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Byline Times @bylinetimes.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
James Orr. Peter Thiel. Race science. Tech authoritarianism. We've spent years tracing the networks behind Britain’s ‘Dark Enlightenment’. Help us launch an urgent new investigative project to follow the money and map how it operates. #LightUpTheDark subscribe.bylinetimes.com/lightuptheda...
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Dark Enlightenment: The US Far-Right War on British Institutions Help Byline Times Fund aN URGENT New INVESTIGATIVE SERIES #LightUpTheDark What is the Dark Enlightenment? The extraordinary anti-DEI me...
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Naomi Smith @pimlicat.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
✍️ Can you help us reach our petition target? We need the EU, or risk being left out of the biggest team-up of our allies for 80 years. Urge the PM not to let the UK be left behind. bestforbritain.org/petition/tel...
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Tell Burnham: Canada's Getting Closer to the EU - We Don't Want to be Left Behind - Best for Britain
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Byline Times @bylinetimes.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
“Unlike the political right in the UK, which still clings on to the fantasy of the US-UK special relationship, Carney understands that the US has fundamentally changed, and can no longer be fully relied upon.” ✍️ Alexandra Hall Hall
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Why Canada Could End Up With a Better Deal With the EU Than the UK
As the UK continues to hesitate over drawing back towards the EU, Canada has spotted an opportunity, argues former diplomat Alexandra Hall Hall
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
As former Labour minister Tom Watson joins Palantir, please read this devastating exposé by @petergeoghegan.bsky.social & @lucasamin.bsky.social of how the company, with Peter Mandelson's help, wormed its way into the UK government to sell its dire & dangerous products. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
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Peter Geoghegan and Lucas Amin · ‘This looks absolutely rubbish’: Palantir and the NHS
A decade ago Palantir was largely unknown in the UK. It now holds public contracts worth hundreds of millions of pounds...
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Hardeep Matharu @hardeepmatharu.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
A new era for Byline Times goes to press! @peterjukes.bsky.social & I are proud to have worked on a print redesign with our new art director Sonny Dhamu. With your support, we continue to grow. This issue marks a story no one else can/will. Two Cambridge professors. Two very different narratives...
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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
So, a joke MP with 5 houses bought for cash, links to criminality and a £5Mill ‘gift’ in his bank… is so enraged at being held to account… that he resigns from the MP role he never did anyway…and demands a “people v the establishment” by-election to vote him back in. What an insufferable wanker.
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Byline Times @bylinetimes.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
🔴Revealed: The ‘Right-Wing Arms Race’ to Deport Non-White Britons – Backed By the Tufton Street Brexit Lobby EXCLUSIVE: A Reform UK donor is underwriting a dark money network that promotes the forced removal of ethnic-minority Britons, reports @nafeez.bsky.social bylinetimes.com/2026/06/18/r...
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Revealed: The 'Right-Wing Arms Race' to Deport Non-White Britons - Backed By the Tufton Street Brexit Lobby
EXCLUSIVE: A dark money lobbying network backed by a Reform UK donor is hosting figures pushing for the forced removal of millions of ethnic-minority citizens from the UK, reports Nafeez Ahmed
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Peter Jukes @peterjukes.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
Obviously Yaxley Lennon f*cked up by jumping on a riot while hanging out in Moscow with far right influencers Now check his finances Met Police for Russian funding www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
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Tommy Robinson detained at Heathrow under counter-terrorism laws
Police stop comes after far-right activist rose to global prominence on social media amid racial tensions in Britain
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
Tomorrow’s Independent front page:
The
INDEPENDENT
urop
The Way Bac
Their promises of more jobs, more trade, more power for Britain have proved a con, Michael Heseltine writes as the Brexit vote 10th anniversary approaches. Never have so few done so much damage to so many with so little ability to execute what they lied about. Their scandalously false prospectus has turned to dust and ashes. Naturally, they blame everyone but themselves.
They are the guilty men and should...
...hang their heads in shame
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David Osland @davidosland.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
Farage argues that the mainstream media constantly distorts what he has to say. This is the guy who has built his brand on uncritical coverage in the Daily Mail, Daily Telegraph, Daily Express and - sadly - the BBC.
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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
Today’s independent front page Brexit has been a disaster – it’s time the guilty men felt some shame
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Neil Mackay @neilmackay.bsky.social · 07/06/2026
This is why the mainstream media is in such trouble all over the western world. This hypocrisy, deception and manipulation is repeated across the press and broadcasters in Europe and America - yet we ask why nobody trusts us anymore. To fix democracy we must fix the media. It’s a simple truth.
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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 07/06/2026
“Voters see Brexit as a “big disappointment” and “not worth it” resulting in a rise in support for rejoining the EU… The decision to leave the EU has “not withstood the test of time”” It never could have done. The journey back may be long but it’s underway. www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...
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Majority of voters want Brexit to be reversed, says Britain’s leading pollster
Exclusive: There has been a ‘decisive and consistent shift away from Brexit’ since the referendum 10 years ago, says John Curtice
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Brexit Bin 🇪🇺 🇬🇧 🇩🇪 @brexitbin.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
I listened to Burnham's speech today: 1. He still respects the referendum result. 2. He doesn't want to reopen the Brexit debate. 3. He doesn't want to rejoin the EU anytime soon. 4. He agrees with Starmer's tiny steps approach. 5. In short: He wants to "Make Brexit Work". What a waste of time 🤦🏻‍♂️
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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 18/05/2026
🇪🇺 "63% of Britons want a closer relationship with the EU, while 55% want to rejoin – something the EU has always said it would welcome. Support for the UK’s return is at or above 50% in Germany, France, Spain, and Italy." Brits want to be back at the heart of Europe, and the EU want us back too.
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Where does UK-EU relationship stand and how might bid to rejoin bloc be received?
Labour leadership contender Wes Streeting calls Brexit a ‘catastrophic mistake’ while Andy Burnham sees ‘long-term case’
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
Farage almost never talks about brexit any more. He's pivoted entirely to the issue of "illegal" migration which I a bit ironic because one of the main planks of his own leave campaign was that Brexit would stop "illegal" immigration...
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Graham Simpson @grahambs.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
"It might take our producers five minutes to find 60 economists who feared Brexit and five hours to find a sole voice who espoused it. But by the time we went on air we simply had one of each; we presented this unequal effort to our audience as balance. It wasn't." @maitlis.bsky.social
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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
Forcing Farage to talk about the Brexit disaster is key to defeating him inews.co.uk/opinion/forc...
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Forcing Farage to talk about the Brexit disaster is key to defeating him
Everything is pointing decisively towards 'Rejoin'
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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
If a candidate cannot talk about this in a Leave area, then that isn’t democracy. It’s Brexit authoritarianism. And no reputable media outlet should pander to that. If Burnham runs scared in Makerfield, is he fit to be PM? Is anyone fit if they can’t take on the Brexit shitshow?
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
Vote Reform. Or we will house *dangerous migrant centres* in your village. And if you vote Green, it will be even worse for you. It's beyond disturbing. The chill wind of threat, thuggery and menace of a kind never before seen in Britain.
Today we announce a new policy:


