Annette Dittert

Winter is coming. Getting cold on the canal.

What is the BBC's justification for maintaining this level of coverage of Reform now it has slipped into third place?

Fascinating Jeremy, now tell us about the time you cut national insurance twice as an electoral game despite knowing we couldn't afford it.

This is the correct combination to persuade British voters. Euro is much more of a public opinion barrier than FoM. samf.substack.com/p/the-route-...

UK offering Freedom of Movement would be the game changer for conversations with the EU, one of the trio of people, pounds and positivity I identified earlier this year as crucial to any significant move to removing barriers.

Very impressive that he's talking about this.

Wieso hat das eigentlich keine Konsequenzen ?

The fall in immigration is mutilating Healey’s Budget iandunt.substack.com/p/the-fall-i...

Unmissverständliche, wichtige Worte dazu, dass sich CDU/CSU und viele Medien an der möglichen Koaltion dreier demokratischer Parteien in Berlin exzessiv abarbeiten, während über mögl. rechtsextr. Regierung in Sachsen-Anhalt wenig gesagt wird. @lagedernation.org lagedernation.org/podcast/ldn4...

Eine echt gute Folge heute von @lagedernation.org , muss man auf jeden Fall anhören. Vor allem der Teil zur Linken und der AfD sowie Frankreich ist klasse! 😌🇪🇺 open.spotify.com/episode/1FT3...

In these dismal times it is a constant joy to witness the BBC standing up to an American president who is no better than a gangster running a protection racket

Die Linke war schon an 16 Landesregierungen in 5 Bundesländern beteiligt. Grundfesten des Staates erschütterte sie nicht. Die heutige Berliner Linke mag problematischer sein. Aber komplett freizudrehen wie Teile der Union derzeit, ist selbst verdächtig. Soll es ihr etwa die AfD-Option eröffnen?

"The one remaining argument for sticking with Brexit is that any attempt to reverse the referendum would be fundamentally undemocratic. The people spoke; their verdict stands. That is true only if the votes of the dead still count." #ThatsWhatICallPuttingItBluntly

How a country is unable to get rid of someone like this 👇 is beyond me.

What does Kemi Badenoch think the level of immigration should be? Is everybody in the media & politics going to act surprised when the year to June 2026 statistic (on Nov 26th) falls below net 100k for first time this century Best estimate of net migration *now* (4th Q 2026) is zero, or negative

An obviously violent person

The hollowing out a priceless national asset, under a techbro vandal. As with higher education, this type of move might be tolerable if there was *any government policy at all* on what the ultimate plan is. But there isn't.

#Trump will die #Ukraine für seinen verkorksten #Irankrieg bezahlen lassen. Aber die Europäer haben Hebel, die sie endlich nutzen sollten. Der SPIEGEL-Leitartikel von Mathieu von Rohr (bei Bluesky @mathieuvonrohr.bsky.social) #Dieseldeal #Putin

Blue Lights Series 4 incredibly depressing so far. Not sure whether I can deal with that tonight. The world is depressing enough as it is atm.

Another excellent column by the always excellent @rafaelbehr.bsky.social👇

If Putin stops fighting, the war ends. If Zelensky stops fighting then his country will be occupied, leaders murdered, language banned, businesses stolen, children kidnapped. That's what happens in Russian-occupied Ukraine.

This seems obviously correct. I don't think giving royalties to PA is a good idea, or a constructive way to help Palestianians. Members of the organisation have undertaken serious criminal acts. But to call them, and Rooney, terrorists is to abuse the term.

“No timeline for lifting Land Registry paywall as ownership remains opaque” Ministers have publicly committed to open up data on land ownership - but the Land Registry themselves are dragging their feet. Tag your MP: let’s finally reveal who owns England! www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Fucking hell. #SlowHorses 6/Ep.5 Can't wait for the grand finale. This is almost unbearable.

It's this kind of behaviour from Russia that means we could soon find ourselves in a unpredictable escalation. www.ft.com/content/5da2...

Why on earth does this BBC piece on Burnham telling an interviewer the UK security services confirmed Russian interference in the Brexit referendum require a response from a pro Brexit pressure group? It's literally our Prime Minister telling us about election security. It's nothing to do with them.

"Why the silence?" Thank you 🙏🏻 and warmest congratulations, dear @philippesands.bsky.social ! So well deserved!

My 5 pence on Burnham who’s in Berlin today 👇😉

Hab die Lage gerade durchgehört. Eine klare Hörempfehlung. Besonders gefreut hab ich mich, dass @annettedittert.bsky.social wieder zu Gast war, es macht einfach Spaß ihr zuzuhören wenn sie UK erklärt. Und es gibt auch mal gute Neuigkeiten… 🥳

If you believe this, I have a bridge to sell you. The prime directive of the Conservative Party is to get and hold power. The idea that it would risk throwing away the opportunity merely because it involved an albeit uncomfortable arrangement with another right-wing party is clearly for the birds.

The moral arc of the universe is long but it bends towards Jeremy Clarkson spending decades denying global warming only to sink his fortune into a farm just as global warming really starts to kick in

Badenoch would do a deal with Reform in a heartbeat, no matters what she says.

Useful things are happening recently on the right, with prominent figures drawing a line under the racism: Jacob Rees-Mogg, Nadhim Zahawi, now James Cleverly. Tentative sense of a social and moral norm being re-established.

This is just depressing. And I do not understand why Labour seems to let it slip. It’s not in Britain‘s, let alone their own interest.

This is almost certainly true, and the UK fails women refugees in multiple ways, including by refusing safe routes to come here, wrongly rejecting asylum claims, barring family reunion & not recognising trafficking victims promptly or at all. If only Mahmood had the power to do something about this

www.sueddeutsche.de/politik/kiew... Von hier aus die #Brandmauer zu @dielinkeberlin.bsky.social zu betonen, zeigt einmal mehr #Merz vollkommen fehlgeleitete politische Strategie, vom Instinkt ganz zu schweigen.

💯. It’s not just stupid electorally. It’s utterly shameful.

The ability to pour hundreds of millions of pounds into a loss-making TV channel, bent on wrenching British politics sharply to the right, is yet another of the ways in which extreme wealth is trying to remake UK democracy. It needs to be part of any serious conversation about political funding.

Ein tolles Publikum. Hat großen Spaß gemacht. 🙏

Jetzt beim 35. #Literaturherbst in #Göttingen: Lesung von @annettedittert.bsky.social aus ihrem „Dear Britain“-Buch vor über 600 Zuschauern in der ausverkauften Sheddach-Halle. Ihr Bestseller zeigt das anhaltende große Interesse in 🇩🇪 an 🇬🇧!

Now that Andy Burnham has reopened the Europe question, free movement will be at the centre of debate. For @arguablymag.bsky.social I argue that it's a big benefit, not a price to be paid for a better trade relationship. www.arguably.uk/p/eu-free-mo...