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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
Last week, there were two alleged plots to attack Muslim mosques and events uncovered by police in the UK. So why did they not grab national headlines or force government ministers into action? My latest for @zeteo.uk. Read/share/subscribe: zeteo.uk/p/people-are...
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People Are Trying to Murder Muslims and the Response From Our Political and Media Elites Is a Deafening Silence
Last week, there were two alleged plots to attack Muslim mosques and events uncovered by police in the UK. So why did they not grab national headlines or force government ministers into action?
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Edward Luce @edwardluce.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
"That China is now trusted more than the US in a large majority of countries surveyed by Pew should ring alarms. Yet America still acts as if it were the most admired place on earth." My column. giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...
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Why the world trusts China more than America
Countries suspicious of the US are to be found on every continent, not just in its own back yard
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The i Paper @theipaper.com · 20/07/2026
Opinion | 'Nigel Lawson was a Thatcher acolyte and we are still paying for the ruinous cost of his terrible decisions,' writes Andrew Fisher trib.al/PZGFJvo
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Ian Martin @democritus3.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
Old saying: you can judge a man by the company he keeps.
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Max B 💙 🔶 🇺🇦 🇬🇧 🇪🇺 @maxbrockbank.com · 19/07/2026
China just got a heliostat plant – a concentrated solar power (CSP) station using a large field of computer-controlled mirrors, [heliostats], to reflect the sun on to a tall central tower – to power 170k homes a year and save 130k tons of CO2. The US is getting a ballroom.
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Lea Zengage @leazengage.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
-Jay Kuo "Only in U.S.A. 2026 could the president declassify intelligence claiming it shows Chinese foreign interference with the 2020 election, but the actual intelligence released points back to Russia and his **own officials.**"
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National Trust @nationaltrust.org.uk · 18/07/2026
Please enjoy this magical sight 🦦 The gardeners at Bodnant have known for years there are otters onsite, but they have remained hidden... until now. This critter was spotted enjoying the river Hiraethlyn near the Old Mill. 🎥: An otter flowing gracefully down a stream surrounded by lush greenery
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The Times and Sunday Times @thetimes.com · 18/07/2026
The convicted criminal who funded Nigel Farage opened an account with an obscure overseas payments company days before it was used to channel an “unexplained” £500,000 donation to Reform UK
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George Cottrell opened account days before mystery Reform donation
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daparry66.bsky.social @daparry66.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
The BBC cancelling Winterwatch is such a shame, especially when we need to be connecting with nature more than ever. If we want people to protect our wildlife, we have to show them it! Add your name to ask the BBC to reconsider. you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/do...
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Tell the BBC: Save Winterwatch!
The UK is losing its wildlife, and shows like Winterwatch are vital for connecting us to nature. The BBC's decision to cancel it makes no sense. Let's ask them to rethink this! Add your name here:
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Chris Packham @chrisgpackham.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
Tell me Clarkson , is it really all happy smiley down on the farm ?
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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
Scoop by @rachel-rees.bsky.social leaves another senior Reform figure facing questions about their finances:
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Robert Jenrick’s wife knew in 2024 about foreign payments to his top donor, lawyer claimed
Police are investigating the legality of donations to the politician during his Conservative Party leadership bid
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Dan Neidle @danneidle.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
In May we said Nigel Farage probably didn't owe tax on his £5m gift. The Guardian now reports the gift followed talks where Farage said he'd need £5m to return to frontline politics. *If* that's right, we think there's a high risk of a £3m tax bill - payable by Reform.
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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
The Farage show is tediously self-pitying. Even if his idiotic by-election stunt distracts temporarily from scrutiny of his dodgy finances, his inability to accept and make amends for the significant role he himself plays in the toxification of our politics will not. (Letters in The Times)
Reform UK and the toxic political discourse

2 out of 5 letters all condemning Farage’s divisive conduct 

Sir, Huge Rifkind rightly exposes the contradiction at the heart of Reform UK's position ("Reform can't have it both ways on hurty words", Jul 15).
