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James Ball @jamesrball.com · 11/10/2026
This is a truly grotesque "trial" of a vaccine known to be safe and effective. It will in practice randomly withhold that treatment from a percentage of children to see what happens. It is absolutely the reverse of good practice.
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Ian Fraser @ianfraser.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Evidence which will of course be studiously ignored by Britain’s billionaire-owned press.
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
The Conservative party Shadow Culture Secretary to speak at conference tomorrow about how to "defend press freedom", whilst her own party bans journalists whose coverage they don't like
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Anand Menon @anandmenon.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
God I hate this 'people who create wealth' nonsense. Let's see how much wealth we have in a society without teachers, nurses etc......
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Steve Peers @stevepeers.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
As vile and as telling an image in the clip as Trump mocking a reporter with disabilities. These people are telling us who they are. We should not make the same mistake the US made.
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Alex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Farage, a man who was doing Cameo videos for £70 a pop as late as March 2026, apparently turned up to a meeting to discuss a half-million donation and "wasn't really listening". What utter contempt he has for the very democracy, country, and people that he claims to love.
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Librarian Capital @librariancapital.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
For anyone else reading, here is the actual clip (26:07-27:07) Undercover reporter: "I will be the registered donor ... but then Dad will send the money to me ..." Farage: "Thank you, both of you, thank you"
youtu.be
Going undercover to expose Reform's secret donations plot
YouTube video by Channel 4 News
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Sam Bright @writesbright.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Incredible moment in the doc when Farage’s right-hand man Dan Jukes lists several foreign donors who’ve given money to the party via their kids. It’s not just one or two backers - it’s a huge conspiracy cooked up by the party to break the law. It’s bigger than we even thought
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Mike Galsworthy @mikegalsworthy.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Just copy & share everywhere please. Absolutely thumping.
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Nettlecake @nettlecake.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Brilliant letter from Stuart Thompson to Jeremy Clarkson about his comments that benefit claimants should write weekly thank you letters to tax payers detailing how they spend their benefits each week.
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Fairy @lafeeverte.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
This is fucking hilarious
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David Benedict @eggsbened.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
“I am the most verbally and physically attacked public figure or politician of modern times.” The disgraceful Nigel Farage. Remembering Labour MP Jo Cox, born 1974, murdered 2016.
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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
Small boat crossings 11,638 January to June 2026, down 37% on 2025 (BBC Verify)
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JWexTheSpa @jwsidders.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
A shirtless white man, in the street with a knife in his hand, having attacked and wounded five people, allegedly shouting anti-Muslim slogans is the sixth story on the BBC UK news page. There is absolutely no doubt at all this would be the lead story if attacker and intended victims were reversed.
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Dmitry Grozoubinski @explaintrade.com · 15/06/2026
No operational, tactical or strategic reason to do this except performative viciousness, humiliated frustration, and impotent rage. There are no words.
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James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
Good, but you’re ‘hailing’ it ‘on X’ ffs.
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Peter Geoghegan @petergeoghegan.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
This is *really* extreme message from Nigel Farage to Reform supporters this morning Britain is racist against white people and the press is lying to you so you can only believe me Properly anti democratic
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Byline Times @bylinetimes.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
📌 ICYMI — Reform Councillor Who Slammed Angela Rayner on Tax Owed HMRC Over £250,000 Through Failed Firms — @josiahmortimer.bsky.social Wigan Reform councillor David Bowker railed against the former Deputy Prime Minister, whilst repeatedly leaving taxpayers out of pocket himself
bylinetimes.com
Reform Councillor Who Slammed Angela Rayner on Tax Owed HMRC Over £250,000 Through Failed Firms
Wigan Reform councillor David Bowker railed against the former Deputy Prime Minister, whilst repeatedly leaving taxpayers out of pocket himself
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SMD's pension @anothersmd.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
Why do I have to go to the local news section to find this story? Where are the protests demanding an end to the epidemic of white Brits murdering minorities? Will there be a national debate on the ills of cocaine abuse amongst white men?
bbc.co.uk
Man who stabbed student to death in Cambridge is jailed for life
Chas Corrigan, 22, will serve a minimum of 22 years for the murder of Mohammed Algasim last August.
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
A reminder of what Nigel Farage said following the murder of Sarah Everard by a serving police officer.
We must not allow the tragic murder of a
young woman turn into attacks on men
and attacks on the police
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The Empty City @davidallengreen.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
This, on the death of Henry Nowak, is an outstanding piece of journalism by @stephenkb.bsky.social www.ft.com/content/aa94...
ft.com
What Henry Nowak’s murder does — and does not — tell us about policing
Kemi Badenoch says his killing needs to be seen as a ‘Stephen Lawrence moment’ but the failures in both cases differ
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Ian Fraser @ianfraser.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
Farage engaging in precisely the form of shit-stirring that Henry Nowak’s family implored politicians to avoid.
