Cilantro @coriandersoap.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Well......... episode 1 of "War" was quite the introduction to the series 😯. I hope it keeps this caustic tone and doesn't become soapy. Looking forward to episode 2. 000
Cilantro @coriandersoap.bsky.social · 02/10/2026"He's just acting out" 😂static.klipy.comRichard E Grant's Joyful Standing OvationALT: Richard E Grant's Joyful Standing Ovation 000
Reposted by CilantroSunderland Lollipops @sunderlandlolly.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Did you know that a Farage Reform govt intends to scrap the NHS? The private health care system he wants to introduce would cost you £10,000s, like the US, where getting ill can bankrupt you. #ReformUK #Labour #GreenParty #Newcastle #SAFC� #NUFC 28036331969
Reposted by Cilantroderek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 15/09/2026When they eventually make a movie about this time, please don't put the male politicians in good suits. IMO, the ugly, low rent tailoring should be part of the story. 381217532546
Cilantro @coriandersoap.bsky.social · 15/09/2026Someone is going to have to explain this one to me, I'm afraid 🤔. "Victims of bestiality". That's a support group meeting I'd like to hear the audio from. 000
Cilantro @coriandersoap.bsky.social · 14/09/2026This really couldn't happen in the UK, could it? @bestforbritain.org 073
Reposted by CilantroJosiah Mortimer @josiahmortimer.bsky.social · 09/09/2026Politico: "The latest Private Eye pulls various data together to suggest the Rachel Reeves agricultural inheritance tax changes might be having the intended impact: pushing tax-avoiders out of farmland and making it more affordable for real farmers." (Cont.) 14976325
Reposted by CilantroLeftback @leftback.bsky.social · 10/09/2026Well at least we've heard the worst of this story oh wait the mob got into the hotel onto the floor the players were on and were knocking on bedroom doors. I think I'm moving to rage now. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...bbc.co.ukGroup entered hotel of Pakistan cricketers mistaken for migrantsProtesters congregated at a Portsmouth hotel after false rumours that a coach of migrants had arrived. 27540223
Reposted by CilantroLeftback @leftback.bsky.social · 09/09/2026Really struggling with Pakistan's U19 cricket team coaches having to confirm their particulars with a Reform councillor to get him to disperse the mob gathered outside their hotel. We're in a very bad place and we're doing nothing about it. 10403115
Cilantro @coriandersoap.bsky.social · 10/09/2026Channel 4 Dispatches doing the work the BBC's Panorama or even the old Newsnight used to do before Gibb and McAndrew castrated them and demanded reporting & programming that "appealed" to far-right, Reform voters. www.channel4.com/programmes/t...channel4.comTommy Robinson: Where's the Money Gone?For Dispatches, Matt Shea examines the complex finances of Tommy Robinson 287
Reposted by CilantroAaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 09/09/2026Pritzker: "He is suffering from dementia. I think we can all see that." 641178824064
Reposted by CilantroNigella Lawson @nigella.bsky.social · 07/09/2026The Bake Is Back!! GBBO starts again on the 22nd of September on @channel4tv.bsky.social! And in the US it’s the 25th of September on @netflix.com, though I’m afraid I don’t know the dates/networks for other countries yet. 3893781
Cilantro @coriandersoap.bsky.social · 07/09/2026Only 3 more years of "good growth in every postcode" 🙇🙇🙇 000
Reposted by CilantroJim Pickard @pickardje.bsky.social · 04/09/2026there are now no fewer than five separate financial scandals engulfing Reform UK www.ft.com/content/0426...ft.comThe five financing scandals facing ReformNigel Farage and his party are facing growing scrutiny over transparency and the source of donations 741016403
Reposted by CilantroBill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 03/09/2026Usually reporters get leaks FROM the White House -- but at Fox News, a reporter appears to have leaked TO the White House. That's according to @oliverdarcy.bsky.social's explanation of the sudden Maria Bartiromo erasure by the Murdochs 1743172906
