has been a calamity for Brits facing spiralling supermarket prices and rocketing energy bills."
bestforbritain.org/government_r...
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Brexit has been destructive to our economy, and has cost us £140 BILLIONS already.
Rachel Reeves: "The impact of Brexit is severe and long lasting."
Check out our Brexit cost tracker: https://www.bestforbritain.org/brexit_impact
Rachel Reeves: "The impact of Brexit is severe and long lasting."
Check out our Brexit cost tracker: https://www.bestforbritain.org/brexit_impact
October 15, 2025 at 9:30 AM
Brexit has been destructive to our economy, and has cost us £140 BILLIONS already.
Rachel Reeves: "The impact of Brexit is severe and long lasting."
Check out our Brexit cost tracker: https://www.bestforbritain.org/brexit_impact
Rachel Reeves: "The impact of Brexit is severe and long lasting."
Check out our Brexit cost tracker: https://www.bestforbritain.org/brexit_impact
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@pimlicat.bsky.social: “Rachel Reeves is completely correct to highlight the long-term damage of Brexit."
"Our polling shows a majority of voters view Brexit as a failure for the country, and expect ministers to work with the EU to find a way to fix the damage."
https://bit.ly/4oh7WLH
"Our polling shows a majority of voters view Brexit as a failure for the country, and expect ministers to work with the EU to find a way to fix the damage."
https://bit.ly/4oh7WLH
Rachel Reeves says tax rises and spending cuts on budget agenda, citing Brexit impact
Chancellor also blames austerity and ‘ongoing impact of Liz Truss mini-budget’ for growing shortfall in public finances
www.theguardian.com
October 15, 2025 at 6:15 PM
@pimlicat.bsky.social: “Rachel Reeves is completely correct to highlight the long-term damage of Brexit."
"Our polling shows a majority of voters view Brexit as a failure for the country, and expect ministers to work with the EU to find a way to fix the damage."
https://bit.ly/4oh7WLH
"Our polling shows a majority of voters view Brexit as a failure for the country, and expect ministers to work with the EU to find a way to fix the damage."
https://bit.ly/4oh7WLH
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Early signs suggest German Chancellor Friedrich Merz's domestic political weakness may undermine his efforts to establish a leading role for Germany abroad.
More in today's Berlin Bulletin:
More in today's Berlin Bulletin:
Weltschmerz anew
A weekly newsletter on German politics, with news and analysis on the new government. By JAMES ANGELOS with NETTE NÖSTLINGER Send tips here | | Subscribe for free | View in your browser &…
www.politico.eu
August 29, 2025 at 3:03 PM
Early signs suggest German Chancellor Friedrich Merz's domestic political weakness may undermine his efforts to establish a leading role for Germany abroad.
More in today's Berlin Bulletin:
More in today's Berlin Bulletin:
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More than 70 MPs and peers have urged UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer to block scandal-hit tech firm Fujitsu from bidding for control of a major post-Brexit software platform.
Keir Starmer under pressure to block Fujitsu from £370m Brexit border contract
The Japanese IT giant continues to face intense public scrutiny over its role in the Post Office scandal.
www.politico.eu
August 29, 2025 at 3:21 PM
More than 70 MPs and peers have urged UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer to block scandal-hit tech firm Fujitsu from bidding for control of a major post-Brexit software platform.
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Grubo, kto zajebał dziecku czapkę Kamila Majchrzaka? Pisior, Piotr Szczerek. Ale żenada
August 29, 2025 at 8:38 PM
Grubo, kto zajebał dziecku czapkę Kamila Majchrzaka? Pisior, Piotr Szczerek. Ale żenada
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"If it were true that Ukraine belongs to Russia in the 2020s because a Russian dictator knows a legend about a Viking in the 860s... millions of people who actually live there would have no voice in their own identity: no choice but to accept the executions, the torture, the kidnapping of children."
"Nothing that happened in medieval eastern Europe bound future states to make war against each other a thousand years later"
My latest essay: "The myths that made Putin’s war"
www.ft.com/content/9731...
My latest essay: "The myths that made Putin’s war"
www.ft.com/content/9731...
The myths that made Putin’s war
The Alaska summit exposed the flawed history and personal vanity that fuel the conflict with Ukraine, argues Timothy Snyder
www.ft.com
August 24, 2025 at 3:00 PM
"If it were true that Ukraine belongs to Russia in the 2020s because a Russian dictator knows a legend about a Viking in the 860s... millions of people who actually live there would have no voice in their own identity: no choice but to accept the executions, the torture, the kidnapping of children."
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Co robić w Warszawie? Sprawdźcie moje TOP5️⃣ kulturalnych propozycji na lato.
July 15, 2025 at 1:51 PM
Co robić w Warszawie? Sprawdźcie moje TOP5️⃣ kulturalnych propozycji na lato.
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🚨 BREAKING: Poland's Prime Minister Donald Tusk has won a vote of confidence in the Polish parliament.
Full story: ow.ly/3ANB50W7Mug
Full story: ow.ly/3ANB50W7Mug
June 11, 2025 at 2:42 PM
🚨 BREAKING: Poland's Prime Minister Donald Tusk has won a vote of confidence in the Polish parliament.
Full story: ow.ly/3ANB50W7Mug
Full story: ow.ly/3ANB50W7Mug
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Polish PM Donald Tusk is expected to comfortably survive a confidence vote today.
But the result will do little to assuage the challenges posed by the presidential election victory of conservative nationalist Karol Nawrocki.
But the result will do little to assuage the challenges posed by the presidential election victory of conservative nationalist Karol Nawrocki.
