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Kate from Kharkiv @kateinkharkiv.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Trump: "Putin has no respect for this person." Clinton: "That's because he'd rather have a puppet as president of the United States. You're willing to spout the Putin line, sign up for his wish list, break up NATO, do whatever he wants to do." October 19, 2016. She was right.
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Peter Geoghegan @petergeoghegan.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
🔴NEW: Ben Delo has given Reform £44MILLION Delo’s money comes from his now-closed crypto exchange BitMEX In 2019, a BitMEX investor asked about the status of his investment Delo responded by sending this meme, according to court documents. There’s more, a lot more (new investigation🧵)
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Peter Geoghegan @petergeoghegan.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Delo and his fellow crypto tycoon Christopher Harborne have now given Reform £100m+ Reform has pledged to deregulate crypto. Delo and Harborne say there is no quid-pro-quo. But should crypto money buy British democracy? 🔴Read the full story: democracyforsale.substack.com/p/reform-meg...
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Reform mega-donor Ben Delo named in Bitcoin “theft” lawsuit
Exclusive: Class action seeks to hold BitMEX founders "accountable for fraudulent conduct". We spoke to the lawyer behind the case against the now-closed crypto firm
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
From the new Private Eye
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Josiah Mortimer @josiahmortimer.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Hats off to the Eye (as ever), for flagging the Conservative hypocrisy over our conference ban
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Sarah Pochin raised "concerns" in parliament about the impact of second homes on rural communities. Two days later she purchased an £800,000 second home on Anglesey. Remarkable stuff. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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Reform MP raises concerns about second homes – then buys one for £800,000
Sarah Pochin bought Anglesey property two days after writing to minister about impact of second homes on rural communities
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Steve Peers @stevepeers.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Hugely dishonest to pass off a sentence for setting off a bomb as "destroying a camera"
Misleading statement by "journalist" Andrew Pierce
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LorennaCleary.bsky.social @lorennacleary.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
God this is going so well. I haven’t laughed this hard in so long!
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Steve Peers @stevepeers.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
As vile and as telling an image in the clip as Trump mocking a reporter with disabilities. These people are telling us who they are. We should not make the same mistake the US made.
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Byline Times @bylinetimes.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
🔴 NEW The Reform Councillors Embedded in Britain’s Masked ‘Patriot’ Anti-Migrant Network By Katherine Denkinson Read below. ↓
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The Reform Councillors Embedded in Britain’s Masked ‘Patriot’ Anti-Migrant Network
A Reform councillor and campaign co-ordinater urged his followers to join and support the masked group
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James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Wake up people!
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Parody Nigel Farage @parodypm.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Dan Thomas, the leader of Reform in Wales, has stepped down after being arrested for assault and coercive behaviour. This is very much in the noble tradition of leaders started by his predecessor, Nathan Gill, who had to step down as he couldn't do the job from prison.
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Russ Jones @russincheshire.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Reform leaders in Wales: Mark Reckless: Tory, then UKIP, then Tory (again), then Independent, then Brexit Party, then Abolish the Welsh Assembly (his own job), then Independent (again) and then Reform Nathan Gill: 10 years for accepting pro-Kremlin bribes Dan Thomas: arrested for assault
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Peter Geoghegan @petergeoghegan.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
🔴 The £72million pound question - how worried are you about big money in British politics? Democracy for Sale is running a survey to find out what the public thinks about money in politics - and what we should do about it Please take it!! And share widely!! thx! 😀 docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
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How concerned are you about UK political funding? – A Democracy for Sale survey
We're Democracy for Sale, a newsletter covering dark money and influence in UK politics. We're trying to better understand our readers' and the wider public's opinions and concerns about political fun...
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Roland Smith @rolandmcs.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Astonishing. And yet a door opening for the UK.... if we weren't still facing in the other direction, examining our navel, and hanging on the every utterance of a mustard-trousered bullshitter?
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Parody Nigel Farage @parodypm.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
I may have received £72 million, but at least I wasn't given a pair of glasses and some football tickets.
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Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Laura Kuenssberg, "Ben Delo has a conviction for what the US Dept of Justice says he didn't establish an anti-money laundering program alongside his crypto business" "Are you relaxed about taking money from someone who has. conviction like that?" Robert Jenrick, "No individuals were harmed"
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Russ Jones @russincheshire.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
"You can't arrest me for fraud, because my other mate gave me some money legally."
