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Alan Johnson

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Lover of dance music & parkrun; occasional presenter @phoenixfm.com

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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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Matthew Wright @matthew-wright.bsky.social · 22h
Out on patrol nice and early. Pleased to report no fascists spotted on the beach again. Happy days x
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Phoenix FM @phoenixfm.com · 04/10/2026
Here's what you can hear today on Phoenix FM - tune in on 98.0FM, DAB and online. #phoenixfm #Essex
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Phoenix FM @phoenixfm.com · 03/10/2026
Here's what you can hear today on Phoenix FM - tune in on 98.0FM, DAB and online. #phoenixfm #Essex
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Humanists UK @humanists.uk · 30/09/2026
Humanists UK mourns Dame Esther Rantzen (1940–2026) Esther was a great champion of human dignity. She approached her final years with the same fearless determination that defined her career of advocacy, using her own experience to shine a light on the suffering caused by our outdated laws.
Esther Rantzen smiling wearing a blue-and-red feathered fascinator and red coat, with headline text noting her years (1940–2026).
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Alice Roberts @profaliceroberts.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Reform want to indoctrinate our children. Freedom of (and from) belief is a human right. humanists.uk/2026/09/10/s...
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Reform UK Braverman promises 'consequences' if pupils don't sing hymns
Reform UK has said schools will face ‘consequences’ if they fail to make pupils regularly sing hymns and the national anthem under a Reform government. The party’s education spokesperson, Suella Brave...
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Chris Grey @chrisgrey.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Farage (et al) literally panting for Fairford to be linked to asylum seekers and, as usual, the ludicrous demand for immediate information with totally irresponsible implication that the absence of such information is suspect.
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Phoenix FM @phoenixfm.com · 28/09/2026
Here's what you can hear today on Phoenix FM - tune in on 98.0FM, DAB and online. #phoenixfm #Essex
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Paul Golder @pvg.co.uk · 26/09/2026
This week's show features these great artists and more - if you like the show, give them a follow! @melysmusic.bsky.social @marijnevdvlugt.bsky.social @theedarlingbuds.bsky.social @themetatrons.bsky.social @bugeyemusic.bsky.social
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Phoenix FM @phoenixfm.com · 27/09/2026
Here's what you can hear today on Phoenix FM - tune in on 98.0FM, DAB and online. #phoenixfm #Essex
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Chris Smith @ledredman.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Government intervention in the housing market always results in the same thing. Higher house prices. This benefits only estate agents and developers and people selling off their property assets. It never benefits first time buyers.
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Tom Powdrill @tompowdrill.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
We're right up at the edge here. An MP and deputy leader of a political party playing footsie with the idea it's ok for a street gang to take the law into their own hands
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Gerry Hassan @gerryhassan.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Farage and Reform despise the characteristics that make a civilised society. The RNLI have a mission to save lives irrespective of who the person is, their background & where they are from. The RNLI saved enemy forces in the seas around the UK in WW1 & WW2 but such humanitarianism is beyond Farage.
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Alan Rusbridger @arusbridger.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
If you add in £130m losses on “Reform TV” (aka GB News) the effective subsidy of Farage’s party from just four men tops £200m. You just have to join the dots app.prospectmagazine.co.uk/story/75017/...
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Farage and the £130m even his detractors have missed
GB news has provided relentless positive PR for Nigel Farage while racking up tens of millions in financial losses. And now there is a new channel in the offing
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Phoenix FM @phoenixfm.com · 20/09/2026
New post! 📰 Vicki Michelle’s Music Mix – show 315 👤 Vicki Michelle 🏷 Vicki Michelle's Music Mix Two hours of great music with our resident ‘Allo ‘Allo! star. phoenixfm.com/2026/09/20/vicki-mich…
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Natasha Devon @natashadevon.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
The same people who said ‘all lives matter’ in response to BLM are now arguing that refugees should be left to drown in the Channel.
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Alex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
I would love to ask a prominent BBC journalist to give me an example of an illegitimate concern. Is seems to me that it has become a question not of fact, logic, or ethics but of volume. If a big enough proportion of a village was anxious about Bigfoot or Chemtrails, BBC would cover it in a way...
