Hackers' Pub

Syntax	Description	Examples
`"` keyword `"`	Finds the string within quotes, including spaces. Case-insensitive. (Escape quotes inside with `\"`)	`"Hackers' Pub"`
`from:` handle	Finds content written by the specified user.	`from:hongminhee` `from:hongminhee@hollo.social`
`lang:` ISO 639-1	Finds content written in the specified language.	`lang:en`
`#` tag	Finds content with the specified tag. Case-insensitive.	`#HackersPub`
condition condition	Finds content that satisfies both conditions on either side of the space (logical AND).	`"Hackers' Pub" lang:en`
condition `OR` condition	Finds content that satisfies at least one of the conditions on either side of the OR operator (logical OR).	`#HackersPub OR "Hackers' Pub" lang:en`
`(` condition `)`	Combines the operators within the parentheses first.	`(#HackersPub OR "Hackers' Pub" OR "Hackers Pub") lang:en`

Kevin Marks @kevinmarks.com@bsky.brid.gy

12/9/2025, 11:37:54 PM

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The Times Burying the lede - the Commons just voted for a Customs Union with the EU archive.is/202512092157...

MPs defy whip on Brexit with vote for UK rejoining customs union
The ‘advisory’ Liberal Democrat bill passed the Commons with a majority of one
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Oliver Wright, Policy Editor
Tuesday December 09 2025, 9.40pm GMT, The Times
British Prime Minister Keir Starmer and British Foreign Secretary David Lammy speak to the media outside of the West Wing of the White House.
Sir Keir Starmer has pledged not to rejoin the customs union, but David Lammy, left, has mooted it as a possibility
SAUL LOEB / AFP
More than a dozen Labour MPs have defied the party whips and voted in favour of the UK rejoining a customs union with the European Union.
The group, which included Dame Meg Hillier, the influential chair of the Treasury select committee, backed the Liberal Democrat motion in the Commons despite calls from party managers to abstain from the vote.
As a result, the Liberal Democrat Ten-Minute Rule Bill passed the Commons with a majority of one, after the deputy Speaker cast the deciding vote in its favour.

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