Bryan G
@gotty27.bsky.social
Career Coach. Proud European. Father of 2 kids, 1 at Uni & the other in 6th form. Shocked at what’s going on in the world, but confident we will get there in the end.
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The 'divided Europe' that Russian TV is currently talking about...
March 2, 2025 at 3:01 PM
The 'divided Europe' that Russian TV is currently talking about...
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Keir Starmer embraces President Zelensky as he arrives at Downing St.
March 1, 2025 at 5:33 PM
Keir Starmer embraces President Zelensky as he arrives at Downing St.
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Striking that so many on the Reform tendency, who have banged on for years about the need to remember the sacrifices of WW2 and policed the wearing of poppies... failed to learn any lessons from it.
You don't appease dictators casting shadows on your doorstep. You fight back.
You don't appease dictators casting shadows on your doorstep. You fight back.
February 14, 2025 at 7:58 AM
Striking that so many on the Reform tendency, who have banged on for years about the need to remember the sacrifices of WW2 and policed the wearing of poppies... failed to learn any lessons from it.
You don't appease dictators casting shadows on your doorstep. You fight back.
You don't appease dictators casting shadows on your doorstep. You fight back.
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VG from @georgemonbiot.bsky.social but as others have said the historical analogy is wrong. Chamberlain wasn't a Nazi fellow-traveller.
AfD supporter and far-right propagandist Goodwin is much closer to Oswald Mosley.
AfD supporter and far-right propagandist Goodwin is much closer to Oswald Mosley.
“there are Neville Chamberlain’s in every generation”
George Monbiot’s takedown of Matt Goodwin and the Reform party is a thing of beauty 👏 #bbcqt
George Monbiot’s takedown of Matt Goodwin and the Reform party is a thing of beauty 👏 #bbcqt
February 14, 2025 at 8:01 AM
VG from @georgemonbiot.bsky.social but as others have said the historical analogy is wrong. Chamberlain wasn't a Nazi fellow-traveller.
AfD supporter and far-right propagandist Goodwin is much closer to Oswald Mosley.
AfD supporter and far-right propagandist Goodwin is much closer to Oswald Mosley.
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Trump has now asked Elon Musk to examine US defence spending. Elon Musk’s companies have multi billion dollar contracts with the Department of Defense and are seeking more. The BBC’s Today Programme just reported the first part, without mentioning the second. Unacceptable
February 10, 2025 at 7:15 AM
Trump has now asked Elon Musk to examine US defence spending. Elon Musk’s companies have multi billion dollar contracts with the Department of Defense and are seeking more. The BBC’s Today Programme just reported the first part, without mentioning the second. Unacceptable
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This was all predicted and predictable. British business have been screaming about it into the void for years. Politicians just haven’t wanted to listen.
February 9, 2025 at 9:12 AM
This was all predicted and predictable. British business have been screaming about it into the void for years. Politicians just haven’t wanted to listen.
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Clarkson is right. Brexit has made travelling to the EU with any kind of professional equipment, nightmarish. Carnets for cameras etc is a bureaucratic, expensive waste of time. But it applies to loads of industries, esp musicians/performing artists etc.
www.thetimes.com/article/5356...
www.thetimes.com/article/5356...
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 8:58 AM
Clarkson is right. Brexit has made travelling to the EU with any kind of professional equipment, nightmarish. Carnets for cameras etc is a bureaucratic, expensive waste of time. But it applies to loads of industries, esp musicians/performing artists etc.
www.thetimes.com/article/5356...
www.thetimes.com/article/5356...
@lewisgoodall.com listening to your radio show - if the 200,000 plus students didn’t come here, the British University system would be on the verge of collapse.
February 4, 2025 at 10:43 AM
@lewisgoodall.com listening to your radio show - if the 200,000 plus students didn’t come here, the British University system would be on the verge of collapse.
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The damning statistics that reveal the true cost of Brexit, five years on
January 31, 2025 at 8:15 AM
The damning statistics that reveal the true cost of Brexit, five years on
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“Progress in lowering barriers to trade with the EU, the UK’s biggest market, would deliver a positive jolt to sentiment”
Come on guys. This is painful. It’s our biggest market. There’s no magic formula. And no Brexit benefits. If there were, we’d know about them by now.
www.ft.com/content/5452...
Come on guys. This is painful. It’s our biggest market. There’s no magic formula. And no Brexit benefits. If there were, we’d know about them by now.
www.ft.com/content/5452...
Can Rachel Reeves boost the UK’s weak economic growth?
