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Leading a bright, bold, loud, optimistic, multicultural, world class arts and science loving Britain forward. Progressive, never regressive.

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m. hela fella @marguerite00.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
OMG he is such a willfully ignorant idiot. He is justifying evil of Hitler & his invasion of Europe. He is also laying the basis of 🇷🇺/putin's invasion in 🇺🇦 & upcoming invasion of Europe.🤮
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DigitasMedia @digitasmedia.bsky.social · 16h
Fair enough that the Tory party doesn’t really believe in object permanence. Blink and you’ll miss it leadership & values.
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Rob Cheesewright @robcheesewright.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Do you think he’d get to the latter stages of the stupid columnist World Cup, or do Jenkins and Heath have that on lock?
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Noun Verber 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇺🇦🇵🇸 @froblivion.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
He very much does not. He's a mediocre, empathy-less chancer who's skated by in life on inherited wealth, the right accent, and a privileged upbringing. It's a testament to how much of a clown Carlson is that Mogg's able to look good by comparison
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Jane @localnotail.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
GB News exists only to drive the UK further right and radicalise the elderly and unwary, who get sucked in with 1980s daytime TV stars and nostalgia, and drip fed fear, anger, hate to make them xenophobic enough to vote for a man like Nigel Farage who serves only himself and his rotten backers.
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Jane @localnotail.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
Just realised they've deleted this Mail on Sunday EXCLUSIVE from the MailOnline site so here's an archive link someone made (thanks someone) All about the Chandlers / Legatum (GB News) back in November 2017. Putin's link to Boris and Gove's Brexit 'coup' revealed: web.archive.org/web/20171221...
4 x s/s from Mail on Sunday article on dailymail.co.uk

Putin's link to Boris and Gove's Brexit 'coup' revealed: Tycoon who netted millions from Russian gas deal funds think tank that helped write the ministers letter demanding May take a tougher stance on leaving the EU
By Simon Walters for The Mail on Sunday and Glen
Owen for The Mail on Sunday
22:16, 25 Nov 2017, updated 16:25, 26 Nov 2017
https://web.archive.org/web/20171221192933/http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5117547/Putins-link-Boris-Goves-Brexit-coup-revealed.html• Think-tank financed by tycoon co-ordinated covert letter to Theresa May
• Christopher Chandler funded Legatum Institute after making a fortune in Russia
• He helped Vladimir Putin's associates take control of the energy giant Gazprom
• Chandler and his brother, Richard, became rich in post-Soviet 'wild capitalism'
• Institute economics head was 'third man' in Gove and Johnson's Brexit demands
A Russian link to Boris Johnson and Michael Gove's successful plot to persuade Theresa May to take a tougher stance on Brexit has been uncovered by The Mail on Sunday.
...SENT TO PM BY BORIS AND GOVE - WITH INPUT FROM 'THIRD MAN'
[photos of Legatum's Shanker Singham, Boris Johnson, Michael Gove with the following captions]
TIES: Mr Singham has met DexEU Ministers at Chevening

CAUGHT BY THE MoS... THINK TANK GURU SLIPPING AWAY FROM ANOTHER UNDER-THE-RADAR BREXIT MEETING - Mr Singham and another Legatum institute aide-leaving the Commons on Friday after a on meeting with Michael Gove
Legatum guru's 7 secret Brexit meetings
OVER THE past 14 months, the Legatum Institute's director of economic policy, Shanker Singham, has met with Ministers on at least seven occasions, the most recent being with Michael Gove on Friday Gove on Friday. ned the entire In July, he joined Brexit ministerial team - David Davis, Baroness Anelay, Robin Walker and Steve Baker - plus Permanent Secretary Philip Rycroft-at Chevening, the Kent country house shared between the Brexit Ministers.
