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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

As small boat numbers reach a six year low, this is what they choose to splash on

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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

Nigel Farage's beaming face is featuring heavily in the local elections coverage, but the truth is that the real architect of Reform's gains is the man whose disastrous 'Blue Labour' strategy we were confidently told would prevent them bylinetimes.com/2026/05/08/l...

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Local Election Results 2026: Morgan McSweeney’s ‘Blue Labour’ Legacy Lives On

Keir Starmer's former adviser's strategy of focusing on Reform-sympathetic 'hero voters', whilst spurning Labour's natural supporters on the left, has led to a disastrous set of local election results...

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Sooz Kempner @soozuk.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

Wow, I can't believe Labour's tactic of yelling "DON'T VOTE FOR THESE GREEN CUNTS, THEY'RE DANGEROUS, VOTE FOR US, WE HATE IMMIGRANTS IN A BETTER WAY THAN REFORM!" hasn't led to them keeping all their council seats.

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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

Merseyside Reform UK election candidate who called the Holocaust a "hoax" and "propaganda" has been elected in the local elections. Disgusting people www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/news/liverpo...

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Reform candidate who said Holocaust was a hoax wins seat in local elections

Jay Cooper posted that the murder of six million Jews was 'propaganda' while also sharing 9/11 conspiracy theories

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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

Why do we have to tolerate such unadulterated bollox from this hideous man? And why does the media give it all a veneer of potential respectability? Farage is pathologically corrupt and obscenely greedy. He’s a national security threat, a liar and a racist. Just say so. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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No obligation to declare £5m gift, Nigel Farage says

The Reform UK leader says the gift was

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Byline Times @bylinetimes.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

🔴 EXCLUSIVE: Reform UK Refuses to Explain Why Nigel Farage Met and Posed with Man Criminally Convicted for Violent Attack on Anti-Racism Meeting at a Church Byline Times' new findings cast doubts on Farage's claim of refusing to associate with extreme elements – @josiahmortimer.bsky.social reports

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Reform UK Refuses to Explain Why Nigel Farage Met and Posed with Man Criminally Convicted for Violent Attack on Anti-Racism Meeting at a Church

For a year-and-a-half, Byline Times has attempted to get to the bottom of a photograph showing the party’s leader with far-right activists. Now, this newspaper's findings cast fresh doubts on Farage’s...

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Ben Phillips @benphillips76.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

Sharing, without comment, British newspapers’ depictions of the only Jewish person currently leading a UK political party . Times. Mail. Telegraph. Sun.

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Rob Ford @robfordmancs.bsky.social · 13/01/2026

The remarkable thing here isn't the universal revulsion. Its that two large parties - Reform and the Conservatives - are trying to maintain stances favoured by around 0-1% of the public. Polling like this also suggests that whenever Labour does develop enough backbone to act, there's no going back

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Simon Evans @drsimevans.carbonbrief.org · 13/01/2026

The utterly shameless & widely covered "report" out today, claiming net zero will "cost" £9tn is based on: * Assuming free fossil-fuel energy, free petrol cars, free gas boilers, free gas power plants etc AND * Including climate damages in the "cost" of net zero I kid you not, it is that stupid

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Steve Peers @stevepeers.bsky.social · 13/01/2026

this is your brain on hyperpartisanship

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Kevin Schofield @kevinschofied.bsky.social · 12/01/2026

Amazingly, Zahawi only got round to deleting the below after the press conference announcing his defection to Reform.

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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 23/07/2025

Truly. The distinction between the treatment of elderly Gaza demonstrators and far-right protestors suggests a complete breakdown in our moral compass.

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Byline Times @bylinetimes.bsky.social · 23/07/2025

British newspapers are exempt from VAT because they're said to serve the public interest. But the Little Black Book of Press Barons shows that – then and now – they often serve the political agendas of a powerful few. 👉 subscribe.bylinetimes.com/product/the-...

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Alex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 22/07/2025

A brilliant summary of 2025. Someone who doesn't live in London telling someone who does live in London to google London, for proof that it is, in fact, a dystopian hellscape. Something I can disprove by walking to the local bakery, or taking the tube every day, or just... looking out the window. 🤌🏽

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Meet the Reform UK councillor, just appointed to their top law and order team, who thinks trains are full of people in balaclavas, knives are hidden in every bush, and New York and Chicago are safer than London. ~AA

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Leo Hickman @leohickman.carbonbrief.org · 02/06/2025

The Telegraph is now having to publish so many corrections to articles where it attempts to find *any angle whatsoever* to attack net-zero polices that it makes sense to start tracking them here. These are the ones published since Labour won the election. "We are happy to correct the record."

