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#OpenAccess from @risjnl.bsky.social -

Oligarchic sovereignty: Technology and the future of global order - https://cup.org/3KZzRly

- @maharafiatal.bsky.social, @jacktaggart.bsky.social, @sethschindler.bsky.social, Sarah Logan et al
December 23, 2025 at 10:20 AM
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Perhaps rejoining Erasmus is the first step towards giving Britain a Scrooge-like second chance with Europe. In this Brexit version of A Christmas Carol, it’s now pretty clear that Johnson, Frost and Patel are the Muppets

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The ghosts of Brexit past return to wail about Erasmus
Rejoining the reciprocal study scheme has infuriated Brexiteers - and given new impetus to calls for a full return to the EU
www.thenewworld.co.uk
December 23, 2025 at 4:00 PM
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Email from "A" in "Balmoral" asked Ghislaine Maxwell for "inappropriate friends" 🤢
www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c3...
Email by 'A' from 'Balmoral' asked Ghislaine Maxwell for 'inappropriate friends', Epstein files show - live updates
The emails do not indicate any wrongdoing. The BBC has contacted Mountbatten-Windsor's team for a response.
www.bbc.co.uk
December 23, 2025 at 1:39 PM
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More than 1,000 Palestinian patients have died while awaiting treatment abroad, amid collapse of Gaza healthcare sector.
Gaza patients facing death as Israel continues to block medical supplies
More than 1,000 Palestinian patients have died while awaiting treatment abroad, amid collapse of Gaza healthcare sector.
www.aljazeera.com
December 23, 2025 at 4:00 PM
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I had my fun (they write themselves) but also outline how Bonnie Blue and Reform only succeed due to the outrage economy, how politics is a money racket, why Reform voters buy this shit and how we’ll end up screwed on the Bang Bus of failed capitalism whether we like it or not. youtu.be/TVyEI3V5Sw4
Farage & Bonnie Plan to Give Britain a Weak Pound
YouTube video by Supertanskiii
youtu.be
December 14, 2025 at 11:52 AM
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I’m sorry to say that this is not a “glitch” but a design consequence.

gizmodo.com/grok-is-glit...
Grok Is Glitching and Spewing Misinformation About The Bondi Beach Shooting
Among other problems, the chatbot is spewing misinformation about the horrific Bondi Beach shooting in Australia.
gizmodo.com
December 14, 2025 at 8:09 PM
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Isabel Oakshott said Arron Banks and Andy Wigmore were Russian assets.
December 14, 2025 at 8:18 PM
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Brexit issues for Northern Ireland haven't gone away. Cars and veterinary medicines are two known issues from 1 Jan 2026, but also watch out for EU plans on steel, carbon border adjustment, and de minimis - all of which will have consequences www.thetimes.com/business/eco...
Northern Ireland faces car shortages as Brexit changes take hold
Windsor framework comes into force within days and means new vehicles must meet EU rather than British standards – and risks a profound impact on the car sector
www.thetimes.com
December 14, 2025 at 11:10 AM
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The obscenity of disaster capitalism

Get paid for making the weapons to destroy a country, and get paid again for rebuilding it

Makes me want to punch someone - hard

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
‘They’re trying to get rich off it’: US contractors vie to rebuild Gaza, with ‘Alligator Alcatraz’ team in the lead
Exclusive: group behind notorious Florida immigration detention center created bid for reconstruction deal
www.theguardian.com
December 14, 2025 at 11:21 AM
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How the BBC & ITV give disproportionate coverage to Farage & Reform: hard evidence from a serious study. BBC & ITV now give Reform more coverage than the Conservatives, more than the Lib Dems & nine times the Greens. Superb research from Stephen Cushion.
www.enhancingimpartiality.com/blog/broadca...
December 13, 2025 at 7:08 PM
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www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

Across Argentina, there are about 5,000 open-air rubbish dumps. In many of them, children scavenge daily – a source of revenue in a country where 1.2 million children under 17 live below the poverty line.

“Children who live or work in landfills are invisible.”
‘The worst is when the rubbish explodes’: the children living in Patagonia’s vast dumps
In sprawling landfills, thousands of Argentinian families scavenge for survival amid toxic waste and government neglect, dreaming of steady jobs and escape
www.theguardian.com
December 13, 2025 at 4:28 AM
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Net-zero scenario is ‘cheapest option’ for UK, says energy system operator www.carbonbrief.org/net-zero-sce...
Net-zero scenario is ‘cheapest option’ for UK, says energy system operator - Carbon Brief
A scenario that meets the “net-zero by 2050” goal would be the “cheapest” option for the UK, according to the National Energy System Operator
www.carbonbrief.org
December 11, 2025 at 5:12 PM
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1/ You wouldn’t know it from the coverage, but two recent employment tribunal rulings have vindicated those of us who have said from the start that the Supreme Court judgment did not require the automatic exclusion of trans people from single-sex toilets and changing rooms. 🧵
December 11, 2025 at 10:12 AM
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"Metropolitan police officers must tell their bosses if they are Freemasons, the force has announced, amid fears membership could be linked to corruption

"Anyone who is part or had been a member of a “hierarchical organisation that require members to support and protect each other” must declare it"
Met officers must tell bosses if they are Freemasons, force announces
Move comes amid fears that requirement for Freemasons to ‘protect each other’ could lead to corruption
www.theguardian.com
December 11, 2025 at 9:09 PM
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Old enough to remember when it was difficult to get a job as a Federal Agent
December 11, 2025 at 9:18 PM
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Anybody hoping that this is going to be a real problem for Farage and Reform should probably calm down and move on. This expert take suggests it's very unlikely to result in anything - for several reasons.
Nigel Farage accused of breaking election spending laws – the situation explained
Police are looking at whether the MP for Clacton overspent on his campaign – but it’s incredibly hard to make such cases stick.
theconversation.com
December 9, 2025 at 7:35 AM
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Grateful to @theguardian.com for covering the most recent @naccomnetwork.bsky.social data briefing which charts the continued increase in homelessness experienced by refugees, people seeking asylum and other migrants, driven by hostile Government policies.
December 4, 2025 at 4:51 PM
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Two UK companies are on the updated UN database of firms involved in Israel's illegal occupation of the West Bank - JC Bamford Excavators and Greenkote plc.

Minister Hamish Falconer is simply "aware" of the database and doesn't want to comment.

#DCUKparliament
December 9, 2025 at 9:32 AM
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The BBC is helping Reform UK push immigration to the top of the agenda
The BBC is helping Reform UK push immigration to the top of the agenda
THE BBC is not only excessively platforming Reform UK in news and current affairs programmes, especially for viewers in Scotland,
www.thenational.scot
December 9, 2025 at 9:35 AM
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This man is a Great American
December 9, 2025 at 9:22 AM