Mike Galsworthy 🦣

Founder of Scientists for EU and the #Bylines Network. Presenter at BylineTV. Mike Galsworthy 🦣 (npub1vzm…qrlt) on Twitter. Currently working on Brexitdocumentary.com

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2026-06-27 22:44:25 GMT

As Britain swelters through another heatwave, few people will have heard that ministers have quietly dropped plans for solar carports.
Cars cooler in summer. Shelter from the rain in winter. Clean electricity all year round.
A missed opportunity?
https://eastangliabylines.co.uk/environment/as-britain-bakes-ministers-quietly-park-plans-for-solar-carports/

2026-02-27 07:38:33 GMT

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2026-02-13 16:48:35 GMT

Forget the “but” in this headline.
🔥 PALESTINE ACTION BAN RULED UNLAWFUL
That means that this authoritarian government has arrested, hauled off the street and jailed thousands of peaceful protestors… unlawfully.
That’s seismic.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c3wleezq73no

2026-02-05 14:53:24 GMT

We need a FULL inquiry into Peter Mandelson’s control of - and utilisation of - the Labour Party in Starmer’s government…
…not just the ambassador appointment.
https://youtu.be/tYjWdeEFuOY?si=U2ZdKWeQa25qY2sq

2026-02-05 14:48:41 GMT

It’s a longer video… but we REALLY need to talk about:
Peter Mandelson and -
Global Council
Lobbying (as an adviser and as ambassador)
Palantir
This is where the Mandelson affair needs to go next.
https://youtu.be/MXMAsAL0Em4?si=239569g9JJn4vD0P

2026-01-06 21:12:17 GMT

🔥🇪🇺 “Europeans enjoy more free time than Americans, a higher life expectancy and lower levels of inequality – all with roughly comparable productivity.
Whichever way you look at it, this is a significantly superior economic performance.”
https://eastangliabylines.co.uk/business/economics/decline-what-decline-the-myth-of-dying-europe/

2026-01-06 20:55:49 GMT

Cost of living has exploded in the US.
“GDP per capita, adjusted for differences in the cost of living, has increased by 70% in the United States since 1990, compared to 63% in the EU-27.”
The tale of US “economic advantage” is based on some key myths…
https://eastangliabylines.co.uk/business/economics/decline-what-decline-the-myth-of-dying-europe/

2025-11-30 11:37:29 GMT

“A petition demanding a full inquiry into Russian influence in UK politics has surged past 100,000 signatures after being shared at remarkable speed across social media.”
https://eastangliabylines.co.uk/foreign-policy/russian-influence-petition-surges-past-100000-signatures/

2025-11-30 10:42:27 GMT

David Davis said there wouldn't be a single downside to Brexit.
Yorkshire Bylines recorded >2,000 of them from 2021-4.
https://yorkshirebylines.co.uk/regular-features/the-davis-downside-dossier/

2025-11-29 23:04:42 GMT

🔥 The mood in Brexit-world is changing...
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2025-11-26 21:49:27 GMT

“We are ramping up sanctions on Russia…
We are freezing known Russian assets…
But let me be clear, I don’t actually mean the right honourable member for Clacton.”
https://eastangliabylines.co.uk/politics/reeves-aims-a-searing-russian-assets-gibe-at-farage/

2025-11-26 08:58:20 GMT

Highly recommended that you all sign and SHARE.
Link to the petition—> https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/744215
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2025-11-24 09:27:36 GMT

£25bn of imagined savings, real-world cruelty and mathematics that should come with a trigger warning.
https://eastangliabylines.co.uk/party-politics/the-truth-behind-reform-uks-reckless-budget/

2025-11-24 07:28:36 GMT

The Bishop of Norwich has taken aim at the Home Office’s asylum reforms, warning they’ll make integration harder and deepen division.
https://eastangliabylines.co.uk/immigration/new-bishop-warns-asylum-plans-will-fuel-division/

2025-11-24 07:10:36 GMT

Rachel Reeves says there’s a “hole” in the public finances.
A new decade-long Brexit study explains it: a 6–8% hit to GDP – that's £180bn-£240bn a year
– means less tax, less investment and less money for everything else.
Brexit made Britain poorer. Much poorer.
https://eastangliabylines.co.uk/news/brexit/new-boris-johnsons-brexit-titanic-success-was-half-right/

