David S. Berry 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇺🇸🇩🇪🇪🇺

East Lothian—my magic place for spending time on/in/under/beside the sea. After years abroad, I came home, dived into politics, civics & being a local guide.

[David S. Berry 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇺🇸🇩🇪🇪🇺 @DavidSBerry]

ICE official motto?: "ubi solitudinem faciunt, pacem appellant. " --Tacitus

[David S. Berry 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇺🇸🇩🇪🇪🇺 @DavidSBerry]

#ICE official motto??:

[David S. Berry 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇺🇸🇩🇪🇪🇺 @DavidSBerry]

@realDonaldTrump the MAGAnificent will chair his "Board of Peace" to which he has invited fellow egotistical tyrants.

[David S. Berry 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇺🇸🇩🇪🇪🇺 @DavidSBerry]

@EdKrassen All that is missing is #ICE officer uniforms of brown shirts & jackboots

[David S. Berry 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇺🇸🇩🇪🇪🇺 @DavidSBerry]

Is @realDonaldTrump 's increasingly orange visage because he has stoped injecting bleach to stave off Covid?

[David S. Berry 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇺🇸🇩🇪🇪🇺 @DavidSBerry]

Rubio, who dare not scratch his arse without Trump's say-so threatens his ancestral homeland--Cuba.

What would the White House say if Cuba threatened to annex Puerto Rico as "essential for its own strategic defence?"

[ALASTAIR CAMPBELL @campbellclaret]

If it wasn’t for us Trump would be speaking Apache.
His comments on NATO troops holding back from the front line, given his draft dodging and his general contempt for all but himself, is disgusting even by his standards.
It really is time for George W Bush to say something about how countries like ours, and so many others, came to US rescue

[David S. Berry 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇺🇸🇩🇪🇪🇺 @DavidSBerry]

After Zelensky pilloried European spinelrssness re Putin's "shadow fleet", the RN mirrors Starmer's fear of anything resembling backbone by shadowing a tanker through the Channel too feart to act because of a Russian naval escort.

Britannia waives the rules?

[David S. Berry 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇺🇸🇩🇪🇪🇺 @DavidSBerry]

About time England lost its ID paranoia. In the US, drivers licence has functioned as ID for decades.

[Lesley Riddoch @LesleyRiddoch]

Estonia & Denmark quoted by Doug Alexander on #bbcgms to justify compulsory ID cards. Two key differences. Nordics have world’s highest levels of trust between citz and govt. UK doesn’t. Their ID cards were brought in to access services not isolate migrants. Big differences.

[David S. Berry 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇺🇸🇩🇪🇪🇺 @DavidSBerry]

In 2024, 1,135 American billionaires were worth $5.7 tn. The 100 richest of them control over half that total at ~$3.86 tn. In 40 years “supply-side Trumponomics" has concentrated wealth at the top—$50 tn moved from the bottom 90% to the top 1%, while billionaires boomed.

[David S. Berry 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇺🇸🇩🇪🇪🇺 @DavidSBerry]

"If Trump’s illegal firing of Cook (from the Fed) stands; implications will be profound & disastrous. The USA will follow Turkey, where crackpot, authoritarian economics drove inflation to 80% by destroying professionalism & independent thinking."
—Paul Krugman, economist

[David S. Berry 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇺🇸🇩🇪🇪🇺 @DavidSBerry]

Far from boosting the US economy, Trump's tariffs, plus refuting dire job statistics triggered a drop of over 1.3% in the Dow industrial index on Friday; S&P500 & NASDAQ fell by similar amounts.

[David S. Berry 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇺🇸🇩🇪🇪🇺 @DavidSBerry]

"Trump’s wild stories, inability to understand numbers, and inability to place events correctly into a timeline are key signs of dementia. Trump’s mental decline is undeniable”—The Hill (US political publication)

[David S. Berry 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇺🇸🇩🇪🇪🇺 @DavidSBerry]

Does this mean the police will spend their time NIIT-picking? A job for Detective Chatbot Inspector Jane Tennison?

[Rupert Lowe MP @RupertLowe10]

Another day in Starmer’s dystopian two-tier Britain.

‘Elite’ police units monitoring anti-migrant sentiment online…

My thoughts on the latest concerning developments.

[David S. Berry 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇺🇸🇩🇪🇪🇺 @DavidSBerry]

What seems offensive is any resistance to infringement of the privacy/rights of persons who do not share the `'delusion" constitutes a denial of anyone's rights.

[KJ-isms @KJisms]

@jk_rowling

[john drummond @benarty]

£billions for boats. Nothing for pensioners

[David S. Berry 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇺🇸🇩🇪🇪🇺 @DavidSBerry]

"We need audacious leaders to run the country, not just snake oil salesmen".—Lord David Blunkett, on Nigel Farage being interviewed by Laura Kuensberg on BBC1's Sunday Morning.

[David S. Berry 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇺🇸🇩🇪🇪🇺 @DavidSBerry]

Attempts by powerful interests to impose a political geography on disparate peoples have a sad record. The post-WW1 clutch were fatally fragile, costing many lives, even a century later: Czechoslovakia; Yugoslavia; Syria; Iraq; Lebanon; Palestine...

[Keith Gordon @KeithGordon1047]

@LesleyRiddoch @RichardJMurphy BBC in Scotland was the only state broadcaster in the world to cut into public health briefings during Covid to platform a political attack.
Indisputable bias.

[David S. Berry 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇺🇸🇩🇪🇪🇺 @DavidSBerry]

I agree with the prof.

[Lesley Riddoch @LesleyRiddoch]

Unbelievable exchange this morning on Radio Scotland between the presenter and Professor @RichardJMurphy, interrupting him and conducting an interview with barely concealed contempt. Really bad.