Carol Overrill
@caroloverrill.bsky.social
Interested in so much, expert in f all.
Passionate about history, archaeology and the environment.
A lifetime spent with cats, listening to progressive rock and meddling in politics and environmental campaigning.
Obsessive over family history research.
Passionate about history, archaeology and the environment.
A lifetime spent with cats, listening to progressive rock and meddling in politics and environmental campaigning.
Obsessive over family history research.
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Mark Carney, "The lessons of Brexit are beginning to be applied to the US"
"When you break trading relationships you end up with slower growth"
"When you break trading relationships you end up with slower growth"
April 29, 2025 at 7:09 AM
Mark Carney, "The lessons of Brexit are beginning to be applied to the US"
"When you break trading relationships you end up with slower growth"
"When you break trading relationships you end up with slower growth"
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It’s all a matter of angles.
And from this angle, it makes total sense.
🇨🇦🇬🇱🇮🇸🇬🇧🇳🇴—-> 🇪🇺 🙌
And from this angle, it makes total sense.
🇨🇦🇬🇱🇮🇸🇬🇧🇳🇴—-> 🇪🇺 🙌
April 14, 2025 at 9:46 PM
It’s all a matter of angles.
And from this angle, it makes total sense.
🇨🇦🇬🇱🇮🇸🇬🇧🇳🇴—-> 🇪🇺 🙌
And from this angle, it makes total sense.
🇨🇦🇬🇱🇮🇸🇬🇧🇳🇴—-> 🇪🇺 🙌
All Putin's wishes are coming true.
Can Europe come together and plan their way out of this or are we capitulating through our petty squabbling.
BBC News - How Trump blew up the world order - and left Europe scrabbling - BBC News
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Can Europe come together and plan their way out of this or are we capitulating through our petty squabbling.
BBC News - How Trump blew up the world order - and left Europe scrabbling - BBC News
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
How Trump blew up the world order - and left Europe scrabbling
This is the gravest crisis for Western security since the end of World War Two. So which nations will step forward as the new world order emerges?
www.bbc.co.uk
March 26, 2025 at 12:14 PM
All Putin's wishes are coming true.
Can Europe come together and plan their way out of this or are we capitulating through our petty squabbling.
BBC News - How Trump blew up the world order - and left Europe scrabbling - BBC News
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Can Europe come together and plan their way out of this or are we capitulating through our petty squabbling.
BBC News - How Trump blew up the world order - and left Europe scrabbling - BBC News
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
OMG this man is a parody of himself.
"8 million dollars for making mice transgender" is the new "they're eating the dogs"
March 5, 2025 at 10:43 AM
OMG this man is a parody of himself.
These photos have got to piss off Trump even more.
March 2, 2025 at 6:37 PM
These photos have got to piss off Trump even more.
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Word of the day is ‘huff-snuff’ (16th century): a hectoring bully or braggart.
February 28, 2025 at 6:05 PM
Word of the day is ‘huff-snuff’ (16th century): a hectoring bully or braggart.
What a bully! We have to stand firm with Ukraine.
February 28, 2025 at 6:14 PM
What a bully! We have to stand firm with Ukraine.
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Disarming ‘enemies of the state’ but not ‘patriots’.
Patriots meaning Trump loyalists of course.
Patriots meaning Trump loyalists of course.
February 25, 2025 at 5:49 PM
Disarming ‘enemies of the state’ but not ‘patriots’.
Patriots meaning Trump loyalists of course.
Patriots meaning Trump loyalists of course.
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After playing a fictional member of the Resistance a long time ago, I never could have imagined it ever happening in real life, but here we are.
Mark Hamill posting rebellious content in a battle against a dictator and his robotic sidekick is the most Star Wars shit ever.
February 24, 2025 at 9:04 PM
After playing a fictional member of the Resistance a long time ago, I never could have imagined it ever happening in real life, but here we are.
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Trump likes being #2, he likes doing the PR work, being in front of the camera, getting the adulation, but serving the boss. Musk will dominate him at home and Putin will dominate him abroad. He will deliver their lines, as he has just done for Putin in shocking fashion, and does for Musk every day.
