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Bernadine Campbell

@hamstidge.bsky.social
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X-scapee. Fearing the worst, hoping for the best.

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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
Incredible: Nigel Farage declined offer of taxpayer-funded security inews.co.uk/news/politic...
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Nigel Farage declined offer of taxpayer-funded security
The Reform leader's spokesman told The i Paper it was a downgrade on the state-funded security he had previously received
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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
This moment asked so little from them. All they had to do was pay their respects, express their sadness and join the chorus of horror about the manner of Widdecombe’s death. But even that was evidently beyond their moral capacity inews.co.uk/opinion/fara...
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Farage just can't stop himself behaving abysmally, can he?
Ian Dunt: Reform is turning a tragedy into a circus
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Sam Bright @writesbright.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
Reform has threatened to “investigate” Phillip Rycroft, the man behind the government’s review of foreign financial interference in British politics. Now why would Farage want to do that… 🤔🤔🤔
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Farage’s foreign web: Full dossier
🔴 From Moscow to Mar-a-Lago...
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Lizzie Dearden @lizziedearden.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
Russia is inflaming the debate on immigration in Britain as part of “increasing ambitions to disrupt our way of life”, counter-terror police and experts say It has directly and indirectly paid right-wing influencers to spread messages that align with its political goals inews.co.uk/news/putin-i...
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How Putin is inflaming immigration tensions to spark disorder in Britain
Counter-terror leaders reveal the tactics Russia is using to sow division in the UK
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Russ Jones @russincheshire.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Nigel Farage vs "the establishment" He went to private school, worked as a stockbroker, has been a professional politician for 31 years, has his own TV show, is a brand ambassador for gold, is mates with POTUS, accepted a secret £5m gift, and owns five houses bought outright with cash What a rebel
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Alex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Amazing detective work.
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Has any other politician ever called a by-election on an explicitly anti-transparency, pro-sleaze ticket before?
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Cethan Leahy @cethanleahy.com · 07/07/2026
Bluesky this morning:
Tintin and Snowy in a parade where everyone is cheering. (Still from Tintin in America)
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Ruth Fox @ruthfox.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
🧵 Amid all the speculation about Nigel Farage's 2pm statement, it's worth noting paragraph 40 of the Procedural Protocol to the MPs' Code of Conduct. If he announces he's resigning and seeking a by-election, that would not automatically end the investigation into whether he breached the Code in...
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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
The irony of this man talking about his safety being under threat by investigative journalism when he actively stokes race riots.
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Hugo Rifkind @hugorifkind.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
For no particular reason, obviously, this weekend I found myself remembering all those allegations about mysterious dark money funding untraceable Facebook ads during the Brexit campaign.
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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
Things are starting to look very dark for Farage. He's stuck in a ferocious scandal where he cannot get his story straight and his excuses raise more questions than they answer inews.co.uk/opinion/nige...
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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Years of piss-taking as a career politician… Brexit and all the cheating, lies and racism that got him his ‘win’… His pro-Putin and Trump agenda… Rampant crypto corruption, dodgy house purchases and links to criminality… It’s beyond time £5Mill Farage was held to account. And it needs to end him.
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Now firmly in the headlines, the convicted criminal, known to his friends as "Posh George", could well be the catalyst to the end of Farage's bid to become prime minister.

(Photo of Cottrell (left), with a milkshake-covered Farage in Clacton two years ago (Getty))
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fife4europe #FBPE #RejoinEU @fife4europe.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Despite Reform claiming convicted fraudster George Cottrell has "no official role," trackers have spotted him running press conferences, working backstage at major rallies, and joining Farage on foreign trips. 📊🗺️👇
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Fraudster George Cottrell seen at numerous Reform events despite ‘no formal role’ in party
Nigel Farage urged to clarify ‘dependence’ on Cottrell, who also joined Reform leader in Abu Dhabi in December
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Arthur Snell @snellarthur.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Big day today when Le Pen’s future is decided after she used EU funds to pay for her domestic campaigns. Funny how Farage did exactly this but no UK authorities have done anything about it.
