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Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 21h

NEW: Prime Minister Andy Burnham finally breaks a decade of UK govt silence…& reveals there was ‘clear’ Russian interference in the Brexit vote. 1/

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Peter Jukes @peterjukes.bsky.social · 23h

So, finally, a PM who admits there **was** Russian interference in the Brexit Referendum — after all the evidence amassed by myself @carolecadwalla.bsky.social @lukeharding1968.bsky.social Sergei Cristo, J Patrick et al — dismissed as conspiracy for ten long years Truth is the daughter of Time

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Sathnam Sanghera @sathnam.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Dear tv and radio producers. Thankyou for the invitation. But, no, I do not want to appear on your show to defend the idea that I am English, after 50 years of living and working here, because the increasingly feral right want to turn this into a "debate" and you cannot see how you're being played

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Max B 💙 🔶 🇺🇦 🇬🇧 🇪🇺 @maxbrockbank.com · 05/10/2026

Standing up to the balaclava nonces. Inspiring.

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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

As long as the Tories are threatening to leave the ECHR, they aren’t a serious party. Consider it the ultimate red flag. Any party who’d take this entirely unnecessary and ruinous risk with our rights and our country’s security and wellbeing should never get its hands on power. (Letter, Times)

Value of the
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Sir, In dangerous times, serious countries do not retreat into splendid isolation. They build alliances, multiply their influence and strengthen institutions. Key among those is the 46-member Council of Europe, at its heart the European Convention on Human Rights.

As former independent reviewers of terrorism legislation we have seen at close quarters that the ECHR is not just a human rights instrument. It is a national security asset. Terrorist networks, hostile states, organised crime gangs and people smugglers do not respect borders. Tackling them requires arrangements for the closest possible co-operation with our neighbours, including through joint investigations and police access to European passenger, fingerprint, DNA and vehicle data.

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Robert Saunders @robertsaunders.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

The ability to pour hundreds of millions of pounds into a loss-making TV channel, bent on wrenching British politics sharply to the right, is yet another of the ways in which extreme wealth is trying to remake UK democracy. It needs to be part of any serious conversation about political funding.

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Musa Okwonga @okwonga.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

This can't be talked about enough. "President Donald Trump's move to cut most of the US funding towards foreign humanitarian aid could cause more than 14 million additional deaths by 2030, according to research published in The Lancet medical journal." www.bbc.com/news/article...

bbc.com

Trump's aid cut risks causing 14 million deaths, report finds

The figure from the Lancet, a leading medical journal, includes 700,000 child deaths globally a year.

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Anette S @anettesch.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

For years, Stephen Lennon has asked supporters to trust him and fund him. A Channel 4 Dispatches investigation, made with HOPE not hate, has raised serious questions about his finances. I’ve added my name calling for a full investigation. Will you? secure.hopenothate.org.uk/page/199860/...

secure.hopenothate.org.uk

CALL FOR AN HMRC INVESTIGATION INTO STEPHEN LENNON

A year-long Channel 4 Dispatches investigation has raised serious questions about Stephen Lennon’s finances. Add your name and call on the Government to refer them to HMRC for investigation.

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Emma Monk @monkemma.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

🧵 As front-page headlines go, this has to be one of the most misleading I've seen in a long time It's an out-and-out lie But notice the trick they use to get away with it...👀 *They're* not lying - they're just quoting someone else who is👍🏻 In this case, the leader of the opposition🙄 1/33

Daily Express headline:

"More Freedoms Handed to New Arrivals than British Citizens"

Above an image of Kemi Badenoch

All with a Monk Debunked stamp on top

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Peter Geoghegan @petergeoghegan.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Hmmm on what is arguably the biggest issue in British politics right now, Andy Burnham’s government sounds a lot like Keir Starmer’s…. Wild thought, but maybe this is what happens when you keep the same people in post?

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John Oxley @joxley.jmoxley.co.uk · 23/09/2026

The man who filmed himself stabbing one, with a person on board, is still seemingly at large.

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Will Jennings📉🗳️ @drjennings.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

There are so many crimes in this thread you have to wonder what the police and Home Secretary think they are doing at this point.

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Emma Yeomans @yeomans.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Worrying scenes in the Channel today, for all interested in asylum policy and maritime tactics. A small boat from Normandy spent more than 30 hours at sea. Those on board now on their 2nd rescue vessel as Border Force forced to play cat and mouse with far-right activists who have their own boat.

