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Alan Rusbridger @arusbridger.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

Since Ofcom seems to have given up, we asked 20 experienced journalists from a range of backgrounds to watch multiple hours of @gbnewsonline.bsky.social . Their conclusion: the channel has, in effect, become Reform TV. How did it happen? www.thenewworld.co.uk/alan-rusbrid...

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Screen scandal: How Ofcom lets GB News get away with it

SPECIAL INVESTIGATION: A channel constantly breaking the rules has effectively become Reform TV, while our useless state regulator does nothing

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Sue Wilson MBE @suewilson91.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

Complain to Ofcom here: www.ofcom.org.uk/make-a-compl...

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Complain about TV, radio or on demand services

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Daniel Lambert @daniellambertwines.bsky.social · 13/03/2026

Here is the cost to you the UK consumer, because an orange twat in America (and rapist of children) doesn’t want to be accountable and so started a war. This means in retail terms a bottle of wine will increase by over £0.25 a bottle. The government will take additional vat btw.

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Andy Smith @practicaleq.bsky.social · 04/03/2026

Here's a quick mind-clearing and relaxation exercise, using your breath as the interface between your conscious awareness and your unconscious mind. Also useful as the start of a self-hypnosis induction nlppod.com/how-to-clear...

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How to Clear Your Mind

A quick mind-clearing and relaxation exercise, using your breath as the interface between your conscious awareness and your unconscious mind. Also useful as the start of a self-hypnosis induction.

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Steve Cowie ⭐ @enlightenmentor.bsky.social · 03/03/2026

@rxtv.bsky.social Channel 5 closes 5 SD channel. But why still employing DVB S mode? Arqiva? Anyone?

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Richard Murphy @richardjmurphy.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

The US is now funding the far-right in the UK youtu.be/srCked8HMNc?...

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The US is now funding the far-right in the UK

YouTube video by Richard J Murphy

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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 08/02/2026

Water bosses in England exploiting bonus loophole face crackdown. We have heard that before. Companies circumvent rules. Fines announced but not paid. Let customers elect directors, vote on exec pay. Deny corporate tax relief on exec pay above £x.

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Water bosses in England exploiting bonus loophole face crackdown

Exclusive: Ministers to act after last year’s legislation ‘outwitted’ by failing firms paying millions to executives

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George Greenwood @georgegreenwood.bsky.social · 08/02/2026

The Ministry of Justice has ordered the deletion of the UK’s largest court reporting archive. This risks undermining open justice, and I believe, undermines the public accountability role of the press by making it harder to see what is going on in the courts. www.thetimes.com/article/77b0...

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MoJ orders deletion of UK’s largest court reporting archive

Courtsdesk, which supports the media in monitoring records, is an important tool for journalists and the move raises concerns over open justice

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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

Regressive Taxation. Wages taxed at marginal rates of 20% to 45% + National Insurance. Capital gains taxed at 18% to 32%: dividends taxed at 8.75% to 39.35%; No NIC levied. Successive govts appease the rich. Difference in rates/NIC fuels tax abuse industry, public purse robbed of billions.

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National Insurance is a regressive tax that hits the less well-off hardest

Compared to income tax, national insurance contributions attract little sustained scrutiny even though they provide large amounts to the public purse.

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East Anglia Bylines @eastangliabylines.co.uk · 09/02/2026

A senior MoD official helps shape defence strategy, then joins Palantir. Months later, Palantir lands a £240m MoD contract without tender. No laws broken – just the revolving door doing what it does best.

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The great Ministry of Defence-to-Palantir pipeline

Senior defence officials are moving into Palantir roles as the company secures ever-deeper footholds across government

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Rob Wilkins @designer-rob.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

This is really excellent work from Lewis Goodall @lewisgoodall.com – Shining a spotlight of the inequities of student loans. youtu.be/DwRqHN3nWuA?...

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Have the Government designed student loans to uphold a generational and class divide?

