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University and College Union (UCU) @ucu.org.uk · 14/09/2026

UCU members at Brighton University face the threat of derecognition. We have called an emergency rally tomorrow at 1:15pm. It would be amazing to see as many #TUC26 delegates as possible in attendance. 58-67 Grand Parade, Brighton and Hove, Brighton BN2 0JY

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Anti-Reform @antireform.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

"... the Electoral Commission has now confirmed it is considering a complaint concerning hospitality provided to Nigel Farage and senior Reform figures during fundraising events in Dubai" via Truth Against Hate ps Dubai is a Muslim country with Sharia Law - which Reform say they hate

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Somersetchris @somersetchris.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Just a reminder that this is the post that Farage put on X and then deleted #politicslive #RNLI

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Lee Hurley @hleehurley.com · 11/09/2026

'Just protecting women and children unless the children need fed'

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Peter Geoghegan @petergeoghegan.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

We only went and won it (again) Democracy for Sale specialist newsletter of the year at the Future of the Media awards @lucasamin.bsky.social @jennacorderoy.bsky.social @isabelleroughol.com Thanks so much to all our supporters. If you don’t subscribe, do! 😊 democracyforsale.substack.com

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Election Maps UK @electionmaps.uk · 11/09/2026

Burnage (Manchester) Council By-Election Result: 🌹 LAB: 42.1% (+12.8) 🌍 GRN: 32.0% (-13.8) ⚙️ WPB: 14.4% (+12.1) ➡️ RFM: 9.7% (+7.2) 🔶 LDM: 1.0% (-2.1) 🌳 CON: 0.8% (-1.3) No Ind (-0.5) as previous. Labour HOLD. Changes w/ 2026.

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M a r c u s 🏳️‍🌈🇧🇧🇬🇧 @marcusjdl.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

So the BBC has cancelled Drag Race UK, I Kissed A Boy/Girl so the message is if you’re LGBTQ and pay the TV licence fuck you

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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Finally they came for the Daily Mail and my irony meter just packed up and left and I never heard from it again.

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Scott Bryan @scottygb.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Channel 4 has just announced its biggest cuts to its workforce in its history, with 28% of employees to lose their jobs.

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Scott Bryan @scottygb.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

This era in british broadcasting: Sky buying ITV. Channel 5 being bought by Paramount. BBC making £500m of cuts. and now C4 making biggest workforce cuts in its history. www.theguardian.com/media/2026/s...

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Channel 4 to axe about 300 jobs in biggest layoffs in its history

Exclusive: Staff expect ‘brutal’ cutbacks as broadcaster seeks to reduce costs amid advertising slowdown

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Paul Hebden @paulhebden.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

What a ridiculous question. Once again the BBC drives a nail into it's own coffin.

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HappyToast @happytoast.co.uk · 08/09/2026

Easy to follow guide from the British press

An elderly lady being carried away by the police, labelled intimidating, and two black clad, balaclava wearing men standing in front of someone’s car, staring at them.

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Photography by Alfie Goodrich @alfie.photography · 07/09/2026

And 90 years later we have Mosley’s grandson running the UK arm of Palantir. A company that should not be within a million miles of the Police and NHS. Pretty much every time you see Louis Mosley on tv, he’s dressed like this. Could be that he just likes black shirts, I guess.

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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

This was the point I emphasised about Palantir when I wrote about tech soverignty - their model is to make bits of the state dependent on them and them jack up the price. samf.substack.com/p/sovereignt...

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Sovereignty for sale

Tech monopolies and the future of the nation state

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Lee Hurley @hleehurley.com · 07/09/2026

'cosiness' They beat a woman with a metal pole, Peter.

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Robert Saunders @robertsaunders.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Dan Chater, whose Bethnal Green constituency had a large Jewish population, was one of many MPs to warn of the scapegoating of Jews and immigrants. The Jewish peer Lord Reading warned that antisemitism was being whipped up as part of a wider attack on "the free institutions of this country".

