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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 10h
Sagal Abdi-Wali came to the UK aged 7 having fled the war in Somalia with her family. She has thrived. Leader of Camden council and now the MP for Holborn and St Pancras. A narrative that runs counter to all we are told about refugees. Congratulations www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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Labour fends off Green party to win Holborn and St Pancras byelection
Victory by Sagal Abdi-Wali in north London seat will be a relief for Andy Burnham in high-stakes battle for the left of British politics
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Robin Ince @robinince.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
One of the many reasons I resigned
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paulusthewoodgnome @paulusthewoodgnome.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Outside the US, the UK is Palantir's biggest market. 1 in 6 of its employees are based in the UK. As of 2026, Palantir holds £900m in government contracts, inc. £182m from the NHS, £375.8m of which have been awarded without competition. Concerned? Hell, yeah! #politicslive youtu.be/wcGDSsxvSI4?...
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How Palantir captured the UK
YouTube video by TLDR Business
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PhilMoore @philmoore66.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
I was a teenager in the early 1980s, and I don’t recall the right wing press and BBC worrying about the legitimate concerns of skinheads and football hooligans.
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TeeDixie ✊🏼 @teedixie.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
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I understand that people are buying RNLI Christmas cards in order to add money to all the donations which are flooding in.
Now it appears that some are planning to buy them and send them to Reform's free post address.
Really, if you did that, it would cost them an awful lot of money.
But people want to know if such an address exists.
It does.
Reform UK
Freepost RTLT-ZXHY-KSDC
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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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Rory Cellan-Jones @rorycj.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
share.google/AWA0QowotTF2... The RNLI is one of those institutions that make me proud to be British - join me in donating to show your support
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Donate to the RNLI and help save lives at sea
Your donations really make a difference. We depend on your generosity to educate people to stay safe and prevent tragedies on and offshore. Donate here.
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rmcl82.bsky.social @rmcl82.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Remember when right-wingers used to scream that face masks were a sign of totalitarian dictatorship, repression, and an assault on freedom and individual liberty… www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Disruption at Port of Dover as masked men hold protest
Images appear to show hundreds of protesters, all dressed in black and wearing face coverings.
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Steve @stephenh.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Nigel channeling his internal Adolf and saying it out loud. Fascism 2026 ladies and gentlemen
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Marlowe_UK @irishdreamer.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
“Why isn’t he showing undying loyalty after we spent 18 months demanding his resignation over every single issue from pot holes to the existence of Jedward?” Hmmm.
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MBlue.Bsky.social 🌺MB🌺 @mblue.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Preserve #Yosemite in all its beauty! We don't need hotels and more chaos. #DoSomethingCongress
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
90% of England’s water industry owned by foreign investors, often holed up in tax havens. Customers treated as cash cows £88.4bn paid in dividends since privatisation 1 trillion litres of water a year, 20% of household supply, lost to leaks. 41trn lost since privatisation. Investment neglected.
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The case for nationalisation of water companies
England’s privatised water companies are leaders of predatory practices. In 1989, the industry was privatised for £7.6bn and had no debts. It joined Chile and a few US states&...
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Elanor @elanorandthearts.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
CALLING LONDONERS 📣 My friend has spent FIVE YEARS developing her play—a queer horror story—and she's hardly sold any tickets. She's travelling down from Leeds and I'm devastated 🥺 The Haunting of Verity Evans, The Hope Theatre, 25th–26th August. I hope you'll join me! Please share if you can't!
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Reform Party UK Exposed @reformexposed.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Reform loses newly-elected councillor every three days as troubles mount
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Reform loses newly-elected councillor every three days as troubles mount
EXCLUSIVE: A new online tracker by campaign group Best For Britain shows 35 newly-elected Reform councillors have quit or been suspended since May as the group's chief say it would 'struggle to run a…
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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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Carl Bovis @carlbovisnature.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
*Thread! 😀 Here are all my brand new 2027 Birds calendars! 🐦 www.carlbovis.com/2027-birds-c... This is the Double A4 version, my biggest one... it comes in A4 size & opens up to twice the size! 😀 You can buy it here; www.carlbovis.com/product-page... 🐦❤️
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 14/08/2026
This is the coverage of Arday **just in the Telegraph** in the UK. This is only the first four pages of results, just in one outlet.
