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Alison

@alison263.bsky.social
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Know something about housing, homelessness & welfare benefits. Opinions galore about lots of other things. Probably wrong about many of them. A bit grumpy since 2016.

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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
From the new Private Eye
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Bridget Phillipson MP @bphillipsonmp.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
There's more whitewash in this report than at your local B&Q. Nothing in it exonerates Reform UK or Nigel Farage. They're not above the rules. The sleaze, scandal & police investigations aren’t going away. It’s time to stop the cover ups and come clean to the public. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Reform internal inquiry says party did not break law over donations sting
Officials were recorded by undercover journalists discussing a potential way to secure foreign donations to the party.
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Anton Gerashchenko @antongerashchenko.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
An evening in Sochi, Russia, with a burning tanker in the background. Celebrating Putin’s birthday?
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Margo Gontar @margogontar.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Two more bodies were found under the rubble of sewing shop in Kharkiv after Russia bombed it with glide bombs today . Death toll rose to 5 people , 53 wounded , including 3 kids .
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Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan @london.gov.uk · 05/10/2026
For many West Londoners, the quickest route between two places often isn't the most direct. The West London Orbital would change that with a new Overground line between Hounslow and Hendon.
Graphic of proposed line from Hendon to Hounslow. Text below map reads "The proposed West London Orbital would unlock 25,000+ homes, support jobs and reduce congestion"
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Yaroslava @strategywoman.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Something unusual is happening in Kyiv. Calm. Since last night. It’s 4 pm. This calm feels like a spider’s web. Delicate. Fragile. May the spider keep doing its job.
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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Suella Braverman’s parents emigrated (they were horrible economic migrants not from a war zone she hates). She went to Cambridge for free and didn’t collect £27k debt like everyone else. Scrounger. She used the Erasmus scheme to study in France. Which she has blocked. Horrible
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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
We're one month out from Election Day. Listen to Willie. Vote for change this year.
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Nick Lloyd @spaincivilwartours.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
The Cable Street battle, Jewish London East End #OnThisDay 4 Oct 1936 with their banner explicitly adapting the antifascist slogan of the defence of Madrid "NO PASARÁN." They shall not pass. Many that day who fought against police who allowed the fascist march then came to Spain
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mimij9.bsky.social @mimij9.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Even though it’s the Tories who let our prisons rot, built no prisons and only made 500 prison more places in 14 years? The media blamed Keir Starmer for having to let prisoners out early because prisons are full and of course now it’s all Andy Burnham’s fault.
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MS NOW @ms.now · 30/09/2026
Bruce is headlining the “Power To The People” concert THIS SATURDAY! SET YOUR REMINDER AND WATCH HERE: www.youtube.com/watch?v=MLnT...
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Acid Rain @bearysweet.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
The colder autumn nights in Germany coaxes this magnificent eagle, Oropherion, to spend his nights in his heated indoor winter aviary. This is an African Martial Eagle (Polemaetus bellicosus), the largest eagle species native to Africa. (Cr @birdsofprey_nathalie_denolf) #birds #eagle
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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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The Onion @theonion.com · 30/09/2026
IT Guy Had Affinity For Cords At Young Age theonion.com/it-guy-had-affinity-fo…
IT Guy Had Affinity For Cords At Young Age
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Codfather #FBPE 🇫🇷🇪🇺 @codfather.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
😂 Oh dear - lol
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Margo Gontar @margogontar.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Popping in to give you these 2 numbers today : 744 and 2363. First is how many children in Ukraine Russia killed by now almost 5 years of daily bombings . Second is how many kids are missing .
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Paul Eric @pauleric70.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Timeline Cleanse ☺️
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The Onion @theonion.com · 26/09/2026
“First of all, he’s got my face as his profile picture, so that right there gave me a high degree of confidence, because I know what I look like.” — Kash Patel
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Kash Patel Phished By Scammer Posing As Kash Patel
WASHINGTON—Despite carefully checking and double-checking the credentials of the man who reached out to him via email, FBI director Kash Patel was reportedly phished Friday by a scammer posing as FBI ...
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 19/09/2026
The free press is under assault because of one man’s ego. Trump’s poll numbers are in the toilet, and members of his own party are running from him. There’s not much good news to report, so he’s punishing the press for reporting reality.
