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Memorial Device @memorialdevice.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
My year 9 old mate Paul once stood up and tried to convince a classroom full of kids that The Queen lived in Barnsley Town Hall and did a better job than this.
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Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
NEW: ‘It’s an implicit threat’. Lord Tom Watson of Palantir writes to one of its biggest critics -Labour MP @labourlewis.bsky.social - to tell him the surveillance firm is watching him. www.thenerve.news/p/clive-lewi...
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They’re saying: we’re watching you’: MP Clive Lewis reveals Tom Watson has warned him over criticising Palantir
In a letter to his former Labour colleague, the peer, who joined Peter Thiel’s AI company this month, writes: ‘You have made the case against the company more or less continuously’. By Carole Cadwalla...
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Jay Rayner @jayrayner1.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
On the BBC News Katya Adler has just described Germany, where the far right AFD keep winning elections, as entering 'uncharted political territory'. Hmmm. Where Germany is concerned I think that territory is pretty well charted.
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THE NERVE @thenerve.news · 20/09/2026
Good morning @tomwatsonofficial.bsky.social Your journey from MP who most understood the Cambridge Analytica scandal to paid-up Palantir apologist is really quite the journey. Hope the pay packet is worth it. 💰 Here’s some background reading ahead of your first day 🧵👇
A throwback to Tom Watson’s days as the MP fighting back against Facebook after the Nerve team published the Cambridge Analytica investigation at the Observer 
(Tom’s standing, with investigative reporter Carole Cadwalladr on right and whistleblower Chris Wyler 2nd from left)🏁
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David @zero-4.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
I’ve lost confidence in billionaires
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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
British journalism and polling are both utterly implicated in the Farage funding scandal iandunt.substack.com/p/british-jo...
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Memorial Device @memorialdevice.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Imagine the reaction and consequences if Palestine Action cause this.
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Memorial Device @memorialdevice.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
'A far-right network of men happy to intimidate and inconvenience an entire town...the intention is to create a patriotic army that is able to take control of the United Kingdom'. Palestine Action is proscribed. Patriot Platform isn't. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Anti-migrant activists like Danny Tommo are changing tactics
Patriot Platform wants to build a group of working-class voters to influence political parties on the right.
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Will Jennings📉🗳️ @drjennings.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Surprising this story isn't getting more coverage...
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Protestors confuse Pakistan cricket team for migrants after gathering at hotel
Misinformation caused groups of people to gather at The Marriott Hotel
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James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Needed saying.
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David @zero-4.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
He funded the Tories when they were implementing austerity for years on end but balks at the thought of having to pay fractionally more tax on his immense wealth to help improve a country ruined by the same Tories he funded
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LBC @lbc.co.uk · 07/09/2026
This is @mrjamesob.bsky.social's London.
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
At the same time as banning myself and other journalists from their conference this week, this is who Reform laid out the red carpet for www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
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Raise the Colours leader given access to Reform UK conference while on bail
Ryan Bridge, arrested this year on suspicion of religiously and racially aggravated harassment, says party invited him
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David @zero-4.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
The man who was so against unelected people involved in politics that he campaigned for the country the leave the largest trading bloc on earth is the same man who now claims he will fill the *unelected* House of Lords with Reform supporters to push through laws
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Memorial Device @memorialdevice.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Arrest and jail them for 3 years. Just like you did with the 'disruptive' Pro Palestinian protestors. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Masked protesters block access at Port of Dover
Images appear to show hundreds of protesters, all dressed in black and wearing face coverings.
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David @zero-4.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
According to Farage, this man, who appeared on #bbcqt in March of this year, is a “contractor” Reform’s Head of Policy is just a “contractor”
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David @zero-4.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Cleverly here prioritising the alleged ‘harm’ on motorists above the scientifically established harm to kids
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David @zero-4.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
It’s just insane that the group of MPs most furious at things not yet introduced under a two year Labour government are the same group of MPs who sat in a Tory government of 14 years and introduced none of the things they’re most furious about The dishonesty is weapons grade
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Nigel Farage suggests the police advised him against attending the result of the Clacton by-election. Essex Police completely deny this, telling the BBC "we have a proportionate and robust policing operation to ensure the safety and security of all participants in the count"
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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Vicious, snarling, dangerous: Zia Yusuf is a true product of the social media age, a man whose every utterance appears to be subliminally guided by what will get him the most likes on X inews.co.uk/opinion/true...
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The true face of Reform is snarling and dangerous
Ian Dunt: Zia Yusuf trades in extremist rhetoric and proposes extremist ideas
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James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
But they seemed like such nice, patriotic, community-minded chaps. (Except the ones currently facing murder, child abuse & assault charges, obviously.)
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Nigel Farage just took a question from a 'journalist' at his press conference, who turned out to be his former chief adviser Raheem Kassam, who asks him why the media are being so unfair to him
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Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
NEW: The Abramovich connection. How convicted money launderer George Cottrell - & close aide to Nigel Farage - ‘signed documents’ for one of Putin’s closest allies. My latest for @thenerve.news 1/ www.thenerve.news/p/george-cot...
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Farage, George Cottrell and Putin’s friend Abramovich
Source reveals convicted money launderer and Reform leader’s close ally worked as a young man for the now-sanctioned oligarch after becoming friends with his son. Report by Carole Cadwalladr
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David @zero-4.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
In other news…
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THE NERVE @thenerve.news · 23/07/2026
Who are the young consultants importing MAGA to the UK? @mccoolingtons.bsky.social reports
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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
Farage can *never* be PM. His greed and needy vanity make him an enormous national security risk. He has no clue how to behave with dignity or probity. The day he gets booted out of public life for good cannot come soon enough. If Clacton has its wits about it, it could be in less than a month.
