Worth watching even if (like me) you don't speak a word of Dutch, if only to see the courage of the teenage reporter. The bit that starts around 11 minutes where he goes in to get a closer look at someone torching a police car is a particular highlight. RE:
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Cas Mudde (@casmudde.bsky.social)
Quite surreal report of this weekend’s far-right protest in The Hague πŸ‡³πŸ‡± by teen reporter β€œBender” 😳 Some quick thoughts 🧡 https...
Please consult your outrage calendars for the correct type of fury to display, everyone. I want you all to be limbering up for poppy outrage, just a few weeks away now. RE:
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Katie Martin (@katie0martin.ft.com)
mince pies and santa nonsense in the supermarkets already - we must be c two weeks away from loons shouting about how you cAn'T sAy HaPpY ChRiStMaS...
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"Semi" means half. "Bi" means two. So how can semiannual and biannual mean the same? The English language is inefficient, and everyone involved in making it so should be in prison. That is all.
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This is actually the most brutal thing Trump could conceivably have said about Mandelson. Mandelson must be going through Hull right now. https://amanita.us-east.host.bsky.network/xrpc/com.atproto.sync.getBlob?did=did:plc:mymiyz3x72kdfeb5nfmrk5my&cid=bafkreib7tnysq6hebtr7vbr3wblgaqvwkm4zvysxuffyas45qakcxvs4ee
Mandelson's going to Hull and back. (Sorry.) [Peter Mandelson sacked from hi...](
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Peter Mandelson sacked from high steward of Hull role
Hull councillors vote unanimously to strip him of the title over his ties to Jeffrey Epstein.
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My Trade Secrets today. The UK's shabbily expedient trade "deal" with Trump looks a tiny bit more defensible now given the craven capitulation of the big guys (EU, Japan). But it still hasn't got the promised relief on steel tariffs (SURPRISE!) and still has a hostage to fortune re tech regulation. [The UK’s indefinite gamble in ...](https://on.ft.com/4msYgMZ )
This is a vg point. See Linz. [www.ir101.co.uk/wp-content/u...](πŸ“„.pdf ) RE:
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SpinningHugo (@spinninghugo.bsky.social)
This isn't really the argument. No country anywhere has either a wholly unwritten or a wholly written constitution. The model the US has, which ha...
Let's have another three-hour argument about whether chicken tikka masala is British!* Unless they mean "prepared in" rather than "derived from" which would be merely facile rather than a category mistake. *It is (h/t [@smtuffy.bsky.social](
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I used to be with it, but then they changed what it was. Now what I'm with isn't it, and what's it seems weird and scary to me, and it'll happen to...
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Brilliant Maps (@brilliantmaps.bsky.social)
For the rest of your life, you can only eat food from one of these regions. Which do you choose? For more maps: https://brilliantmaps.beehiiv.com/...
Very slowly and painfully, the attempt to build a trading system end-running the US proceeds. RE:
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Financial Times (@financialtimes.com)
EU and Indonesia agree trade deal on.ft.com/4pFqsPE https://on.ft.com/4pFqsPE