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Jason Arday found dead
2 hours ago — Mr Arday was found •unresponsive• at an address in Battersea. south London. on Froy
afternoon. He was uter pronounced dead at the scene. A Read rnore
Jason Arday says he was an illiterate, mute child. His .
6 hours ago — Jason Arday says he was an i&erate. mute child. Cambridge's youngest-ever black
professor in 2023. Arday attended from the age of four to 11
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A PhD is no longer a sign of brilliance — take it from Dr Arday
1 day aeo — Juon Arday resigns from the Unwersity of Cambrdge after The Telegraph reports he had
falseb• claimed to have pubåshed a book
We are all Jason Arday now
S days ago — Jason Arday resons from the University of Cambridge after The Telegraph reports he had
falsew cGimed to have published a book Aug 7.2028. Read more
Cambridge professor claimed he was on Seven Up..
2 Aug 2026 — He was not bom until 1985. Prof Arday is at the centre of a row about academk
plagiarism after The Tekgragh that he had been accused
The Jason Arday 'memoir' that now appears to be more .
7 days ago — Instead of tales of triumph over adversity. the now-fomer Cambridge professors
autob"qraphy is a case study in self-rnythobgising,
Arday failed to mention 'months-long coma' in autobiography
8 days ago — Jason Arday toz publishers he was k•ft a three-month coma fohwhg a car gash. but
never wrote about the ordeal his memoirs_
Jason Arday is living proof that you reap what you sow
6 Aug 2028 — The Cambridge professor feed plagiarism alegations and made fantastical clä'ns about
his life. so what did he expect woUz happen? Read rmre
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Arday 'accused student of Miite privilege' after she
4 days ago — Forrner Cambrdge professor alleged* htplied that Roehamptm student was racist after
cornplaint about essay SOOre.
Jason Arday is rnerely a symptom of the Leffs corruption
Aug 2026 — Lab-curs on school standards is on the same toxic assumptions that created his
academic career.
Cambridge hired Arday after 'listening to black stu…
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Denise @abusefreezone.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
A ticking off will do it, I’m sure. A ticking off is for when a 4 year old doesn’t put their shoes when told too, not when a 39 yr old calls a political opponent a moron and a traitor🤯
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East Anglia Bylines @eastangliabylines.co.uk · 11/08/2026
Suffolk’s Reform council broke the rules twice within weeks of taking power. So why are the findings secret? | Martin Cook
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Goodbye to the rules: Reform are the masters now
Suffolk’s Reform council broke the rules twice within weeks of taking power. So why are the findings secret?
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loriagne.bsky.social @loriagne.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
Nigel Farage Funder George Cottrell's Accountant Co-Invested With Russia-Linked Indicted Cocaine Trafficker – Byline Times bylinetimes.com/2026/08/03/n...
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Nigel Farage Funder George Cottrell's Accountant Co-Invested With Russia-Linked Indicted Cocaine Trafficker
The accountancy firm that administers George Cottrell’s Montenegro company, has invested in a property development with the alleged ringleader of the country’s largest money laundering cartel
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St Edmundsbury Cathedral @stedscath.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
Our Pram Service is at 10.15 am on select Fridays in the Lady Chapel and lasts for about 10 minutes. We share a short Bible story, a song and a simple prayer. Join us for our next short service on Friday 14 August.
