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Chris James

@chrism-jam.bsky.social
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Pro fairness, equality, justice. Bunny hugger. Still angry about brexit 🇪🇺

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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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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
What’s your legacy Johnson? Brexit. Total collapse of trust in politics. And this. The small boats symbolise your dishonesty and your failure. You’re responsible for nothing but damage. Not one good thing. Not one proud moment. You’re forever a shameful disgrace who threw his own mandate in the bin.
Boris Johnson @BorisJohnson
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It's a disaster, and it can all be traced to Labour ideology. Burnham has no mandate from the people. He has no real ideas, and no plan.
BORIS JOHNSON: UK is defenceless against migrants without...
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
The Guardian joins the campaign to abolish the state pension triple-lock. Portrays it as a old v young, social security v defence spending issue. Silence on corporate welfare, tax perks of the rich, maldistribution of wealth, low govt spend on state pension, how future retirees will survive.
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Britain needs cash and everyone knows we should break the pensions triple lock. Where is the courage? | Gaby Hinsliff
The issue cannot be avoided any longer. Andy Burnham and his chancellor must face the fear of a pensioner backlash, and find a fair solution, says Guardian columnist Gaby Hinsliff
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Mike Galsworthy @mikegalsworthy.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
💥 There are now over 17,800 emails that have been sent💥 Not bad, given that we only started this on Friday! 🙌
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Jim Pickard @pickardje.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
my brilliant colleague @robertshrimsley.bsky.social on the threat from Elon Musk’s X platform www.ft.com/content/f270...
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Alex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
I would love to ask a prominent BBC journalist to give me an example of an illegitimate concern. Is seems to me that it has become a question not of fact, logic, or ethics but of volume. If a big enough proportion of a village was anxious about Bigfoot or Chemtrails, BBC would cover it in a way...
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Steve Peers @stevepeers.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Lifeboat museum forced to close after abuse from thugs www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Poole Old Lifeboat Museum shuts after protesters target volunteers
The museum in Poole says it will remain closed until until the anti-migrant protests stop.
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
The EU and Canada are working on a broad new partnership covering trade, defence, security, space, scientific research, supply chains and critical minerals to reduce their dependence on the US and China, Bloomberg reports. 1/
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Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan @london.gov.uk · 03/09/2026
Our approach to tackling knife crime is working. Alongside my record investment in targeted, intelligence-led policing, my London Violence Reduction Unit is addressing the causes of crime by diverting young people away from violence and exploitation, and towards positive opportunities.
Bar chart showing knife crime 12% lower and knife crime with injury 9% lower. Text reads "We've seen fewer knife offences and injuries in London over the last 12 months / Latest data shows our approach to tackling violence is helping keep Londoners safe through policing prevention and early intervention". Small print below bar chart reads "Note: Police recorded crime is liable to future change due to many factors e.g. transfer to another force or reclassification. Source: MOPAC analysis of Metropolitan Police recorded crime data. 12-month period to July 2026 as compared to the previous 12 months. London datastore 6/8/26." Mayor of London logo is in the bottom right-hand corner of the graphic.
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DeaconBiker aka Sally 📎🕷🇺🇦🇪🇺 @deaconbiker.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
I'm assuming you've seen this?? Great read with Oz swearing. Right up your street.. 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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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Why isn’t there a total moratorium on all reporting on Reform until after the multiple investigations into their finances have been completed? Free propaganda for potentially corrupt liars should be banned. It might make them think twice before breaking rules and taking the piss out of all of us.
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Peter Smith @redpeter99.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
There are 71 Lib Dem MPs in Westminster. There are 8 Reform MPs. When was the last time a Lib Dem press release led the BBC News headlines or was the main story on the BBC News website? (Rhetorical question)
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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
God help journalism if these people ever get into power www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
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Richard Tice accused of ‘nasty tactics’ over legal threat to the Guardian
Reform deputy leader condemned for seeking disclosure of documents that could reveal reporter’s sources
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Dan Sohege @danielsohege.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
I can only, personally, assume that Jon King and the Express editors are now actively supporting far right violence when they consider pillows, bedding and toilet rolls as "jaw dropping" to provide to people seeking safety after fleeing war and persecution.
The jaw-dropping list of everything asylum seekers in Thetford were 'given for free'

