David Rearlamp
@rearlamp.bsky.social
cEUrmudgeon
Reflective, orange faced, white bodied. Valid handle
Suspect the Rail Safety (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 is Commission Regulation 1158/2010 with the words Member State crossed out and United Kingdom written in crayon.
Reflective, orange faced, white bodied. Valid handle
Suspect the Rail Safety (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 is Commission Regulation 1158/2010 with the words Member State crossed out and United Kingdom written in crayon.
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📢 New paper on the impacts of AMOC collapse on European hydroclimate. 🌊
We find an AMOC collapse would exacerbate drought conditions across Europe, linked to reduced precipitation. In combination with climate change droughts are expected to become more frequent and severe.
doi.org/10.5194/hess...
We find an AMOC collapse would exacerbate drought conditions across Europe, linked to reduced precipitation. In combination with climate change droughts are expected to become more frequent and severe.
doi.org/10.5194/hess...
Changing European hydroclimate under a collapsed AMOC in the Community Earth System Model
Abstract. The Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC) is expected to weaken or even collapse under anthropogenic climate change. Given the importance of the AMOC in the present-day climate,...
doi.org
November 21, 2025 at 2:41 PM
📢 New paper on the impacts of AMOC collapse on European hydroclimate. 🌊
We find an AMOC collapse would exacerbate drought conditions across Europe, linked to reduced precipitation. In combination with climate change droughts are expected to become more frequent and severe.
doi.org/10.5194/hess...
We find an AMOC collapse would exacerbate drought conditions across Europe, linked to reduced precipitation. In combination with climate change droughts are expected to become more frequent and severe.
doi.org/10.5194/hess...
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One of the worst atrocities and one of the least discussed.
Today is Holodomor remembrance day, one of the worst human rights atrocities of the 20th century.
If you are wanting to know more, this episode of @originstorypodcast.bsky.social is excellent, featuring justifiable moral outrage from @iandunt.bsky.social and @dorianlynskey.bsky.social
If you are wanting to know more, this episode of @originstorypodcast.bsky.social is excellent, featuring justifiable moral outrage from @iandunt.bsky.social and @dorianlynskey.bsky.social
🚨NEW EPISODE🚨 Welcome back to Origin Story: The Story of Socialism as we resume the story of Lenin, Trotsky and Stalin in part three @iandunt.bsky.social and @dorianlynskey.bsky.social discuss Terror 👉 linktr.ee/originstoryp...
#originstory #lenin #trotsky #stalin
#originstory #lenin #trotsky #stalin
November 22, 2025 at 1:30 PM
One of the worst atrocities and one of the least discussed.
To be an MP you must be able to explain exponential growth.
To be a PM you must also understand it.
Tweets from the start of the pandemic.
To be a PM you must also understand it.
Tweets from the start of the pandemic.
November 20, 2025 at 10:12 PM
To be an MP you must be able to explain exponential growth.
To be a PM you must also understand it.
Tweets from the start of the pandemic.
To be a PM you must also understand it.
Tweets from the start of the pandemic.
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From the CWS ARCHIVES. May 2020. COVID. ‘Let the bodies pile high’ Johnson.
November 20, 2025 at 4:12 PM
From the CWS ARCHIVES. May 2020. COVID. ‘Let the bodies pile high’ Johnson.
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Great @bradford4europe.bsky.social ✉️ in @yorkshirepost.co.uk:
#Brexit economic cost keeps rising – jobs, investment, productivity hit 📉
Says YP generous to #Brexit voices - 'rest of world 🤔 #Brexit = #BrexitDisaster' Make sure they 👂us 📢: 🙏write to YP or your local paper! #BrexitReality #RejoinEU
#Brexit economic cost keeps rising – jobs, investment, productivity hit 📉
Says YP generous to #Brexit voices - 'rest of world 🤔 #Brexit = #BrexitDisaster' Make sure they 👂us 📢: 🙏write to YP or your local paper! #BrexitReality #RejoinEU
November 20, 2025 at 8:46 AM
Great @bradford4europe.bsky.social ✉️ in @yorkshirepost.co.uk:
#Brexit economic cost keeps rising – jobs, investment, productivity hit 📉
Says YP generous to #Brexit voices - 'rest of world 🤔 #Brexit = #BrexitDisaster' Make sure they 👂us 📢: 🙏write to YP or your local paper! #BrexitReality #RejoinEU
#Brexit economic cost keeps rising – jobs, investment, productivity hit 📉
Says YP generous to #Brexit voices - 'rest of world 🤔 #Brexit = #BrexitDisaster' Make sure they 👂us 📢: 🙏write to YP or your local paper! #BrexitReality #RejoinEU
none partisan analysis of Brexit by NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH
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November 2025
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November 2025
Here's another scathing paper showing what a horrific impact Brexit has had on our economy. I could go on, and on, and on.
