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Gareth Spencer

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Gareth Spencer @garethspencer.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Is there currently a more Tory form of transport than the Barbour advert wrapped Boris Bus?
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M a r c u s 🏳️‍🌈🇧🇧 @marcusjdl.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
One of the worst state pensions in western Europe, 2 million pensioners in poverty and increasing numbers of pensioners still paying rising rents… triple lock being removed is not a left wing position just because you don’t like rich boomers
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Dave Andress @davidandress.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Murdered by our collective lunge into fascism. Well done, everyone with a scrap of power.
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 27/09/2026
Google finally updated some of its satellite images of Gaza and my god, it's horrific. The entirety of Rafah has been demolished. The majority of Khan Younis is in ruins. Entire towns completely leveled and erased of the map.
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The Bear @bearlypolitics.co.uk · 28/09/2026
Well, well, well - if it isn’t the consequences of our own actions. It would appear that migrants are not, in fact, the fiscal drain we’ve been told they are by years if we go by the £4bn to £6.5bn shortfall that’s been caused by the precipitous drop in numbers under this government. Funny that.
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Gareth Spencer @garethspencer.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Why should I be friends with someone who wants to deport my wife? Why would I have dinner with a person whose austerity politics contributed to the death of my son? The impact of my politics on them is, at best, a mild reduction of their wealth. The effect of theirs on me has been catastrophic.
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Defend Our Juries @defendourjuries.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
BREAKING: Massive Attack’s Rob Del Naja arrested under the UK Terrorism Act outside Labour Party conference venue. The legendary musician was arrested after peacefully holding “I oppose genocide - I support Palestine Action” on a paper sign on the eve of Labour’s conference.
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James Butler @piercepenniless.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
When was the last time our Secretary of State for Culture displayed anything approaching this degree of public enthusiasm for our world-class arts industry? Has she been seen anywhere? Given impending charter renewal... did she even bother to visit a single prom?
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Tom Roberts @tpgroberts.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
The complete and total collapse of state function in the face of far right extremists. It is frankly ludicrous that Daniel Thomas continues to be at large given the series of crimes committed which he has literally filmed.
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Willard Foxton @willardfoxton.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
I think it's absolutely mad that today there's a *national news story* about 400 oil platform workers losing their jobs, and the government being blamed. 25% of the UK TV industry lost their jobs in the last 4 years and we never hear a peep about it! Some jobs are 'real jobs' I guess.
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Josiah Mortimer @josiahmortimer.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Interesting. Meta has reached its first UK trade union access agreement after being approached by Prospect, allowing the union to speak to employees directly about joining. Under the agreement, Prospect (with ~160,000 UK members inc. tech workers) will have access to Meta’s 5,000 staff in the UK.
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Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 21/09/2026
Always hilarious to see Jake and Logan Paul wearing suits at official events, like when people put clothes on dogs to pretend they have jobs
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Gareth Spencer @garethspencer.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
HWFG! www.ft.com/content/c306...
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The union shock coming for UK employers
New legislation brings far more companies into contact with trade unions — but many businesses are unprepared
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Gareth Spencer @garethspencer.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Cancel all your Saturday plans and immediately start watching the European TramDriver Championship (TRAM EM) livestream immediately
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John Oxley @joxley.jmoxley.co.uk · 18/09/2026
What on earth is happening?
  This had become the new normal. RNLI crew members had been forced to take their permits off their cars after their tyres have been repeatedly slashed. Most of them have been pilloried at the school gates or turned away from local pubs. One man who worked in search and rescue had been beaten unconscious and hospitalised, recognised for TV interviews he had done.
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
As former Labour minister Tom Watson joins Palantir, please read this devastating exposé by @petergeoghegan.bsky.social & @lucasamin.bsky.social of how the company, with Peter Mandelson's help, wormed its way into the UK government to sell its dire & dangerous products. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
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Peter Geoghegan and Lucas Amin · ‘This looks absolutely rubbish’: Palantir and the NHS
A decade ago Palantir was largely unknown in the UK. It now holds public contracts worth hundreds of millions of pounds...
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Emma Yeomans @yeomans.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
The RNLI has said the abuse of volunteers in Portsmouth has forced it to close the lifeboat station there and stop operating since September 10. Nearby stations have been providing cover to the area instead. One of the UK's largest coastal cities without a lifeboat because of the far-right.
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Sinan Kose @thesinankose.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Genuinely: where is the Prime Minister? Critical infrastructure has been occupied by a fascist paramilitary, volunteers who save people's lives have been threatened and it seems to have gone unremarked upon.
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Gareth Spencer @garethspencer.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Shame on the BBC for not showing Mondo DuPlantis singing ‘Gold’ by Mondo DuPlantis live. Cowards.
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Po-LINA-tergeist 👻 لينا @agirlcalledlina.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
The BBC is doing a bit of PR for Danny Thomas
"We need to be a bit smarter," he said, referencing arrests or offences including the assaults on police officers and violent disorder during recent Unite the Kingdom marches, that had been organised by Robinson. "Good men and women are now away from the fight stuck in jail cells."
Thomas told his supporters he had a few ideas that would be "more powerful than committing acts of violence and criminal damage".
There needs to be a "different MO",
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"We are looking for the strong, the able, the ones that are willing to do things a bit different."

