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Brexit Bin 🇪🇺 🇬🇧 🇩🇪 @brexitbin.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Reform is a cult that gives its members permission to be evil. #RefUKkers

Gerhard Schnyder @gerhardschnyder.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Hoping the latest Reform scandal will bring down Farage is forgetting one thing: Transgression is part of the far-right’s appeal. I’ve written about this: www.gerhardschnyder.com/brexit-impac... Far right feeds on people’s frustrations. Breaking the rules of an unfair society is the whole point!

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Roland Smith @rolandmcs.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Free Speech latest...

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Rob Davies @byrobdavies.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

"I want your children's lungs to be smaller and less functional" is a bold electoral strategy.

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Arhoolie MacDoodle @arhooliemacdoodle.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Err, um,cough,ahem, uh....why hasn't President Rapist sued Ted Lieu? Well, obviously.......👉👹👈

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Our rapid disillusionment with political leaders is treated by much of the media as some kind of pathology. But what I see is these leaders backtracking on their promises, dashing people's hopes and serving the ultra-rich ahead of the rest of the population. Why wouldn't we be disillusioned?

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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

The depressing thing about the US isn't Trump really. He's just a grotesque. It's the complete failure of all the things liberals believe in: Congress, the judiciary, the press, voters themselves, all persistently unwilling or unable to stop him. It's the failure of an entire society.

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Gerhard Schnyder @gerhardschnyder.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Enjoy the mediterranean climate…👍🏻🤦🏼‍♂️

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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Former Clacton MP hammers Nigel Farage for ‘creating the small boats crisis’ via Brexit It’s about time and UK media need to follow www.thelondoneconomic.com/politics/cla...

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Former Clacton MP hammers Nigel Farage for 'creating the small boats crisis' via Brexit

Giles Watling issued a stinging rebuke towards his successor in Clacton, arguing that Nigel Farage IS the cause of small boat crossings.

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Gerhard Schnyder @gerhardschnyder.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Spending the summer at home in London with the occasional day trip to the sea- or countryside sounds like a super relaxing summer holiday. It is not. At least not when you decide to travel by train. Why does the British public put up with this? www.gerhardschnyder.com/blog/2026/8/...

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A Great British Railway Holiday — Gerhard Schnyder

Spending the summer at home in London with the occasional day trip to the sea- or countryside sounds like a super relaxing way of spending one’s summer holiday. It is not. At least not when you deci...

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Gerhard Schnyder @gerhardschnyder.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

What worries me most about this saga is what it tells us about how the Tories assess where the countries right-leaning electorate stands: You get more votes by doubling down on appearing like facist apologists than admitting a mistake and firmly condemning that ideology. I really hope they are wrong

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Josiah Mortimer @josiahmortimer.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

"[Byline] revealed that Cottrell entered corporate finance under a false Swiss identity, hired by the same City network that produced Reform UK’s own treasurer, Mehrtash A’zami. "Byline Times has since confirmed that this identity was stolen from a real person – Cottrell’s old school friend."

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Nigel Farage Funder George Cottrell's Accountant Co-Invested With Russia-Linked Indicted Cocaine Trafficker

The accountancy firm that administers George Cottrell’s Montenegro company, has invested in a property development with the alleged ringleader of the country’s largest money laundering cartel

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Pallonate in Faccia @pallonateinfaccia.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

"A real football gangster. The whole world is turning its back on you. F*** you, Infantino!" 🇨🇭 During yesterday's Swiss league match against Basel, Lausanne-Sport fans directed a message against FIFA president (and Swiss citizen) Gianni #Infantino. 👇

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Gerhard Schnyder @gerhardschnyder.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

Don‘t read Murdoch papers 👇🏻

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Peter Jukes @peterjukes.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

And another amazing scoop from @nafeez.bsky.social about how deeply embedded Cottrell''s dodgy network of dark money is in Reform UK

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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

Nigel Farage's approval ratings have now sunk even lower than Keir Starmer's before he resigned, yet we're still being encouraged to believe he has some kind of magic connection with the British public

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Luke Tryl @luketryl.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

Seen a few people saying rough sleeping policy isn’t aimed at median public concern. Quite apart from any policy/moral imperative it really is - rough sleeping comes up time again in focus groups as one of the most visible signs of Broken Britain and community decline!

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Nils Wilcke @nilswilcke.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

Le journaliste sportif David Lemos dénonce en direct les dérives de la FIFA après la finale de la Coupe du Monde et ça fait du bien. En France, il n'aurait plus de boulot...

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Chris Bertram @crookedfootball.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

Ian Wright saying we shouldn’t forget the way the Iranian team and the Somali referee were treated. Correct.