2025-11-21 12:14:03 GMT

Yesterday Labour won the by-election in the South Bank ward of Redcar and Cleveland Borough Council.
…beating Reform UK by just 24 votes.
https://northeastbylines.co.uk/news/politics/labour-wins-south-bank-by-election/

2025-11-21 08:57:59 GMT

Drowning in denial: one in five homes in Reform UK heartlands faces flooding in 25 years.
Even as the party rolls back climate action, Reform-controlled councils sit on some of England’s worst rising flood risks.
https://yorkshirebylines.co.uk/politics/drowning-in-denial-one-in-five-homes-in-reform-uk-heartlands-faces-flooding-in-25-years/

2025-11-20 19:38:14 GMT

"Yorkshire Water was privatised in 1989 under the Water Act, launched debt-free and promoted as the start of a new, efficient era.
Today, the company carries almost £7bn in debt...."
https://yorkshirebylines.co.uk/region/yorkshire-water-its-time-to-end-the-rip-off/

2025-11-20 11:01:48 GMT

The black hole in Durham County Council’s budget has grown by £11.1mn in the past two months under the control of Reform UK.
Its cabinet has been forced to approve a £10mn list of cuts.
But the measures will still leave the county council with a deficit of £72mn over the coming four years
https://northeastbylines.co.uk/news/politics/reform-cabinet-backs-10mn-cuts-to-start-filling-durhams-growing-black-hole/

2025-11-20 09:40:56 GMT

Leigh Elliott, CEO of Children North East, said:
‘No credible plan to tackle child poverty would leave any version of the two-child limit in place. All the evidence shows it’s simply not possible to turn the tide on this issue without ending this policy once and for all.’
👏👏👏
https://northeastbylines.co.uk/region/north-east/north-east-campaigners-send-hard-hitting-message-on-two-child-limit/

2025-11-19 23:15:34 GMT

It is estimated by the national charity Child Poverty Action Group (CPAG) that, for every day the two-child limit remains in place, a further 109 children are pulled into poverty across the country
https://northeastbylines.co.uk/region/north-east/north-east-campaigners-send-hard-hitting-message-on-two-child-limit/

2025-11-18 08:42:40 GMT

In spite of promising to bring down council tax, Reform-run councils in Lancashire are now talking about increases.
https://northwestbylines.co.uk/politics/reform-to-bin-doge-at-lancashire-county-council-and-raise-council-tax-instead/

2025-11-17 18:41:42 GMT

We sold our water to foreign billionaires. Now we’re handing them our health data.
https://yorkshirebylines.co.uk/news/home-affairs/governments-last-chance-to-keep-control-of-digital/

2025-11-14 12:32:04 GMT

Reform UK energy plans crumble under scrutiny
…evidence shows green jobs and growth are already powering the UK economy
https://yorkshirebylines.co.uk/politics/reform-uk-energy-plans-crumble-under-scrutiny/

2025-11-12 22:52:31 GMT

“Ofcom is not fit for purpose and must be replaced” 👏👏👏
https://bylines.scot/news/ofcom-is-not-fit-for-purpose-and-must-be-replaced/

2025-11-12 19:47:36 GMT

Reform UK Ltd gets 92% of its funding from climate change deniers and fossil fuel corporate interests, provoking negative reactions
https://centralbylines.co.uk/politics/a-new-survey-reveals-negative-attitudes-to-reform-uk-ltd/

2025-11-11 13:43:58 GMT

"Yorkshire Water was privatised in 1989 under the Water Act, launched debt-free and promoted as the start of a new, efficient era.
What followed was anything but. Today, the company carries almost £7bn in debt. Our rivers are polluted, our bills keep rising, and we’re told to pay still more..."
https://yorkshirebylines.co.uk/region/yorkshire-water-its-time-to-end-the-rip-off/

2025-11-09 10:32:50 GMT

🔥 Harrods: What do the survivors do now??
The courts, the redress scheme, the police — all form part of the same legal abyss.
◾ Survivors cannot access the courts, let alone for trafficking
◾ Harrods’ “redress” is run by the institution itself
◾ The Met refuses to name the crimes as trafficking
https://sussexbylines.co.uk/politics/human-rights/when-power-is-untouchable-the-legal-abyss-facing-harrods-survivors/

