Dr Chris Melvin
@chrispmelvin.bsky.social
Steel Nerd // CEng CSci // Chairboy living in Swansea // IOM3 FIMMM & Iron & Steel Leadership Group Secretary
Public lecturer on Green Steel Transition
Continuous Improvement Specialist
Public lecturer on Green Steel Transition
Continuous Improvement Specialist
God Gave Rock 'N' Roll To You II
KISS · Revenge · Song · 1992
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June 4, 2025 at 7:46 PM
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“That quitting the single market and customs union of our country’s largest trading partner inflicts damage considerably worse than the US hit should be screamed from the rooftops, not ignored”
www.mirror.co.uk/news/kevin-m...
www.mirror.co.uk/news/kevin-m...
Kevin Maguire - Trump is treating UK like Guatemala, it's time to rethink Brexit
The Mirror's Associate Editor and politics columnist Kevin Maguire says it's high time Keir Starmer took a second look at reversing Brexit after US President Donald Trump imposed his rogue tariffs
www.mirror.co.uk
April 6, 2025 at 7:36 PM
“That quitting the single market and customs union of our country’s largest trading partner inflicts damage considerably worse than the US hit should be screamed from the rooftops, not ignored”
www.mirror.co.uk/news/kevin-m...
www.mirror.co.uk/news/kevin-m...
Absolutely shocking. I know Paul, her dad, really well from @swma-iom3.bsky.social & TATA Steel.
Still can't believe what we're seeing across the pond...
Still can't believe what we're seeing across the pond...
Becky Burke of Book Island (a picture book publisher in the UK founded by my fellow Tokarczuk translator Greet Pauwelijn) was "detained" by ICE at the Canadian border on 2/28. Her father asked that her story be shared in case someone can help her. He writes:
March 10, 2025 at 8:26 AM
Absolutely shocking. I know Paul, her dad, really well from @swma-iom3.bsky.social & TATA Steel.
Still can't believe what we're seeing across the pond...
Still can't believe what we're seeing across the pond...
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Becky Burke of Book Island (a picture book publisher in the UK founded by my fellow Tokarczuk translator Greet Pauwelijn) was "detained" by ICE at the Canadian border on 2/28. Her father asked that her story be shared in case someone can help her. He writes:
March 9, 2025 at 5:02 PM
Becky Burke of Book Island (a picture book publisher in the UK founded by my fellow Tokarczuk translator Greet Pauwelijn) was "detained" by ICE at the Canadian border on 2/28. Her father asked that her story be shared in case someone can help her. He writes:
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(1/3) It needs repeating: in 1994, Ukraine was persuaded to give up its nuclear weapons to Russia in return for the US, the UK, and Russia guaranteeing Ukraine’s sovereignty, security, and territorial integrity.
March 4, 2025 at 5:57 PM
(1/3) It needs repeating: in 1994, Ukraine was persuaded to give up its nuclear weapons to Russia in return for the US, the UK, and Russia guaranteeing Ukraine’s sovereignty, security, and territorial integrity.
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Exactly; Making Capital from the disasters they helped cause
1, isolate the UK (Brexit)=2
2, destabilisation of Europe
3,Putin invades Ukraine
4,Trumps elected
5 Putin &Trump divide up European continent between them,the spoils of war
6,strip the assets #DisasterCapitalism
#StandUpSpeakUpActUp
1, isolate the UK (Brexit)=2
2, destabilisation of Europe
3,Putin invades Ukraine
4,Trumps elected
5 Putin &Trump divide up European continent between them,the spoils of war
6,strip the assets #DisasterCapitalism
#StandUpSpeakUpActUp
March 1, 2025 at 7:20 AM
Exactly; Making Capital from the disasters they helped cause
1, isolate the UK (Brexit)=2
2, destabilisation of Europe
3,Putin invades Ukraine
4,Trumps elected
5 Putin &Trump divide up European continent between them,the spoils of war
6,strip the assets #DisasterCapitalism
#StandUpSpeakUpActUp
1, isolate the UK (Brexit)=2
2, destabilisation of Europe
3,Putin invades Ukraine
4,Trumps elected
5 Putin &Trump divide up European continent between them,the spoils of war
6,strip the assets #DisasterCapitalism
#StandUpSpeakUpActUp
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You either die a hero, or live long enough to see yourself become the Villain...
