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Gavin Draper

@buzzardinnit.bsky.social
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@buzzardinnit on the other place. Dad, lover of boxer dogs 🐕‍🦺 (or should that be 🦘?), half Irish, half UK, centrist. Lived in 🇺🇸 🇭🇰now back in Blighty (for now) #FBPE #NAFO #FBPA

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WaterBluSky 🇺🇸 🌻 🇺🇦 @waterblusky.bsky.social · 7h
Cloudfare: Russian troll activity on X drops to 49%, after Ukraine strikes Yandex Russian data center. 🤖 🫤 Could this disrupt the midterms for the GOP?
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Gavin Draper @buzzardinnit.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
The famous “10 foot” graffiti artist has a local rival now in east London called “9 inch” who leaves their tag everywhere 10-foot has left theirs. I’m looking forward to seeing how this develops. 😂 (unless it is the same person developing their trade of course)!
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Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
NEW: The big new Aaron Sorkin film The Social Reckoning opens tomorrow with a plot centred on Facebook whistleblower, Frances Haugen....but we need to talk about *another* Facebook whistleblower, Sarah Wynn-Williams. And why Zuck is gunning for her.. 1/ www.youtube.com/watch?is=NP3...
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THE SOCIAL RECKONING – Official Teaser Trailer (HD)
YouTube video by Sony Pictures Entertainment
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Grumpy-ish Brian🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇪🇺🇮🇪 @brian770.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
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Roel Maalderink @roelmaalderink.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
De video waarvan Meta niet wil dat je ‘m ziet
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
You have to get a very long way through this BBC report before you learn which party runs the council which took the decision to close all these nurseries www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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South Tyneside Council nursery closures decision 'devastating'
Councillors confirm that all 10 Stanley's nurseries in South Tyneside will close by July 2027.
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Gavin Draper @buzzardinnit.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
@bearlypolitics.co.uk Congratulations on your promotion to a NY Times puzzle!
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Torsten Bell @torstenbell.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
So much of the right these days have a massive patriotism problem. This guy: - is a tax exile (left long before this govt) - hates his own country while complaining he doesn’t get big enough subsidies from it - laments the manufacturing hit from a Brexit he supported www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Billionaire Manchester United owner Sir Jim Ratcliffe says he has lost confidence in UK
Ineos founder Sir Jim Ratcliffe tells the BBC he thinks the country is "on the slide" and calls for more investment in the North Sea.
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Gavin Draper @buzzardinnit.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
This is outrageous, but can only make it to - get this - page 41 of today’s Times! (Archived story without paywall here archive.ph/Kn8sR)
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Hero’s murder inquiry paused as Metropolitan Police cuts costs
No suspects have been identified for the murder of Abraham Badru, who was given a bravery award after helping convict a gang of rapists
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Jason Scott-Warren @jes1003.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Last chance to sign our petition against the nondom billionaire media: petition.parliament.uk/petitions/76...
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Hassinator @hassinator.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
a great letter in the times today. perhaps worth sharing in these troubled times. #RNLI #heroes
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Dan Snow @thehistoryguy.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
I’m just a person on my fucking knees begging the government to use its absolutely massive majority to do something extremely fucking popular: save our democracy.
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Luke Turner @luketurner.com · 31/03/2026
I can now reveal that crypto billionaire Ben Delo—pardoned by Trump after a conviction for anti-money-laundering violations—privately funded the failed libel action brought against me by neo-Nazi conspiracy theorists Nina Power and Daniel Miller to the tune of at least £300,000.
Ben Delo, Nina Power and Daniel 'DC' Miller.
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Luke Turner @luketurner.com · 12/09/2026
As Ben Delo's record £36m Reform donation is headline news, I can't emphasise enough that the media ought to be reporting on Delo's heinous funding of antisemitic conspiracy theorists in the High Court – anonymous contributors to the horrifying neo-Nazi account shown below. bsky.app/profile/luke...
A sample of neo-Nazi posts by the @ParallaxOptics account, displaying grotesque antisemitic caricatures and violent Jew hate.The @ParallaxOptics account's banner image depicting Adolf Hitler.Post by @ParallaxOptics of an article anonymously written by Nina Power and Daniel Miller: ON CULTS II "If we're proposing the the Left is a cult, the first question is what do cults want in general?"
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The Onion @theonion.com · 12/09/2026
Everything Finally Clicks For Man After Getting Diagnosed As Stupid
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Everything Finally Clicks For Man After Getting Diagnosed As Stupid
CARY, NC—Describing the experience as “a revelation,” 38-year-old Derrick Henard told reporters Wednesday that everything had finally clicked for him after he was given a diagnosis of stupid. “I remem...
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Gavin Draper @buzzardinnit.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Quite apart from the questions about how he might fund it, or whether he would even follow through and do it, why aren’t journalists asking if this promise is BREAKING THE LAW? www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Trump says every adult American would get $5,000 if Republicans win midterms
Speaking at a party convention, the US president gave no details on how the plan would work or where the money would come from.