Photo of Danny Tommo with Tommy Robinson Christianity is now a big part of Danny Thomas's brand. His calls for action are peppered with the occasional "Amen", pronounced in the American way, with the first syllable said "ay" rather than "ah".
He was pictured at St Lawrence church in south London in February and March.
The local diocese told BBC News that while it welcomed "people of various political and ideological perspectives",
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"committed to the inclusion of all people" and the focus of worship would "always be the person of Christ, who is for everyone".
Thomas has spoken publicly about his newfound faith: "I have repented my sins and, under Jesus Christ, I am a new man."

Photo of some gammon racists in a church
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Annalisa Nicholson @apuddleofmuddle.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
It's just weird isn't it when the British Museum is running a sold-out exhibition, when The Odyssey reports $1billion at the box office, when the V&A has just opened the most innovative and accessible museum model in Europe....and this is what our minister for research comes out with.
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Gareth Spencer @garethspencer.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Few better sights from a train window than Uffington White Horse.
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Gareth Spencer @garethspencer.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Don’t think I’ve been the same since I fell into a James Turrell installation in 2014
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Oliver Bullough @oliverbullough.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
The fact something as fundamental and superb as the RNLI is a charity is one of the most magical and strange things about Britain. You can support them here. rnli.org/support-us/g...
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Donate to the RNLI and help save lives at sea
Your donations really make a difference. We depend on your generosity to educate people to stay safe and prevent tragedies on and offshore. Donate here.
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Mollie Goodfellow @hansmollman.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Picking on the RNLI and thinking you are the good guys is such a great example of what is presumably an irreversible brain rot, like if you opened up the bonnet on those heads it would be like when a peach has gone too mushy to be saved
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Gareth Spencer @garethspencer.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Love to be living at the intersection of climate collapse, reemergent fascism and intense personal trauma.
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Joel Morris @gralefrit.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
I believe the RNLI are responding to legitimate concerns that people might drown.
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HOPE not hate @hopenothate.org.uk · 07/09/2026
Last night, hundreds of men in black emerged on the street in Portsmouth. In ugly scenes that lasted until 3am, they blocked coaches transporting migrants. The action was led by Danny Tommo’s Patriot Platform, who were also behind Saturday’s demo in Dover. hopenothate.org.uk/2026/09/07/b...
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Balaclavas on the beachfront: Anti-migrant activism escalates in Portsmouth – HOPE not hate
A major anti-migrant protest occurred in Portsmouth last night, triggered by the arrival of a dinghy carrying asylum seekers into the harbour.  Hundreds emerged onto...
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Gareth Spencer @garethspencer.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
There’s been endless “Do you like the Smiths or Oasis?”, “Is it a barm or a bap?”, “What’s better Boddingtons or London Pride?”, “Name your favourite Everton player” professional Northerner shtick from Burham since his anointment. Naturally, when actual blackshirts are on the march we get nothing 🤷🏻‍♂️
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Esheru @esherukweku.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Small boat arrival numbers are at a low. Responsible journalism would ask: - Who organised this? - Did police have prior intelligence? - Why were arrests not made? - Were online networks, funding streams or political affiliations involved? - Why now? www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
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Hundreds of far-right protesters descend on Portsmouth after small boat arrival
Influencer livestreams event calling for men to travel to port to block coaches carrying asylum seekers from leaving
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Duncan Hothersall @dhothersall.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
When masked thugs radicalised by racist hate blockade ports and threaten harm, the police make zero arrests, and the response of the government is to issue a statement sympathising with the protesters' aims and only mildly rebuking their actions, we have a big fucking problem.
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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
This summer Britain burnt. 3000 people died from the heat. Yet this Government is drilling for more gas, despite scientist warnings & it won't make a difference to bills in the UK. We need to double down on renewables, not bend to the wishes of fossil fuel bosses. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Jackdaw gas field set to be approved as soon as mid-September, sources say
The government is set to give the go-ahead for the gas field off the coast of Aberdeen, the BBC understands.
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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
More Palestinians have been killed (1,300) since the so-called ceasefire began in Gaza on 10th October 2025 than Israelis were killed on 7th October 2023 - including ten times as many children (300!) as were killed on 10/7. This is what a 'ceasefire' looks like for Palestinians.
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Channel 4 News @channel4news.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Undercover footage verified by Channel 4 News reveals a secret plot by senior Reform UK figures to break the law on party donations. A leading legal expert is now calling for a criminal investigation. 🔗 Read the exclusive story on Substack:
