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David Wilcock

@davidtwilcock.bsky.social
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Deputy Political Editor (Digital) for the Daily Mail. Semi-professional Jack Black impersonator, bleary new dad. LFC

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David Wilcock @davidtwilcock.bsky.social · 4h
Missed headline opportunity to appeal to the Gen X centrist dads. ‘Better living through Kemistry’ is right there.
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Marie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · 02/10/2026
no I'm sorry who told Le Monde we were calling it "Breturn", own up
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David Wilcock @davidtwilcock.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
It came minutes after he said he would be 'on the road' every week until the next general election, even if it happens in 2029.
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David Wilcock @davidtwilcock.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Nigel Farage use Reform rally in Doncaster to attack local MP Ed Miliband for being *rarely seen in his constituency*
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David Wilcock @davidtwilcock.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Burnham’s conference slogan was ‘hope again’, which apparently was also a message to City’s billionaire. owners mol.im/a/16173303
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Andy Burnham admits concern City owners will be forced to SELL
Andy Burnham has said he would be 'really concerned' if Manchester City's owners decided to sell the club in the wake of their guilty verdict of more than 100 breaches of Premier League rules.
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David Wilcock @davidtwilcock.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Was going to do a more tepid thread on this but I’m not caffeinated enough. Tl;dr: lots of moving parts, global instability, three years both a blessing and a curse, attacks from all sides. He’ll need to be a *phenomenal* salesman, suspect some bits of agenda will survive. Others won’t.
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Duncan Weldon @duncanweldon.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Drop the triple lock/create a national care service is a proper policy offer. But I am slightly confused about setting out a manifesto for 2028/29 in late 2026 with years of governing still to go.
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David Wilcock @davidtwilcock.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
There will be plenty of hot takes, my sole observation at this stage is that Burnham's biggest obstacle at the next election might not directly be Reform or the Tories, but the exhausted, cynical, risk/change averse British public.
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David Wilcock @davidtwilcock.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Burnham signals he will look at the UK rejoining the EU, telling conference: 'Brexit has done more harm than good.' www.dailymail.com/news/article...
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Burnham signals he will look at the UK rejoining the EU
The Prime Minister used his Labour conference speech to mock Brexiteers and claim the 2016 vote had 'done more harm than good' in a 'decade of division'.
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David Wilcock @davidtwilcock.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
On no, not this Jordan Bardella surely
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Jim Pickard @pickardje.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
as a satire on so-called late stage capitalism how could one beat investors pouring a trillion into a company offering to wipe out humankind
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David Wilcock @davidtwilcock.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
A sign of how much Reform is shitting itself at the current polling: even Nigel Farage has now waded into the Danny Thommo remand nonsense.
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Dan Kaszeta FRHistS @dankaszeta.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I'm not one to point to harshly at a "diesel theft being mistaken for a terrorism attack" as I've seen similar things in my weird career. The guy putting down purple carpenter's chalk on the sidewalk to mark a hashhouse harriers run near the White House had a heck of a day....
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David Wilcock @davidtwilcock.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Man City season ticket-holder Lucy Powell suggests the club should not have to forfeit its trophies after being found guilty of 114 financial charges. Says silverware was ‘hard fought’ and is ‘not tainted’ by what has happened…
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David Wilcock @davidtwilcock.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
John Healey brands Nigel Farage 'Liz Truss with a Bitcoin account' in conference speech.
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David Wilcock @davidtwilcock.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Obligatory ‘Liverpool old docks looking decent’ photo from Labour Party Conference.
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David Wilcock @davidtwilcock.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Exquisite piece of 'peak boomer' from Sir Peter Lampl in the Sunday Tel today, revealing he has quit the UK for the US because there are too many bike lanes in London
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David Wilcock @davidtwilcock.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Burnham says he will fight next general election on a platform of creating a National Care Service
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David Wilcock @davidtwilcock.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Andy Burnham tells Laura K he is determined to set up a National care service along NHS lines. Says it will cost less than £18bn annual figure suggested and vows to expend political capital to do it.
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David Wilcock @davidtwilcock.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Huge shock as Burnham says no election until 2029 www.dailymail.com/news/article...
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Burnham tries to quell speculation he is plotting a snap election
The Prime Minister said he was 'not particularly' tempted to call a snap vote, despite polls showing Labour are ahead of Reform for the first time in months.
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David Wilcock @davidtwilcock.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
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Windsor Davies as Sergeant Major: Oh Dear
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David Wilcock @davidtwilcock.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Expand Gatwick and expand another airport in the North/Midlands. Not really a hard call IMO
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David Wilcock @davidtwilcock.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Several hundred blackshirts have been demonstrating outside Basingstoke Police station tonight, where they believe he is being held.
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Emma Yeomans @yeomans.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Daniel Thomas/Tommo has been charged, with a single count of criminal damage, plus a fresh charge under Regulation of Investigatory Powers for failing to provide his phone pin. He will appear in Magistrates' Court tomorrow.
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David Wilcock @davidtwilcock.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Reuters reporting that the White House blocked criticism of UK sanctions on Israeli West Bank settlements pushed by US officials in Tel Aviv (via @bcfinucane.bsky.social) www.reuters.com/world/europe...
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EXCLUSIVE: US drafted a memo condemning UK over West Bank sanctions. It was never released
In early September, US officials in Jerusalem and Washington prepared a draft statement attributed to Secretary of State Marco Rubio condemning plans by the UK, France and Canada to block imports from...