Reposted by CilantroOliver Darcy @oliverdarcy.bsky.social · 03/09/2026Here's the Trump-related scoop on why Maria Bartiromo was fired from Fox News. www.status.news/p/maria-bart...status.newsBartiromo’s Fox BetrayalFox News offered no explanation for Maria Bartiromo’s abrupt firing. But Status has learned what happened behind the scenes, and why it put the longtime host at odds with her own network. 42504133
Reposted by CilantroJosiah Mortimer @josiahmortimer.bsky.social · 03/09/2026The Channel 4 investigation into secret foreign funding of polling for Reform is explosive. JL Partners are cooked IMO. The Times and Telegraph will be livid with Reform over it. And Farage will almost certainly face police, Standards and/or EC investigations over it. youtu.be/aXut3s90rUI?...youtu.beUndercover: Exposing Reform's secret donations plotYouTube video by Channel 4 News 32786270
Reposted by CilantroAndy Brockman @andybrockman.bsky.social · 03/09/2026The legwork, and the sting, which seems to have caught out James Orr, Nigel Farage and Reform-UK was carried out by Verbatim Investigations who have dropped their own take on the story.verbatiminvestigations.comDirty Money: A Year Undercover in Reform UKA yearlong investigation into Nigel Farage’s fundraising operation reveals a plot to break the law by bringing foreign money into British politics 201003440
Reposted by CilantroOtto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 03/09/2026It's explosive. It's also completely predictable. To see Reform say on camera that Electoral Commission is useless and toothless wasn't shocking... it's plain to see. 781304360
Reposted by CilantroDorian Lynskey @dorianlynskey.bsky.social · 03/09/2026The Channel 4 expose on Reform is telly ecstasy. Prestige TV is great but can it beat watching Nigel Farage, James Orr and James Johnson getting stitched up for blatant corruption? No it cannot 511886323
Reposted by CilantroCarole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 03/09/2026Stop whatever you’re doing & watch this now! Reform’s magic money tree has been bust wide open. Huge kudos to undercover reporters Verbatim via @channel4news.bsky.social youtu.be/aXut3s90rUI?... hugeyoutu.beUndercover: Exposing Reform's secret donations plotYouTube video by Channel 4 News 802530933
Reposted by CilantroAlex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 03/09/2026Every major party leader has put out a statement that they are reporting Reform UK to the police. The BBC's politics feed: JEEZUS MARY AND THE WEE DONKEY, surely the fact they have been reported to the police at the very least is very reasonably reportable! 811005316
Reposted by Cilantropaulusthewoodgnome @paulusthewoodgnome.bsky.social · 03/09/2026Verbatim's 37 minute long exposé of Nigel Farage, James Orr and Reform. 'This year-long investigation reveals Farage courting illicit funding as part of a plot to bring foreign money into British politics, orchestrated by his top aides and caught on hidden camera.' #c4news youtu.be/RugPik-G1Jw?...youtu.beMy Year Undercover in Reform UKYouTube video by Verbatim Investigations 18232
Reposted by CilantroVictoria Derbyshire @vicderbyshire.bsky.social · 03/09/2026Undercover filming shows Nigel Farage celebrating illegal foreign donations Footage shows a plan to break electoral law by funnelling money from a US ‘businessman’ through a UK donor The donations funded a series of widely reported polls secretly commissioned by Reform 1191470466
Reposted by CilantroChannel 4 News @channel4news.bsky.social · 03/09/2026Undercover footage verified by Channel 4 News reveals a secret plot by senior Reform UK figures to break the law on party donations. A leading legal expert is now calling for a criminal investigation. 🔗 Read the exclusive story on Substack:channel4news.substack.comExclusive: Nigel Farage filmed undercover celebrating secret new foreign donationsUndercover footage verified by Channel 4 News reveals a secret plot by senior Reform UK figures to break the law on party donations. A leading legal expert is now calling for a criminal investigation. 46894593996