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Abilu Tangwa. @abilutangwa.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Stop calling it a climate problem. Call it what it is: organized greed. The planet isn’t dying. It’s being killed for profit. The killers have names. And boardrooms. #ClimateJustice #StopEcocide

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Dmitry Grozoubinski @explaintrade.com · 20/09/2026

I don't think we disdain the center-right enough. First, they rode nativist populist tigers to power to get their tax cuts and deregulation; Then, they lost control of their own parties to those tigers; Now, they sit in lucrative jobs as columnists writing about how it's all the left's fault.

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Peter Geoghegan @petergeoghegan.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

This is absolute madness Labour - and I’d say what’s left of the centre right - is an existential battle against oligarchy But it hasn’t a clue that it is

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Richard Corbett CBE @richardcorbett.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

£72 million is more than every UK political party combined accepted in donations and public funds throughout the whole of 2025. It’s more than twice what a party contesting every seat may spend nationally in the year before a general election. This is NOT normal! www.uglypolitix.com/p/two-men-48...

uglypolitix.com

Two men, 48 hours, £72m - What’s the Problem?

Two men gave Reform more in 48 hours than every British party raised in 2025. The Government's answer is a working group with no members, no remit and no timetable.

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Dean Hochlaf @dhochlaf.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Updating political finance rules for an era where some individuals can mobilise the resources of mid-sized nation states just seems like the most obvious thing in the world to do, am amazed that there has been opposition within the labour movement to this

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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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Jonathan Portes @jdportes.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

What Sam said. Meanwhile, in Denmark, migrants' kids lag 20/30/40 points behind on average -and there are still people here who think *we* should copy *them* on immigration/integration.

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

80 year-olds with pro-Palestine signs: arrested as terrorists. Greens planning to block a road, to highlight an existential crisis: sent down for years. Masked far-right thugs blocking roads and ports, using intimidation, obstruction & threatening behaviour: no arrests. The real two-tier policing.

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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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Dr Jo Kershaw @mthrjo.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

The RNLI have some of the best people in Britain volunteering for them. They put their lives on the line when they are called on and they will rescue anyone who needs them. Because every life matters, and offering help is the right thing to do. You can donate here: rnli.org

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RNLI - Royal National Lifeboat Institution - Saving Lives at Sea

The RNLI is the charity that saves lives at sea. We do this through lifeboat search and rescue, lifeguards, water safety education and international interventions.

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Tom Phillips @tom-phillips.com · 05/09/2026

almost word for word

Screenshot of tweet from @InternetHippo:

New right wing thing is describing crimes as generically as possible to pretend like they're not crimes. Someone gets convicted of conspiracy and they start yelling "Wow so it's illegal to make plans with friends now"

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John Oxley @joxley.jmoxley.co.uk · 05/09/2026

A large group of co-ordinated, masked men blockading a piece of significant infrastructure is a security threat and should be dealt with as one. There should also be serious questions about why police/intelligence services didn't pick up on it in advance.

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Neil Goodrich @ngoodrichhsg.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Response from Burnham will be important. These are actual fascists. They must be treated as such. Not 'concerned citizens'.

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Garvan Walshe @garvanwalshe.org · 05/09/2026

If they’re not making claims about what they’re supposedly protesting about it’s not a protest. It’s disruption, blockade, etc. No attention should be given to speculating about their motives. If they don’t tell anyone, it’s their problem. Just arrest them for interfering with essential transport.

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Bremain in Spain @bremaininspain.com · 05/09/2026

Rotten to the core! Delo, who was convicted in the US in 2022 for failing to implement adequate anti-money laundering controls in his cryptocurrency business, before being pardoned by Donald Trump, has previously given Reform £4m.

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Crypto billionaire pardoned by Trump gives Reform UK another £4m

Party confident money from Ben Delo will not be caught in new overseas donor cap

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Defend Our Juries @defendourjuries.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

BREAKING 84yo Reverend Sue Parfitt’s home was raided by police today. She had taken part in a peaceful protest on Wednesday with @just-stopoil.bsky.social outside Westminster, calling on Andy Burnham to refuse to reopen new oil & gas licenses in the North Sea. (Footage from a 2025 arrest)

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Molly Scott Cato @greenpartymolly.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

There could be no clearer signal that Reform propose to be a fascist government The purpose of a state of emergency is to suspend constitutional requirements Politicians and journalists who are committed to democracy should understand and act accordingly www.express.co.uk/news/politic...

express.co.uk

Nigel Farge set to declare 'national emergency' in huge Reform speech

Nigel Farage will make his keynote speech at Reform UK's conference - follow live

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Bremain in Spain @bremaininspain.com · 04/09/2026

For those who haven’t seen the investigative documentary into Reform UK funding, that everyone is talking about today, here is the link.

