First Dolly Parton. Now Tim Curry. These are the wrong 80 year olds to go! Maybe tomorrow the right 80 year old will have his turn.
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Few regs are perfect imo but regulation protects us……..get reading. The Bear sets this out so well.
The Bear@bearlypolitics.co.uk · 3d agoIs GDPR the perfect regulation? Of course it isn’t. Does that mean we should chuck it in the bin and let Reform have a go? Abso-fucking-lutely not. More below 👇
Is GDPR the perfect regulation? Of course it isn’t. Does that mean we should chuck it in the bin and let Reform have a go? Abso-fucking-lutely not. More below 👇
GDPR: Stockings, Suspenders and Standard Contractual Clauses
A heroic and probably doomed attempt to make GDPR interesting, while explaining why Reform’s “light-touch” alternative may mean more bureaucracy and less privacy.
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Bearly Politics GDPR: Stockings, Suspenders and Standard Contractual Clauses A heroic and probably doomed attempt to make GDPR interesting, while explaining why Reform’s “light-touch” alternative may mean more bureaucracy and less privacy. The Bear Aug 26, 2026 open.substack.com/pub/iratusur...
GDPR: Stockings, Suspenders and Standard Contractual Clauses
A heroic and probably doomed attempt to make GDPR interesting, while explaining why Reform’s “light-touch” alternative may mean more bureaucracy and less privacy.
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Now they want to rip up the Data Protection law. Guess who THAT will benefit? (Hint: it's not you). www.bearlypolitics.co.uk/p/gdpr-stock...
GDPR: Stockings, Suspenders and Standard Contractual Clauses
A heroic and probably doomed attempt to make GDPR interesting, while explaining why Reform’s “light-touch” alternative may mean more bureaucracy and less privacy.
bearlypolitics.co.uk
Farage proposes to scrap GDPR... where to start? GDPR protects women, workers, patients, ethnic minorities, LGBTQ+ communities, and everybody else from discrimination and abuse. Scrapping it would be a capitulation to abusive Big Tech corporations and the Trump administration that backs them.
Nigel Farage wants to scrap GDPR for the UK
Reform UK said GDPR has “strangled small businesses and tech firms.”
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GDPR: Stockings, Suspenders and Standard Contractual Clauses
GDPR: Stockings, Suspenders and Standard Contractual Clauses
A heroic and probably doomed attempt to make GDPR interesting, while explaining why Reform’s “light-touch” alternative may mean more bureaucracy and less privacy.
open.substack.com
This phenomenon of doubling regulations is an inbuilt feature of the disastrous project to leave the EU. Brexit has only made the problem of over-regulation that much worse. #brexithasfailed #rejoinEU
The Bear@bearlypolitics.co.uk · 3d agoReform wants to “liberate” small businesses by scrapping GDPR. Except UK firms trading with Europe may still need to comply with EU rules anyway. So instead of less regulation, Wolverhampton Dave’s Software Emporium Ltd may simply get two sets of it. Not very clever, is it?
Reform wants to “liberate” small businesses by scrapping GDPR. Except UK firms trading with Europe may still need to comply with EU rules anyway. So instead of less regulation, Wolverhampton Dave’s Software Emporium Ltd may simply get two sets of it. Not very clever, is it?
GDPR: Stockings, Suspenders and Standard Contractual Clauses
A heroic and probably doomed attempt to make GDPR interesting, while explaining why Reform’s “light-touch” alternative may mean more bureaucracy and less privacy.
bearlypolitics.co.uk
Oh, nice, we’ll just be handing tech firms a bit more freedom to do exactly what they want with our data. What could possibly go wrong? Also, one small point: if we substantially diverge from EU data-protection standards, the big win for small businesses wouldn’t be “freedom from red tape”.