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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 23/07/2025

Fond memories of when Pearson threatened to sue me for saying she'd gone from being merely wrong to actively dangerous.

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Ed Davey @eddavey.libdems.org.uk · 23/07/2025

Mass starvation in Gaza and over 1,000 Palestinians killed while seeking aid since May. The government says the situation is intolerable yet they continue to tolerate it. The UK needs to stop all arms exports to the Israeli Government - today.

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Private Eye Magazine @privateeyenews.bsky.social · 23/07/2025

Are Private Eye jokes now... criminal? PALESTINE Solidarity campaigner Jon Farley was arrested during a silent march in Leeds last weekend. What egregious act had prompted the police to act? He was, er, carrying a Private Eye joke piece as a placard! (1/2)

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Sadiq Khan @sadiqkhanlondon.bsky.social · 23/07/2025

The UK must immediately recognise Palestinian statehood. There can be no two state solution if there is no viable state left to call Palestine.

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Henry Mance @henrymance.ft.com · 23/07/2025

UK opinion on Gaza war (YouGov, July 2025) 18% support Israel’s actions in Gaza, 55% oppose 81% of those who oppose say it’s a genocide Large margins in favour of: - trade embargoes (48% to 20%) - financial sanctions on individuals (52% to 19%) - suspending arms exports to Israel (57% to 18%)

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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 23/07/2025

Fucking hell the standard of the debate on that asylum hotel protest is appalling. Broadcasters and politicians bending over backwards to defend and justify the actions of the protestors. Not even a hint of the bravery required to stand up or challenge far-right ideas.

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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 23/07/2025

UK welfare spending is 10.6% of GDP. Right wing press never mentions that it is well below the OECD average. UK has some of the least generous welfare across OECD. No questions asked about billions given away in corporate welfare, uncosted tax reliefs to corporations/rich.

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Guidance and methodology: Benefit expenditure and caseload tables

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Zoe Gardner @zoejardiniere.bsky.social · 23/07/2025

Racist demonstrations, reportedly organised by Neo-Nazi groups, have been held outside asylum hostels around London. They have turned ugly & violent at times. First question on #r4today to a local MP: “do you have sympathy with protesters?” I switched off. Enough.

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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 22/07/2025

Breaking News: The Israeli military raided a UN aid facility, part of an expanded offensive in an area of central Gaza that had remained relatively unscathed during the war with Hamas.

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Israel Expands Attacks in Central Gaza City and Raids W.H.O. Offices

Strikes in the central part of the territory targeted a city, Deir al-Balah, that had largely been spared and that had become an informal refuge for Palestinians fleeing other areas.

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Jim Waterson @jim.londoncentric.media · 22/07/2025

He's one of Britain's richest men. So why does Asif Aziz's property company keep leasing London gift shops to overseas students based in abandoned offices or flytipped car parks — before vanishing without paying millions of pounds in taxes? www.londoncentric.media/p/asf-aziz-l...

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The billionaire and the tax evading gift shops

Asif Aziz's Criterion Capital manages a row of high-profile shops at Piccadilly Circus. So why does his team keeping renting them to students who vanish without paying millions of pounds in taxes?

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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 22/07/2025

"Only 3 years left – new study warns the world is running out of time to avoid the worst impacts of climate change." "If we treated climate data as we do financial reports, panic would ensue after each dire update." The time to act is now. 🌎 theconversation.com/only-3-years...

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Only 3 years left – new study warns the world is running out of time to avoid the worst impacts of climate change

Planet Earth is living on borrowed time, a new global report reveals. The world must stop burning fossil fuels now and take urgent steps to reduce global warming.

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Jonathan Portes @jdportes.bsky.social · 21/07/2025

It is very hard to see how the UK government can sign this statement, which makes it absolutely clear that it recognises that Israel is committing - as a matter of state policy - deliberate and systematic war crimes, without at a minimum cutting all military cooperation with Israel.

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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 18/07/2025

Dear @stephencolbert.bsky.social, Thanks for all the years of speaking truth to power & finding the funny in fascism. Looking forward to following you wherever you land, Your fan, Mar🐫

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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 18/07/2025

It surely seems that way. CBS, what gives?

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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 18/07/2025

again, no mention at all that the incoming new owners of CBS are the Ellison family, billionaire friends of Trump, who are already shaping the trajectory of the new CBS via Skydance execs before the deal ink is dry that's apparently just not relevant enough to mention

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Trump Says ‘I Absolutely Love’ That Stephen Colbert Got ‘Fired’ and ‘I Hear Jimmy Kimmel Is Next’

Trump weighed in on CBS's announced cancelation of Stephen Colbert's late-night talk show and is seemingly hopeful Jimmy Kimmel will be next to get axed.

