a) begs the question- the Commission cannot just say "zap" and stop Moroccans in the water b) on its own terms, it is high on its own supply - the Commission is in fact big into restrictions on migration via the asylum pact and return regulation, fine with Polish pushbacks, Libya deals etc

Sunder Katwala (sundersays)@sundersays.bsky.social · 3d ago

This piece was published Sat afternoon. It could win awards for incoherence. Its big point is the EU Commission had no interest in stopping these people going into Europe By the time it was published it was clear none had done so www.thetimes.com/comment/colu...

Used to work in an office adjoining Trevor when he was a very, very senior figure at LWT ca 1994. He was very grand indeed. Now he speaks for the non liberal metropolitan classes.

David Higham@oldtrotter.bsky.social · 3d ago

Dear me.

The Times has repeated a falsehood about family reunion and stitched it on to the end of a rambling, pointless rant about Ceuta

Sunder Katwala (sundersays)@sundersays.bsky.social · 3d ago

It does seem that this Times correction for this wrong & garbled news report may have been insufficiently prominent to prevent the false story being believed and repeated by the paper's own columnist (& perhaps further radicalising them)

New: A business that made a six-figure donation to Reform UK received interest-free loans of £67m from unnamed “related companies” in the months before, raising questions about the possible origin of the funds. observer.co.uk/news/politic...

Reform given six-figure donation by firm that received £6...

Nigel Farage’s party is facing questions about the lack of transparency over £100,000 in funds donated by a management consultancy

observer.co.uk

An important reminder Count Binface donates 50% of his merchandise to Shelter, a charity which not only deals with homelessness but precarious housing issues which some people in Jaywick face. He has also pledged to donate if he is elected. www.binfaceshop.co.uk

Gibraltar's CM said the government 'handled the crisis extraordinarily well'. What it can't do is prevent the European right using it as a pretext to torpedo the EU as we know it. That's a different crisis.

Trumpian Blasphemy

It should, but we all know the press won't actually, you know, PRESS him on this.

Family to sue after woman released from ICE custody froze to death www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Family to sue after woman released from ICE custody froze to death

Exclusive: Daphy Michel, from Haiti, was dropped off in Pittsburgh in 20F temperatures wearing summer clothes

theguardian.com

Since the EU return directive (until its replacement) explicitly allows Member States to regularise irregular migrants, this would have been a nonsensical and unlawful response to Spain's decision to do so.

Bogdan Buduroiu@buduroiu.com · 3d ago

Italy and other bloc nations should've suspended Schengen status with Spain when Sanchez announced mass amnesty, when most of the EU bloc wants the opposite. Sure, this was an easy political victory for Meloni, but the crisis is of Sanchez's own making

Los Bomberos de la Generalitat trabajan para contener un incendio declarado el viernes en el municipio de Vilaller (Lleida), una zona de alta montaña, de acceso limitado y cercana al Parque Nacional de Aigüestortes

Los Bomberos luchan contra un incendio cerca del Parque de Aigüestortes y que temen que esté activo varios días

El fuego, en una zona de mucha pendiente y que en sus dos frentes ha calcinado 16 hectáreas, solo se puede controlar con medios aéreos

elpais.com

Apostar contra la España socialcomunista es perder.

Algunos en Washington, Tel Aviv y Rabat, y también unos cuantos que crecen a su sombra en Madrid, querían imágenes de nuestras fuerzas de seguridad y fuerzas armadas ametrallando niños en las playas. Estas son las imágenes que se llevan. Esta es la lección que España les da.

📷 La ciudad autónoma intenta recuperar la normalidad después de la entrada irregular el pasado jueves de más de 50.000 personas desde Marruecos. El Ejército sigue realizando controles en las calles. Estas son las imágenes del día ⬇

La crisis migratoria en Ceuta, en imágenes| Día 2 de agosto

La ciudad autónoma intenta recuperar la normalidad después de la entrada irregular el pasado jueves de más de 50.000 personas desde Marruecos y, aunque la mayoría de ellas ha vuelto a su país, las Fuerzas de Seguridad y el Ejército realizan controles en las calles para conseguir que todas abandonen la ciudad

elpais.com

This story and video in Spanish news might interest you guys @quietriotpod.bsky.social

Pilar redalphababe #fbpe 🇪🇸🇬🇧🇺🇦🇪🇺@pilargomez.bsky.social · 3d ago

Some well know far right characters attempted to hold a rally in the streets of Ceuta. The young Ceutíes are having none of it and came out in counter demonstrations against these hard right politicos who have arrived with such unseemly haste. cadenaser.com/nacional/202...

