@einatmen.bsky.social
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Apparently county cricket’s historic tendency to produce experienced 135kph bowlers attuned to seaming pitches is no preparation for Test cricket. 🤷♂️
December 26, 2025 at 6:05 PM
Apparently county cricket’s historic tendency to produce experienced 135kph bowlers attuned to seaming pitches is no preparation for Test cricket. 🤷♂️
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It's really quite mad that Companies House, a government website which lists every company in the UK, has only just started verifying that the people who register as directors of companies are who they say they are on 18 November, 2025. companieshouse.blog.gov.uk/2025/10/16/m...
Making identity verification simple, secure and trusted
From 18 November 2025, directors and people with significant control (PSCs) will be legally required to verify their identity. Read more about the identity verification process.
companieshouse.blog.gov.uk
December 9, 2025 at 5:27 PM
It's really quite mad that Companies House, a government website which lists every company in the UK, has only just started verifying that the people who register as directors of companies are who they say they are on 18 November, 2025. companieshouse.blog.gov.uk/2025/10/16/m...
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On the 34th anniversary of the end of the USSR, I’m reposting my article from earlier this year, which argued that we should have understood the moment as liberation rather than only as collapse: www.eurozine.com/liberation-n...
Liberation, not collapse
The fall of the Berlin Wall, and not the human chain across the Baltics, is emblematic of 1989. But what if this show of unity had become iconic of communism’s disintegration? Could acknowledging East...
www.eurozine.com
December 26, 2025 at 8:49 PM
On the 34th anniversary of the end of the USSR, I’m reposting my article from earlier this year, which argued that we should have understood the moment as liberation rather than only as collapse: www.eurozine.com/liberation-n...
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“But it's also clear that there is likely something in the files that further incriminates him.” This is what I think, too. Horrible as the facts at hand are, there must be something else, something verging on the unimaginable.
www.meditationsinanemergency.com/feminism-ver...
www.meditationsinanemergency.com/feminism-ver...
Feminism Versus Trump and Epstein
We already knew that Jeffrey Epstein had sexually assaulted and exploited dozens of girls and young women, that he had done so openly, that his dehumanization of the vulnerable had not prevented a who...
www.meditationsinanemergency.com
December 26, 2025 at 9:04 PM
“But it's also clear that there is likely something in the files that further incriminates him.” This is what I think, too. Horrible as the facts at hand are, there must be something else, something verging on the unimaginable.
www.meditationsinanemergency.com/feminism-ver...
www.meditationsinanemergency.com/feminism-ver...
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RIP John Robertson. One of most striking example of a player & manager transforming each other: he was not a first team regular in the second division for Forest when Clough arrived yet became central to winning promotion, the league title and two European Cups!
www.theguardian.com/football/202...
www.theguardian.com/football/202...
John Robertson, Nottingham Forest and Scotland legend, dies aged 72
John Robertson, part of Brian Clough’s famous Nottingham Forest side and a former Scotland international, has died at the age of 72
www.theguardian.com
December 25, 2025 at 8:59 PM
RIP John Robertson. One of most striking example of a player & manager transforming each other: he was not a first team regular in the second division for Forest when Clough arrived yet became central to winning promotion, the league title and two European Cups!
www.theguardian.com/football/202...
www.theguardian.com/football/202...
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💔🙏Hundreds of thousands of Ukrainian soldiers are celebrating Christmas today in the trenches while holding the line against Russian aggression
They're doing it for their nation's survival & for Europe's security
Merry Christmas to all of them & their families. May they reunite soon
They're doing it for their nation's survival & for Europe's security
Merry Christmas to all of them & their families. May they reunite soon
December 25, 2025 at 9:02 PM
💔🙏Hundreds of thousands of Ukrainian soldiers are celebrating Christmas today in the trenches while holding the line against Russian aggression
They're doing it for their nation's survival & for Europe's security
Merry Christmas to all of them & their families. May they reunite soon
They're doing it for their nation's survival & for Europe's security
Merry Christmas to all of them & their families. May they reunite soon
'Autocrats like Trump and Putin systematically trample international law underfoot. Against this, apparent realism is no help; what is needed is a return to universalism: peace through law.'
#bestofblaetter: www.blaetter.de/ausgabe/2025...
Autokraten wie Trump und Putin treten das Völkerrecht systematisch mit Füßen. Dagegen hilft kein scheinbarer Realismus, sondern die Rückbesinnung auf den Universalismus: Frieden durch Recht.
