🇪🇺🏳️🌈⚖️🇭🇺 A legal earthquake - CJEU finds Hungary to have violated EU law on multiple counts with its anti-LGBT+ legislation (as expected) but also for the first time in history, in an EU law-reshaping precedent, finds Hungary to violate Art 2 TEU in a self-standing manner.
When a sitting U.S. president makes insulting remarks about Canada and threatens its sovereignty, I’ll criticize the United States and its administration if I bloody well please. What happens in that country has a big impact in the world, so no, I won’t “stay in my own lane.”
Agami Herons.
It is almost like the Trump administration has no idea what it is doing, beyond enriching itself of course…
www.cnn.com/2026/04/21/p...
In February 1777, General George Washington ordered the first mass immunization campaign in American history by mandating that his troops be inoculated against smallpox. He protected the Continental Army from an epidemic that was deadlier than British forces.
249 years later, we have this idiot.
After France, Denmark is moving too: its Digitalisation Ministry plans to phase out Microsoft, switching to Linux and LibreOffice in the coming months. The goal is clear—reduce dependence on a handful of global tech giants and strengthen digital sovereignty.
“Becoming”.
Reform UK’s refusal to counter its own supporters hate and racism is a huge part of the problem that’s existed for years.
The Brits appear ready to shame the US news media into covering this, distracted as they are by gazing at their own navels ...
Stop praising Orbán for not attempting a coup.
He only stepped down because Magyar's win was too massive to steal.
He rigged the constitution, captured the institutions, and used state media to his advantage.
He did everything he could to destroy democracy, and he failed
Screenshot of a tweet: God Save Great Britain & @GSGB01 WOW: The NHS has ordered staff not to use the phrase 'It's raining cats & dogs' in fear of upsetting people from other cultures and religion. Britain has gone absolutely
Screenshot of a tweet: @Jenny_1884 The NHS has ordered staff not to use the term "It's raining cats & dogs" as it may offend foreigners. Tough If you don't like it jog on is what I think The NHS needs to get back to concentrating on making people better & not being more concerned about offending
For the love of God, could the "common sense" brigade PLEASE develop some actual COMMON SENSE?!
No, the NHS has not ordered staff not to use the term "it's raining cats and dogs" for fear of either upsetting or offending anyone...
Please engage your brains for a minute🙏
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Good piece but, tho' it's true Labour are edging to seeking something like 'Chequers', it's misleading to call that the "Chequers deal" - it was a proposal, most of which was rejected by the EU (e.g. Tusk statement after Salzburg summit 09/18).
At a conference with the SFO:
Pattiserie Valerie collapsed in 2018, they charged them in 2023, the first court date was 2026, this was then delayed by the defence requesting more time, so they now won't see court until 2028.
10 years.
For context, SBF was prosecuted for FTX within 12 months.
The idea that you need to send corrupt sociopaths as Ambassadors to DC is so funny, because it's a standard we have never applied anywhere.
We don't appoint corrupt gangsters to embassies in Moscow or religious fanatics to Tehran.
Also, Mamdani is able to handle Trump fine without becoming him.
Ed Miliband has said he'll “double down, not back down” on government’s clean energy mission in the face of critics calling on him to change course
The Energy Sec said "solar panels, heat pumps and EVs are not woke, or a left-wing conspiracy, or even a Marxist plot. They're actually common sense"
All the talk is of a blue wave in the 2026 Midterms. But Republicans do not need to get more popular to hold the House - they just need to stop enough Democrats voting in key seats.
I've done a deep dive in my latest post.
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Well let's see how this strategy of telling "white liberals" to "fuck right off" works out in the local elections
Not always an enormous gap. 4/10 ethnic minotities wanted to reduce record levels in June24 + half didn't. About 6/10 white people wanted to reduce overall levels
Labour white & ninority voters see more gains than pressures. Ethnic minorities who vote right more pro-immig than white counterparts
Every single piece of evidence in the UK shows that ethnic minorities are nore pro-migratiion than white British people. Ethnic minorities like white British people have mixed pro, balancer and sceptical views but they are more liberal + softer sceptics.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
We’re in the truly weird position where McSweeney had to go for giving the PM the advice to appoint Mandelson and Robbins had to go for not stopping him.
🎯 "Now, a decade after the referendum, and six years since the UK finally left the EU, the new geopolitical threats provide a compelling case for closer cooperation."
www.brusselstimes.com/2075768/ten-years-on-fro...
@pimlicat.bsky.social explains the findings of our latest report on LBC News.
A majority of voters more strongly support rejoining the EU than they do the government’s current approach to UK-EU relations. 🇪🇺
You can find our report here: https://www.bestforbritain.org/is_time_eu_membership
👀🇪🇺 "The Mail may have been expecting its own readers to back Brexit, however early indications of the poll put 73% of respondents as saying Britain should rejoin the EU because it’s better for the economy.
"As time went on, this number grew to 84%."
@pimlicat.bsky.social on our latest report that shows that a majority of Brits support EU membership:
"There has been a shift, both demographically but also just consciously, from evaluating our two key allies in the world, the EU and Washington, and realising that Europe offers more stability."
Good news!
"EU top court strikes down Hungary’s anti-LGBTQ+ rules.
"Viktor Orbán had banned mentions of homosexuality in media accessible to children and outlawed Pride marches."
🇺🇦 Good news for Ukraine. Europe must keep supporting our allies in their battle against Putin's illegal war.
❌ A package of measures to be agreed at an EU-UK summit in July will, by the government’s own estimate, increase UK GDP by just 0.3 per cent over the next decade and a half.
🇪🇺 It is time for this government to be much bolder on Europe, it is time to talk about EU membership.
Will Bain, Head of Trade Policy, British Chamber of Commerce:
"We've also had enormous extra cost injected into the systems so an export health certificate costs £200 if you're loading a truck with multiple consignments it can be about £1,400"
John Foster, CBI: "On the SPS agreement our members tell us it's the most impactful intervention that the government can deliver, for firms working in food, agri-food, in logistics and to a lesser extent in the chemicals sector because of the sheer volume of frictions introduced since Brexit."
Not to be seen on the BBC TV News, doesn’t suit their agenda .
Also not to be seen in the Telegraph, Express, Mail, Sun, etc.
And nowadays not in the Guardian either.
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One Labour official who knows Starmer well said that while McSweeney, a protégé of Mandelson’s, wanted to send him to Washington, Starmer was never that close to him.
“Keir didn’t even really like Mandy, and suspended his judgment as he does so often,” the person said. “At that point, the machine took it [Mandelson’s appointment] as his intention and does what the British state does, which is bend the process to the signal it thinks is being broadcast from the principal.”](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:xbnsfdtxoothg654ujxe3p25/bafkreiahacitqx2pija6wp6zpsqloak2ukhpsfz5oiptr4x2vgbvn3vtiq)
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An all-time classic entry in the hall of fame 'does the person saying this realise how damning it is?' quotes:
