Reposted by Ian BurtonSir Michael Take CBE @sirmichaeltake.bsky.social · 13/10/2026It seems that Nigel Farage has taken the hint and has decided to spend more time in his constituency of Clacton. So much so that he has bought a new house for himself and his family in the local area: 561077195
Reposted by Ian BurtonPeter Geoghegan @petergeoghegan.bsky.social · 07/10/2026🔴 SCOOP: The chair of a lobbying firm paid by the UAE sits on a government council advising ministers on how Britain uses sport and culture abroad. As Man City's verdict puts Abu Dhabi in the spotlight, our latest investigation 🧵 democracyforsale.substack.com/p/revealed-u...democracyforsale.substack.comRevealed: UAE lobbyist advising UK government on sport and foreign policyFGS Global chair Roland Rudd accused of "blatant conflict of interest" for advising ministers on foreign affairs while his firm lobbies for UAE embassy 7376178
Reposted by Ian BurtonZack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Labour just don't get it. They don't get how scared people are with extreme weather becoming our new normal. We need voices in parliament that will force them to take wildfires seriously, not quietly shirk responsibility. 411358440
Reposted by Ian BurtonAlasdair Beckett-King @misterabk.bsky.social · 03/10/2026I read the news today, oh boy 2153077
Reposted by Ian BurtonChapps @chapps.bsky.social · 01/10/2026These fragments from a Roman villa in Spain are not from a mosaic but from a fresco. If you look closely you’ll see a grid of lines, many following the contour of the figures, much as tesserae do on mosaics. This trompe-l’oeil technique simulates mosaics. 1/ 🏺 1st-2nd c. Museo de Málaga 📸 me 431177
Reposted by Ian BurtonTariq Panja @tariqpanja.bsky.social · 01/10/2026So after years of insisting to the point of demanding corrections of anyone saying Manchester City is owned by the UAE and not a private investment of “his highness” sheikh Mansour, City will now insist in its appeal that City is actually owned by the UAE. Riiiggghhht then. 🥸 834877
Reposted by Ian BurtonRebecca R Helm @rebeccarhelm.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Magical creatures don’t exist, eh? Roughly 400 million years ago, before the birth of trees, there were giant mystery cones called “Prototaxites,” which grew nearly 30 feet tall. We literally have no idea what they were. Plant: no Mushroom: no Animal: no Tell me this isn’t a little bit magic 47841221
Reposted by Ian BurtonTariq Panja @tariqpanja.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Andy Burnham's comments today expose the situation of selling national football teams to foreign states. He's taking a view, at least in one reading of his comments, that corrupting the national game is not as big an issue as potentially losing foreign investment in Manchester. 1416340
Reposted by Ian BurtonChris Lepkowski @chrislepkowski.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Well, I am shocked... (I'm not!) 415456
Reposted by Ian BurtonPhilippe Auclair @philippeauclair.bsky.social · 29/09/2026"The league said the commission had found City used schemes “to artificially inflate the club’s revenues, and reduce its costs, by more than £900m during the affected period, to appear to comply with financial rules”. £900 million. 2718861
Reposted by Ian BurtonMartin Calladine @uglygame.bsky.social · 29/09/2026"The purpose of these schemes was found to have been to artificially inflate the club’s revenues, and reduce its costs, by more than £900 million." That is an absolutely massive sporting fraud. www.premierleague.com/en/news/4727...premierleague.comPremier League Statement: Manchester City FCAn independent Commission has found Manchester City FC guilty of all charges related to serious breaches of the Premier League’s financial rules over a nine-season period, and the majority of charges in relation to its failure to co-operate with the League’s investigation. 622188
Reposted by Ian BurtonDefend Our Juries @defendourjuries.bsky.social · 29/09/202615 minutes later, they admitted their mistake and released him without any apology. He was in the area outside the Labour Party conference with his dog, his mum and his sister witnessing the arrests of over 150 peaceful sign-holders, and at no point did he hold a sign himself. 17828
Reposted by Ian BurtonZack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Why is the Government going after pensioners? It's time to tax the rich 2161500406
Reposted by Ian BurtonPhilippe Auclair @philippeauclair.bsky.social · 25/09/2026A very good afternoon to you all.nytimes.comManchester City found guilty on almost all Premier League charges relating to financial breachesCity were charged by the Premier League in February 2023. 3040837