2025-10-30 14:53:05 GMT

Can citizens and journalists unite to hold back authoritarianism and protect democracy?
On 4th November at 7pm, join our live online event with:
- George Monbiot
- Nafeez Ahmed
- Yasmin Alibhai-Brown
- Nick Lowles
Book now: bit.ly/BylinesHope
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2025-10-27 17:34:26 GMT

2025-10-22 07:11:11 GMT

Brexit was not a one-off hit.
It’s bleeding us money and lost opportunity every day we stay in it.
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2025-10-19 11:14:41 GMT

🇺🇸 🔥 That. Was. Impressive.
We are watching America reassert itself and its values from the grassroots up. The world saw you and we have huge hope invested in you.
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2025-10-18 18:24:37 GMT

Me talking with Zack Polanski on Europe, joining the EU, defence, community building and the Bylines Network. 👇
https://youtu.be/naOYDEyRHCA?si=AzBl-jmKRMG6MHYg

2025-10-17 17:58:05 GMT

Live now. Talking with Zack Polanski about…Europe. 🇪🇺
https://youtu.be/naOYDEyRHCA?si=no15py75EeAIhp3Z

2025-10-17 14:34:59 GMT

Really looking forward to this coming out! Talking EU membership, European defence, resisting tech bros, community building and the Bylines Network of citizen journalism. 👊
Get that tab open now. Here’s the link —> https://youtu.be/naOYDEyRHCA?si=6IBdUA3SHqaHFMVM
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2025-10-05 16:51:36 GMT

Vicars, grannies, blind people, those in wheelchairs all being physically carried away by police, one at a time after their rights are read… All for holding a placard.
…instead of the police being used to stop rape, burglary, domestic violence and theft. This farce has to break, surely.
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2025-10-05 10:24:02 GMT

The Trump Action Tracker is a British academic’s answer to Trump “flooding the zone” with anti-democratic and anti- rule of law behaviours.
It’s a one-stop-shop for logging thd lot. And the neta-analysis of what is happening is very enlightening… darkly.
See TrumpActionTracker.info
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2025-10-03 20:22:32 GMT

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2025-09-30 08:29:56 GMT

Reform’s Russia connections are a danger to our national security.
It’s time for a public inquiry. 🔥
https://bylines.scot/news/nathan-gills-treachery-puts-him-in-same-league-as-the-cambridge-five/

2025-09-29 19:55:14 GMT

Andy Burnham on why he’s for rejoining the EU…
…and why we need to call out Reform on Brexit. 👏👏👏👏
https://media.mas.to/media_attachments/files/115/289/336/783/782/754/original/aba642b10dc714de.mp4

2025-09-29 10:14:15 GMT

"Farage has no ideas of his own, he just steals from his idol Trump. He wants to be Britain’s own mini-Trump.
He wants us to copy the failed Trump strategies which are driving the US economy into deep recession."
https://westenglandbylines.co.uk/letters/farage-the-trump-parrot/

2025-09-29 09:58:01 GMT

“as Anne Applebaum observes, authoritarians are now [rallying] to attack a perceived common enemy: democracy itself."
https://westenglandbylines.co.uk/politics/emergency-alert-trump-farage-and-the-authoritarian-web/

2025-09-08 17:11:43 GMT

“Over 300 packed Newcastle’s Discovery Museum as Jamie Driscoll and Zarah Sultana launched a call for new politics”
https://northeastbylines.co.uk/news/politics/packed-out-majority-conference-with-zarah-sultana-and-jamie-driscoll/

2025-09-08 15:22:59 GMT

Bravo Banksy. 👏
“A new mural by elusive street artist Banksy has appeared on the side of the Royal Courts of Justice building in central London.”
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2025-09-07 18:42:39 GMT

🇺🇦 Drones (FPVs), “Ground drones” (UGVs), and Ukraine’s new “Flamingo” cruise missiles…
…all add up to a new capacity that can hold Russian troops in place with minimal Ukrainian troop loss, whilst obliterating Russian military supply & petro-economy deep behind that front line.
https://youtu.be/05DJO73vLu4?si=syaUFbC65PGsh5ck

2025-08-31 10:04:42 GMT

“The ECHR isn’t Brussels meddling. It’s the foundation that protects you from your own government.” 👏👏👏
https://eastangliabylines.co.uk/politics/justice/leaving-the-echr-wont-take-back-control-it-will-hand-your-rights-to-politicians/