YouTube video by The News Agents

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SMR 🎧 Rejoin Radio @smrrejoinradio.bsky.social · 08/02/2026

NEW! It's our 10th year of broadcasting, and we're determined to keep going until we #RejoinEU ✨ And we need YOUR help! As of February 8th, we have 58 of the 100 Early Rejoiners we need for 2026 to GUARANTEE weekly, free #RejoinerRadio 🥳 Read the next 2 posts to find out how to join us! 👇 1/3

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Spark_of_Insanity 🪣📯 @gulpenschnulf.bsky.social · 08/02/2026

I know there are more than 42 people in the UK who'd like to see the country to #RejoinEU ⚠️ Listen and enjoy the SMR radio shows and support with a subscription if possible 🎶🇪🇺✨️

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Led By Donkeys @ledbydonkeys.org · 08/02/2026

Elon’s emails to Epstein. Location: Starbase, Texas

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Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 08/02/2026

Since #bbclaurak is trending, let’s remind ourselves that ONE MONTH ago, the BBC invited Mandelson on for a soft-ball interview on her show. While HIS CLIENT , Palantir’s Louis Moseley appeared as a pundit Both, as I wrote at time, were ‘abject failures of journalism’ 1/

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Good Law Project @goodlawproject.org · 06/02/2026

Keep Palantir our of the UK, take action now ⬇️ goodlaw.social/658abc

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Nima (Doctor Yak) 🇪🇺🇬🇧 @doctoryak.bsky.social · 08/02/2026

Didn't think we'd see a Kermode Klassic again and that the era of the great rant was over as he softens with age. Was wrong - this Melania review on @kermodeandmayo.bsky.social rivals the best of earlier wittertainment eras... 💯 youtu.be/DTyUni8dbkE?...

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Mark Kermode reviews Melania

YouTube video by Kermode and Mayo's Take

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@NewsJennifer (Jennifer Schulze) @newsjennifer.bsky.social · 08/02/2026

This is a look at how Jeff Bezos is helping destroy our democracy by destroying the Wash Post. The entire thing is nauseating but the firing of the paper's Ukraine reporter "in the middle of war zone" will ranks as one of the most diabolical things Bezos has done to date. Read @us.theguardian.com:

he email landed in Lizzie Johnson’s in-tray in Ukraine just before 4pm local time. It came at a tough time for the reporter: Russia had been repeatedly striking the country’s power grid, and just days before she had been forced to work out of her car without heat, power or running water, writing in pencil because pen ink freezes too readily.

“Difficult news,” was the subject line. The body text said: “Your position is eliminated as part of today’s organizational changes,” explaining that it was necessary to get rid of her to meet the “evolving needs of our business”.

Johnson’s response may go down in the annals of American media history. “I was just laid off by The Washington Post in the middle of a warzone,” she wrote on X. “I have no words.”

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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 08/02/2026

The Daily Telegraph currently owned by a private equity vehicle RedBird IMI - based in the UAE and led by Italian American Gerry Cardinale and Sheikh Mansour bin Zayed Al Nahyan. Patriotic news. For patriotic people. Who don't want to pay taxes.

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Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 08/02/2026

“For 280 days we haven’t eaten a single piece of fruit, banana, apple, orange, or anything fresh. We are all in one big room with no doors or windows. We can’t see any grass or trees. We are all constantly sick.” Conditions in a San Diego concentration camp, via message hurled out in a bottle.

“Good afternoon. My name is [redacted] and my wife and I have been at OMDC since April 15 2025,” reads a handwritten note, wrapped around a lotion bottle that was thrown by a man held captive inside the Otay Mesa Detention Center (OMDC) on Sunday.

“It’s cold here all the time and the food is poor,” the missive continues. “For 280 days we haven’t eaten a single piece of fruit, banana, apple, orange, or anything fresh. We are all in one big room with no doors or windows. We can’t see any grass or trees. We are all constantly sick.”

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UK 🇬🇧 🤝 🇺🇦 □ @ukbastard.bsky.social · 08/02/2026

Reform UK Treasurer kept contact with Epstein after sex conviction The renewed scrutiny centres not simply on historical association, but on evidence suggesting that Candy had contacts connected to Jeffrey Epstein and his circle searchlightmagazine.com/2026/02/refo...

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Reform UK Treasurer kept contact with Epstein after sex conviction | Searchlight

Richard Tice welcomes Nick Candy to Reform UK The recent release of a further tranche of Epstein-related documents has once again dragged elite political an ...

