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Alicepugh @alicepugh.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
This is a disgrace. Brave RNLI volunteers being called scum for risking their lives to save others at sea is just plain wrong. So I've signed an open letter of thanks for the RNLI letting them know these thugs do not speak for the rest of us. Add your name?
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Alicepugh @alicepugh.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
We need to show rightwing newspapers that actions have consequences. Add your name: goodlawproject.org/s/abb8a1
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Jason Arday: Demand a public inquiry now | Good Law Project
Commission an immediate public inquiry into how to ensure a responsible press given its contribution to Dr Arday’s tragic death.
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Alicepugh @alicepugh.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
Never before has a politician gloried in having enriched themselves by breaking the rules, and then demanded a mandate to continue doing so indefinitely
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Alicepugh @alicepugh.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
With Keir Starmer resigning, a new PM is moving into No.10 soon. Let's make sure a message from us is waiting on their desk on day one! We need a wealth tax on the super-rich to fund housing, health, and our communities. Add your name so they can't ignore us you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/de...
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Dear future Prime Minister: It's time to tax the super-rich
With Keir Starmer stepping down, a new PM will be taking over soon. Let's make sure they hear from us on day one. Sign the petition demanding a wealth tax on the ultra-rich to fund our communities, he...
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Alicepugh @alicepugh.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
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Luca @lucagalletti.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
Socialism for the wealthy, feudalism for everyone else.
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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
Crypto isn’t part of the FCA’s remit so they can’t investigate Farage yet for his corrupt lobbying on behalf of his crypto donors. But come on. These moneymen are so far from well-intentioned, it’s absurd. £5mill Farage is their deregulation-monkey. Their path to profit. At our expense. (iPaper)
Watchdog: we can't look into Farage crypto claim yet
By Alexa Phillips
Nigel Farage has been reported to the UK's financial watchdog over his links to the billionaire crypto investor and Reform UK donor Christopher Harborne - but cryptocurrency is nohe latorir Parte has urged the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) to investigate whether the Reform leader's public advocacy on cryptocurrencies and sta-blecoins may have benefited Harborne and other donors.
Cryptoassets are not currently within the FCAs remit for regula-tion, with a spokesperson saying they will not be
"fully within our regulatory regime" until October 2027.
Its remit does however extend to financial promotions - which would also include cryptocurrency - and Labour has asked for a probe into whether Farage has fallen foul of those rules.
Labour's referral follows reports that Farage used a private meeting with the Bank of England to urge the Governor, Andrew Bailey, to drop plans for a state-run cryptocurrency that could be costly for Harborne.

The regulator will respond to the letter from Anna Turley, the chair of the Labour Party, within 15 days.
The FCA is understood to be considering whether it can investigate any part of Labour's complaint.
In the letter to the FCA, the Labour chair said Farage has
"publicly praised the stablecoin Tether, attacked measures that could limit the growth of private stablecoins and argued that the UK should become a global centre for crypto-asset activity"
She added: "At the same time, he and his political party are both being funded directly by people with financial interests in
cryptocurrencies.
"I urge you to investigate Nigel Farage's apparent efforts to use his public role to benefit those who have contributed to him financially."
Farage (inset) is currently being investigated by the Parliamentary Standards Commission over whether he broke the rules by failing to declare a €5m gift from Harborne.
Reform UK was contacted for comment in response to the
FCA report.
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Alicepugh @alicepugh.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
www.bylinesupplement.com/p/keir-starm...
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Keir Starmer's Resignation and The Real 'Moral Bankruptcy' That Brought Him Down
The Prime Minister promised to restore morality to our politics, but often fell far short of his own standards, argues Adam Bienkov
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Alicepugh @alicepugh.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
Reliably great analysis from Adam
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Alicepugh @alicepugh.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
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R.J. Gerber Jr. @fathitler.com · 16/06/2026
It's crazy that Farage, who was up to his eyeballs in Cambridge Analytica with Steve Bannon, stealing user data from Facebook, forwarding it to Putin, and enabling Vlad to game the Brexit and 2015 U.S. elections with "micro-targeting" of constituents, isn't remembered for that.
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 16/06/2026
Book bans make a lot more sense when you realize some of these politicians aren’t big readers.