Some well know far right characters attempted to hold a rally in the streets of Ceuta. The young Ceutíes are having none of it and came out in counter demonstrations against these hard right politicos who have arrived with such unseemly haste. cadenaser.com/nacional/202...

La reacción de los jóvenes ceutíes en contra de la manifestación de extrema derecha convocada tras la crisis migratoria: "Fuera fachas de nuestra ciudad"

Decenas de personas han protestado contra la presencia de Núcleo Nacional en la ciudad y han acusado a la organización de "dividir" y "crear más crispación" | Cadena SER

cadenaser.com

As an antidote to all the frustrating lies and misinformation being shared on SM platforms this morning here birds visiting our bird bath. #nature ❤️

What a load of rubbish. You can't go from Ceuta or Melilla without going through police border checks. And you obviously have no idea about the recent regularisation process.

Spain clearly controls entry into the Schengen area from Africa. Almost everyone who entered Ceuta has returned. They would not have been eligible for regularisation anyway. Take your profound ignorance elsewhere.

Piñín♾️ ... que de Piñón "ye" sobrín@the-real-nacho.bsky.social · 3d ago

Spain could control entry to the Schengen area from Africa but it doesn't. The ailing government in Madrid has just granted EU residency to 600,000+ undocumented migrants. This pull factor together with Spain's incompetent border control strategies have led to a very dangerous situation in #Ceuta.

RefUK, RW media, & Eurofash are plainly trying to whip up a panic about this. Any serious report must begin by explaining that Ceuta is in Africa - not mainland Spain - and 48k+ of the 50k crossers were already returned. It is frightening how many still don't know this. Please share on all socials.

A breakdown of the applications for regularisation in Spain - about 2/3rds Latin American, 1/4 African

www.atalayar.com/en/articulo/... Looks like the final figure came out at 13% Moroccan

The funniest - and least discussed - aspect of this is that Farage, having reportedly told RefUK he'd only lead them if compensated for the £1m a year income he had outside politics, pocketed their five million, then kept earning from outside interests at the same rate anyway. He scammed even them.

Alex Andreou@sturdyalex.bsky.social · 3d ago

Important, because Farage's defence for not declaring Harborne's £5m 'gift' has always been very specific: he did not decide to stand until 3rd of June. Turns out this deal was struck mid-May (confirmed by RefUK) and facilitated by Farage's other big donor, convicted felon 'Posh' George Cotrell. 🧐

This declaration on Ceuta and Melilla in Spain's Schengen accession treaty is now reaffirmed in the Schengen Borders Code BTW eur-lex.europa.eu/eli/reg/2016...

Steve Peers@stevepeers.bsky.social · 5d ago

Here are those special rules on Ceuta and Melilla as regards Schengen - dating back to Spain acceding to the Schengen Convention eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-conten...

President Pedro Sanchez has had everything thrown at him bar the kitchen sink. He really is doing a remarkable job as leader managing each crisis with intelligence, composure and integrity despite continuous desperate attacks from opposition. An example for all progressive leaders.

It’s official: starting today you can enjoy unlimited bus and tram journeys every weekend for the price of a single daily journey.

Not saying I’m a saint or anything but as a non-Londoner my reaction to this is ‘good on him and good for them’ Not quite the reaction I saw from some London-based folk at news of the £2 cap being installed everywhere else…

Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan@london.gov.uk · 2w ago

It’s official: starting today you can enjoy unlimited bus and tram journeys every weekend for the price of a single daily journey.

In service to this bubble, AI firms have suborned regional governments into running roughshod over environmental and planning rules in order to build endless acres of data centers, many of which will likely end up casualties of the imminent bubble-pop, never to be switched on or even completed. 5/

Trump on Data Centers: 'You Can't Fight It. You Have to Go With It'

Usually it's not great when a person in power tells others to just give up and do what they want.

gizmodo.com

To make things worse, AI *can't do the jobs* it's replacing: AI is predicated on the premise that monopolies, duopolies and cartels that control the global economy can deliberately worsen their products without suffering economic or regulatory consequences, because they're the only game in town. 4/

As an economic pathology, AI is *extraordinary*. AI boosters have spent a baffling and terrifying sum of money - over $1.4T, most of that in the past year - on the promise of making as many workers unemployed as possible, while lowering the wages of the meager survivors of this jobspocalypse. 3/