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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Thanks again to @mrjamesob.bsky.social for highlighting Kemi Badenoch's banning of journalists she doesn't approve of, which very few other journalists in the country seem willing to mention for some reason inews.co.uk/opinion/bade...
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Forza Bahab @forzabahab.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
And again, the shock is that you're not shocked...
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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Your weekend reminder that Nigel Farage wants to - leave the ECHR - repeal the Equality Act - Strip back workers rights - Lift restrictions on exploitative zero-hours contracts - repeal the Renters’ Rights Act which abolishes no fault evictions He is not on your side youtu.be/KxOQRt8PQys?...
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If UK media actually explained Nigel Farage’s policies to the public no one would be supporting him
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
I've been a member of the lobby for well over a decade. Not a single one of my lobby colleagues has said a word about the Conservatives banning me from their conferences, without any explanation. Contrast with the US where even Fox News stood in solidarity when Trump banned news outlets he disliked
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Kemi Badenoch's Conservatives Block 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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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Adam is my friend, so I'm biased. But he's a darned sight better than the rest of them. Which presumably is why Badenoch fears him. Which is presumably why he's banned.
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Mike D London @mikedlondon.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Braverman will surely be horrified when she finds out that she was Home Secretary when her fellow Refukker 'Honest' Bob introduced the plan to house asylum seekers in disused military bases.
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Nick Pettigrew @nick-pettigrew.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Indeed.
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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Thank you for this, @privateeyenews.bsky.social Farage needs ridiculing far more. It’s a form of scrutiny he can’t cope with and one he so richly - yes pun intended - deserves.
TV HIGHLIGHTS
72 Up
The award-winning documentary series continues, charting the progress of one posh little boy, Nigel, over the years.
The last time we saw him was over a week ago in 36
Up when he had been given £36 million out of the blue.
In the latest instalment Nigel is given another £36 million, making the total donation a jaw-dropping £72 million.
This is a life changing moment for the former prep school boy who was recorded in the first episode singing the Horst Wessel song and coming up with charming but embarrassing comments about admiring Hitler.
As the clock moves forward
to 72 Up, viewers now see a completely different Nigel from the one we have come to know so well over the years
- from Europe-hating MEP to Brexit-promoting campaigner to the triumphant bin-defeating statesman of today. It's been a roller-coaster ride for Nigel
- and indeed the viewer - and this remarkable series ends with a poignant and moving climax in a Clacton oyster bar, where the older but no wiser Nigel faces the prospect of being Prime Minister and/or going to jail after criminal proceedings.
EYE VERDICT: "Boring, boring, Boring! Nothing to see here
- put a sock in it, love." 

(Insert photo of him slurping up oysters)
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Parody Nigel Farage @parodypm.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Steve Reed on 25 March explaining that the £100k cap on donations "will therefore apply retrospectively, so it includes all donations from overseas electors received from today". Yes, but how are people who never bother going to Parliament supposed to know that?
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Lizzie Dearden @lizziedearden.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
While Piddington dominates the news, at Leicester Crown Court this man was sentenced today Ivan Jennings, a former Conservative councillor, called for terror attacks on small boat migrants and Muslims and shared target ideas, telling fellow white supremacists to kill as many “subhumans” as possible
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James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
It would be more helpful for him to acknowledge and explain the role that his austerity policies played in encouraging people to vote for what he correctly critiques here.
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James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
So the ‘negotiation’ involves blowing smoke up Putin’s arse, asking him what he wants then attacking Ukraine for refusing to concede it. Never forget the huge swathe of UK media & political figures who celebrated Trump’s ascent while claiming to care about Ukraine. Absolute heels, the lot of them.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
“Guys, they want us to go home.” 🔥 🇫🇷 French short film about what would happen to society if all the immigrants listened to angry old racist white men and left (aka the Republican agenda)
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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 14/09/2026
Your regular reminder: If the Russians stop fighting, the war ends. If the Ukrainians stop fighting, their land will be occupied, their leaders will be killed, their history and language will be erased, their children will be kidnapped to serve Russia.
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Why can't they integrate?
