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@billingtonian.bsky.social
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CAMRA member. Retired librarian. Londoner living in rural Lancashire. Hablo español. Park run volunteer.

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Parody Nigel Farage @parodypm.bsky.social · 9h
Why do undercover journalists always pick on Reform? How come they never target organisations that aren't full of racists, misogynists and sex pests?
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Ed Newton-Rex @ednewtonrex.bsky.social · 16/10/2026
No ISBNs in Canada for AI writing. This is a fantastic policy, and every country should do the same. www.canada.ca/en/library-a...
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Mothin Ali @mothinali.bsky.social · 22h
Please retweet
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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
BBC Question Time appearances Zarah Sultana 1 Jeremy Corbyn 1 Mick Lynch 1 - Nigel Farage 38 Very, very biased selection, even more than Fiona Bruce.
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Natasha Devon @natashadevon.bsky.social · 16/10/2026
It upsets me that a man who stands accused of saying ‘Hitler was right’ and ‘gas em all’ to Jewish students at his college, who refuses to acknowledge or apologise for this, and more recently has made disparaging comments about ‘globalists’ & George Soros is the Jewish Chronicle’s latest columnist.
Labour must rule out electoral pacts with the Greens who have embraced antisemitic dogma
Reform UK's leader says sectarian politics and importation of fundamentalism have no place in our democracy
By Nigel Farage
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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 15/10/2026
If Putin stops fighting, the war ends. If Zelensky stops fighting then his country will be occupied, leaders murdered, language banned, businesses stolen, children kidnapped. That's what happens in Russian-occupied Ukraine.
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Maria Popova @popovaprof.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
A reminder that Ukraine are the good guys defending themselves and trying to survive. Literally nothing in the current shitstorm is Ukraine or Zelensky’s fault. Anyone dissecting Zelensky’s words/strategy to find faults has either hopelessly lost the forest from the trees or is doing it in bad faith
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Chaucer Doth Tweet @levostregc.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
Banning bookes ys terrible. But cutting entyre fieldes of researche by defunding universityes and closing departments doth also destroye knowledge & freedom. Universityes are the source of bookes on specialized topics. Yf you fighte booke bans, plese consider following news about universitye cuts.
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Anti-Reform @antireform.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
"RNLI vows to continue rescues ‘without prejudice’ after Farage backs prosecuting volunteers who help migrants" morningstaronline.co.uk/article/rnli... Donate to RNLI at rnli.org/pages/ig/new...
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RNLI vows to continue rescues ‘without prejudice’ after Farage backs prosecuting volunteers who help migrants
THE Royal National Lifeboat Institute (RNLI) vowed to continue to “rescue anyone in need without prejudice or fear” today after Nigel Farage suggested that the volunteers who help asylum-seekers enter...
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Ancestral Enquiries - Tony Smith 🌳 @ancestralenq.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
The cafe in Clitheroe, Lancs still living in the 1970's. 👇 BBC News - The Clitheroe cafe that has not changed a bit since the 1970s - BBC News www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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The Clitheroe cafe that has not changed a bit since the 1970s
A café's red vinyl seating, wood panelling and Formica tables have not changed since the mid 1970s.
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Simon Gosden @simongosden.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
What is it about Reform that attracts racists, misogynists and vile human beings?
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Peter Smith @redpeter99.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
Chris Mason has spent the last few days looking for a gotcha with Andy Burnham and his relationship as Greater Manchester mayor with Man City. Mason's peers in ITV have done an excellent, and brave, expose of Reform. The contrast speaks volumes.
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Wishbone Brewery @wishbonebrewery.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
Here’s our beer selection for Keighley Worth Valley Railway #MusicAndBeerFestival Friday to Sunday, find us at the #Ingrow Station #Keighley #SteamTrains
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Cab Davidson @gnomeicide.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
Not a rhetorical question. What do you do in this scenario?
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Roger Protz @rogerprotz.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
Good to see historic Elephant & Castle Amwell Herts so busy this Wednesday lunchtime. Closed in Jan due to high overheads, now refurbished & under Chase Inns. Ancient well from when the pub brewed its own beers.
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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
Royal Mail has been told that it could save £650m by only delivering things 3 days a week. Did you know that the taxpayer could save £4,000m a year if Royal Mail had never been privatised, or if it was renationalised, and deliver 5 days a week. I'd go with that.
