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Ally T

@allyttime.bsky.social
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Port Talbot, Norwich, London NW10, Bursa, Brighton, Newcastle upon Tyne. Where next? Education, politics, reading & environment & gardens. Bit of sport. Just a bit. Cymru am byth.

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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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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
You have to get a very long way through this BBC report before you learn which party runs the council which took the decision to close all these nurseries www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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South Tyneside Council nursery closures decision 'devastating'
Councillors confirm that all 10 Stanley's nurseries in South Tyneside will close by July 2027.
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James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
www.thepoke.com/2026/09/22/f...
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The first and last time Nigel Farage dared to face James O’Brien has gone viral again, and it’s still a glorious own
It’s easy to forget that Nigel Farage was once (technically) a colleague of James O’Brien at LBC, before he left the station in 2020 having made inflammatory remarks about Black Lives Matter protester...
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Victoria Derbyshire @vicderbyshire.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Undercover filming shows Nigel Farage celebrating illegal foreign donations Footage shows a plan to break electoral law by funnelling money from a US ‘businessman’ through a UK donor The donations funded a series of widely reported polls secretly commissioned by Reform
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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 22/08/2026
So much for the tidal wave about to break over British politics, this is a party that would struggle to run a bath. New Reform UK Defections & Resignations tracker now live 👇 bestforbritain.org/reform-uk-defections-resignations-tracker/
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James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
A big boy did it and ran away, apparently.
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
My column on how capital becomes a death cult. Faced with a choice between profit and human life, the radical right chooses profit. Then it tries to persuade us that mass death is what we want. It's the new phase of climate denial: accept your fate, earthlings. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Murderous heat, an endangered food supply, decimated landscapes: embrace the Mediterranean life | George Monbiot
As climate disaster stares us in the face, the radical right says ‘Embrace the Mediterranean life’. Embrace death, more like it, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
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Max B 💙 🔶 🇺🇦 🇬🇧 🇪🇺 @maxbrockbank.com · 03/08/2026
More AI slop.
AI TRANSLATES
TRUMP
FAKE NEWS" = This is true and I hate it.
LOW IQ" = Their intelligence intimidates me.
HORRIBLE PERSON" = They tell the truth about me.
WITCH HUNT"= I did it and hoped no one would find out.
HOAX = This is a damning indictment of me
and my illegal activities.
MANY PEOPLE ARE SAYING = 1 just made this up.
BELIEVE ME = What I'm saying is not true
NOBODY KNOWS MORE ABOUT X THAN I DO
I know almost nothing about X.
VERY UNFAIR = I'm being treated the same as
everyone else
TOTAL LOSER = They criticized me or stopped
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HAL @sperrympe.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
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James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
Not sure who did this but they should be arrested immediately.
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Resolution Foundation @resolutionfoundation.org · 26/07/2026
Is welfare spending ''out of control''? It's estimated to be 11.1 per cent of GDP this financial year. That's just 1.1 per cent of GDP higher than in 2007-08, and total welfare spending has actually fallen by 0.9 per cent of GDP since 2012-13 ⤵️
chart showing Social security spending as a proportion of GDP, by category: GB
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James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
New PM, same old media: Burnham is now simultaneously being accused of spending money he hasn't got on the policies he announces *and* not spending enough money on the policies he announces.
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Dale Vince @dalevince.com · 15/07/2026
Headlines will never be the same again. This landmark ruling today against the Daily Mail will reverberate across the sector. pressgazette.co.uk/media_law/da...
pressgazette.co.uk
Dale Vince wins damages on appeal over 'unfair' Daily Mail headline juxtaposition
Dale Vince wins three-year battle against the Daily Mail after he was misleadingly pictured next to a headline about a "'sex pest' donor"
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James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Oh get on with it, you whining coward.