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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
An absolute banger of an exclusive from the Sunday Times. It's devastating. For the first time, I'm uncertain if Farage can actually survive this www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...
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Revealed: Nigel Farage secretly funded by convicted criminal
The Reform UK leader did not declare benefits including staff, security and housing by crypto-gambler George Cottrell, our investigation reveals
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Doug Parr @dougparr.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
Over 40 economists write to leader of Unite the Union, rejecting her claim that Ed Miliband would destroy jobs if he becomes next UK chancellor "The net zero economy generates output worth over £100bn and employs over a million workers....these numbers will grow” www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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Progressive economists reject Unite leader’s criticism of Ed Miliband
Sharon Graham is urged to withdraw her claim that the energy secretary would cost jobs if he became chancellor
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Alex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
How conventient for political journalists, to all be gathered in Downing Street once more, so they can interview each other, to ask "how did this happen?", without ever acknowledging that, at least in part, they themselves are how this happened.
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Naomi Smith @pimlicat.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
💥 NEW Best for Britain Report out: 💰UK membership of the EU alone would deliver at least six times more growth (£92bn) than every post Brexit trade deal combined 📈 Most benefits felt OUTSIDE of London (hello Andy!) 🇪🇺 EU gets growth too 📉 Refuk plan to diverge brings GDP hit of as much as £35bn.
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Sean Jones KC @seanjones.org · 21/06/2026
I marvel at the courage of those two little girls to come home with us. How difficult it must have been to put trust in us. I know “proud dad” is anything from a cliche to a red flag online, but I am proud of them. They are beautiful people and every time I’m called Dad it’s a New Year’s honour.
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James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
Memo to pretty much (but obviously not quite) everybody in the media…
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LBC @lbc.co.uk · 19/06/2026
'If you have any information about the whereabouts of Nigel, whose mummy is very worried about him, the number is 0345 6060 973.' After Andy Burnham's Makerfield win, James O'Brien wonders why the Reform UK leader is not doing any live interviews.
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LBC @lbc.co.uk · 19/06/2026
'That's how stupid he thinks you are!' @mrjamesob.bsky.social reacts to Nigel Farage sharing a two-year-old photo of himself watching an England game.
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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
GOOD MORNING. Andy Burnham has triumphed in Makerfield. Nigel Farage has been brutally humiliated. The sun is shining and the world is a beautiful place iandunt.substack.com/p/triumph-in...
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Alistair Barrie @alistairbarrie.com · 19/06/2026
Well, h/t to @iandunt.bsky.social for making me spit my cornflakes in my coffee:
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Tim Bale @timbale.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
Neat summary of some of Reform's problems by @iandunt.bsky.social (Source: iandunt.substack.com/p/triumph-in...)
Farage has relied extensively on the belief of his inevitability. That belief is now crumbling before our eyes. A few weeks back, during the local elections, the decline in Reform support was too subtle to be noticed by many journalists, because the party was still coming out on top. Now, the series of fuck-ups is so severe than even the most superficial herd-like reporters have begun to pick up that something is going wrong: the race riots, the piss-poor candidates, the threat on his right flank, the persistent underperformance, the loss of the women’s vote, the look of fear in his eyes when he’s asked about that £5 million donation.
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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
Reform’s problem, and it is a very significant one, is that women vote open.substack.com/pub/iandunt/...
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Scoop McNugget @scoopmcnugget.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
For the benefit of the US: the man in the middle just won an election against an alien called @countbinface.bsky.social, a fox, 2 fascists (not pictured) & some normal politicians in suits. He is now odds on to topple a sitting prime minister & lead the country. You could learn a lot from this.
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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
The joy today is that hatred lost. Doesn't matter what you think of Burnham. Farage tried to invite a race riot. He dealt in explicitly racial rhetoric. If he'd won, many journalists would have considered it a vindication of his approach and branded our outrage evidence of how out of touch we are.