Its leaders demand more protection for politicians from abuse and violence, yet when I urged Nigel Farage simply to respect the police's request not to speculate about Ann Widdecombe's tragic death, Reform's
"shadow home secretary", Zia Yusuf, responded not with civil argument but by publicly denouncing me as
"depraved" and resurrecting a conviction 1 got 40 years ago under discriminatory laws that parliament has since recognised were unjust. The result has been a torrent of vitriol directed at me, including from Arron Banks and Laila Cunningham.
Political leaders cannot credibly deplore today's toxic discourse while helping to fuel it. If Reform wishes to be taken seriously as a party of government, it should begin by practising the civility and restraint it so readily demands of others.
K Harvey Proctor
Conservative MP, 1979-87
Grantham, Lincs

Sir, Nigel Farage has played the victim card far too soon. Resigning to trigger an unnecessary by-election is a costly political stunt and the other parties are quite right to refuse to participate. If he is re-elected, the standards inquiry into his £5 million gift will simply resume. But this raises a constitutional question. If an MP cannot serve under scrutiny, and quits, they should be barred from standing in the resulting by-election.

To paint oneself into a corner and demand the public pay for an escape door is absurd. An honourable politician would respect the regulatory process; an honourable man would withdraw from active politics.
David Dickinson
Stadtschlaining, Austria
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The i Paper @theipaper.com · 16/07/2026
The Reform leader had an eight-person protection team and two vehicles trib.al/BwoYnLY
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Simon Wren-Lewis @sjwrenlewis.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
Exactly this. Starmer and Reeves ended the destructive misrule that had characterised the previous 14 years, but they were elected to change politics and the economy rather than stabilise it in a bad place.
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
There's a simple, fair and effective means of funding politics, which ensures that voters count and money doesn't. MPs: please stop messing about with proposals for donation caps, and press for a proper, democratic funding system. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Political donations are poison to our democracy – but there’s an easy antidote to that | George Monbiot
As revelations about Reform UK’s donors emerge, it’s clear that increasingly complex forms of patronage can’t be regulated effectively. We need a clean sweep, says columnist George Monbiot
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Sam Bright @writesbright.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
🔴 NEW 🔴 Nigel Farage pocketed £2.3 million in income and donor gifts during his first two years as Clacton’s MP - equivalent to £22,000 a week. 📝 New @desmog.com report 👇🏻
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Nigel Farage Made £2.3 Million in Two Years While Serving as Clacton’s MP
Reform UK leader Nigel Farage amassed £2.3 million in income and gifts during his first two years in Parliament, DeSmog can report. On 7 July, Farage announced that he would be resigning as Clacton’s ...
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Steve Parks @steveparks.me · 14/07/2026
This is well worth a read, including some of its surprise at the gaps in the inquiry's findings, which I was similarly surprised by today
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Simon Wren-Lewis @sjwrenlewis.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
New post: How Right Wing Populism came easily to the Conservative Party mainlymacro.blogspot.com/2026/07/how-... If support for Reform continues to decline, and the Conservatives overtake it in the polls, right wing populism in the UK will simply have changed the banner under which it marches.
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How Right Wing Populism came easily to the Conservative Party
All the evidence points to the alarming extent of man made climate change. This isn’t just evidence available to scientists, but the every...
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David Rothkopf @djrothkopf.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
Pin this. It will be a pivotal moment in Trump's move to steal the 2026 and 2028 elections. It will present lies that will be used to justify illegal actions to selectively disenfrachise voters. The next four months look like a historic threat to our democracy.
