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Ian Hamilton

@catchafire777.bsky.social
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Socialist Indy 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿. It’s all a bit fkd up atm but there are many more good people than bad. We can do better than this. Let’s hope we do.

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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
In more serious times, the US government trying to cover up the deaths of service members would be a career-ending scandal.
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Pentagon raises official toll of troops who died during war with Iran to 21 — The Washington Post
The Post exclusively reported last month that the numbers of service members lost was greater than what the Pentagon was reporting in its public database.
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Ed Davey @eddavey.libdems.org.uk · 09/10/2026
Wow. Donald Trump is giving money to Putin’s war machine so he can keep killing innocent Ukrainians and attacking democracies across Europe. The UK must lead a coalition of the willing that stands up and says no.
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Traitor.
Donald J. Trump I @reaDonald Trump
I have just concluded a highly successful discussion with President Vladimir Putin, of Russia, wherein it was agreed that Russia will immediately supply over 300,000 Tons of Diesel Fuel to the American and Global Marketplace, another 500,000 Tons during the month of November, and 1,000,000 Tons immediately thereafter. Additionally, based on the condition of their Diesel Refineries, Russia will then deliver, within a short period of time, 3,000,000 Tons of Diesel Fuel. Between our TOTAL CONTROL of the Strait of Hormuz, and this great announcement on Russian Energy, Diesel Prices for Americans and, indeed, the World, will be COMING DOWN, IN RECORD NUMBERS, AND FAST! Lower prices for Americans, especially our Great Farmers, Ranchers, and Truckers, is my Greatest Priority. This is a very big and important announcement. Additionally, it must be understood, that Iran will not have a Nuclear Weapon! Thank you for your attention to this matter. President DONALD J. TRUMP
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Not something a civilised country does. The firing squad execution of Fort Hood shooter Nidal Malik Hasan will be live-streamed, the Defense Department said. “People need to understand that there’s serious consequences for these types of things,” Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said.
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Fort Hood shooter’s execution will be live-streamed, Defense Dept. says
“We’ll make sure that people are able to watch it,” Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said Thursday about the firing squad execution of convicted Fort Hood shooter Nidal Malik Hasan.
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Chickyholic 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @chickyholic.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
If you weren't already aware of Scot Gov's action to keep the US "giant"Palantir out of Scotland's NHS, this in The National from June this year gives the detail. 1/2 www.thenational.scot/news/2620453...
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NHS app launches as SNP vow to keep Palantir away from Scotland’s health data
SCOTLAND'S new NHS app has been launched, with the SNP pledging the party will "never let the US tech giant Palantir get its hands on Scotland’s NHS"
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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
The USA is a place with no healthcare, but 1000 billionaires. At least 49 of those billionaires made all their money from Private Healthcare. Perhaps you can connect the dots.
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Mike Galsworthy @mikegalsworthy.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Just copy & share everywhere please. Absolutely thumping.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
The response when progressive policies that help millions of people are proposed... "How will you pay for it?" The response when the richest 1% ask for tax cuts, or banks ask for bailouts, or defense contractors ask for more contracts... "How much do you need?" It doesn't have to be this way.
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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 25/09/2026
📉 Every day we stay out of the EU our businesses lose money - that is fewer jobs and less money in our pockets...
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UK ‘losing up to £6.5bn a year in EU trade’ without post-Brexit product deal
IPPR finds failure to align testing standards costing 0.18% of national income and has seen companies abandon exporting
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Spanish PM Pedro Sánchez on The Weekly Show: “The paradox is that we have these techno oligarchs investing in a technology that many of their workers say could kill and end humanity. And at the same time, these technical oligarchs are investing massively in immortality.
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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 23/09/2026
📈 Rejoining the EU is the best way for the UK to grow our economy. 1️⃣ If we are serious about tackling low investment and the cost of living - there is only one option.
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Andy Burnham does not rule out Brexit reversal being in next Labour manifesto
PM says immediate focus is on rebuilding bridges with EU as he prepares for first meeting with Ursula von der Leyen
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Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Mike Galsworthy on GB News, "The right model forward is what Mark Carney was saying, it is the middle powers getting together, largely gathering around Europe, which has a stable base, which can offer the global things you can buy into"
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Ian Hamilton @catchafire777.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Unfortunately I don’t know if there’s a serious political capable of achieving this
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Byline Times @bylinetimes.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
“Unlike the political right in the UK, which still clings on to the fantasy of the US-UK special relationship, Carney understands that the US has fundamentally changed, and can no longer be fully relied upon.” ✍️ Alexandra Hall Hall
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Why Canada Could End Up With a Better Deal With the EU Than the UK
As the UK continues to hesitate over drawing back towards the EU, Canada has spotted an opportunity, argues former diplomat Alexandra Hall Hall
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Mike Galsworthy @mikegalsworthy.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
🔥 Mark Carney officially has the highest approval rating in Canadian history - a 70% approval rate. Carney’s EU moves have gone down well!