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Gavin Draper @buzzardinnit.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
I think my iPhone autocorrect is set to English (Northern). It always autocorrects “Don’t” to “Do t”!
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Gavin Draper @buzzardinnit.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
I am sick and tired of Reform spokespeople showing up on media channels or far right protest hot spots complaining about small boats without so much as a single journalist linking their protest target to the Brexit that caused the boats and these spokespeople’s support for it! Pin this on them ffs!
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Gavin Draper @buzzardinnit.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
It is the resigned, passive tolerance of Brexit initiated generic foreigner hatred that is so depressing about this Labour administration to date. They do nothing about the online hate and now it is in the steets they just hope it fades away. Their inaction on all fronts only encourages more of it.
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Womble1958 @wimblewomble1958.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
And here he is… Make him “famous” please…. 😒🤮
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Cold War Steve @coldwarsteve.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
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Roland Siemons @rolandsiemons.eurosky.social · 04/09/2026
Another third story perhaps: Polls as a marketing instrument. Detailed reading here: www.verbatiminvestigations.com/full-investi...
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Dirty Money: A Year Undercover in Reform UK
A yearlong investigation into Nigel Farage’s fundraising operation reveals a plot to break the law by bringing foreign money into British politics
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Gavin Draper @buzzardinnit.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
There are in fact two big stories in this story. One: the alleged intentional swerve of electoral law for newsworthy favourable polling, and Two: Farage was filmed on Clacton soil! (but only when surrounded by champagne and wealth) www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Farage senior aide filmed suggesting way to avoid donations law
A film broadcast by Channel 4 shows senior Reform UK figures discussing donations with an undercover reporter.
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Stefano Bornia @stefanobornia.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Quando una #politica aggressiva contro l’inquinamento funziona davvero. #london #uk #pollution
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Gavin Draper @buzzardinnit.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Pretty sure my Alexa is having a strop. Asked it if the Jubilee line was running today and at the speed of light it replied “Sorry, I couldn’t find anything”. It obviously didn’t even look! I’ll ask it for the weather tomorrow and I’m half expecting to be told to look out the window!
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Deb Chachra @debcha.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
This explainer out of Australia is genuinely useful background and analysis of what happened with the Canada-US trade deal last night. Note that it is extremely and delightfully sweary. Also there’s an appended glossary of Australian slang. ifloz.substack.com/p/king-carne...
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KING CARNEY ACTIVATES KONG MODE WITH ZERO FUCKS
Carney Reads the Clock Like a Pro Wrestler
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Laurence - highest score ever in the Neasden Cognitive Test!! @laurenceineu.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
And then I thought to myself, why the fuck should I try any longer? The undeniable truth is that thick people gave us Brexit, Trump, Johnson, Truss, Trump again and climate change. And they're now trying to give us Farage. I know they can't help being born dumb fuckers, but enough is enough!
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Ed Davey @eddavey.libdems.org.uk · 20/08/2026
The Conservatives and Nigel Farage helped create the small boats crisis with their botched Brexit deal. Now they want you to blame everyone else. Only Lib Dems have a real plan: work with our European neighbours to tackle it.
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Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Ed Davey, "The small boats crisis has been caused by Reform UK and the Conservatives, and their Brexit support" "Before we left the EU we could return people and now we can't" "But if we join the EU’s Migration and Asylum Pact, we could return every single person who came over on a small boat"
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Gavin Draper @buzzardinnit.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
What are the odds now that Farage will not take the MP swearing-in oath, Sinn Fein style, so as to swerve the resumption of the standards commission investigation, and thus another by-election that he’ll now likely lose.
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AllanZ @allanzee.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
www.sciencealert.com/scientists-w...
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Chemo-Free Technique Destroys 99% of Cancer Cells in The Lab
Scientists may have found a way to destroy cancer cells without initially relying on chemotherapy, surgery, or radiation.
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Count Binface @countbinface.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
I believe Clacton deserves an MP who will spend their time shining a light on everything the area has to offer. And why wait till I'm elected? I've been to visit one of the constituency's most stunning landmarks.