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Josiah Mortimer @josiahmortimer.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
🔴 Reform UK Plans To Jail Candidates For Using Irish, Gaelic Or Cornish On Election Leaflets EXCLUSIVE: Nigel Farage’s party propose amendment to the Government’s elections Bill which would mean candidates using Irish and Scottish Gaelic would face up to six months in prison
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Reform UK Plans To Jail Candidates For Using Irish, Gaelic Or Cornish On Election Leaflets
EXCLUSIVE: Nigel Farage's party propose amendment to the Government's elections Bill which would mean candidates using Irish and Scottish Gaelic would face up to six months in prison
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Tim Bale @timbale.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
'The source said: “My understanding is he demanded something akin to what the Home Secretary gets and was denied it and therefore can claim that he was denied proper protection”.'
inews.co.uk
Nigel Farage declined offer of taxpayer-funded security
The Reform leader's spokesman told The i Paper it was a downgrade on the state-funded security he had previously received
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MrMirth @mrmirth.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
A normal 'news' clip from MSN. The key here is the author; Hamish McRae. An 'employee' for the i Paper, (owned by the Daily Mail Group) and and a columnist for the, Mail on Sunday. That's all anyone needs to discard the contents of his trope. It's more propaganda for the right.
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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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Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
Elon Musk’s family foundation took Tommy Robinson to Russia, says Musk’s father www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
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Elon Musk’s family foundation took Tommy Robinson to Russia, says Musk’s father
Errol Musk says far-right activist is ‘a fine young man’ and held meetings with Russian business figures
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Jim Pickard @pickardje.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
this seems to be key
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Simon Pegg @simonpegg.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
The funny thing is, the people of Clacton will need to put their bins out for regular collection during the By-election week, and they'll be interpreted as unofficial campaign posters.
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Josiah Mortimer @josiahmortimer.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
One from the archives: "A video of Nigel Farage shows him saying that as an MEP he could earn as much as a Goldman Sachs banker through claiming expenses and employing his wife" (which he did) When Farage talks about how much he's supposedly sacrificed financially by going into politics...
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Nigel Farage claims in video MEPs can earn like a Goldman Sachs banker
In footage from 1999 or 2000, the Ukip leader is heard criticising the MEP expense system as 'wrong' and 'monstrous'
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
“Questions”? You still only have “questions” about whether Donald Trump seeks to punish people who disfavor him?
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Peter Smith @redpeter99.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
Anyone wondering what might happen if Count Binface wins Clacton may find the election of H'Angus the Monkey as Hartlepool Mayor in 2002 instructive. After the election, H'Angus revealed himself as Stuart Drummond and became Mayor. He was reelected twice.
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Sam Bright @writesbright.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
Nigel Farage has built a personal-political fiefdom where positions of power are seemingly handed out to those who give him and his party the most money. That’s ultimately why he’s being hammered by the media and why his support is cratering…
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Nigel Farage: the fall of a mob boss
Why he’s imploding...
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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
Private Eye being v funny about #£5Mill, #5Houses Farage. But, right now, not quite as funny as he’s being about himself. The mockery he faces for his own, self-inflicted crybaby by-election stunt may even be worse for him than the investigations he was trying to discredit. Bloody wonderful.
REFORM ALREADY
DELIVERING ON ELECTION PROMISES EVEN THOUGH THEY'RE NOT IN POWER YET

by Our Political Staff Clare Voyant

WITH only three years to go before the next election Reform is already achieving extraordinary results in terms of actual delivery of key manifesto pledges:
• HOME ownership. Today
Reform announces a 400 percent increase in home ownership for Nigel Farage, who goes from owning one to co-owning an incredible FIVE homes. And all this since 2020. If this figure was repeated up and down the country, as it will be, everybody will be the proud owner of five houses, unless they can't afford any because they haven't been billionaire.
JOB numbers. Today the Financial Conduct Authority announced the recruitment of hundreds of additional staff to look into Nigel Farage's extremely dodgy finances.
This is a massive increase in opportunities for employment and if repeated up and down the country would mean that the entire population was investigating Nigel Farage - as it should be.
• Minimum wage. Today Reform announced that Nigel Farage had been paid £270,000 for 12 hours' work promoting gold bullion.
This works out at £22,500
per hour, and if repeated up and down the country would mean that the entire population would be billionaires who could then donate money to Nigel Farage for his own personal security/thank you for his hard work in delivering Brexit.
• Immigration. Today Reform announced that migration is up by only one, as crypto-billionaire and political donor Christopher Harborne has entered Britain from Thailand in search of a better life.
