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IT Consultant. Author - CIO Magazine, FX Trader. Book ‘Dynamic Web Programming’ - Prentice Hall.

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Craig Unger @craigunger.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
Exactly. It’s an enormously important part of Trump’s corruption not just because it allowed the Russians to bail him out after his many bankruptcies. It also helped him conceal his illicit ties to Russia.
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Graham @grahamph.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
Get back on twitter.
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Graham @grahamph.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
Give him a chance ffs.
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
Excuse it all you like with the false logic you’ve been taught since childhood. Monarchy is in fact a means by which a tiny elite holds onto power and immense wealth and privilege. With their path paved by taxpayer £££. It enables grubby little people like the Yorks. It should long ago have ended
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Graham @grahamph.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
Who’s getting kickbacks?
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Graham @grahamph.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
Britaly.
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Graham @grahamph.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
I recommend ‘The Inner Eye’ by Nicholas Humphrey. Empathy key.
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The Secret Barrister @barristersecret.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
Just to recap: Calling Nigel Farage “an unflushable poo” = dehumanising hate speech. Calling for hotels housing asylum seekers to be set on fire = guest of honour at party conference. Bless those non-racist free speech warriors.
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
Never before has a politician announced their intention to run for re-election on an explicitly pro-sleaze, anti-transparency ticket. Never before has a politician gloried in having enriched themselves by breaking the rules, and then demanded a mandate to continue doing so indefinitely
bylinetimes.com
Nigel Farage’s 'Pro-Sleaze' By-Election Is A Sign Of Terminal Weakness
The Reform leader's desperate decision to call a back-me-or-sack-me by-election is a sign of a politician who knows he is finally being exposed for the man he really is, argues Adam Bienkov
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Femi @femi-oluwole.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
Robert Jenrick just admitted Reform was funded by criminals but the BBC helped them get away with it. The George Cottrell story won't stop Farage any more than 37 felonies stopped Trump. To hurt him you have to mention Brexit... that's why Laura Kuenssberg never will.
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Robert Jenrick ADMITS Reform UK's criminal funding - George Cottrell
YouTube video by Femi - F Politics!
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
UK Children’s minister calls for ‘moral outrage’, vows to end profit-driven care. 84% of children’s homes run for profit. Private equity is key player. Public purse looted. In Nov 2024, govt vowed to end profiteering. Still waiting. End Privatisation of social care. archive.ph/o9c7I
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Children’s minister calls for ‘moral outrage’ as he vows to end profit-driven care
Josh MacAlister urges Andy Burnham to make children in care his personal mission
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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
Weird how the right both believe Thatcher's council house sale is the best policy in history and that anyone who benefitted from it is bad and wrong.
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
This is the new talking point from Reform supporters over on X. In other news, Nigel Farage has yet to hold a single in-person MP surgery in his constituency in the almost two years since he was elected
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Byline Times @bylinetimes.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
"Farage’s racial account of school failure performs a precise political function: it directs working-class anger towards minorities and away from a programme whose primary beneficiaries are Reform’s donors." ✍️ @nafeez.bsky.social bylinetimes.com/2026/06/26/h...
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How Nigel Farage Twists the Facts About White Boys in Schools to Manufacture Racial Tension
Official data completely contradicts Nigel Farage’s false claim that ethnic minorities are favoured at the expense of white children, reports Nafeez Ahmed
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 23/06/2026
Israel deliberately targeting Gaza children to commit genocide, UN inquiry finds
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Israel deliberately targeting Gaza children to commit genocide, UN inquiry finds
Report says by aiming at children Israel is undermining capacity of Palestinian people to exist Israel continues to commit genocide by deliberately targeting Palestinian children in Gaza, an ⁠independent UN inquiry has found. The report by the UN independent international commission of inquiry examined violations against Palestinian children since the start of the war in Gaza, and said about 30% of those killed by Israeli forces have been children. Continue reading...
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thattimwalker.bsky.social @thattimwalker.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
If a company failed as badly as this government has, the whole board would be removed. I don’t get why there isn’t now a demand for the whole cabinet to quit, along with Starmer.
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thattimwalker.bsky.social @thattimwalker.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
For a genuinely fresh start, Burnham must also break the bonds with the donors who so obviously owned Starmer and his cabinet and whose interests they served, rather than the interests of our country.
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Graham @grahamph.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
The five of them bought and paid for.
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Mark E Thomas FB99% FBPE @mrmarkethomas.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
Yes, we have even fewer defences. Which is why it is so vital that we act now. 99-percent.org/defending-uk...
