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Barry Brith

@barrybrith.bsky.social
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Welsh born & bread 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🍞 (and a bit of a fruitcake). Economic migrant, son of economic migrants (dw i’n byw yn Lloegr). Reform UK = Plaid Cremlin

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Prof Christina Pagel @chrischirp.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
📢 Tories have pledged to abolish Natural England & Environment Agency. A year ago I flagged both as highly exposed to political interference. They've been weakened by yrs of cuts & loss of autonomy. Abolition removes scrutiny but doesn't fix problems christinapagel.substack.com/p/abolishing...
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Abolishing our independent public bodies removes scrutiny without fixing the underlying problem
A vulnerability we highlightd a year ago is now Conservative policy
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Heidi Siegmund Cuda — Bette Dangerous @heidicuda.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Hot Type: ‘Holy Fascism’ In my latest column for @bylinetimes.bsky.social, I reflect on how the Trump regime’s cynical use of ‘God’ as cover for its greedy, bloody, and criminal actions mirrors fascist regimes, both past and present www.bylinesupplement.com/p/hot-type-h...
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Hot Type: ‘Holy Fascism’
Heidi Siegmund Cuda reflects on how the Trump regime’s cynical use of ‘God’ as cover for its greedy, bloody, and criminal actions mirrors fascist regimes, both past and present
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paulusthewoodgnome @paulusthewoodgnome.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
'As men in balaclavas try to stop lifeboats saving people, something different is happening on the coast of North Devon. In a community changed by an asylum hotel, new friendships are being forged – and a group of refugee schoolgirls are learning to surf like the locals.' 🏄🏽‍♀️ youtu.be/cP5JCtqOgnM?...
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The refugee girls from Afghanistan and Iraq who escaped the Taliban learn to surf Devon waves
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Brian Corney @brian-corney.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
RNLI volunteers wear yellow suits in order to be visible. The Patriot Platform people who think that RNLI volunteers are traitors wear black in order not to be seen (recognised). The only yellow they wear is the broad stripe that runs down their backs.
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Parody Nigel Farage @parodypm.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
"It was at this point that an oyster went down the wrong way and blocked my ear canals, meaning I missed the whole conversation where I agreed to a foreign donor illegally giving us £500,000..."
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Byline Times @bylinetimes.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
🟣 SUBSTACK Care: The Cost of Petty Politics By @jamesbloodworth.bsky.social Read below. ↓
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Care: The Cost of Petty Politics
How has the most humane work in our society been devalued and allowed to deteriorate for so long? By James Bloodworth
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David Louis Price @daimonddai.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Let these images define the Reform Party conference, a woman protester being violently assaulted by a gang of right wing thugs while Nigel Farage laughs and urges them on. Ladies and gentlemen, 'this' is the future under Reform.
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Ed Davey @eddavey.libdems.org.uk · 03/09/2026
This is racism, straight out of the Trump playbook. Reform are trying to turn our great country into a franchise of Trump's America. There are countless British patriots who came here from overseas, many of them refugees we proudly welcomed. That's the kind of country we are.
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Dmitry Grozoubinski @explaintrade.com · 04/09/2026
So, if I understand Nigel Farage's argument correctly it is: "Everyone I trusted and elevated into a position of responsibility is constantly doing crimes that benefit me but of which I somehow have no knowledge. I am a man with the character, judgement, and intelligence to run the country." Ok.
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 03/09/2026
From ‘psyops’ to ‘hysterical hysteria’: how GB News and Talk TV lost their cool in the heatwaves
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From ‘psyops’ to ‘hysterical hysteria’: how GB News and Talk TV lost their cool in the heatwaves
Thousands of heat-related deaths in record-breaking temperatures appeared to only intensify hosts’ climate denials
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Byline Times @bylinetimes.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
🟣 SUBSTACK ‘We Can’t Build Our Way Out of the Prisons Crisis’ By @goldbergradio.bsky.social Read below. ↓
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‘We Can’t Build Our Way Out of the Prisons Crisis’
On the Byline Times Podcast, Jodie Anderson, former barrister and now senior caseworker for the charity INQUEST, explains how only a radical change to sentencing can help solve prison overcrowding
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Laurasaurus @laurasaurus.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Dolly Parton and Donald Trump were both born in 1946. Parton was born into poverty in a one-room cabin in Appalachia. Trump was born a millionaire in one of the most diverse places on Earth. One dedicated her life to love and joy and generosity. The other dedicated his to selfishness and cruelty.
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Barry Brith @barrybrith.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
The privatisation of water supply has been a disaster for consumers and the environment. There is no competition and we cannot choose supplier, so the culture is profit above service. Please ask your MP to attend this debate on water ownership. actionnetwork.org/letters/ask-...
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Ask your MP to attend the water debate
People are fed up with privatised water companies letting us down and ripping us off. We deserve a real conversation about public ownership. Can you help build pressure by asking your MP to attend th...
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Byline Times @bylinetimes.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
🟣 SUBSTACK Is Andy Burnham About to Create a British Constitution? By @anthonybarnett.bsky.social Read below. ↓
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Is Andy Burnham About to Create a British Constitution?
