Annie Holland
@annierholland.bsky.social
Dual national(European/Aus). SRN/LLB, spent a lot of time on my feet in both jobs. Wanna die an European, try to keep up to date, always looking for hope in things. FFP3s always. Flags in my window = 🇦🇺🇪🇺 + St. Piran’s
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Thoughts on the drip feed of economic fun ahead of the budget. Afa I’m concerned each leak a tear for the destruction of the country by so few thru brexit.
Thoughts on the drip feed of economic fun ahead of the budget. Afa I’m concerned each leak a tear for the destruction of the country by so few thru brexit.
Rachel Reeves has many problems. She’s realising that her Brexit bind may be the biggest of all | Rafael Behr
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November 26, 2025 at 9:42 AM
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Thoughts on the drip feed of economic fun ahead of the budget. Afa I’m concerned each leak a tear for the destruction of the country by so few thru brexit.
Thoughts on the drip feed of economic fun ahead of the budget. Afa I’m concerned each leak a tear for the destruction of the country by so few thru brexit.
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Judging by the report, the Reform Party official in question is quite a charmer, even by the standards of that party.
“'Peter Morgan shouldn’t be anywhere near politics regardless of the level. He is dangerous,' was the firm opinion of one Reform member ...
“'Peter Morgan shouldn’t be anywhere near politics regardless of the level. He is dangerous,' was the firm opinion of one Reform member ...
Reform party official wants to scrap vital New Addington trams insidecroydon.com/2025/11/21/r... #Croydon #Reform #Trams @christianwolmar.bsky.social @ldntravelwatch.bsky.social
Reform party official wants to scrap vital New Addington trams
EXCLUSIVE: As Nigel Farage’s company-cum-party struggles with a constant credibility crisis, here in Croydon, one member has a policy idea which could damage their election chances. By STEVEN…
insidecroydon.com
November 21, 2025 at 6:37 PM
Judging by the report, the Reform Party official in question is quite a charmer, even by the standards of that party.
“'Peter Morgan shouldn’t be anywhere near politics regardless of the level. He is dangerous,' was the firm opinion of one Reform member ...
“'Peter Morgan shouldn’t be anywhere near politics regardless of the level. He is dangerous,' was the firm opinion of one Reform member ...
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Something I omitted in my post below is that there is a leader that has been focused on social care in parliament, @eddavey.libdems.org.uk - and I have seriously appreciated his input.
The NHS won’t survive this winter with one of the reasons being that social care has fallen off a cliff - but Shabana Mahmood got to punch down on the migrants propping it up as “low-qualified” and “never expected to be net economic contributors”, so… I guess there’s that.
The Punishment Model of Government
League tables, political cruelty and the quiet fear spreading through the NHS this winter.
www.bearlypolitics.co.uk
November 21, 2025 at 12:53 PM
Something I omitted in my post below is that there is a leader that has been focused on social care in parliament, @eddavey.libdems.org.uk - and I have seriously appreciated his input.
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Farage et al really mustn't be allowed to walk away from this scandal, and its wider implications:
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Former Reform in Wales leader Nathan Gill jailed for pro-Russian bribery
Nathan Gill, 52, is sentenced to 10 and a half years in prison after admitting taking bribes while an MEP.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 21, 2025 at 4:51 PM
Farage et al really mustn't be allowed to walk away from this scandal, and its wider implications:
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Always, always, always read @zacheverson.com (who threads his stories here as well as publishing them).
New: Alt5 Sigma, one of Trump's key business partners, told the SEC that it suspended its CEO in mid-October.
An internal email, though, says he was placed on “temporary leave” more than a month earlier.
me, for @forbes.com
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An internal email, though, says he was placed on “temporary leave” more than a month earlier.
me, for @forbes.com
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Trump Crypto Partner Alt5 Sigma May Have Violated SEC Rules With Filing On CEO
One of Trump's key business partners told the SEC it suspended its CEO in mid-October. Internal records suggest he was on “temporary leave” more than a month earlier.
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November 21, 2025 at 5:22 PM
Always, always, always read @zacheverson.com (who threads his stories here as well as publishing them).
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November 19, 2025
November 19, 2025
Yesterday the House of Representatives passed the Epstein Files Transparency Act.
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November 20, 2025 at 8:06 AM
November 19, 2025
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The evidence from Farage and the people that surround him screams that there is really no two sides to this story or slipper definitions - not that you’d be able to tell with just how much smoke is being blown around this.
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DEEP DIVE: How Does Reform Show Its Racism? Let Me Count the Ways
From “target practice” on refugees to burqa bans in Parliament, the tally tells the story better than Farage ever could.
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November 20, 2025 at 7:45 AM
The evidence from Farage and the people that surround him screams that there is really no two sides to this story or slipper definitions - not that you’d be able to tell with just how much smoke is being blown around this.
www.bearlypolitics.co.uk/p/deep-dive-...
www.bearlypolitics.co.uk/p/deep-dive-...
