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Fleet Street Fox

@fleetstreetfox.bsky.social
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Fleet Street hack and author. Often sarcastic, occasionally right. Fox (n) carnivore of genus vulpes; crafty person; scavenger; (vb) to confuse; to be drunk. Contact: www.susieboniface.com Books: tinyurl.com/foxy-books Drink: G&T with lime

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Fleet Street Fox @fleetstreetfox.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Career politicians couldn’t run a tap without fucking it up. Now someone explain Andy Burnham. His 15-yr blueprint for Britain might just be the antidote to a decade of chaos: fleetstreetfox.substack.com/p/andy-burnh...
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Andy Burnham is playing the long game - and British politics desperately needs it
Having big ideas while Westminster chases headlines, Andy Burnham is building a 15-year blueprint for the British state. It makes a nice change
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Fleet Street Fox @fleetstreetfox.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Having big ideas while Westminster chases headlines, Andy Burnham is building a 15-year blueprint for the British state. It makes a nice change. fleetstreetfox.substack.com/p/andy-burnh...
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Andy Burnham is playing the long game - and British politics desperately needs it
Having big ideas while Westminster chases headlines, Andy Burnham is building a 15-year blueprint for the British state. It makes a nice change
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Fleet Street Fox @fleetstreetfox.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Nuclear test veterans and widows were set to receive a £20m payout in 2009. It never arrived. Now, a former minister reveals his instructions were subverted by officials. Read my full investigation for free on What They Don't Want You To Know: whattheydontwantyoutoknow.substack.com/p/nuked-bloo...
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Nuked Blood: How a £20m compensation deal for nuclear veterans was silently blocked by officials
Wes Streeting is being urged to waive legal privilege and expose the cover-up
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Fleet Street Fox @fleetstreetfox.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Defence Secretary Wes Streeting is being urged to waive legal privilege and expose the cover-up. whattheydontwantyoutoknow.substack.com/p/nuked-bloo...
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Nuked Blood: How a £20m compensation deal for nuclear veterans was silently blocked by officials
Wes Streeting is being urged to waive legal privilege and expose the cover-up
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Charlie Radclyffe @charlierad.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Yet another example of MOD civil servants hiding facts, reports and guidance from MPs Gutting to hear about
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Fleet Street Fox @fleetstreetfox.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Nuclear veterans could have got £20m compo in 2009 - but now a former minister says his instructions were subverted by officials. Defence Secretary Wes Streeting has been asked to personally investigate and waive legal privilege to enable to papers to be published. Story in today's Daily Mirror.
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Fleet Street Fox @fleetstreetfox.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
From policy battles and choreographed unity to plotting, bonking and merch sales, what happens behind the scenes is rarely what you see on TV… fleetstreetfox.substack.com/p/party-conf...
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Fleet Street Fox @fleetstreetfox.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
EXC: Thousands of British veterans have had their medical files "hidden", according to MoD emails. Anyone who claimed a war pension had files emptied. Records were never returned, condemning injured troops to worse diagnosis and treatment. whattheydontwantyoutoknow.substack.com/p/nuked-bloo...
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Nuked Blood probe exposes widespread MoD medical record failures
Emails claim the Ministry of Defence "incorrectly hid" files vital to veteran pension claims, risking billions in negligence lawsuits amid NATO commitments
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Fleet Street Fox @fleetstreetfox.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
EXC: Official emails show medical records are "hidden" by MoD staff handling war pension claims. Thousands of ex-troops are affected, with a potential medical negligence bill that would blow a hole in @wesstreeting's NATO spending commitments. whattheydontwantyoutoknow.substack.com/p/nuked-bloo...
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Nuked Blood probe exposes widespread MoD medical record failures
Emails claim the Ministry of Defence "incorrectly hid" files vital to veteran pension claims, risking billions in negligence lawsuits amid NATO commitments
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Fleet Street Fox @fleetstreetfox.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Waking up to news that AI has hacked the Australian government, and doing a HEADDESK because this is just so bleeding obvious. Dear World Leaders: If you haven’t heard of a Zeroth Law already, you soon will. fleetstreetfox.substack.com/p/only-a-zer...
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'Only a Zeroth Law can save us now'
AI will make everything worse before it gets better. Humans fucked that up last time, so let's not do it again
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Fleet Street Fox @fleetstreetfox.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
In which I compare the Royal Family to Highlander, point out nothing would be different if Diana had lived, and make a Christopher Lambert joke with the punchline: "Ook ai le nous." (FREE) fleetstreetfox.substack.com/p/this-is-wh...