In order to deport all illegal migrants in
Britain, Reform will need to detain tens of
thousands at a time.


Migrants will not be able to leave these
detention centres, and each will be held
there a couple of weeks before being
deported.


So here's our promise:


A Reform government will not put any
migrant detention facilities in any
constituency with a Reform MP.


Nor will we put them where Reform
controls the council.


And of the remaining areas, we will
prioritise Green controlled parliamentary
constituencies and Green controlled
councils to locate the detention centres.


Put simply, if you vote in a Reform
council or Reform MP, we guarantee yPut simply, if you vote in a Reform
council or Reform MP, we guarantee you
won't have a detention centre near you


If you vote Green, there's a good chance
you will,


This is an important exercise in
democratic consent, not just for our
mass deportation policy, but for where
the detention centres are placed


Given @ZackPolanski openly advocates
for open borders, I look forward to their
warm embrace of this policy
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Byline Times @bylinetimes.bsky.social · 25/04/2026
🔎 From the archive: Laura Kuenssberg’s Time as BBC Political Editor has been a Catastrophic, Systemic Failure — Patrick Howse 🔁 Relevant again: BBC Political Coverage Back in the News 4 Years On
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Laura Kuenssberg’s Time as BBC Political Editor has been a Catastrophic, Systemic Failure
Thanks to managers at the BBC, the outgoing Kuenssberg repeated lies rather than challenging them, says former BBC journalist Patrick Howse
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James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 05/04/2026
I feel much more anger towards the British pundits & politicians who failed to understand the depravity & derangement of Donald Trump than I do the ones who failed to understand the idiocy of Brexit. But it doesn’t really matter because they’re exactly the same bloody people.
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TRG @q4nwspunk.bsky.social · 04/04/2026
But he is probably 100% accurate…..
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 05/04/2026
Translation: Net Zero threatens the value of our proprietor's investments. The world must cook for the sake of his portfolio.
Daily Mail headline says "Drill, Ed, Drill"
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Byline Times @bylinetimes.bsky.social · 05/04/2026
📌 ICYMI — How the US Christian Right and Anti-Abortion Lobbyists are Reshaping NHS Policy A new investigation exposes a global network of anti-abortion groups and US Christian…… bylinetimes.com/2026/04/02/how-the-…
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How the US Christian Right and Anti-Abortion Lobbyists are Reshaping NHS Policy
A new investigation exposes a global network of anti-abortion groups and US Christian nationalists using UK courts to target bodily autonomy
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Protect the Wild @protectthewild.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
Cattle are the main source of transmission! Always have and always will be! Stop blaming Badgers for the ills of animal farming!
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European Movement UK @europeanmovement.co.uk · 03/04/2026
Our Chair Mike Galsworthy lays it out, leaving the ECHR would not “stop the boats”, it would cut off the data sharing that tracks criminals across Europe, from fingerprints to flight logs, and risk turning Britain into a blind spot for serious crime.
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
Just what we don't need. Already, our rivers are overloaded with both human and livestock waste, leading in many cases to #rivercide. Now the government, responding as always to lobbyists, wants to make it worse. Then it wonders why it loses public support. www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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UK looks to relax planning rules for factory farms after industry lobbying
Exclusive: documents chronicle years-long campaign to make it easier to build intensive livestock units
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
PM of Poland
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
So Kemi Badenoch today continued her “fuel Britainnia” campaign to extract “every last drop” of oil and gas from the North Sea, by visiting a company whose oil executive owner has so far donated more than £250,000 to the Conservatives since she became its leader bylinetimes.com/2026/03/30/k...
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Kemi Badenoch Campaigns For North Sea Drilling at Company Owned by Oil and Gas Executive Who Donated £250,000 to the Conservatives
The Conservative party, which calls the Government's plans for replacing fossil fuels with renewable energy "crazy" has also taken millions of pounds from funders and directors of anti-Net Zero lobby ...