Reposted by Ian Burtonsolomonhughes.bsky.social @solomonhughes.bsky.social · 25/09/2026George Osborne, British Museum Chair and Palantir's Peter Thiel are both investors in the same Defence Tech company. By coincidence, Peter Thiel was given a VIP tour of the Bayeux Tapestry at the British Museum before even the King or PM - Osborne-Thiel links in current @privateeyenews.bsky.social 38730
Reposted by Ian BurtonGijs Brekelmans @gys.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Meta removed a video by a satirist wearing Meta glasses asking unrecognizable Meta personnel about Meta glasses. Meta's ground for doing so - and please appreciate the irony here - is... harassment. 9518248
Reposted by Ian BurtonAdam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 19/09/2026Why does the BBC have as one of its lead news stories this morning another Britain-hating interview with Jim 'the UK has been colonised by immigrants' Ratcliffe? What public interest is this serving? 5253371722
Reposted by Ian BurtonDefend Our Juries @defendourjuries.bsky.social · 18/09/2026Spycops Could Be Authorised to Have Sex With Palestine Action Activists, Says Ex-Special Branch Chief “I’m using existing examples which we have seen reported recently, or fairly recently, as the kinds of things which might justify that authorisation,” novaramedia.com/2026/09/17/s...novaramedia.comSpycops Could Be Authorised to Have Sex With Palestine Action Activists, Says Ex-Special Branch ChiefA former spycop who once led the Met’s special branch said undercover officers could be authorised to have sex with direct actionists they are spying on. 52525
Reposted by Ian BurtonGeorge Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 18/09/2026As 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...lrb.co.ukPeter Geoghegan and Lucas Amin · ‘This looks absolutely rubbish’: Palantir and the NHSA decade ago Palantir was largely unknown in the UK. It now holds public contracts worth hundreds of millions of pounds... 18634441861
Reposted by Ian BurtonZack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 18/09/2026Palantir have just bought themselves a Labour Lord with close links to the Labour government. No other word to describe this other than corruption. How can Watson remain a member of the House of Lords and keep the Labour whip? 922313828
Reposted by Ian BurtonDefend Our Juries @defendourjuries.bsky.social · 17/09/2026“They’re worried about prison overcrowding… yet they propose to put 3,000 people in prison for the great crime of holding up a placard, which apparently makes them into being a terrorist.” It’s time for @andyburnham.bsky.social to Lift The Ban on Palestine Action: wedonotcomply.orgwedonotcomply.orgSaving Lives Is Not Terrorism - Defend Our Juries🗓️ On September 27th, we are taking the defiance to Andy Burnham’s Labour Conference in Liverpool. For over a year now we’ve been getting arrested under the UK Terrorism Act in our thousands for holdi... 1189
Reposted by Ian BurtonWill Jennings📉🗳️ @drjennings.bsky.social · 12/09/2026Politicians on the centre-left and centre-right simply don't seem to understand they are in an existential battle for the future of British democracy. 601452378
Reposted by Ian BurtonAdam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 11/09/2026A 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 14623521203
Reposted by Ian BurtonKevin Wilbraham @kpw1453.bsky.social · 11/09/2026The ‘Winfarthing Pendant’ - a 7th century Anglo-Saxon disc brooch that was discovered by a metal detectorist in 2015 at Winfarthing, near Diss in South Norfolk. Now part of the collections at Norwich Castle. 📸 My own. #FindsFriday #Winfarthing #NorwichCastle 426062
Reposted by Ian BurtonPatrick Andelic @pkandelic.bsky.social · 09/09/2026I went back to listen to it and it’s genuinely quite shocking. 45501192
Reposted by Ian BurtonMic Wright @brokenbottleboy.bsky.social · 09/09/2026Justin Webb is doing the ‘you’re not a *proper* Jew, are you?’ thing to Ed Miliband on the Today programme right now. 50508115
Reposted by Ian BurtonZack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 08/09/2026Our Green MPs have consistently spoken out and voted on the right side of history. Standing up against ethnic cleansing, occupation and genocide, as all MPs should be doing. www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...independent.co.ukIsrael bans 12 British MPs from entering country after West Bank sanctions rowIsraeli foreign minister Gideon Saar unveiled the counter-measures in response to sanctions on illegal West Bank settlements 561281348
Reposted by Ian BurtonParody Nigel Farage @parodypm.bsky.social · 08/09/2026I'd like to thank this lady. Reform would be nowhere at all without people as unutterably stupid as her. 3021700427
Reposted by Ian BurtonZack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 07/09/2026Labour has banned peaceful protest for Palestine. It should not be hard for Andy Burnham to condemn thugs. 571692498