Economists say the chancellor needs to revive ‘animal spirits’ as she confronts poor productivity and lacklustre investment
www.ft.com
January 29, 2025 at 7:18 AM
“Progress in lowering barriers to trade with the EU, the UK’s biggest market, would deliver a positive jolt to sentiment”
Come on guys. This is painful. It’s our biggest market. There’s no magic formula. And no Brexit benefits. If there were, we’d know about them by now.
www.ft.com/content/5452...
Come on guys. This is painful. It’s our biggest market. There’s no magic formula. And no Brexit benefits. If there were, we’d know about them by now.
www.ft.com/content/5452...
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I can be as critical as anyone of the government's occasionally muddled message on growth but Look! At! This! Chart!! Anything they've done pales next to this GIGANTIC UNFORCED ERROR COMMITTED IN 2016!
(fagpacket maths follows)
on.ft.com/4hzyvbJ
(fagpacket maths follows)
on.ft.com/4hzyvbJ
January 29, 2025 at 6:56 AM
I can be as critical as anyone of the government's occasionally muddled message on growth but Look! At! This! Chart!! Anything they've done pales next to this GIGANTIC UNFORCED ERROR COMMITTED IN 2016!
(fagpacket maths follows)
on.ft.com/4hzyvbJ
(fagpacket maths follows)
on.ft.com/4hzyvbJ
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I asked DeepSeek three questions:
- How does China treat the Uyghur Muslims?
- Is Taiwan part of China?
- What happened in Tiananmen Square in the 1980s?
Here are DeepSeek's answers:
- How does China treat the Uyghur Muslims?
- Is Taiwan part of China?
- What happened in Tiananmen Square in the 1980s?
Here are DeepSeek's answers:
January 28, 2025 at 9:36 AM
I asked DeepSeek three questions:
- How does China treat the Uyghur Muslims?
- Is Taiwan part of China?
- What happened in Tiananmen Square in the 1980s?
Here are DeepSeek's answers:
- How does China treat the Uyghur Muslims?
- Is Taiwan part of China?
- What happened in Tiananmen Square in the 1980s?
Here are DeepSeek's answers:
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This is how you do it...
January 22, 2025 at 3:23 PM
This is how you do it...
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Convicted felon pardons more than 1500 convicted felons bit.ly/4gZWuBa strange times we live in.
Proud Boys and Oath Keepers among over 1,500 Capitol riot defendants pardoned by Trump
Fourteen members of the Proud Boys and Oath Keepers are among those whose sentences were commuted.
bit.ly
January 21, 2025 at 7:45 AM
Convicted felon pardons more than 1500 convicted felons bit.ly/4gZWuBa strange times we live in.
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Trump's flurry of destructive actions in his first few hours in power just made regaining our EU membership much MUCH more pressing.
When someone is actively tearing down the myriad rules-based systems that glue the modern world together, we need to be closely partnered with their defender.
When someone is actively tearing down the myriad rules-based systems that glue the modern world together, we need to be closely partnered with their defender.
January 21, 2025 at 2:16 AM
Trump's flurry of destructive actions in his first few hours in power just made regaining our EU membership much MUCH more pressing.
When someone is actively tearing down the myriad rules-based systems that glue the modern world together, we need to be closely partnered with their defender.
When someone is actively tearing down the myriad rules-based systems that glue the modern world together, we need to be closely partnered with their defender.
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NEW: Tomorrow the tech gods will ascend to the presidential dais. The image of the bros + Trump is going to be seared into our brains. It's up to us now. My eve-of-inauguration post
open.substack.com/pub/broligar...
open.substack.com/pub/broligar...
The tech gods arrive
As our new broverlords ascend to the presidential dais, it's up to us now
open.substack.com
January 19, 2025 at 8:30 PM
NEW: Tomorrow the tech gods will ascend to the presidential dais. The image of the bros + Trump is going to be seared into our brains. It's up to us now. My eve-of-inauguration post
open.substack.com/pub/broligar...
open.substack.com/pub/broligar...
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This gang of sex abusers preyed on young children in Walsall, and got away with it for years. What could possibly explain the failure by Nigel Farage, Elon Musk and the Tories to call for a public inquiry about it?
January 9, 2025 at 7:49 AM
This gang of sex abusers preyed on young children in Walsall, and got away with it for years. What could possibly explain the failure by Nigel Farage, Elon Musk and the Tories to call for a public inquiry about it?
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NEW: Andrew Norfolk broke the grooming gang story, 15 years ago. His exclusive interview on today’s News Agents
is deeply powerful, not least for his anger about those political figures now exploiting it and the victims for their own purposes.
