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Tom Drayton @miserchristmas.bsky.social and Joseph Dunne-Howrie @drjdunnehowrie.bsky.social are theatre scholars researching rightwing postdigital extremism through the lenses of gaming, conspiracies, and influencers.

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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Kemi Badenoch condemned Reform's ban on critical journalists covering their conference as "authoritarian", saying her own party would never do the same as "we believe in free speech. We believe in a free press." Now the Conservatives have banned Byline Times from their conference
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Kemi Badenoch's Conservatives Ban 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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Chris Grey @chrisgrey.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Lethargy in place of strategy. New post on my fortnightly Brexit & Brexitism Blog looking at the urgent lessons from the Reform mega-donations, Piddington, and the growth of the far right; reset inertia; and the real lessons from Canada & Carney: chrisgreybrexitblog.blogspot.com/2026/09/leth...
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Gaming Democracy @gamingdemocracy.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Of course James Graham has written a play about the end of Thatcher's reign and John Major becoming Prime Minister called 'Major'. I mean it's not like these events have been dramatised to death or anything so why wouldn't you write this play James Graham.
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Chris Grey @chrisgrey.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
There's an under-discussed link between the 'cerebral' Christian Conservatism of Orr/ Kruger etc, the 'cultural Christianity' of Lowe etc., and the 'Christian' rhetoric & symbols of the Patriot Platform thugs. It's not enough to see this in terms of US influence - it's got a domestic inflection.
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Cold War Steve @coldwarsteve.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
2) and 3) are intimately linked, in that the BBC (the organisation that really matters in the modern environment) treats 'claims by rival parties' as the operating frame for how it covers everything. The failure from Labour and the Conservatives to say 'this stuff is bad' is really, really bad.
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Byline Times @bylinetimes.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Our undercover reporter @scatatkins.bsky.social posed as a far right journalist at the Reform Conference, and got thrown out for asking difficult questions about Farage's corruption scandal.
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HOPE not hate @hopenothate.org.uk · 05/09/2026
🚨 BREAKING: Patriot Platform, a new far right group launched by Tommy Robinson’s right hand man Daniel Thomas (AKA Danny Tommo) has blockaded the port and several roads in Dover. The masked men are from subgroups of PP, including Sussex, Essex, and South East Patriots Here’s all you need to know.
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Hardeep Matharu @hardeepmatharu.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Now James Orr has stepped down as Reform UK's Head of Policy after C4's report, questions remain for Cambridge – where he is Associate Professor. Byline Times revealed serious concerns about his activities there months ago. We all know there won't now be 200+ articles on him and his life don't we?
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Gaming Democracy @gamingdemocracy.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
I wonder why Farage is always meeting ppl in private clubs eating oysters and not down the pub watching football drinking beer when he doesn't know he's being filmed
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Columbo: It's a Mystery with Peter Falk
ALT: Columbo: It's a Mystery with Peter Falk
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Alex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Imagine Labour were in opposition and two very senior shadow cabinet members, seen as leadership rivals to the leader, had resigned within days of each other. Think how that would be reported - the tone, frequency, and prominence. Now tell me the media landscape is not skewed in this country.
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Chris Grey @chrisgrey.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Brexit Britain is still a tinderbox. New post starting the 11th year of my Brexit & Brexitism Blog with analysis of a long, hot summer of Brexit stasis & dishonesty & the reasons for it, Clacton, the Arday case & the culture war: chrisgreybrexitblog.blogspot.com/2026/08/brex...
Image of beginning of the latest post on my Brexit & Brexitism Blog
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Peter Jukes @peterjukes.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Seen the full gamut now of media arse covering of their exorbitant, hyperbolic and unfair coverage of Jason Arday. Private Eye compares him to Jeffery Archer and Mohammed Fayed, while @helenlewis.bsky.social depicts defenders of his record to 9/11 Truthers who believed it was an Inside Job
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Jonathan Portes @jdportes.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Worth reading the thread that led up to this.
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Peter Jukes @peterjukes.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Imagine a man driven to kill himself because the British media destroyed his reputation based on lies. And then imagine that, even after his death, that same media carry on tormenting his family with the same soul destroying lies. Incredible, isn’t it. But here we are
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Josiah Mortimer @josiahmortimer.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
"There’s not yet any media interest...[in our] six-month investigation, spanning some 20 sources, about the institution the press has been fixated with day after day: Cambridge University... It's about "a white, middle-class, right-wing professor there" - James Orr, Reform's policy chief
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There Will Be Another Jason Arday
There is no check to fetter power when unfettered power resides in the check
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Dorian Lynskey @dorianlynskey.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Exemplary demolition of the navel-gazing decadence of Atlantic-style reactionary centrism
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Downing Street's press release for Burnham's "emergency" Cobra meeting on the drought didn't even mention climate, with the Prime Minister blaming the growing numbers of wildfires on disposable barbecues. He's since appeared on GB News this afternoon to talk about migrant camps
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Cold War Steve @coldwarsteve.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
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Gregk Foley @gregk.co.uk · 11/08/2026
Where did the far-right get the idea Britain was existentially imperilled and so should fortify itself as a white Christian ethnostate? Who embedded such notions in their head? Who emboldened them so? Truly, it is a mystery.
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HOW BRITAIN IS CREATING ATERROR STATE WITHIN
The Times bestseller, with a new chapter
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
The Jason Arday story is by no means the biggest scandal at Cambridge University. I'm sure the media is going to pick this up and run with it in just the same way ... Or is the exaggerated CV of one Black professor somehow more important than this?