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Peter Jukes @peterjukes.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

All it takes for Reform to fail is the shadow tanker fleet of the BBC, right wing press, and nervous media oligarchs, to turn away from their current course, and actually report some rather inconvenient truths about political corruption around crypto and money laundering

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Peter Jukes @peterjukes.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

Obviously Yaxley Lennon f*cked up by jumping on a riot while hanging out in Moscow with far right influencers Now check his finances Met Police for Russian funding www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

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Tommy Robinson detained at Heathrow under counter-terrorism laws

Police stop comes after far-right activist rose to global prominence on social media amid racial tensions in Britain

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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

Fear, hate and racism whipped up by ugly politicians and irresponsible media. With Musk’s X spreading the word and organising their fascist foot soldiers. This is the rage that Farage called for. These are his people. This is his racist, hateful, angry Britain. app.independent.co.uk/2026/06/10/2...

Photo: Firefighters work to extinguish a fire in three cars parked on the street at Tigers Bay (Reuters)

Racists, online and in person, including politicians, have been showing us all what their real agenda is.
Far-right online figures, racist elements in England and the US have used Monday's events to justify spreading their poison.
People who know nothing of Belfast and probably have never been here are using what has happened to their own advantage.

Whether that is politicians speaking out of both sides of their mouths or online scumbags cynically capitalising on events to try to make a point.
The "protect our women and girls" crowd have thought nothing of being all sorts of abusive to journalists like me.
It is so depressing to see burning barricades and to know that non-white people are in fear for their lives because casually racist characters online and in the real world are frothing at the mouth to spread their hate.

Photo of police vans, rioters standing on them, smoke and chaos

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Gerhard Schnyder @gerhardschnyder.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

Excellent investigative reporting on Reform’s money by the Observer’s Cat Neilan! Everyone who is not disgusted enough with British politics needs to listen to this 👉🏻 podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/t...

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Who Funds Reform? The Missing Millions

Podcast Episode · The Rest Is Politics · 28 May · 29min

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Josiah Mortimer @josiahmortimer.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

Labour responds to reports Nigel Farage owes almost £10k for county court judgment after pocketing £5 million: “Farage’s finances just get murkier and murkier. If this is how he handles his own affairs, the public can have no faith in his ability to manage the public finances if Reform won power."

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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

So, Labour tears itself apart to try to stop Farage being our next PM just as he finally faces scrutiny in a monumental corruption scandal which could… and really should…end his political career. I’d go hard on that rather than each other right now guys. giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...

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Farage says £5mn gift was ‘reward’ for Brexit campaigning

Reform UK leader had previously claimed the money had nothing to do with politics

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Peter Jukes @peterjukes.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

This is all happens in 2023. Farage goes apoplectic on GB News about Coutts/Nat West. He is supported by Boris Johnson. GB News owner makes a mint shorting NatWest stock. Boris Johnson offered a GB News slot

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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 09/05/2026

“The British press usually works itself into a fury if people in public life threaten legal action against journalists... But when it comes to the wall of money and lawyers propping up Farage and his finances, barely a squeak” Democracy dying in the darkness. www.independent.co.uk/voices/nigel...

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Nigel Farage pocketing £5m from a donor shows he’s unfit for power

The British media seems obsessed with the living arrangements of Zack Polanski. But when it comes to huge donations to the Reform leader from people with questionable motivations there is barely a squ...

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Duncan Weldon @duncanweldon.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

A guess a lot people will be spending a lot of today checking some slowly changing numbers on a BBC webpage. If you enjoy that sort of thing and want it to be a more than annual occurrence - can I recommend getting into county cricket?

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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

Have to say.. as red flags go, proposing to set up concentration camps and taking a £5M personal bribe would be the top two when deciding who NOT to vote for. It is genuinely insane and extremely troubling that Farage could still be electable despite that… or even because of it. WTAF, UK?

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Torsten Bell @torstenbell.bsky.social · 02/05/2026

There’s no “accused” about it - a politician being handed £5m IS a conflict of interest. Accepting such a gift is an open and shut case of not being interested in, let alone fit for, public service www.ft.com/content/6a56...

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Farage accused of ‘conflict of interest’ over £5mn gift from crypto investor

Rival parties highlight how Reform UK has proposed cutting tax and regulation on the digital assets industry

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Gerhard Schnyder @gerhardschnyder.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

The FT just updated its FT50 journal ranking list. Some argue that university X or country Y had ‘lost’ Z number of FT50 publications. This reveals the fetishism of rankings in academia Continued… www.gerhardschnyder.com/blog/2026/5/1/short-reflection-on-the-2026-ft50-journal-ranking-update

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The 50 journals used in FT rankings

The Financial Times research quality metric compilation for business school MBA, EMBA and Online MBA courses

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Gerhard Schnyder @gerhardschnyder.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

Beating Orban was the (relatively) easy bit. Magyar now has 4 years to keep Orban's Fidesz out of power long-term. He needs to learn lessons from other post-populist countries like Poland and the USA. 📄 My piece on post-populist Hungary in The Conversation UK theconversation.com/could-viktor...

