English, grew up in France, new German citizen, now grandmother to 9, lived in the Philippines, Turkey and Poland #FBPE Vive l'Europe.
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Does anyone see the logic in leaving your closest market, where you sat at the table making the rules, in order to open yourself to a exporters who follow different standards, and who will kill off your local industries? #BrexitReality #BrexitDisaster
marianne ๐ช๐บ๐ฌ๐ง๐ฉ๐ช๐ซ๐ท๐ต๐ฑ๐น๐ท retweeted
Nope...not for me! ๐
This years John Lewis Christmas ad, in summary.
Nan needs a hug, rude kids barge past her, ignoring her completely.
Kids don't like Nans childhood presents, so Nan goes out shopping to John Lewis to buy things they like to placate them.
Nan eventually gets her hug, when the spoilt grandkids get the presents they want.
Oh, and a rickshaw ride round London for good measure!
An absolutely dreadful story of kids attitudes towards the elderly today, and blatant consumerism - I for one, won't be shopping there this year! ๐ ๐
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marianne ๐ช๐บ๐ฌ๐ง๐ฉ๐ช๐ซ๐ท๐ต๐ฑ๐น๐ท retweeted
'I watch Fox all day'.
And that, my American friends, is a big reason why millions of your fellow Americans voted for a corrupt pathological lying rapist.
Rupert Murdoch is a cancer.
marianne ๐ช๐บ๐ฌ๐ง๐ฉ๐ช๐ซ๐ท๐ต๐ฑ๐น๐ท retweeted
52,000 Russian losses - half killed, half severely wounded - in October 2026, according to @bundeskanzler - the highest monthly figure since the war began.
marianne ๐ช๐บ๐ฌ๐ง๐ฉ๐ช๐ซ๐ท๐ต๐ฑ๐น๐ท retweeted
This why the BBC is so important, we are so fortunate to have a publicly funded national broadcaster which keeps impartiality at its core.
It is also why the likes of Farage want to destroy it. They want propagandist media like fox/GBnews in order to brainwash the masses.
marianne ๐ช๐บ๐ฌ๐ง๐ฉ๐ช๐ซ๐ท๐ต๐ฑ๐น๐ท retweeted
I don't know about you, but these endless streams of incoherent rambling of mindless self-adoration stopped surprising me a long time ago.
What genuinely amazes me though is that there are still people who actually show up, sit there, and listen to this deranged nonsense for hours.
Trump:
I could have won the Vietnam War in a week.
They kept bombing forests for years instead of going after Ho Chi Minh City.
Readers added context they thought people might want to know
Ho Chi Minh City was called Saigon during the war. It was the capital of South Vietnam, the US ally, and was renamed only in 1976. The US did repeatedly bomb North Vietnam's capital, Hanoi, including the 1972 Christmas bombing.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ho_Chi_Miโฆ
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operationโฆ
marianne ๐ช๐บ๐ฌ๐ง๐ฉ๐ช๐ซ๐ท๐ต๐ฑ๐น๐ท retweeted
For those of you wondering what happened at the Polish Constitutional Tribunal this weekend, Laurent Pech, Maciej Kisilowski and I explain the legal basis for the suspension of the president and vice present. And no, it's not a coup. verfassungsblog.de/whose-couโฆ
marianne ๐ช๐บ๐ฌ๐ง๐ฉ๐ช๐ซ๐ท๐ต๐ฑ๐น๐ท retweeted
Last night Trump said he could have won Vietnam in a week. His plan was โgoing after Ho Chi Minh City.โ
Ho Chi Minh City was Saigon, the capital of South Vietnam. Our ally. The enemyโs capital was Hanoi. We bombed it.
He called the presidents who fought that war stupid, then explained how heโd have won it by attacking our own side.
58,220 Americans died in that war. Trump got five deferments. Now heโs telling the rest of us how easy it would have been.
Heโs had more than fifty years to learn which side we were on. He still hasnโt. That alone should disqualify him from sending anybody elseโs kids to war.
Instead, heโs weighing more strikes on Iran after Tuesday. His administration has reportedly considered using the โmother of all bombs,โ the one he calls โlike a tiny nuclear bomb.โ
The man who thinks we should have bombed our allyโs capital gets to choose the targets.
marianne ๐ช๐บ๐ฌ๐ง๐ฉ๐ช๐ซ๐ท๐ต๐ฑ๐น๐ท retweeted
I have NEVER understood why US voting is such a clusterfuck.
In the UK, every primary school, or libaray, or "something", becomes a voting place, and no one ever waits more than a few minutes to vote.