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Byline Times @bylinetimes.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Revealed: The Pro-Hitler Messages Behind the ‘Neo-Nazi’ Libel Case Funded by Reform’s Crypto Billionaire Donor Ben Delo financed a failed legal case in defense of two writers who privately exchanged pro-Hitler messages and talked about studying Mein Kampf...
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Revealed: The Pro-Hitler Messages Behind the ‘Neo-Nazi’ Libel Case Funded by Reform’s Crypto Billionaire Donor
Ben Delo financed a failed legal case in defense of two writers who privately exchanged pro-Hitler messages and talked about studying Mein Kampf
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Ryan Marino, MD @ryanmarino.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Notice how it’s never a polio survivor and always someone vaccinated for polio. They may be stupid but not stupid enough to risk of practicing their own beliefs themselves.
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U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission @cpsc.gov · 16/09/2026
Happy Baby Safety Month.
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Parody Nigel Farage @parodypm.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Dan Thomas? Didn't know him, never even met him.
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POLITICO Europe @politico.eu · 14/09/2026
A record proportion of British voters now have an unfavorable view of Reform UK Leader Nigel Farage, according to polling firm YouGov.
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Record number of Brits have unfavorable view of Nigel Farage
YouGov’s tracker finds 69% of Brits have an unfavorable view of the Reform UK leader — the highest it’s ever recorded.
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Ed Davey @eddavey.libdems.org.uk · 14/09/2026
My heart goes out to the Prime Minister on the loss of his dad. From our conversations he sounded like a wonderful man. My prayers are with his whole family as they mourn together.
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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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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
This is encouraging. As I wrote here, whether people notice immigration is falling is one of the key Qs in British politics at the moment. samf.substack.com/p/race-to-th...
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Race to the bottom
Falling immigration is pushing the right to further extremes - will it work?
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Thomas/Thom @thomasfein.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
September 12, Dublin. Thousands of “vicious Irish bastards” show up to unwelcome America’s warmongering-genocidal-rapist- paedophile President in Dublin.
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Bridget Phillipson MP @bphillipsonmp.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Farage can't buy his way out of the scandals he and Reform UK are drowning in, or the multiple police investigations that are ongoing into Reform’s dodgy finances. No amount of money will get rid of the stench of sleaze coming from Reform – the public can smell it. www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...
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Reform handed second £36m donation but Farage warned questions 'not going away'
Thai-based businessman Christopher Harborne, the party’s biggest donor, said on Saturday he was matching the £36million donation by fellow billionaire Ben Delo.
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Ukrainska Pravda 🇺🇦 @pravda.ua · 12/09/2026
Zelenskyy reports strikes on Russian chemical plants and destruction of Su-33 and 2 Mi-8 helicopters
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Zelenskyy reports strikes on Russian chemical plants and destruction of Su-33 and 2 Mi-8 helicopters – video
Zelenskyy said Ukrainian forces struck chemical plants in Perm and Samara, military targets in Taganrog and destroyed a Su-33 and two Mi-8 helicopters.
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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Farage's defence of his £5m gift from Harborne is it was a personal gift: nothing to do with politics. Strong circumstantial evidence links it: he was asking for £5 million to return as leader, fearing lost earnings, before given £5m Not sure £36m to the party from the donor helps his story!
Bus stop poster: "This guy gave Nigel a cheeky £5 million but definitely didn't want anything in return"
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Patrick Dunleavy @patrickdunleavy.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Reform UK Is Now a Wholly-Owned Subsidiary of the Corrupt Crypto Industry open.substack.com/pub/adambien...
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Reform UK Is Now a Wholly-Owned Subsidiary of the Corrupt Crypto Industry
As criminal investigations into Reform’s funding continue, much of the British press continues to give a free pass to Nigel Farage’s shady funders
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Torsten Bell @torstenbell.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Actual headline: “Farage sold himself to one foreign based crypto millionaire & has now sold his party to yet another one”. What a surprise that a party with little concrete policy has very specific policies on… crypto tax cuts
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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
The Telegraph's scrutiny of overt racism in Restore for the last month is welcome. But its odd for Mr Shipley to call it a "hostile takeover" when overt racists joined *by invitation* on day one + their membership was defended by key party staff + officials, against challenge from within + without
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paulusthewoodgnome @paulusthewoodgnome.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
£100K annual cap on political donations from British citizens living overseas? Yes, please. 'Reform has been given a record £36m donation by British cryptocurrency billionaire Ben Delo, convicted in the US for failing to implement anti-money laundering controls.' 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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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Biden checks his watch at a ceremony and Fox does nonstop segments on it for weeks. But Trump falls asleep repeatedly at the 9/11 ceremony and they won’t even show it. But national broadcast news networks won’t show it either because that would be impolite.
