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guskoettlitz.bsky.social

@guskoettlitz.bsky.social
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Retired s/police officer. First UK police officer stationed in Italy and Albania 1991/94. Worked with Judge Giovanni Falcone in UK and Italy. Author Scott's Forgotten Surgeon. Suffolk resident.

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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 9h
Usual hand-wringing about returning to division and inaction, not getting the same opt-outs etc… but arguments to rejoin trump those what-ifs. Going it alone in a world dominated by Putin, Trump and China is strategically idiotic and economically ruinous. Shaking your head at that is red-flag-dim.
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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 9h
Jenrick on #r4today trying to downplay the raging racism of Reform… by saying “Farage has done more than anyone else to stand up against racism and the far right”. Farage the schoolboy Nazi. Farage the ‘breaking point’ Brexiter. Farage the mass-deportations champion. Farage the far right racist.
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The News Agents @thenewsagents.co.uk · 15/10/2026
“That is the language of child abusers, frankly.” The shocking footage unveiled in ITV’s undercover investigation into Reform that made Emily's “flesh crawl”…
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Mike Galsworthy @mikegalsworthy.bsky.social · 3h
💥 From Leveson to Arday, the mainstream media is a horror show of exploitation over education. With alternative media booming, we have an opportunity to guarantee we do better media right. How do we ensure that? Come and join the conversation! —-> www.tickettailor.com/events/bylin...
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Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 3h
American WaPo veteran photojournalist Heidi Levine was severely beaten by Israeli “settlers” in the West Bank, along with Palestinians harvesting olives. Story: www.washingtonpost.com/world/2026/1... Here she is in the ambulance:
Woman with gray hair lying in an ambulance appearing stunned

Photo by Jasper Nathaniel
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Daily Herald #FBPE #NAFO 🇬🇧🇺🇦🇬🇱 @dailyherald.bsky.social · 20h
Reform UK are on ITV News again right now. Nigel Farage personally intervened to keep Chris Parry as a candidate. Before he was then dropped. It’s clear Farage doesn’t practice what he preaches on vetting.
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Cornish Skipper #FBPE #RejoinEU 🇪🇺🔶🌹💚💙 @cornishskipper.wsocial.eu · 19h
“Farage accused of ‘protecting’ Reform candidate over racist slurs against David Lammy…He must do it and move on … Tell him that from me,” Farage said, to which Sumner said: “You’re protecting him.” www.theguardian.com/politics/202...?
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Farage accused of ‘protecting’ Reform candidate over racist slurs against David Lammy
Exclusive: ITV investigation shows leader stood by mayoral candidate who said Labour MP should ‘go home to the Caribbean’
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Niall Ó Conghaile @nialloconghaile.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
Good. This is how Labour needs to approach this. It's not about negotiating optouts, but about making a virtue of what Europe enable www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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Closer EU trade ties greater prize for UK than making separate deals, minister says
Exclusive: Douglas Alexander, on trade delegation to India, talks up economic benefits of joint trading arrangements with Europe
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
The former head of MI6 Sir John Sawers tells Peston there will be a “surge of fighting” in the Middle East in December before the Americans “walk away” from the conflict. “This is not sustainable for the American military.”
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Private Eye Magazine @privateeyenews.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
Eye Told You So… Ministers to send inspectors into Lord (Ben) Houchen’s Tees Valley authority over high debt, rising borrowing levels and its financial relationship with the publicly owned Teesside International Airport, according to the FT. Eye readers knew this already.
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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
Extraordinary undercover reporting in Reform by ITV, uncovering what many of its councillors and activists are really like, when they think the cameras are off. A racist party which attracts racist people. www.itv.com/news/2026-10...
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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
It really is that simple. Farage can huff and puff all he likes but he’s the racist rotten fish head.
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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 15/10/2026
If Putin stops fighting, the war ends. If Zelensky stops fighting then his country will be occupied, leaders murdered, language banned, businesses stolen, children kidnapped. That's what happens in Russian-occupied Ukraine.
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Daily Herald #FBPE #NAFO 🇬🇧🇺🇦🇬🇱 @dailyherald.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
We can only assume oysters and champagne are on the cards instead.
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Patrick - Here for the craic❗️🤷🏼‍♂️😉 @paddyopatrick.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
🚨 Undercover ITV investigation into Reform exposed multiple elected councillors & party candidates expressing racist views & describing Muslims as “parasites” & ethnic children as “animals” Secret footage exposed violent, racist & sexist language Reform are already desperate.. just watch them now
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guskoettlitz.bsky.social @guskoettlitz.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
@mrjamesob.bsky.social I look forward to your assessment tomorrow James.
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Reform Party UK Exposed @reformexposed.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
6 councillors have resigned from Reform UK today. 3 as a result of the ITV documentary: Alan Feeney Chris Whelan Dean Miller David Dresser Paula-Jane Thackray William Shaw Expecting Jamie Campbell also from Solihull will also following the ITV documentary.
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Patrick - Here for the craic❗️🤷🏼‍♂️😉 @paddyopatrick.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
This Reform Councillor actually said “I’m not racist but..” at one point No Party does vetting like Reform vets its candidates, selecting only the most racist, bigoted, ignorant, hateful, scum to represent their Party and its values 🤬
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Reform Party UK Exposed @reformexposed.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
It’s only the start and it’s already bad… Inside Reform: Councillors and candidates' extreme and racist views on camera www.itv.com/news/2026-10...
itv.com
Inside Reform: Councillors' extreme and racist views on camera | ITV News
Footage captures Reform councillors calling Muslims “parasites” and describing black children as “animals”. | ITV National News
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
London Reform councillor Dean Miller 'claimed King Charles was Muslim' and called black children ‘animals’, TV report alleges.. www.standard.co.uk/news/london/...
standard.co.uk
London Reform councillor 'claimed King was a Muslim'
Bromley councillor Dean Miller has resigned from Reform UK, according to the party
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Brian Wernham C.Eng. @brianwernham.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
ITV’s year-long undercover investigation 👇 www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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Reform UK councillors and candidates filmed making racist and extreme comments
Party faces fresh crisis as three councillors quit after ITV undercover filming exposed violence, misogyny and racist views
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guskoettlitz.bsky.social @guskoettlitz.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
I hope you will cover this on tonight's @bbcnewsnight.bsky.social
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guskoettlitz.bsky.social @guskoettlitz.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
Agree with @BBC Chris Mason at the forefront.
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
Wow. I mean - just wow.
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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
Standard buries the lede Reform Cllr "clsined King was a Muskim" when Reform Cllr calls for King to be behesded as 'secret Muslim' is the stronger story here www.standard.co.uk/news/london/...
standard.co.uk
London Reform councillor 'claimed King was a Muslim'
Bromley councillor Dean Miller has resigned from Reform UK, according to the party
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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
No wonder Badenoch and Farage are shitting bricks at the suggestion that Russia interfered in the Brexit referendum. Their whole business model relies on Brexit and the racist anti- immigration bomb that it detonated. Their next bright idea - to leave the ECHR - would delight Putin too.
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ECHR withdrawal 'gift to Putin'
By Jonathan Rayner | 22 March 2012