Reposted by Ian BurtonPeter Geoghegan @petergeoghegan.bsky.social · 05/09/2026Are we at the stage where we can ask about the timing of this just as Reform and Farage are facing day 2 of huge questions about foreign donations and breaking the law? 15266101
Reposted by Ian BurtonParody Nigel Farage @parodypm.bsky.social · 05/09/2026I for one have had enough of people who can barely speak English, living on benefits, ignoring our laws and wearing weird clothes that cover up their faces. So it was disappointing to see a few hundred of them gathered in Dover today. 2622219599
Reposted by Ian Burtonsianushka.bsky.social @sianushka.bsky.social · 05/09/2026Kent police call this a “spontaneous protest”. Hope not hate show that it is anything but… 014168
Reposted by Ian BurtonDamon Young @damonyoung.com.au · 04/09/2026This Finnish guy has been teaching himself Sumerian, and sent a cuneiform tablet to the British Museum to check his progress. They just emailed him that they've sent him something in the post. I'm now thrilled and excited for a total stranger! Clay tablet mail! www.reddit.com/r/Cuneiform/... 11555021490
Reposted by Ian BurtonPhil Brickell MP @philbrickellmp.bsky.social · 04/09/2026🧵1/ I worked in anti-corruption for years before becoming an MP. Nigel Farage has serious questions to answer following the undercover investigation into Reform UK's fundraising practices. This is now for the police and donations watchdog to resolve, but here is what I want to know:theguardian.comReform officials ‘plotted to break law on foreign donations’ in undercover filmInvestigation broadcast by Channel 4 News shows man posing as ‘impermissible donor’ paying for polling that helped Reform 421027460
Reposted by Ian BurtonGavin Esler @gavinesler.bsky.social · 04/09/2026You couldn’t make it up - 1237390
Reposted by Ian BurtonDefend Our Juries @defendourjuries.bsky.social · 04/09/2026BREAKING 84yo Reverend Sue Parfitt’s home was raided by police today. She had taken part in a peaceful protest on Wednesday with @just-stopoil.bsky.social outside Westminster, calling on Andy Burnham to refuse to reopen new oil & gas licenses in the North Sea. (Footage from a 2025 arrest) 41549327
Reposted by Ian BurtonAdam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 04/09/2026The Nigel Farage and Reform foreign donations scandal excluded from all but one national newspaper front page this morning. No sign of it at all on the front pages of the two papers which splashed the polls secretly funded by a Reform donor earlier this year 13024131023
Reposted by Ian BurtonTanita Tikaram @tanitatikaram.bsky.social · 04/09/2026I hope there are journalists , producers & news editors at BBC News who are ashamed that they aren’t breaking this story which affects our national security & democracy. I also hope that someone in our national broadcaster will break ranks & find the courage to tell us why . 712832
Reposted by Ian BurtonAbbey @abbeyarletto.bsky.social · 02/09/2026This is what living next door to a 30 megawatt data center sounds like. 61172944262
Reposted by Ian BurtonParody Nigel Farage @parodypm.bsky.social · 01/09/2026“I swear by almighty God that I will be faithful and bear true allegiance to myself alone, making as much money as I possibly can while doing absolutely fuck all for the poor dimwits who voted for me, so help me God” 521152293
Reposted by Ian BurtonTanita Tikaram @tanitatikaram.bsky.social · 31/08/2026‘George Osborne is Chair of the British Museum. He's also a partner at Robey Warshaw LLP, a boutique investment bank. Prior to this, he was the Editor-in-Chief of London's Evening Standard newspaper & was the UK's Chancellor of the Exchequer from 2010–2016 & First Secretary of State from 2015–2016’ 710739
Reposted by Ian BurtonZack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 31/08/2026While millions won’t get access to this treasure, the billionaire tech bros class get free VIP access. End Rip Off Britain. Send Palantir packing. www.theguardian.com/culture/2026...theguardian.comBritish Museum hosted Palantir founder Peter Thiel in private viewing of Bayeux tapestryConcern among staff that fragile artwork’s scarce ‘light hours’ given to someone with no known interest in museum 561093350
Reposted by Ian BurtonRobin Ince @robinince.bsky.social · 31/08/2026The Spectator - for racists and rapists - they can have that for their next advert if they want 620948
Reposted by Ian BurtonBen Mullin @benmullin.bsky.social · 31/01/2026Among the batch of newly released emails from Jeffrey Epstein: Epstein telling Peter Thiel he would “gladly share…expenses for the Gawker suit.” This was sent the day after @rmac.bsky.social and @mattdrange.bsky.social reported in Forbes that Thiel was behind the lawsuit that would bankrupt Gawker 5635501196
Reposted by Ian BurtonZack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 28/08/2026Politico journalist reporting Labour getting nervous already about their blank cheque for new data centres. Keep up the pressure folks. It's the people Vs the tech bros 👇🏽 671049366