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Henry Morris @mrhenrymorris.substack.com · 15/10/2026
I'm hearing breaking news that somebody in Reform hasn't said something racist. More as I have it.
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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
Once again… This is not a vetting problem. This is a Reform problem. This is a Farage problem. Only grim losers like this are going to sign up to a racist, misogynistic, extremist, mass-deportations and tell-the-Royal-Marines-to-murder-people-at-sea kind of party. www.itv.com/news/2026-10...
Inside Reform: Councillors and candidates' extreme and racist views on camera
POLITICS REFORM UK
• Wednesday 14 October 2026 at 7:32pm
Daniel Hewitt
Investigations Editor
Warning: This report contains racist and offensive language.
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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
Without Margaret Thatcher this would have been the UK.
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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
“Reform has to take ever more extreme positions to keep winning headlines. As horrific as Jenrick’s comments are, they should be understood less as a policy proposal than as the political equivalent of a toddler acting out for attention.” Cruelty is weakness. liveapp.inews.co.uk/category/482...
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Robert Jenrick has confused cruelty with courage
Jonn Elledge: The Reform politician thinks he’s brave to say what he does – he’s actually just got no humanity
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billingtonian.bsky.social @billingtonian.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
It already happens in the UK
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Mic Wright @brokenbottleboy.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
NEW | On disappearing stories… MICHAEL GOVE, LOLA SALEM, AND A SUDDEN SILENCE Why did a series of newspaper stories vanish and why are right-wing organisations involved in a coordinated campaign to forget about one particular contributor? brokenbottleboy.substack.com/p/michael-go...
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Michael Gove, Lola Salem, and a sudden silence
Why did a series of newspaper stories vanish and why are right-wing organisations involved in a coordinated campaign to forget about one particular contributor?
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conifergirl.bsky.social @conifergirl.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
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Wobbly Sausage @wobblysausage.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
It's kinda hilarious how fast Nigel Farage jumps to Putin's defense over Russia meddling with the EU referendum. How can he call Burnham a liar? How does he know? he's not privy?
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Prosecute the truth-tellers, shield the murderers: this has long been central to the Israeli government's genocidal policy. www.middleeasteye.net/news/netanya...
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Netanyahu seeks criminal charges for NAZA participants
Israeli prime minister escalates campaign against documentary, urging probes into insiders for alleged security breaches
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James Leakyboots Batty @jamesbatty.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Note to BBC news: this is how to report on Reform's endless bollix. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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If Russia had interfered with the Brexit vote, Nige would have been the first to know | John Crace
Burnham was lying, Farage told a press conference on Monday. This was clearly just another plot to undermine him
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Reform Party UK Exposed @reformexposed.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Reform figures see social media engagement drop after strikes on Russia data centres www.thelondoneconomic.com/politics/ref...
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Reform figures see social media engagement drop as bot accounts 'fall silent'
The social media engagement on posts from Reform UK figures appears to have dropped in the wake of Ukrainian strikes on Russian data centres.
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Womble1958 @wimblewomble1958.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Can’t wait for Chris Mason, Justin Webb, and Nick Robinson to tell us why this is terrible terrible news for Andy Burnham…. 🙄🤷🏻‍♂️🤦🏻‍♂️ #r4today #wato
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Anti-Reform @antireform.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
'“Russia did not interfere in British politics“ says the man who shook off his own Security Officers to go to a party with KGB officers, gave a peerage to one of Putin‘s own KGB-connected millionaires, played tennis with the wife of an oligarch for a massive donation to the Tory ...' via Will Blaik
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Owen Jones @owenjones.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
We have a media which portrays opposition to Israel’s crimes as antisemitism. That same media is viciously and relentlessly Islamophobic. And as we see here, has no qualms using antisemitic tropes against “the wrong sort of Jew”.
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Esheru @esherukweku.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
15 outlets published 249 articles about Jason Arday, but there appears to be a partial media blackout regarding Dr Lola Salem, Michael Gove's ex-girlfriend, who has been suspended from Oxford University after being charged with possessing indecent images of children. jamradio.uk/news/2026/10...