Autokraten wie Trump und Putin treten das Völkerrecht systematisch mit Füßen. Dagegen hilft kein scheinbarer Realismus, sondern die Rückbesinnung auf den Universalismus: Frieden durch Recht.
Frieden durch Recht
Am Anfang stand der 11. September 2001. Danach wurde die Lawine losgetreten: Ein langsamer, aber unaufhaltsamer Erdrutsch erfasste die internationale rechtliche und politische Ordnung. Ein Erdrutsch,…
www.blaetter.de
December 26, 2025 at 2:31 PM
'Autocrats like Trump and Putin systematically trample international law underfoot. Against this, apparent realism is no help; what is needed is a return to universalism: peace through law.'
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This gold solidus is the earliest coin to depict Jesus. It was minted in Constantinople in 450 to celebrate Emperor Marcian's marriage to Pulcheria. Jesus is shown between the imperial couple. This specimen from the Hunterian collection is the only known example in existence.
December 24, 2025 at 11:57 AM
This gold solidus is the earliest coin to depict Jesus. It was minted in Constantinople in 450 to celebrate Emperor Marcian's marriage to Pulcheria. Jesus is shown between the imperial couple. This specimen from the Hunterian collection is the only known example in existence.
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“Let me just get some proof of delivery”
Didn’t find a subscription left under your Christmas tree? Treat yourself! 🎁
➡️ Get 26 issues for just £48. Subscribe: checkout.private-eye.co.uk/SingleItem?I...
Didn’t find a subscription left under your Christmas tree? Treat yourself! 🎁
➡️ Get 26 issues for just £48. Subscribe: checkout.private-eye.co.uk/SingleItem?I...
December 25, 2025 at 9:03 AM
“Let me just get some proof of delivery”
Didn’t find a subscription left under your Christmas tree? Treat yourself! 🎁
➡️ Get 26 issues for just £48. Subscribe: checkout.private-eye.co.uk/SingleItem?I...
Didn’t find a subscription left under your Christmas tree? Treat yourself! 🎁
➡️ Get 26 issues for just £48. Subscribe: checkout.private-eye.co.uk/SingleItem?I...
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President Trump announces details of his new Ukraine peace plan.
Watch ‘An Evening with Private Eye 2025’ in full, on Private Eye’s YouTube channel now.
Watch ‘An Evening with Private Eye 2025’ in full, on Private Eye’s YouTube channel now.
December 26, 2025 at 9:37 AM
President Trump announces details of his new Ukraine peace plan.
Watch ‘An Evening with Private Eye 2025’ in full, on Private Eye’s YouTube channel now.
Watch ‘An Evening with Private Eye 2025’ in full, on Private Eye’s YouTube channel now.
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We need to get our arms out of the US machine. Regulate US companies out of our countries. It’s as big a security threat as Russia.
NEW: last night, the US govt launched an assault on the ‘global censorship industrial complex’, aka European tech researchers/campaigners.
It’s a deeply chilling move & speaks as to why we need international solidarity more than ever.
open.substack.com/pub/broligar...
It’s a deeply chilling move & speaks as to why we need international solidarity more than ever.
open.substack.com/pub/broligar...
A message to America: we are not your enemy
Last night, the US launched an all-out assault on the "global censorship industrial complex", I respond with some deep breaths, solidarity and a vibey video (it's all I have)
open.substack.com
December 24, 2025 at 2:44 PM
We need to get our arms out of the US machine. Regulate US companies out of our countries. It’s as big a security threat as Russia.
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This is inspired by the Irish tradition of putting a candle in the window on Christmas Eve, a sign to the needy of an open door & food on the table. Then exploring in the 2nd stanza how a once hospitable nation has become less welcoming to strangers
#poetry
#poemoftheday
#IrelandisNOTFull
#poetry
#poemoftheday
#IrelandisNOTFull
December 24, 2025 at 1:00 PM
This is inspired by the Irish tradition of putting a candle in the window on Christmas Eve, a sign to the needy of an open door & food on the table. Then exploring in the 2nd stanza how a once hospitable nation has become less welcoming to strangers
#poetry
#poemoftheday
#IrelandisNOTFull
#poetry
#poemoftheday
#IrelandisNOTFull
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It would be nice if a British leader could say the same: and stand up for London, it’s Mayor and the BBC at the same time
This is the first time Macron has retaliated so angrily against the provocations of his alleged "friend" Donald Trump. The policy of appeasement and flattery is breaking down.