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So. Headlines. And the manipulation of them. This particular headline, the moment I saw it, bugged the ever loving shit out of me. Can you figure out why? A thread. 1/
In 2013, a Spanish friend left her home country where she’d struggled to find work, took a leap of faith and came to the UK She found somewhere to stay, found work, and fell in love Things turned noticeably worse after the Brexit vote and continued to get worse She has now moved back to Spain
The Bear@bearlypolitics.co.uk · 4d agoOpen question for Bluesky: Would you say Britain’s immigration environment is now more or less hostile than it was under Theresa May, when the original “hostile environment” policies were introduced to make migrants’ lives bureaucratically harder?
I really do not understand what poison has entered the British body politic to make so many people near the levers of power want to treat so many decent, lawful residents here in such a despicable way. It's not even as if they express some regret at being "forced" to do it...
The Bear@bearlypolitics.co.uk · 4d agoAfter more than ten years living, working and paying taxes in Britain, I still feel expected to prove that I belong. Labour is normalising that insecurity. Reform is weaponising it. Together, they are making this country more and more hostile for migrants and naturalised citizens.
Open question for Bluesky: Would you say Britain’s immigration environment is now more or less hostile than it was under Theresa May, when the original “hostile environment” policies were introduced to make migrants’ lives bureaucratically harder?
The Bear@bearlypolitics.co.uk · 4d agoAfter more than ten years living, working and paying taxes in Britain, I still feel expected to prove that I belong. Labour is normalising that insecurity. Reform is weaponising it. Together, they are making this country more and more hostile for migrants and naturalised citizens.
After more than ten years living, working and paying taxes in Britain, I still feel expected to prove that I belong. Labour is normalising that insecurity. Reform is weaponising it. Together, they are making this country more and more hostile for migrants and naturalised citizens.
British Citizenship (Terms and Conditions Apply)
Labour is making migrants earn their place, while Reform is deciding that even citizenship is enough. We’re heading for trouble.
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Says Richard Tice, a divorced man in a relationship with Isabel Oakeshott, also a divorcee, speaking for a party led by a twice-divorced man, as he tells us unmarried people should be deprioritised for social housing. One rule for me. Another for thee.
A wonderful ‘return’ piece. 🐻 you have been missed. Please continue to look after yourself. Sometimes less is more!!! 🫶🫶
The Bear@bearlypolitics.co.uk · 6d agoAfter three years of consuming politics from sunup to late into the night, I stepped away for a break. What I’ve come back to is cruelty in both the media and politics, a dawning realisation by Bridget Phillipson that maybe racism is getting worse and a PM I just don’t have an opinion on yet.
America, please get your shit together and give us the damned files.
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Yes, I know shouting “I-fucking-told-you-so!” isn’t a great look. I’m fine with that.
The FT is about the only decent publication left but even they have in more recent past jumped at publishing some of Trump’s rubbish… For all things US - def the Bulwark @thebulwark.com UK is trickier - only one I can really stomach is @therestpolitics.bsky.social or @bearlypolitics.co.uk
After three years of consuming politics from sunup to late into the night, I stepped away for a break. What I’ve come back to is cruelty in both the media and politics, a dawning realisation by Bridget Phillipson that maybe racism is getting worse and a PM I just don’t have an opinion on yet.
Witch Hunts, Welfare Cuts and Whitehall in Manchester
Reform wants disabled people working for £1.50 an hour, racism is becoming normalised and Britain’s media has forgotten that its targets are human.
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I expect there will now be hundreds of articles written over the course of a few days about Cofnas, correct? That’s how we do things now, no?
At this stage a slightly damp scatter cushion would be both smarter and less dishonest.
I think this is a fair question that I do believe is asked in good faith, and I'm going to answer it in what I hope is a fair way. Pride is not, nor has it ever been, a way to "antagonise right-wing people." The rights that I have as a member of the LGBTQ community exists largely on the back of 1/
Pride in the UK: From its roots to today
On 1 July 1972 the UK’s first Pride march was held in London. This date was chosen as the nearest Saturday to the anniversary of the riots, or uprising, at the Stonewall Inn in 1969, where LGBT+ patro...
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Razzer@rkesb.bsky.social · 3w agoI’m sorry to ask but why is Pride important. I can not see what it has achieved apart from antagonise a lot of right wing type people?