‘The US Is Doing Russia’s Work’ Say Ecstatic Propagandists
Putin’s mouthpieces are in a lather of excitement over the US administration’s willingness to make a deal to their liking.
My latest for @cepa.org:
cepa.org/article/the-...
Putin’s mouthpieces are in a lather of excitement over the US administration’s willingness to make a deal to their liking.
My latest for @cepa.org:
cepa.org/article/the-...
‘The US Is Doing Russia’s Work’ Say Ecstatic Propagandists
Putin’s mouthpieces are in a lather of excitement over the US administration’s willingness to make a deal to their liking.
cepa.org
February 19, 2025 at 4:52 PM
Trump likes being #2, he likes doing the PR work, being in front of the camera, getting the adulation, but serving the boss. Musk will dominate him at home and Putin will dominate him abroad. He will deliver their lines, as he has just done for Putin in shocking fashion, and does for Musk every day.
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Thames water shouldn't be getting bailouts and it shouldn't be hiking bills.
It should be nationalised.
Repost if you agree 👍
www.bigissue.com/news/environ...
It should be nationalised.
Repost if you agree 👍
www.bigissue.com/news/environ...
Outrage as Thames Water secures £3bn bailout after 'disgraceful' court ruling
Thames Water has won court approval to secure an emergency £3bn bailout – a decision slammed as a mere “stay of execution” for the company.
www.bigissue.com
February 19, 2025 at 7:49 AM
Thames water shouldn't be getting bailouts and it shouldn't be hiking bills.
It should be nationalised.
Repost if you agree 👍
www.bigissue.com/news/environ...
It should be nationalised.
Repost if you agree 👍
www.bigissue.com/news/environ...
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Guess I won’t be staying in any AirBnB anytime soon
February 17, 2025 at 2:56 PM
Guess I won’t be staying in any AirBnB anytime soon
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The incomparable Kate Lister (@k8lister.bsky.social):
"I am old enough to remember when it was important for a university to just have a history department and somewhere to study literature, and I’m not that old."
"I am old enough to remember when it was important for a university to just have a history department and somewhere to study literature, and I’m not that old."
An act of grotesque vandalism is taking place in British universities
The entire arts and heritage sector in the UK will be irreparably damaged
inews.co.uk
February 12, 2025 at 9:24 PM
The incomparable Kate Lister (@k8lister.bsky.social):
"I am old enough to remember when it was important for a university to just have a history department and somewhere to study literature, and I’m not that old."
"I am old enough to remember when it was important for a university to just have a history department and somewhere to study literature, and I’m not that old."
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Damn this closing paragraph from Mark Smith, the British diplomat who quit over uk war crimes, leaves no room for doubt: Starmer and Lammy are war criminals.
February 10, 2025 at 11:19 AM
Damn this closing paragraph from Mark Smith, the British diplomat who quit over uk war crimes, leaves no room for doubt: Starmer and Lammy are war criminals.
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Absolutely spot on from Rory Stewart
February 2, 2025 at 2:35 PM
Absolutely spot on from Rory Stewart
Celebrating my aunt's 100th birthday with a party and her self portrait courtesy of Totalpap - the wonderful Emily Firmin and Justin Mitchell. totalpap.co.uk Happy Birthday Pam Willett xx
February 1, 2025 at 6:57 PM
Celebrating my aunt's 100th birthday with a party and her self portrait courtesy of Totalpap - the wonderful Emily Firmin and Justin Mitchell. totalpap.co.uk Happy Birthday Pam Willett xx
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If UK news shows are going to give Nigel Farage a platform to spout this absolute boll**** about Brexit & the vaccine rollout (unchallenged) I’ll happily come back every week to correct it
We cannot allow them to rewrite history.
If you agree share this FACT CHECK widely
youtu.be/MUrf7addcTA?...
We cannot allow them to rewrite history.
If you agree share this FACT CHECK widely
youtu.be/MUrf7addcTA?...
NO Nigel Farage - the vaccine rollout was not helped by Brexit
YouTube video by Peter Stefanovic
youtu.be
February 1, 2025 at 11:35 AM
If UK news shows are going to give Nigel Farage a platform to spout this absolute boll**** about Brexit & the vaccine rollout (unchallenged) I’ll happily come back every week to correct it
We cannot allow them to rewrite history.