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Prayers with Clive @cliverj.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Urgent! Xi and Trump in Washington next week. Alarm bells ringing about AI. Space warfare a difference for both superpowers. We really are into existential stuff that demands our attention right now. Find out why in the new episode of Impact! Listen here: www.podbean.com/ew/pb-pbpyy-...
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Summit of Giants: Trump, Xi and the Race to Control AI
Rarely has a meeting between a US and Chinese President been more critical, as Presidents Trump and Xi prepare to meet for their summit in Washington next week. Their agenda includes trade tariffs, wa...
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Time to deport all these fighting age men terrorising our patriotic lifeboat volunteers www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
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Lifeboat station in Portsmouth forced to temporarily shut after far-right action
RNLI facility had been targeted by activists trying to stop asylum seekers landing in boats from the Channel
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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Could govt explain to the majority of liberal, progressive voters in this country why our genuinely legitimate concerns - about the rise in racism and flag-waving thuggery on our streets, are repeatedly brushed aside while they pathetically pander to the racist angst of a nasty, uninformed minority?
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Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
£3 - the annual Labour affiliation fee per affiliated union member. £36,000,000 - how much each of two billionaires donated to Reform UK. One billionaire donated the equivalent of 12 million union members’ annual affiliation fees. The two are not the same.
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Stephen Farrow @stephenfarrow.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Breaking news: flag-shaggers triggered by flags.
GBNews headline: last night of the proms hijacked by EU flags on 10th Brexit anniversary as union jacks outnumbered
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Parody Nigel Farage @parodypm.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Ironically, having £72 million will mean I can spend more money promoting the idea that I'm a man of the people and not just a rich, entitled tosser.
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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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Alex von Tunzelmann @alexvont.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
My brain can’t accept that Ben Delo is a real person’s name. Ben Delo. Bendelo. Pedalo. At best, something called a bendelo is a jockstrap
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Parody Nigel Farage @parodypm.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
"So tell me Mr Farage, what was it about a system favoured by money launderers that allows donations to be totally untraceable that first attracted you to crypto?"
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Paul Golder @pvg.co.uk · 12/09/2026
This week's show features these great artists and more - if you like the show, give them a follow! @theedarlingbuds.bsky.social @waltdisco.bsky.social @hmsmorris.com @franzferdinandhq.bsky.social @themetatrons.bsky.social @tmbg.bsky.social
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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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Tanita Tikaram @tanitatikaram.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
What I love about Western democracy is you can bung a political party £ 36 million earned from criminal activity & most media will continue to point at asylum seekers & migrant care workers with families as the barbarians at the gate we need to defend ourselves from 🙄.
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Livsbian 🌈 @livvytrouble.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Small boats Trannies in the toilet Legitimate concerns It’s all being beamed into our brains by very wealthy people buying democracy
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Lewis Goodall @lewisgoodall.com · 12/09/2026
Astounding story. Reform receives a *second* £36m donation from a crypto billionaire in 48 hours. Christopher Harborne- the £5m benefactor- has matched Ben Delo's money pound for pound. £72m in total. Approaching US politics sort of money. www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/202...
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Robert Saunders @robertsaunders.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Reform is the richest party in Britain. Its leaders are almost all millionaires. It is funded almost exclusively by billionaires. It has a supportive TV station and widespread media backing. So naturally, this donation comes with the usual attack on "elites". www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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Reform UK given record £36m donation by British crypto billionaire
Ben Delo was convicted in US for failing to implement adequate anti-money laundering controls but pardoned by Trump
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Edwin Hayward @edwinhayward.com · 12/09/2026
Labour flubbed the chance to cap political donations and now Reform are sitting on a fresh £72 million war chest from two mega donors. Idiots.
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Toby Earle 🇺🇦 @tobyontv.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
‘Nigel, what first attracted you to a convicted money launderer’s £36 million?’