There's nothing to debate. Brexit was and continues to be, a fucking shambles and nothing but bad news for the British economy.
www.nber.org/papers/w34459
There's nothing to debate. Brexit was and continues to be, a fucking shambles and nothing but bad news for the British economy.
www.nber.org/papers/w34459
The Economic Impact of Brexit
Founded in 1920, the NBER is a private, non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to conducting economic research and to disseminating research findings among academics, public policy makers, an...
www.nber.org
November 19, 2025 at 8:39 PM
none partisan analysis of Brexit by NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH
1050 Massachusetts Avenue
Cambridge, MA 02138
November 2025
1050 Massachusetts Avenue
Cambridge, MA 02138
November 2025
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Exclusive: Reform UK is under investigation by the Information Commissioner for breaking data protection law, @bylinetimes.bsky.social can reveal.
Reform is accused of lying to the watchdog about a complaint from a voter over receiving unsolicited communications from Nigel Farage’s party.
Reform is accused of lying to the watchdog about a complaint from a voter over receiving unsolicited communications from Nigel Farage’s party.
Nigel Farage's Reform UK Accused of Fabricating Evidence For Data Breach Investigation
EXCLUSIVE: Reform is accused of falsifying the evidence it provided to the Information Commissioner's Office, following allegations that it breached data rules
bylinetimes.com
November 19, 2025 at 9:37 AM
Exclusive: Reform UK is under investigation by the Information Commissioner for breaking data protection law, @bylinetimes.bsky.social can reveal.
Reform is accused of lying to the watchdog about a complaint from a voter over receiving unsolicited communications from Nigel Farage’s party.
Reform is accused of lying to the watchdog about a complaint from a voter over receiving unsolicited communications from Nigel Farage’s party.
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Imagine a world where state borders were ill defined and nationality and passports virtually non-existent. Can’t imagine?
Well, today’s world only emerged about a century ago, after WWI.
That’s right. After the much revered great British Empire!
How do the “patriots” feel about that?
Well, today’s world only emerged about a century ago, after WWI.
That’s right. After the much revered great British Empire!
How do the “patriots” feel about that?
Net migration to UK fell faster than thought from peak, new figures show
Revised data from ONS includes more accurate count of emigration by British and EU nationals
on.ft.com
November 19, 2025 at 4:44 AM
Imagine a world where state borders were ill defined and nationality and passports virtually non-existent. Can’t imagine?
Well, today’s world only emerged about a century ago, after WWI.
That’s right. After the much revered great British Empire!
How do the “patriots” feel about that?
Well, today’s world only emerged about a century ago, after WWI.
That’s right. After the much revered great British Empire!
How do the “patriots” feel about that?
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"Death-ball", the carnivorous sponge. Just one of the 30 new wonders recently discovery in the very deep depths of the Southern Ocean. Creatures with hooks, armour and glow-in-the-dark flair. A carnival of pure deep-sea anarchy.
https://f.mtr.cool/gtezkqtytu
https://f.mtr.cool/gtezkqtytu
November 15, 2025 at 3:03 PM
"Death-ball", the carnivorous sponge. Just one of the 30 new wonders recently discovery in the very deep depths of the Southern Ocean. Creatures with hooks, armour and glow-in-the-dark flair. A carnival of pure deep-sea anarchy.
https://f.mtr.cool/gtezkqtytu
https://f.mtr.cool/gtezkqtytu
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Former US Vice President Mike Pence will be speaking at the Cambridge Union Society at 4pm tomorrow. I think this is the first visit to the society by a former US President or Vice President since Ronald Reagan in 1990. No doubt there will be a substantial security presence.
November 17, 2025 at 4:30 PM
Former US Vice President Mike Pence will be speaking at the Cambridge Union Society at 4pm tomorrow. I think this is the first visit to the society by a former US President or Vice President since Ronald Reagan in 1990. No doubt there will be a substantial security presence.
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What have I been warning about for the last several years?
Tories and Labour's collusion on freeports and SEZs would form stepping stones for charter cities.
