As one of the fourteen, I think that Jonathan Freedland has pretty much summed up everything I believe about ...Up. A thoughtful and perceptive piece. Thank you.

Jonathan Freedland@jonathanfreedland.bsky.social · 3w ago

Reflections on the final chapter of the documentary series 7 Up - and the quiet, ordinary mystery of human life. Latest column www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Hahaha. We need so much more of this Private Eye style ridicule when it comes to Farage. No one should be taking him seriously any more.

If only the people of Clacton stopped being angry for just a moment and took the time to understand

Robert Jenrick has a meltdown on #C4News He refuses to accept that there are parliamentary rules that Nigel Farage may have broken And insists the only people who can judge Nigel Farage are the people of Clacton 😅 - Whatever you do, please don't share this humiliating clip

This is what Farage, Reform and Brexit have done. This is where a very ugly obsession with immigration leads. To this. To “appalling levels of racism and unfair treatment.” To ordinary people being made miserable, day in, day out, at work. What a shameful place to be. www.tuc.org.uk/news/shockin...

“Shocking” increase in explicit racism at work in recent years – new TUC research reveals

Black and ethnic minority workers are facing “appalling levels” of racism, bullying and unfair treatment at work, according to new TUC research published today.

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A superb analysis from @jonathanfreedland.bsky.social. This has to be the way for the EU, the UK and Canada to go.

The Guardian@theguardian.com · 9mo ago

As the world finally punches back, was this the week Donald Trump went too far? | Jonathan Freedland

Nigel Farage, "Robert Jenrick.. This man is a fraud, this man is not to be trusted"

Superb article by @jonathanfreedland.bsky.social on the absolute necessity now of heading back into Europe.

Jonathan Freedland@jonathanfreedland.bsky.social · 2y ago

"A Europe that includes Britain, stepping into the space the US is vacating, guaranteeing and promoting free speech and democratic accountability at the very moment the US is abandoning those ideals." Latest column www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

bsky.app/profile/jona... "Israelis and Palestinians have this in common: they are peoples cursed by leaders who bring them only misery." A bleak, but superb, article.

Jonathan Freedland@jonathanfreedland.bsky.social · 2y ago

"The chief barrier to any sense of joy is anger. Because there was no need for this deal to take so long. It could have been done so much earlier." Latest column www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

I still occasionally dip back into the other place, but that may now stop. Keir Starmer's brother died over Christmas, and while most comments were respectful, several consisted of inhumane bile. Everyone is entitled to their opinion, but the man has just lost his brother FFS. Glad to be on Bluesky.

To all my friends, old and new, on Bluesky, in the language of the angels... Nadolig Llawen! 🎄

“The economic cost of Brexit, reliably estimated at around 5% of GDP and with a total loss to government coffers by 2035 of over £300bn, is unlikely to be offset by attempting to ‘make Brexit work’ – a slogan which rather confirms that it hasn’t”

Brexit – an unwelcome truth

Labour’s continued silence on Brexit might just reveal an unwelcome truth; another reason, perhaps, to use the Brexit telescope?

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www.theguardian.com/commentisfre... A compelling argument from @jonathanfreedland.bsky.social . "It's not ideology or idealism, but hard-headed, practical common sense to say our place is in Europe"

Brexit makes no sense in a world dominated by Trump. Britain’s place is back in the EU | Jonathan Freedland

From defence to trade, the incoming US president is upending the old order – and standing apart from our neighbours leaves us dangerously exposed, says Guardian columnist Jonathan Freedland

theguardian.com

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