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Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
Left: President Trump's Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt, "Our nation was founded 250 years ago on Christian values" Right: Article 11 of Treaty of Tripoli signed by President John Adams, "The government of the USA is not in any sense founded on the Christian religion"
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✨John Carpenter’s BOObies✨ @ourflagmeansbeth.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
Every time I hear men talk about destroying this planet so they can travel to a dead one, I think about how miraculous the existence of Earth is, and how capitalists should never be permitted to make decisions about space exploration.
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Mark T. Sneed @marktsneed.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
The mere fact that the leadership of the Congress are complicit in their inactions is cause for concern, impeachment, arrest, removal, and a whole lot more. Why are the watchdogs asleep? Why is no one taking action against the silent coup taking place?
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Byline Times @bylinetimes.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
🔴Reform UK Promised ‘17 Billion in New Healthcare Spending’ but None of It Is for the NHS New analysis reveals Nigel Farage’s healthcare plans involve funnelling public money and tax cuts towards private healthcare companies bylinetimes.com/2026/03/30/r...
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Reform UK Promised ‘17 Billion in New Healthcare Spending’ but None of It Is for the NHS
New analysis reveals Nigel Farage's healthcare plans involve funnelling public money and tax cuts towards private healthcare companies
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Byline Times @bylinetimes.bsky.social · 29/03/2026
🟨 Print Edition — A Letter from America – Trump’s War On the World One truth about modern warfare is that it never becomes more popular over time. Like most Americans, I refuse to pretend Donald Trump’s war with Iran is some Putin-esque ‘special military operation’ or other comforting euphemism.
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A Letter from America – Trump’s War On the World
One truth about modern warfare is that it never becomes more popular over time. Like most Americans, I refuse to pretend Donald Trump’s war with Iran is some Putin-esque ‘special military operation’ or other comforting euphemism. So it’s not a shock to find this war begins already underwater in the polls. The post A Letter from America – Trump’s War On the World appeared first on Byline Times.
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Brexit Bin 🇪🇺 🇬🇧 🇩🇪 @brexitbin.bsky.social · 29/03/2026
This is so pathetic from the UK government! 😡😡😡 "Britain wants to cap the number of young people entering country [on its youth experience scheme]. But the EU opposes this on the basis that the scheme is supposed to be a positive one aimed at celebrating and preserving links between the UK and EU."
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EU offers UK ‘emergency brake’ on youth mobility scheme numbers
Britain wants limits on young people entering country but Europe opposes this as scheme aims to celebrate links
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24Hours Ukraine @24hoursukraine.bsky.social · 29/03/2026
🇺🇦President Zelenskyy: This week alone, Russia used more than 3,000 strike drones against our cities and communities.
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Fran W @urzwoo.bsky.social · 28/03/2026
Absolutely nothing on the impartial BBC website. Why are they so against reporting on the UK public’s stance against the far right? Shameful.
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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 29/03/2026
How can the BBC justify how much coverage they give other marches which are significantly smaller in size? The bias is so obviously blatant. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/live...
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‘The tide is turning’, Green party leader tells crowd at march against far right – as it happened
Organisers claim half a million people are marching through central London, protesting against the rise of the far right
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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
10 years of cost, red tape, business closures, lost opportunities, emboldened prejudice, national insecurity and social division. A total waste of our time, resources and patience. But refusing to face up to that has been the most dismal part. Political cowardice and dishonesty on an epic scale.
THE NEW WORLD (front cover)
ISSUE 476, MARCH 26, 2026 | UK: 