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Alicepugh @alicepugh.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
Farage has sent Yusuf to Washington “to convince key figures in and around the Trump administration that his party is their principal British ally” He wants MAGA money to push “transatlantic concerns about civilisational decline” ie - to spin prejudice into power. giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...
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Reform UK seeks to rebuild its ties with Maga
Nigel Farage’s party risks being displaced by far-right rival Restore Britain
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Rep. Melanie Stansbury (NM-01) @repstansbury.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
Trump loves inflation now!?!? Americans are struggling and don’t know if they’re going to make it to the end of the month. Trump’s war in the Middle East, tariffs, and his Big Ugly Bill, which kicked millions off healthcare, food, and education assistance to give his friends permanent tax breaks.
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Carol Hedges @riotgrandma.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
😡🇬🇧😡🇬🇧😡🇬🇧😡🇬🇧😡🇬🇧 From Threads. Every ‘principled’ Labour minister who fucks off in a huff is increasing the chances of this. You ‘hate’ SKS? You will hate this even more. And once the UK loses its NHS, etc it will NEVER return.
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Alicepugh @alicepugh.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
Reform and Restore are both hard right and poisonous – but their differences could be their undoing
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Alicepugh @alicepugh.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cr...
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Homes set on fire in Belfast night of violence as MP says people were targeted based on skin colour - follow live
On one street, hundreds of masked men carrying bottles and bricks set bins on fire and shouted "foreigners out", our reporter says.
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Alicepugh @alicepugh.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
UK’s growing green economy worth more than £100bn a year, research finds
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Alicepugh @alicepugh.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Reform St Helens councillor assaulted woman while working pub doors
Emma Beck was found guilty of assault by beating after shoving a woman in her 60s to the floor.
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Alicepugh @alicepugh.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
@willhaycardiff.bsky.social Labour voters lent their votes to Plaid to keep Reform out. When Welsh voters realise Plaid won’t do any better they’ll vote labour again. Reform won’t get a look in when they’ll do nothing to improve Wales either
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Ken @kenlad1.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
The reason the ‘right’ are not held to account for antisemitism, corruption, down right lying is because the ‘right’ control the media. The right wing media are almost completely responsible for the divisions in this country. Divisions they create because ultimately it gives them power and wealth
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Marina Purkiss @marina-purkiss.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
Angela Rayner was dragged through every front page for weeks... HMRC's verdict: NOT deliberate. NOT even careless. Farage pockets £5 million and chooses not to declare it So where's the wall-to-wall coverage? Tell me this isn't a rigged game.
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Alicepugh @alicepugh.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
2026 elections mapped: how Labour lost ground in different directions
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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
Have to say.. as red flags go, proposing to set up concentration camps and taking a £5M personal bribe would be the top two when deciding who NOT to vote for. It is genuinely insane and extremely troubling that Farage could still be electable despite that… or even because of it. WTAF, UK?
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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
Why do we have to tolerate such unadulterated bollox from this hideous man? And why does the media give it all a veneer of potential respectability? Farage is pathologically corrupt and obscenely greedy. He’s a national security threat, a liar and a racist. Just say so. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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No obligation to declare £5m gift, Nigel Farage says
The Reform UK leader says the gift was
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
The media forensically dissects the pasts of people who challenge the status quo, such as Polanski and Corbyn. Fair enough, up to a point: we should know about our representatives. But it's far less inquisitive about those who defend power, however great their misdeeds, such as Nigel Farage.🧵
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Matthias Eberl @eberlmat.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
Boris Johnson was a product of the media and their failure to hold him to account. Donald Trump is a product of the media and their failure to hold him to account. Nigel Farage is a product of the media and their failure to hold him to account. Are these really the people we want to be in charge?
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
I actually can't believe that Farage and his party of xenophobic shitbags are running and polling so high and that the media are just treating it like it's normal. It's nightmarish to watch.
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Carol Hedges @riotgrandma.bsky.social · 19/04/2026
😾🇬🇧😾🇬🇧😾🇬🇧😾🇬🇧😾 TWO things i found on Threads that made me stop and think. 1. Confirmation that the media is biased against Labour and are working actively to bring it and SKS down 2. No surprise. Now imagine how Farage, the media darling, or any of his scummy crew would fare.
