Dagmar Seeland

Dagmar Seeland

@dseelandwrites.bsky.social

UK correspondent for the German weekly stern magazine. Former President, Foreign Press Association. Always on the lookout for good stories.

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Dr Dean Burnett
@drdeanburnett.bsky.social

"By using AI, tasks like essays that used to take hours can be completed in minutes!" Sure, like how if I arrive at the gym and immediately go for a shower, my workout is done in record time. And if I throw my sandwiches straight in the bin, I can finish my lunch in under 10 seconds.

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victoria scott
@victoriascott.bsky.social

I am sympathetic to Silicon Valley guys ascribing human-level consciousness to AI because if I had to talk to people from Silicon Valley all day I’d probably have a real low bar for sentience too

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Stephen Kinsella
@stephenstroud.bsky.social

Replying to @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social

It’s so confusing. I thought Farage was a huge fan of charity, meaning donations given freely by people with no expectation of anything in return. 

Dagmar Seeland
@dseelandwrites.bsky.social

Can someone from the new Treasury team now reverse the idiotic new requirement for freelancers and small businesses to produce quarterly accounts under MTD please? It’s hours of extra work & won’t bring in one extra penny in tax. As usual, the only winners are accountants.

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Alex Andreou
@sturdyalex.bsky.social

I have put together a little video guide to Nigel Farage's umm... evolving views on hecklers. They seem to be quite dependent on whether the heckler disagrees with him (bad, boring, frightening, dangerous), or shouts abuse at a woman in the street (buy him a pint/give him a peerage).

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Paul Byrne
@theplanetaryguy.com

This image of home just came down from the Artemis II crew. Taken after their translunar injection burn, there are aurorae at top right and lower left, and zodiacal light at lower right. Credit: NASA/Reid Wiseman

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Ian Dunt
@iandunt.bsky.social

We have awarded these people contracts in the Ministry of Defence. What the fuck are we doing.

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Jonathan Portes
@jdportes.bsky.social

The impact of Brexit on UK immigration - new research by @johnspringford.bsky.social & me for @centreeuropeanref.bsky.social & @ukandeu.bsky.social Brexit a) reduced EU-origin employees by 785K (2.3% of workforce) b) increased non-EU origin employees by 992K (2.95%) www.cer.eu/insights/imp...

cer.euThe impact of Brexit on immigration to the UKA new analysis finds that Brexit raised the number of foreign-born workers in the UK by about 200,000, but resulted in a more dramatic shift in the countries of origin.

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Lewis Goodall
@lewisgoodall.com

It’s being said a lot that the shadow of Iraq is hanging over Keir Starmer and the Labour Party during this Iran crisis. It absolutely should. What’s remarkable is how little much of the British media and the rest of politics seem to be thinking about it at all, or learning its lessons.

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Anne Applebaum
@anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu

A retired British primary school administrator with a British passport and a valid visa was shackled, chained and detained for six weeks by ICE www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

theguardian.com‘Don’t go to the US – not with Trump in charge’: the UK tourist with a valid visa detained by ICE for six weeksKaren Newton was in America on the trip of a lifetime when she was shackled, transported and held for weeks on end. With tourism to the US under increasing strain, she says, ‘If it can happen to me, i...

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Christine Heuer
@christineheuer.bsky.social

How the far right is gaining ground in the UK - and why. My report for @deutschlandfunk.de.web.brid.gy, featuring @petergeoghegan.bsky.social, @pnjackson.bsky.social and @joemulhall.bsky.social. (Audio in German only.) 👇Listen here: www.deutschlandfunk.de/grossbritann...

deutschlandfunk.deLabour und Tories bleiben den Briten den Wandel schuldig - davon profitieren RechtspopulistenLabour und Tories finden auf viele Probleme Großbritanniens keine Antworten. Immer mehr Briten sehen Rechtspopulisten wie Nigel Farage als wählbare Alternative.
Dagmar Seeland
@dseelandwrites.bsky.social

Brilliant piece by my colleague @christineheuer.bsky.social on the rise of the far right in the UK, and on who finances them. In German, sorry! Aus der DLR App | Hintergrund | Großbritannien – Die Rechte im Aufschwung share.deutschlandradio.de/dlf-audiothe...

share.deutschlandradio.deLabour und Tories bleiben den Briten den Wandel schuldig - davon profitieren RechtspopulistenLabour und Tories finden auf viele Probleme Großbritanniens keine Antworten. Immer mehr Briten sehen Rechtspopulisten wie Nigel Farage als wählbare Alternative.