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Liz Hartley
@lizzieh.bsky.social
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Yorkshire lass and Parisienne
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jdportes.bsky.social
"Another minister, who asked to be kept anonymous, told PoliticsHome it was 'pretty simple': "We either increase our birth rate, slash the state in half, or make the positive case for migration"

Perhaps they could try saying this non-anonymously? Just a thought

www.politicshome.com/news/article...
'It's About Earning Consent': Inside The Labour Government's 'Difficult Tightrope' On Immigration
Government insiders believe there is political space to set out a more positive case for legal immigration. But even Labour MPs who support a progr...
www.politicshome.com
November 12, 2025 at 3:28 PM
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dhothersall.bsky.social
“People being summoned to the U.S. Embassy in London — intimidation, threats of cessation of business, threats of family members losing visas.”

Utterly grim.
November 3, 2025 at 2:07 PM
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A Paris court has sentenced former French president Nicolas Sarkozy to five years in prison after finding him guilty of criminal conspiracy in his trial into accusations the late Libyan dictator Moamer Kadhafi helped fund his victorious 2007 presidential run. #AFP

📸 Julien De Rosa
September 25, 2025 at 11:41 AM
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ema.europa.eu
Paracetamol remains an important option to treat pain or fever in pregnant women.

Following rigorous assessment of the available scientific data, we find no evidence that taking paracetamol during pregnancy causes autism in children.

Read more 👉 www.ema.europa.eu/en/news/use-...
Use of paracetamol during pregnancy unchanged in the EU | European Medicines Agency (EMA)
Paracetamol medicines can be used in pregnancy, in accordance with official recommendations
www.ema.europa.eu
September 23, 2025 at 10:28 AM
@gailmyerscough.co.uk trying to place an order but cannot see France as a shipping destination 😢
September 11, 2025 at 7:52 PM
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miriamkimber.bsky.social
This is an incredibly upsetting, important read
September 10, 2025 at 6:27 PM
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jessicaelgot.bsky.social
EXCLUSIVE - Today the Guardian is publishing the Boris Files

A trove of leaked data from the office of Boris Johnson.

It reveals how Johnson is using the relationships forged in the UK’s highest elected office to facilitate his personal enrichment.

www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
What are the Boris Files and what do they reveal about former PM’s conduct?
Leaked material from Johnson’s private office raises serious questions relating to his time in No 10 and since he resigned
www.theguardian.com
September 8, 2025 at 6:22 PM
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hazelcakes.bsky.social
Zack Fox @zackfox this how the photos be lookin in headlines when a white man kills his entire family Kawasaki 6:06 PM • 9/2/18 • Twitter for iPhone the picture is a guy on a jetski
August 12, 2025 at 8:52 PM
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oddthisday.bsky.social
Today is the 47th anniversary of this clearly unimprovable photo, from a story so absurd that it shouldn’t be true, but is: the day a team of workers from British Waterways pulled the plug out of the Chesterfield Canal, and all the water emptied out
A man with a spectacular 1970s mullet, wearing big wellies and a v-neck jumper over a T-shirt, looks at camera as he stands on a boat which is itself standing on the muddy bottom of an empty canal. He is holding up an enormous wooden plug on a long chunky chain
August 10, 2025 at 10:01 AM
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kattenbarge.bsky.social
Kids today are learning that the fastest and easiest way to make money—the key value that has been modeled to them in America society—is to scam others, cheat your way through, and attract negative attention online that can be monetized. My endless sympathy to parents
August 7, 2025 at 2:45 PM
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aphclarkson.bsky.social
Another datapoint for how tech sector dominance is hollowing out the rest of the US economy
domw.bsky.social Dom White @domw.bsky.social · Aug 5
Wanna see a crazy chart? Of course you do.