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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Crypto billionaire. Convicted in the US. Pardoned by Trump. Trashing our democracy by buying Reform. Does anyone think this is to improve our NHS, our schools, our public services…? Of course it fucking isn’t. It’s to make Ben Delo and Farage richer. That’s it. That’s all they care about.
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The News Agents @thenewsagents.co.uk · 12/09/2026
"You can't need a £5 million donation because you're so concerned about your own security but allow your supporters to assault whoever they want, and respond with 'boo hoo'." Why was Robert Jenrick OK with a young woman being attacked by Reform voters? www.thenewsagents.co.uk/article/refo...
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Reform is falling apart – and Robert Jenrick’s ‘boo hoo’ comment exposes exactly why | The News Agents
Tory defector Robert Jenrick responded to footage of a young woman being assaulted by Reform UK supporters by saying she should “get a life”. Why is the UK’s hard right OK with some incidents of…
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
A reminder that Delo previously pled guilty in the US to violating money laundering protections and agreed to pay a $10 million fine for "willfully” breaking the law with his BitMex platform, which was described as "in effect a money laundering platform.” This is who owns Farage now
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
How is this bully able to just act like this with free rein?
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Nobody does "fuck off" quite as brilliantly as the Irish.
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
All losers great and small
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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Ryan Bridge - Founder of "Raise the Colours" flag protests - charged with 14 offences including common assault. Danny Thomas - ringleader of Dover/Portsmouth thuggery - an ex-con jailed for attempted kidnap at knifepoint. Almost like they're not "ordinary people with concerns" but criminals.
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Spooky Snigdha @snig.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Kevin Rowland and Dexy's Midnight Runners are very unhappy that Nigel Farage used their music at the Reform party conference.
Tweet from the official Dexy's Midnight Runners account

I, Kevin Rowland (the son of Irish immigrants) and the main songwriter of ‘Come On Eileen,’ am disgusted to learn that Nigel Farage has used our song to make his entrance for his party conference. Myself, and all of Dexys are passionately against Farage’s politics.

@ByDonkeys .
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Farage has had milkshakes thrown at him twice. Unpleasant and humiliating, I'm sure, but to compare it to that vicious assault on a peaceful demonstrator at his conference by a mob just makes him look even more ridiculous.
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Cold War Steve @coldwarsteve.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
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James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Remember when ‘Trump Derangement Syndrome’ was used to describe the people who knew exactly how disgusting & dangerous he is?
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James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
The ‘British values’ brigade in action.
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
As of September 2, 2026, Trump has spent 132 days of his 2nd presidency playing golf. That's about 22.3% of his entire term. And he has the gall to demand this!
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Reform UK, which promises to "defend free speech" at all costs, has again banned Byline Times from its conference
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grumpyman2.bsky.social @grumpyman2.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Funny how your racist, fascist views change when you're on the receiving end.
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Mike Galsworthy @mikegalsworthy.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Let’s get hard copies of survivor testimony to MPs!! Victims of the Al Fayed trafficking network have not got justice yet, despite vast evidence. This is our own Epstein scandal. This 85-page Bylines Gazette was written by the survivors and supporting experts. Let’s make sure MP get a copy! 👇👇
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Where is justice? Survivors voices in parliament
Put survivors’ testimony about Mohamed Al-Fayed in front of MPs – securing an inquiry, breaking down barriers and holding power to account.
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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
This talks of Lowe’s “extraordinary success on X” and asks if Musk is paying an MP to peddle his own extreme views Err Yes. What TF else could be going on? Lowe isn’t some kind of genius. Musk pays him to whip up civil unrest and hatred. He’s a traitorous racist. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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Rupert Lowe set to be paid as much for divisive posts on Elon Musk’s X as for being MP
Restore Britain leader paid up to £1,476 an hour by platform, which critics say is financially incentivising inflammatory content
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
The wankers will go after him but frankly I love this.
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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
So, to implement their vengefully racist social housing plan, Reform would tear up our Brexit deal, huff out of the ECHR and scrap the Equality Act. As diminishing returns go, it can’t get any more diminished. Seriously voters, this is insane. (Ps British “expats” are migrants too) (iPaper)
How Farage's migrant housing ban risks hitting British expats
• Experts have warned that Nigel Farage's plans to prioritise British-born people for social housing could spark a trade war with the EU - and end up hurting British expats.