2025-08-31 09:55:39 GMT

YES! Thank you...
Say it again, and again, and again. They are not "illegal immigrants".
- seeking asylum is legal and has been since 1951.
https://northeastbylines.co.uk/news/politics/silencing-the-drumbeat-again-seeking-asylum-is-legal/

2025-08-30 18:39:35 GMT

"When you live to be over 70 it is sometimes tempting to think that you have seen it all and that nothing much will shock you. Then you hear something that stops you in your tracks, causing you to re-assess your definition of evil."
https://yorkshirebylines.co.uk/news/world/when-evil-becomes-normal-what-gaza-reveals-about-the-human-condition/

2025-08-30 09:22:37 GMT

“The unhinging of politics” 👏
Trump has pushed leadership and political reaction down a rabbit hole into a bewildering, menacing ‘wonderland’
https://westenglandbylines.co.uk/politics/alice-in-trumpland-the-unhinging-of-politics/

2025-08-27 13:12:52 GMT

76% of Brits support EU youth mobility scheme. 👏
Time to remove the Brexit blockade on our youth.
https://travelweekly.co.uk/news/abta-study-shows-76-of-brits-support-eu-youth-mobility-plans

2025-08-26 10:18:40 GMT

New figures show councils have been racking up large debts to cope with growing demands and shrinking government support. It's time government reformed the system.
The debt is a ticking time bomb. 💣
https://eastangliabylines.co.uk/politics/local-government/local-council-debts-in-the-east-a-continuing-challenge/

2025-08-25 06:20:19 GMT

France summons US ambassador 👏👏
- and rightly so! The ambassador (who happens to be Jared Kushner’s dad) wrote an antagonistic public letter in the WSJ criticising Macron on domestic *and* foreign policy as regards to…Israel!
That’s not what ambassadors are for.
https://www.ft.com/content/cce5d41e-4f9c-4e27-bb3b-1e9fd784cbc2

2025-08-23 10:58:09 GMT

Want to study in Europe as a UK student? Since Brexit, it’s harder than ever. With visa fees and lost Erasmus+ funding, the barriers are piling up. Many simply can’t afford it.
Read one student's personal account 👇
https://eastangliabylines.co.uk/news/education/how-brexit-has-made-studying-abroad-less-accessible/

2025-08-22 14:14:10 GMT

🔥 Where the US has serious problems, the UK is not far behind.
One in four UK MPs have taken pro-Israel lobby funding, raising urgent questions about foreign influence and trust in British democracy.
https://yorkshirebylines.co.uk/politics/an-unhealthy-alliance/

2025-08-22 07:09:00 GMT

"I've never seen so many people with these awful, contorted faces … They were shouting 'Refugees, go home!' and 'Get rid of them!' and 'Paedos!' We're all rather shaken because we're a small market town, and we just don't have aggro like that."
https://eastangliabylines.co.uk/immigration/caught-in-an-unpleasant-middle/

2025-08-22 06:58:14 GMT

Labour’s civil liberties deficit.
The proscription of Palestine Action is no anomaly: it’s part of a Labour trend of needing to be seen as tough on law and order.
https://yorkshirebylines.co.uk/news/home-affairs/labours-civil-liberties-deficit/

2025-08-10 13:41:51 GMT

Former Reform MP Rupert Lowe has been left red-faced after mistakenly claiming a group of charity rowers were “illegal migrants aboard a dinghy”.
https://eastangliabylines.co.uk/politics/false-alarm-at-sea-mp-spots-migrants-finds-former-royal-marine/

2025-08-09 09:05:46 GMT

How BBC presents the anti-migrant hotel protests vs how we do at Bylines Network.
BBC lead with a Reform UK voter saying "We are not happy with these men in this hotel because we fear for our children”
We tell of the refugee children inside the hotel terrified by chants of “send them out!”
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2025-08-05 19:20:10 GMT

You may think of Reform UK as just anti-immigration.
However it’s also anti-civil servants, anti- economic rules, anti-standards
In short, it’s anti-functioning government.
So what would a Reform UK govt look like?
https://eastangliabylines.co.uk/opinion/what-would-a-reform-uk-government-mean-for-the-uk-economy/