EXCLUSIVE: Items include pillowcases, duvets, dinner plates and cutlery.The list includes a duvet, two pillows, hand towels, face towels, pillowcases, a dinner plate, cereal bowl, knife, fork, spoons, a frying pan, saucepan, tea towel and toilet roll.
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Marina Purkiss @marina-purkiss.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
Finding this quite hard to stomach from a country that is bombing the shit out of other countries…
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Stop Funding Hate @stopfundinghate.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
Nearly 1,000 people have backed our petition challenging Talk over its airing of dangerous rhetoric labelling refugees "vermin" & urging Kopparberg to pull its ads - will you add your voice? actionstorm.org/petitions/ko...
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
I don't think I've ever seen a group of people take a joke quite as badly to heart as this lot have this week
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Private Eye Magazine @privateeyenews.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
Number crunching: “Reform is now the party of workers” From the new Private Eye, out now.
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Chris James @chrism-jam.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
Brexit means Brexit #somuchwinning
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Ham der kammerat Bo @bo-stefan-nielsen.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
Switzerland bolted 5,000 solar panels onto a dam wall 8,000 feet up in the freezing Alps where everyone said solar made no sense, and the plant now makes three times more winter power than any farm down in the valleys ☀️
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Switzerland bolted 5,000 solar panels onto a dam wall 8,000 feet up in the freezing Alps where everyone said solar made no sense, and the plant now makes three times more winter power than any farm do...
High in the Swiss Alps, on a concrete dam wall more than 8,000 feet above the sea, someone bolted thousands of solar panels to a place almost no one thought
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Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
If you've read about George Cottrell this morning...well he's part of this & coming soon. The rest of the media is *finally* onto Farage. But I've been at this for an entire decade & until now haven't had a team. Please sign up to @thenerve.news & support if you can 🙏 www.thenerve.news/membership
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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
Would Jenrick also like to explain how £5Mill Farage hawking gold bullion and grifting for crypto and fossil fuel billionaires while pledging to scrap the Equality Act, bin new employment rights and lower the minimum wage is not working for the super rich, against the interests of the rest of us?
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thattimwalker.bsky.social @thattimwalker.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
It seems surprising up until now Farage has not been in receipt of what’s called an unexplained wealth order, which requires an individual or an organisation to explain how they obtained a property or other assets.
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East Anglia Bylines @eastangliabylines.co.uk · 03/07/2026
Last week's vote was postponed because the council chamber was too hot during the heatwave. This week, Reform's attempt to scrap King's Lynn and West Norfolk's Climate Emergency Declaration was defeated. Letter to the editor:
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Letter: Reform’s motion was the wrong answer to a real problem
Letter to the editor
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Dan Neidle @danneidle.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
What if Andy Burnham could raise £15bn – without a tax rise? There's one catch. He'd need to solve the UK’s biggest and least-discussed tax problem. Almost half of all small business corporation tax isn't being paid - and nobody knows why. Thread:
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Parody Nigel Farage @parodypm.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
Very good question from my GB News colleague. He may be surprised to know that Andy Burnham has spent more time in Makerfield since 18 June than I've spent in Clacton since July 2024.
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Twlldun @twlldun.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
I’m not saying the debate in the U.K. has moved to the right, but Ed Miliband is basically seen as Pol Pot for aiming for a climate target first agreed to by…I think Theresa May’s government? Definitely Johnson’s. And this chat is going on during the middle of a record-breaking heatwave
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
And not a squeak from Farage, Lowe, Robinson or Tice. Nothing. Literally nothing.
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Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
A) This a properly brilliant piece of investigative journalism by BBC & @hopenot.bsky.social Huge kudos to all involved for doing the job the UK police & CPS failed to do: naming the alleged spymaster & clearly showing Kremlin’s role. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Russia was behind arson attacks targeting PM, BBC reveals
Evidence shows Russians directing the plot and stoking tensions with fake far-right and Muslim groups.
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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
This is such a complex + rushed set of reforms that I think many people are simply unaware of just how many problems that implementing it could have for the government over the next 2-3 years - particularly on its lack of attention to the lessons of the Windrush scandal ukandeu.ac.uk/unsettled-st...
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Unsettled status: the policy and politics of indefinite leave to remain - UK in a changing Europe
Sunder Katwala looks at the government's proposed reforms to the settlement rules in the UK as part of its immigration overhaul and asks whether they could meet the fairness challenge.
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 25/05/2026
Oppressing women is how authoritarianism begins. So listen to what Reform is saying | Zoe Williams
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Oppressing women is how authoritarianism begins. So listen to what Reform is saying | Zoe Williams
We saw it when Russia jailed members of Pussy Riot, and again when the US overturned Roe v Wade: misogyny is a powerful political weapon. Let’s focus on fighting it, not ‘understanding’ it, writes Zoe Williams
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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 24/05/2026
Farage plans to ditch workers’ rights, cut the NMW, scrap the Equality Act, legalise discrimination, take us out of the ECHR and have a deregulation bonanza to remove our protections and make it easier to exploit and endanger us… for profit. He couldn’t give a shit about working people.
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Reform UK is the true party of the workers now If I am prime minister there will be no tax payable on overtime. Millions will be noticeably better off
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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
A huge announcement in the King's Speech - what a pity it’s getting little media attention due to all the reporting on a possible leadership challenge. The government have pledged to introduce a new bill to abolish right-to-buy for new social homes.