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This is why the Royals always win
Princess Diana learned three decades ago that when you war with the Crown there can be only one winner. Her brother and her son seem to think it’s still worth a shot
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Fleet Street Fox @fleetstreetfox.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
These are the men who began the Nuked Blood Scandal. Only Andy Burnham can end it. Here’s What They Don’t Want You To Know: whattheydontwantyoutoknow.substack.com/p/a-human-ex...
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Fleet Street Fox @fleetstreetfox.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Look this is easy. Nigel says £32m will last them 3yrs. Reform says it has 400 target constituencies. That's £26k per constituency, per year, for "the finest minds". That's one lost graduate, if you're very fucking lucky.
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Fleet Street Fox @fleetstreetfox.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
A politician who is less popular than scabies can't buy enough votes to get into Downing Street. fleetstreetfox.substack.com/p/a-man-who-...
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Kevin Maguire @kevmag.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Bought lock, stock and ­barrel by ­billionaires, bankrolled ­puppet Nigel Farage is about to ­discover fair-minded voters won’t be sold as a job lot to his highest bidders. www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news...
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'Farage’s billionaires are trying to buy influence - democracy is not for sale'
OPINION: After two matching £36million donations by cryptocurrency billionaires, it's down to the people to make sure Reform find out that money can't buy you everything you desire, argues Kevin Magui...
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Fleet Street Fox @fleetstreetfox.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Dressing like a boy in a burqa isn’t going to repel Islamists, lads. FREE to read: fleetstreetfox.substack.com/p/the-new-na...
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Fleet Street Fox @fleetstreetfox.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Someone tell the Nazis they're wearing burqas.
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Fleet Street Fox @fleetstreetfox.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Courtiers and police chiefs meet this week to decide who will foot the bill for Harry and Meghan’s security. Spoiler: you won’t like it. fleetstreetfox.substack.com/p/the-one-li...
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The one line in King Charles’ letter that no-one paid attention to
Courtiers and police chiefs meet this week to decide who will foot the bill for Harry and Meghan’s security. Spoiler: you won’t like it
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Fleet Street Fox @fleetstreetfox.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Nigel defects! "I've left Reform and joined Labour. There's just too much sleaze." www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Councillor becomes first to defect from Reform to Labour
Nigel Swales says he has "growing concerns about Reform's ability to deliver at a local level".
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Fleet Street Fox @fleetstreetfox.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Wes Streeting mulls a compensation deal for nuclear veterans to end a 77-year cover-up at the MoD. It comes as 3 ex-ministers say there should be an investigation into allegations officials misled them over the Nuked Blood Scandal. whattheydontwantyoutoknow.substack.com/p/the-turn-o...
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The turn of the tide
Three ex-ministers have called for an investigation as Defence Secretary Wes Streeting mulls cash payouts to end the Nuked Blood Scandal
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Fleet Street Fox @fleetstreetfox.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
My story in today’s Sunday Times - Wes Streeting has been briefed by officials on compensation offers as low as £30,000 a head to end the Nuked Blood Scandal. Veterans have branded it “an insult for a lifetime of lies”: www.thetimes.com/uk/defence/a...
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Nuclear test veterans given hope of compensation, with a catch
Proposal suggests troops who took part in Pacific trials could get £30,000 when the Labour manifesto pledged £50,000
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Fleet Street Fox @fleetstreetfox.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
I’ve always wanted the rest of Fleet Street to wake up to this story, but some of them are still half-asleep.
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Fleet Street Fox @fleetstreetfox.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
A man with a 20-year history of grubby money allegations doesn’t know what corruption is, and doesn’t understand why we’d care. Oh, and he wants to be Prime Minister, too. fleetstreetfox.substack.com/p/normal-for...
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Fleet Street Fox @fleetstreetfox.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Ex-minister Tobias Ellwood says he told “a complete lie” to Parliament after being misled about the Nuked Blood Scandal. As I reported on Aug 24, he blamed MoD civil servants and said there needed to be a special tribunal to end the cover-up. whattheydontwantyoutoknow.substack.com/p/ex-ministe...
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Ex-minister says there was an “absolute cover-up” of human radiation experiments by UK government
Tobias Ellwood has confirmed he told “a complete lie” to Parliament and says he was misled by Ministry of Defence officials for years
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Fleet Street Fox @fleetstreetfox.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
I'm so used to government denials this seems like a dream sequence. Props to the first minister to come clean (ish) - now for the rest.