Reposted by CilantroRebekah Higgitt @rhiggitt.bsky.social · 03/09/2026Not the main point, but I wish journalists would stop presenting Farage's anti-establishment schtick as his honest view rather than concocted persona. "While Farage pits himself in opposition to the Westminster elite, Orr’s upbringing and early life could hardly have been closer to its traditions." 2147
Reposted by CilantroBest for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 17/08/2026Sunday Times digs into Reform's finances. Arron Banks hires private investigators to look into journalists. Kevin Hollinrake leads Tory response to Reform scrutiny. Banks hires investigators for Hollinrake. When you can’t answer the questions, investigate the people asking them. What a playbook.theguardian.comArron Banks hired private investigators to dig into Conservative party chairRevelation comes after it was disclosed that Reform UK backer had paid for spying on prominent journalist 716675
Reposted by CilantroNigella Lawson @nigella.bsky.social · 17/08/2026First family snap from new season’s Bake Off!! It starts on Channel 4 in September, though I haven’t got an exact date to give you yet. As soon as I know, I’ll tell you. (And I have no info on timings for other territories, I’m afraid.) I couldn’t be happier! 922103117
Reposted by CilantroRichard Sambrook @sambrook.eurosky.social · 16/08/2026BBC’s coverage of Reform’s welfare plans is frankly bizarre. Headlines in Ten, leading on some radio networks. Reform are not even the official opposition and the plans have less credibility than Count Binface. Will BBC News do the same for Lib Dem and Greens policy two years out from an election? 20243081201
Reposted by CilantroRoadrunner33 @roadrunner33.bsky.social · 13/08/2026Pay attention The Trump Kushner Crime Syndicates are amassing power anyway they can The Trump Crime Family owns Polymarket and Kalshi the two largest prediction markets and allows you to bet on Sports They now own the NBA Los Angeles Lakers Pete Rose would like to have a word It’s obscene 822186774
Reposted by CilantroAdam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 07/08/2026Journalists attacked with rocks for reporting on racist rioters waging a pogrom whilst calling for refugees to "have their f**king heads chopped off". These are the "protesters" with "legitimate concerns" we keep on hearing so much about www.edp24.co.uk/news/2644352...edp24.co.ukI've been attacked as a journalist twice in a year... I'm just trying to do my jobI was attacked for a second time in a year while covering the Thetford riots, here's what happened and why I'm going back. 40901423
Reposted by CilantroArthur Snell @snellarthur.bsky.social · 03/08/2026I spoke to @stevefeldstein.bsky.social about how tech in transforming geopolitics. podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/b...podcasts.apple.comBytes and Bullets: Steve Feldstein on how tech is reshaping modern warfarePodcast Episode · Behind The Lines with Arthur Snell · 3 August · 54min 25920
Cilantro @coriandersoap.bsky.social · 02/08/2026Ms Diane Abbott truly doesn't need any adversaries, online or otherwise. She really does a pretty good job of sabotaging her political career all by herself. 020
Reposted by Cilantrosianushka.bsky.social @sianushka.bsky.social · 01/08/2026Diane Abbott calls Russia’s full scale invasion against Ukraine, which last night murdered nine civilians and earlier this week killed an 18 month old baby “The NATO campaign against Russia” youtu.be/SMBjoiMskxA?...youtu.beDiane Abbott MPYouTube video by StoptheWarCoalition 412168
Reposted by CilantroDorian Lynskey @dorianlynskey.bsky.social · 28/07/2026Weirdly timely criticism for a leaflet from 1936 632977
Reposted by CilantroMother Jones @motherjones.com · 28/07/2026Missed payments. Slashed staffing. Broken security. A patient who froze to death on the roof of a hospital. Inside American Healthcare System, the for-profit healthcare company driving hospitals around the country to financial chaos. 17939942065
Reposted by CilantroRussell England @russellengland.bsky.social · 29/07/2026UEFA is considering a boycott of FIFA tournaments, including the World Cup and the Club World Cup Because the non-profit FIFA wants to hand over influence to private investors There are 55 members in UEFAbloomberg.comUEFA Considering Boycott of FIFA Tournaments in Brewing FeudUEFA is considering a boycott of FIFA events, according to a person familiar with the matter, in a seismic rift between the most powerful governing bodies of football. 2613958870