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Dave Hill @davehillonlondon.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
Enfield Green councillors to work with Tories on opposing housing on Green Belt land: www.onlondon.co.uk/enfield-gree...
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Enfield: Greens to work with Tories on opposing Green Belt housing
The new five-member group holds the balance of power on the north London council and shares Tory disapproval of Labour home-building plans
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 02/05/2026
Correction: almost no fuss
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Alex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
OMFG I had to go and check that this ACTUALLY happened. Since when does the BBC ever do chyrons with a political party's branding, rather than their own? Not to mention this is during a pre-election campaign purdah. (h/t @iainsol.bsky.social)
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Warren Oates @warrenoates1.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
Labour are today launching a renewed Women's Health Strategy. It puts women's voices at the heart of the strategy, ensuring they are both heard & served under the new plans. New rules include: + giving women a stronger say in their care + streamlined gynare care + tackling misogyny in pain relief
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Women's voices to be at the heart of renewed health strategy
Women across the country will be better heard and served under new plans set out in the renewed Women’s Health Strategy.
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Sadiq Khan @sadiqkhanlondon.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
NEW: Today I’m announcing plans to deliver at least one new late-night youth club in every London borough - the biggest investment in youth clubs ever made by a Mayor. We’re bringing youth clubs back. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Mayor allocates £30m for a youth club in every London borough
The mayor says the late-night clubs would offer activities, mental health support, mentorship and food.
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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
This is stenography, not news reporting. The BBC ought to provide some context, such as putting the scale of the changes which Reform claim are possible into context. This omits the major policy of revoking ILR and deporting legal migrants at unprecedented scale. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Reform promises agency to ensure illegal migrant removals
The party's new home affairs spokesman Zia Yusuf says it would be a
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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 14/02/2026
🚨Reform leader Nigel Farage has posted on X “1 million people living in this country don’t speak any English at all. 4 million people living in this country barely speak passable English” It’s racked up 2 million views AND IT’S COMPLETELY UNTRUE youtu.be/o56Tw8vSEfE?...
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Farage’s latest video has racked up 2 million views - AND ITS COMPLETELY UNTRUE
YouTube video by Peter Stefanovic
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Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan @london.gov.uk · 16/02/2026
Measles spreads easily. Ensuring you and your loved ones are up to date with your MMR or MMRV jabs is the best protection. Contact your GP to get vaccinated.
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Full Fact @fullfact.org · 28/01/2026
The Green Party has claimed figures from a projection show “only the Greens can stop Reform” in Gorton and Denton. This is misleading. The model cited suggests Reform and the Greens will increase vote share the most, but currently projects a Labour win.
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Green Party by-election bar chart claim is misleading – Full Fact
An image shared by the party and its leader Zack Polanski claims figures from a projection show “only the Greens can stop Reform” in Gorton and Denton, even though the model suggests Labour will win.
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
New YouGov poll gives Reform its lowest lead since last April. RFM: 25% (+1) LAB: 21% (+2) CON: 17% (-1) GRN: 16% (-1) LDM: 14% (=) Looks like hoovering up a series of deeply unpopular, disgraced former Conservative ministers isn't quite the massive vote winning strategy that was predicted
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Dawn Butler MP @dawnbutlerbrent.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
We need safer streets and a planning system that puts communities before gambling profits. Ending Aim to Permit is vital if councils are to protect people from gambling harm. Watch my full speech from yesterday’s debate here ⬇️ open.substack.com/pub/dawnbutl...
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Full Speech From My Debate On High Street Gambling Reform
Why councils must be given the power to protect their communities.
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EggPod Express @eggpod.bsky.social · 20/12/2025
Any tech people know how to help the brilliant Beatles Bible appeal against the FB ban? An incredible long term resource, removed for ridiculous (and incorrect) reasons. If there’s a way where the Beatles community can get together to appeal please help!
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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 18/12/2025
It’s exactly this kind of dismal, prejudiced bollox from the Daily Mail that’s got us into the ruinous Brexit mess we’re in. What a moronic response to us rejoining Erasmus and all the benefits that brings. If they’re really worried about cost, they should push to cancel Brexit altogether.
Daily Mail headline 

£6BN COST OF STARMER'S NEW BID TO SUCK UP TO BRUSSELSIndependent headline 25 November 2025

Brexit costing UK up to £90bn in lost tax revenue a year, new analysis shows
Exclusive: Britons also up to £3,700 worse off, leading to calls for the Labour government to improve relations with the EU
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Fionna O’Leary @fascinatorfun.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
Very bad flu’ season this year and no sign of it peaking. 1,717 patients were admitted to hospital with the virus each day last week on average, more than twice as high as this time last year, according to NHS England statistics. Get vaccinated if you haven’t already.
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
2 in 3 of Nigel Farage’s current and former partners do not speak English as their first language.
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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 01/12/2025
👏🏽"We must all now confront the reality that the Brexit deal significantly hurt our economy. We have to keep reducing frictions. We have to keep moving towards a closer relationship with the EU. And we have to be grown up about it. To accept that it will require trade-offs."👏🏽 Music to my ears. ~AA
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Liam Thorp @liamthorp.bsky.social · 27/11/2025
The UK, where the day after a decision to take half a million children out of poverty, the media & political world has been full of sneering at those same children & their families, labelling them as ‘Benefits Street’, while the same people are moaning about a tax on £2m mansions. Shameful stuff.
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