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Fixing the problems Britain faces after Brexit. ▪️CEO: @pimlicat ▪️Guest tweets: @sturdyAlex ~AA *Account in distribution-only mode. Follow us on Bluesky!*
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Terrifying. "More and more, influential voices in the Maga movement and the far-right Republican party are calling to strip women of the franchise." "The opposition to women’s suffrage has entered the mainstream as the Republican party has radicalized." https://t.co/xuPNuDm9yX
theguardian.com
Calls for disenfranchisement rest on a single assumption: that women’s citizenship is partial and conditional
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🚨 "By the start of 2025, the UK economy was approximately 8% smaller than it would have been without Brexit." "The UK’s performance began to slip against its international peers - growth lagged and living standards stagnated." https://t.co/UaMHkIlaSZ
euronews.com
Economic analysis shows UK GDP per capita grew up to 10% less than similar nations as firms froze spending and productivity slipped.
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The German President is in the UK for a state visit. In an address to Parliament, Steinmeier said that Brexit made many things more difficult. But how do Germans view Brexit? And do they think Germany should follow the UK's example and leave the EU?
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What first attracted a cryptocurrency investor to donate £9,000,000 to a party calling for cryptocurrency deregulation? https://t.co/iQvi0qSUT0
mirror.co.uk
Christopher Harborne, a leading cryptocurrency, defence and aviation-fuel investor based in Thailand handed Nigel Farage’s Reform UK £9 million in cash on August 1
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Ed Barker from the Agricultural Industries Confederation: "What is a global trade issue mustn't be distilled into an EU-UK mini drama amongst a wider negotiation."
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There have to be consequences for such language - especially for elected officials. https://t.co/NOsu4a2t9z
theguardian.com
Ian Cooper allegedly called Khan ‘narcissistic Pakistani’ and made comments about lawyer Shola Mos-Shogbamimu
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"The evidence suggests that climate impacts are what’s actually driving issues of profitability as opposed to policy change. Without reaching net zero emission there is no way to limit the impacts making food production in the UK ever more difficult.” https://t.co/Oz04ZnvxhO
theguardian.com
Many now concerned about ability to make living in fast-changing climate after one of worst grain harvests recorded
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Europe cannot rely on Trump. We must stand with Ukraine. https://t.co/mTYr4sRmzX
theguardian.com
Editorial: Washington’s betrayal of its allies has been averted for now, but preparations must be made for a world where its support cannot be relied on
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🚨 Join us at 10:30am today as the UKTBC discusses the SPS deal. Our panel includes: Gail Soutar - National Farmers’ Union Ed Barker - Agricultural Industries Confederation Andrew Opie - Food and Sustainability Director, British Retail Consortium https://t.co/XLJtuKz53k
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The German President is in the UK for a state visit - the first one in 27 years. We took to the streets in Germany to ask Germans what the first thing that comes to mind when they think about the UK. 🤔
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"Climate change is about justice: because the people most exposed to its harmful consequences are the very people who have done the least to bring those consequences down on us," writes John Ashton. Read here: https://t.co/0495viLWBJ
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With Germany’s president visiting the UK, we asked Germans what they think about Brexit. 👀 "It's just so stupid to cut the branch you're sitting on," one person said. Here's what else they had to say ⬇️
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The government is calling out the damage Brexit has done - finally. "It was not a radical statement. It was simply true. But in British politics, where truth about Brexit has been treated like contraband, its plainness landed like a rupture." https://t.co/KKpVajhwmg
thenational.scot
I WAS in France last week, and as I often do when I go home, I organised a long lunch with friends, the kind that stretches across an entire…
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Keir Starmer: "Three ex-MPs have gone. That's where their leaks are going... to Reform UK." "The leader of Reform UK says he wants to merge with the Tories." "An absolutely unholy alliance of austerity and failure." 💯
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These are the numbers we need to remember 🚨 "Three quarters of children in poverty are in working families." "The two-child benefit cap dragged hundreds of thousands of children into poverty." No child should grow up in poverty.
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When a public figure responds instead with denial, minimisation and accusations of dishonesty, the missing “sorry” speaks volumes. We should listen to what it tells us. https://t.co/pQhEMkyyaK
theguardian.com
Letters: When a public figure responds with denial instead of a ‘sorry’, we should heed what that tells us, Anthony Richards. Plus letters from other readers on how being bullied at school affected...
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The hypocrisy 👀 "'Tories will always let you down’ says Farage, as his party collects more Tories.'" And just last year, Gullis insisted there was “not a cat’s chance in hell.” https://t.co/tlkjoA8CY9
thenewworld.co.uk
‘Tories will always let you down’ says Farage, as his party collects more Tories
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