The Prime Minister has just opened the door to a radical change to how we are governed, writes Anthony Barnett. Will he now walk through it?
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Richard Sambrook @sambrook.eurosky.social · 16/08/2026
BBC’s coverage of Reform’s welfare plans is frankly bizarre. Headlines in Ten, leading on some radio networks. Reform are not even the official opposition and the plans have less credibility than Count Binface. Will BBC News do the same for Lib Dem and Greens policy two years out from an election?
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Barry Brith @barrybrith.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
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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The Secret Barrister @barristersecret.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Apparently £5million can’t buy you enough security to protect you from an imaginary threat.
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Byline Times @bylinetimes.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
🟡 From This Month’s Magazine The Lure of the Politics of Passion As Nigel Farage and Reform UK lash out under scrutiny, Jay Griffiths considers their year of riding on hatred
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The Lure of the Politics of Passion
As Nigel Farage and Reform UK lash out under scrutiny, Jay Griffiths considers their year of riding on hatred
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Tony @tonynicol3.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
This is excellent, and not a long read.
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Peter Kay @theonlypeterkay.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
……and these are the kind of intellectually challenged hacks who lose their minds over migrants: Climate change causes drought, wars and the mass movement of populations. The Telegraph doesn’t seem to do joined up thinking.
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Prof Christina Pagel @chrischirp.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
🧵On @thenewsagents.co.uk yesterday, school closures and the lab leak theory were offered as two examples of legitimate questions that were hard to ask. Both have in fact been asked constantly since 2020. But here's a thread on why I think they were wrong and dangerous on school closures 1/12
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🇨🇵 Clare Price-Jones 🇪🇺 @clucksky.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
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Keith Burge @carryonkeith.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
Farage having a strop about not being invited to discuss social care provision, is like Harold Shipman giving out for being excluded from a debate on GP home visits.
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Byline Times @bylinetimes.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
🟣 New from Byline Supplement Hot Type: Reds Under the Bed By Heidi Cuda Political columnist Heidi Siegmund Cuda reports on the ‘Freudian projection’ of Trump’s latest boogeyman – the ‘Communist’ www.bylinesupplement.com/p/hot-type…
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Hot Type: Reds Under the Bed
Political columnist Heidi Siegmund Cuda reports on the ‘Freudian projection’ of Trump’s latest boogeyman – the ‘Communist’
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
There's a simple, fair and effective means of funding politics, which ensures that voters count and money doesn't. MPs: please stop messing about with proposals for donation caps, and press for a proper, democratic funding system. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Political donations are poison to our democracy – but there’s an easy antidote to that | George Monbiot
As revelations about Reform UK’s donors emerge, it’s clear that increasingly complex forms of patronage can’t be regulated effectively. We need a clean sweep, says columnist George Monbiot
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Prof Christina Pagel @chrischirp.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
New short piece by me reflecting on science, non-partisanship, and the current political age. christinapagel.substack.com/p/non-partis...
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"Non-partisan" does not mean "silent"
Why scientists and scientific institutions need to speak up for science
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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 10/07/2026
Naomi Smith: “Rupert Lowe’s party, and its mysterious funding sources, make one thing clear: we urgently need PR in place ahead of the next election as a firewall to ensure dangerous extremists don’t control the balance of power, and to protect our democracy and rights from those who threaten them.”
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Who Is Really Bankrolling Rupert Lowe's Restore Britain
Byline Times investigates the figures behind the Elon Musk-backed far-right rival to Nigel Farage's Reform UK
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
Never before has a politician announced their intention to run for re-election on an explicitly pro-sleaze, anti-transparency ticket. 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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Nigel Farage’s 'Pro-Sleaze' By-Election Is A Sign Of Terminal Weakness
The Reform leader's desperate decision to call a back-me-or-sack-me by-election is a sign of a politician who knows he is finally being exposed for the man he really is, argues Adam Bienkov
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Ed Davey @eddavey.libdems.org.uk · 08/07/2026
The Chancellor has the power to stop Farage's cynical ploy. I've written to her this morning urging her to act. Farage should not be allowed to resign until the investigation into his dodgy dealings has concluded. The people of Clacton deserve the facts first.
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Dr Nigel Fletcher @nigelfletcher.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
I’m sure this is well-meant, but if I had just called a by-election after facing allegations of financial impropriety, I’m not absolutely sure the first thing I’d do would be… offering the returning officer thousands of pounds in cash.
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Neil Norman And His Cosmic Orchestra @fubsyshabaroon.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
“That was a Pity Political Broadcast on behalf of some whiny bitch.”
Nigel Farage makes statement on future in public life
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Mark Grimshaw @markgrimshawtism.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Serious questions should be asked as to how the supposedly non-biased BBC can justify airing a broadcast completely operated by Reform UK themselves. Nigel Farage should not been given complete editorial control of what is being aired on our national public service broadcaster.