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Mark Carney officially has the highest approval rating in Canadian history
Prime Minister Mark Carney now holds the highest recorded approval rating in Canadian history, achieved earlier this month in a study by Spark Insights.
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Ian Hamilton @catchafire777.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Oh dear sad news - gone too soon. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Bonnie Greer: British-American author and critic dies at 77
Her husband says the playwright and cultural and political commentator died after a brief illness.
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 13/09/2026
And yet there are people who actually believe this clown is going to send them a check for $5,000.
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David Graeber Institute @davidgraeberinst.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Fascism in Britain has not come from nothing. It is the result of decades of Thatcherism and then Austerity.
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Ian Hamilton @catchafire777.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
The bond with the US is no longer essential, in fact quite the contrary while a Russian assets remains in charge at the White House.
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Reuters @reuters.com · 11/09/2026
President Trump led his Republican Party in a mock pledge during their political convention in Dallas on September 10, telling them to ‘cheat like hell’ and vote whether they're ‘registered or not’ in November's midterm elections. reut.rs/3TkYP2V
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 11/09/2026
The president ordered supporters to raise their right hands, proclaim him the greatest president in history, and promise to “cheat like hell” before warning nonvoters that they would “go to hell.”
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Trump Makes Convention Crowd Swear Creepy Loyalty Oath to Him
The president ordered supporters to raise their right hands, proclaim him the greatest president in history, and promise to “cheat like hell” before warning nonvoters that they would “go to hell.”
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Sven-Erik Volberg @volberg.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
This seems relevant as ever, more so even.
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Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Left: Nigel Farage, "It was great (you picked up the tab for the poll), it worked, boom.. For a modest investment.. Amazing" Right: Nigel Farage to Laura Kuenssberg, "I frankly wasn't listening.. I was just there to say hello"
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Mike Galsworthy @mikegalsworthy.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
“At 7pm, Channel 4 began broadcasting its undercover investigation into Reform’s political funding. At exactly the same time, a Bylines Network webinar was asking how we clean up politics. We had no idea quite how closely the two would collide.”
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As Channel 4 investigated Reform’s funding, Bylines was debating how to clean up politics
Two simultaneous events revealed an extraordinary overlap between allegations about political funding and proposals for cleaning it up
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Liberal Democrats @libdems.org.uk · 03/09/2026
Farage has always behaved as though the rules apply to everyone but him. These allegations against Reform look like the latest example. Lib Dem Cabinet Office spokesperson @lisasmartmp.bsky.social has written to the police and the electoral commission asking them to investigate.
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Jessica Elgot @jessicaelgot.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Reform UK has banned some journalists from its annual conference who have reported critically on the party and Nigel Farage. It includes the Guardian’s City editor, Anna Isaac, who uncovered the £5m gift. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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Reform UK bans three journalists from its conference after critical reporting
Guardian City editor Anna Isaac among those who had credentials to cover event declined
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Nigel Farage filmed celebrating illegal foreign donations Undercover footage reveals plot to break the law by funnelling offshore funds through a UK donor. Donations funded a series of widely reported polls boosting Reform ahead of the local elections channel4news.substack.com/p/exclusive-...
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
“Signs are emerging that Europe is preparing for the worst. The UK is about to launch a national resilience campaign, urging citizens to stock up on tinned food and water to be ready in case of “potential attacks from hostile nations”, as well as other disasters.”
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War Drums Beat Louder
Europe takes a stand against Russia
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The Daily Britain @thedailybritain.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Ten years after the referendum, only around one in five Britons still describe Brexit as the right turn.
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Ian Hamilton @catchafire777.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
I don’t think threatening civilian aircraft is at all wise & it would be catastrophic if a drone did cause a passenger plane crash regardless of which country the aircraft or passengers were from. I highly doubt the Ukrainians would consider such a foolish thing.
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Ian Hamilton @catchafire777.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Argentina gets the Falklands & America gets Argentine beef. Trump has no allies, he thinks he can bully his way to getting what he wants.
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Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
According to Nigel Farage, Iceland being in the EU Single Market, having free movement of people and belonging to Schengen is perfectly compatible with national independence. I look forward to him endorsing the same independence for the UK: back in the Single Market, with free movement and Schengen
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Anti-Reform @antireform.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
'They promised more jobs, more trade and more power. Ten years later, Heseltine wants to know where all the boasting went.' "Never have so few done so much damage to so many’: Heseltine demands Johnson, Farage and Gove answer for the Brexit ‘con’" thedailybritain.co.uk/heseltine-br...
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 25/08/2026
This is truly heartbreaking. Dolly Parton was an extraordinary person and an irreplaceable champion of the working class. We are a better country because of her.
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 23/08/2026
Trump triggered a full-blown trade war with Canada, his own Treasury Secretary is battling the bond markets and losing, MAGA is tearing itself apart, and some of Trump’s latest stock trades are raising serious questions. And that’s just the beginning.
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This Weekend in Politics, Bulletin 446.
… We are officially in a trade war with Canada, historically our closest ally and key trading partner, as Trump seems determined to crash the Republican clown car into a ditch before the midterms.