The latest proposal for a new city named "Forest City" exemplifies the stealth trajectory of the zonification of Britain. www.forestcity.uk
Tories and Labour's collusion on freeports and SEZs would form stepping stones for charter cities.
The latest proposal for a new city named "Forest City" exemplifies the stealth trajectory of the zonification of Britain. www.forestcity.uk
Forest City 1
Britain needs millions of homes. We have a plan and a team to build them, east of Cambridge, as a beautiful, permanently affordable city.
www.forestcity.uk
November 17, 2025 at 8:22 AM
What have I been warning about for the last several years?
Tories and Labour's collusion on freeports and SEZs would form stepping stones for charter cities.
The latest proposal for a new city named "Forest City" exemplifies the stealth trajectory of the zonification of Britain. www.forestcity.uk
Tories and Labour's collusion on freeports and SEZs would form stepping stones for charter cities.
The latest proposal for a new city named "Forest City" exemplifies the stealth trajectory of the zonification of Britain. www.forestcity.uk
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OMG A special Grin And Share It! A xx
I couldn't let the piece on litter and dog walking pass without mentioning that my dog Bertie won a BBC Making a Difference award this year for picking up plastic bottles when we go running together. He's picked up more than 10,000, which are all now in the recycling.
November 16, 2025 at 3:09 PM
OMG A special Grin And Share It! A xx
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Seriously how did anyone expect making access & sales into the EU27 (& EFTA4) much more difficult, without making it *equally* compensating easier to access & sell anywhere else (it's not in UK's sole gift to), going to do anything else other than fuck over & contract the UK economy?
November 16, 2025 at 3:35 PM
Seriously how did anyone expect making access & sales into the EU27 (& EFTA4) much more difficult, without making it *equally* compensating easier to access & sell anywhere else (it's not in UK's sole gift to), going to do anything else other than fuck over & contract the UK economy?
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According to the FT, Rachel Reeves wants to cap the cycle to work scheme. This is lunacy, and represents a curb on what is effectively the UK's only active travel incentive.
November 15, 2025 at 8:02 PM
According to the FT, Rachel Reeves wants to cap the cycle to work scheme. This is lunacy, and represents a curb on what is effectively the UK's only active travel incentive.
November 15, 2025 at 12:35 PM
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An excellent interview with the Spanish prime minister who insists on & defends progressive policies, & is rewarded with significant economic success.
Worth a read.
A few quotes below. 🧵
english.elpais.com/spain/2025-1...
Worth a read.
A few quotes below. 🧵
english.elpais.com/spain/2025-1...
Spanish PM Pedro Sánchez: ‘Normalizing our relations with Mexico is a priority’
The leader of Spain’s leftist governing coalition is facing political and legal turmoil, but remains confident that ‘the truth’ will prevail and says he wants to run for re-election in 2027
english.elpais.com
November 15, 2025 at 5:27 AM
An excellent interview with the Spanish prime minister who insists on & defends progressive policies, & is rewarded with significant economic success.
Worth a read.
A few quotes below. 🧵
english.elpais.com/spain/2025-1...
Worth a read.
A few quotes below. 🧵
english.elpais.com/spain/2025-1...
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Ye gods. Thank goodness for services trade given the decline in UK's goods exports.
We were told #Brexit was going to be fantastic for trade, but since Non-EU exports (as well as EU exports) exhibit a negative trend, RoW is not exactly coming to the aid of UK's trade balance. 🙄 …1/
We were told #Brexit was going to be fantastic for trade, but since Non-EU exports (as well as EU exports) exhibit a negative trend, RoW is not exactly coming to the aid of UK's trade balance. 🙄 …1/
November 13, 2025 at 11:31 AM
Ye gods. Thank goodness for services trade given the decline in UK's goods exports.
We were told #Brexit was going to be fantastic for trade, but since Non-EU exports (as well as EU exports) exhibit a negative trend, RoW is not exactly coming to the aid of UK's trade balance. 🙄 …1/
We were told #Brexit was going to be fantastic for trade, but since Non-EU exports (as well as EU exports) exhibit a negative trend, RoW is not exactly coming to the aid of UK's trade balance. 🙄 …1/
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If you like Eurovision and back ends 😘there are some jobs available www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/43...
November 13, 2025 at 5:24 PM
If you like Eurovision and back ends 😘there are some jobs available www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/43...
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PSA: tips to protect yourself from scams on Signal.
Every major comms platform has to contend w phishing, impersonation, & scams. Sadly.