 Mr Singham, 48, believes that the UK should break free from EU regulations after Brexit to make it easier to cut global trade deals. It was exactly the point made in the Gove/Johnson letter. During his 18-year career with the US firm Squire Sanders, ending in 2013, Mr Singham worked on Russia's accession to the World Trade Organisation. Earlier this year, the firm was caught up in the row over Donald Trump's links to Russia, because of its alliance with Michael Cohen, a former Trump lawyer.TITAN WITH GAZPROM LINKS FOUNDED INSTITUTE WITH KEY ROLE IN SECRET BREXIT ULTIMATUM
[photos of Christopher Chandler, Vladimir Putin and Richard Chandler]
PAYMASTER:
Chandler, head of the Legatum Group that ultimately funds the Institute
CONNECTED: Mr Chandler has never met President Putin -but they have links through Gazprom
BORIS AND GOVE PLOT TO HIJACK' NUMBER 10
BREAKING THE NEWS: How The Mall on Sunday revealed the Ministers secret letter, and its links to the think-tank, last month
So was this Dubai-backed think-tank behind letter?

How Legatum Institute backer made Gazprom fortune

CHRISTOPHER and Richard Chandler Invested heavily in post-Soviet Russia, when lucrative privatisation contracts were handed out by the state. By July 1991 they were already being described as 'intensely private but powerful investors who exert an extraordinary influence over Moscow's equity markets.
[Gazprom logo]
They built up a lucrative holding in Gazprom, the Russian state energy giant, But shortly after Vladimir Putin same president, and alarmed became by a 'culture of fraud, they used their influence to help trigger a boardroom coup to install Putin ally Alexey Miller as head of the company. The brothers laid the foundations for their fortune when they sold the family department store in Hamilton, New Zealand. They then moved to Monaco at
the end of 1980. The brothers split their fortunes in 2006, with Christopher using his share to help form the Legatum Group, which spawned the Legatum institute.
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DigitasMedia @digitasmedia.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Croesus needs a lick of his own gilt.
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
I've been a member of the lobby for well over a decade. Not a single one of my lobby colleagues has said a word about the Conservatives banning me from their conferences, without any explanation. Contrast with the US where even Fox News stood in solidarity when Trump banned news outlets he disliked
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Kemi Badenoch's Conservatives Block Byline Times From Conference After Condemning Reform for Journalist Ban
The ban comes just weeks after the Conservative leader called Reform's barring of critical journalists from their conference an "authoritarian" attack on the free press
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Jim Pickard @pickardje.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
if true this is bonkers for a party supposedly committed to defending free speech
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Mayfair Cynic @mayfaircynic.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Nigel "it's not my party" Farage. I don't think that's how the PSC rules are supposed to work...
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sianushka.bsky.social @sianushka.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I’ve found it remarkable how little conversation there has been about women dying in the US as a result of the bans. Obvs this is a reporting gap across the board re bans - but the US *went backwards* so I thought there would be more outrage. There wasn’t.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
These people make Marie Antoinette look connected to the people and empathetic by comparison. They laugh at what their own voters are going through as they continue to mock them as they enrich themselves and have a great time.
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assigned cromulent at birth @cleanwindows.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
one canonically cannot be a Brave Truth-Teller and be Part Of The System, Mannnn
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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 26/09/2026
As a former pretentious little shit who grew out of it, rationalists (et al) annoy the piss out of me because they are adults with the mentality of tweens - they are somehow still convinced they are the greatest geniuses who have ever walked the earth. It is the worldview of an arrogant baby.
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Danny Blanchflower @dannyblanchy.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Seems a big question is what to do once the Trump stain is gone. Bulldoze buildings, jail the sycophants and crooks? After Watergate 40 govt officials indicted or jailed Haldeman and Erlichman (WH staff) jailed John Dean (WH legal counsel), jailed John Mitchell, Attorney-General jailed
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Craig Walmsley @craigwalmsley.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
But you can't hold them accountable for the things they created - they're TechBros! - that's not how TechBros work! Everyone know that TechBros are God's Special Little Children who can steal anything they like and drive people insane with absolute impunity because capitalism.