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Lola Salem denies indecent-image charges | Jam Radio
Oxford academic Dr Lola Salem denies indecent-image charges. Her recently reported separation from Michael Gove is a separate matter.
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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Jenrick’s been on quite the journey from a one nation, Remain-voting Tory, through to frothing Brexiter and on to demanding that Royal Marines murder people at sea for daring to seek refuge here. All to impress the country’s racist losers and maybe get a few more votes. Christ he’s repulsive.
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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
We’ll tell you what’s boring, Farage and the BBC… honking out Reform’s latest anti-asylum seeker bollox, as if it’s workable or wanted, and without any meaningful scrutiny. Yusuf on #r4today like a firehose of fascist idiocy, when this is the ugly truth behind their desperate outburst…
Mirror headline: 

Nigel Farage's latest announcement comes as Reform UK continue to struggle with falling poll ratings (O Gary Oakley/PA Wire)
Nigel Farage hits panic button and vows to ban all asylum seekers for five years after Reform poll plunge
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Lady Anytimenow working with Sir Nearlythere @lady-anytimenow.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
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billingtonian.bsky.social @billingtonian.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Or even a current Labour member of the H o L…
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Martin Calladine @uglygame.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Interestingly, the second article has been deleted by the Mail. It was here: www.dailymail.com/news/article... and is archived here: archive.is/W4xRg
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South-East London for Europe (Selfe) @selfe.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Which is why we don't believe a singke word that comes out of his mouth on principle! #LiarFarage
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KittyKatGirl😻🙏💞🐞 @mary1kathy.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
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Xela Hart @xelahart.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
😩😩😩
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Delighted that Navi Pillay, chair of the UN commission which found Israel guilty of genocide in Gaza, has won the Nobel Peace Prize. Let Trump and Netanyahu splutter and fume: the truth becomes ever harder to deny.
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Redcol @redcol.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Chris Mason needs to be removed He is obviously not impartial in any way
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JeffTrnka @jefftrnka.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
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Lindsay @lindsayea.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Mason, always on the right
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Just Aubrey @aubreyhepburn92.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Support the RNLI 🇬🇧❤️ 38d.gs/jpcf
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An open letter in support of the volunteers and staff at the RNLI
This is a disgrace. Brave RNLI volunteers being called scum for risking their lives to save others at sea is just plain wrong. So I've signed an open letter of thanks for the RNLI letting them know th...
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Andy Birss @andybirss.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Mr Polanski has questions to answer regarding his performance in the Holborn and St Pancras by-election but why are none being asked regarding why the Conservatives fared so poorly? #r4today #wato #bbcpm
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Pete Brown @petebrownbeer.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
The gall of these people. The biggest brewer of cask ale in the world have done absolutely NOTHING to support cask ale in recent years, and then they say they need to close the brewery because volumes are down so much. Vandalism, pure and simple. www.foodmanufacture.co.uk/Article/2026...
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Marston’s brewery to close as cask volumes nosedive
Carlsberg Britvic has announced it is proposing to close the Marston’s Brewery in Burton-upon-Trent amid dwindling cask ale volumes.
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Tories overstate net zero cost by nearly £500bn in apparent spreadsheet error. Same error amplified by right-wing think-tanks, press It suited their ideological leanings. Future historians might say - planet earth and human life was shattered by a spreadsheet error.
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Tories overstate net zero cost by nearly £500bn in apparent spreadsheet error
Exclusive: Badenoch’s flagship conference policy document cites £957bn estimate, twice the total in climate advisers’ data
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Ghislaine Hull @ghizzybear.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
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JointheDots @joiningupthedots.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Helen Whateley: Kemi (Badenoch) has published an essay called The Right Way, really thinking about what's gone wrong with the country" This image as we died in our droves is forged in my mind.
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paulusthewoodgnome @paulusthewoodgnome.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Billionaire press... 'When the Sunday Times broke the news that David Reuben, one of the richest men in the UK, had fled to Monaco, Labour’s tax regime was blamed. However, research by TaxWatch has found that Reuben has been a tax resident in Monaco since 2014.' www.theguardian.com/news/2026/oc...
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‘I reside in Monaco’: billionaire said to have quit UK over potential wealth tax had already left
TaxWatch contradicts claims about David Reuben’s departure and questions stories of super-rich exodus
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