Harborne has announced that he wishes to register as a British voter. If this were repeated up and down the country Britain would be flooded with billionaires voting for Reform and ensuring Nigel Farage entered Number 10 as a sixth property in his expanding portfolio.
We say
DON'T STOP THE VOTES!
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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
Andy Burnham looks like he might cancel the NHS England contract with Palantir, they also have one worth 2.5x as much with the MoD. RT if you want them both out of the UK.
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Cold War Steve @coldwarsteve.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
I mean credit where credit is due: "If he wants to spend the summer arguing with a bin, I won't stop him" is top tier posting
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Only someone with a heart of stone wouldn't laugh at the demise of Jenrick's political gambit... playing out here in real time
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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 07/07/2026
They do love houses...
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Welsh Reform UK leader has five properties including one in Italy
Dan Thomas' register of interests has been made public and shows he has four rental properties in the UK and a holiday h
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Russ Jones @russincheshire.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Nigel Farage vs "the establishment" He went to private school, worked as a stockbroker, has been a professional politician for 31 years, has his own TV show, is a brand ambassador for gold, is mates with POTUS, accepted a secret £5m gift, and owns five houses bought outright with cash What a rebel
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Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
NEW: Why did Nigel Farage throw the 2019 ‘Brexit’ election for Boris Johnson? What does it have to do with Harborne’s £5m gift? And why is it tearing apart Britain’s far-right parties? A @thenerve.news investigation by me & @luciaoc.bsky.social (Link below) 1/ #TheHarborneReceipts
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Steve Peers @stevepeers.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
Note that the BBC a) leads with Farage's denial, and b) leaves the ally's criminal conviction out of the headline
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Saul Staniforth @saulstaniforth.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
Portes "Theres a lot of nonsense talked, including on Sky, about the spiralling welfare bill.. as a proportion of our national income.. its lower than it was 15yrs ago & its pretty much back to what it was under Thatcher.. this idea its out of control is just wrong" Spot on!
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Jane @localnotail.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
Last week the BBC mentioned in local news that Ryan Bridge and Ben Cullen of Raise the Colours had been banned from putting up flags in Oxfordshire after a sustained documented campaign of intimidation This week Ben Cullen is on trial for making over 70 indecent images of children BBC: *crickets*
bbc.co.uk
Activists agree to stop hanging flags from Oxfordshire lampposts
It comes after Oxfordshire County Council lodged a High Court case to prevent the flag hanging.
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Phillips OBrien @phillipspobrien.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
The most corrupt president in the history of the USA, arguably the most corrupt politician in the history of the USA, who also lost a war faster than any president in American history…. Is asking for more of your money.
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Russ Jones @russincheshire.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
I bet she wishes she knew somebody who had the power to regulate X, so she didn't have to just turn her back while it continues to poison society.
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Peter Walker @peterwalker99.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
I'd suspect the UK public mainly think it's fair for the media to scrutinise the extent and origin of the wealth of someone hoping to be prime minister, especially when it includes elements like undeclared £5m gifts from overseas-based billionaires who would become even richer under Reform policies.
The hounding of Nigel Farage and his family over their personal finances and living arrangements is a transparent attempt by established power - in the government and the media - to disable Reform because of the threat the party poses to their privileges. All these attacks haven’t revealed a single incidence of wrongdoing. They’re playing the man and not the ball. The British public will see that, and see it is unfair, and it won’t work.
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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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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
Elon Musk asked for a name of a person he has killed. He got a list.
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Lewis Baston @lewisbaston.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
No further comment necessary really, but this is up there with Westferry Bob Jenrick ordering murals painted over. Nobody is going to be impressed Shabana. That voter you’ve made up in your head doesn’t exist.
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Paul Bernal @paulbernal.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
Just a reminder: everything AI does with copyright it does with privacy. And more.
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Will Hayward - Wales Journo @willhaycardiff.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
Watching London-centric politicians lose their minds at the suggestion of further devolution because "IT COSTS TOO MUCH" while they sit in a mouse-infested palace that is costing taxpayers £40bn to renovate. FYI - £40bn would cover the annual cost of the (expanded) Welsh Senedd for 390 years...
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