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The Empty City @davidallengreen.bsky.social · 18/07/2025

The media propensity to run "police probe [cultural figure x]" stories is corrosive to our polity. Few if any of these probes get anywhere, but the No Further Actions never get similar prominence. And what lingers are the police interventions, as if such activity is normal and to be expected.

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East Anglia Bylines @eastangliabylines.co.uk · 16/07/2025

There is no reliable data linking small boat arrivals to higher crime rates. But there is plenty of evidence that fear sells. Stephen McNair crunches the numbers.

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A crime wave in small boats: why worry about facts?

Conservatives claim that small boat arrivals are 24 times more likely to be in prison than the average British citizen. Are they?

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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 18/07/2025

Populism's Achilles' heel: When you actually dig into Reform's policies, the public don't want what they have to sell iandunt.substack.com/p/populisms-...

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Paul Bernal @paulbernal.bsky.social · 17/07/2025

Note that this is the Sun, who until a few years ago were happy to put topless 16 year old girls on Page 3.

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Robbie Healey-Young (He/Him) @robbiey1.bsky.social · 17/07/2025

Populism thrives on simplicity and empty promises. So it’s important to keep holding Reform and other reactionary parties to account. As exampled in this tread, Reform are a threat to economic growth, jobs, and sustainability!

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Ian Betteridge @ianbetteridge.com · 17/07/2025

Given that the UK government's position is to support two state solution - which means a free Palestine - I look forward to Kent police arresting Keir Starmer for "expressing views in support of a proscribed group"

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Armed police threatened to arrest Kent protester for holding Palestinian flag

Officers accused Laura Murton who also had a sign saying ‘Free Gaza’ of supporting a proscribed organisation

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Twlldun @twlldun.bsky.social · 16/07/2025

Love me a bit of Blue On Blue

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Sam Whyte @samwhyte.bsky.social · 16/07/2025

You quit the Waitrose magazine after you responded to a pitch from a vegan by joking vegans should be "trapped, interrogated, and killed"

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I have never worked in a place of such courtesy, kindness, respect and care as MasterChef

Piece in the telegraph

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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 16/07/2025

🚨 @eddavey.libdems.org.uk: "He gets covered when he says horrible things that aren't producing solutions for people's problems" ⚠️ "He doesn't talk about the problems in the NHS. He doesn't deal with the need to sort out care. The problems my constituents face every day."

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 16/07/2025

Trump calls his own supporters who are dissatisfied with his handling of the Epstein cover-up “weaklings”, says he doesn’t want their support anymore (Polls show this is almost all of them)

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Kevin Schofield @kevinschofied.bsky.social · 16/07/2025

Nigel Farage Says Some Afghans Airlifted To UK Are 'Sex Offenders'. But There's No Evidence That's True www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/nigel-...

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Nigel Farage Says Some Afghans Airlifted To UK Are 'Sex Offenders'. But There's No Evidence That's True

Reform UK leader urged to go to the police if he can back up his claims.

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Euan @euan.bsky.social · 15/07/2025

I’ve gone from ‘this version of Labour wouldn’t have repealed Section 28’ to ‘this version of Labour would have enthusiastically introduced Section 28’

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Financial Times @financialtimes.com · 15/07/2025

Breaking news: US inflation climbed to 2.7% in June, surpassing expectations and signalling that Donald Trump’s tariffs are hitting prices on.ft.com/4kDrqIo

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Josiah Mortimer @josiahmortimer.bsky.social · 15/07/2025

Opposition Councillor on Reform-controlled Lincolnshire county council: "There was a fiasco at the planning committee [On Mon]. The Reform UK Chair and Vice Chair didn't show up. "It does matter because it [shows] the gross incompetence of the administration."

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 15/07/2025

Anti-LGBTQ orgs have explicitly stated they USE sports as a "gateway drug" to undermine trans people's rights. They've also said this is how they eventually roll back all progress on LGBTQ rights. Newsom falls for it hook, line, and sinker.

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Dmitry Grozoubinski @explaintrade.com · 15/07/2025

Isn't it funny how few of the people who claimed Work from Home needed to end ASAP so that young people could gain vital work experience seem concerned about AI replacing all the entry level jobs where young people traditionally cut their teeth?

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a group of cartoon characters holding a sign that says won 't somebody please think of the children

Alt: A woman from the Simpson's crying "won't somebody please think of the children"

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