Reposted by CilantroRobert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 25/07/2026bloomberg has a fun article today arguing that the Cybertruck is the biggest flop in automotive history. it includes this glorious graph. 416159833946
Reposted by CilantroSunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 26/07/2026Elon Musk, owner of X, has called the editor of the Economist "a traitor to the West, plain and simple" after her recent interview with him. He now argues that "anyone who opposes remigration is a traitor" Musk has been socialising violence since Aug25: "fight or die, that's what it comes down to" 30039291292
Reposted by CilantroJosiah Mortimer @josiahmortimer.bsky.social · 24/07/2026Very fun to talk about investigating Reform with @quietriotpod.bsky.social. Now up: 🆕 B-SIDE: Farage Unmasked 🎧 open.spotify.com/episode/4WM5... 🍏 podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/q...open.spotify.comB-SIDE: Farage UnmaskedQuiet Riot · Episode 211034
Cilantro @coriandersoap.bsky.social · 27/06/2026Well the precedent has been set. What if things don't improve and Tracy Brabin fancies a go at the top job. What if she finds an MP to step aside for her and wins the seat. Do you think Labour's 'Ruling Body' will be as cooperative & expeditious for the first female Labour leader? 000
Reposted by CilantroDr Steve Taylor @drstevetaylor.bsky.social · 26/06/2026Single Patient Record that is accessible from multiple organisations in NHS Before SPR there needs to be serious thought about what & how much info is needed. An expanded summary care record should be enough? If not a notification anytime your record is accessed & by whom, sent to your NHS App? 82614
Cilantro @coriandersoap.bsky.social · 25/06/2026When you need an example of something that could only have been written by a man, feel free to cite this excerpt from Tim Shipman's latest piece for the Spectator. 000
Reposted by CilantroKevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 23/06/2026Clearest proof we've seen that he thinks refugees claiming political asylum were refugees from an actual insane asylum. The leader of the United States is dumber than dirt but there's an entire cult enabling him and a corporate media too cowardly to call them out. 26160771641
Reposted by CilantroSunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 20/06/2026Four people in hospital after knife attacks in Edinburgh. An arrest made. BBC report say man shouted about "protecting the country". Sone signs the attacks near a mosque at petrol station & pizzeria may have had anti-Muslim or anti-migrant/minority motives (tbc) www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...bbc.co.ukFour in hospital after bare-chested man with weapon roams around EdinburghA man was seen battering the door of a pizzeria as members of the public run away on Friday night. 72614326
Reposted by CilantroAdam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 21/06/2026The attacks in Edinburgh, in which an armed bare-chested white man terrorised Muslims, leaving five people injured, don't feature on a single newspaper front page this morning. Two tier journalism 19855762439
Reposted by CilantroMrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 20/06/2026She was whipped by men whose religion, which was created by other men, doesn't think men have the self-control not to be tempted to assault her if they simply see her hair. Seems that the wrong people are being whipped.independent.co.ukIranian singer sentenced to 74 lashes for performing without hijab - rights groupThe 29-year-old and eight other musicians have been punished by the autocratic regime for sharing ‘vulgar and immoral content’ 22943861216
Cilantro @coriandersoap.bsky.social · 20/06/2026Why did it suddenly get very loud about Josh Simons and then suddenly get equally quiet about the very same Josh Simons. If his involvement in 'Labour Together' was a huge scandal when he was an MP, why was it not an even bigger scandal when he suddenly decided to resign as an MP? Curious? 000