99-percent.org
Defending UK Democracy - 99%
Why we need urgent action to safeguard our democracy This is an approximate transcript of the meeting in Parliament on 27 April 2026 chaired by Richard Quigley MP on the […]
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Andrew Levi @andrewprlevi.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
Russian fire bombing & propaganda attacks on the UK PM are part of a long & reckless campaign by Putin’s clique, in Europe & beyond. We’ve known since at least 2008. We’ve done far too little. The fundamentals remain the same. The dangers are greater than ever. bylinetimes.com/2022/05/09/t...
bylinetimes.com
The Forgotten Russia Report of 2008: How Ukraine is Paying the Price for Our Catastrophic Mistakes
Fourteen years ago, Andrew Levi briefed the Labour Foreign Secretary on the dangers of Putin’s Kremlin. Now the terrifying predictions of that report have been vindicated, it is vital to reckon with o...
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
Meanwhile, not one of the groups so far known to have been orchestrating the violence in Belfast and Southampton has been banned as a terrorist organisation.
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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
The US is slipping fast into dictatorship & we face threats from the same forces that aided Trump - hostile states like Russia which meddle in our politics, media & social media channels which platform far-right voices & personalities & normalise extremist positions and billionaire political donors
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
A great write-up, with useful detail, in the ever-brilliant ENDS Report. They've kindly made this article free to read. www.endsreport.com/article/1961...
endsreport.com
‘Deregulation dressed up as efficiency’: Government faces legal challenge over chemical rule changes
<b>EXCLUSIVE:</b> The government’s move to introduce a statutory instrument amending key chemicals laws to promote economic growth faces a legal challenge from campaigners, who argue that ministers ha...
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
Trumpian censorship in the UK Teacher, librarians under pressure to remove books on race, identity, social justice from libraries. 200 titles pulled from one Greater Manchester school library, including books by Black authors. Freedom to read is a major casualty on the road to tyranny.
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'Erasing histories and voices'
Once seen as a culture war confined to the USA, book censorship is gaining ground in the UK. Authors, librarians and teachers warn of mounting pressure to remove titles from school libraries, particul...
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Graham @grahamph.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
I just don’t care. That many zeroes after the one. For most of us, it means shite all. It’s like a magician’s watch dangled in front of us.
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
I hope we're going to see many charges for incitement to racial hatred, incitement to violence and incitement to riot, all of which have been happening blatantly and prolifically on social media. Or will two-tier policing in the UK, favouring the right and the far right, prevail yet again?
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Cat Hobbs @cathobbs.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
The brilliant Feargal Sharkey sums it up "The whole industry’s got to go. Absolutely, without exception" Time to end the privatisation rip off diverting 1/3 OF YOUR WATER BILL into shareholder dividends and debt Are you listening DEFRA? www.mirror.co.uk/news/feargal...
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Feargal Sharkey rubbishes key argument for not nationalising water industry
Campaigners have stepped-up pressure on the government to bring the crisis hit water industry back into public ownership
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Graham @grahamph.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
Does he get paid for this pure nonsense? Is timewasting nonsense his ‘edge’ ?
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Graham @grahamph.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
After Bucha, Putin needs to be put down.
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We Own It @weownit.org.uk · 09/06/2026
90% of countries in the world can own their water but not us. People in England want their water back. But the government is protecting private water profiteers. It’s time to give the public a say. Feargal Sharkey wants you stand up and be counted. Sign the petition: vist.ly/576py
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Graham @grahamph.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
Not enough people are listening to Fristons view that AGI won’t need vast data centres: diginomica.com/why-karl-fri...
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Why Karl Friston is betting on cultivating curiosity for sustainable AGI
The ARC-AGI-3 challenge launches today as the first interactive reasoning benchmark which stumps current frontier LLMs. Karl Friston, one of the most cited neuroscientists alive and Chief Scientist at...
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Graham @grahamph.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
No one should be making profits from vulnerable children. Yet £1 out of every £5 paid to private providers of children’s social care is taken out in profit. Time to end this scam! Add your name now. weownit.org.uk/act-now/no-p...
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End profit in children’s social care
£1 out of every £5 paid to private providers of children’s social care is taken out in profit.
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We Own It @weownit.org.uk · 06/06/2026
“In Wales, all new profit-making in this sector was stopped in April, and the practice is being phased out altogether. But in England, the government seeks only to tweak this immoral and dysfunctional system.” Add your name to end profiteering in children’s care: weownit.org.uk/act-now/no-p...
Guardian headline that reads “Horrific, unregulated and very profitable: the companies making cash from England’s children in care”
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Graham @grahamph.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
My grandma saw Buffalo Bill in Manchester when she was a child.
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Graham @grahamph.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
Hedge it.
