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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
UK petrol prices hit highest level since Iran war began. Accompanied by huge rise in household energy bills, record profits, shareholder dividends and share buybacks. Higher inflation, business costs will push more people into poverty. Must levy 100% windfall tax on excess profits.
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UK petrol prices hit highest level since Iran war began
The price of unleaded hits 163p a litre, according to motoring group the RAC, as oil prices remain elevated.
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
People can "just adapt" to a changing climate, a thousand rightwing voices keep telling us. Either they lack imagination or they don't care. Try "adapting" to this. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a...
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Nepal flash flood: more than 1,500 missing, mostly tourists, after disaster kills at least 165 at Tibet border
Entire populated areas swept away after glacial collapse causes catastrophic flood in mountainous region popular with trekkers and pilgrims
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
UK economy grew by 0.4% in last quarter. Is it trickling down? 1975: workers share of gross value added, 71.9%; now 59.3% Average real wage stagnant since 2008. 25.3m live below minimum income standard. Healthy life expectancy falling. Richest 1% have more wealth than 70% of population combined.
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UK economy grows between April and June but experts warn of challenges in coming months
The UK economy grew by 0.4% with some firms reporting hot weather and sports helped growth in June.
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
We should never forget how the BBC has changed this country by giving endless airtime to Nigel Farage and other rightwing extremists, while shutting out progressive voices.
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Roland Smith @rolandmcs.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
The guy on the – ahem – far right....
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Bylines Network @bylinesnetwork.co.uk · 03/08/2026
Devolution: Andy Burnham hears no evil at Ben Houchen’s TVCA There is a deafening silence surrounding the Tees Valley northeastbylines.co.uk/news/politic...
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Devolution: Andy Burnham hears no evil at Ben Houchen’s TVCA
There is a deafening silence surrounding the Tees Valley
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Supertanskiii @supertanskiiii.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
After Farage used Widdecombe's death into an opportunity to deflect from corruption, my satirical deep dive examines how right-wing populists weaponise tragedy and perform victimhood by turning our outrage into political capital. This one’s for free! 👇🏻 supertanskiii.substack.com/p/mournhub-w...
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MournHub: What Farage's Hardcore Mourn Says About Reform
Nigel Farage's response to Ann Widdecombe's murder was a case study in how right-wing populism turns tragedy into political opportunity.
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Sir Michael Take CBE @sirmichaeltake.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
60K migrants who entered Spain coming our way? Bailiffs seizing your dead parents’ old car in their garage to pay an imaginary death tax? Fighting for democracy against a bin? Reform MPs’statements in the past week. Reform UK are officially the NEW Monster Raving Loony Party! 😉
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Bridget Phillipson MP @bphillipsonmp.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
Nigel Farage called a by-election against a bin to run away from unanswered questions, but the net is closing in. Grubby pacts, cover-ups, secret gifts, support from a convicted fraudster – it all adds up to a stench of sleaze. The public can smell it. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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‘Stench of sleaze’: Farage struck deal over political return months before 2024 election, reports say
Labour chair accuses Reform of making ‘grubby pacts’ after contradictory reports emerge on timeline of events
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Stick to spending limits, PM and chancellor tell ministers in joint memo. Cue for real cuts; continuation of potholed roads, housing crisis, NHS queues, unfit schools, privatisations? Real change not possible whilst neoliberalism remains the opium of the political class.
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John Healey and Andy Burnham urge ministers to stick to spending limits in joint Budget memo
The Chancellor said the Budget on 28 October would “meet our fiscal rules” and give families "stability" to plan for the future.
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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Very obliging of #r4today to lead with Reform’s ‘plan’ to stop the boats using the Royal Navy, pretending it’ll be some great WWII-style escapade, rather than a hateful, costly, diplomatically incontinent mess. A total waste of everyone’s time as they’ll never be in power and it’s unworkable anyway.
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Curse of Private Equity Our nurseries were bought by private equity firms – fees are up, food is frozen. Usual PE practices. Build local monopolies, high debt and prices, profiteering, worst services, high exec pay, shareholder returns. Parents/Children abused. Govts do nothing. archive.ph/Yk4Eh
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Our nurseries were bought by private equity firms - fees are up and food is frozen
Nurseries are spending millions on their investors – at parents' expense, analysis shows
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Reece Dinsdale @reecedinsdale.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Fair play Wales! 💪✊🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 Now the English FA need to show the same backbone. www.bbc.co.uk/sport/footba...
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Gianni Infantino: Wales first nation to withdraw support for Fifa president
Wales become the first nation to publicly withdraw backing for Gianni Infantino's bid to continue his leadership of Fifa.