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Toby Earle 🇺🇦 @tobyontv.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
if you’re not leading the Reform story with ‘A convicted money launderer…’ you’re just reading a press release
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Bylines Network @bylinesnetwork.co.uk · 12/09/2026
The Reform councillors’ vanishing act Folks tempted to vote for a Reform candidate can’t be at all sure what they’re going to get or even how long they are going to get it for northeastbylines.co.uk/news/politic...
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The Reform councillors’ vanishing act
Folks tempted to vote for a Reform candidate can’t be at all sure what they’re going to get or even how long they are going to get it for
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Natasha Devon @natashadevon.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Yes, for a moment there we had the fleeting possibility that women of all shapes and sizes might be confident enough not to pour all their resources, potential and time into fitting an incredibly narrow beauty aesthetic. ‘Thank goodness that didn’t happen’ says Michael Deacon.
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Slim, beautiful women are back in fashion. Thank God for that
After years of using 'inclusive' models to appease the woke crowd, advertisers have realised that people are attracted to attractive people
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Thomas Swales @thomasswales.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
When people call the BBC ‘woke’ they are shoving at the Overton Window: define the presently soft-right status quo as woke so the whole apparatus can crabscuttle further right. Relatedly: information level, journalistic skills. Webb the least informed & least skilled Today presenter ever.
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Reform Party UK Exposed @reformexposed.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Protesters were pulled out by their hair – but nobody seemed shocked www.islingtontribune.co.uk/article/prot...
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Protesters were pulled out by their hair – but nobody seemed shocked
While Reform have little chance of making a difference in Holborn and St Pancras, Nigel Farage’s party looms large nationally. As our conference season coverage begins, the Tribune’s Amy Reid went to…
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Victoria Derbyshire @vicderbyshire.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
I was sent to cover 9/11 for BBC Radio Five Live Many many traumatised people in the depths of despair continually stopped me in Manhattan holding pictures of their loved ones to ask, ‘have you seen my father’; ‘have you seen my sister?’
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Dak @dak.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
I ordered a large pizza for dinner and the delivery guy said 'enjoy the party,' so I had to yell 'food's here guys' into my completely empty hallway.
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East Anglia Bylines @eastangliabylines.co.uk · 11/09/2026
When someone is in peril at sea, our lifeboat crews don’t ask where they’re from. They go and save them. That’s courage. That’s humanity. That’s professionalism says MP Our RNLI volunteers should never be made targets for doing their vital work. eastangliabylines.co.uk/lifestyle/co...
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MP stands up for North Norfolk lifeboat crews
Steff Aquarone MP has issued a statement praising RNLI lifeboat crews for their vital role. He condemned any hostility towards rescuers.
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Andrew Copson @andrewcopson.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
OR... perhaps they could just change the law so that Prime Ministers no longer appoint bishops, given that it's a clear violation of freedom of religion and belief (and frankly ridiculous)
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Andrew Copson @andrewcopson.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Bishops and Archbishops have voted against: abolition of slavery, abolition of death penalty, decriminalising abortion, decriminalising gay sex, same-sex marriage. So this is just the latest in long tradition of opposition to choice and freedom. It's scandalous that they get to vote on laws at all!
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Holly 🇺🇦🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈🇵🇸 @mxhollyclara.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
I am still (11 years later) unable to grasp how the images of little Alan Kurdi’s body washed up on a beach wasn’t the final word on treating refugees with compassion and dignity. How we are we having attacks on the RNLI for saving HUMAN lives being encouraged by our media. I weep for our world.
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Dr Joanna Nadin @joannanadin.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Heard a BBC vox pop (truly the bottom feeding of broadcast journalism) complain that the RNLI might not be able to get to ‘genuine people’ because they were busy rescuing from small boats. ‘GENUINE PEOPLE’. Imagine being that level of soulless d**k.
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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
The AfD and Reform immigration policies are almost identical. There is no plausible reason for considering one far right and the other not.
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Phoenix FM @phoenixfm.com · 06/09/2026
Here's what you can hear today on Phoenix FM - tune in on 98.0FM, DAB and online. #phoenixfm #Essex
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Paul Golder @pvg.co.uk · 05/09/2026
That's it for this week! You can hear the show - and all the other ones - again on our website.
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