2025-08-03 17:03:52 GMT

☠️ Lead poisoning kills an estimated 50,000-100,000 waterbirds annually in the UK.
Many more birds are poisoned, but not killed.
https://sussexbylines.co.uk/news/environment/britains-ban-on-lead-ammunition-could-save-tens-of-thousands-of-birds-from-poisoning/

2025-07-30 16:25:25 GMT

"Some of the younger children... were not as afraid. But the tearful, frightened eyes of a ten-year-old girl clinging to her father’s chest told a different story.
The terrifying chants of young men echoing through the hotel – “Send them out!” – filled the air like an ominous drumbeat."
https://eastangliabylines.co.uk/immigration/exclusive-inside-the-diss-hotel-a-refugees-view-of-the-anti-refugee-crowd-outside/
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2025-07-29 05:36:08 GMT

🚨How Britain privatised itself into failure.🚨
Britain outsourced its state – now private firms profit while public services crumble.
 In 'Failed State', Sam Freedman explains what went wrong.
https://yorkshirebylines.co.uk/politics/the-state-for-sale-how-britain-privatised-itself-into-failure/

2025-07-27 05:49:58 GMT

Nothing good has come of privatising the Uk’s Critical National Infrastructure, so there is now a strong case for renationalising.
https://northwestbylines.co.uk/business/why-renationalising-the-uks-critical-national-infrastructure-is-vital/

2025-07-25 20:41:58 GMT

Kent County Council staff soon received a threatening letter from Kemkaran, Farage & Zia Yusuf, demanding they co-operate with cost-cutting or face disciplinary action.
But neither Farage nor Yusuf have any legal status in Kent County Council.
https://kentandsurreybylines.co.uk/politics/local-government/inside-the-turquoise-tornado-reform-uks-tumultuous-first-90-days-running-kent/

2025-07-15 10:30:56 GMT

🚨How Britain privatised itself into failure.🚨 Britain outsourced its state – now private firms profit while public services crumble.
In 'Failed State', Sam Freedman explains what went wrong.
https://yorkshirebylines.co.uk/politics/the-state-for-sale-how-britain-privatised-itself-into-failure/
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2025-07-05 06:40:15 GMT

"‘Why don’t they stay in France?’
Most refugees head for a country where there is some link of language, family or community. North Africans stay in France because they have some French. Refugees from what were once UK colonies often have English as a second language."
https://kentandsurreybylines.co.uk/politics/what-is-so-wrong-with-immigration-anyway/

2025-07-05 04:33:48 GMT

The ECHR is vital - and we're campaigning to save it.
Please do sign this petition to get on board with European Movement UK activities to fight for it.
👉 www.europeanmovement.co.uk/echr-petition

2025-06-30 16:42:54 GMT

Lovely! ❤️💚
Preston is to enter into a friendship agreement with the Palestinian city of Hebron.
The partnership will be finalised by Preston City Council after it was backed by a majority of elected members.
https://northwestbylines.co.uk/politics/preston-and-hebron-a-friendship-agreement/

2025-06-29 10:05:49 GMT

🇺🇸🧢 Escaping MAGA and Christian Nationalism in the US… a fascinating personal account that gives a lot of clues about how to break people free from the cult.
https://open.substack.com/pub/bylinesnetwork/p/voices-from-america-breaking-from?r=al8g0&utm_medium=ios

2025-06-28 07:17:24 GMT

“The organisation’s true agenda is, I believe, best described as ‘eliminationist’:
seeking [to]… make transitioning so difficult, dangerous or pointless as to functionally eliminate trans people from public life and society.”
Very powerful and well-written piece. Please do read and share. 👇
https://yorkshirebylines.co.uk/news/home-affairs/behind-the-ruling-how-sex-matters-is-shaping-uk-policy-on-trans-rights/

2025-06-27 11:23:27 GMT

Interesting…
A legal challenge in New York could reveal the truth behind allegations that last year’s election result was “consistent with vote manipulation”
https://yorkshirebylines.co.uk/politics/did-donald-trump-steal-the-2024-election/
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2025-06-27 08:38:23 GMT

✍️ War is over – as soon as Trump wants it
If all it takes to end a war is one call from Trump then why didn’t the war in Gaza end months ago?
https://yorkshirebylines.co.uk/opinion/war-is-over-as-soon-as-trump-wants-it/