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Giles Wilkes @gilesyb.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
"Where Reformers stand out is in the lack of public spirit. They are more inclined than traditional Tories to think that most people would cheat an honesty box, and twice as likely to say they themselves would keep a bag of banknotes they found in a bush". www.economist.com/britain/2026...
economist.com
The misanthrope party
Reform UK’s miserabilist streak is Nigel Farage’s asset, and his problem
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Peter Geoghegan @petergeoghegan.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
🔴 More than 80% of all the donations ever received by Nigel Farage’s Reform UK have come from just two cryptocurrency billionaires, new Democracy for Sale analysis reveals. “If that isn’t a massive corruption risk I don’t know what is.” democracyforsale.substack.com/p/breaking-8...
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BREAKING: 80% of Reform’s funding comes from two crypto billionaires
“If that isn't a massive corruption risk I don't know what is.”
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
How is this bully able to just act like this with free rein?
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Russ Jones @russincheshire.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
I'm serious about this. I genuinely think this could work. Would a Huge Rant or Fergal Fishy please step forward volunteer to front the campaign? Or maybe a Joe Pasquale, to lend it the dignity our politics deserves?
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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 10/09/2026
A damning indictment of where hate leads. RNLI has to warn its volunteers - people who save lives - not to wear branded clothes for fear of being attacked. Absolutely shameful.
independent.co.uk
RNLI reviews security measures after far-right threats
The charity’s chief executive said the online abuse was ‘wholly unacceptable’
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Miaganga @miaganga.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 08/09/2026
On point ⬇️ The ‘stop the boats’ narrative is increasingly presented as if it stems from a concern for women’s safety. This is just the laundering of thuggery.
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Why does the hard right have such a high tolerance for domestic abusers in their midst?
The ‘stop the boats’ narrative is increasingly presented as if it stems from a concern for women’s safety. This is just
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alexvonwitzleben.bsky.social @alexvonwitzleben.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
#Denmark built so much wind that some blustery hours the turbines out-produce what the whole country is using. When that happens, the extra power doesn’t sit idle. It moves through Denmark’s links into the wider European network and heads to neighbors like Germany, Norway, Sweden. #ActOnClimate
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Phil Sturgeon 🌳🚵⚓️ @philsturgeon.com · 08/09/2026
🚨 THIS IS BAD! 🚨 Palantir’s stated goal is to disrupt democracy by getting control of the systems in the name of technofascism. Their MO is wedging people into positions of power then shoehorning themselves into critical infrastructure. Now they control the grid. www.ft.com/content/f6a2...
ft.com
Britain’s grid operator gave Palantir contract without inviting rival bids
Neso cited a legal exemption that removes the requirement to consider other suppliers if dependencies leave no alternative
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Absolutely perfect pay off on this clip.
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Lauren Starkey @laurenhstarkey.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Men will send me emails like this and then go rampaging on the streets of Dover and Portsmouth claiming they want to keep refugees out in order to “PROTECT OUR WOMEN!” Not a single one of the young male refugees I’ve worked with has ever spoken to me with such violent misogyny.
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Daily Herald #FBPE #NAFO 🇬🇧🇺🇦🇬🇱 @dailyherald.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
The protestor told LBC: "I think it's dangerous that Reform cannot be trusted to hold their members accountable. Nigel Farage himself, as well as members of the audience, are inciting this violence by celebrating assaults like the one I experienced" www.lbc.co.uk/article/refo...
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Nigel Farage and Reform supporters 'inciting violence by celebrating assaults like mine', says protester removed from party conference | LBC
Footage shared online showed audience members pulling the protester's hair and grabbing her head while she was being removed by security.
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Byline Times @bylinetimes.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
“My profession smiles at hard-right figures when they walk into a TV studio and are given a disproportionate amount of air time to make their fact-free assertions while nodding along to their scapegoating of the weak.” ✍️ Patrick Howse
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The BBC Is Just Nodding Along
The corporation's news coverage has lost its soul as a bulwark against unaccountable power and extremism, writes a former BBC News producer
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bylinepodcast.bsky.social @bylinepodcast.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Channel 4 revelations are only the latest eruption of sleaze around Reform and Nigel Farage... @peterjukes.bsky.social joins the dots for @goldbergradio.bsky.social on the latest @bylinetimes.bsky.social pod Listen: pod.fo/e/5d0ce0 Watch: youtu.be/1bJLKaEW8OQ?...
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(Not So) Nice n' Sleazy; Farage and Reform
YouTube video by Byline Times TV
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Cornish Skipper #FBPE #RejoinEU 🇪🇺🔶🌹💚💙 @cornishskipper.wsocial.eu · 06/09/2026
“Farage under pressure over clip in which he was heard saying “it’s all above board” “I’ll be the registered donor,” the son says. “But then dad will send the money to me, & then as soon as that’s done & all those conversations are had the money is available.”” www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...?