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Going undercover to expose Reform's secret donations plot

YouTube video by Channel 4 News

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Gavin Esler @gavinesler.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

You couldn’t make it up -

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Simon Parker @sparkerworld.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Or a University of Cambridge inquiry into Orr's appointment following an undisclosed donation to the university by Peter Thiel in 2019. Instead expect a wall of silence and that all press questions will be redirected by the university to Orr's lawyers.

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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Nigel Farage filmed celebrating illegal foreign donations Undercover footage reveals plot to break the law by funnelling offshore funds through a UK donor. Donations funded a series of widely reported polls boosting Reform ahead of the local elections channel4news.substack.com/p/exclusive-...

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Paul Bernal @paulbernal.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

This is where pandering to racists and ‘listening’ to ‘legitimate concerns’ over immigration has led us. This is why Starmer was *so* wrong, and Mahmood is *so* wrong. We should have taken a stand long ago. Burnham needs to right now.

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Anette S @anettesch.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Chapter 1 in the rule book about how to have a conversation with racists: make them spell out in clear words what they want to say 👍

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Jim Pickard @pickardje.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Ben Delo, a crypto entrepreneur who moved back from Hong Kong to the UK to continue supporting Reform, gave £4mn of the party’s total £5.3mn donations. Delo was pardoned by Trump last year after pleading guilty to breaking US bank-secrecy law in 2022. www.ft.com/content/c8fb...

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Home - Financial Times

News, analysis and opinion from the Financial Times on the latest in markets, economics and politics

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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Net migration is at its lowest level, outside of the pandemic, for fourteen years, small boat numbers are collapsing and yet you still can't move for 'migrant crisis' stories in the British media

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M a r c u s 🏳️‍🌈🇧🇧🇬🇧 @marcusjdl.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Due to the unique way the BBC is funded by you we can have a man stand in the sea wearing a shirt harassing desperate people fleeing Afghanistan

screenshot from BBC News of people seeking asylum on a dinghy in Orange high there’s a BBC reporter in a white shirt holding a Mic stands in the sea talking to them

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Ian Fraser @ianfraser.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

If you want to understand the many tragedies of the Jason Arday case, including the pivotal role of “race realists” and the UK media in his death, @stephlamy.bsky.social’s article for @mediapart.fr is surely a must read.

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Caroline Lucas @carolinelucas.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Good to hear PM remains “committed to electoral reform” - an essential step to mending our broken political system. But action speaks louder than words. He needs to demonstrate that commitment by urgently setting up a National Commission to design a better, fairer, proportional voting system asap

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Dr Ellie Chowns MP @elliechowns.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

The Representation of the People Bill takes some steps in the right direction, but the lack of necessary action to root out dark money, foreign influence, and misinformation in UK politics makes it a huge missed opportunity overall- especially the outrageous decision to exclude any discussion of PR.

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Annette Dittert @annettedittert.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

This. Is. Not. Journalism. - It's letting Farage shine. I genuinely do not understand why the BBC does not seem to be able to competently challenge Reform and Farage.

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Reform up against 'complainants' society', Nigel Farage tells BBC

The Reform UK leader said a "whole ecosystem" didn't want "new kids on the block succeeding".

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Peter Geoghegan @petergeoghegan.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

“Reform.... present themselves as the anti-establishment insurgents, but banning independent journalists like me from party conference isn’t anti-establishment. It’s the establishment playbook.” Am taking being barred from Reform conference as badge of honour! www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

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Reform UK bans three journalists who have investigated party from its conference

Guardian City editor Anna Isaac, investigative reporter Peter Geoghegan and broadcaster Michael Crick refused entry

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HOPE not hate @hopenothate.org.uk · 31/08/2026

And the biggest howler: Reform’s geniuses in Kent were apparently able to repaint a fence, trim the verge, plant grass seed (and get it to grow instantly), redo the pavement and repave the road all so quickly that the car in the top-right corner didn’t move an inch! Amazing!

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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Here are some ways to “De-Google” your life. Other suggestions welcome. If this latest corrupt capitulation to Trump isn’t enough for you, read @doctorow.pluralistic.net’s Enshittification chapter on how Google killed competition and then deliberately made their products worse to increase revenue.

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Rob Davies @byrobdavies.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

"I want your children's lungs to be smaller and less functional" is a bold electoral strategy.

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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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