Spending on constructing datacenters and manufacturing facilities for computers & electronic products in the US now exceeds the entire retail and wholesale industry and almost as much as the rest of the office and manufacturing sectors combined.
August 5, 2025 at 1:58 PM
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liberation.fr
🔴 Seine-Saint-Denis : une infirmière présentée à un juge pour des violences sexuelles sur des nourrissons

Employée au service périnatalité de l’hôpital de Montreuil, elle a assuré avoir violenté et filmé les nouveau-nés sur instigation de son ancien conjoint, lui aussi visé par une enquête.
Seine-Saint-Denis : une infirmière présentée à un juge pour des violences sexuelles sur des nourrissons
Employée au service périnatalité de l’hôpital de Montreuil, elle a assuré aux enquêteurs avoir violenté et filmé les nouveaux-nés sur instigation de son ancien conjoint, lui aussi visé par une enquête.
www.liberation.fr
August 2, 2025 at 3:46 PM
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nhervieu.bsky.social
Le compte officiel de l'ambassade des Etats-Unis en France en vient désormais à nier l'importance des *faits* dans une démocratie.

Et emprunte le phrasé habituel (« élites mondiales ») des complotistes de tous poils.

Quelle incroyable déchéance sans fin pour un tel pays.
Message sur X U.S. Embassy France @USEmbassyFrance Nous devons démanteler l’industrie de la vérification des faits qui censure les opinions impopulaires auprès des élites mondiales. Affiche où figure le mot "Censorship" barré d'une croix blanche, sur fond jaune pâle 3:08 PM · 2 août 2025 · 2 145 vues
August 2, 2025 at 2:16 PM
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municipaldreams.bsky.social
Mural created by Anthony Hollaway in 1962 for the London County Council at Gorsefield House on the Birchfield Estate, Poplar, depicting the ships and cranes of a local docklands that would vanish in the not too distant future.
Stenciled tile mural
July 29, 2025 at 8:53 AM
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youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com
like sorry to go on about this (and it's obviously anecdotal!) but it feels mad and worrying to me that this mum nearly lost her son and her conclusion wasn't "I should have listened to doctors more" but "it's up to me to do more research" - that's not good! and she's probably not an exception!
July 28, 2025 at 8:25 AM
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chadbourn.bsky.social
“OFCOM code requires broadcasters… not to give undue prominence to the views and opinions of particular persons on political matters. I believe the BBC has breached these requirements.”
Lib Dems report BBC to OFCOM for 'giving disproportionate coverage' to Reform
The Liberal Democrats have said what many have been thinking for a while - and they've asked OFCOM to investigate the BBC.
www.thelondoneconomic.com
July 15, 2025 at 12:01 PM
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askaubry.com
It's wild how many people thought it was about the sandwich.