2025-06-27 08:35:44 GMT

The dictators who want to run the world – a review of Anne Applebaum’s ’Autocracy, Inc.’
China, Russia, and other autocracies loom over the world, threatening democracy, and the US is joining them – what can be done?
https://kentandsurreybylines.co.uk/society/books/the-dictators-who-want-to-run-the-world-a-review-of-anne-applebaums-autocracy-inc/

2025-06-27 08:34:08 GMT

Should trans people have fewer rights? ‘Not in our name’, say over 35,000 women
Women tired of being told that their rights are threatened by trans people are using a petition to stand up for inclusive feminism
By Jennie Kermode
https://yorkshirebylines.co.uk/society/should-trans-people-have-fewer-rights-not-in-our-name-say-over-35000-women/

2025-06-27 08:32:54 GMT

We need a wealth tax not a “Britannia Card”
Julia Davies - impact investor, entrepreneur, and member of Patriotic Millionaires UK – argues for a wealth tax, not billionaires’ patronage. 👏👏👏
https://westenglandbylines.co.uk/opinion/we-need-a-wealth-tax-not-a-britannia-card/

2025-06-27 08:30:38 GMT

Behind the ruling: how ‘Sex Matters’ is shaping UK policy on trans rights
The UK Supreme Court ruling redefined ‘sex’ – but for trans people, it’s the start of something far more sweeping and exclusionary.
https://yorkshirebylines.co.uk/news/home-affairs/behind-the-ruling-how-sex-matters-is-shaping-uk-policy-on-trans-rights/

2025-06-25 15:18:19 GMT

“Meet the NEVLAs – (Never Voting Labour Again)
It’s not Reform UK Ltd voters Starmer needs to entice back to the Labour fold, they were never in it. There’s another group he should be worrying about!”
https://yorkshirebylines.co.uk/politics/meet-the-nevlas-never-voting-labour-again/

2025-06-23 07:50:14 GMT

MORNING ALL!
Today is the 9th anniversary of the Brexit vote.
How do we all think it’s gone so far?
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2025-06-20 07:39:35 GMT

Gaza: the grim reality of genocide
The first comprehensive analysis of how Israel's war on Gaza will cause suffering for generations to come.
A catalogue of the physical, mental & societal damage.
Please have a read. It’s important. 👇
https://northeastbylines.co.uk/news/world-news/gaza-the-grim-reality-of-genocide/
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2025-06-19 16:10:52 GMT

At 17, Haya is no stranger to war. On again, off again, it was a frequent part of her childhood, but this time it has brought her to the brink of despair. When it started, she was studying, but her school was one of many destroyed in the bombardment.
https://bylines.scot/politics/world-politics/growing-up-in-gaza-one-girls-story-of-survival/

2025-06-09 10:51:33 GMT

‘A society that lets the rich get richer while kids go hungry, and old people die waiting for care, is broken. Rachel Reeves: fix it. Tax us.’
https://eastangliabylines.co.uk/politics/please-rachel-tax-me-more/

2025-06-07 20:56:32 GMT

Reform UK has uncovered the scandal of a “wasteful” £350m contract.
Small problem: it’s not a contract. Or £350m. Or a scandal.
Here’s how they got it completely wrong.
👇👇
https://eastangliabylines.co.uk/politics/local-government/exposed-reform-uk-doesnt-know-how-government-spending-works/

2025-06-05 15:37:55 GMT

⭐️ 50 YEARS AGO TODAY ⭐️
17.4 million people voted “Yes” to Europe…
…the single largest vote for any single proposition in the UK’s history.
This 17.4M was from a pop at the time of just 56M - and represented a massive 67% of all votes cast.
Let’s do it again. #RejoinEU
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2025-05-30 19:28:04 GMT

Some required weekend reading for you all. 🫶
https://sussexbylines.co.uk/politics/democracy/the-silencing-of-sangita-myska-matters/

2025-05-30 12:39:39 GMT

Brexit won’t be done until it’s undone.
👏👏👏
https://bylines.scot/politics/brexit-wont-be-done-until-its-undone/
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2025-05-29 08:45:18 GMT

“That they can be ‘disappeared’ in such an arbitrary manner is chilling and sets a worrying precedent for the proper functioning of our news reporting.
The job of British journalists has just been made much harder.”
https://yorkshirebylines.co.uk/politics/disappearance-of-belle-donati-sangita-myska/
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2025-05-29 08:35:15 GMT