If you agree share this FACT CHECK widely
youtu.be/MUrf7addcTA?...
We cannot allow them to rewrite history.
If you agree share this FACT CHECK widely
youtu.be/MUrf7addcTA?...
Well Rachel Reeves: I support bats, newts and net zero. Growth needs to be green growth or it is just vandalism.
January 29, 2025 at 1:24 PM
Well Rachel Reeves: I support bats, newts and net zero. Growth needs to be green growth or it is just vandalism.
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And here is the link you need.
Just plug in your postcode to find your MP - and your email is ready to go:
www.europeanmovement.co.uk/contact-mp-y...
Just plug in your postcode to find your MP - and your email is ready to go:
www.europeanmovement.co.uk/contact-mp-y...
Ask your MP to support youth mobility and opportunities in Europe
Contact your MP today and ask them to attend the debate on 15th January in Parliament
www.europeanmovement.co.uk
January 13, 2025 at 10:55 PM
And here is the link you need.
Just plug in your postcode to find your MP - and your email is ready to go:
www.europeanmovement.co.uk/contact-mp-y...
Just plug in your postcode to find your MP - and your email is ready to go:
www.europeanmovement.co.uk/contact-mp-y...
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The UK govt reveals massive investments in AI just as it's revealed that UK families are far poorer than those in other countries. A manifestation of politicians' propensity to fall for flashy bullshit that solves nothing vs the actual work of fixing systemic economic injustice.
‘Mainlined into UK’s veins’: Labour announces huge public rollout of AI
Plans to make UK world leader in AI sector include opening access to NHS and other public data
www.theguardian.com
January 13, 2025 at 8:32 AM
The UK govt reveals massive investments in AI just as it's revealed that UK families are far poorer than those in other countries. A manifestation of politicians' propensity to fall for flashy bullshit that solves nothing vs the actual work of fixing systemic economic injustice.
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Remember when Matt Hancock & Nadine Dorries (now ex MPs) chose to appear on TV realty shows for mega loot, and for weeks neglected their Parliamentary duties.
That is still permitted.
Must ban all second jobs for MPs.
Must serve people, not their bank balance.
leftfootforward.org/2025/01/mps-...
That is still permitted.
Must ban all second jobs for MPs.
Must serve people, not their bank balance.
leftfootforward.org/2025/01/mps-...
MPs second jobs are institutionalised bribery. They should be banned.
'Preventing MPs from selling their souls to the highest bidder is a necessary step in democratising parliament.'
leftfootforward.org
January 12, 2025 at 2:47 PM
Remember when Matt Hancock & Nadine Dorries (now ex MPs) chose to appear on TV realty shows for mega loot, and for weeks neglected their Parliamentary duties.
That is still permitted.
Must ban all second jobs for MPs.
Must serve people, not their bank balance.
leftfootforward.org/2025/01/mps-...
That is still permitted.
Must ban all second jobs for MPs.
Must serve people, not their bank balance.
leftfootforward.org/2025/01/mps-...
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It's been a terrible week. A terrible, terrible week. The worst people on earth are full of energy and vigour, the best are defined by anxiety and self-doubt. Here are three simple rules to surviving the next four years, because by God we'll need them iandunt.substack.com/p/a-little-b...
A little bit of hope after a terrible week
A survival guide to the next four years.
iandunt.substack.com
January 10, 2025 at 12:00 PM
It's been a terrible week. A terrible, terrible week. The worst people on earth are full of energy and vigour, the best are defined by anxiety and self-doubt. Here are three simple rules to surviving the next four years, because by God we'll need them iandunt.substack.com/p/a-little-b...
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Rachel Reeves could raise £42bn by rejoining the Single Market.
I don't think she knows, lets RT and see if we can inform her.
I don't think she knows, lets RT and see if we can inform her.
January 12, 2025 at 8:19 AM
Rachel Reeves could raise £42bn by rejoining the Single Market.
I don't think she knows, lets RT and see if we can inform her.
I don't think she knows, lets RT and see if we can inform her.