I am convinced that this constant preaching night after night, this implanting of the idea in the minds of the people that practically all their troubles are due to the Jews who reside there, must sooner or later lead to an outbreak of disorder directed especially to the pillage and destruction of Jewish property.
I have watched the whole growth of this kind of propaganda in the East End and I am not afraid to state that, observing it as carefully as one can, it coincides in every particular with the methods, the manner of the propaganda and the psychology which was created in other lands and which led to the establishment of dictatorships there.

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Robert Saunders @robertsaunders.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

90 years ago, Parliament responded to the rise of Oswald Mosley's Blackshirts by passing the Public Order Act, which banned political uniforms, private militias and the threat of force for political objects. The debates make very resonant reading today. Here's the Liberal Robert Bernays. (Short 🧵)

You cannot conduct a fair match when one side is playing with a ball and the other with bombs and, if democracy is to survive, it must be conducted according to definite and recognised rule. One of them is that no political party should resort to any weapon other than reason and argument. The introduction of private armies, as I see it, strikes at the root of democracy. I know it is contended that the Blackshirts are not armed and, therefore, are not an army, but I do not think that argument can be upheld. … Uniformed men in military formation suggest, and are meant to suggest, the idea of force. It is no argument to reply that at this or that demonstration no force is intended. It is an inescapable fact that a uniform in politics symbolises force, to be used either now or in the future.

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Dr Jo Edge 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @hagenilda.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

More bootlicking, this time, Head of Public Affairs at LSE Greg Taylor fawning over how much he loved the Reform conference. #UKHE

LinkedIn post from Greg Taylor:

I was looking forward to the Reform UK Conference.

I've been going to conferences for 21 years, but this was new: I didn't know what to expect, or what the vibe would be.

And it didn't disappoint.

We had great conversations with interesting people, held a well-attended The London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) event, and stayed up way too late talking policy (and gossiping) with friends.

A few more reflections as a fascinated neophyte:

📈 It was a slick, professional set-up in a HUGE venue (perhaps too huge). PA folk were there in droves, and there was a real interest in policy and fringes: events were packed, attendees keen to talk about all sorts, from devo to growth, immigration to education. It was the chattiest and most freewheeling conference I've been to. We encounted no antipathy to HE from members (just from the main stage!).

📉 The slickness and professionalism was a pain for some dyed-in-the-wool members, who didn't enjoy the queues and delays that come with rising popularity. There was palpable frustration that the slightly tatty family car has transformed into a shiny juggernaut, like the monster trucks proudly on display. The faithful are still on the journey, for now, but it’s a big difference between being part of an upstart party and yet another huge, distant organisation. Watching how that develops will be fascinating.

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Marc With A C @wilch2710.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

And heres another feel-good story

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Mic Wright @brokenbottleboy.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

A detail missing from The Times story… the woman who took the photo shared it to a Facebook group called ‘South east patriots’.

Facebook post showing the photo of three white women on a train with a group of black-clad, masked men being shared to a group called ‘South east patriots’

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Peter Geoghegan @petergeoghegan.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

The Channel 4 exposé "will make it even harder for Reform to attract donors, legal or otherwise. And it has given the Labour government the best excuse it ever needed to take money out of British politics." New by me on @zeteo.com UK zeteo.uk/p/anti-forei...

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Anti-Foreigner Reform UK’s Shocking Foreign-Funding Scandal Is a Wake-Up Call

‘We just don’t have British-resident donors,’ a top Nigel Farage ally told an undercover US reporter on camera. Isn’t now a good time to get big money out of UK politics?

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HappyToast @happytoast.co.uk · 04/09/2026

I'm sat in a coffee shop surrounded by people drinking tea and coke and eating toast or if they're lucky a slice of cake while babies scream and dogs outside bark and I can't see a single person being bought champagne and oysters and I'm starting to wonder if Farage actually is a man of the people.

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Parody Nigel Farage @parodypm.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

When I said I wanted something to distract attention from the £5 million gift, I didn't mean this.