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General Boles @generalboles.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
When my mum gets her winter fuel allowance she assiduously saves it until Sainsbury have their 25% off wine offer then blows the lot on Xmas plonk
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Jessica Elgot @jessicaelgot.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
EXC - We *also* have an MRP out today - which has some very striking findings. Progressives who vote tactically to stop Nigel Farage’s Reform UK could push his party into FOURTH place. The poll also shows Burnham’s Labour is winning back left-leaning voters. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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David Wilcock @davidtwilcock.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
BREAKING: Daniel Thomas, aka Danny Tommo, has been arrested by Hampshire police over boat slashing incident in the Channel.
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David Wilcock @davidtwilcock.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
The Tories were looking for some action on cutting the benefits bill, but all they found was cigarettes and alcohol. www.dailymail.com/news/article...
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Kemi vows benefits crackdown: Handouts cut 30% if not paid enough tax
The jobless who have paid little in taxes will see their handouts docked and be banned from spending them on vices such as drinking, smoking or gambling if the Tories return to power.
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David Wilcock @davidtwilcock.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Police investigating posh fash Danny Thommo for slashing migrant boat with a knife in the Channel while rescue crew was aboard www.dailymail.com/news/article...
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'Danny Tommo' faces police probe after slashing dinghy in Channel
The anti-migrant campaigner had been filming himself tracking two dinghies carrying asylum seekers from France to the UK.
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David Wilcock @davidtwilcock.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Zack Polanski has criticised a Green conference motion demanding the destruction of Israel, asking its backers if they wouldn't mind perhaps toning it down a bit www.dailymail.com/news/article...
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Polanski tries to stop Green activists demanding Israel's destruction
The Green leader hit out at a motion to be presented at the party conference next week which advocates for 'a single democratic Palestinian State in all of historic Palestine'.
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Emma Yeomans @yeomans.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Worrying scenes in the Channel today, for all interested in asylum policy and maritime tactics. A small boat from Normandy spent more than 30 hours at sea. Those on board now on their 2nd rescue vessel as Border Force forced to play cat and mouse with far-right activists who have their own boat.
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David Wilcock @davidtwilcock.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Only an American could come up with a new SI acronym and not think it might be a problem for the rest of the world.
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Brandy Zadrozny @brandyzadrozny.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Bonus for whoever wrote this chyron
Trump speaking at UN — MS NOW chyron reads: Trump touts being a peacemaker while asking if he should annihilate Iran
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David Wilcock @davidtwilcock.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Hmmm Trump suggests he will only be president for another two-and-a-half years as he gives UN diplomats and world leaders a primer on the US mid-terms
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David Wilcock @davidtwilcock.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Donald Trump has arrived at the UN to play the world's longest game of The Unbelievable Truth
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David Wilcock @davidtwilcock.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
I hear Jim Ratcliffe has given his annual moaning interview about Britain, Father
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David Wilcock @davidtwilcock.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Tory shadow chancellor currently praising the hard work of small business owners 'spending Sundays doing VAT returns'
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Jim Pickard @pickardje.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
The Tories have attacked appointment of TUC chief Paul Nowak as a director of Bank of England, saying: "The last thing our country needs is a trade union leader helping to run the BofE." And yet it was a Tory government that in 2019 appointed the then TUC chief Frances O'Grady to the same role
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David Wilcock @davidtwilcock.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Some comrades on the hard left have an opportunity to do something quite amusing #PeoplesRepublicofPiddington
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David Wilcock @davidtwilcock.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Reform's Dan Thomas was arrested on suspicion of assault and coercive behaviour by Gwent Police on Sunday before being released on bail
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David Wilcock @davidtwilcock.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Thomas says he was involved in a police incident at the weekend and despite being released without charge he is standing down
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David Wilcock @davidtwilcock.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
🚨Dan Thomas, the Reform leader in Wales, has resigned
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Cat Neilan @catneilan.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
When I went to Reform to ask why Tice had not declared his trip properly, Tice's response was to ask if I was antisemitic This is a vindication of sorts (also for @garethceredig.bsky.social, and the Naked Week team who had to reassure me that I wasn't) www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Richard Tice apologises for not declaring Israel trip during debate
The visit, funded by Reform Friends of Israel, was declared in his register of interests but not during the debate.
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Owen Winter @owenwntr.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
disagreeing with Urdu election material is silly. the more interesting question is why Polanski is campaigning in Urdu in a constituency with hardly any Urdu speakers
Census 2021 data on main language in Holborn and St Pancras. Only 156 people listed Urdu as their main language (compared with 3,471  for Bengali, 2,488 for French, 2,153 for Spanish)
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David Wilcock @davidtwilcock.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Facebook has been a mess of boomer-orientated horror for some time. Immigrants, sepia-tinted memories and houses be spoiling their green and pleasant land.
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David Wilcock @davidtwilcock.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
John Swinney today claimed Andy Burnham will be the UK's last PM, which suggests he is either massively optimistic about how quickly Scotland can achieve independence or he's missed the recent burn rate of Westminster leaders.
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David Wilcock @davidtwilcock.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Truly remarkable the extend Reform is bankrolled by Delo and Harborne, two mega-rich crypto-bros. *Before* they handed over combined £72m they were already behind more than 70 per cent of donations to the party this year.
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David Wilcock @davidtwilcock.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Angela Rayner predictably wet on Trump this morning re NI. 'President Trump will say whatever is on his mind. But I'm sure our prime minister also, you know, has conversations. And I'm sure he reiterated our position, which is that we support the good work of the Good Friday Agreement.'
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David Wilcock @davidtwilcock.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
A reminder from last week that without Ben Delo’s cash Reform would receive less in donations than the Lib Dems.
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