I'm going to create a bot on Twitter that quote-tweets "The UK would be in breach of the Good Friday Agreement and the UK-EU trade agreement if it left the ECHR" whenever this is mooted.

UGguardian-world-rss.bsky.socialSep 30, 2024 7:39am

Jenrick tells Tory conference it’s ‘leave or die’ as he ramps up calls for UK to exit ECHR – UK politics live

Jenrick tells Tory conference it’s ‘leave or die’ as he ramps up calls for UK to exit ECHR – UK politics live

The former immigration minister, currently the bookmakers’ favourite to become leader, will take part in a Q&A at the Tory party conference today

Berlin Airport, Sunday, I think… thank you to my spy!

€ @sueddeutsche.bsky.social@jameshawes.bsky.socialwww.sueddeutsche.de/kultur/james...#Soeder?

Thanks! Glad you like it. It’s all too easy to forget that full-on colonialism was a thing within Christian Europe (well, unless you’re 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🇮🇪🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿, Catalan or Basque, in which case it’s pretty easy, you having the evidence before you every day)

Mmultiliterally.bsky.socialSep 8, 2024 8:12am

This article from @jameshawes.bsky.social in the Guardian adds a cultural-historical (colonial!) perspective to the recent Landtagswahlen that I'd previously only "felt". Well worth diving into, hope to find some good histories on the subject. www.theguardian.com/world/articl...

Everyone is terrified of a far-right return in Germany. Here’s why it won’t happen

The deep historical, political and cultural split between east and west acts as a brake on the rise of the AfD nationwide

Tonight, more than 750,000 Israelis, are on the streets of israel calling for the immediate release of all hostages & the immediate impeachment of Netanyahu & his government. This is the largest protest in the history of Israel it’s the equivalent of 22.5 million Americans taking to the streets.

I wrote for the Observer about the #AfDwww.theguardian.com/world/articl...

Saxony has 4 million, Thuringia 2 million inhabitants. So we are talking about ~7% of the German population.

Ich finde das null überraschend, aber um es mal festzuhalten, obwohl oder gerade weil es eine Selbstverständlichkeit ist: Die Brandmauer zwischen CDU und AfD auf Landesebene steht. Niemand, wirklich niemand von Relevanz in der CDU sagt etwas anderes, so weit ich das überblicke.

No. And it is not at all guaranteed that they will end up in a regional government. For that they need a coalition partner. And this will be the test for all the other parties. Still quite glad to be living in a different part of 🇩🇪.

Will they really be that different from 2019? Apart from the fact that BSW has taken 18% directly from Linke?