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Director @ukandeu.bsky.social Bitter and twisted observer of politics. ‘Not yoda’ (DC) ‘Slightly matey politics don' (Q. Letts) Trustee, @fullfact #LUFC Most views someone else’s

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10.03.2026 12:30 👍 1 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0

Well that at least is a specific commitment.

10.03.2026 11:57 👍 17 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I'm starting to find the number of senior people associated with Brexit who have 'prior commitments' preventing them from speaking at an event slightly suspicious

10.03.2026 11:55 👍 380 🔁 64 💬 25 📌 5

True

10.03.2026 11:54 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Absolutely. For which you need very good cross-Whitehall nous

10.03.2026 11:31 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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10.03.2026 11:30 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

I agree. And maybe the specific character of Trump justified that but I’d have preferred a career diplomat there too!

10.03.2026 10:22 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

I’d do it for the house

10.03.2026 09:57 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Tbh o think we should use diplomats for diplomacy….

10.03.2026 09:54 👍 12 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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10.03.2026 07:28 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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09.03.2026 14:31 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

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09.03.2026 12:38 👍 4 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
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UK-EU SPS Agreement - Legislation in scope To cut red tape and costs for importing and exporting with the EU, the UK will align with EU Sanitary and Phytosanitary (SPS) legislation.

UK government releases list of 76 EU laws that it says UK will align with under food standards treaty with EU www.gov.uk/government/n...

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The impact of Brexit on immigration to the UK - UK in a changing Europe Jonathan Portes and John Springford share their new analysis that estimates how the number of foreign-born workers would have evolved had the UK remained in the EU.

Ending free movement "led to a modest rise in the number of foreign born workers in the UK, but a dramatic shift in their countries of origin."

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09.03.2026 12:04 👍 49 🔁 29 💬 0 📌 0

I do!

08.03.2026 19:14 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

World champions. Again. 👊🏽

08.03.2026 18:00 👍 8 🔁 0 💬 4 📌 0
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Mark Carney to urge Starmer to join ‘world bank for defence’ Canada’s prime minister is believed to be planning a trip to persuade the UK to join a multilateral lender that would aid arms procurement

Exc: Mark Carney to visit Keir Starmer as he looks to lobby the PM about a 'World Bank for defence'

Last week a Canadian delegation came to p'ment to press the case for the Defence, Security and Resilience Bank

Understand invitations to join charter negotiations

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08.03.2026 08:24 👍 104 🔁 23 💬 8 📌 4

I’ve spent years, decades, obsessing over the Bush Administration’s Iraq WMD lies, writing about them, debunking them.

I can think of no lie about Iraq WMDs told by Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld et al that comes even close to the enormity and absurdity of this lie from Donald Trump.

05.03.2026 13:07 👍 9560 🔁 2761 💬 472 📌 112

He’ll come home. Like Erling 😉

05.03.2026 21:31 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Poor Archie Gray. Backed the wrong horse….

05.03.2026 21:04 👍 13 🔁 0 💬 4 📌 0

Dunno. I want one to finish below us and I still can’t quite believe it will be Spurs. Then again, they’re crumbling.

05.03.2026 20:55 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

To help Leeds by losing

05.03.2026 20:48 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Please show your workings.

05.03.2026 20:48 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Spurs or Palace? 🤔

05.03.2026 20:43 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 8 📌 1

Just to pre-empt the discussion. NZ always beat us.

05.03.2026 17:28 👍 9 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Can't believe how well they caught after a couple of dodgy fielding performances.

05.03.2026 17:24 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Need to shut the Overton window quickly.

05.03.2026 17:11 👍 23 🔁 0 💬 4 📌 0

I do hope England manage to get to 150.....

05.03.2026 16:08 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 4 📌 0

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05.03.2026 15:36 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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