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Rajan Naidu 📎 Ⓥ @rajannaidu.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
Reform UK ~ funded by Russia Restore - bought and paid for by an American trillionaire GB News - owned by a hedge fund in Dubai The Daily Mail - registered in Bermuda. Is that Patriotism? #NotOnOurSide ⤵️ #ReformUKLtd 🇷🇺 #RupertLowe 🇺🇸 #GBNews 🔥🇬🇧 #DailyMail 🔥🇬🇧 www.facebook.com/share/p/1H1z...
NOT ON OUR SIDE
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David__Osland @David_Osland:
So Reform UK is funded by Russia, Restore bought and paid for by an American trillionaire, GB News owned by a hedge fund in Dubai and the Daily Mail registered in Bermuda. That's patriotism for you these days.
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@Boom-WhatsGoingOn.bsky.social @boom-whatsgoingon.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
A welcome turn of events…
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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
Thames Water moves closer to Nationalisation as it can't pay debts However under the Government rules, YOU will pay off billions of Thames Water's debt, then it will be sold back to thieves to rip you off and bankrupt the company again NO, it must be renationalised for good.
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kazcam.bsky.social @kazcam.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
Let’s make sure @bylinetimes.bsky.social gets circulated and widely read! While we still have some real journalism let’s make the most of it!
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James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
Whatever Reform’s ‘vetting’ process involves, it clearly doesn’t extend to anything as complicated as a basic Google search.
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
“.. What we are talking about is nothing short of the sitting president of the United States looting from the Treasury for his own gain,” she said. @financialtimes.com www.ft.com/content/5733...
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Byline Times @bylinetimes.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
🚨 EXCLUSIVE: Reading the Riot Act: Reform UK’s Makerfield By-Election Candidate During the Summer of Trouble The archive of Robert Kenyon’s suspended X account reveals intense activity after three children were murdered in Southport in 2024
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Reading the Riot Act: Reform UK’s Makerfield By-Election Candidate During the Summer of Trouble
The archive of Robert Kenyon’s suspended X account reveals intense activity after three children were murdered in Southport in 2024
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
Oh my what a Schlapp in the face this is
Roger Sollenberger: Péter Magyar, the new Hungarian prime minister, says CPAC was paid by the Hungarian government and will not be any longer
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Monty 🇨🇦 @onlymonty.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
The World Cup is irrelevant in this environment… sadly, sports cannot transcend what is happening in this world.
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Jones @theearlofpowys.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
If you return unwanted Reform local election leaflets to their party headquarters using their free post address, then it will cost the party £2.50 per envelope. Please don’t share this information; it could cost Nigel Farage a fortune.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
The American president counts Vladimir Putin and Kim Jong-Un as his friends while denouncing the Pope.
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Paul Lewis @paullewismoney.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
Mortgage shock threatens housing market as rates rise and cheap fixes end bit.ly/4t6Dk2D no paywall
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The mortgage shock threatening Britain’s fragile housing market
War-triggered rate rises push buyers and property chains to breaking point
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
"I'm just contemplating the fact that one moron, one psychotic moron, one capricious idiot, has completely bollocksed up the global economy not only to the detriment of his own people, but the detriment of the planet. ... It's like how much more of this can the planet take?"
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
People who think that speeding is sexy should probably not be trusted with anything more dangerous than a Play Doh kitchen set with blunted edges.
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
These people call themselves patriots. Almost invariably, they turn out to be stooges of foreign powers. goodlawproject.org/orbans-pay-c...
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Orbán’s pay cheques: Reform candidate fuelled by profits from Russian oil
The Reform candidate at this month’s byelection claims he wants to put Britain first, but is he still on the payroll of Viktor Orbán’s far-right propaganda unit?
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South-East London for Europe (Selfe) @selfe.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
We are liking the new Hungarian Prime Minister more and more. A few days ago Volodymyr Zelensky suggested that the UK should rejoin the EU if the US abandons NATO. Now #PéterMagyar is going further... Let us get on with it #RejoinEU
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Peter Jukes @peterjukes.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
Just in case you thought the Bannon/Farage/Orban Hook up ended it 2018. It carried on right until now…
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Disillusioned With Conservatives @neverevertory.bsky.social · 21/03/2026
What an absolute disgrace of a man. The language in Wales is Welsh but they are still British! Imagine calling Cornish people foreigners because they speak Cornish. This man can never get anywhere near a governmental power! #NeverVoteReform
Nigel Farage criticised for calling Welsh people 'foreign speakers'
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Mollie Katzen @molliekatzen.bsky.social · 21/03/2026
Five-time draft dodger says what now?