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
Very weird to be living for weeks through what has so far been the worst UK drought since records began and for the Prime Minister to have still said absolutely nothing about it
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Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
Last week Zack Polanski and the Green Party held a press conference with Chris Packham, the BBC did not play full clips of it This morning, Nigel Farage and Reform UK held a press conference, since, the BBC have continued to play full clips from it
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Dorian Lynskey @dorianlynskey.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
This is a great spot. Should be a bit of a scandal that Baroness Fox hired a far-right bookseller for her “lively debate”
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
Whilst Andy Burnham has found the time to opine on such vital issues as 'vertical drinking', and whether a bread roll should be called a ‘barm’, he has not found the time to comment on some of the worst racist violence on Britain's streets in the postwar period www.adambienkov.co.uk/p/illegitima...
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Illegitimate Concerns: Andy Burnham's Non-Response to the Thetford Pogrom Is His First Big Failure
Whilst happy to opine on 'vertical drinking' and whether bread rolls should be called 'barms', our new PM has had nothing to say about three days of horrific racist violence on our streets
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
The continued political silence over the spread of these anti-migrant, anti-refugee pogroms in the UK is a disgrace. This one has been going on for three nights in a row now and the Home Secretary and Prime Minister haven't said a single word about it www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
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Norfolk police arrest two men after officers injured during unrest over asylum plans
Homes of people believed to be asylum seekers attacked during two nights of violence in Thetford
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Dorian Lynskey @dorianlynskey.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
A terrible day for trans people in Britain and a shameful one for the EHRC and government
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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
Here are the stupidest things Kemi Badenoch has said so far today inews.co.uk/opinion/kemi...
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Ben Ansell @benansell.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
I recall we had a period of time where the response of Starmer and Cooper to concerns about these groups was ‘I like flags’
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Cas Mudde @casmudde.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
Remembering the victims of the Oslo & Utøya attack, 15 years ago today. 💔 The far right is the most fundamental and, in most ‘western’ countries, the deadliest threat. We need vigilance, not normalization.
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Moira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
I wrote about ICE’s recent killing spree, and the moral urgency of holding these people accountable in a post-MAGA world. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Hardeep Matharu @hardeepmatharu.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
Another new PM, another edition of Byline Times goes to press... Read our exclusive investigation on James Orr, head of policy at Reform & Cambridge professor in print - what's happening at the world-renowned university refusing to answer any of our questions? In shops / subscribe.bylinetimes.com 👇
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
These years of anti-immigration hysteria we're living through right now are going to look utterly incomprehensible in the coming era of closing schools, ageing populations and massively understaffed public services
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The Daily Show @thedailyshow.com · 16/07/2026
OK.
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
You'd think the intelligence services having to raise the national terror threat level because of a surge in Nazi terrorism might have been a bigger story
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Gil Durán @gilduran.com · 12/07/2026
I was sunning by the pool when the boxes arrived. And here in my hand is my life’s work: “The Nerd Reich: Silicon Valley Fascism and the War On Democracy.” Coming 8/18. Pre-orders make a huge difference! Make a fascist sweat—pre-order today! www.simonandschuster.com/books/The-Ne...
Gil Duran holding physical copy of Nerd Reich book
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
little to add to Platner discourse that others haven't said better. so i'll just say once again that the era of consequence free politics is no good and it is important to bring back shame
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Tal Lavin @swordsjew.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
leftism and centrism are plagued by the exact same misogyny and antisemitism as any other segment of society theyre just more in denial about it
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
InfoWars starts in eight hours. Subscribe to the YouTube channel now.
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WELCOME TO THE REAL INFOWARS
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InfoWars @realinfowars.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
Tune in LIVE to be throttled by the truth. Stream wherever you want to be perceived.
Tim Heidecker looking serious with a tune in for InfoWars, tonight (7/2) at 8pm ET at @RealInfowars on YouTube
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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
He creates his own reality & expects us to believe it. The FELON's FANTASY: Meanwhile, back on EARTH 1:
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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
A pro-Klan and pro-immigration restriction cartoon of the Statue of Liberty by Rev. Branford Clark, 1928.
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HOPE not hate @hopenothate.org.uk · 19/06/2026
Voters in Makerfield have thoroughly rejected Reform UK’s Rob Kenyon. They tried to turn this by-election into a breakthrough moment. Voters denied them that. HOPE not hate’s research exposed Rob Kenyon’s sexist posts, @carolvorders.bsky.social Vorderman took that message to 13,000 voters.
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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
Condemning riots isn't enough. We need policy action, including an immediate appraisal of X as a vehicle for coordinating far-right disorder. And we need political leadership, to challenge white nationalism as an idea, not to validate it daily and then complain when it turns violent.
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
What are the Government, police and security services doing about the people who are quite clearly in the pay of a hostile foreign state, and using their platforms to whip up actual pogroms on our streets? This is a major national security issue and absolutely nothing seems to be happening about it
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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
We need leaders who can spell out what's happening clearly and with force.
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Nate O @nateo.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
In another letter of protest, Alex Evans (LGBTQIA+ Officer) wrote: “The Union does not maintain a consistent policy on the matter of free speech, as I was personally prevented by an aforementioned disgraced member of committee from inviting speakers from Plaid Cymru and the SNP on the grounds they were too divisive. If Welsh and Scottish independence are beyond the pale of free speech, but calling for war against British Muslim…is not, then it is not a matter of free speech, but the desire for publicity, controversy, and shock value which is being placed above public safety and reasoned debate.
“Tommy Robinson’s presence only serves to inflame and spread violent rhetoric, rather than contribute meaningfully to the discussion between religion and politics.”
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Cold War Steve @coldwarsteve.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
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CaroleOntheGo🇨🇦 @caroleonthego4u.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
Every American should be disgusted by this.
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