February 24, 2025 at 5:43 PM
You either die a hero, or live long enough to see yourself become the Villain...
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Those who said we didn't need the EU or a European defence force because we had NATO are now seeing that if you can't rely on the latter you'll need the former. For the millionth time: In a world of nationalistic superpowers, Europe is a strong EU or nothing. We should be in it.
February 24, 2025 at 11:50 AM
Those who said we didn't need the EU or a European defence force because we had NATO are now seeing that if you can't rely on the latter you'll need the former. For the millionth time: In a world of nationalistic superpowers, Europe is a strong EU or nothing. We should be in it.
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“After Brexit, the fantasists who promoted withdrawal from EU were lost in a dream that Britain could join an “Anglosphere” dominated by the United States – a delusion the actual United States never showed smallest interest in sharing”
@nickcohen.bsky.social
nickcohen.substack.com/p/can-europe...
@nickcohen.bsky.social
nickcohen.substack.com/p/can-europe...
Can Europe resist Trump’s gangsterism?
Does it have the willpower to even try?
nickcohen.substack.com
February 23, 2025 at 2:21 PM
“After Brexit, the fantasists who promoted withdrawal from EU were lost in a dream that Britain could join an “Anglosphere” dominated by the United States – a delusion the actual United States never showed smallest interest in sharing”
@nickcohen.bsky.social
nickcohen.substack.com/p/can-europe...
@nickcohen.bsky.social
nickcohen.substack.com/p/can-europe...
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COMMENT | Wake up Prime Minister Starmer, you must find your inner Churchill for Trump
Wake up Prime Minister Starmer, you must find your inner Churchill for Trump
Starmer’s visit to Trump should be the beginning of a renewed show of strength and a reunited Europe, writes Anthony Seldon. He should make history in a way that Churchill grasped and Blair dropped
www.independent.co.uk
February 23, 2025 at 2:34 PM
COMMENT | Wake up Prime Minister Starmer, you must find your inner Churchill for Trump
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Am old enough to remember when Trump was going to strengthen the Western alliance.
Those who said that are weirdly quiet tonight.
Those who said that are weirdly quiet tonight.
February 19, 2025 at 8:36 PM
Am old enough to remember when Trump was going to strengthen the Western alliance.
Those who said that are weirdly quiet tonight.
Those who said that are weirdly quiet tonight.
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The resistance will bring down Musk and Trump. Congress, wake up before your power is gone. The GOP begging Trump to release money to their states is pathetic—stand up to this tyranny. Congress controls the purse strings.
February 19, 2025 at 6:33 PM
The resistance will bring down Musk and Trump. Congress, wake up before your power is gone. The GOP begging Trump to release money to their states is pathetic—stand up to this tyranny. Congress controls the purse strings.
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In journalism it's important to reflect both sides,listen, understand nuance,be aware of your bias
It’s also important to call out facts that aren’t true
Trump suggested Ukraine started the war with Russia
That is not true.Facts matter.If you want to end a war,you need to face up to how it started
It’s also important to call out facts that aren’t true
Trump suggested Ukraine started the war with Russia
That is not true.Facts matter.If you want to end a war,you need to face up to how it started
February 19, 2025 at 6:38 PM
In journalism it's important to reflect both sides,listen, understand nuance,be aware of your bias
It’s also important to call out facts that aren’t true
Trump suggested Ukraine started the war with Russia
That is not true.Facts matter.If you want to end a war,you need to face up to how it started
It’s also important to call out facts that aren’t true
Trump suggested Ukraine started the war with Russia
That is not true.Facts matter.If you want to end a war,you need to face up to how it started
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Trump’s confidential plan to put Ukraine in a stranglehold
US president demands higher share of GDP than Germany’s First World War reparations
www.telegraph.co.uk/business/202...