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
Working hard? Nigel Farage registered ‘absent’ from the last 77 votes in Parliament. UK MP basic salary is £98,599 plus expenses, including second home. Since becoming MP Farage has collected £2m from other jobs. There are questions about his undeclared gifts.
thelondoneconomic.com
Working hard? Nigel Farage registered 'absent' from the last 77 votes in Parliament
Official Parliamentary figures reveal that Reform leader Nigel Farage hasn't bothered to vote for anything in the last 11 weeks...
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Jonathan Portes @jdportes.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
Deeply pathetic that BBC is reporting this as a Reform power struggle rather than explaining that Reform's policies would require deporting people -including pensioners - who have lived and worked here legally for decades. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
bbc.co.uk
Yusuf in clash with Jenrick over Reform's deportation policy
Reform's home affairs chief has publicly disagreed with its Treasury spokesman over what party policy is.
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paulusthewoodgnome @paulusthewoodgnome.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
Robert Kenyon, who calls abortion "cowardly murder", has suggested on social media that women falsely claim rape to terminate pregnancies. Imagine voting for this over Burnham... It's almost reassuring how Reform candidates always end up confirming your worst stereotypes. archive.is/202605240737...
observer.co.uk
Reform candidate for Makerfield by-election calls abortio...
Robert Kenyon, who is standing against Andy Burnham, suggested on social media that women falsely claim rape to terminate pregnancies and has links to far-right figures
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Peter Jukes @peterjukes.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
Amazing work from @hopenothate that found ANOTHER account for Robert Kenyon, Reform UK’s Makerfield candidate, after my deep dive yesterday into his suspended one
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HOPE not hate @hopenothate.org.uk · 16/05/2026
Tommy Robinson is marching through London again today. He presents himself as a patriot, a journalist, and a victim of the establishment. But in reality he is a serial criminal with a rap sheet two decades long. Here’s the record he’d rather you didn’t read. 🧵
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Byline Times @bylinetimes.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
🧵 A postcard from the country that already crashed the car, sent with love and a small amount of nausea, to the cousins who are about to crash a bigger one. — @therickwilson.bsky.social's warning from America 🇺🇸➡️🇬🇧 bylinetimes.com/2026/05/08/r... 1/12
bylinetimes.com
Rick Wilson's Warning From America: Nigel Farage Will Be Your Donald Trump, Unless You Act Now
The former Republican strategist and Lincoln Project founder has some hard lessons for Conservatives and Labour alike
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
Tesco boss’s pay rises by more than £1m to £10.8m. 3m Britons skip meals, can't afford to buy food. Tesco profits hit £3.15bn. There are no controls of fat-cattery. Shareholder votes are advisory, not binding. Workers have no say. Customers have no say.
theguardian.com
Tesco boss’s pay rises by more than £1m to £10.8m after market share surge
Ken Murphy’s pay could rise even higher following scrapping of food waste target and weakness of rivals
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Henry Mance @henrymance.ft.com · 14/05/2026
If Farage's £5mn gift was a reward for 27 years of Brexit campaigning, it would work out at £185,000 a year. Which is more than the salary of the prime minister www.ft.com/content/896d...
ft.com
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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James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
Nigel Farage’s partner, a former waitress not known to have any private money, bought a £1 million house for cash shortly after he secretly received £5 million from a Thailand-based cryptocurrency billionaire - the same house that he claimed, months previously, that he was about to pay for himself.
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Zarah Sultana MP @zarahsultana.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
Please retweet.
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Emma Monk @monkemma.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
Sarah Vine books a train on BH Mon from Cornwall to London Decides to get a different train - that is clearly already full. Complains PUBLICLY to her 60K followers, tagging the train company, that there were no seats on the full train she hadn’t booked on to! She is really quite something!😂
Screen shot from Twitter showing Sarah Vine complaining about not having a seat on a train and then having to admit she got an earlier train and not the train she actually booked the seat on!
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 03/05/2026
Reform intended to slash council tax, fix potholes, and cut council waste Reform raised taxes in every council it holds/shares power. Potholes continue to cause accidents and damage, Promised savings have put local services at risk of closure.
opendemocracy.net
Broken promises, rising taxes: Inside Reform UK’s first year in power
Reform has run councils for a year. As local elections near, we ask: how has the party performed in power?