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James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
And there it is… www.desmog.com/2026/04/30/r...
desmog.com
Revealed: Reform’s £24 Million from Fossil Fuel Interests
Reform UK has received £24 million from oil and gas interests, accounting for more than two thirds of its total income, DeSmog can reveal. Led by Nigel Farage, the party is calling for new North Sea o...
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Colin Yeo @colinyeo.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
This is absolutely damning.
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Zoe Gardner @zoejardiniere.bsky.social · 12/11/2024
Well, it has to be this: youtu.be/bf725n9KILA?...
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What to say when you are asked: Why don’t real refugees claim asylum in France?
YouTube video by Zoe Gardner
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THE NERVE @thenerve.news · 22/06/2026
“Imagine if every time a white man hurt a woman, other women … brought our torches and baseball bats into the streets and took vengeance arbitrarily”: @theguiltyfeminist.bsky.social’s @dfdubz.bsky.social on the licence for far-right white male violence www.thenerve.news/p/deborah-fr...
Text card saying: “where is the outrage from these masked men about the disproportionate violence against women and girls?” alongside a picture of Deborah Frances-White, against a black background and the words “Deborah Frances-White on the racist attacks in Belfast”
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Resolution Foundation @resolutionfoundation.org · 19/06/2026
Did you see the BBC Verify article that said defence spending has fallen as welfare spending has risen? It didn't look quite right to us. Check out @ruthcurtice.bsky.social's latest substack on how the defence versus welfare debate has been misrepresented ➡️ buff.ly/lc6ZVP4
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James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
And here it is. For all the whining about condescension & belittling the poorly educated, nobody - and I mean nobody - holds Nigel Farage’s base in more profound contempt than Nigel Farage.
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Ally T @allyttime.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
@chionwurah.bsky.social @cmckinnellmp.bsky.social @pippacrerar.bsky.social @jessphillipsmp.bsky.social
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James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
I mean, I wasn’t wondering but still…
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Ally T @allyttime.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
@cmckinnellmp.bsky.social www.facebook.com/share/p/1FzZ...
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Ally T @allyttime.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
@reformexposed.bsky.social This is being shared by my local Reform party and presumably by other Reform groups. Utterly disgusting and probably not genuine.
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James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
Well that’s what they voted for…
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Ally T @allyttime.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
@torstenbell.bsky.social good interview on Today. Great to hear you take no nonsense from Justin & set the record straight on NI.
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Lizzy Price @lizzyjprice.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
If only Simon Wolfson of Next hadn’t backed Brexit - the biggest act of self harm this country has inflicted in my lifetime. Then I might listen to him. But for the damage Brexit has caused?… well his views on employment & growth can get in the bin. #r4today.
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James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
However you dice it, it’s been a great night for Thai-based cryptocurrency billionaires & Vladimir Putin - who, incredibly, is currently getting more good news from the UK than Ukraine.
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Kaja Kallas @kajakallas.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
Europe is not just about geography, it's also about the values and principles we share. That’s why we are glad to welcome Canada at the European Political Community meeting today to discuss common issues. We will be talking about connectivity, but also resilience to the threats we are all facing.
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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 03/05/2026
For £200,000 Farage will promote your company and get his councils to buy your products. Just imagine what he’d do for you if you gave him £5,000,000. Because it wouldn’t be nothing. It’s never nothing. He’s in hock to his donors and if he took power, we’d all be. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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Reform frontbench promotes JCB’s pothole machine after firm’s £200,000 donation
Nigel Farage, Lee Anderson and Robert Jenrick, among others, have sung the praises of the JCB PotHole Pro
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Ash Oro @ashoro.co.uk · 30/04/2026
@marina-purkiss.bsky.social @jemmaforte.bsky.social @thetrawl.bsky.social And the numbers continue to rise - and the UK media (except for yourselves seemingly) are still ignoring this...
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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
Britain should rejoin EU, says man who led Brexit department Philip Rycroft, who oversaw the Department for Exiting the European Union from 2017 to 2019, said none of Leave’s ‘heady promises’ had materialised www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...