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Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 08/02/2026

Pls read whole piece. Neither Mandelson or Mosley were asked about Mandelson’s role in fixing Starmer’s visit to Palantir & subsequent £240m deal. It finally made headlines on Weds when a q was asked in Parliament. But honestly, BBC also has qs to answer open.substack.com/pub/broligar...

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Peter Thiel's New Model Army

The Palantirisation of the UK military is a national security disaster

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Senator Bernie Sanders @sanders.senate.gov · 01/02/2026

ICE is no longer an immigration enforcement agency. It has become Trump’s domestic army. If my “conservative” colleagues truly believe in small government, they should join us in demanding an end to masked federal agents terrorizing communities across this country.

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Hendrik Klaassens #FBPE #BanX #NoAfD #FBR @aurorablogspot.bsky.social · 01/02/2026

Maybe you already downloaded videos and GIFs when you were active on Twitter. Did you know that there's also a Bluesky Video & GIF Downloader? It works easily and fast. You can give it a try.

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Bluesky Video & GIF Downloader

Download Video & GIF from Bluesky posts easily

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 01/02/2026

Trump gave a foreign power access to America's highly advanced and protected AI chips in exchange his personal enrichment of half a billion dollars. This makes Watergate look as if Nixon had driven three miles over the speed limit once.

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Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 01/02/2026

Pregnant woman shot in the stomach with a rubber bullet at an anti ICE protest: "She's losing her baby" Come on America, don't normalise this type of violence

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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 01/02/2026

So why would a Kazakhstani billionaire be trying to secretly bankroll Reform? www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...

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Patrick Fullick @insect-project.org · 01/02/2026

A lot of this comes down to government funding. An excellent paper last year by BBC World Service journalists as evidence to the Foreign Affairs Committee of the House of Commons: committees.parliament.uk/writtenevide...

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Steve Peers @stevepeers.bsky.social · 01/02/2026

Narrator: ultimately, it was not the FT that fucked off

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Steve Peers @stevepeers.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.

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Brexit Bin 🇪🇺 🇬🇧 🇩🇪 @brexitbin.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

In case you missed it ... The Nazis extended the death penalty to a whole range of new "crimes". This basicallly meant that anyone who didn't completely support them or who showed any kind of resistance against them could be legally murdered. ... Sound familiar? #MAGAmerica

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Simon Marks @simonmarksfsn.bsky.social · 23/01/2026

My "American Week" for @tomswarbrick.bsky.social's Friday drivetime programme on the UK's @lbc.co.uk This week: the death of the transatlantic alliance. 🎧: audioboom.com/posts/884419... #NATO #Trump #Starmer #Carney #news #simonmarks #lbc #WEF #WEF2026 #politics #Afghanistan #defence

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January 23, 2026 - "American Week": The end of the Transatlantic Alliance

An episode by Simon Marks Reporting

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Alex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 23/01/2026

From NYT interview with FBI official on Patel. Utterly terrifying. "His staff only cared about three things: what his meals were, when his workouts would be and what his entertainment would be. The biggest plan is how he's going to get his girlfriend to Windsor Castle." (Source: archive.is/ZT5qx)

Senior executive 2: Every May, there's a Five Eyes conference
with the head of every intelligence agency. This year it was in the U.K. Kash Patel is going. In the lead-up to that, his detail starts making crazy requests. He's got special requirements on everything. And the Brits are getting pissed.
Before the conference, his staff says he's unhappy because he doesn't like meetings in office settings. What he wants is social events. He wants Premier soccer games. He wants to go jet skiing. He'd like a helicopter tour. Everyone who heard about this was like: Hold on. Is he really going to ask the MI5 director to go jet skiing instead of meeting? The schedule is set, and every Five Eyes partner is doing this. They can't just say that he's not participating and instead he wants to go to a Premier soccer game. This is a job, guys.
His staff only cared about three things: what his meals were, when his workouts would be and what his entertainment would be. The biggest plan is how he's going to get his girlfriend in there so she can go to Windsor Castle. He's got Nicole Rucker as his assistant, like a true executive concierge. And when she's not getting the food or the workout she wants, she'll just start screaming at people, Make it happen!

