@heatherbysea.bsky.social
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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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Our 2025 version of "Carol of the Bells" - originally a Ukrainian New Year celebration song "Shchedryk" - music 1st written by Mykola Leontovych in Pokrovsk (now under Russian occupation). The composer would be murdered by a Soviet agent in 1921.
#SlavaUkraïni
#dontabandonthem
youtu.be/vvMLtJ-Wyfs
#SlavaUkraïni
#dontabandonthem
youtu.be/vvMLtJ-Wyfs
"Carol of the Bells" / "Shchedryk" - Marsh Family adaptation of Ukrainian New Year song for 2026
YouTube video by Marsh Family
youtu.be
December 23, 2025 at 12:44 AM
Our 2025 version of "Carol of the Bells" - originally a Ukrainian New Year celebration song "Shchedryk" - music 1st written by Mykola Leontovych in Pokrovsk (now under Russian occupation). The composer would be murdered by a Soviet agent in 1921.
#SlavaUkraïni
#dontabandonthem
youtu.be/vvMLtJ-Wyfs
#SlavaUkraïni
#dontabandonthem
youtu.be/vvMLtJ-Wyfs
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🔥 Rachel Reeves says there’s a “hole” in the public finances.
A new decade-long Brexit study quantifies it:
A 6–8% hit to GDP
That's £180bn-£240bn a year
It means less tax revenue and so less money for everything.
Brexit made Britain MUCH poorer.
A new decade-long Brexit study quantifies it:
A 6–8% hit to GDP
That's £180bn-£240bn a year
It means less tax revenue and so less money for everything.
Brexit made Britain MUCH poorer.
New: Boris Johnson’s ‘Brexit Titanic success’ was half right
Nearly ten years on, the first full assessment of Brexit confirms what millions warned: Britain made itself poorer
eastangliabylines.co.uk
November 25, 2025 at 6:56 AM
🔥 Rachel Reeves says there’s a “hole” in the public finances.
A new decade-long Brexit study quantifies it:
A 6–8% hit to GDP
That's £180bn-£240bn a year
It means less tax revenue and so less money for everything.
Brexit made Britain MUCH poorer.
A new decade-long Brexit study quantifies it:
A 6–8% hit to GDP
That's £180bn-£240bn a year
It means less tax revenue and so less money for everything.
Brexit made Britain MUCH poorer.
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"It should never be about how many white, or black, or brown faces there are. It's how many decent human beings you're around"
👍🏻 Munya Chawawa
👍🏻 Munya Chawawa
November 11, 2025 at 9:44 PM
"It should never be about how many white, or black, or brown faces there are. It's how many decent human beings you're around"
👍🏻 Munya Chawawa
👍🏻 Munya Chawawa
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SUPERB and angrily unvarnished response, by former BBC chairman, Lord Patten.
"I don't think that we should allow ourselves to be bullied into thinking that the BBC is only any good, if it reflects the prejudice of the last person who shouted at it." ~AA
"I don't think that we should allow ourselves to be bullied into thinking that the BBC is only any good, if it reflects the prejudice of the last person who shouted at it." ~AA
November 10, 2025 at 6:40 PM
SUPERB and angrily unvarnished response, by former BBC chairman, Lord Patten.
"I don't think that we should allow ourselves to be bullied into thinking that the BBC is only any good, if it reflects the prejudice of the last person who shouted at it." ~AA
"I don't think that we should allow ourselves to be bullied into thinking that the BBC is only any good, if it reflects the prejudice of the last person who shouted at it." ~AA
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Apropos of nothing, I really do think UK journalists and politicians need some reminding that mass deportation of LEGAL immigrants, particularly those with permanent status, is far more extreme than even Trump's America and would basically place Britain completely on its own among democracies.
October 19, 2025 at 11:32 AM
Apropos of nothing, I really do think UK journalists and politicians need some reminding that mass deportation of LEGAL immigrants, particularly those with permanent status, is far more extreme than even Trump's America and would basically place Britain completely on its own among democracies.
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Nurse:
It’s become a real problem in this area
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Nurse:
We’ve seen the whole community lost to addiction
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Show a building sign posted:
Westminster ‘X’ Addiction Clinic
With various Westminster people or looking at their phones outside it
Nurse:
Ministers, Spads, Researchers…
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Nurse:
Most mornings we’ll get a call about someone acting strangely
[Nurse on phone taking a call]
Ok - we’ll be right over
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Nurse:
We just have a gentle chat
[Nurses approach a minister –Robert Jenrick? - standing in the Palace of Westminster
Minister:
I understand your concerns…
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Nurse:
Are you OK love?