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HOPE not hate @hopenothate.org.uk · 07/07/2026
Nigel Farage just made his statement on his "future in public life." It amounted to this: it’s a conspiracy, and it’s everyone else’s fault. Yet there’s still no answer to the only question that matters: why did someone on the other side of the world give him £5 million?
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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
Farage having a total “establishment stitch-up” wettie about being scrutinised for his corrupt links and handouts from a convicted fraudster while Jenrick insists Farage “will be Britain’s next prime minister.” No. You don’t get to tantrum your way to power. app.independent.co.uk/2026/07/05/3...
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Farage's future in doubt as panic sets in over fresh allegations
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• Nigel Farage's dodgy dealings are finally pushing him to the brink"It's now clear the establishment will stop at nothing to hurt Reform - we want to smash their cosy consensus."

(Photo of Nigel Farage with George Cottrell (Alamy Stock Photo)

In an extraordinary interview on Sky News, Mr Jenrick launched a furious attack on presenter Sir Trevor Phillips, claiming the media was "muck-raking" about Mr Farage to keep Labour in power. He dismissed claims Mr Farage has "become a liability" and is about to quit as Reform leader as "daft" and insisted: "He will be Britain's next prime minister."
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The Citizens @the-citizens.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
The Kremlin's corrosion campaign relies on ordinary people doing ordinary things — and the ordinariness is the point.
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How the state invited sabotage to our streets
From high-society Tory garden parties to street-level arson attacks, the Kremlin is running a cold war on trust itself. It’s time for a full public inquiry.
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JonnyGoo @jonnygoo.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
High time social media was regulated and audited and held to account. It’s bending truths and deceiving the public in its money and power grab.
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Byline Times @bylinetimes.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
🟣 SUBSTACK Manchesterism v Thatcherism In an interview with Adrian Goldberg for the Byline Times Podcast, tech CEO Thomas Forth explains how Andy Burnham's… www.bylinesupplement.com/p/manchest…
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Manchesterism v Thatcherism
In an interview with Adrian Goldberg for the Byline Times Podcast, tech CEO Thomas Forth explains how Andy Burnham's 'Manchesterism' can restore agency to England's great cities
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jonnygf.bsky.social @jonnygf.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
How Nigel Farage Twists the Facts About White Boys in Schools to Manufacture Racial Tension - Byline Times apple.news/AKJ9sfr1bRm-... Evil pure cold evil
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How Nigel Farage Twists the Facts About White Boys in Schools to Manufacture Racial Tension — Byline Times
Official data completely contradicts Nigel Farage’s false claim that ethnic minorities are favoured at the expense of white children, reports Nafeez Ahmed
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Richard Corbett CBE @richardcorbett.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
I’m fed up with politicians saying we need to “respect” the result of the 2016 Brexit referendum. A decision by a narrow majority 10yrs ago, that turned out to be a costly mistake, does not have to be “respected”. If a democracy cannot change its mind it ceases to be a democracy.
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Dale Vince @dalevince.com · 28/06/2026
The one thing we all need, to get energy bills down, permanently - is something we can't do ourselves. We need government to ‘break the link’ - the link which allows the global price of gas to set the price of our own wind and sun.
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Reform Party UK Exposed @reformexposed.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
10 Questions for Nigel Farage
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Barry Brith @barrybrith.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
The government is failing to tackle global heating – so we’re forcing it to take action. Will you join us? goodlawproject.org/s/29a3b6
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Make the government step up on climate
The government is failing to tackle global heating – so we’re forcing it to take action
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Anti-Reform @antireform.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
"Apparently Nigel Farage is Britain's most endangered politician. A surprise to the families of Jo Cox and Sir David Amess. Still, having a milkshake lobbed in your direction must be terrifying. Good thing there's a £5 million crypto bung available for security purposes." via Truth Against Hate
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Barry Brith @barrybrith.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
We think youth clubs and coffee mornings and your local community centre can do as much public good as museums and art galleries. So why aren't they also eligible for a VAT refund? We want to change that. Add your name if you do too. party.coop/campaign/vat...
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Take VAT off Community Buildings
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George Eaton @georgeeaton.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
Reform have now lost six by-elections in a row in England, Scotland and Wales. Their national poll rating is 26% – below Labour in 1983 – and Farage’s approval rating is -37. They’re very far from the voice of the people and need to stop being treated as such.
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Barry Brith @barrybrith.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
The art of the deal open.substack.com/pub/phillips...
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Midweek Update #15: The MOU Is Out
Hi all,
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Political Satirical @politicalsatirical.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
Where were the riots? Why does the right wing sleep through all these events? Two Tier Policing - say whut now? & remember, Farage's nephew, got off VERY lightly with upskirting...
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Peter Geoghegan @petergeoghegan.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
All this comes amid mounting scrutiny of Farage's finances - including the undisclosed £5m from crypto tycoon Christopher Harborne, now under investigation by the Parliamentary Commissioner for Standards. Read full story and support Democracy for Sale: democracyforsale.substack.com/p/revealed-n...
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Revealed: Nigel Farage is breaking British company law
Farage’s personal company has almost £2m in cash but has not filed key documents
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