"At first there was no comment at all from LBC. Then a note appeared [saying] that Myska was ‘presently on Garden Leave due to unannounced circumstances’.
Unlike other departures, it had not been preceded by a handover, nor a farewell from the host."
https://sussexbylines.co.uk/politics/democracy/the-silencing-of-sangita-myska-matters/
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2025-05-29 07:45:02 GMT

Today proscetors have confrimed 21 charges against 'Andrew and Tristan Tate, including rape, actual bodily harm and human trafficking.'
'Is it time for parliament to question Nigel Farage over his relationship with Tate?'
https://northwestbylines.co.uk/politics/opinion/farage-and-tate-a-similar-phenomenon/

2025-05-29 06:36:16 GMT

Lives of quiet desperation: what the government doesn’t get.
Voters hoped for real change, but face more cuts, broken promises, and politics-as-usual – despair deepens across the UK.
https://yorkshirebylines.co.uk/politics/lives-of-quiet-desperation-what-the-government-doesnt-get/

2025-05-29 06:11:37 GMT

Unlocking the strength of bottom-up governance
Policies and initiatives are more effective, fairer and more sustainable when they emerge from the community, not dictated from the centre. 👏👏👏
https://yorkshirebylines.co.uk/region/unlocking-the-strength-of-bottom-up-governance/

2025-05-28 10:08:27 GMT

“All we want is to just be respected as human beings. Claiming asylum is not a criminal act – it’s like our houses are on fire, so we just need to be rescued."
“But the reality was so different. When I claimed asylum, I was put into detention. I was treated like a criminal."
https://yorkshirebylines.co.uk/news/seeking-sanctuary-in-the-uk-what-its-really-like/

2025-05-28 08:53:01 GMT

The US will not only suffer a brain drain… but will also lose its background brain gain from the rest of the world.
https://econ.trib.al/3hYAuUZ
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2025-05-20 13:02:21 GMT

It’s definitely progress! 🇬🇧🇪🇺
And if you want to push for more (ultimately all the way back to EU membership), then join European Movement UK
👉 https://www.europeanmovement.co.uk/membership
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2025-05-15 07:39:14 GMT

“I woke up with a sense of dread…”
A moving, deeply personal account from an EU citizen in Cambridge on how Labour’s new rhetoric is shaking people’s sense of belonging.
Don’t miss this powerful open letter. 👇
https://eastangliabylines.co.uk/lifestyle/community/letter-we-are-not-strangers/

2025-05-14 21:28:18 GMT

🔥 The Reform Party “has already seen four of their new cohort announce that they can’t or won’t represent them in the council chamber, decisions that in some cases will cost local government tens of thousands of pounds."
https://yorkshirebylines.co.uk/politics/ineligible-inept-and-unspeakable/

2025-05-13 20:47:28 GMT

2025-05-10 07:18:11 GMT

“More than 40 MPs have signed a letter urging Foreign Secretary David Lammy to address allegations that the UK has continued exporting military equipment to Israel despite the suspension of key arms export licences
- raising concerns that Parliament may have been misled.”
https://www.itv.com/news/2025-05-09/more-than-40-mps-urge-lammy-to-address-claims-uk-still-exporting-arms-to-israel
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2024-12-27 11:51:56 GMT

So - I’ve landed on Substack and I’m pleasantly surprised with the quality of the conversation (and articles!) on there.
A lot of friends there too. I think Bluesky and Substack are going to be my favourite places to be in 2025.
https://substack.com/@mikegalsworthy?r=al8g0&utm_medium=ios

2024-12-25 19:24:33 GMT

Merry Christmas! Be of good cheer - it looks like Iceland is going to join the EU. 🇮🇸 🇪🇺
https://open.substack.com/pub/mikegalsworthy/p/is-iceland-getting-ready-to-join?r=al8g0&utm_medium=ios

2024-12-23 20:08:16 GMT

"Abandoned dogs overwhelm UK shelters as weak regulations fuel a welfare crisis...
Animal shelters and kennels are grappling with an increasingly desperate situation. Thousands of dogs... now face the harsh fate of abandonment, the uncertainty of rehoming or, in the most tragic cases, euthanasia."
https://yorkshirebylines.co.uk/opinion/a-dog-is-for-life-not-just-for-christmas-uks-number-of-unwanted-dogs-hits-crisis-point/