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Laura Phillips @lauraphillips.bsky.social · 19/04/2026
@gabrielpogrund.bsky.social "It’s the tax Tice failed to pay on profits from his property firm deposited in 4 shell entities: Tisun 1, 2, 3, 4.Their parent then donated to Reform."Just checked #BBCNews #website no sign UK, Home, Politics. Why? #BBCiplayer Laura Kuenssberg asked about it on her show.
@gabrielpogrund.bsky.social "It’s the tax Tice failed to pay on profits from his property firm deposited in 4 shell entities: Tisun 1, 2, 3, 4.Their parent then donated to Reform."Just checked #BBCNews #website no sign UK, Home, Politics. Why?
#BBCiplayer Laura Kuenssberg asked about it on her show. Please excuse me for not being able to reproduce all of a very long piece. I  posted important clips yesterday on Bluesky.
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 19/04/2026
When Angela Rayner underpaid £40,000 in stamp duty, Richard Tice said it was "morally completely indefensible” and she should resign if she had “any moral decency”. Now we learn he set up four shell companies that let him avoid paying £100,000 he owed in tax and to then transfer the cash to Reform
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Alicepugh @alicepugh.bsky.social · 04/04/2026
The government’s own climate advisers say that investing in wind and solar, home upgrades and electric vehicles would cost less than one of these shocks - and protect us from future ones. [2]
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Alicepugh @alicepugh.bsky.social · 04/04/2026
The problem is Big Oil giants and their political puppets are the ones benefiting from these crises. They’ll do anything they can to keep us stuck in their dirty energy trap.
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Alicepugh @alicepugh.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
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Alicepugh @alicepugh.bsky.social · 28/03/2026
It’s time for Keir Starmer to pick a side. From protecting our right to peaceful protest, to getting us off dangerous fossil fuels, the UK can be the alternative to everything that’s wrong with Trump. Join me in urging Starmer to choose people and planet over billionaire-backed bullies
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Alicepugh @alicepugh.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
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Alicepugh @alicepugh.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
There are no missiles raining down on Havana. But what I saw there was still warfare
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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
“That’s why Reform’s fossil-fuel funded politicians are so opposed to climate science and… Net Zero… Not because Net Zero is an economic failure but because its success will hit their donors’ profits” Farage: Never acts in the national interest. Only ever his own. open.substack.com/pub/democrac...
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Farage's fossil fuel donors profit from Iran war
Democracy for Sale analysis finds 'war premium' driving up energy costs is also boosting the portfolios of some of Reform's biggest backers
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Alicepugh @alicepugh.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
Thames Water's creditors are trying their luck. Their latest proposal is another brazen attempt to dodge regulations. I've just emailed my MP asking them to reject the proposal, and bring Thames Water into Special Administration. Email your MP now: weownit.org.uk/act-now/emai...
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Email your MP - the Thames Water creditors' latest deal must be rejected
The Thames Water creditors' latest proposal still asks for regulatory leniency. Email your MP to get them to urge Environment Secretary Emma Reynolds to resist the deal
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Alicepugh @alicepugh.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
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Alicepugh @alicepugh.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... found it! BBC on Tice tax dodging hidden away as compared with Angela Rayner tax mistake
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Labour urges tax investigation into Reform's Richard Tice
It follows a newspaper report that Tice had avoided corporation tax worth hundreds of thousands of pounds.
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Alicepugh @alicepugh.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
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Alicepugh @alicepugh.bsky.social · 07/03/2026
While Trump monetises war, Iran women’s team deliver great act of sporting heroism
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Alicepugh @alicepugh.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
Murdoch scum family
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James Ball @jamesrball.com · 03/03/2026
A reminder: Matt Goodwin lost heavily in spite of an almost total lack of tactical voting, not because of it. The combined Green/Labour vote was 66%, versus 28.7% for Reform. If Labour and the Greens split the vote 50/50 – a total coordination fail – he'd have finished third, not second.
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Alicepugh @alicepugh.bsky.social · 22/02/2026
Royal Mail are putting profits first and prioritising parcels instead of letters. It means people are missing things like NHS appointments and bills that need paying. Enough is enough, sign the petition now to stop Royal Mail's greedy actions:
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