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Nigel Farage to be quizzed as he battles to contain growing donations scandal – UK politics live
The Reform UK leader is under pressure after senior aides appeared to plot how to bypass electoral laws on foreign donations
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/Never Again @montrose.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
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Parody Nigel Farage @parodypm.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
"It was at this point that an oyster went down the wrong way and blocked my ear canals, meaning I missed the whole conversation where I agreed to a foreign donor illegally giving us £500,000..."
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Steve Peers @stevepeers.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Kent police said 'no arrests were made' of the people who blocked a port and roads. There's your two-tier policing, folks www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cm...
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Port of Dover delays: Disruption as masked 'stop the boats' protesters block roads
Hundreds of demonstrators, wearing black with their faces covered, caused delays to traffic reaching the port.
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Josiah Mortimer @josiahmortimer.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Ban us from your conference, this is what happens 😉
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Peter Jukes @peterjukes.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
TWO YEARS AGO: Deplatformed: Nigel Farage's Reform Bans Byline Times from their Party Conference – Byline Times bylinetimes.com/2024/09/20/d...
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Deplatformed: Nigel Farage's Reform Bans Byline Times from their Party Conference
Reform UK's leader claims to be fighting for free speech, but his party has banned a series of critical outlets from their events
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Peter Geoghegan @petergeoghegan.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
"Democracy for Sale will continue scrutinising money and influence in our politics, wherever we find it. "Reform can stop us going to their conference. But Farage and his friends can’t stop our journalism." New by me, on being banned by Reform democracyforsale.substack.com/p/ive-been-b...
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I’ve been banned by Reform. But this isn’t really about me.
My press accreditation for Reform’s conference was revoked. This should concern us all.
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Sam Bright @writesbright.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Farage told Congress last year that he never bans journalists from his events. He spoke at the behest of an anti-abortion group, the ADF. It's ironic, and pretty revolting, that Reform banned me from its conference after I reported that three anti-abortion groups are speaking at this year's event
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Farage lies to Congress
His jaunt to Washington didn’t go exactly as planned...
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
I think the Telegraph misspelled “the highly respected leader of Camden Council” in the headline.
Somali refugee tipped to face Polanski in Starmer by-election
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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Zia Yusuf has tweeted this about the leader of Camden Council, Sagal Abdi-Wali, who has lived in Camden for over 35 years, after arriving as a child refugee in the early 1990s. (Nadhim Zahawi, born in Baghdad to an Iraqi Kurdish family, came to the UK as an 11 year old:should be asked about this)
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Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Andy Burnham's first speech, "From the 1980s this country took a series of wrong turns" "Political power was centralised" "Economic power, privatised" "The country, deindustrialised" "Austerity followed" "And then Brexit compounded the damage" "Change begins with honesty"
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Paul Fernandez @exilefromgroggs.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Daily Mail reluctantly reporting that 84% of 156% of people support rejoining the EU.
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LBC @lbc.co.uk · 30/08/2026
"How many litres of water did you waste creating that nonsense!" Do you use AI to create stupid pictures? @natashadevon.bsky.social demands that you stop right now.
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Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
According to Nigel Farage, Iceland being in the EU Single Market, having free movement of people and belonging to Schengen is perfectly compatible with national independence. I look forward to him endorsing the same independence for the UK: back in the Single Market, with free movement and Schengen
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 30/08/2026
Pathetic -- Google is now referring to Lake Ontario as "Lake America"
screencap of Google Maps showing "Lake America"
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Gil Durán @gilduran.com · 06/12/2025
A Palantir billionaire just called for public hangings. “It's time to bring back masculine leadership to protect our most vulnerable,” writes Joe Lonsdale. This is where Silicon Valley authoritarianism is heading: www.thenerdreich.com/joe-lonsdale...
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Joe Lonsdale Calls For Public Hangings
Silicon Valley radicalization escalates
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Gavin Esler @gavinesler.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Worth a read:
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Russ Jones @russincheshire.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Enjoy your crop failures, constant wildfires, runaway food inflation, water shortages, failing electricity grid, fainting NHS staff, sleepless months, and family heat deaths. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
theguardian.com
Reform’s Tice says people should stop fighting climate crisis and ‘enjoy’ heat
Deputy leader says it is ‘arrogant’ to try to halt global heating, despite UK being left reeling by summer firewave
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