Fran Parry

Fran Parry

@franparry.bsky.social

Retired policy wonk. Energetic volunteer.

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Replying to @iandunt.bsky.social

Oh ffs. MPs must stop romanticising this absolute horseshit. Brexiters promised a land of milk and honey and delivered contaminated water and broken biscuits. We don’t want it. And we mustn’t be tied to failure and lies just because politicians want to cover up the utter mess they’ve made.

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

Alex Andreou@sturdyalex.bsky.social

BBC News just interrupted its coverage to go, live, to Nigel Farage - a man with no contitutional standing in our setup - responding to the budget - a document which nobody has seen yet. WHY

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BBC News just interrupted its coverage to go, live, to Nigel Farage - a man with no contitutional standing in our setup - responding to the budget - a document which nobody has seen yet. WHY

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"Suicidal provocation of Russia while our armed forces are at their most woeful state since WW2". Mate, the Russian army is currently pulling T-55's out of storage and losing ~1,800 men a day in foot and motorcycle assaults that achieve nothing. This is "poke the bear" nonsense.

dmitryopines.substack.com‘Poking the Bear’: From Putin to TommoRejecting the world’s dumbest idiom.
David Higham@oldtrotter.bsky.social

Well you can't get much clearer than that. Restore are Putin stooges.

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Meanwhile, pro-democracy, pro-Europe protesters in Tbilisi, Georgia, are tonight nearing their 700th consecutive day of protest against the pro-Russian government. They haven't missed a single day in the last 23 months.

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Gaslighting 101: The AG is literally calling us crazy for thinking Trump will use the levers of government power to overturn the results of an election, when he has a documented history of doing just that. That’s tyranny.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

BASH: The worry is that we end up in a situation where President Trump tries to overturn the election and the result of that could be like what we saw after January 6-- BLANCHE: Stop it! You gotta stop it with that! That's crazy BASH: This is a president who has a history

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BBC Radio 4’s You and Yours is a lifeline for consumers facing scams, rising bills, and bad service. Now it's under threat. We can't let them axe this vital public service or hide it online where vulnerable people lose access. Please add your name to save it: you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/sa...

you.38degrees.org.ukSave BBC Radio 4's You and YoursFor over 50 years, this show has been a vital voice for consumers taking on scams and rising bills. Now the BBC is threatening its future. Add your name to help protect it.

BBC Radio 4’s You and Yours is a lifeline for consumers facing scams, rising bills, and bad service. Now it's under threat. We can't let them axe this vital public service or hide it online where vulnerable people lose access. Please add your name to save it: you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/sa...

you.38degrees.org.ukSave BBC Radio 4's You and YoursFor over 50 years, this show has been a vital voice for consumers taking on scams and rising bills. Now the BBC is threatening its future. Add your name to help protect it.

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It’s one of those irregular verbs: I embrace a blockchain-based alternative payments system, you engage in money-laundering.

Yair Wallach@yairwallach.bsky.social

The threat of sanctions finally attracts the attention of Israeli media and voters. Thanks to Netanyahu, who promises Israelis a blockchain based economy to circumvent future sanctions. A massive own-goal just four days before polling day; he seems to be losing his game.

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Replying to @chadbourn.bsky.social

The Brit Lord Haw-Haw was hanged for aiding the enemy merely with propaganda on the radio. Musk has gone immensely further. Don't hold your breath they'll do anything in the US. But Musk should be subject to arrest in Europe and all his enterprises there seized and/or shut down forthwith

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Drone debris falls on Kyiv like steel rain. The mayor keeps us informed about the damage it causes. We pretend we have umbrellas to hide under. Saturday evening. Drone attack again. I look out of the window to check whether it’s raining or not.

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Brett Meiselas: "Donald Trump, Elon Musk, JD Vance — their actions toward Ukraine are frankly far worse than the actions that Donald Trump got impeached for in 2019 by extorting Ukraine. This is a whole other level."

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Bill Clinton: "I think Congress made a mistake not protesting turning the Rose Garden into what looks like the entrance to Liberace's bathroom"

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Ronan Farrow reported in a 2023 New Yorker piece that the Pentagon signed a contract to keep Musk from cutting off Ukraine’s battlefield connectivity at will. Colin Kahl described it as a way to lock in service so Musk couldn’t just flip the switch, considering Musk's known antipathy towards Ukraine

newyorker.comElon Musk’s Shadow RuleHow the U.S. government came to rely on the tech billionaire—and is now struggling to rein him in.

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Double check every Reform UK claim - they're mostly blatanmt lies! "The far right has pulled off a spectacular trick, they've convinced ordinary people to base their entire worldview on impossible numbers. We hear it all the time ..." via Stop Brexit & Restore Hope www.facebook.com/stopbrexitma...

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Best Twitter riposte of the day. Virtually everything Elon says about Ukraine is false, or, as a White House staffer says today to the Economist, "it's as if he spoke to Putin first." And that, literally, is what he does.

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Mark Carney on Elon Musk crippling Ukraine’s Starlink: “I search for the right adjective to describe whoever took this decision… against a country that is literally fighting for the lives of its citizens against naked aggression."

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Grey morning in Kyiv. What a joy to learn that metro trains cross the Dnipro River over ‘my’ bridge again. Yesterday, it was quite a challenge for me to get to the right bank of the city. But I met interesting people and brought rainy beauty in the pockets of my phone.