Poland’s Tusk set to win confidence vote, but faces uphill slog to govern
The pro-EU prime minister will have to contend not only with a nationalist president blocking his reforms, but also with increasingly frustrated coalition partners.
www.politico.eu
June 11, 2025 at 7:02 AM
Polish PM Donald Tusk is expected to comfortably survive a confidence vote today.
But the result will do little to assuage the challenges posed by the presidential election victory of conservative nationalist Karol Nawrocki.
But the result will do little to assuage the challenges posed by the presidential election victory of conservative nationalist Karol Nawrocki.
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Znam smak zwycięstwa, znam gorycz porażki, ale nie znam takiego słowa jak kapitulacja. Idziemy dalej!🇵🇱
June 11, 2025 at 9:52 AM
Znam smak zwycięstwa, znam gorycz porażki, ale nie znam takiego słowa jak kapitulacja. Idziemy dalej!🇵🇱
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"Whatever the nature of the crisis, it forces the revolutionaries to make a choice. Give up—or radicalize. Find compromises—or polarize society further. Slow down—or use violence"
The logic of revolution is always the same
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
The logic of revolution is always the same
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
This Is What Trump Does When His Revolution Sputters
His military deployment in Los Angeles follows a long, disturbing tradition.
www.theatlantic.com
June 11, 2025 at 12:34 PM
"Whatever the nature of the crisis, it forces the revolutionaries to make a choice. Give up—or radicalize. Find compromises—or polarize society further. Slow down—or use violence"
The logic of revolution is always the same
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
The logic of revolution is always the same
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
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May 16, 2025 at 7:25 PM
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18 maja wszyscy na wybory! 🇵🇱
May 16, 2025 at 9:33 PM
18 maja wszyscy na wybory! 🇵🇱
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Słucham Waszych historii. Na rynkach, na ulicach. O Waszych marzeniach. Lękach. O nadziei.
A gdybyśmy napisali nową, wspólną historię? O Polsce, która nas łączy. O Polsce, która jest wspólnym domem. Domem, który budujemy razem.
Spełnijmy to marzenie. 18 maja proszę o Wasz głos.
#Trzaskowski2025
A gdybyśmy napisali nową, wspólną historię? O Polsce, która nas łączy. O Polsce, która jest wspólnym domem. Domem, który budujemy razem.
Spełnijmy to marzenie. 18 maja proszę o Wasz głos.
#Trzaskowski2025
May 16, 2025 at 9:58 PM
Słucham Waszych historii. Na rynkach, na ulicach. O Waszych marzeniach. Lękach. O nadziei.
A gdybyśmy napisali nową, wspólną historię? O Polsce, która nas łączy. O Polsce, która jest wspólnym domem. Domem, który budujemy razem.
Spełnijmy to marzenie. 18 maja proszę o Wasz głos.
#Trzaskowski2025
A gdybyśmy napisali nową, wspólną historię? O Polsce, która nas łączy. O Polsce, która jest wspólnym domem. Domem, który budujemy razem.
Spełnijmy to marzenie. 18 maja proszę o Wasz głos.
#Trzaskowski2025
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More Canadian water bombers and helicopters for fire fighting will be on their way soon to Los Angeles to help #CanadianWaterBombers #Canada #LosAngeles
Alberta preparing to send water bombers, helicopters to help fight Los Angeles wildfire
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
Alberta preparing to send water bombers, helicopters to help fight Los Angeles wildfire
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
Alberta preparing to send water bombers, helicopters to help fight Los Angeles wildfire | CBC News
Alberta is preparing to send water bombers, night-vision helicopters and incident command team support to help battle wildfires ravaging parts of Los Angeles.
www.cbc.ca
January 9, 2025 at 7:38 PM
More Canadian water bombers and helicopters for fire fighting will be on their way soon to Los Angeles to help #CanadianWaterBombers #Canada #LosAngeles
Alberta preparing to send water bombers, helicopters to help fight Los Angeles wildfire
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
Alberta preparing to send water bombers, helicopters to help fight Los Angeles wildfire
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
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Ważny moment. I ważny sygnał, że lepiej czasami wstrzymać się z niektórymi wypowiedziami, zamiast w poszukiwaniu głosów dawać pożywkę kremlowskim propagandystom.
Wreszcie przełom. Jest decyzja o pierwszych ekshumacjach polskich ofiar UPA. Dziękuję ministrom kultury Polski i Ukrainy za dobrą współpracę. Czekamy na kolejne decyzje.
January 10, 2025 at 3:52 PM
Ważny moment. I ważny sygnał, że lepiej czasami wstrzymać się z niektórymi wypowiedziami, zamiast w poszukiwaniu głosów dawać pożywkę kremlowskim propagandystom.
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January 8, 2025 at 4:56 PM
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Premier Orbán nie lubi rozliczeń. Powiedział mi to wprost, tłumacząc decyzję o azylu. Polityka jest prostsza, niż się niektórym wydaje.
December 21, 2024 at 3:09 PM
Premier Orbán nie lubi rozliczeń. Powiedział mi to wprost, tłumacząc decyzję o azylu. Polityka jest prostsza, niż się niektórym wydaje.
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Dlaczego tu jestem.
December 20, 2024 at 8:32 AM
Dlaczego tu jestem.
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Last night Timothy Snyder talked with Rachel about the idea of a shadow government to serve as a model and reminder of what is possible from a government of qualified people instead of Fox guests and family members.
It came up twice, actually. Here's 1 of 2.
It came up twice, actually. Here's 1 of 2.
December 17, 2024 at 10:36 PM
Last night Timothy Snyder talked with Rachel about the idea of a shadow government to serve as a model and reminder of what is possible from a government of qualified people instead of Fox guests and family members.
It came up twice, actually. Here's 1 of 2.
It came up twice, actually. Here's 1 of 2.