A success story for consumers: new EU payment rules should make paying safer and help protect people against fraud. BEUC took part in this process. Here's how: www.beuc.eu/success-stor...
More protection when making payments
Consumers will get more protection against fraud when they make payments thanks to the Payment Services Regulation agreed on in 2025. The rules will apply from 2027.
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To end rough sleeping you need to fund domestic violence shelters, mental health services, drug and alcohol rehabilitation programmes, let people seeking asylum work, and increase welfare spending.
A worthy cause, but don't forget that Newcastle also has an Amnesty Bookshop! www.amnesty.org.uk/get-involved...
The Amnesty bookshop - Newcastle
Newcastle We may be tucked away, but this peaceful oasis has been serving the local community for over a decade and is very much on the map for book lovers in the area. Do come along and browse the bo...
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Ben Bowsher@benbowsher.bsky.social · 4mo agoAs the crowdfunder for the first radical bookshop icon Newcastle for 40 years gets closer to the end I’m making the bold move of calling on all the academics I sort of vaguely know and also those I don’t to share the link for our crowdfunder: www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/booksfromb...
NEW: ORG's report sets out the need for Digital Sovereignty. UK national security teeters on our over-reliance on a handful of foreign-owned tech firms, meaning the plug could be pulled on our digital infrastructure. We need to pursue open source systems that are in our control. Find out more ⬇️
New report: UK needs digital sovereignty strategy to address threats from reliance on big tech
The UK’s over-reliance on a small number of tech giants for its digital infrastructure is a matter of national security that must be urgently addressed, warns a new report by Open Rights Group.
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Important speech on assimilated law by Lord Sales @supremecourt.uk supremecourt.uk/uploads/Spee...
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Oh I am in a film on Deutsche Welle today about night trains 🙂 www.youtube.com/watch?v=jGlv...
How this tiny country became the best at night trains in Europe
YouTube video by DW Planet A
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Overweight, overpriced, overheated: if anyone out there is in the market for a 12-ton metaphor for Boris Johnson’s contribution to British national life, you’re in luck.
Farewell to the Boris bus
Overweight, overpriced and overheated – it was a 12-ton metaphor
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📊 The #CJEU publishes its judicial statistics for 2025: a very high level of activity accompanied by a reduction in the length of proceedings. To learn more, click here 👉 curia.europa.eu/site/upload/... #JudicialActivity #EU
Delivery of the New Deal for Working People is a key test for this govt. The Chair of @labourunionsuk.bsky.social @joannethomas.bsky.social has written to the PM seeking assurances it will deliver the Employment Rights Act as promised. labourlist.org/2026/03/lett...
EXCLUSIVE: Usdaw General Secretary writes to PM 'frustrated' regarding changes to Employment Rights Act - LabourList
A letter to the Prime Minister regarding issues with the Employment Rights Act implementation from Usdaw has been leaked to the press...
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I'm marching with Together Alliance and thousands of others on 28 March in London to show that hope is always more powerful than fear. Stand with us. Join the alliance: togetheralliance.org.uk @togetheralliance
So disappointing to see major hospitality brands step back from the Better Chicken Commitment when demand & supply of higher‑welfare chicken are growing. Food service companies should push ahead, not step away.
Well said @omarsalem ... www.cityam.com/good-regulat...
Good regulation can support growth without increasing risk
The debate about regulation and growth has become stuck in an Animal Farm world of less regulation good; more regulation bad, or vice versa, depending on political persuasion. The more serious questio...
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🗓️Next Wednesday MEPs are set to vote on the update of air passengers rules ✈️ 🎙️Don’t miss MEP Novakov and shadow rapporteurs press conference after the vote at 14.30 (21 January). More 👇 link.europa.eu/dpDqTp
Air passenger rights: press conference on Wednesday at 14.30 | News | European Parliament
Rapporteur Andrey Novakov (EPP, BG) and shadow rapporteurs will brief journalists on the update of EU air passengers rights rules, shortly after the vote in plenary on Wednesday.
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For the second night in-a-row, Kyren Wilson produces some scintillating snooker - from the brink of defeat - to win the final two frames for a 6-5 victory. Last night Neil Robertson, tonight Wu Yize. It's Wilson versus Higgins for The Paul Hunter Trophy on Sunday. 📷: James Fearn/Getty Images
Very interesting discussion last night at Children of Time 10th anniversary event. About spiders obviously but lots more besides! @aptshadow.bsky.social
Regulation is tightly linked to open, uncensored democratic debate and agreement. De-regulation removes the democratic element and consigns society’s great power to ‘the invisible hand’ of markets. open.substack.com/pub/annpetti...
'Abundance', De-regulation, and the Demolition of Democracy
Centrists laid the groundwork in the US and Europe.
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Court of Appeal lowers the bar for data protection compensation www.farrer.co.uk/news-and-ins... (England and Wales) Michael Farley & Anor v Paymaster (1836) Limited (trading as Equiniti) caselaw.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ewca/civ/202... Subject to (likely) appeal. #dataprotection #databreaches
about to head out to final day of amazing test Match -thanks to both India and England for serving up a treat. But can I also thank 1) ground drainage technology 2) floodlights 3) umpires being pretty relaxed about the light which means despite dark days and downpours we have had lots of cricket
*NEW BLOG POST* Havoc by Rebecca Wait lotuswritingtherapy.com/2025/07/22/h... @squadpod2021.bsky.social #Havoc #RebeccaWait #booksky #riverrunbooks
Havoc by Rebecca Wait
Havoc is one of the Squad POD Collective’s featured books this month and is a brilliant combination of school drama, mystery and dark comedy featuring a wonderful character called Ida. Ida and her …
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Grasping in class yesterday for a way of describing the situation where institutions deliberately have procedures in place to slow things down and deny responsibility, I landed on the phrase ‘motivated structural inefficiency’. Widespread and growing, I believe.
Incredible turnout and atmosphere in Budapest as huge crowds march in defiance of Viktor Orbán. Mayor Karácsony has shown tremendous leadership, and the organisers huge courage. It was an honour to march in solidarity with Hungary’s LGBTQI+ community.
I love the Amnesty Bookshop in Kentish Town - they have a battle ahead - please support and share if you can
@lucilla.bsky.social · last yr.Brilliant, thanks. Here’s our petition: www.change.org/p/save-our-a...