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The National @scotnational.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Tomorrow's front page: "There isn't a ceasefire. People are dying every day."
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 19/08/2026
The bond market is sending a warning about America’s debt. Now Trump’s Treasury is stepping in. Chief Economist Justin Wolfers explains what’s happening, what we still don’t know, and why this could matter for your mortgage, car loan, and credit cards.
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Justin Wolfers Explains the Economic Warning Signs We Can’t Ignore
MeidasTouch Chief Economist Justin Wolfers breaks down the Treasury’s unusual bond market move and what it could mean for interest rates, debt, and your wallet
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Peter Jukes @peterjukes.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Here‘s the real story from @nafeez.bsky.social The Peter Thiel-Linked Race Science Network that Penetrated Cambridge University and Targeted Jason Arday bylinetimes.com/2026/08/18/t...
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The Peter Thiel-Linked Race Science Network that Penetrated Cambridge University and Targeted Jason Arday
The media's coverage of the academic's life was fuelled by the campaign of an established far-right network
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 16/08/2026
U.S. Naval Forces Central Command is now denying our reporting about shortages of feminine hygiene products aboard the USS Boxer. We’ve seen these same blanket denials for months about the dire conditions aboard the USS Abraham Lincoln. Our reporting was right then. It is right now. 1/
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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Trump has dropped his $10bn charge against the BBC after he was told he would have to give the BBC his Financial Records. Not suspicious at all...
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Count Binface @countbinface.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
There now follows a party election broadcast by the Count Binface Party, And if I do say so myself, it's a banger. #VoteBinface #Clacton
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Max Colbert @mc00.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
Great reporting, these new filings raise even more Qs about R20 Advisory's donations and Reform. The company, before new filings were released, were featured as one of a number of loss-making or at risk firms donating to Reform, reported by @bylinetimes.bsky.social bylinetimes.com/2026/06/29/t...
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The Troubled Firms That Gave Reform UK Tens of Thousands of Pounds Whilst on the Brink of Collapse
Anti-corruption campaigners question why firms are choosing to donate tens of thousands of pounds they apparently don't have to Nigel Farage's party
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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
The EU is about to ban 'video glasses' because they break invasion of privacy laws. The UK needs to ban them too.
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Alex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
The funniest - and least discussed - aspect of this is that Farage, having reportedly told RefUK he'd only lead them if compensated for the £1m a year income he had outside politics, pocketed their five million, then kept earning from outside interests at the same rate anyway. He scammed even them.
Nigel Farage’s income since being elected MP has hit £2m, analysis shows

Reform UK leader has registered wide range of financial interests on top of his Commons salary since July 2024

Cameo, speeches, pushing gold bullion: how Farage has made millions since becoming an MP
Helena Horton and Anna Isaac
Wed 6 May 2026 19.57 BST
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Nigel Farage’s income since he was elected as an MP has now reached £2m on top of his parliamentary salary, analysis of the register of MPs has shown.
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 31/07/2026
Burnham calls on Fifa president Gianni Infantino to resign over World Cup sell-off plans – UK politics live
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Burnham calls on Fifa president Gianni Infantino to resign over World Cup sell-off plans – UK politics live
The prime minister says that the current Fifa general secretary is ‘the wrong man to lead the organisation’ The construction of a new Chinese “super-embassy” in London, which is set to be built near the Tower of London, can go ahead after a high court challenge against the decision to grant planning permission was dismissed, PA Media is reporting. The Royal Mint Court Residents’ Association (RMCRA) brought legal action against the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government and the London Borough of Tower Hamlets. Continue reading...
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 31/07/2026
McCarthyism has returned to the United States – and this time it’s even more dangerous | Judith Levine
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McCarthyism has returned to the United States – and this time it’s even more dangerous | Judith Levine
Trump’s campaign of repression echoes the red scare. But now the government has bigger ambitions and more powerful tools
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Ian Hamilton @catchafire777.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
You could have just headed up to northern Scotland, Shetland is generally good for avoiding heatwaves.
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
Many people don’t realise this is not a joke. There’s a chance, a slim one, for regime change in one of the parties that is part of the global Far Right network.
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Count Binface Vs The Far Right
An intergalactic warrior has a message for the world
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Byline Times @bylinetimes.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
🔴 The Walls Are Closing In Around Nigel Farage’s Crypto Insurgency Nigel Farage’s party is now connected to multiple parliamentary and police investigations, as questions grow about its opaque crypto-connected funding, reports @mattmgallagher.bsky.social bylinetimes.com/2026/07/10/t...
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The Walls Are Closing In Around Nigel Farage's Crypto Insurgency
Nigel Farage's party is now connected to multiple parliamentary and police investigations, as questions grow about its opaque crypto-connected funding, reports Matt Gallagher
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Josiah Mortimer @josiahmortimer.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
In a post last July, apparent Restore donor Miles/Routledge wrote: “What brings me joy and hope in this world is that by 2039 we’ll have another Hitler to lead another great uprising.” bylinetimes.com/2026/07/10/w...
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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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