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Bremain in Spain @bremaininspain.com · 09/08/2026
Just had to share this. Thx #Reformemes
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 04/08/2026
Whitehouse: "The last Q I'm left with is what's left of this committee? What's left when we don't demand straight answers? How many times has this DOJ been asked what became of the $50k the FBI reported it handed to Homan? ... our Republican colleagues see no evil, hear no evil, and speak no evil"
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South-East London for Europe (Selfe) @selfe.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
There is always a Tweet! #FarageBoats
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Count Binface @countbinface.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
Here it is. My manifesto for the 2026 Clacton By-Election. It's a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. Join me, clean up Clacton and let's make 13th August Bin Day! #VoteBinface #VoteyMcVoteface #YesWeTinCan
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Benedict #FBPE 🇬🇧 🇪🇺FBR💙 #NAFO #FELLAS @cosmogalaxy.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
🤣🤣🤣
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Massimo (mirror) @rainmaker1973-m.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
This dog must have an amazing sense of humor. Original post
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
Reform UK donor and Farage ally George Cottrell carried a fake Swiss passport under the name ‘Oscar Drewitt’. Cottrell was hired under the name by the future Reform treasurer Mehrtash A’zami. A’zami later vetted Cottrell’s mother's donations to Reform, now the subject of a police investigation
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‘Posh George’, Two Passports, and a Fraudulent Identity: Convicted Fraudster and Nigel Farage Funder's Connections to Reform UK’s Murky Financial Structures
Why did Reform UK change from being a privately-owned company to a non-profit company limited by guarantee in 2025? Nafeez Ahmed investigates a fraudulent identity used by George Cottrell – and how hi...
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Gavin Draper @buzzardinnit.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
The story here is “Starmer’s loyalists axed”. I think the news will be that, in the spirit of “revenge is a dish best served cold”, they largely declined to serve. I think Starmer may have stitched Burnham up leaving him bereft of senior cabinet experience to achieve his bold claims.
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Burnham's cabinet clear-out begins - with Starmer loyalists axed
Andy Burnham has become the UK's seventh prime minister in just over a decade after meeting the King. He outlined his priorities in Downing Street and we'll learn his first cabinet this afternoon. Wat...
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Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
Piers Morgan, "Front page of the Mirror today: Farage aide faces 20 years for blackmail drug plot. This guy worked pretty closely with you" "George Cottrell, 22, arrested when you were in America" Nigel Farage, "Listen, I can't be responsible for what everyone around me does"
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Gerri McGerriface @messmonstergigi.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
OMG This is hilarious! God I hope he wins. 😂😂 youtube.com/watch?v=MMYn...
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Count Binface live on LBC! (versus Matthew Wright)
YouTube video by Count Binface
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Gavin Draper @buzzardinnit.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
It has occurred to me that if Farage claims he is the anti establishment candidate while being as much “establishment” as anyone has ever been, then @countbinface.bsky.social is the antidisestablishmentarianismist candidate and he should ask the media to credit him as being so. #makeyourvotecount.
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Gavin Draper @buzzardinnit.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
For those complaining that the main parties aren’t standing against Reform in Clacton, let’s remind you of Farage’s pact with the “establishment” in 2019 standing Brexit party candidates down.
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Boris Johnson and Nigel Farage spotted in swanky restaurant together
The photo of the two men, who were both key in the leave campaign, will no doubt fuel speculation about the politician's relationship.
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Russell England @russellengland.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
So, there is a precedent for vetoing an MP's resignation Viscount Chelsea (Henry Cadogan) applied for the Chiltern Hundreds in 1842 The Chancellor (Goulburn) refused because, get this, Cadogan wanted to resign to obstruct an investigation for bribery h/t @fascinatorfun.bsky.social and @gazhay.com
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"The noble Lord had stated, that it was unusual to refuse the Chiltern Hundreds, except on account of mental incapacity, or where proceedings were pending for the expulsion of the applicants from their seats. In this case, however, the House had decided that compromises had been entered into, which had the effect of obstructing the investigation of bribery; "
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neicha74.bsky.social @neicha74.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Exactly what I just said when I heard this news. When it's time to take out the trash, Binface is the man you need.
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Jessica Elgot @jessicaelgot.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
EXC - The £5m gift to Nigel Farage by a cryptocurrency billionaire was reported to the National Crime Agency by bankers who were concerned it may have been laundered money, the Guardian can reveal. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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Revealed: Farage’s £5m gift reported to UK crime agency over money laundering concerns
Exclusive: Latest Guardian revelation about gift from cryptocurrency tycoon comes as Reform UK leader forces byelection
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James Ball @jamesrball.com · 07/07/2026
"Farage was given a deadline of 1pm on Tuesday to respond to the Guardian about this article. He gave a video address at 2pm announcing he would force a byelection in his seat of Clacton-on-Sea."
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Gavin Draper @buzzardinnit.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Clacton, you know what to do. Five Garage Farage (MP) has not been fixing your potholes, or listening to a word you have to say hence the local nickname Nigel Mirage. The boats - or "Nigel's Arrivals" - are his fault. Do the country a favour. If not the dolphin it has to be @countbinface.bsky.social
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Gavin Draper @buzzardinnit.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
@cnbc.com’s morning anchor Jim Kernen was wondering why - mid tournament of a genuinely “world” reaching mass participation sport that happens every 4 years - changing the rules for a knockout game to benefit team USA to generate US audience interest was such a big deal to the rest of the world 🤦🏼‍♂️
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