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Reform has now taken tens of millions of pounds from crypto billionaires at exactly the same time as promising to legislate to slash taxes on crypto sales in half, potentially saving them hundreds of millions
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Mark Carney @mark-carney.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Canadians look out for one another. It’s who we are. The women and men I met this week at the Thunder Bay Fire Management Centre have been working relentlessly to keep people safe through one of Ontario’s worst wildfire seasons on record. Service. Courage. Canada at its best.
Prime Minister Mark Carney speaks with a group of wildfire personnel on the tarmac at the Thunder Bay Fire Management Centre.Prime Minister Mark Carney joins wildfire personnel for a demonstration inside the Thunder Bay Fire Management Centre.Prime Minister Mark Carney stands with four members of Ontario’s wildfire response team at the Thunder Bay Fire Management Centre.
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CNN @cnn.com · 05/09/2026
President Donald Trump labeled the Iran war “small potatoes,” the latest attempt to minimize a six-month conflict that caused a spike in gas prices and led to the deaths of 18 American service-members.
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Trump says Iran conflict, which has killed 18 US service members and injured hundreds more, is ‘small potatoes’ | CNN Politics
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Jim Pickard @pickardje.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
there are now no fewer than five separate financial scandals engulfing Reform UK www.ft.com/content/0426...
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The five financing scandals facing Reform
Nigel Farage and his party are facing growing scrutiny over transparency and the source of donations
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Kuntie Plopkins @kuntieplopkins.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Farage complaining about Britain being a complainant society is objectively hilarious
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Headquarters @headquartersnews.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Fox News complains that underage teenage girls aren’t getting pregnant enough: “The problem is teens and young adults. From ages 15-19, the fertility rate is down 70% in the last 2 decades, which means we are telling people who are young not to have babies.”
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The Onion @theonion.com · 01/09/2026
Your World. Your Merch. Our Money. store.theonion.com/products/nations…
'Nation's Optimists Need to Shut the Fuck Up Right Now' T-Shirt
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CJ Fogler @cjzero.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
The international commentary reaction got me 😂
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CNN @cnn.com · 01/09/2026
Asked by CNN's Manu Raju about the prolonged warfare in Iran, Speaker Mike Johnson said he has "nothing to do with the prosecution of the war across the globe."
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Joey Scott @joeyneverjoe.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
New from me: LAPD released video from an in-custody death that occurred in July. Jose Carlos Hoyos-Munoz appeared to be in crisis as 6 to 9 officers beat him three separate times. One officer is seen putting his knee into the back and neck of Munoz. He died 20 min later. lataco.com/lapd-beat-ha...
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Police Video Shows LAPD Beat Handcuffed Man in Van Nuys Jail Before His Death ~ L.A. TACO
LAPD officers forcefully restrained a man, kneed him, and struck him with their elbows. He was later found dead in his cell.
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Lindsey Rachev @lrachev.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
We are never moving on from the Epstein files
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Rachel Rees @rachel-rees.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
As honoured as I am to see that The Times has picked up my Chagos article practically *word for word*, including my hard-gotten quotes, I’d prefer some credit — or for everyone to read my original FT piece! free link to read the evidently enviable article below (cheaper than a Times sub!) 🌴
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Blue Tsunami #NoKings @bluefuture.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Too many people don't realize this.
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Alison @alison263.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
www.nytimes.com/2026/08/28/n...
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‘Lake America’? These Upstate New Yorkers Aren’t Letting Go of ‘Ontario.’ (Gift Article)
President Trump on Thursday signed an order rechristening Lake Ontario as Lake America, but businesses around Niagara Falls say they won’t be changing their tune.
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