Britain’s withdrawal from the European Convention on Human Rights in favour of a British bill of rights would be Vladimir Putin's
'best present ever', an East European delegate at a Council of Europe event for lawyers told the Gazette last weekend.

The source, who asked not be named, said that Putin, just re-elected as president of Russia, has always said that the Strasbourg court's policing of human rights was ‘meaningless'.
Another unnamed source, a former north European government lawyer, described the UK government's attitude to the Strasbourg court as 'Britain shooting itself in the foot. If the British don't engage with Europe, they'll lose influence and shouldn't be surprised if
Germany and France fill the vacuum?
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Daily Herald #FBPE #NAFO 🇬🇧🇺🇦🇬🇱 @dailyherald.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
Reform UK has now lost 176 councillors: 60 resigned, 48 went Independent, 30 defected, 24 were kicked out, 7 are suspended, 5 lost their seats and 2 were disqualified. Leeds loses three in a fortnight, two of them suspended on the same day. Suspensions now outnumber lost seats.
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Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
Former UK Defence Attache John Foreman tells #C4News Krishnan Guru-Murthy that we don't know whether it was Elon Musk or Pete Hegesth and Donald Trump, who restricted Ukraine's satellite access. He compares it to, "Trying to fight the Battle of Britain without radars"
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Paul Bernal @paulbernal.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
Free Speech news. The proscription of Palestine Action was one of the worst political decisions of recent years. And there have been some stinkers.
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fife4europe #FBPE #RejoinEU @fife4europe.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
An i News analysis exposing how Nigel Farage's pro-Trump and pro-Putin rhetoric is unraveling shows the fragility of populist narratives. Excusing Kremlin aggression and parroting Washington talking points damages UK security. Why align with authoritarians? 🤔 #FBPE
inews.co.uk
The big Farage-Trump-Putin lie is falling apart in front of us
James O'Brien: Connect the dots and a sinister picture begins to emerge
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
Former Israeli PM Naftali Bennett: “We are committing suicide, and the coming government term is the last window of opportunity to save the State of Israel. “That's it. It's now or never. Because if we do not dismantle the anti-Zionist ultra-Orthodox state, we will lose the Zionist state.
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Simon Marks @simonmarksfsn.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
Lawsuit launched by CREW ('Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington') in an effort to get Jared Kushner barred from serving as Trump's special envoy. www.citizensforethics.org/wp-content/u...
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
Italian PM Giorgia Meloni tells the Senate: Trump’s diesel deal with Putin “legitimises Moscow while it bombs Ukraine”. “The surge in fuel prices is due primarily to the war in Iran, not the conflict in Ukraine.”
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West England Bylines @westenglandbylines.co.uk · 14/10/2026
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‘Methinks he doth protest too much’: reflections on the Stroud pro-Palestine rally last Saturday
From peaceful protest to mass arrests: is the policing of Palestine Action supporters proportionate, democratic or even effective?
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Peter Jukes @peterjukes.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
Putin, Trump and Musk all colluding to defeat Ukraine
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Kuntie Plopkins @kuntieplopkins.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
Ban access to X in the UK - just ban it
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Mike Bailey @linusd.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
Trump’s disinhibition is out of control. He is so mentally ill he revels in real life gore and shares it like a naughy child. Trump embroiled in row after sharing 'sickening' video of British man mauled to death by tiger - despite family's pleas www.lbc.co.uk/article/trum...
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Trump embroiled in row after sharing 'sickening' video of British man mauled to death by tiger - despite family's pleas | LBC
The US President was also seen to post AI-generated content of lions attacking zoo visitors in the wake of the tragic incident at a Yorksire zoo
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Pascal (Miner for truth and delusion) 🇪🇺 🇬🇧 🇫🇷 @pascalr57.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