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Exclusive: Nigel Farage filmed undercover celebrating secret new foreign donations
Undercover footage verified by Channel 4 News reveals a secret plot by senior Reform UK figures to break the law on party donations. A leading legal expert is now calling for a criminal investigation.
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Daniel Moser @dmoser.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Pollution levels in London after 10 years of advancing sustainable transport.
Map showing Lower Pollution levels in London after 10 years of advancing sustainable transport.
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Helen Warrell @helenwarrell.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
James Orr: Reform’s head of policy, Cambridge theologian, architect of the new British right. Our profile for @ftweekend.com looks at his links to the Maga movement, Silicon Valley & European populists, and his life as a Cambridge lecturer with @ramshodgson.bsky.social www.ft.com/content/c2d0...
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James Orr and the gospel of the new British right
Reform’s policy head is a Cambridge theologian with an enviable contact book and a belief in ‘faith, family and flag’
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Gareth Spencer @garethspencer.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Is Count Binface our Beppe Grillo?
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Gareth Spencer @garethspencer.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Have to say the Milo news has me laughing like a drain
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Philip Gourevitch @pgourevitch.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
How it started… how it’s going
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Gareth Spencer @garethspencer.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Made this meme to goad @marta-zboralska.bsky.social and her Fantasy Football picks
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
People can "just adapt" to a changing climate, a thousand rightwing voices keep telling us. Either they lack imagination or they don't care. Try "adapting" to this. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a...
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Nepal flash flood: more than 1,500 missing, mostly tourists, after disaster kills at least 165 at Tibet border
Entire populated areas swept away after glacial collapse causes catastrophic flood in mountainous region popular with trekkers and pilgrims
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Gareth Spencer @garethspencer.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Had to endure a trip from London to Edinburgh last year with a young lad continuously scrolling between Family Guy clips and Gordon Ramsey memes for 4 hours
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Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
"yes, I might hold racist beliefs, but is it fair to call me a racist"
I’m an easy scapegoat because I hold views about race that are controversial and easily misunderstood. I argue that differences between ancestral populations aren’t entirely due to environmental forces, and that some group disparities stem from natural differences for which no one is to blame. I made a widely quoted statement: “Under a colorblind system that judged applicants only by academic qualifications, blacks would make up 0.7% of Harvard students.” That sentence has been cited repeatedly as evidence that I’m a racist.
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EPSU @epsu.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Palantir wants Europe’s public money. Paying tax? Not so much. 💸 $1.66bn pre-tax profit 💸 $22.7m corporate tax worldwide 💸 1.4% effective tax rate Yet it keeps winning public contracts. The EU's procurement rules are being rewritten. Now is the moment to say: 𝗡𝗼 𝗽𝘂𝗯𝗹𝗶𝗰 𝗺𝗼𝗻𝗲𝘆 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝘁𝗮𝘅 𝗮𝘃𝗼𝗶𝗱𝗲𝗿𝘀!
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Peter Jukes @peterjukes.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Here‘s the real story from @nafeez.bsky.social The Peter Thiel-Linked Race Science Network that Penetrated Cambridge University and Targeted Jason Arday bylinetimes.com/2026/08/18/t...
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The Peter Thiel-Linked Race Science Network that Penetrated Cambridge University and Targeted Jason Arday
The media's coverage of the academic's life was fuelled by the campaign of an established far-right network
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Gareth Dennis @garethdennis.uk · 19/08/2026
The DfT are desperate to hide the fact that one of the trains derailed at Lewes was the first with the GBR livery applied, because they know as well as we do that it would be too obvious a metaphor for their rail policy: big stickers, minimal investment, things get worse.
a screenshot from Gareth on the news, with his face next to an aerial view of a train wearing the dark blue, red and white Great British Railways livery
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Josiah Mortimer @josiahmortimer.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Politico: "London’s Ultra Low Emission Zone (ULEZ) has improved lung growth in children, according to research led by Queen Mary University of London — the first evidence that clean air zones may benefit child development."
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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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M a r c u s 🏳️‍🌈🇧🇧 @marcusjdl.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Jason Arday is dead. The UK media won’t learn a thing from this. Because they’re racist bastards. He has two children.
PROF GONE Jason Arday 'found dead after being found unresponsive at home' following Cambridge plagiarism scandal
Bruno Brown, Reporter


Published: 20:04, 14 Aug 2026 | Updated: 20:14, 14 Aug 2026

picture: Jason Arday a black man with long hair
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Jo Kibble (Political Animal) @politicanimal.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
Campaign to Build HS3 Right Over Dobby's Grave
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