Nik

Nik

@niklans.bsky.social

Where ever you go, there you are. On Bluesky (and not the other place). Non political, here for the contributions and a little light humour

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🔥🔥 This phenomenal article shows how European Movement UK are now laying out a 10-year path back into full EU membership. All the stages, timings, complexities, ratifications and considerations in place. Could even be sooner if we get a lucky break. Read 👇

independent.co.ukLabour voters overwhelmingly want Andy Burnham to commit to rejoining EU, poll showsExclusive: New 10-year plan for re-entry to the European Union in 2036 being put to the prime minister

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DEFEND THE ECHR Use @libertyhq.bsky.social’s simple tool to email your MP today. Urge them to oppose any changes that will water down people’s rights and to defend the framework that protects us all — now and for the future secure.libertyhumanrights.org.uk/page/189608/...

secure.libertyhumanrights.org.ukTell your MP: Defend the ECHRUrge your MP to defend our vital human rights framework.
Peter Stefanovic@peterstefanovic.bsky.social

THE EUROPEAN CONVENTION ON HUMAN RIGHTS IS A SAFETY NET THAT PROTECTS US ALL - NO MATTER WHO IS IN POWER WE MUST DEFEND IT! Planned reforms to how it works could lead to a slow erosion of our rights. Is that what we want? @libertyhq.bsky.social youtu.be/Fhrb5Z7ScME?...

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Replying to @ottoenglish.bsky.social

Farage has declared £9,663 in total payments from X, Tice has earned £5,770, and Lee Anderson £3,871. They are the only MPs who have declared payments from the social media website apart from Rupert Lowe (ex Reform) who has earned £40,000 from posting on X since his election last year.

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How to buy yourself a needy malignant narcissist? Just offer him a phony, made up "Peace Prize" & he's all your's!!! No need for a formal ceremony as he'll snatch from the box & put it on all by himself. Both laughably pathetic AND pathetically laughable. 🤡 🫣

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🚨UPDATE WITH COMMENT FROM THE BBC: Byline Times can confirm that of the four-person BBC panel that interviewed Prescott and made the decision to appoint him as an advisor, three of them had longstanding Conservative Party ties. bylinetimes.com/2025/11/11/b...

bylinetimes.com'BBC Bias' Memo Was Authored by Lobbyist Tied to Pro-Trump Tech GiantsThe leaked memo that fuelled Trump’s attack on the BBC was written by a lobbyist at a firm paid by US tech giants tied to the President
Byline Times@bylinetimes.bsky.social

🧵On our revelations today about the BBC Coup and the Prescott Dossier. The leaked ‘BBC Bias’ memo Trump used to attack the BBC was authored by Michael Prescott — a Hanover lobbyist paid by US tech/media giants tied to Trump. Full story: bylinetimes.com/2025/11/11/b... 1/12

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Rory Stewart, "Trump is destroying the global order. Trump is on Putin's side" "Trump wants a deal, a pro Putin deal. Putting Ukraine and Europe in a vulnerable position" "I'm worried we'll get a repeat of what he did in Gaza. He will declare peace and victory when it really isn't a peace at all"

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The Farce Will Be With Him... Always.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Trump: "We have Darth Vader. You know Darth Vader, right? Darth Vader is a man who is sitting -- is that Darth? Stand up please. Does everybody know -- they call him Darth Vader, I call him a fine man. But he's cutting Democrat priorities and they're never gonna get them back."

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He finally got the election-denying MAGA A.G. he always dreamed of. Bondi was openly partisan, scornful & highly combative, her non-answers dripping with disdain. Very telling when she was asked if she'd seen the photos of her boss "with half-naked young women." PATHETIC #ProtectingHerPedophilePrez

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🔴Kemi Badenoch’s ‘Free Speech’ Conservatives Ban Byline Times From Party Conference The ban on covering the party’s annual gathering came despite Badenoch’s repeated commitment to “fight” for free speech and a free press bylinetimes.com/2025/09/04/k...

bylinetimes.comKemi Badenoch's 'Free Speech' Conservatives Ban Byline Times From Party ConferenceThe ban on covering the party's annual gathering came despite Badenoch's repeated commitment to "fight" for free speech and a free press

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Reform will have to reselect in Croydon, as their initial candidate for Mayor had been dead for 6 months when they selected her, Inside Croydon report Being dead is one way to pass the social media vetting but was likely to get noticed eventually insidecroydon.com/2025/08/27/f...

insidecroydon.comFarage party picked a dead woman to run for Croydon MayorEXCLUSIVE: Sharon Carby, aged 70, from Bradford, sadly died in July 2024. But that didn’t stop Reform UK six months later picking her as their Croydon mayoral candidate. By our Political Edit…

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"many ... wrongly believe there would be one clear unambiguous moment where we go from 'democracy' to 'authoritarianism.' Instead, this is exactly how it happens — a blurring here, a norm destroyed there, a presidential diktat unchallenged. Then you wake up one morning and our country is different."

Garrett M. Graff@vermontgmg.bsky.social

The precise moment when and where in recent weeks America crossed that invisible line from democracy into authoritarianism can and will be debated by future historians, but it’s clear that the line itself has been crossed. www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/america-ti...

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Replying to @sundersays.bsky.social

On the neo-nazi gesture of the friends of Reform's Kent Councillors bsky.app/profile/ianf...

Ian Fraser@ianfraser.bsky.social

Making the Kühnen salute, with thumb, index and middle finger extended to form a “W”—as five protestors accompanying the Reform councillors are doing in the photo—is a criminal offence in Germany. The salute was popularised by the German Neo-Nazi Michael Kühnen.

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Former US Green Beret who was one of the armed American security guards in Gaza, "Without question I witnessed war crimes by the Israeli Defence Forces, without a doubt, using artillery rounds, mortar rounds, firing tank rounds into unarmed civilians"

@theguardian.com Saturday’s paper on subscription - couldn’t believe papers decline. Poor layout, right wing stories inc. support for chemical castration etc. All very different. Told Mrs we’d have to end subscription. Then realised I bought the Times by mistake! Insightful trip to the dark side!

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Good to see this made clear by the Chancellor. 👏 Our research shows deep alignment with the EU on goods and services could grow the UK economy by up to 1.5% AND offset the impact of Trump's tariffs. At this point, it's just common sense.

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Thousands of people are ditching Tesla. Here’s one of them with a message you can see from space. Location: Black Rock Sands, Wales, UK Led By Donkeys is 100% funded by small donations.

It’s plain stupid

George Takei@georgetakei.bsky.social

Military aid to Ukraine has always been a bargain for the U.S. We degraded Russia’s armed forces and replaced our own stockpiles with brand new weapons, all while brave Ukrainians— not Americans—fought the Russians off. Halting that aid is not only morally repulsive, it’s plain stupid.

Share, and keep sharing 👇

Byline Times@bylinetimes.bsky.social

🚨BREAKING CROSSPOST AFTER DDOS ATTACK Donald Trump Was Recruited by the KGB Under Codename ‘Krasnov’ Claims Former Soviet Spy Chief A former senior KGB chief claims Trump was recruited by them in 1987 due to his role as a prominent US businessman www.bylinesupplement.com/p/breaking-c...

If the ‘big ocean’ provides so much protection why does Trump need Greenland? And he does know the Bering Strait is only about 50 miles between 🇷🇺 and 🇺🇸??

Mehdi Hasan@mehdirhasan.bsky.social

Put aside the nastiness of this post, & the way in he attacks Zelenskyy as a dictator but says not a word about his pal Putin, & just focus on the way it is written: would you hire this weird person to work for you? Would you trust this odd person to teach your kid in school?