December 24, 2025 at 2:28 PM
It would be nice if a British leader could say the same: and stand up for London, it’s Mayor and the BBC at the same time
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A transatlantic showdown over tech policy (as opposed to, say, net zero) could actually have a unifying & galvanising political effect within the EU. The union’s digital regulations are broadly popular and many voters actually want more, not fewer, controls on Big Tech.
yougov.co.uk/technology/a...
yougov.co.uk/technology/a...
December 24, 2025 at 2:07 PM
A transatlantic showdown over tech policy (as opposed to, say, net zero) could actually have a unifying & galvanising political effect within the EU. The union’s digital regulations are broadly popular and many voters actually want more, not fewer, controls on Big Tech.
yougov.co.uk/technology/a...
yougov.co.uk/technology/a...
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Wesołych świąt and a Merry Christmas Eve to you all.
December 24, 2025 at 2:51 PM
Wesołych świąt and a Merry Christmas Eve to you all.
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Workers for Royal Mail have described difficult conditions and being 'treated like robots' – particularly in the lead up to Christmas.
This is what life is like for a Royal Mail postie at Christmas
www.bigissue.com
December 24, 2025 at 4:06 PM
Workers for Royal Mail have described difficult conditions and being 'treated like robots' – particularly in the lead up to Christmas.
Abwarten und Tee trinken. What a good idea. 🫖🫖🫖
December 24, 2025 at 6:47 PM
Abwarten und Tee trinken. What a good idea. 🫖🫖🫖
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✊ #WirSindHateAid
Die Bundesregierung muss jetzt…
👉 Solidarität mit HateAid & allen Betroffenen zeigen.
👉 dafür eintreten, dass die Sanktionen zurückgenommen werden.
👉 geltendes EU-Recht gegen BigTech durchsetzen.
Die Bundesregierung muss jetzt…
👉 Solidarität mit HateAid & allen Betroffenen zeigen.
👉 dafür eintreten, dass die Sanktionen zurückgenommen werden.
👉 geltendes EU-Recht gegen BigTech durchsetzen.
December 24, 2025 at 11:05 AM
✊ #WirSindHateAid
Die Bundesregierung muss jetzt…
👉 Solidarität mit HateAid & allen Betroffenen zeigen.
👉 dafür eintreten, dass die Sanktionen zurückgenommen werden.
👉 geltendes EU-Recht gegen BigTech durchsetzen.
Die Bundesregierung muss jetzt…
👉 Solidarität mit HateAid & allen Betroffenen zeigen.
👉 dafür eintreten, dass die Sanktionen zurückgenommen werden.
👉 geltendes EU-Recht gegen BigTech durchsetzen.
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Unsere Medien, die die Gefahr der AfD nicht sehen, tragen schwere Schuld:
- Die AfD will Menschen deportieren
- Die AfD will Oppositionelle erschiessen
- Die AfD will CDU- und SPD-Politiker liquidieren.
Sie hat all das öffentlich angekündigt!
Dass Medien stattdessen über AfD-Reisen nach Disneyland
- Die AfD will Menschen deportieren
- Die AfD will Oppositionelle erschiessen
- Die AfD will CDU- und SPD-Politiker liquidieren.
Sie hat all das öffentlich angekündigt!
Dass Medien stattdessen über AfD-Reisen nach Disneyland
December 24, 2025 at 8:19 AM
Unsere Medien, die die Gefahr der AfD nicht sehen, tragen schwere Schuld:
- Die AfD will Menschen deportieren
- Die AfD will Oppositionelle erschiessen
- Die AfD will CDU- und SPD-Politiker liquidieren.
Sie hat all das öffentlich angekündigt!
Dass Medien stattdessen über AfD-Reisen nach Disneyland
- Die AfD will Menschen deportieren
- Die AfD will Oppositionelle erschiessen
- Die AfD will CDU- und SPD-Politiker liquidieren.
Sie hat all das öffentlich angekündigt!
Dass Medien stattdessen über AfD-Reisen nach Disneyland
"We want to state clearly here: We will not be intimidated by a government that instrumentalizes accusations of censorship to silence those who stand up for human rights and freedom of expression."