Same people "the divorce came out of no where".
r/Marriage u/Newshoesforthewin 9h A sandwich made me realize I want a divorce Vent I was completely exhausted the other day. I've been going through a difficult time with a personal matter, also deep in the throes of perimenopause. I didn't cook dinner so when my husband got home from work he made himself a sandwich. He made one for me too. He made me a sandwich he knows very well I wouldn't eat. The bread was hard and it was dry as fuck. It was in that moment that I saw the big picture. I realized that, should I ever not be able to care for myself, the level of care I would receive from him would be based solely on his willingness or unwillingness to make an effort and not on my actual needs. I asked him, "Why would you make me a sandwich you know I won't eat and act like you did something kind?" I asked him if he would think it was kind of me to make him a pot of beans (he gags at the thought of them) and serve it to him. The worst part is, he could have literally just added mayo NothingUpstairs4957 8h Same scenario the other day in a healthy relationship Wife comes home completely exhausted Job, her mom is in the hospital and her hormones are out of wack I made a sandwich for her and me She says thank you and ask me if i can get the mayo and mustard out the fridge I oblige and kiss her on the forehead We sit down and eat and finish watching squid games GarbageTimely3826 8h 1,938 Good luck in the rest of your journey It's not about the ability to ask for something. It's not even really about the sandwich. It's about your partner knowing and caring enough about your wants and needs that you don't have to. I know my husband hates condiments. If I always ignored getting his food plain, at some point it becomes malicious. GarbageTimely3826 8h It's not about the sandwich, it's about being seen. StupidFlanders2017 8h 242 165 GarbageTimely3826 8h That's ridiculous. Communication is key. Silently hoping for mayo is not communication. After years together, knowing how your partner likes something shouldn't need to be communicated. If I made a burger for my husband I'd know it needs to be plain or I'd ask hey do you want bacon jam? Because I know him. He doesn't need to communicate those small things anymore. 1 267 69iloveyou 8h Some people don't deserve their husbands and it shows. 114 mani_mani 8h Seems like a lot of people need to read the HuffPost article that gets passed around all the time. It's not that she couldn't ask for mayo or he made her a shitty sandwich one time. It's that the shitty sandwich made her realize that it's a symbol of how he shows up for their relationship. He regularly doesn't give her the same care and attentiveness that she gives him. In return for his knowingly haphazard attempts, he expects praise. Sure my husband has sometimes made dinner a bit on the spicier side knowing that it's a toss up if I could handle the spice. But because he puts care and kindness in all other aspects of our relationship, it's not a big deal for me to fix my portion to an acceptable level of spice. It's not like I'm an after thought, he made a calculation and got it wrong. That's how this would go down differently in a marriage built on mutual kindness and respect. A comment said "so you would rather be alone and have someone to not take care of you". Wh
July 9, 2025 at 1:37 PM
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July 9, 2025 at 1:37 PM
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julienhoez.eu
I didn’t expect a NATO summit to both make me feel profound shame as a European and want to vomit
June 25, 2025 at 11:12 AM
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felicityhannah.bsky.social
So on tomorrow’s Money Box Live, we’re looking at the finances of being single. We’ve got loads of people talking about the extra expense - happy to hear your thoughts. But I really want to hear from someone who is single and LOVING IT - esp the financial freedom. Email felicity.hannah@bbc.co.uk
a man in a plaid shirt is holding a tablet and asking if he is single
ALT: a man in a plaid shirt is holding a tablet and asking if he is single
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June 24, 2025 at 10:44 AM
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danneidle.bsky.social
Reform UK is proposing a "Britannia card" that would let wealthy foreigners pay a £250k fee to move to the UK, and live here exempt from all tax on their foreign assets

What they don't say: it would cost the UK £34bn

Report here, and thread below: buff.ly/gpe2Dpf
June 23, 2025 at 8:13 AM
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brenttoderian.bsky.social
“A startling statistic emerged in Paris last month: during the morning and evening rush hours, on representative main thoroughfares crisscrossing the French capital, there are now more bicycles than cars – almost half as many again, in fact.”

And it has kept growing from there.

Leadership. #Paris
Bollards and ‘superblocks’: how Europe’s cities are turning on the car
In Paris, Barcelona and Brussels, authorities are adopting varied approaches to the task of reducing congestion and pollution
www.theguardian.com
May 20, 2025 at 7:22 AM
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hannahfearn.bsky.social
If you create a situation in which the majority of the electorate financially benefits from scarcity, you will get scarcity.
May 12, 2025 at 10:57 AM
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alexanderfox1.bsky.social
I’ll be honest, I could’ve done without this news: I’m going on a stag do to Leeds on Friday, all 10 of us dressed as cardinals.
April 21, 2025 at 9:09 AM
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chadbourn.bsky.social
Another health breakthrough, this time from Cambridge University.

An AI tool can diagnose celiac disease from biopsy images with over 97% accuracy in seconds.
New AI Sees Gluten Damage Doctors Often Miss – And Diagnoses Celiac in Seconds
Cambridge scientists have developed a powerful AI tool that can diagnose celiac disease from biopsy images with over 97% accuracy. Trained on thousands of samples from diverse sources, the algorithm o...
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April 14, 2025 at 12:01 PM