Another reason to not be on X or own a Tesla... www.euronews.com/2026/10/14/s...
euronews.com
Zelenskyy adviser: Starlink operations restricted in Ukraine overnight
The development has raised concerns that access to critical American satellite communications could become another source of leverage over Kyiv. #EuropeNews
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Natasha Devon @natashadevon.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
If by election results are anything to go by, the public will vote however they have to in order to keep Reform out and both Labour and tories will benefit from that. Then again a) by election turnout usually lower and b) none of my voting predictions have ever been correct.
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North East Bylines @northeastbylines.co.uk · 14/10/2026
More than two tonnes of nurdles could still be in the River Tyne itself according to a warning from Newcastle University experts. | Peter Sagar
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Nurdles in the River Tyne: the problem continues
More than two tonnes of nurdles could still be in the River Tyne itself according to a warning from Newcastle University experts.
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Ruth Watson @ruthwatson.eurosky.social · 14/10/2026
The lack of headlines and news coverage about these allegations - especially given the high profile of the people involved - is remarkable. #DrLolaSalem #MichaelGove
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guskoettlitz.bsky.social @guskoettlitz.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
@bbc Today's programme Chris Mason was very excited this morning. He has discovered PM Andy Burnham had lunch at Manchester City FC whilst mayor of Manchester. Wow!!
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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
“Reform has to take ever more extreme positions to keep winning headlines. As horrific as Jenrick’s comments are, they should be understood less as a policy proposal than as the political equivalent of a toddler acting out for attention.” Cruelty is weakness. liveapp.inews.co.uk/category/482...
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Robert Jenrick has confused cruelty with courage
Jonn Elledge: The Reform politician thinks he’s brave to say what he does – he’s actually just got no humanity
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
Call me a masochist, but I'm returning to this issue, as I feel it has been poorly understood. Please read the whole thread before responding. First, I hope we can agree that the Israeli government is committing genocide in Gaza and horrific crimes in the West Bank and the wider region.
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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Israel's invasion of Gaza continues, as they push into the 'safe areas' and destroy the last few remaining buildings in Gaza to complete their Ethnic Cleansing. But Western Media don't even mention it.
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European Movement UK @europeanmovement.co.uk · 13/10/2026
Working more closely with our European neighbours must be part of the answer. We welcome Stephen Kinnock’s call for deeper engagement. A stronger relationship with Europe can help us grow our economy, strengthen our security and create more opportunities for the next generation.
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Paul Lewis @realpaullewis.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Share widely. Let's do this. Quickly, The time is now.
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LBC @lbc.co.uk · 13/10/2026
"She sounded very uncertain of the few facts she was putting across..." @simonmarksfsn.bsky.social asks: How long will Katie Zacharia last as White House Press Secretary?
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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Farage/Johnson/Brexiters hate the Brexit Russia connection… this is why… “Isolation from the rest of Europe is the result that Britain’s enemies wanted in 2016. Sticking to that path is the route they would choose for Britain again today if they had a vote.” www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Brexiters can’t cope with the fact that Putin was cheering them on | Rafael Behr
Russian meddling probably didn’t affect the referendum result – but the Kremlin’s motives for wanting to undermine the EU still matter, says Guardian columnist Rafael Behr
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Kate from Kharkiv @kateinkharkiv.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
This is a building of the Rivne State University of Humanities, almost completely destroyed by a Russian strike. ​The main campus building was almost entirely gutted by fire and is no longer usable. Nearby buildings were also damaged. ​According to police, 25 people were injured.
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