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Fionna O’Leary @fascinatorfun.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
🇺🇸 MALIGN SM INFLUENCE evident in the stoking of those NI riots. Not JUST USA. Most X accounts posting about Belfast & Southampton unrest were based outside UK Analysis shows 55% of accounts were located overseas – and seven of 12 most-read posts came from US www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a...
theguardian.com
Most X accounts posting about Belfast and Southampton unrest were based outside UK
Exclusive: Analysis shows 55% of accounts were overseas – and seven of 12 most-read posts came from US
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fife4europe #FBPE #RejoinEU @fife4europe.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
2/2 The Reform UK leader spoke far more on American priorities than the cost of living, addressing winter fuel payments and energy policy just once each. When an MP echoes foreign interests over local constituents, democratic accountability takes a back seat. #FBPE
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Nigel Farage Dubbed ‘MP for Washington’ for Parroting Trump in Parliament
Reform UK leader Nigel Farage used a quarter of his speeches in Parliament to boost U.S. President Donald Trump’s attacks on the UK’s Chagos Islands deal – three times more than he raised the cost of ...
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Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
This article quotes Matthew Elliot & Toby Young on how Arron Banks is a threat to free speech. There aren’t enough lolz in my body to respond to that. These men. All these men. Completely silent for the years when Banks waged a brutal & highly public war on my reporting
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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
It has been correctly pointed out that the Eastern Daily Press is engaged in proper local journalism on this troubling violence www.edp24.co.uk/news/2644627...
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Barry Howard 🔶h @barryhow2c.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Quite clearly in these two Kings Lynn & West Norfolk by-elections the Lib Dems were the best placed party /candidate to beat Reform Uk & the Conservatives as reccomeded by @stopreform.bsky.social This time Reform won by a whisker, but keep on checking the tactical voting site to #StopReformUk
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Anti-Reform @antireform.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
Climate change isn't a choice It's happening, accelerating, destroying property, killing people So policy decisions to drill more oil, gas or coal rescind climate emergency targets go back on net zero withdraw renewable subsidies in effect aids & abets mass murder the death of human civilisation
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Jason Dogwood 💙 🏳️‍🌈 🌱 @jasondogwood.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
Anne Frank was arrested on this day in 1944. History rarely returns wearing the same uniform, it returns asking the same thing of ordinary people: Will you sit down and look away? Or will you stand up and fight? #Resist
A black and white photo of Anne Frank smiling
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Alex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
The state of this. A lovely day out for Badenoch and Philp, playing dress up and making pronouncements about early release schemes - having left the country with one hundred available men's prison places, after fourteen years in charge. You read that right. One hundred places.
Opposition Leader Kemi Badenoch and Shadow Home Office Secretary Chris Philp, in high-vis police jackets enjoy a photo opportunity.
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Marie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · 04/08/2026
saying this not as a dig to Paul but as a general point, but it does worry me that we've ended up in a world where the two options are seemingly "leftist bubble" or "oh hey the nazis are here" - surely we should be able to have a politically heterogenous platform with tight rules on hate speech etc?
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East Anglia Bylines @eastangliabylines.co.uk · 01/08/2026
The tragedy of Dunwich Heath isn't just what has burned. It's what may not return for a generation. Read this thoughtful reflection by David Jobbins on the loss of one of Suffolk's most precious habitats.
eastangliabylines.co.uk
What we’ve lost at Dunwich Heath
Dunwich Heath has burned. The wildlife may take decades to recover
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Ed Poole @edpoole1975.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
After 17 and a half years today is my last day working in the NHS. I've worked under 12 Health secretaries. Every single one made it harder for us to look after patients and pursued an agenda of privatisation and outsourcing. The NHS thrives in spite of, not because of it’s political leadership.
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Parody Nigel Farage @parodypm.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
I’m furious that Andy Burnham's talks on social care will not include someone who isn’t even an MP and whose party accounts for 1% of Parliament. Call that democracy?
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LF Lightning-Barugh @cheeseford.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
Farage moaning about being left out of Burnham's conversation with other party leaders on social care is hilarious. Mate, you're not a sitting MP. Whose fault is that? I'll wait.
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David Durant @bowsy.co.uk · 27/07/2026
For unknown reasons the Number 10 media team still doesn't have anything official on Bluesky so I spent 15 mins vibe-coding up this which automatically shares @andyburnham.bsky.social 's Instagram and TikTok posts. @unofficialandy.bsky.social #AndyBurnham Please share away!
