Sebastian Borger
@sebastianborger.bsky.social
London Correspondent for Frankfurter Rundschau, Der Standard and others // “…und die nettesten, weil die natürlichsten, sind die Bayern.” Melusine Gräfin Ghiberti
Unusual drone sighting situation at Leipzig airport in Germany: a drone, possibly armed with some kind of explosive, has been found on the ground at Leipzig airport. Later, an aircraft reported a collision with an unknown object. More info certainly to follow. www.bild.de/regional/lei...
Neue Details zur Sperrung am Flughafen Leipzig: Drohne trug ein Päckchen mit Zünder
Drohne mit möglichem Sprengsatz stoppt Flugbetrieb am Flughafen Leipzig/Halle.
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Reuters: Russia's Saratov oil refinery halted crude processing after Ukraine's August 2 drone attack damaged production facilities. Sources said repairs to its only crude distillation unit could take two to three weeks. The refinery processed about 5.8 million tons of crude in 2024. #Ukraine
That Joshua Bonehill-Paine is a suitable Tory candidate but Grant Shapps and Gavin Barwell have been excluded is quite a good indicator of how many seats the Tories will realistically regain at the next election.
The state of this. A lovely day out for Badenoch and Philp, playing dress up and making pronouncements about early release schemes - having left the country with one hundred available men's prison places, after fourteen years in charge. You read that right. One hundred places.
Why are successive governments having to release some prisoners early? My analysis for the BBC website, done with Lucy Gilder ✍️👇 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Early prison releases: Why some prisoners are being freed after a third of their sentence
More people going to prison, and for longer, is why governments including the current one have had to release prisoners early.
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Standards watchdog investigating Reform UK’s Richard Tice
Standards watchdog investigating Reform UK’s Richard Tice
Party’s deputy leader accused of a possible failure to declare an interest, commissioner says on its website * UK politics live – latest updates Britain’s parliamentary standards watchdog is investigating Reform UK’s deputy leader, Richard Tice, over a possible failure to declare an interest, the commissioner said on its website on Monday. More details soon … Continue reading...
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1) I doubt this will happen because constituency polling tends to oversample precisely the kind of “I always vote left, and in lieu of another way to signal my distaste for Farage, Binface it is” type. 2) If it does happen it will really show that the Tories ought to be able to win this!
Election Maps UK@electionmaps.uk · 3d agoClacton By-Election Voting Intention: ➡️ RFM: 73% (+27) 🗑️ CBF: 20% (New) 🟥 REC: 2% (New) ⚫ Others: 5% (-49) Via @survation.bsky.social, 16-24 Jul. Changes w/ GE2024.
Someone invited me to their dog's birthday party on Saturday. What a freak! I am NOT coming to your dog's birthday party! Besides, my cat is getting married that weekend!
Behind the bewildering transformation of British universities, are management consultants being paid millions Really proud to have this vital piece on our unis are being gutted from the inside by @jheathershaw.bsky.social on Democracy for Sale. Do read democracyforsale.substack.com/p/inside-bri...
Inside Britain's university crisis
As teaching staff face job loss, their bosses have netted pay rises and bought advice from a “vampiric” management consultancy, writes Prof. John Heathershaw of the University of Exeter
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Retailer must repay €8.87m in Covid wage supports after losing Revenue challenge
Retailer must repay €8.87m in Covid wage supports after losing Revenue challenge
Claim that non-essential part of retailer’s business forced to close during lockdowns was a separate division fails
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I don't think people are ready for this kind of joke yet.
Fascinating change in BBC news bulletins about Reform. Farage announcement on small boats only gets the third spot and is balanced by critics saying he's trying to distract from allegations over his finances. Quite the change from the uncritical coverage earlier this year.
I dare anyone to come up with a worse album cover than this.
Spaniens Wirtschaft wächst laut Goldman Sachs dreimal so stark wie der Durchschnitt der Eurozone, Spanien hat mit das höchste Wachstum an Produktivität in der EU, Spanien boomt - und das mit einem sozialistischen Ministerpräsidenten, der Zehntausenden Migrant:innen legalen Status gewährt und nicht..
Nigel Farage just took a question from a 'journalist' at his press conference, who turned out to be his former chief adviser Raheem Kassam, who asks him why the media are being so unfair to him
“The Moroccan police were shouting at us: ‘Go, go, go! Run now, run into Spain,’” he said. “The night before, they were beating people. But that morning they were letting us through. Nothing made sense.” Suspicion that Morocco had role in Ceuta fuelled www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a...
Chaos of border crossing gives way to limbo for Moroccans on Ceuta’s streets
People among the more than 50,000 who entered Spanish enclave this week describe the journey and their prospects
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Iain Clifford Stamp ripped off thousands of people, charging £m for fake schemes to wipe out their debts. He was found in contempt of court, sentenced to 12 months, and told followers he'd fled to North Cyprus. His latest US court filing is dated 9 July. From Portsmouth, UK.
Once again, I think we can all agree that the real story here is Kemi Badenoch’s miraculous resurrecting of Tory fortunes.
We are watching, in real time, the biggest fuck-up by any president in the history of the United States of America.
Sixty years ago, England beat West Germany 4-2 to win the 1966 World Cup. England's third goal was much-debated in Germany, going down in footballing folklore as 'das Wembley-Tor'. Enormous crowds welcomed West Germany's "honourable losers" (Times) home the following day.
"[N]o UEFA national teams will participate in any FIFA competition for so long as these proposals remain alive, unless this proposal has been abandoned in its entirety and binding assurances have been given that FIFA will never again open its governance or competitions to private ownership."
Jorge Liboreiro@jorgeliboreiro.bsky.social · 7d ago💣 UEFA eviscerates Gianni Infantino. "The World Cup is not for sale." "This is not merely a profound failure of leadership, but an abdication of FIFA’s duty as the custodian of world football." "We will never lend this model our legitimacy."
France calls out the U.S. at a UN meeting: “The US used to be a beacon of human rights. Not anymore. Today, it stands alongside North Korea, Nicaragua, Mali and Russia. Isolated. And the world no longer listens to it.” U.S. representatives stormed out of the meeting. Well said France! 👏🏼🇫🇷👏🏼
Wonderful detail from old note-books I am currently going through: ‚In 10-15 yrs UK will be part of the €‘, said the then German amb in March 2004. instead, 9 yrs later PM Cameron announced the in/out-referendum, 12 yrs later UK decided to leave the EU. So much for the predictive power of diplomats.
Time and again climate change is treated as though it were binary: we cannot prevent it, so ok, it’s there let’s embrace it. That’s entirely wrong: it is a sliding scale. We cannot prevent 1.5 degrees. But maybe 3? Or 5?