For the democratic land of the free, they are in the dark ages for their actual voting....
marianne ๐ช๐บ๐ฌ๐ง๐ฉ๐ช๐ซ๐ท๐ต๐ฑ๐น๐ท retweeted
The Trump administration is negotiating business deals with Russia - and simultaneously pushing European leaders to do coalition deals with pro-Russian or anti-Ukrainian politicians who would undermine European defense. Read more:
theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/1โฆ
Exclusive: The U.S. backs resuming Russian gas sales to Europe through Ukraine, despite European opposition and years of efforts to end dependence on Moscow on.wsj.com/3WIzz7X
marianne ๐ช๐บ๐ฌ๐ง๐ฉ๐ช๐ซ๐ท๐ต๐ฑ๐น๐ท retweeted
"How coarse and disgusting American politics has become."
marianne ๐ช๐บ๐ฌ๐ง๐ฉ๐ช๐ซ๐ท๐ต๐ฑ๐น๐ท retweeted
.@KemiBadenoch tells @FraserNelson @SkyNews the Conservative Party is united with no member believing we should even consider rejoining the #EU
Really!?
Like all inadequate ideologically driven leaders she forgets its voters not party members who elect Govts. And there are millions of Conservative voters who voted #Remain & now find themselves being embraced by @AndyBurnham & rejected by Badenoch & her party
marianne ๐ช๐บ๐ฌ๐ง๐ฉ๐ช๐ซ๐ท๐ต๐ฑ๐น๐ท retweeted
So I've got a new patient with pretty severe measles pneumonia who was too young for the MMR vaccine so clearly caught it from an older, unvaccinated child. I haven't seen this since the 1970s, but here we are. Thanks, RFK Jr.
marianne ๐ช๐บ๐ฌ๐ง๐ฉ๐ช๐ซ๐ท๐ต๐ฑ๐น๐ท retweeted
ยท Necesitas 20 dรณlares.
ยท Ves un ATM en una gasolinera.
ยท No es de tu banco.
ยท Ves otro en un supermercado.
ยท Tampoco.
ยท Otro en una tienda.
ยท Tampoco.
ยท Otro en el aeropuerto.
ยท Tampoco.
Empiezas a sospechar que tu banco es una organizaciรณn clandestina.
ยท Encuentras uno. Pero obvio. No es de tu banco
ยท Metes la tarjeta porque ya estรกs hasta los dos bolingos.
ยท Pides 20 dรณlares.
ยท Aparece una pantalla.
โFee: $3.50โ
Aceptas porque llevas 15 minutos buscando un cajero y ya has gastado mรกs gasolina que comisiรณn.
ยท Sacas tus 20 dรณlares.
ยท Te vas satisfecho.
ยท Abres la app del banco.
Sorpresa.
ยท El cajero te ha cobrado.
ยท Y tu propio banco puede cobrarte otra comisiรณn por usar un cajero โout of networkโ.
Uno cobra por tener el cajero.
El otro cobra porque el cajero no era suyo.
El dinero sรญ era tuyo.
La media por sacar efectivo fuera de tu red ronda los 5 dรณlares entre ambas comisiones.
Has sacado 20 dรณlares.
Has pagado casi 5 por conseguirlos.
No es un prรฉstamo.
No has pedido crรฉdito.
No has comprado nada.
Solo querรญas tocar fรญsicamente tu propio dinero.
En Europa sacas dinero.
En Estados Unidos parece que el cajero te acaba de atracar a ti.
marianne ๐ช๐บ๐ฌ๐ง๐ฉ๐ช๐ซ๐ท๐ต๐ฑ๐น๐ท retweeted
The stand off around Polandโs Constitutional Tribunal is about restoring rule of law to an institution which had been politicised by the populist government which lost power in the election of 2023. Its president repeatedly broke the law by steering politically sensitive cases to hand-picked judges. It failed to pass its own budget,
marianne ๐ช๐บ๐ฌ๐ง๐ฉ๐ช๐ซ๐ท๐ต๐ฑ๐น๐ท retweeted
Please stop resharing this and tagging prominent Brexiteers like @Nigel_Farage @TiceRichard @RupertLowe10 @ZiaYusufUK and similar. They are all extremely busy people and if they get thousands of notifications it could get in the way of their very important work elsewhere.
marianne ๐ช๐บ๐ฌ๐ง๐ฉ๐ช๐ซ๐ท๐ต๐ฑ๐น๐ท retweeted
โKushner told Zelensky that he should pause the strikes because he and U.S. envoy Steve Witkoff were dedicating a lot of time, energy, and jet fuel to mediating with Moscow, one of the U.S. officials said. A 30-day pause on refineries would be a way for Ukraine to show gratitude, that U.S. official said.โ
An almost comical thing to tell a nation fighting for its existence. Lay down your weapons because we are exhausted from taking a private jet.
wsj.com/world/ukraine-pausesโฆ