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Britain should rejoin EU, says man who led Brexit department
Philip Rycroft, who oversaw the Department for Exiting the European Union from 2017 to 2019, said none of Leave’s ‘heady promises’ had materialised
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Simon Marks @simonmarksfsn.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
Crackers.
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James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 19/04/2026
It’s not that these people still exist. That’s just biology. It’s that they are still being paid to shit in their own hands & start clapping.
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Torsten Bell @torstenbell.bsky.social · 19/04/2026
In case you’re confused - the £100k of tax Richard Tice failed to pay here is totally different to the - £92k of tax not properly withheld on dividends - the £600k side-stepped via highly aggressive tax avoidance Industrial scale grifting revealed by @danneidle.bsky.social and Gabriel Pogrund
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
When Angela Rayner underpaid £40,000 stamp duty on her flat, Richard Tice said it was "morally completely indefensible” and she should immediately resign if she had “any moral decency”. Now we learn he personally made £91,000 in excess payments by failing to pay the tax his company legally owed
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Dan Neidle @danneidle.bsky.social · 11/04/2026
The deputy leader of Reform UK, Richard Tice, owns a property company - Quidnet REIT. From 2020 to 2022 it paid Tice and his trust £600k in dividends. Quidnet should have paid £120k of tax on those dividends. It didn't. A 🧵 with evidence from the company's own filings:
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 10/04/2026
Buttigieg: "For the leader of this country to make a nakedly genocidal threat against another civilization as if the US was a death star that was going around blowing up civilizations, of course that is a new low ... the whole country is being judged just for tolerating that kind of thing at the WH"
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Dmitry Grozoubinski @explaintrade.com · 05/04/2026
I have to believe that one day the US President's communications will once again not routinely be so unhinged that you have to triple check the source to confirm they're not bad taste parody... ... but it is not this day.
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Ally T @allyttime.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
bsky.app/profile/neil... @lbc.co.uk @mrjamesob.bsky.social
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Neil Mackay @neilmackay.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
They hate Britain
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
DEL TORO, on A.I: “.. the value of art is not how much it costs or how little effort it requires. It’s how much would you risk to be in its presence.” @realgdt.bsky.social
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Ally T @allyttime.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
@cmckinnellmp.bsky.social bsky.app/profile/sund... What on earth is this?
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Daily Herald #FBPE #NAFO 🇬🇧🇺🇦🇬🇱 @dailyherald.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
Hi Reform UK and Andrea Jenkyns, how many Reform UK MPs were in the defence debate yesterday? By our count it was 0.
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
It's been eight hours since the Government announced that crypto donations to political parties had been banned effective immediately and Reform's crypto portal is still accepting donations
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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 22/03/2026
Who funds Reform? Greens will never take dirty money - our members power our party. People and planet remain our only vested interests. Join.greenparty.org.uk
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Ally T @allyttime.bsky.social · 22/03/2026
@chionwurah.bsky.social bsky.app/profile/mrja...
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@cmckinnellmp.bsky.social bsky.app/profile/mrja...
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Alan Rusbridger @arusbridger.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
Since Ofcom seems to have given up, we asked 20 experienced journalists from a range of backgrounds to watch multiple hours of @gbnewsonline.bsky.social . Their conclusion: the channel has, in effect, become Reform TV. How did it happen? www.thenewworld.co.uk/alan-rusbrid...
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Screen scandal: How Ofcom lets GB News get away with it
SPECIAL INVESTIGATION: A channel constantly breaking the rules has effectively become Reform TV, while our useless state regulator does nothing
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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 18/03/2026
Trump does not think strategically, historically, geographically, or even rationally. He does not connect actions he takes on one day to events that occur weeks later. Allied leaders know that if they help him in the Gulf, he won't be grateful, or even remember www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
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Everyone but Trump Understands What He’s Done
Allied leaders know that any positive gesture they make will count for nothing.
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