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Fleet Street Fox @fleetstreetfox.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
The MP for Under Investigation is back... for now. “The one question that really needs asking is how long it will before the live-action Sideshow Bob flounces off once more.” fleetstreetfox.substack.com/p/how-much-l...
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How much longer can Nigel Farage survive in politics?
The MP for Under Investigation is back... for now. As the Standards Commissioner digs into the bitcoin mines, it’s a question of when, not if, the Reform boss flounces off again
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it's an uncivil war @lucyksy.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Wish more people understood that they don't know, know a famous person.
My 7 year old heard me say that DP died and got very sad.  I was surprised she knew the name.
You know DP?  I don't know know her. But she sent me books.
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Fleet Street Fox @fleetstreetfox.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
No matter how you felt or what you were doing, Dolly had a song for it. This one covers pretty much all eventualities, and is the best one suited to today. www.youtube.com/watch?v=MKeu...
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Dolly Parton - Better Get To Livin' (Official Music Video)
YouTube video by Dolly Parton
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Fleet Street Fox @fleetstreetfox.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
If you listened to the BBC, you’d think it was an iconic raptor on the brink of extinction. It’s just a feathery dumb-fuck destined for ecology’s dustbin. fleetstreetfox.substack.com/p/the-montag...
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Fleet Street Fox @fleetstreetfox.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Former Bournemouth MP and Veterans Minister Tobias Ellwood believes he was “directly lied to” by officials at the Ministry of Defence about its secret programme of human radiation experiments. Here’s What They Don’t Want You To Know: whattheydontwantyoutoknow.substack.com/p/ex-tory-mi...
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Ex-Tory minister tells of 'shame' over his role in Nuked Blood Scandal
Police expand their major crime review into cover-up allegations as former defence minister Tobias Ellwood says officials 'directly lied' to him
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Fleet Street Fox @fleetstreetfox.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Police expand their major crime review into #nukedblood cover-up allegations as former defence minister Tobias Ellwood says officials 'directly lied' to him. Here’s What They Don’t Want You To Know: whattheydontwantyoutoknow.substack.com/p/ex-tory-mi...
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Ex-Tory minister tells of 'shame' over his role in Nuked Blood Scandal
Police expand their major crime review into cover-up allegations as former defence minister Tobias Ellwood says officials 'directly lied' to him
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Fleet Street Fox @fleetstreetfox.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
£15billion for nuclear warheads £0 for nuclear veterans defence-industry.eu/britain-comm...
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Britain commits £15 billion to sovereign nuclear warhead programme, with Astraea to replace Mk4A and retain Trident II D5 compatibility
Britain will invest £15 billion during the current Parliament in its sovereign nuclear warhead programme, supporting more than 9,000 jobs, the Ministry of Defence said.
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Fleet Street Fox @fleetstreetfox.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
How Harry's move back to the UK will save him £2m a year, and cause a stonking great PR headache for Andy Burnham into the bargain: fleetstreetfox.substack.com/p/how-harrys...
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Fleet Street Fox @fleetstreetfox.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Prince Harry In New Didn't Think It Through Shocker: fleetstreetfox.substack.com/p/how-harrys...
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How Harry's move back to the UK will save him £2m a year
And cause a stonking great PR headache for Andy Burnham into the bargain
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Fleet Street Fox @fleetstreetfox.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
John Davis wanted to restore and rebuild war graves in the wasteland of Iraq. What happened next still haunts him: whattheydontwantyoutoknow.substack.com/p/the-britis...
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Craig DeBlock @cdeblock.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
There was actually a (fortunately) brief trend, at least here in the States, for people with more money than sense to install urinals in their home bathrooms, the logic being that it eliminated the "leaving the seat up" argument...which, of course, could be handled just as well by men sitting down.
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Fleet Street Fox @fleetstreetfox.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Public urinals are like Gerard Depardieu: sexist, foul, and completely unnecessary. If that is not enough to put you off, they are also irrevocably French. fleetstreetfox.substack.com/p/a-denuncia...
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A denunciation of the men's public urinal
It's all the fault of the French, and we can absolutely do without
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Mark Freedman @markfreed.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
They could easily take a strong second place when Reform implode if Kemi wasn’t a mad zealot. I don’t like Schapps but not allowing him to stand is just bizarre.
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Fleet Street Fox @fleetstreetfox.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
NEW EP: A Very British Cover-Up Project Merlin examines the links between Hillsborough & nuke veterans, & how the state got away with it. Spot: open.spotify.com/show/033AXfD... iTunes: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/p... YT: www.youtube.com/@MerlinProje...