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Max B 💙 🔶 🇺🇦 🇬🇧 🇪🇺 @maxbrockbank.com · 21/03/2026
Ooh! Ooh! I know this one. They have morals and a conscience. And a brain!
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HappyToast @happytoast.co.uk · 22/03/2026
Trump is just full on advertising that he's going to commit war crimes now
Trump post about obliterating power plants
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 15/03/2026
Funny how all the "free speech" warriors go so quiet when actual state censorship comes along. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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FCC chair threatens to throttle news broadcasts over ‘hoaxes’ about Iran war
Brendan Carr posts that he may cancel spectrum permits of ‘mainstream news’ outlets for ‘misleading’ coverage
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Larry the Cat @number10cat.bsky.social · 14/03/2026
That's funny, I could have sworn he said something about not needing Royal Navy vessels because the war was already won. You broke it Don, you fix it.
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 14/03/2026
Trump is stupid, mad, dangerous, rich, and ridiculously powerful, but most of all ... the stupid bit. That's what should worry us most.
The United States of America has beaten
and completely decimated Iran, both
Militarily, Economically, and in every other
way, but the Countries of the World that
receive Oil through the Hormuz Strait must
take care of that passage, and we will help
- A LOT! The U.S. will also coordinate with
those Countries so that everything goes
quickly, smoothly, and well. This should have
always been a team effort, and now it will be
It will bring the World together toward
Harmony, Security, and Everlasting Peace!
President DONALD J. TRUMP
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Daily Herald #FBPE #NAFO 🇬🇧🇺🇦🇬🇱 @dailyherald.bsky.social · 14/03/2026
Here’s Nigel Farage when he told you it was all so easy. Now he’s saying he wish he “hadn’t bothered”. Snake oil salesman.
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Ed Davey @eddavey.libdems.org.uk · 14/03/2026
Last week Trump said he didn't need Britain's help because he'd already won this war. So we mustn't let him push the UK around now. Any decision on the deployment of our Armed Forces should be made in the UK's national interest and subject to a vote in Parliament.
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Paul Lewis @paullewismoney.bsky.social · 15/03/2026
Petrol retailers deny ‘price gouging’ as even the Chancellor tells them not to use the war to ‘rip-off’ their customers bit.ly/4rCCokX never fill up on a motorway and use a site with the govt’s own fuel finder data to fill up cheaply wherever you are.
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‘Daylight robbery’: M1 drivers boggle at the rising price of fuel
Woodall services near Sheffield is now one of the UK’s most expensive pit stops, with petrol at 172.9p a litre
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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 14/03/2026
Sentenced to 2 years in jail for putting tomato soup on glass, which took 10 seconds to wipe off. Not in Iran, in the UK.
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Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 15/03/2026
NEW: Two senior MOD whistleblowers with inside knowledge of Palantir's systems have come forward to @thenerve.news to say government ministers are ignorant of the grave national security risks the technology poses. Hugely important by @charlienotold.bsky.social www.thenerve.news/p/palantir-t...
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‘It beggars belief’: MoD sources warn Palantir’s role at heart of government is a threat to UK’s security
Experts say that claims UK data remains under government ownership miss the point that the company has the capability to build its own detailed picture of the British population, and even infer state ...
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 14/03/2026
👀 (H/T @SafeH2o4Schools)
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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
BREAKING: RAF base in Cyprus hit by suspected drone strike, Ministry of Defence says news.sky.com/story/raf-ba...
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RAF base in Cyprus hit by suspected drone strike, Ministry of Defence says
There were no casualties, the Ministry of Defence said, but the base later announced it would temporarily relocate non-essential staff.
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 21/02/2026
Farage is in the Maldives. 200 miles away from the Chagos Islands which are not a tourist destination. Hasn't got the paperwork and wasn't on the 'aid boat' he's pointing at which is trying to establish a settlement for four people on the islands. How is this serving Clacton? Who paid?
The video from Nigel Farage gives the
impression that he was individually refused
access.
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Robin Ince @robinince.bsky.social · 22/02/2026
Looking more like Jimmy Savile every day
Boris Johnson’s preposterous face
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 21/02/2026
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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 22/02/2026
This is Reform.
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 21/02/2026
Nobody chooses to get born into monarchy, and for many royals it's miserable. A true gilded cage. Over and above the overwhelming case for a republic on democratic and constitutional grounds, there's that Andrew, however, is the very worst product of the system. Grasping, entitled, nasty, stupid.
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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 21/02/2026
Jon Sopel to Robert Jenrick ⬇️ "You were a Remainer when David Cameron was PM. You were a Brexiteer when Boris was." "When the Tories are languishing in the polls, you’ve gone to the party that is leading in the polls."
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