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Kate Bevan @katebevan.com · 24/09/2026
*extremely tired voice*AI agents don't "go rogue". They are not sentient; they don't have agency. They work within guardrails set by humans. If the humans are so shit at building secure sandboxes for the agents to work within, that's on the humans. Stop using this framing.
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William Brierty @williambrierty.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
I find this kind of sentiment truly contemptible. Philip Hammond, Dominic Grieve and the other victims of Johnson’s 2019 purge put principle before party and, in several cases, knowingly sacrificed their parliamentary careers to resist the populist capture of British conservatism. 1/2
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Dann @dann1960.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
If the American people knew the real story, just about every Republican running would lose in November.
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🇨🇦 Mike O'Doyle 🇨🇦 @thetruemichael.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Elect evil, Expect consequences
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Jess Miers 🦝 @jmiers230.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
I did a somewhat deep dive into the recent OpenAI and Anthropic "hacks" for an upcoming interview. IMO, the AI companies are better off running with the "rogue AI" story because the real story is actually pretty embarrassing. Like making your Wi-Fi password "wifi" embarrassing. 🧵
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continentaldivide.bsky.social @continentaldivide.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Who knew the phrase 'cartoonishly corrupt' would be so useful here in 2026.
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Sam Bright @writesbright.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Not to be pedantic but Christopher Harborne has already given £25 million to Reform and Ben Delo £8 million. So the figure isn’t £72 million - it’s £105 million.
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Peter Walker @peterwalker99.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
If you have a big story about Reform and approach them for comment it seems they go quiet and then quickly give the news to a friendly outlet (ie the Telegraph). Lesson seems to be: don’t approach Reform.
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Who Targets Me @whotargets.me · 11/09/2026
Wondering what this chart looks like for the next couple of years given this. www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/202...
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Thomas I-G @thomasig.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
It takes a brazenness of "couldn't give a fuck" levels to do such a thing when the party is embroiled in major donations scandals. These people are completely driven by their own self-interest and will steamroll democratic norms to get what they want.
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DigitasMedia @digitasmedia.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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Arrested Development
Alt: Trump gives the staff some money for bananas.
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Anomalous Jen @anomalouslibrarian.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Wait, are we taking places the Brits gave to people/took that wasn't theirs and returning them????
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christhebarker @christhebarker.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
I don't pimp this much but I am still updating it. There is STILL more than one councillor every two days leaving Reform. refukked.lovable.app
refukked.lovable.app
Lovable App
Interactive online bingo card keeping track of the local election Reform UK exits
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Peter Geoghegan @petergeoghegan.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
What really struck me watching Channel 4 investigation into Reform is that the wilful breaking of electoral law isn’t an accident - it’s by design At every turn it’s Reform - Orr, Dan Jukes - saying how to break the law Exactly why I’ve been banging on about weak election law for so long
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Richard Rouse @rickyrouse.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
I see. Except saying "He was caught on camera agreeing to take donations from a foreign businessman which is against the law" takes less than 10 seconds to say.
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drnedflanders.bsky.social @drnedflanders.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
This is the full video. Share it with everyone. It is dynamite. www.youtube.com/watch?v=RugP...
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My Year Undercover in Reform UK
YouTube video by Verbatim Investigations
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Peter Jukes @peterjukes.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Just a reminder, Professor James Orr, Reform UK head of policy, teaches 'ethics' to undergraduates at Cambridge University youtu.be/aXut3s90rUI
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Gerard @groverxv.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
This is about Canada but its core message is clear and accurate. The toxin in the waters that’s poisoning western democracies is dark money behind social media fronts. Much of it is Russian even in #Australia and #NewZealand and definitely so in the UK Read it.
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Reform Party UK Exposed @reformexposed.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Reform UK Conference Ban List Michael Crick Anna Isaac - Guardian Peter Geoghegan - Democracy for Sale Ethan Shone - Open Democracy Isabella Link - Politics UK Ed Campbell - The Nerve Imran Mulla - Middle Eastern Eye Will Hayward - Guardian There’s a reported 50 journalists banned.