• The Migration Observatory at the University of Oxford said that the policy would breach the Brexit Withdrawal Agreement. Brussels could respond by suspending elements of the UK's trade deal with the bloc, creating complications for Brits living in the EU.
• Reform UK's plan would likely fall foul of the Equality Act and the European Convention on Human Rights - both of which the party has previously vowed to scrap.
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Strange isn't it that there are all those calls from right-wing influencers and libertarians on sm for Ukraine to hold elections in the middle of a war... but absolutely no calls for free and fair and transparent elections from the same people in the Russian dictatorship. Which is also at war.
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grumpyman2.bsky.social @grumpyman2.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Opens his mouth and shows what a moron he is!!
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bluextina.bsky.social @bluextina.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
My thoughts that won’t fit. #TrumpisdestroyingAmerica #FuckTrump
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Bylines Network @bylinesnetwork.co.uk · 20/08/2026
Could this be the beginning of the end for the billionaire-owned media propaganda blitz? A campaign to free our national press from foreign billionaires like Rupert Murdoch is gaining momentum and attracting big-name support westenglandbylines.co.uk/news/media/c...
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Could this be the beginning of the end for the billionaire-owned media propaganda blitz?
A campaign to free our national press from foreign billionaires like Rupert Murdoch is gaining momentum and attracting big-name support
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canada-keith.bsky.social @canada-keith.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Mary Trump knows Trump best. For those who voted for Trump You are as Responsible for Trump’s Actions as if You are Trump himself. May you have a Miserable Life even after your Trump is gone. Repost to Remind The Trump Voters. 😱😱😡😡😡😡🇺🇸⚖️⚖️😎
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Robert/Tony/c @robert111.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
BBC slammed over pushing Reform UK propaganda yet again www.thecanary.co/trending/202...
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BBC slammed over pushing Reform UK propaganda yet again
Overly eager to air Reform's latest press conference, the BBC displayed an empty podium for the better part of an hour. What the hell?
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Ian H @ians.chat · 20/08/2026
Nigel Farage wants to end "Something for Nothing Britain". Ironic that he is absolutely adamant that the £5m from Harborne was something for nothing.
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Stealthgirl 🫘 @stealthgirl21.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Political cartoonists keep the story clear and simple
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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
40% of Britons incorrectly believe that small boat crossings have increased this year compared to last year, according to exclusive YouGov polling for Sky News. and you wonder why… youtu.be/A6fCl-uOEVY?...
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It’s time UK media reminded Farage how we got into this mess in the first place - BREXIT!
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Reform UK's Richard Tice says the UK should learn from the Middle East and install desalination plants around the UK. The same party that calls wind turbines abominable eyesores that must be cleared from our horizons, wants to spread these across our coasts instead
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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Why isn’t there a total moratorium on all reporting on Reform until after the multiple investigations into their finances have been completed? Free propaganda for potentially corrupt liars should be banned. It might make them think twice before breaking rules and taking the piss out of all of us.
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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
Trump… and Farage “are good at raging at how things are, but incapable of making them better.“ They’re pisstakers not policy makers. Lazy, vain and corrupt. They peddle grievance to the disenchanted but will never care or think enough to actually help them. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Donald Trump can’t beat Iran and Nigel Farage can only beat a bin. When it counts, these populists are just losers | Jonathan Freedland
The pattern in the US and Britain is clear. They serve up stunt after stunt to mask incompetence and the betrayal of all those who trusted them, says Guardian columnist Jonathan Freedland
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Victoria Derbyshire @vicderbyshire.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
This morning the website of Parliament’s standards commissioner has been updated to confirm that his investigation is no longer suspended
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
"GO HOME TO YOUR RICH MATES FARAGE"
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Nigel Farage suggests the police advised him against attending the result of the Clacton by-election. Essex Police completely deny this, telling the BBC "we have a proportionate and robust policing operation to ensure the safety and security of all participants in the count"
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Count Binface @countbinface.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
I came first in the Clacton by-election! Of the candidates who bothered to turn up for the results. Here is my victory speech!
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