Dagmar Seeland
@dseelandwrites.bsky.social
UK correspondent for the German weekly stern magazine. Former President, Foreign Press Association. Always on the lookout for good stories.
Can someone from the new Treasury team now reverse the idiotic new requirement for freelancers and small businesses to produce quarterly accounts under MTD please? It’s hours of extra work & won’t bring in one extra penny in tax. As usual, the only winners are accountants.
Reversed, wrong-headed, lied; unhinged, wrong-headed, deprived.
Labour won by 20 points and net immigration is down by over 80% in two years. But sure write your column again.
I have put together a little video guide to Nigel Farage's umm... evolving views on hecklers. They seem to be quite dependent on whether the heckler disagrees with him (bad, boring, frightening, dangerous), or shouts abuse at a woman in the street (buy him a pint/give him a peerage).
Want to know who is in Nigel Farage's inner circle? An FT deep dive: as.ft.com/r/6172c04b-c...
The court of king Farage
As Reform UK’s leader aims for government, he must juggle a growing crowd of admirers and influence-seekers
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A Pulitzer for Julie K. Brown. Richly deserved, and overdue!
If the past really is a foreign country I’m surprised so many right-wingers want to live there.
At least one of our newspapers didn't whitewash Trump's vile and intemperate outburst. #Trump #DonaldTrump #Iran #StraitofHormuz
That famous treaty they made entirely with themselves. That one.
Tom Nichols@radiofreetom.bsky.social · 4mo agoOh dear. Oh my.
This image of home just came down from the Artemis II crew. Taken after their translunar injection burn, there are aurorae at top right and lower left, and zodiacal light at lower right. Credit: NASA/Reid Wiseman
Not fighting a war with Iran would presumably have a similar effect.
Reuters@reuters.com · 5mo agoRemoving sanctions on Iran oil will bring supply to ports, US energy secretary says reut.rs/47Zrpea
“The markets have largely swallowed the fundamental underlying Trump idiocy, which is that he is the only pertinent person in world affairs. Plainly he believes this, but he is wrong. And he is discovering how wrong he is as we speak.” open.substack.com/pub/iandunt/...
The world is run by a madman and it's driving us all nuts
The president is obviously out of his mind. So why don't investors seem to care?
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We have awarded these people contracts in the Ministry of Defence. What the fuck are we doing.
Mary Anne Franks@maryannefranks.bsky.social · 5mo agoPalantir CEO promises that his technology will reduce educated women's economic and political power newrepublic.com/post/207693/...
The impact of Brexit on UK immigration - new research by @johnspringford.bsky.social & me for @centreeuropeanref.bsky.social & @ukandeu.bsky.social Brexit a) reduced EU-origin employees by 785K (2.3% of workforce) b) increased non-EU origin employees by 992K (2.95%) www.cer.eu/insights/imp...
The impact of Brexit on immigration to the UK
A new analysis finds that Brexit raised the number of foreign-born workers in the UK by about 200,000, but resulted in a more dramatic shift in the countries of origin.
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I love Jeremy Bowen in "I'm too old for this shit" mode #wato
It’s being said a lot that the shadow of Iraq is hanging over Keir Starmer and the Labour Party during this Iran crisis. It absolutely should. What’s remarkable is how little much of the British media and the rest of politics seem to be thinking about it at all, or learning its lessons.
Watch this twice. Once for Hannah's speech and a second time for Matt Goodwin's face throughout it...
Peter Stefanovic@peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 5mo ago'I didn't grow up wanting to be a politician, I'm a plumber' The green Party's Hannah Spencer has won the Gorton and Denton, with Reform in second and Labour finished third
A retired British primary school administrator with a British passport and a valid visa was shackled, chained and detained for six weeks by ICE www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
‘Don’t go to the US – not with Trump in charge’: the UK tourist with a valid visa detained by ICE for six weeks
Karen Newton was in America on the trip of a lifetime when she was shackled, transported and held for weeks on end. With tourism to the US under increasing strain, she says, ‘If it can happen to me, i...
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this FT reporting team exposed a secret Russian smuggling team by using this one weird trick -- they all shared the same email address??? as.ft.com/r/aa78dec9-c...
Email blunder exposes $90bn Russian oil smuggling ring
[FREE TO READ] Apparent network of companies using same server includes little-known group that has become country’s largest oil exporter
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In Europe, the publication of the Epstein files above all helps right-wing populists. Which was probably the plan. www.stern.de/politik/ausl...
Am Ende lachen die Populisten
Die mühsame Aufarbeitung der Epstein-Akten hat in Europa bislang härtere Konsequenzen als in den USA. Die Profiteure sind nicht die Opfer.
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