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Designer and Lecturer. I design boats, yachts and a number of transport related machines, as well as other products. I am interested in politics, technology, history and design. Lecture in Product & Furniture design and Interior Architecture. European.
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$25 billion! 💥💥💥 This is one of the biggest fines in history — and it cuts to the core of the crooked Brexit ref! The case is about Facebook harvesting data from millions of users and selling it to Cambridge Analytica to generate targeted ads. Cambridge Analytica worked for the Leave camp and Trump.
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For the first time, the British government has acknowledged that Russia interfered in the 2016 Brexit referendum. So who did BBC Newsnight invite on to discuss what happened? Sergei Markov, Putin’s former spokesman. Par for the course, says Nerve co-founder @carolecadwalla.bsky.social 1/
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Andy Burnham is right, challenge Farage on the results of Brexit, it is his weakest flank, and a result he has thus far avoided, and he can't defend Andy Burnham says he holds Nigel Farage 'significantly responsible' for UK's miserable decade
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There can only be one option on the table. Full EU membership. 💷 £92bn for our economy. 📈 £43bn extra exports each and every year. ⬆️ Growth in every postcode, region, and nation of the UK. 🇬🇧 628/632 constituencies in favour. 🗳️ Stops Farage getting to No10. It really is a no brainer.
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👀 In his speech, Burnham promised to set out different options for closer UK-EU relations. Shortly afterwards, Downing Street did not rule out that these options included rejoining the EU. https://inews.co.uk/news/politics/burnham-opens-the-door-to-overturning-brexit-and-rejoining-the-eu-4798630
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Any politician calling to leave the ECHR is lying about what that will achieve. It won’t solve any problem or improve our lives It will make us worse off and remove our rights. Just like Brexit. The ECHR belongs to us all. It’s not theirs to take. Please sign www.europeanmovement.co.uk/echr-petition
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Metrics often obscure more than they reveal, especially when partially completed internal surveys and marginal differences between sub-metrics are treated as problems requiring in-year action plans. The issue isn’t avoiding metrics so much as recognising the limits of quality metrics used in HE.
'Avoiding metrics does not protect academic values, it obscures learning.' Meanwhile, avoiding research (as this piece does) does not protect academic values, it obscures what universities do and are for.
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Britain sometimes pays wind farms to switch off because the grid can't use all the electricity they generate. But what if we could save that energy for winter? Here's how the answer may lie beneath the North Sea.
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The last PM to both enter and leave No. 10 as the result of a general election: ❌ Burnham ❌ Starmer ❌ Sunak ❌ Truss ❌ Johnson ❌ May ❌ Cameron ❌ Brown ❌ Blair ❌ Major ❌ Thatcher ❌ Callaghan ❌ Wilson ✅ Heath (1970 - 74) This is not newsworthy. It's just overexcited journos having a circle jerk.
Burnham, again, says no election, telling ITV News "I am not going to call an election, I said outside Downing Street that I would do politics differently, that I would try to bring people together and focus on problem solving rather than point scoring. I am ruling it out right in front of you."
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The sociologist Jeffrey Alexander wrote about performative populism - and how performance and authority exist in a loop. Once the performance slips and is no longer convincing, the authority rapidly collapses. The bubble bursts. That, despite the media’s best efforts, is happening to Farage now.
Farage seems to have lost all of his political nouse. He’s erratic, tetchy and careless. Why? Latest 👇🏻📝
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Reform UK threatens to ban all foreign nationals from claiming welfare in the UK - which would mean ripping up the Brexit deal. This is not what people want. Polling shows Brits want closer relations with our European allies - not punishing neighbours, colleagues & friends who have settled here.
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www.theguardian.com/commentisfre... I know for a fact that it’s awful out there in the scramble for jobs. There are many graduates (and other employable people) applying continuously for very few jobs. They don’t even get acknowledgments for their applications. No wonder we’re in a MH crisis.
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For the record: the Pentagon can continue to lie about our reporting regarding the USS Abraham Lincoln all they want. We will continue to tell the truth and bring receipts. Join us at MeidasPlus.com and let’s keep growing this movement.
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"A decade later, the pound has never returned above its pre-Brexit level, hitting British holidaymakers in the pocket. From close to $1.50 against the dollar and €1.31 against the euro just after polling closed, the pound stands at $1.34 and €1.15." Brexit has made us all poorer...