Minister:
Yes I’m just hearing legitimate concerns from real voters
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Nurse:
That’s a robot, a Nazi and a poorly-disguised Russian
[Show that the people he is talking to are precisely these characters]
Nurse 2:
Give us your phone, love
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Nurse:
At the clinic we put them in a Grass-Touching Pod, with a real voter to talk to
[We see them back at the clinic, holding the minister's head and pushing him into a glass isolation booth with a grass floor. And it is a baffled looking woman, on a chair, ready to talk to him.]
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Minister:
YOU MUST BE WORRIED ABOUT THE COMING CIVIL WAR
[woman looks baffled]
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woman:
I just want a bus service
Minister:
LOOK AT MY FLAG
[produces a St George's flag]
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Ah! Good morning, reality. And welcome. We’ve been expecting you…
October 20, 2025 at 6:43 AM
Ah! Good morning, reality. And welcome. We’ve been expecting you…
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They lie about the ECHR.
Just like they lied about Brexit. Claiming if we just got rid of that ‘European’ thing, we’d be free, we’d have control, all our problems solved…
It’s NOT TRUE.
We’d inflict more chaos on ourselves and torch our own human rights framework for NOTHING.
For liars.
Again.
Just like they lied about Brexit. Claiming if we just got rid of that ‘European’ thing, we’d be free, we’d have control, all our problems solved…
It’s NOT TRUE.
We’d inflict more chaos on ourselves and torch our own human rights framework for NOTHING.
For liars.
Again.
The European Convention on Human Rights is being misrepresented in the UK, says former Supreme Court President Lady Hale👇
🔗 www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home... via @the-independent.com
“It seems so short-sighted. I’m sorry, I’m really, really worried about it.”
#ECHR #OurRightsAndFreedoms
🔗 www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home... via @the-independent.com
“It seems so short-sighted. I’m sorry, I’m really, really worried about it.”
#ECHR #OurRightsAndFreedoms
October 16, 2025 at 6:20 AM
They lie about the ECHR.
Just like they lied about Brexit. Claiming if we just got rid of that ‘European’ thing, we’d be free, we’d have control, all our problems solved…
It’s NOT TRUE.
We’d inflict more chaos on ourselves and torch our own human rights framework for NOTHING.
For liars.
Again.
Just like they lied about Brexit. Claiming if we just got rid of that ‘European’ thing, we’d be free, we’d have control, all our problems solved…
It’s NOT TRUE.
We’d inflict more chaos on ourselves and torch our own human rights framework for NOTHING.
For liars.
Again.
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“Over the last 70 years, the #ECHR has repeatedly stepped in when domestic courts were unable to provide the protection we now take for granted and cherish,” says the UK’s outgoing judge at the European Court of Human Rights👇
🔗 www.lawgazette.co.uk/news/ecthr-m... via @lawsocietygazette.bsky.social
🔗 www.lawgazette.co.uk/news/ecthr-m... via @lawsocietygazette.bsky.social
ECtHR 'more necessary and relevant' now, says outgoing UK judge
Leading silk says he 'hardly recognises' the good work of the ECHR from recent criticism of Strasbourg court.
www.lawgazette.co.uk
October 13, 2025 at 8:31 AM
“Over the last 70 years, the #ECHR has repeatedly stepped in when domestic courts were unable to provide the protection we now take for granted and cherish,” says the UK’s outgoing judge at the European Court of Human Rights👇
🔗 www.lawgazette.co.uk/news/ecthr-m... via @lawsocietygazette.bsky.social
🔗 www.lawgazette.co.uk/news/ecthr-m... via @lawsocietygazette.bsky.social
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Interesting: Leaving the #ECHR would be a grave mistake, writes former UK Lord Chancellor and Justice Secretary Sir Robert Buckland KC👇
🔗 conservativehome.com/2025/10/05/r... via @conservativehome.bsky.social
🔗 conservativehome.com/2025/10/05/r... via @conservativehome.bsky.social
October 6, 2025 at 8:38 AM
Interesting: Leaving the #ECHR would be a grave mistake, writes former UK Lord Chancellor and Justice Secretary Sir Robert Buckland KC👇
🔗 conservativehome.com/2025/10/05/r... via @conservativehome.bsky.social
🔗 conservativehome.com/2025/10/05/r... via @conservativehome.bsky.social
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“That Brexit has made control of immigration more difficult, damaged our economy and weakened opportunities for future generations should make people think twice before putting Brexit's chief proponent in charge of running the country”
Times letters: a lonely oasis of sanity in the far right storm.