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"Quiet, piggy!" should become the instant response to anything he says. Let's make it happen.
November 18, 2025 at 4:11 PM
"Quiet, piggy!" should become the instant response to anything he says. Let's make it happen.
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Rachel Reeves has already made a complete mess of her Budget, so I thought I should offer an alternative. This is the first part. There are several more to come. When the country's economy is failing, it's time to be radical. Nothing less will do. www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2025/11...
The Alternative Budget 2025 – The Background
Rachel Reeves will be presenting her Budget on November 26, if the Labour government of which she is a part lasts that long.
I will be commenting on that Budget on the day on BBC Radio 2, and elsewh...
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November 16, 2025 at 7:45 AM
Rachel Reeves has already made a complete mess of her Budget, so I thought I should offer an alternative. This is the first part. There are several more to come. When the country's economy is failing, it's time to be radical. Nothing less will do. www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2025/11...
Alien Labour - it’s like living on another planet………actually, that’s not a bad idea. Perhaps they can go to Mars and I’ll stay here…..
A terrible, regressive compared to what they've ditched, change in tax policy. And the bond markets hate it too, tending to make the deficit even larger. And all for political reasons. If Starmer and Reeves can't govern in the national interest perhaps they shouldn't govern at all.
Quite depressing, this. Super high earners already pay higher rates on ~ all of their income. Freezing or cutting thresholds, Labour's alternative, is all but irrelevant to them but will disproportionately whack the take home pay of the squeezed middle. on.ft.com/4o1gfLf
November 14, 2025 at 8:45 AM
Alien Labour - it’s like living on another planet………actually, that’s not a bad idea. Perhaps they can go to Mars and I’ll stay here…..
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Very interesting and informative
NEW
A close look at Trump's $1 billion claim against the BBC
The litigation letter is weak, but his underlying practical position is not weak
By me:
emptycity.substack.com/p/a-close-lo... (Substack)
(Non-Substack link to follow.)
A close look at Trump's $1 billion claim against the BBC
The litigation letter is weak, but his underlying practical position is not weak
By me:
emptycity.substack.com/p/a-close-lo... (Substack)
(Non-Substack link to follow.)
A close look at Trump's $1 billion claim against the BBC
The litigation letter is weak, but his underlying practical position is not weak
emptycity.substack.com
November 11, 2025 at 5:48 PM
Very interesting and informative
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Due to an admin error, we have lost our @oxfordforeurope.bsky.social account. (As you can see that account hasn’t posted for a while). So - after many attempts with the Bluesky team to regain the account - this is the new account.
If you see this, please could you repost and follow back? 🙏
If you see this, please could you repost and follow back? 🙏
November 10, 2025 at 7:09 AM
Due to an admin error, we have lost our @oxfordforeurope.bsky.social account. (As you can see that account hasn’t posted for a while). So - after many attempts with the Bluesky team to regain the account - this is the new account.
If you see this, please could you repost and follow back? 🙏
If you see this, please could you repost and follow back? 🙏
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Farage's move to bring forward the ECHR legislation was never about winning; it was yet another calculated political stunt.
His goal is simply to stay omnipresent in the public mind and ensure his actions—regardless of their merit—keep generating conversation.
His goal is simply to stay omnipresent in the public mind and ensure his actions—regardless of their merit—keep generating conversation.
Farage’s bid to bring forward legislation to leave ECHR blocked by MPs
MPs could be heard shouting over Nigel Farage as the motion was debated in the Commons chamber.
www.independent.co.uk
November 5, 2025 at 8:25 PM
Farage's move to bring forward the ECHR legislation was never about winning; it was yet another calculated political stunt.
His goal is simply to stay omnipresent in the public mind and ensure his actions—regardless of their merit—keep generating conversation.
His goal is simply to stay omnipresent in the public mind and ensure his actions—regardless of their merit—keep generating conversation.
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Farage says leaving the ECHR is the “unfinished business" of Brexit and that the UK is "not sovereign” while we are in it.
But Farage lies. And Brexit is a shitshow. So, “finishing” it should fill us all with dread.
Sovereignty without rights is dictatorship.
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...
But Farage lies. And Brexit is a shitshow. So, “finishing” it should fill us all with dread.
Sovereignty without rights is dictatorship.
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...
Leaving the ECHR won’t stop the boats, 300 organisations warn in rallying cry
Prime minister Keir Starmer urged to make positive case for ECHR after Kemi Badenoch pledged a Tory government would leave the treaty
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November 3, 2025 at 5:28 PM
Farage says leaving the ECHR is the “unfinished business" of Brexit and that the UK is "not sovereign” while we are in it.
But Farage lies. And Brexit is a shitshow. So, “finishing” it should fill us all with dread.
Sovereignty without rights is dictatorship.