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Fleet Street Fox @fleetstreetfox.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
The Tory leader has shown a bone-bending hypocrisy that should make your eyes screech and your ears want to crawl off your head to go and lie in the shade. If you think Kemi Badenoch’s having a good summer, think again:
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Stephen Schwartz @atomicanalyst.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
At this instant in 1945 (8:15 AM August 6, local time), Little Boy—a 15-kiloton, uranium-fueled atomic bomb—destroyed Hiroshima, killing (per official US military estimates) ~70,000 men, women, and children, incl. 12 American POWs. Independent estimates later maintained ~140,000 people were killed.
A color photograph of a damaged Iras wristwatch with a leather band on display in the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum, its hands frozen at 8:15 AM.A photograph of a shadow of a person living in Hiroshima on August 6, 1945, who was killed as they climbed the steps of the Sumitomo Bank building while using a cane, leaving behind only their shadow imprinted on the steps (because their body and cane momentarily blocked the light from the intense thermal flash, burning away everything on the steps that was not in shadow).A color photograph of a damaged and partially melted child’s tricycle on display in the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum. On the morning of August 6, 1945, Shinichi Tetsutani, who was one month shy of turning four years old, was riding this tricycle, playing with his best friend, a girl named Kimi, 1,500 meters away from where the Little Boy atomic bomb exploded overhead. When found in the wreckage of his house, he was still grasping the red handlebar grip from his tricycle. Severely injured and burned all over his body, calling out, “Water, I want water,” he died that night. Shinichi’s father buried him in the backyard with his favorite toy, and his best friend Kimi, so he could ride it and play even after death. Forty years later, in 1985, Shinichi’s father, Nobuo, decided to rebury his son in the family’s gravesite. Unearthing the backyard grave with Kimi’s mother, Nobuo rediscovered the tricycle and donated it to the museum.
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𝕃𝕒𝕦𝕣𝕖𝕟𝕔𝕖𝕄 @biglarry2k23.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
I find it incredible, how successor govts of all shades , continue to hide the truth of past govt lies and rotten deeds. Are they most concerned about their own secrets- an old boys agreements to cover each other’s arses no matter what ?
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Fleet Street Fox @fleetstreetfox.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
#NUKEDBLOOD: From the medical journal of HMS Arethusa it appears human radiation experiments began before Britain got its A-bomb - and exposing troops while medical data was harvested by scientists was standard practice from day one. open.substack.com/pub/whatthey...
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Fleet Street Fox @fleetstreetfox.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
EXC: How British troops' medical records were gathered and hidden by a top secret government lab. www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...
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Fleet Street Fox @fleetstreetfox.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
Third ICO complaint in a week on FOIs the authorities refuse to answer. Feels like an apt moment to reshare this from earlier this year: whattheydontwantyoutoknow.substack.com/p/britains-f...
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Britain's Freedom of Information Act is a downright lie
They should have called it the More Ways To Hide Stuff Act instead
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Fleet Street Fox @fleetstreetfox.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
In just two weeks, polls are up, vibes abound, and voters mostly approve of a Prime Minister who's reviewed pub snacks and announced things that aren't happening. How has he managed it? fleetstreetfox.substack.com/p/how-andy-b...
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Fleet Street Fox @fleetstreetfox.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
The latest episode on the #ProjectMerlin podcast is a zinger: the appearance of a whistleblower who revealed decades of government lies about radioactive fallout at Xmas Island. YT www.youtube.com/@MerlinProje... Spfy open.spotify.com/show/033AXfD... Apple podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/p...
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Fleet Street Fox @fleetstreetfox.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
In just two weeks, polls are up, vibes abound, and voters mostly approve of a Prime Minister who's reviewed pub snacks and announced things that aren't happening. How has he managed it? fleetstreetfox.substack.com/p/how-andy-b...
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Fleet Street Fox @fleetstreetfox.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
Have you ever wondered how government ministers come out with stuff that you just know isn’t true? Here’s What They Don’t Want You To Know: whattheydontwantyoutoknow.substack.com/p/how-your-g...
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How your government changes the science when it suits
Science is supposed to be objective and follow the evidence. But that doesn't happen if the evidence doesn't suit those with the power to rewrite it
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Fleet Street Fox @fleetstreetfox.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
As Donald Trump unzips his tariffs for a third time to an increasingly-bored world, there's only four more months before he loses what's left of his mind fleetstreetfox.substack.com/p/not-even-t...
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Not even the penguins get a free pass from the pervert of Pennsylvania Avenue
As Donald Trump unzips his tariffs for a third time to an increasingly-bored world, there's only four more months before he loses what's left of his mind
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