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Could Viktor Orbán be back in 2030? Why Péter Magyar has a fight on his hands after landslide win

A key challenge facing Magyar will be to undo the system Orbán has put in place to exercise control over Hungary.

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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 12/04/2026

When Angela Rayner underpaid £40,000 stamp duty on her flat, Richard Tice said it was "morally completely indefensible” and she should immediately resign if she had “any moral decency”. Now we learn he personally made £91,000 in excess payments by failing to pay the tax his company legally owed

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Simon Marks @simonmarksfsn.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

Impossible to disagree with a single word that Ben Rhodes (Obama era NSC official) is saying here:

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Kamala Harris @kamalaharris.com · 07/04/2026

The President of the United States is threatening to commit war crimes and wipe out a "whole civilization" — all because he started a disastrous war of his own making and had no plan and no strategy for how to end it. This is abhorrent, and the American people do not support this.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 07/04/2026

Tucker Carlson: "It's vile. It begins w/ a promise to use the US military to commit a war crime. Those people who are in direct contact w/ the president need to say 'No. I'll resign. I'll do whatever I can do legally to stop this, bc this is insane. And if given the order, I'm not carrying it out'"

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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 22/03/2026

So it turns out Reform are laundering their donations through crypto, before converting them into cash, hiding the original source of the money. So who is really funding Nigel Farage and Reform UK? observer.co.uk/news/nationa...

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Reform accused of using third party to turn crypto into c...

Digital currency donations have been turned into sterling to make them much less easy to track, sources say

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Brant Reeves @bireeves95.bsky.social · 21/03/2026

Every Accusation is a Confession….

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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

In response to revelations about Farage’s racist, Nazi-sympathising, misogynistic, greedy little video side gig, Farage’s spokesman said - if you’re grifting your arse off as furiously as Farage is- “occasional mistakes can occur” Yes. Easily done. If you’re a racist, Nazi-sympathising misogynist.

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Farage endorses neo-Nazi event in paid-for videos
By Kat Brown

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Nigel Farage has sold personalised videos in which he has endorsed a neo-Nazi event, repeated extremist slogans and supported a man convicted over his involvement in a far-right riot.
The Guardian has analysed more than 4,000 of the Reform UK leader's Cameo videos, for which he commands between £78 and £155 each, and found several clips that it described as "highly questionable" Among numerous clips sending birthday wishes, Farage (inset) has made videos for people who support the National Front and publicly express offensive views, has referenced antisemitic conspiracy theories and made misogynistic remarks about left wing politicians.

Since joining the platform five years ago, farage has charged at least £374,893, making several videos a day, according to the newspaper.

In one video, Farage ridiculed someone "simper-ing for Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's big naturals" - a reference to the US congresswoman's breasts.
In several videos Farage used a variation of the slogan if in doubt, kick them out". Dr Ashton Kingdon, a lecturer in criminology at the University of Southampton, said the phrase was a "well-established far-right slogan"
Farage charged €155 for a video made in 2025 for a man jailed over his involvement in a far-right riot. He told him to "keep acting in the right way" He also said "up the Rhodesia" in one clip, appearing to reference a white-minority southern African state, now Zimbabwe, idealised by white nationalists.

A spokesman for Farage told The Guardian: "Mr Farage has recorded many thousands of videos for genuine supporters to celebrate wed-dings, congratulate friends or send novelty messages. At that scale, the occasional mistake can occur."

They said the videos "should not be treated as political statements or campaign activity" and added: "He has long been clear in his opposition to extremism and political violence."

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Gerhard Schnyder @gerhardschnyder.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

This is not normal or acceptable 👇🏻 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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Dorian Lynskey @dorianlynskey.bsky.social · 08/03/2026

Just fascinating to see Blair, a man whose reputation was ruined by the Iraq war, advocate joining a war that is exponentially stupider and more chaotic. How is it possible to learn nothing from the worst mistake of your life?

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Gerhard Schnyder @gerhardschnyder.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

Casts the spotlight on the question: Who broke Britain?

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Jim Waterson @jim.londoncentric.media · 05/03/2026

Tax exiles stuck in London desperately trying to get *back* to Dubai to avoid becoming tax resident in the UK? Just great stuff. giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...

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Wealthy Dubai residents race back to UAE to avoid tax bills

Some risk spending too few days in the emirate and too many in the UK

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James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 04/03/2026

If I was @zackpolanski.bsky.social, I would be pointing out to the BBC that whatever model they use to justify giving Farage & his boot-lickers season tickets for every BBC show under the sun must surely now treat Green Party politicians in exactly the same way. Might even be one for the lawyers...

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