Times letters: a lonely oasis of sanity in the far right storm.
October 1, 2025 at 6:33 AM
“That Brexit has made control of immigration more difficult, damaged our economy and weakened opportunities for future generations should make people think twice before putting Brexit's chief proponent in charge of running the country”
Times letters: a lonely oasis of sanity in the far right storm.
Times letters: a lonely oasis of sanity in the far right storm.
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When I was a teenager there was a bus direct from my hometown in Germany to London - we had a British army base, and this direct bus connection was one of the benefits of that. One summer I went on that bus to go volunteer in an old people's home in Southend-on-Sea. I had just turned 18 and was... 🧵
September 29, 2025 at 12:32 PM
When I was a teenager there was a bus direct from my hometown in Germany to London - we had a British army base, and this direct bus connection was one of the benefits of that. One summer I went on that bus to go volunteer in an old people's home in Southend-on-Sea. I had just turned 18 and was... 🧵
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Farage is applying for a job.
That job is Prime Minister.
The only thing on his CV is Brexit.
He campaigned for it for 27 years.
So his only real track record is making everyone poorer & damaging the NHS.
If you hire Nigel & Reform, you must want this company (UK) to fail.
That job is Prime Minister.
The only thing on his CV is Brexit.
He campaigned for it for 27 years.
So his only real track record is making everyone poorer & damaging the NHS.
If you hire Nigel & Reform, you must want this company (UK) to fail.
September 28, 2025 at 3:11 PM
Farage is applying for a job.
That job is Prime Minister.
The only thing on his CV is Brexit.
He campaigned for it for 27 years.
So his only real track record is making everyone poorer & damaging the NHS.
If you hire Nigel & Reform, you must want this company (UK) to fail.
That job is Prime Minister.
The only thing on his CV is Brexit.
He campaigned for it for 27 years.
So his only real track record is making everyone poorer & damaging the NHS.
If you hire Nigel & Reform, you must want this company (UK) to fail.
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“The ECHR isn’t Brussels meddling. It’s the foundation that protects you from your own government.” 👏👏👏
Leaving the ECHR won’t “Take Back Control” – it will hand your rights to politicians
The myths are seductive, the reality is very different – without the ECHR your freedoms rest on whichever Home Secretary wakes up grumpy
eastangliabylines.co.uk
September 27, 2025 at 3:34 PM
“The ECHR isn’t Brussels meddling. It’s the foundation that protects you from your own government.” 👏👏👏
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Digital ID is inevitable, but: We need a comprehensive digital rights Act; We must own our data and know who accesses it; The software must be owned and controlled in the UK; Full safeguards against malicious actors; Employers etc should only be given limited access.
www.bbc.com/news/article...
www.bbc.com/news/article...
Keir Starmer to announce plans for digital ID scheme
The prime minister believes a new scheme would help crack down on illegal working in the UK.
www.bbc.com
September 25, 2025 at 4:25 PM
Digital ID is inevitable, but: We need a comprehensive digital rights Act; We must own our data and know who accesses it; The software must be owned and controlled in the UK; Full safeguards against malicious actors; Employers etc should only be given limited access.
www.bbc.com/news/article...
www.bbc.com/news/article...
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Thanks to Lord Hain and @clairehanna.bsky.social for providing powerful forewords, to the @cajni.bsky.social for all the work that went into publishing the Explainer, and to @georgeperetzkc.bsky.social and @anuragdeb.bsky.social for their considerable (and considered) input.
September 16, 2025 at 10:51 AM
Thanks to Lord Hain and @clairehanna.bsky.social for providing powerful forewords, to the @cajni.bsky.social for all the work that went into publishing the Explainer, and to @georgeperetzkc.bsky.social and @anuragdeb.bsky.social for their considerable (and considered) input.