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...
But Farage lies. And Brexit is a shitshow. So, “finishing” it should fill us all with dread.
Sovereignty without rights is dictatorship.
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...
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I would love to ask the new editor of Question Time how booking Goodwin, an extreme racist who openly fosters division and civil unrest, fits into his vision of “community and shared expression”
November 2, 2025 at 8:33 PM
I would love to ask the new editor of Question Time how booking Goodwin, an extreme racist who openly fosters division and civil unrest, fits into his vision of “community and shared expression”
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November 1, 2025 at 4:57 PM
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Man with stubble, "Small boats arrivals are 37,000. There are over 4 million kids in child poverty. And 4.5 million who can't get a dentist appointment" #BBCQT
"We spend 90% of the media discourse on the 37,000. How much more could we achieve if we put that effort into the 4.5 million?"
"We spend 90% of the media discourse on the 37,000. How much more could we achieve if we put that effort into the 4.5 million?"
October 30, 2025 at 10:56 PM
Man with stubble, "Small boats arrivals are 37,000. There are over 4 million kids in child poverty. And 4.5 million who can't get a dentist appointment" #BBCQT
"We spend 90% of the media discourse on the 37,000. How much more could we achieve if we put that effort into the 4.5 million?"
"We spend 90% of the media discourse on the 37,000. How much more could we achieve if we put that effort into the 4.5 million?"
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Tax, redistribution, the relationship between the two, and why it matters www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2025/10...
Tax, redistribution, the relationship between the two, and why it matters
A new commentator on this blog, called Sammy, asked last night:
I often hear a version of the phrase used in the blog, where the tax taken from the idle wealth can be ‘redistributed’ for other uses. I...
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October 28, 2025 at 8:21 AM
Tax, redistribution, the relationship between the two, and why it matters www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2025/10...
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Racism is now being called out: calling out fascism must be next www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2025/10...
Racism is now being called out: calling out fascism must be next
The Guardian has suddenly decided that Reform MP Sarah Pochin’s comments about Black and Asian people on television lets them describe what she said as racist.
Zoe Williamson has written about it.
S...
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October 28, 2025 at 7:40 AM
Racism is now being called out: calling out fascism must be next www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2025/10...
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Politico: "MPs should consider deleting X, according to a committee led by Commons Speaker Lindsay Hoyle...
"On social media, the report said MPs should feel “empowered to step away from platforms that pose more harm than benefit.”
Absolutely. Please get on with it.
"On social media, the report said MPs should feel “empowered to step away from platforms that pose more harm than benefit.”
Absolutely. Please get on with it.
October 27, 2025 at 6:08 PM
Politico: "MPs should consider deleting X, according to a committee led by Commons Speaker Lindsay Hoyle...
"On social media, the report said MPs should feel “empowered to step away from platforms that pose more harm than benefit.”
Absolutely. Please get on with it.
"On social media, the report said MPs should feel “empowered to step away from platforms that pose more harm than benefit.”
Absolutely. Please get on with it.
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Pochin's explanation that it is because advertisers are 'woke' doesn't stack up: their clients would walk if that was so, to the detriment of sales. Unless Reform have now given up on the whole idea of free market economics which, in many other contexts, they champion.
October 26, 2025 at 8:35 PM
Pochin's explanation that it is because advertisers are 'woke' doesn't stack up: their clients would walk if that was so, to the detriment of sales. Unless Reform have now given up on the whole idea of free market economics which, in many other contexts, they champion.
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In any case, there's no requirement on advertisers to represent ethnic groups proportionately. So even supposing Pochin's claim was true, it would just mean that this is what companies think will best sell their products. Do Reform want to tell them they must use a different approach?
Talking about adverts on television, representation & the comments of a Reform MP about getting mad about seeing black and Asian faces on Times Radio in 5 minutes
October 26, 2025 at 8:23 PM
In any case, there's no requirement on advertisers to represent ethnic groups proportionately. So even supposing Pochin's claim was true, it would just mean that this is what companies think will best sell their products. Do Reform want to tell them they must use a different approach?
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The Trump Action Tracker has an update!
Main change is to break down the five authoritarian domains into ten - this allows for easier understanding of why actions have been logged and more tools for searching / filtering the now 1621 actions.
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Main change is to break down the five authoritarian domains into ten - this allows for easier understanding of why actions have been logged and more tools for searching / filtering the now 1621 actions.
www.trumpactiontracker.info?
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October 26, 2025 at 10:55 AM
The Trump Action Tracker has an update!
Main change is to break down the five authoritarian domains into ten - this allows for easier understanding of why actions have been logged and more tools for searching / filtering the now 1621 actions.
www.trumpactiontracker.info?
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Main change is to break down the five authoritarian domains into ten - this allows for easier understanding of why actions have been logged and more tools for searching / filtering the now 1621 actions.
www.trumpactiontracker.info?
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