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
It's fascinating to watch commentators who sat completely silently for a decade as the Conservative Government changed its leader four times in a row mid-term, now suddenly discover such a keen interest in the concepts of 'mandates' and 'legitimacy'
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Memorial Device @memorialdevice.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
The MD list of Alternative National Treasures: @carolecadwalla.bsky.social 🙏
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David @zero-4.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
The people who Are now telling told you to vote you to vote for for this man this man #trevorphillips #bbclaurak
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Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
If you’re wondering why UK press has suddenly woken up to Farage, please read this. It’s because: Brexit. The r/w press refused to scrutinise the money behind Farage & the lawsuit against me scared off the rest. But this isn’t a new scandal. It’s the same one I’ve been reporting on for a decade
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The Secret Barrister @barristersecret.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
Just to recap: Calling Nigel Farage “an unflushable poo” = dehumanising hate speech. Calling for hotels housing asylum seekers to be set on fire = guest of honour at party conference. Bless those non-racist free speech warriors.
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Patrick Dalton @patrickdalton.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
A cranium full of cottage cheese
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Nothing says 'man of the people' quite like a politician calling a by-election at public expense on the issue of whether or not he should have the right to secretly take donations from Thai-based crypto billionaires and a convicted fraudster
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Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
NEW: Before cryptobillionaire Christopher Harborne gave £5m to @nigel_farage, he gave £1m to Boris Johnson. For what?? Today @thenerve.news news reveals new evidence that tracks Harborne's investments in defence firm QinetiQ...to key defence announcements from Boris Johnson. 1/
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David @zero-4.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
The bloke who thinks £12.71 per hour for caring after the elderly & infirm is “too high” is the same bloke making £22,500 an hour telling people to buy bars of gold
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ianVisits @ianvisits.co.uk · 29/06/2026
And people like this are the ones complaining that migrants dont understand UK culture.
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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
We all have a moral responsibility to make damn sure this racist horrorshow never gets a whiff of power and that we boot Farage and all his dullwitted Reform brownshirts out of public life for good. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
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Reform UK plan to target EU nationals based in Britain ‘absolutely outrageous’
Exclusive: Rights group says Nigel Farage’s party is reneging on promises made during the Brexit referendum campaign
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David @zero-4.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
🚨 10 years ago today, the UK voted to become the first country in the history of mankind to impose economic sanctions on itself
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Ulrike Franke @rikefranke.eu · 18/06/2026
What a waste. Just what a waste.
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Mark Pack @markpackuk.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
Reform Councillors Pose with Banner Saying They'd 'Rather Vote for Jimmy Savile than Labour'
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Reform Councillors Pose with Banner Saying They'd 'Rather Vote for Jimmy Savile than Labour'
Reform hit by backlash in the Makerfield by-election as they're accused of "making light of one of Britain's most prolific paedophiles"
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
'We are clamping down on the harm caused by social media. 'Read all about it on the Nazi pogrom deepfake abuse website'
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ianVisits @ianvisits.co.uk · 13/06/2026
If you ever hear people complain that London is an expensive place to visit, please remind them that London's most popular tourist attraction -- a phone box at Westminster -- is completely free of charge.
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David @zero-4.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
What. A. Quote…
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
Dear BBC journalists, you really do not have to 'debate' every far-right talking point that pops up on your X feed. It is not "deeply contentious" to suggest non-white people can't be English. It's racist. The word you're looking for is racist
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
So the police force accused by Nigel Farage of "anti-white racism" is over five times more likely to target black people for stop and searches than white people The figure is higher than the average for England and has got worse over recent years www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
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Nowak murder: police accused of ‘anti-white bias’ five times more likely to stop black people
Hampshire force whose officers responded to the murder of 18-year-old has a higher than average racial disparity
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Jim Pickard @pickardje.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
your regular reminder that Reform published a draft bill in May last year which promised to deregulate the crypto industry and cut stamp duty on transactions from 24% to 10%
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Reform Party UK Exposed @reformexposed.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
This is concerning: Reform UK bans promotion of LGBTQ and Pride events at Essex libraries
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Reform UK bans promotion of LGBTQ and Pride events at Essex libraries
A spokesperson for Save Our Libraries Essex said: “This is very disturbing and alarming news.”
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Alex von Tunzelmann @alexvont.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
A view I hold quite strongly from my own childhood but which now seems to be completely out of step with the prevailing social manners: children should not sit down on the tube if adults are standing, unless they sit in the lap of an adult they are with.
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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 30/05/2026
Politicians skirt around it. The media skirts around it. But, we have a very sinister far right, racist problem in the UK. Reform and Restore… two cheeks of the same hideous arse… flooding the zone with their hate, their lies and their howling inadequacy. If they’re our future, we’re done for.
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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
The Lib Dems have written to the National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) saying it is 'unthinkable' that there would be no full investigation if Nigel Farage's phone had been hacked, as he claims www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...
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Spies must probe Farage's 'compromised' phone demand as new questions emerge
The Lib Dems have written to the National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) saying it is 'unthinkable' that there would be no full investigation if Nigel Farage's phone had been hacked, as he claims
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