US president demands higher share of GDP than Germany’s First World War reparations
www.telegraph.co.uk/business/202...
Revealed: Trump’s confidential plan to put Ukraine in a stranglehold
Panic in Kyiv as US president demands higher share of GDP than Germany’s First World War reparations
www.telegraph.co.uk
February 17, 2025 at 7:54 PM
Trump’s confidential plan to put Ukraine in a stranglehold
US president demands higher share of GDP than Germany’s First World War reparations
www.telegraph.co.uk/business/202...
US president demands higher share of GDP than Germany’s First World War reparations
www.telegraph.co.uk/business/202...
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"Research by scientists from the RSPB and University of Cambridge...
...has found that UK solar farms managed for nature could benefit birds, including threatened species like Corn Buntings, Greenfinches, Yellowhammers, and Linnets." 💚
...has found that UK solar farms managed for nature could benefit birds, including threatened species like Corn Buntings, Greenfinches, Yellowhammers, and Linnets." 💚
New research: birdlife soars on nature-friendly solar farms
Nature-friendly solar farms in East Anglia support more bird species than arable land, boosting biodiversity
eastangliabylines.co.uk
February 17, 2025 at 7:55 PM
"Research by scientists from the RSPB and University of Cambridge...
...has found that UK solar farms managed for nature could benefit birds, including threatened species like Corn Buntings, Greenfinches, Yellowhammers, and Linnets." 💚
...has found that UK solar farms managed for nature could benefit birds, including threatened species like Corn Buntings, Greenfinches, Yellowhammers, and Linnets." 💚
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Amazing how quickly the security element of 'Project Fear' turned out to be an almighty bloody understatement...
February 15, 2025 at 4:28 PM
Amazing how quickly the security element of 'Project Fear' turned out to be an almighty bloody understatement...
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Europe needs to get real on defence and Britain needs to get real on Europe. My speech last night to Labour Movement for Europe … alastaircampbell.org/2025/02/euro...
Europe needs to get real on defence; Britain needs to get real on Europe
Below is the text of a speech I am making this evening to the Labour Movement for Europe, urging a change in approach by Labour, to be bolder in the terms of the “reset” that is promised, clearer in a...
alastaircampbell.org
February 14, 2025 at 10:22 AM
Europe needs to get real on defence and Britain needs to get real on Europe. My speech last night to Labour Movement for Europe … alastaircampbell.org/2025/02/euro...
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Brexit was a Russian op
designed to divide and weaken the EU and UK
and it worked.
Time to reverse it
Together you are strong, divided you are weak
I hope the UK rejoins and Canada Australia and New Zealand join them
designed to divide and weaken the EU and UK
and it worked.
Time to reverse it
Together you are strong, divided you are weak
I hope the UK rejoins and Canada Australia and New Zealand join them
And the cool thing is that this petition is now on 113,000…
Crossing the 100K mark only accelerated it. 🚀
Crossing the 100K mark only accelerated it. 🚀
Petition to rejoin the EU reaches 100,000 signatures
100,000 signatures - enough to be considered for a debate by MPs in Parliament!
northeastbylines.co.uk
February 13, 2025 at 8:02 PM
Brexit was a Russian op
designed to divide and weaken the EU and UK
and it worked.
Time to reverse it
Together you are strong, divided you are weak
I hope the UK rejoins and Canada Australia and New Zealand join them
designed to divide and weaken the EU and UK
and it worked.