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Sara @slhelme.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
Home care while we searched for a suitable carehome was over £9k a month & always going up. His entire lifetime savings are nearly gone in less than 8 months! All this while actual carers are paid minimum wage. It's literally daylight robbery & nothing you can do about it!
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Cornish Skipper #FBPE #RejoinEU 🇪🇺🔶🌹💚💙 @cornishskipper.wsocial.eu · 28/07/2026
“Cottrell’s Reform UK Network in Montenegro Is Tied to Sanctioned Russian Oligarchs Nigel Farage’s criminal funder runs a Montenegro company whose corporate advisors work for a Belgrade Russian-arms dealer and individuals tied to Russian state-linked enterprises” bylinetimes.com/2026/07/27/h...
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How George Cottrell’s Reform UK Network in Montenegro Is Tied to Sanctioned Russian Oligarchs
Nigel Farage's criminal funder runs a Montenegro company whose corporate advisors work for a Belgrade Russian-arms dealer and individuals tied to Russian state-linked enterprises
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 28/07/2026
US airman accused of ‘spree’ of rapes on sleeping women avoided UK courts
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US airman accused of ‘spree’ of rapes on sleeping women avoided UK courts
Suffolk police ceded investigation into James Loubeau to the US military, leading to court martial acquittal A US airman accused of a “spree” of rapes and sexual assaults in England, drugging some women and breaking into the homes of others, was able to avoid British justice after local police handed over part of the case to the American military. Two British women went to Suffolk police in August 2019 to allege that James Loubeau and another US airman had drugged and raped them after they met in a nightclub in Bury St Edmunds, a local market town. Continue reading...
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Anti-Reform @antireform.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
'For years, Nigel Farage could dismiss every scandal as a “lefty media witch hunt”. That works brilliantly when the only people asking questions are journalists. More difficult when the Met Police, National Crime Agency, the Electoral Commission and HMRC start getting involved." via Keith Anderson
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Simon Gosden @simongosden.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
Corruption in plain sight
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jonnygf.bsky.social @jonnygf.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
Reform UK’s bank account was frozen after Cottrell donations - The Times and The Sunday Times apple.news/A8Cdxz0E8RYK...
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Reform UK’s bank account was frozen after Cottrell donations — The Times and The Sunday Times
The party could not make or receive payments for two weeks during the 2024 general election campaign, Insight can reveal
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puchmahoin.bsky.social @puchmahoin.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
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Disillusioned With Conservatives @neverevertory.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
Do not let Reform’s distraction tactics win. We must keep the pressure on & not allow them to worm their way out of the investigations that are underway by the Police, National Crime Agency and Financial Conduct Authority. #ReformAreNotYourFriends
DON'T TAKE YOUR EYE OFF THE BALL..
REFORM IS CURRENTLY
UNDER INVESTIGATION
THE POLICE
THE NATIONAL CRIME AGENCY
THE FINANCIAL CONDUCT AUTHORITY
THEY'LL USE ANYTHING TO DIVERT ATTENTION AWAY FROM THAT.
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Anthony Painter @anthonypainter.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
We're just at the end of your last ten year plan. Not gonna lie, the results ain't that great.
DAVID FROST

I too have a 10-year plan – but unlike Burnham's, mine works
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Dean Hochlaf @dhochlaf.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
You would never get the "£50 doesn't even buy a meal quote if the topic was the benefit system, then you would have a guy going "sack of potatoes and a carrot, and you can feed a child for a month at just 3.2 pence per meal"
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Josiah Mortimer @josiahmortimer.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
Brilliant and far-reaching new investigation into George Cottrell and former Reform treasurer Mehrtash A’zami by @nafeez.bsky.social bylinetimes.com/2026/07/23/p...
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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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East Anglia Bylines @eastangliabylines.co.uk · 21/07/2026
Safeguarding is getting harder by the day...
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Katie Martin @katie0martin.ft.com · 21/07/2026
Ooh I know this one. It's by BANNING THE PERVERT GLASSES
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
A 25 and 19 year old dead in another endless Republican Middle East war while Trump played golf, hosted a high dollar fundraiser, and tried to jump on a stage to act like he won the World Cup.
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