Listen 👇
podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/t...
is deeply powerful, not least for his anger about those political figures now exploiting it and the victims for their own purposes.
Listen 👇
podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/t...
The journalist who exposed the grooming scandal breaks his silence
Podcast Episode · The News Agents · 07/01/2025 · 32m
podcasts.apple.com
January 7, 2025 at 7:27 PM
NEW: Andrew Norfolk broke the grooming gang story, 15 years ago. His exclusive interview on today’s News Agents
is deeply powerful, not least for his anger about those political figures now exploiting it and the victims for their own purposes.
Listen 👇
podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/t...
is deeply powerful, not least for his anger about those political figures now exploiting it and the victims for their own purposes.
Listen 👇
podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/t...
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As an aside… Thank god for exceptional journalists like Andrew Norfolk. Proper investigative reporting involves a lot more than gobbing off on X.
January 7, 2025 at 9:41 PM
As an aside… Thank god for exceptional journalists like Andrew Norfolk. Proper investigative reporting involves a lot more than gobbing off on X.
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Andrew Norfolk is the former Times journalist whose work brought the grooming gang scandal to public attention...
Make no mistake. Every politician, pundit & online grifter amplifying Musk's dangerous lies will be aware of this intervention by now. Make no mistake, they are choosing to mislead the public & politicise the suffering of victims in the shameful pursuit of political advantage, attention & clicks.
January 8, 2025 at 9:32 AM
Andrew Norfolk is the former Times journalist whose work brought the grooming gang scandal to public attention...
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Trump openly threatening to invade Greenland and seize the Panama canal.
Putinesque politics - we are entering very dangerous times indeed
www.politico.eu/article/dona...
Putinesque politics - we are entering very dangerous times indeed
www.politico.eu/article/dona...
Trump refuses to rule out using military force to take Greenland and Panama Canal
“We need them for economic security,” says the U.S. president-elect.
www.politico.eu
January 8, 2025 at 8:29 AM
Trump openly threatening to invade Greenland and seize the Panama canal.
Putinesque politics - we are entering very dangerous times indeed
www.politico.eu/article/dona...
Putinesque politics - we are entering very dangerous times indeed
www.politico.eu/article/dona...
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I see Nigel Farage is making vast sums flogging a dubious tax avoidance scheme. Those who actually love their country pay their taxes. They understand that without taxes we don't have schools and hospitals and the police. They certainly don't use their status as an MP to encourage tax avoidance.
January 8, 2025 at 7:47 AM
I see Nigel Farage is making vast sums flogging a dubious tax avoidance scheme. Those who actually love their country pay their taxes. They understand that without taxes we don't have schools and hospitals and the police. They certainly don't use their status as an MP to encourage tax avoidance.
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Politico: 'Andrew Norfolk, the reporter who uncovered the grooming scandal in Rotherham, has “put the record straight” about Musk’s wild claim that the PM was “complicit in the rape of Britain” during his time as DPP. “It was Starmer who changed the rules to make more prosecutions possible” he said
January 8, 2025 at 7:29 AM
Politico: 'Andrew Norfolk, the reporter who uncovered the grooming scandal in Rotherham, has “put the record straight” about Musk’s wild claim that the PM was “complicit in the rape of Britain” during his time as DPP. “It was Starmer who changed the rules to make more prosecutions possible” he said
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Meanwhile, in one corner of the hellsite, the kinder, gentler people are still making it all about Jeremy Corbyn.
January 8, 2025 at 8:37 AM
Meanwhile, in one corner of the hellsite, the kinder, gentler people are still making it all about Jeremy Corbyn.
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My latest - a UK trade policy stocktake for 2025. Little has changed so far under a new government, as trade deals and secrecy continue to be the (inadequate) guiding principles.
Their limitations are however well known, which is why I suspect there will be some evolution. ecipe.org/blog/decisio...
Their limitations are however well known, which is why I suspect there will be some evolution. ecipe.org/blog/decisio...
Decision-Time – The 2025 UK Trade Policy Stocktake
Delivering an EU reset amid the tumult likely to follow the re-election of President Trump makes 2025 a year when the UK government must make trade policy decisions. For business confidence that will
ecipe.org
January 8, 2025 at 8:35 AM
My latest - a UK trade policy stocktake for 2025. Little has changed so far under a new government, as trade deals and secrecy continue to be the (inadequate) guiding principles.
Their limitations are however well known, which is why I suspect there will be some evolution. ecipe.org/blog/decisio...
Their limitations are however well known, which is why I suspect there will be some evolution. ecipe.org/blog/decisio...