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Eva Montemaggi @evamontemaggi.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
I thought the 3-part drama Dirty Business did a good job at exposing the corr of the Environment Agency. I keep posting it because I really think it’s informative. youtu.be/VzML3Hz_mDQ?...
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River Pollution Investigation Exposes MAJOR Corporate Scandal | Dirty Business E01 | 4TheDrama
YouTube video by 4 The Drama
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Mark Hale just wrote a novel! @ver-bat-man.eurosky.social · 30/08/2026
Iceland did a far better job of defending their fisheries than the UK, Nige. You were on an EU fisheries committee weren't you? Representing fishing communities on the south coast? www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Nigel Farage is no fisherman’s friend: he’s been ignoring them for years | Fay Schopen
His hijacking of a Brexit protest in Whitstable was typically opportunistic. British fishing deserves a better ally than this charlatan
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Nick Varga @karaoke-god.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
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Matthew Sheffield @matthew.flux.community · 24/08/2026
In small towns with essentially no social activities, a neon-lit church with free coffee, pop music and vaudeville pastors is going to beat a humble country pastor any given Sunday. Having to read, think, and discuss the scriptures is much harder than zoning out to bright lights.
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Tuffy @smtuffy.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Feel like he’s answered his own question
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DrDinD.bsky.social @drdind.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
As seen yesterday on CA 24
Bridge sign "WE ARE ALL ON THE DECOY PLANE"
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
This is a truly INSANE story.
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Phil @resistmagafascism.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Not surprised. Trump thinks he is a King and Kings have always been allowed to have concubines.
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Hardeep Matharu @hardeepmatharu.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
It remains striking that Cambridge University – which has rightly found itself subject to immense scrutiny in recent days over its academic appointments process – did not answer any of Byline Times' questions re Cambridge Professor James Orr, Reform's Head of Policy, and his activities there. Why?
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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
A billboard in Georgia. 👇
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Karmageddon @karmageddon.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
I figure enacting a wealth tax on all the oligarchs who supported this spending spree should pay for the construction AND demolition costs of his vanity projects. 50% on all the Musks, Zucks and Bezoses, Lutnicks, etc. should do it.
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Chairman Moët @chairmanmoet.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
I'd like to think that some psychedelic band is playing in a neolithic site with half the crowd on bad acid as the totality hits tonight with subsequent deeply confused reports about a UFO being summoned. I'd absolutely hate to be part of it but yet I hope stuff like that still happens.
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Sheriff of Nothing @sheriffof0.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
This month's non-answer continues a pattern running back at least four years. In December 2021, 185 Cambridge staff and students petitioned for a formal university investigation into far-right influence connected to Orr's network; none followed.
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// THE TALENT ACQUISITION
A Cambridge don chairs the foundation, supervises the student it funds, and insists none of it is a conflict of interest. Observations on James Orr, Peter Thiel's Cambridge donation, Reform UK's talent pipeline, and a university that forwards its hardest questions straight to lawyers.
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Byline Times @bylinetimes.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
🟡 From This Month’s Magazine Reform UK and Big Tech Palantir Co-Founder Peter Thiel’s ‘Political Pipeline’ Recruitment Project at the World-Renowned… By Byline Times raising The academic institution has nothing to say in response to a six-month investigation by Byline Times raising serious…
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Reform UK and Big Tech Palantir Co-Founder Peter Thiel’s ‘Political Pipeline’ Recruitment Project at the World-Renowned University Revealed
The academic institution has nothing to say in response to a six-month investigation by Byline Times raising serious concerns about the safeguarding of students and hard-right and foreign influence at Cambridge…
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Mark W White @markwhitebooks.com · 11/08/2026
They’re probably still trying to find an eclipse denier to explain why the astronomers are wrong.
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