His staff was briefed multiple times that the Brits were going to want to talk about an F.B.I. position in London that has been pulled. The F.B.I. is arguably their most important partner. MI5 is 5,000 people. The F.B.I. is 38,000. If MI5 ceased to exist, it would be very bad for us. If we cease to exist, it would be an existential threat for them. That person was working on a ton of sensitive stuff, including embassy penetrations and technology, and they want this position back. So Ken McCallum, the MI5 director, goes to Kash Patel at the conference and says: Hey, we really need this position. It's so important for our mutual benefit. And Kash says: Yep, that person's going nowhere. She's absolutely staying. And the Brits rejoice.
Two weeks later, he reverses himself and removes her. The Brits are outraged. Kash will make promises and he will break them, and he doesn't worry about that.
On that trip, the heads of intelligence for the Five Eyes went to Windsor Castle and met with the king. There was a photo taken of all the Five Eyes people, some of whom are nondisclosed, meaning their affiliation with the British intelligence service isn't public. The Brits forwarded that picture as a keepsake for the individuals. They prefaced it with, This isn't to be shared. But Kash has decided he wants to post it on social media. They have people trying to negotiate with the Brits about whether that's possible. They're fighting with the director's office, like: You cannot post this. Do not do that. And they're arguing, He wants a picture out.
(The F.B.I. did not respond to questions about this trip.)

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Tony Yates @t0nyyates.bsky.social · 23/01/2026

Absolute nonsense here.

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James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 23/01/2026

Today’s show provided a platform for military personnel & their families to respond to Donald Trump’s shameful comments about NATO forces in Afghanistan. (There is some tumbleweed where Nigel Farage’s condemnation should have been.) tinyurl.com/4rrn2mkx

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James O'Brien Daily

Daily News Podcast · Updated daily · Welcome to the best bits of James O'Brien's LBC phone-in show. Listen back to all the highlights in a 60-minute bite sized chunk of his show with new episodes ever...

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Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 23/01/2026

Carole Cadwalladr, "He's not that cuddle cosy golf club English pub figure" "He is in a relationship with the US far right and with the European pro-Kremlin far right" "What happened in Brexit, we saw that money that force that influence, those networks coming together"

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Steve Cowie ⭐ @enlightenmentor.bsky.social · 23/01/2026

Won't someone rid me of this troublesome president?

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Steve Cowie ⭐ @enlightenmentor.bsky.social · 23/01/2026

Why does Starmer come across as Mr Barraclough? #Porridge

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North West Bylines @northwestbylines.co.uk · 23/01/2026

A 15 year old trans male tells how he felt when experiencing being bullied at school by one of his teachers | Sophie Molly

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Trans teen bullied by form teacher

A 15 year old trans male tells how he felt when experiencing being bullied at school by one of his teachers

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Steve Peers @stevepeers.bsky.social · 10/12/2025

Not beating the allegations

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National Rejoin March @marchforrejoin.co.uk · 08/12/2025

Please Sign and Share! Look at the news even just over the last 3 weeks. The ship has been turned around! If the government has a referendum BEFORE the next election, it can force parties to write their manifestos based upon the results. Rejoin can win! petition.parliament.uk/petitions/74...

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Petition: Commit to a referendum in May 2028 asking the next government to rejoin the EU

Polls show that many people of the UK believe leaving the EU was a mistake. It is time politicians stopped ignoring the views of the people. The government needs to consult the people about what to do...

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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 07/12/2025

Three more British MEPs in Nigel Farage’s bloc now alleged to have “followed the script” given to Nathan Gill by an alleged Russian asset, according to prosecutors. At least eight UKIP and Brexit Party MPs were focus of efforts by Nathan Gill www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

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Three more Farage bloc MEPs alleged to have followed Russian asset’s script

At least eight MEPs elected for Ukip or Brexit party now known to have been focus of efforts by jailed Nathan Gill

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Nick Abbot @nickabbot.bsky.social · 13/01/2025

The review of the year is out in tree-hugger e-book form & paperback for the tree-hater. All the stories that occupied us on the @lbc.co.uk shows, plus the definitive A-Z of the year. The paperback buys me a coffee, the e-book buys me a pint & saves the planet! amazon.co.uk/dp/B0DSLJXW47

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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 30/11/2025

For context the 'Middle England' referred to here is the 0.5% of households living in homes worth more than £2 million

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