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
"The evidence shows the earth is round but there is a genuine debate about whether it is flat" There isn't. There is reality and then there are malicious lies and fantasies. "Two tier policing" falls into the latter
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
It is overwhelmingly clear that non-white Brits are much more likely to be stopped, detained, disbelieved and mistreated by the police than whites, yet the BBC has spent the entire week giving oxygen to the far-right fantasy that the complete opposite is the case. Here’s what I think is going on
adambienkov.co.uk
The BBC’s ‘Two Tier’ Journalism Boosting Reform and the Far-Right
Why is our national broadcaster giving so much oxygen to the racist fantasies of the far-right?
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Mark E Thomas FB99% FBPE @mrmarkethomas.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
Agreed. We are preparing to repeat all the mistakes we made after Putin invaded Ukraine. 99-percent.org/how-not-to-h...
99-percent.org
How Not to Handle Inflation - 99%
The UK now has high inflation both by international and historical standards.  And it is causing a serious cost-of-living crisis which our government needs to address. This article looks at […]
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Graham @grahamph.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
State capitalism. The hidden hand of the market. Musk swears by it. And Xì.
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Graham @grahamph.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
Or scoop water from one bucket to another using a sieve.
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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
“The rightward drift… is now a state of emergency. It is violent. It is racist. It is motivated by some of the very worst instincts in the political condition” And much of our media is guilty of normalising this horror, instead of calling it out urgently like this… open.substack.com/pub/iandunt/...
Photo of a hand dripping in blood, holding a lit match 

Dreadful fucking week. Godforsaken.
One of those weeks where you can feel it all slipping away from you.In just five years, the window of political opinion has moved so far right that what was once a classic conservative position is the centre and the left-wing view has simply been eradicated from national discourse. The language of Black Lives Matter - of solidarity, empathy and a demand for change - dominated Twitter and through it the TV and radio studios in 2021.
Now the far-right dominates X.com and through it the TV and radio studios of 2026.
Everything has changed.

We should not have to celebrate Badenoch for her refusal to encourage race riots. The fact that she did not follow Farage should be a basic goddamn expectation, not some kind of accomplishment. If we start to treat it as a victory of some sort we become our own undertakers, creating the narratives which will eventually bury us.
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
As we learn that Andrew Windsor charged his own staff to live on the estate on which he paid a peppercorn rent... Here's me on why I want a Republic @republiccampaign.bsky.social
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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
None of these tax dodging, foreign-based crypto billionaires and moneymen give a single shit about our country or democracy. They’re buying Farage power so he’ll remove our rights and protections to maximise their profits. It really is that simple and that corrupt. www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...
mirror.co.uk
Reform UK handed another £3million from crypto billionaire as donations soar
Figures from the Electoral Commission show Nigel Farage's party is raising millions more than their political rivals through private donations, including £3million from Christopher Harborne
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Vote to Stop Reform @stopreform.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
Two weeks till the Makerfield by-election! Like Gorton & Denton, this is a key opportunity for tactical voting. It worked to stop Reform before, and it can again. The evidence shows Andy Burnham is best placed to beat them, so we’re urging voters to back Labour on 18 June. Let's stop Reform.
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
If you say "I support Palestine Action", they might put you in jail. If you incite a racist riot, they put you on the news.
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Graham @grahamph.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
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Trump's Military Dictatorship Budget
The proposal only makes sense as a bribe
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Reform Party UK Exposed @reformexposed.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
Apparently Zia Yusuf thinks he’s Chief Medical Officer as well as Home Secretary. Reform’s Zia Yusuf thinks targeted prostate cancer screenings are racist against white people now
thecanary.co
Reform's Zia Yusuf thinks targeted prostate cancer screenings are racist against white people now
The problem is that Reform UK and their ilk don't concern themselves with facts. Rather, they'll try to obscure them at every chance they get
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The Times and Sunday Times @thetimes.com · 03/06/2026
Prosecutors agreed to drop a series of allegations against Peter Murrell that would have heaped further embarrassment on Nicola Sturgeon in exchange for the former SNP chief executive’s guilty plea, it has emerged
thetimes.com
Murrell ‘trying to protect’ Sturgeon over items dropped in plea deal
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
South West Water fined £1.853m for supplying contaminated drinking water. SWW is a serial offender, loses 107m litres of water daily to leaky pipes, dumped sewage in rivers for 407,006 hours. Still trades. No exec fined or charged. People fleeced. End the circus. Nationalise water.
bbc.co.uk
South West Water fined £1.8m over Devon parasite outbreak
Four people were hospitalised and there were more than 140 cases of sickness and diarrhoea in Devon.
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