„Wir wollen hier klar sagen: Wir lassen uns von einer Regierung nicht einschüchtern, die Zensurvorwürfe instrumentalisiert, um diejenigen, die sich für Menschenrechte und Meinungsfreiheit einsetzen, mundtot zu machen.“
Anna-Lena von Hodenberg
Geschäftsführung HateAid ❤️
Anna-Lena von Hodenberg
Geschäftsführung HateAid ❤️
December 24, 2025 at 11:35 AM
"We want to state clearly here: We will not be intimidated by a government that instrumentalizes accusations of censorship to silence those who stand up for human rights and freedom of expression."
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Liebe Anne, ich bin so dankbar, Euch alle zu haben. ❤️ Und bei aller Entschlossenheit darf der Spaß nie zu kurz kommen. Danke und frohes Fest allen, die sich entgegen stellen, auch wenn es nicht leicht ist. 🎄🙏
#Bautzen #B96begradigen
#Bautzen #B96begradigen
Mein Tablet erinnert mich gerade an diesen Moment. Hier seht ihr wie schön und fröhlich der Kampf gegen Rechtsextremismus macht. Ich grüße @birgitkieschnick.bsky.social, @topfsigrid.bsky.social, @boblinger77.bsky.social und alle anderen von #b96begradigen. Allen Antifaschist*innen ein frohes Fest!
December 24, 2025 at 5:39 AM
Liebe Anne, ich bin so dankbar, Euch alle zu haben. ❤️ Und bei aller Entschlossenheit darf der Spaß nie zu kurz kommen. Danke und frohes Fest allen, die sich entgegen stellen, auch wenn es nicht leicht ist. 🎄🙏
#Bautzen #B96begradigen
#Bautzen #B96begradigen
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Only for German-speaking friends… #FroheWeihnachten 😉
December 24, 2025 at 11:13 AM
Only for German-speaking friends… #FroheWeihnachten 😉
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For the latest instalment of our Refugees at Christmas series, we talk to Maya Ghazal, the first female Syrian refugee pilot.
I came to Britain as a teenager. Now I'm the first female Syrian refugee pilot
www.bigissue.com
December 24, 2025 at 8:16 AM
For the latest instalment of our Refugees at Christmas series, we talk to Maya Ghazal, the first female Syrian refugee pilot.
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Every year, people mock this tree. But I love it anyway.
It reminds us that if we stand together in tough times, we can overcome anything.
Merry Christmas from my family to yours. 🎄✨
It reminds us that if we stand together in tough times, we can overcome anything.
Merry Christmas from my family to yours. 🎄✨
December 24, 2025 at 9:02 AM
Every year, people mock this tree. But I love it anyway.
It reminds us that if we stand together in tough times, we can overcome anything.
Merry Christmas from my family to yours. 🎄✨
It reminds us that if we stand together in tough times, we can overcome anything.
Merry Christmas from my family to yours. 🎄✨
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Nothing says "Merry Christmas!" like an episode of the Parliament Matters podcast!
It was a pleasure to join Ruth and Mark to discuss why it's so hard to be prime minister, why we're burning through PMs so quickly, and whether our politics is quite as bad as we think.
It was a pleasure to join Ruth and Mark to discuss why it's so hard to be prime minister, why we're burning through PMs so quickly, and whether our politics is quite as bad as we think.
🎙️ NEW: Is being Prime Minister now an impossible job? 🤯
We are joined by historian @robertsaunders.bsky.social from the @mileendinstitute.bsky.social to unpack why recent PMs burn out so fast: Brexit, COVID, new media pressure, and a broken leadership pipeline.
🎧 Listen: buff.ly/bhvHQf6
We are joined by historian @robertsaunders.bsky.social from the @mileendinstitute.bsky.social to unpack why recent PMs burn out so fast: Brexit, COVID, new media pressure, and a broken leadership pipeline.
🎧 Listen: buff.ly/bhvHQf6
December 23, 2025 at 7:05 PM
Nothing says "Merry Christmas!" like an episode of the Parliament Matters podcast!
It was a pleasure to join Ruth and Mark to discuss why it's so hard to be prime minister, why we're burning through PMs so quickly, and whether our politics is quite as bad as we think.
It was a pleasure to join Ruth and Mark to discuss why it's so hard to be prime minister, why we're burning through PMs so quickly, and whether our politics is quite as bad as we think.