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Ed Davey, "Elon Musk has applied to sell energy in this country"
"When someone is calling for the overthrow of a democratically elected government, we should take that seriously"
"I don't think Elon Musk is a fit and proper person for us to do business with"
"When someone is calling for the overthrow of a democratically elected government, we should take that seriously"
"I don't think Elon Musk is a fit and proper person for us to do business with"
September 15, 2025 at 10:13 PM
Ed Davey, "Elon Musk has applied to sell energy in this country"
"When someone is calling for the overthrow of a democratically elected government, we should take that seriously"
"I don't think Elon Musk is a fit and proper person for us to do business with"
"When someone is calling for the overthrow of a democratically elected government, we should take that seriously"
"I don't think Elon Musk is a fit and proper person for us to do business with"
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Foreign billionaires don’t get to incite violence against Britain.
We cannot stay silent. 1/5
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...
We cannot stay silent. 1/5
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...
Elon Musk calls for change of UK government at Tommy Robinson rally
Elon Musk spoke with Tommy Robinson via a video link to the thousands of people at Saturday’s ‘unite the kingdom’ rally
www.independent.co.uk
September 13, 2025 at 9:27 PM
Foreign billionaires don’t get to incite violence against Britain.
We cannot stay silent. 1/5
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...
We cannot stay silent. 1/5
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...
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Those advocating UK withdrawal from the #ECHR argue that it would not breach the Belfast/Good Friday Agreement or negatively affect UK-EU relations.
They are wrong, as this explainer written with @joellegrogan.bsky.social shows.
@ukandeu.bsky.social
ukandeu.ac.uk/explainers/t...
They are wrong, as this explainer written with @joellegrogan.bsky.social shows.
@ukandeu.bsky.social
ukandeu.ac.uk/explainers/t...
The European Convention on Human Rights and the Belfast/Good Friday Agreement - UK in a changing Europe
This explainer examines the relationship between the Belfast/Good Friday Agreement and the European Convention on Human Rights. It explores the role that...
ukandeu.ac.uk
September 9, 2025 at 5:26 PM
Those advocating UK withdrawal from the #ECHR argue that it would not breach the Belfast/Good Friday Agreement or negatively affect UK-EU relations.
They are wrong, as this explainer written with @joellegrogan.bsky.social shows.
@ukandeu.bsky.social
ukandeu.ac.uk/explainers/t...
They are wrong, as this explainer written with @joellegrogan.bsky.social shows.
@ukandeu.bsky.social
ukandeu.ac.uk/explainers/t...
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Despite the media attention he receives, Farage does not represent the majority of people in Britain, nor the values that our country is built on - cooperation, democracy, fairness, human rights and the rule of law.
Don't let him persuade you his policies are popular.
@europeanmovement.co.uk
Don't let him persuade you his policies are popular.
@europeanmovement.co.uk
August 26, 2025 at 1:42 PM
Despite the media attention he receives, Farage does not represent the majority of people in Britain, nor the values that our country is built on - cooperation, democracy, fairness, human rights and the rule of law.
Don't let him persuade you his policies are popular.
@europeanmovement.co.uk
Don't let him persuade you his policies are popular.
@europeanmovement.co.uk
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The ECHR is deeply embedded within the 1998 Belfast/Good Friday Agreement. This commitment does not allow the UK Government to formulate some version of what it regards as ECHR-equivalent protections.
Read our joint statement 👇
@ppr-org.bsky.social & Human Rights Consortium NI
Read our joint statement 👇
@ppr-org.bsky.social & Human Rights Consortium NI
September 1, 2025 at 2:31 PM
The ECHR is deeply embedded within the 1998 Belfast/Good Friday Agreement. This commitment does not allow the UK Government to formulate some version of what it regards as ECHR-equivalent protections.
Read our joint statement 👇
@ppr-org.bsky.social & Human Rights Consortium NI
Read our joint statement 👇
@ppr-org.bsky.social & Human Rights Consortium NI
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Farage is whipping up anger against the ECHR with false claims. As The Bear brilliantly writes: “The ECHR [is] the foundation that protects you from your own government.”
That's why leaving the ECHR would be a Really Bad Idea.
That's why leaving the ECHR would be a Really Bad Idea.
Leaving the ECHR won’t “Take Back Control” – it will hand your rights to politicians
The myths are seductive, the reality is very different – without the ECHR your freedoms rest on whichever Home Secretary wakes up grumpy
eastangliabylines.co.uk
September 1, 2025 at 5:50 AM
Farage is whipping up anger against the ECHR with false claims. As The Bear brilliantly writes: “The ECHR [is] the foundation that protects you from your own government.”
That's why leaving the ECHR would be a Really Bad Idea.
That's why leaving the ECHR would be a Really Bad Idea.