Photos of part of Reeves’s face and part of Starmer’s - side by side with text superimposed on their faces…


BREXIT WAS

It's only taken them 10 years...

A DISASTER

.. but FINALLY the government agrees with us

OFFICIAL
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Byline Times @bylinetimes.bsky.social · 28/03/2026
📚 Weekend Reads — Farage’s Staggering Side Hustles Nigel Farage has spent more than 1,113 hours – or 140 working days – on his various other jobs since being elected to Parliament in July… subscribe.bylinetimes.com/edition/8…
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Farage’s Staggering Side Hustles – Byline Times Digital / Print Edition
Nigel Farage has spent more than 1,113 hours – or 140 working days – on his various other jobs since being elected to Parliament in July 2024.
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 28/03/2026
So it turns out the real scandal of the Gorton and Denton by-election was the willingness of media organisations to collude in Nigel Farage's attempt to undermine the result of a free and fair election www.adambienkov.co.uk/p/how-the-bb...
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How the BBC and Daily Mail Spread Reform's ‘Family Voting’ Lies
The real scandal of the Gorton and Denton by-election was the willingness of media organisations to collude in Nigel Farage's attempt to undermine the result of a free and fair election
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
Why should any political donations other than a standard annual party membership fee (say £25) be permitted? All other options allow wealthy people disproportionate political influence.
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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 22/03/2026
“Whether it be Farage flying to the USA to call for sanctions that would hammer Britain’s economy, or his party treasurer jetting off to Nicaragua to do business with people sanctioned by the British state, they’re incapable of acting in the national interest.” www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...
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Reform UK’s treasurer ‘met internationally sanctioned individuals’ on Nicaragua trip
Billionaire property tycoon Nick Candy visited the central American country last week
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 22/03/2026
So it turns out Reform are laundering their donations through crypto, before converting them into cash, hiding the original source of the money. So who is really funding Nigel Farage and Reform UK? observer.co.uk/news/nationa...
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Reform accused of using third party to turn crypto into c...
Digital currency donations have been turned into sterling to make them much less easy to track, sources say
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Peter Jukes @peterjukes.bsky.social · 22/03/2026
More ominous Trump, Musk, Thiel connections for the new German owner of the Telegraph, Mathias Döpfner and his son The climate change denying hard right are everywhere in media these days open.substack.com/pub/bylineti...
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Takeover at the Telegraph
As the Brexit-opposed German company Axel Springer SE acquires the EU-hating Telegraph, Julian Petley examines the politics of the man at the centre of the deal, CEO Mathias Döpfner
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Azul = Blue @azulequalsblue.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
Taking care of business. We need to do this and move on.
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Alan Rusbridger @arusbridger.bsky.social · 21/03/2026
If (as Andrew Neil says) GB News has become Reform TV then maybe there’s a case for the @ElectoralCommUK to start taking an interest app.prospectmagazine.co.uk/story/72784/...
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GB News seems to have become Reform TV—and Ofcom hasn’t stopped it
Whether they are charged with keeping our news impartial, our water clean or our elections fair, Britain’s regulators are dozing
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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 19/03/2026
🎡London’s economy is; 📉 £30 billion smaller than if the UK had stayed in the EU 💼 Employment in the capital is down 230,000 jobs 👪 The average family is about £3,500 worse off, he argued.
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UK should rejoin EU, says Sadiq Khan as France opens door to return to Single Market
The capital’s economy is £30 billion smaller than if the UK had stayed in the EU, says the London Mayor
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