The principle is good - it would have allowed us to enforce EU rules about non self supporting EU citizens not staying for more than three months, & as a result possibly fended off Brexit.
But it depends who writes the software & can access the data. Only cleared UK folk, not working for Palantir.
Find the beauty anywhere you can. Let it sustain you for a day, an hour, even a minute. Because that's all we really have.
So let me get this right: the British Government wants to raise taxes and spend more on "defence" so it can send fighter jets to defend genocidal Middle Eastern governments when they preemptively attack their neighbours, and those neighbours retaliate?
BBC Newswatch desperately trying to justify their excessive exposure of ReformUK today, but every argument only supports the complaints. Of course, their support will grow if the other parties don't even get the airtime to promote their own policies! Absolutely outrageous bias from the BBC. 😡
Shrink from it? He can hardly wait to deliver for his investors.
By Israel logic; does this not give licence for EU & the UK to bomb indiscriminately into Tel Aviv to retrieve the hostages?
David Attenborough's #OceanFilm reminds us that our oceans are intricately connected to all life on Earth. As the final report of GCEW shows, we must govern the entire hydrological cycle—from oceans to soil—as a global common good. An economics of water must recognise these planetary connections.
Unless the most recent position updates were wrong (they won’t have been) I don’t believe Madleen could have reached Israeli waters by the time she was boarded.
In which case this is an act of piracy on a British vessel.
@eddavey.libdems.org.uk please raise in HoC and with PM directly.
Freedom Flotilla Coalition € The Madleen is currently under assault in international waters. Quadcopters are surrounding the ship, spraying it with a white irritant substance. Communications are jammed, and disturbing sounds are being played over the radio. 4 3 1 • 17:49 PM
Update from the Madleen Freedom Flotilla
They’re not behaving as if they’re in a four-year term.
They’re behaving as if they’re in an everlasting dictatorship.
Are we all clear on this?
bsky.app/profile/jurp...
Unfortunately the last plot on Marine Traffic is fifteen hours old.
The new link to track Madleen. please circulate it all over the internet so ALL EYES stay on MADLEEN.
live.garmin.com/session/b2e0...
She is also called "Barcarole" and you can track her on MarineTraffic.com
"It is down to Britain’s reliance on gas". Again, @theguardian.com , you mean England's reliance on gas. With Westminster setting prices for Scotland based on England's energy reliance, we pay far more than is necessary.
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
A brand new piece on Starmer’s refusal to consider rejoining the EU and what MPs really think about this. /2
#TruthToPower
@sussexbylines.co.uk
sussexbylines.co.uk/politics/why...
Disgraceful
Yup. Scotland produces the cheapest electricity in Europe, yet pays the very high electricity bills that the UK decides. Scotland is subsidising England's electricity bills.
A tactic used by unionists on twitter for many years, and now becoming much more common on BlueSky, is for them to tie up indy supporters in pointless hair-splitting arguments. It's a waste of our valuable campaigning time. Resist the impulse to do it. If you manage this, tell me how.
Wow--the collapse of Europeans visiting the USA in one search. Mid June is usually one of the busiest and most expensive times of the year to travel from London to New York. I just went and did a search, and economy fares are widely available for fewer than £400.
Repeated again as BBC Scotland link the privately-owned and neglected Ardrossan Harbour to the Scottish Government:
talkingupscotlandtwo.com/2025/02/11/w...
Why are Cayman-registered companies getting UK farm subsidies?
Norfolk’s biggest landowners include foreign billionaires exploiting loopholes while farmers lose their land.
@owensennitt.bsky.social reports
#FairFarming
You know the idea is good when you’ve finally gone to bed and you’re typing it on your phone in the dark at 4:30 am. Let’s hope the inspiration is still here in the morning. Er… later in the morning.
Two workers in high visibility clothing and hard hats restoring the cast iron façade at the North Bridge.
Cast iron façade windows in finished gold prior to installation.
A worker in high visibility clothing and a hard hat works on the coating of the façade windows prior to the decorative gold application.
Restoration work underway on the North Bridge, with workers in high visibility clothing examining and refurbishing decorative details on the bridge structure.
The North Bridge’s cast iron façade is one of the most impressive elements of the Category A Listed Structure.
These images show some of the expert work that we're carrying out to ensure that this piece of Edinburgh's heritage is preserved for future generations.
The US is now working with a dictatorship to kill Ukrainian civilians. It is a conscious enemy of freedom and democracy in Europe. Here is the conclusion of the piece.