Signal is major, and as we've grown we've heard about more of these attacks--scammy people pretending to be something or someone to trick and abuse others. 1/
Every major comms platform has to contend w phishing, impersonation, & scams. Sadly.
Signal is major, and as we've grown we've heard about more of these attacks--scammy people pretending to be something or someone to trick and abuse others. 1/
November 11, 2025 at 6:13 PM
PSA: tips to protect yourself from scams on Signal.
Every major comms platform has to contend w phishing, impersonation, & scams. Sadly.
Signal is major, and as we've grown we've heard about more of these attacks--scammy people pretending to be something or someone to trick and abuse others. 1/
Every major comms platform has to contend w phishing, impersonation, & scams. Sadly.
Signal is major, and as we've grown we've heard about more of these attacks--scammy people pretending to be something or someone to trick and abuse others. 1/
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~ Keir Starmer's Post-Brexit 'Reset' With the EU Has Stalled, Warns Report – Byline Times ~
https://bylinetimes.com/2025/11/12/keir-starmer-post-brexit-reset-with-the-eu-has-stalled/
https://bylinetimes.com/2025/11/12/keir-starmer-post-brexit-reset-with-the-eu-has-stalled/
Keir Starmer's Post-Brexit 'Reset' With the EU Has Stalled, Warns Report – Byline Times
There has been little concrete progress on Government commitments to repair relations with the EU, according to a new parliamentary report
bylinetimes.com
November 12, 2025 at 8:02 AM
~ Keir Starmer's Post-Brexit 'Reset' With the EU Has Stalled, Warns Report – Byline Times ~
https://bylinetimes.com/2025/11/12/keir-starmer-post-brexit-reset-with-the-eu-has-stalled/
https://bylinetimes.com/2025/11/12/keir-starmer-post-brexit-reset-with-the-eu-has-stalled/
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I cannot understand when the subject of criminal migrants comes up from Farage etc, the media never mention the systems we pulled out of after Brexit.
Please look at these & ask why Farage & co haven’t been held responsible for criminals coming here. I have no problem with asylum seekers coming btw
Please look at these & ask why Farage & co haven’t been held responsible for criminals coming here. I have no problem with asylum seekers coming btw
November 11, 2025 at 10:58 AM
I cannot understand when the subject of criminal migrants comes up from Farage etc, the media never mention the systems we pulled out of after Brexit.
Please look at these & ask why Farage & co haven’t been held responsible for criminals coming here. I have no problem with asylum seekers coming btw
Please look at these & ask why Farage & co haven’t been held responsible for criminals coming here. I have no problem with asylum seekers coming btw
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BBC News: The BBC have denied being institutionally biased. We go over live to Laura Kuenssberg & Fiona Bruce who are with Nigel Farage & Richard Tice in a hot tub for comment.
November 10, 2025 at 8:38 PM
BBC News: The BBC have denied being institutionally biased. We go over live to Laura Kuenssberg & Fiona Bruce who are with Nigel Farage & Richard Tice in a hot tub for comment.
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The true mystery of the Louvre robbery now solved.
Wonderful piece.
Wonderful piece.
Loving today's news that the mysterious "fedora man" outside the Louvre heist was actually a 15-year-old museum visitor who dresses like a 1940s French detective all the time, just because. apnews.com/article/louv...
Fedora man unmasked: Meet the teen behind the Louvre mystery photo
Fifteen-year-old Pedro Elias Garzon Delvaux has become an internet sensation after an Associated Press photo captured him outside the Louvre on the day of a crown jewels heist.
apnews.com
November 9, 2025 at 5:43 PM
The true mystery of the Louvre robbery now solved.
Wonderful piece.
Wonderful piece.
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"We have been importing plants from Italy for over 20 years and never had these sorts of problems before Brexit,” Clark said"
Christ!!
& Still so many still don't get it (the fact we were part of the same market - no border controls needed - before Brexit)
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Christ!!
& Still so many still don't get it (the fact we were part of the same market - no border controls needed - before Brexit)
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Plant importers say border delays in Kent could drive up prices and stop deliveries from EU
Traders report long waits at Sevington inspection post and claim trees and shrubs are repeatedly being damaged
www.theguardian.com
November 8, 2025 at 12:37 PM
"We have been importing plants from Italy for over 20 years and never had these sorts of problems before Brexit,” Clark said"
Christ!!
& Still so many still don't get it (the fact we were part of the same market - no border controls needed - before Brexit)
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Christ!!
& Still so many still don't get it (the fact we were part of the same market - no border controls needed - before Brexit)
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...