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
Remembering Amal Khalil
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
Royal Mail scandal. 2nd-class post will be delivered every other weekday, scrapped on Saturdays. Company hasn't met any letter delivery targets since privatisation, so regulator reduces targets. Price won't be reduced for worse service Promise of £500m investment by ripping off customers.
theguardian.com
Royal Mail invests £500m to tackle late deliveries as second-class post cut back
Courier promises to meet new delivery targets by next May after being fined last year for poor record
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 19/04/2026
When Angela Rayner underpaid £40,000 in stamp duty, Richard Tice said it was "morally completely indefensible” and she should resign if she had “any moral decency”. Now we learn he set up four shell companies that let him avoid paying £100,000 he owed in tax and to then transfer the cash to Reform
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
I've written before about how USAID was the first government agency killed by conspiracy theory. This confirms it. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/the-death-...
donmoynihan.substack.com
The Death of USAID
The most consequential legacy of DOGE will be human misery on a massive scale
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
This is NUTS www.thehandbasket.co/p/trump-usai...
Disappointed, though not surprised, I began to describe various life- saving components of USAID’s global health portfolio, highlighting how we prepare for and respond to emerging pandemic threats; support the diagnosis and treatment of tuberculosis, malaria, and HIV; and immunize millions of children from the deadliest childhood diseases. I spoke for about five minutes, focusing primarily on our infectious diseases work and hoping to keep the attention of people who seemed to have no experience—or interest—in global health.

When I finished, the room was silent, the political appointees looking at one another in what appeared to be disbelief. The silence was broken by Ken Jackson, who chuckled softly and shook his head. “Wow, there really is so much that USAID does that we never knew,” he said. “This is the story that needs to get out there.”

Joel, also smiling, chimed in next, echoing Jackson’s amazement. “I had no idea you did all this,” he said. “As a Republican, when I think of what USAID does in global health, I assumed it was just, you know, abortions.”
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Kate from Kharkiv @kateinkharkiv.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
💔 In the hospital, 6‑year‑old Yevheniya Serhiyenko has died. Her older sister shielded her with her own body during a russian shelling. Twenty‑year‑old Dasha was killed instantly at the site of the strike, while little Zhenya was rushed to the hospital… but today she passed. Russia kills children.
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James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 28/03/2026
Magnificent thread. The fact that he’s now managed to soil himself on *GBeebies*, an entity that only exists to promote bile like his, is like the whole thing landed on a triple word score in Scrabble. Andy Twelves is a legend.
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Jon Owen @anotherjon.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
"Putting aside the intellectual dishonesty that runs through Goodwin’s work, ... there’s a wider danger from this kind of book. Those fabricated quotes will enter the information stream and, when generative AI gobbles them up, will end up being treated as real."
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Tim Miller @timmiller.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
Did you know that 6th months ago, while presumably we were planning this stupid war, the Navy decommissioned its four Avenger-class minesweepers that had been stationed in Bahrain precisely to deal with Iranian mines in the Strait? More from @jvl.bsky.social . www.thebulwark.com/p/our-low-iq...
thebulwark.com
Our Low-IQ President Did an Oopsie
You won’t believe Trump’s dumbest Iran mistake.
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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
Jeez. I thought I had seen everything but this! It’s almost impossible to believe it has actually just been posted by the White House. They’ve just presented the horrors of war as some kind of sick video game. Shameful, disgraceful, obscene and utterly horrific.
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Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
So to review: Oil > $100 a barrel, ~30% increase at pump. Mortgages >6%. We replaced one Supreme Leader with his more hardline son, whose whole family we killed. We murdered ~160 girls. Everybody in world but Bibi is pissed at us. Spent more in 1 week on war than USAID costed for 6 months.
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Mike Galsworthy @mikegalsworthy.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
WAR CRIME BY THE US. An unarmed Iranian ship was takIng part in an Indian naval exercise, alongside the US. The US withdrew and torpedoed the Iranian ship. THEN the US refused to rescue the sailors, letting them drown. This is treachery, cowardice, cruelty and a war crime of the highest order.
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Roland Smith @rolandmcs.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
On the one hand, a clearly deranged lunatic in the White House starting a dangerous illegal war on Iran with already-serious repercussions for the region and world... Or having a pop at Keir Starmer. You just knew which side the Right would come down on.
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paulusthewoodgnome @paulusthewoodgnome.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
This 'correction' from @lewisgoodall.com regarding accusations from Reform and the Conservatives that the Greens engaged in sectarianism, deserves to be widely read. #c4news
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
As Nigel Farage makes Robert Jenrick his Shadow Chancellor, here's a quick reminder of the sort of man Reform wants to put in charge of the nation's finances
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