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Parody Nigel Farage @parodypm.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

I forgot to mention at the time that this poll was commissioned by Reform and paid for illegally with foreign money. Silly me.

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Dmitry Grozoubinski @explaintrade.com · 04/09/2026

I wish I could stay longer to keep discussing ways to conceal illegal foreign contributions to my political party, but I'm late to lecturing on ethics at Cambridge University where I am a live-in landlord for multiple students.

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The Daily Tism @thedailytism.com · 03/09/2026

The existing diagnostic process of detailed interviews, forms, and observations is to be replaced by a few quick questions which will determine whether you are the genuine article or just a big fake autistic, one rent-a-gob psychologist has announced.

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New Uta Frith test to determine if you’re doing autism correctly

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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

The Nigel Farage and Reform foreign donations scandal excluded from all but one national newspaper front page this morning. No sign of it at all on the front pages of the two papers which splashed the polls secretly funded by a Reform donor earlier this year

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Paul Brand @paulbrand.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Dan Jukes has been especially vital to Nigel Farage for years now - rarely did you spot one without the other. Losing his right hand man will damage Farage. And we’ve seen this pattern before - once the advisors go, the question becomes, why not the party leader too?

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Leigh Jones @leighsus.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

OK, when is James Orr going to leave his role with Cambridge University? Are we still doing that?

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M a r c u s 🏳️‍🌈🇧🇧🇬🇧 @marcusjdl.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Looking forward to the 200+ articles on how on earth James Orr got hired breaking news alerts and the Times running ads with the story

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Chris Addison @mrchrisaddison.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Possibly the most shocking revelation in this whole thing is that Nigel Farage was at one point in Clacton.

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Lee Hurley @hleehurley.com · 04/09/2026

From the papers I've been monitoring over the past few years (Times, Telegraph, Mail, Guardian): -None have it on their front page -Times has it on p2, no images -Mail slipped it into a larger pro-Farage piece p7 -Guardian have a decent-sized piece, but p12 -Telegraph appear to have nothing

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Lee Hurley @hleehurley.com · 04/09/2026

The Farage sting is not on the front pages of: The Times Belfast Telegraph Daily Express Daily Mail Mirror Star Metro Morning Star Telegraph Guardian Herald i Independent The Journal The National The Scotsman

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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Haha, a more fitting logo for Google.

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K M Flett @keithbeard.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

according to the Telegraph (1st Sept) the Greens took control of Camden Council in May which will surprise Labour who actually run it. Even basic fact checking has departed the Telegraph now

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

The richest man owns X. The second and fourth richest men control Google. The third richest man owns The Washington Post. The sixth richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp. And now the seventh richest could soon take over both Paramount and Warner Bros. See the problem here?

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Peter Geoghegan @petergeoghegan.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Half an hour after publish this, get an email from Reform saying can’t come to this year’s conference 🤔

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Phillips OBrien @phillipspobrien.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

So the USA is stealing Venezuelan oil and entrenching a new dictator in power to oppress the Venezuelan people. There needs to be a reckoning for all this.

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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

And there it is, the one thing that Britain’s Israel/Palestine policy always been about. Britain does what it’s told to by Washington, Or Else.

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Exclusive from @breeallegretti
Andy Burnham has been warned he risks igniting a trade war with President Trump by pushing ahead with plans to impose sanctions on Israeli settlements
The prime minister was told by Labour MPs that Britain could face retaliation from the White House for imposing a trade ban over plans for 1,200 settler homes in the West Bank
The US last month criticised Ireland for passing similar legislation, warning of the "unintended consequences" for hundreds of businesses and calling the move "unhelpful"
Trump has also threatened a full trade embargo with Spain, which last year banned goods being imported from Israeli settlements, amid a wider row over the country's decision not to let the US use its military bases for operations in Iran

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Lee Hurley @hleehurley.com · 18/06/2025

The war on trans people is not a distraction from anything. It is a war on trans people.

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