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James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
Is the Farage posting a 2yo photo to pretend he was watching football in the pub last night thing definitely kosher?
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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
Glory to Ukraine
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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
Well they're getting there, just very very slowly.
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Robert Hutton @roberthutton.co.uk · 16/06/2026
This confirms something a lot of people in Westminster noticed: while Farage was happy to bluster through the Schoolboy Nazi stuff, he has gone to ground over the £5million "gift". The story has Reform worried.
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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
The closer you look, the shadier he becomes.
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Peter Walker @peterwalker99.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
One detail in this fascinating BBC investigation into the Russia-instigated attack on Keir Starmer's home is the way it shows, in passing but very clearly, that Tommy Robinson is to all intents and purposes a Russian asset. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Russia was behind arson attacks targeting PM, BBC reveals
Evidence shows Russians directing the plot and stoking tensions with fake far-right and Muslim groups.
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Dr. Twink, Microplastic Surgeon @subtlebeast.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
Whom amongst us hasn't hidden in the back of a CrossFit class and barely done the workout
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Rusudan Djakeli @rusudandjakeli.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
For the 563th day in a row, Georgians are out in the streets in 8+ cities, fighting against an illegitimate, pro-Russian regime.
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Hannah Graham @drhannahgraham.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
A wee group of angry balaclava and mask-wearing anti-immigration guys tried to stop the good people of Glasgow showing solidarity with migrants and standing up to racism and fascism. Well, the far right are far outnumbered... #RefugeesWelcome #MigrantsWelcome #NeighboursNotStrangers #Glasgow
Photo of a small group of mostly men wearing black, with masks and balaclavas, surrounded by a Police Scotland cordon in the bottom of the photo, in the foreground. In the background, a very large colourful crowd of people with saltires, trade union banners, and hand-made signs in support of migrants and against racism have turned up to gather to show solidarity, and the far right guys were hoping to thwart that. They didn't.
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Sarah Kay @k-interarma.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
Aerial PARTIAL view of the anti racist, anti fascist crowd in Belfast right now. City Hall to the left for scale. This - this is the real Belfast. Don’t let anyone tell you otherwise.
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Chris Washington @cwashington.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
More reporting like this is needed
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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
There last few weeks shows how deeply principled and decent people can be, even when going through the most terrible pain. Their grace stands in stark contrast to those who would exploit their suffering for political gain.
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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
This has nothing to do with stopping crime. It is to do with a global far-right movement, coordinated on X, organised by some of the most powerful men in the world from Silicon Valley to the White House inews.co.uk/opinion/fara...
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Will Jennings📉🗳️ @drjennings.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
A reminder that Brazil banned Twitter for failing to stop the spreading of disinformation. There is nothing stopping the British government from doing the same.
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Mark Pack @markpackuk.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
Vote Conservative, get Reform: once again, Kemi Badenoch says something that Lib Dems will be quoting time and time again.
Kemi Badenoch in The Spectator saying she would put Nigel Farage into 10 Downing Street in a hung Parliament.
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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
Jesus fucking Christ. This guy calls people "third world savages". He's an out and out fascist.
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Simon Evans @drsimevans.carbonbrief.org · 01/05/2026
Daily Mail, Jan 2009 on the "great lightbulb revolt" "Millions of Britons are finally waking up to the fact that their beloved lightbulbs will disappear…" Since then, LEDs helped UK cut peak power demand by equiv of 2x nuclear power plants (!) interactive.carbonbr... 2/5
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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
And then he'll post about it on a website rigged to help Nazis and post non-consensual pornography.
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Alan Lester @alanlester.bsky.social · 07/06/2026
The BBC 10 o’clock news says the right wing idea of ethnic minorities being given preferential treatment in criminal justice is likely to become a “growing fault line in our politics” WITHOUT POINTING OUT THAT IT IS SIMPLY NOT TRUE. What’s the point of the news if it doesn’t correct disinformation?
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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
Stop making me like the pope this is so fucked up
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