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Dr Russ Jackson aka GET A GRIP!

@docrussjackson.bsky.social

8.3K followers 527 following 115 posts

Recovering academic, obsessive thread-writer, exposer of lies, disinformation & propaganda. Focused on news media, neoliberalism, rhetoric, billionaires, media barons, climate action, far-right extremism, Reform UK, Reclaim, Tories & Republicans.

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Dr Russ Jackson aka GET A GRIP! @docrussjackson.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

Rupert Lowe’s Schooldays: the Manufacture of Elite Populism The leader of the latest UK far-right party Restore Britain presents himself as a plain-speaking anti-elite outsider ready to confront a failing establishment. Yet he was moulded inside one of Britain’s most traditional elite institutions.

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Dr Russ Jackson aka GET A GRIP! @docrussjackson.bsky.social · 22/12/2024

Reform UK Christmas Party

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Dr Russ Jackson aka GET A GRIP! @docrussjackson.bsky.social · 21/12/2024

About sums up the Mail, Sun, Times, Telegraph, Express, Metro, Evening Standard, Spectator, UnHerd, Spiked, Guido, ConHome, The Critic, GB "News", TalkTV, everything that comes out of #55TuftonStreet, & the BBC, who constantly invite people from these organisations onto their political shows.

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Dr Russ Jackson aka GET A GRIP! @docrussjackson.bsky.social · 21/12/2024

Indeed. bylinetimes.com/2024/01/18/r...

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Dr Russ Jackson aka GET A GRIP! @docrussjackson.bsky.social · 21/12/2024

There is certainly at least some crossover with his writing and far-right rhetoric and disocourse. No doubt Charles Moore would object to that label. Some people suggest I'm a far left extremist. Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.

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Dr Russ Jackson aka GET A GRIP! @docrussjackson.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

Some lesser known facts about the #USElection2024 that hardly anyone seems to know, and which are being wilfully suppressed, not least by Elon Musk. "Half the people in America" did NOT vote for Trump. In fact, only 32.4% of eligible voters and just 17% of all men in America voted for Trump.

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