Time to reverse it
Together you are strong, divided you are weak
I hope the UK rejoins and Canada Australia and New Zealand join them
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Just let this sink in
In 2016 Vote Leave marginally won
The UK gov knew of Russian interference to deliver Brexit
And despite that, May, Johnson, Truss, Sunak, and now Starmer have chosen to do what Putin wants- weaken Europe- instead of protect our democracy from Putin
Shameful
In 2016 Vote Leave marginally won
The UK gov knew of Russian interference to deliver Brexit
And despite that, May, Johnson, Truss, Sunak, and now Starmer have chosen to do what Putin wants- weaken Europe- instead of protect our democracy from Putin
Shameful
February 13, 2025 at 6:57 PM
Just let this sink in
In 2016 Vote Leave marginally won
The UK gov knew of Russian interference to deliver Brexit
And despite that, May, Johnson, Truss, Sunak, and now Starmer have chosen to do what Putin wants- weaken Europe- instead of protect our democracy from Putin
Shameful
In 2016 Vote Leave marginally won
The UK gov knew of Russian interference to deliver Brexit
And despite that, May, Johnson, Truss, Sunak, and now Starmer have chosen to do what Putin wants- weaken Europe- instead of protect our democracy from Putin
Shameful
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This isn't a surprising but it is devastating.
The great betrayal of Ukraine begins.
We, in Europe, are in a place of danger.
We all owe Ukraine & its people a debt of gratitude for its extraordinary courage. 😢
The great betrayal of Ukraine begins.
We, in Europe, are in a place of danger.
We all owe Ukraine & its people a debt of gratitude for its extraordinary courage. 😢
February 12, 2025 at 5:45 PM
This isn't a surprising but it is devastating.
The great betrayal of Ukraine begins.
We, in Europe, are in a place of danger.
We all owe Ukraine & its people a debt of gratitude for its extraordinary courage. 😢
The great betrayal of Ukraine begins.
We, in Europe, are in a place of danger.
We all owe Ukraine & its people a debt of gratitude for its extraordinary courage. 😢
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"The reason why there was ever a Brexit vote was for the benefit of the Conservative Party."
Former Danish PM Helle Thorning Schmidt on why the UK is "smaller" in the world since Brexit
articles.globalplayer.com/2GXq8A1x1Ra5...
Former Danish PM Helle Thorning Schmidt on why the UK is "smaller" in the world since Brexit
articles.globalplayer.com/2GXq8A1x1Ra5...
Helle Thorning Schmidt: 'Brexit was convenient for the Tories, not good for the UK'
The former leader of Denmark’s Social Democrats party tells The News Agents why the UK was left “smaller” on the world stage after Brexit, and why the solutions to its problems were to work closer wit...
articles.globalplayer.com
February 10, 2025 at 1:37 PM
"The reason why there was ever a Brexit vote was for the benefit of the Conservative Party."
Former Danish PM Helle Thorning Schmidt on why the UK is "smaller" in the world since Brexit
articles.globalplayer.com/2GXq8A1x1Ra5...
Former Danish PM Helle Thorning Schmidt on why the UK is "smaller" in the world since Brexit
articles.globalplayer.com/2GXq8A1x1Ra5...
When even Clarkson is saying that he'd like to be back in the EU you know something is starting to turn
Jeremy Clarkson: Brexit makes me want to sit in a gutter and weep
Since we left the EU it’s been easier to get into Iraq than France. None of this has made our lives better in any way
www.thetimes.com
February 9, 2025 at 2:45 AM
When even Clarkson is saying that he'd like to be back in the EU you know something is starting to turn
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Closer economic ties with the European Union will boost growth by up to 2.2 per cent, according to new economic modelling shared with members of the cabinet
www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...
www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...
Research claims EU deal will fuel growth — and Labour is listening
A report says Britain can mend some of the economic damage of Brexit without crossing the red lines set by Keir Starmer
www.thetimes.com
February 9, 2025 at 12:39 AM
Closer economic ties with the European Union will boost growth by up to 2.2 per cent, according to new economic modelling shared with members of the cabinet
www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...
www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...