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Jane Duncan

@janecourt.bsky.social
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Retired journalist, interests: left-wing politics, criminal courts, theatre & cinema, tennis & swimming.

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Jane Duncan @janecourt.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Have the Tories learned nothing? We are still paying for Thatcher’s nonsense — water privatisation, sale of social housing etc. And as for austerity — will our economy ever recover? But Badenoch can only look backwards. Let’s hope electors memories don’t fade.
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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 04/10/2026
Reform UK’s ‘Small Boat Watch’ app is in flagrant violation of both Google Play and the Apple Store’s rules. Send an email to the Apple’s Head of the UK App Store and the General Manager of Games on Google Play to demand that this app is removed immediately.
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Tell Apple and Google: Remove 'Small Boat Watch' from your app store - Best for Britain
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Jane Duncan @janecourt.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Note the contrast between them & those defending the Palestinians who have been designated ‘terrorists’ — many of them OAPs.
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Jane Duncan @janecourt.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Peaceful ‘protesters’ don’t dress in black, mask their faces & arrive all together in vans at a Channel port on the off chance they can shout at migrants. These are organised para-military fascists & should be treated as such. Please note: BBC, Times, Telegraph, etc.
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Jane Duncan @janecourt.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
News sense? Does the Observer really believe that the sad fate of some Nepalese mountaineers, is of primary interest to the majority of its UK readers? Front page lead??
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Claiming that he was some sort of brilliant writer when he wrote shite like that
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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 06/08/2026
Luciana Berger: "The decision to welcome this individual as an adviser to the leader of the Opposition is no better than allowing him to stand as a council candidate. "It is a privileged and influential national role. As a victim of this man’s heinous crimes, this appointment is an insult."
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'An Insult': Kemi Badenoch Condemned For Making Former Neo-Nazi A Tory Adviser
Joshua Bonehill-Paine was given the role after standing down as a Conservative election candidate.
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Roland Smith @rolandmcs.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
Why not just fire her? Does she really have a power base in the PLP? Considering her awful stint at the Home Office, I'm really not clear what skills Mahmood is bringing to anything.
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Nick Reeves #FBPE #NAFO @nickreeves.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
Please repost if you want our Freedom of Movement restored. We were robbed of our right to live, work, study, and love in 30 countries by the worst abuses of democracy in modern British history.
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Trickcyclist 🦋🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇪🇺 @trickcyclist.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
Let’s face it Farage is as dodgy and corrupt as they come and in no way suitable to be in politics.
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Cornish Skipper #FBPE #RejoinEU 🇪🇺🔶🌹💚💙 @cornishskipper.wsocial.eu · 11/07/2026
The more I read the more this looks huge. The fascist tapeworm is just one cog in a very big wheel. Vote next week must ban crypto donations permanently and set domestic limit. Feels a bit last chance corral.
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Oh God, What Now? – the politics podcast @ohgodwhatnow.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
The Mail on Burnham becoming PM without a general election vs. when Tories do it: 🤯
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Byline Times @bylinetimes.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
🔴 The Walls Are Closing In Around Nigel Farage’s Crypto Insurgency Nigel Farage’s party is now connected to multiple parliamentary and police investigations, as questions grow about its opaque crypto-connected funding, reports @mattmgallagher.bsky.social bylinetimes.com/2026/07/10/t...
bylinetimes.com
The Walls Are Closing In Around Nigel Farage's Crypto Insurgency
Nigel Farage's party is now connected to multiple parliamentary and police investigations, as questions grow about its opaque crypto-connected funding, reports Matt Gallagher
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Jane Duncan @janecourt.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
Will somebody please buy King Charles a pair of chinos & a short-sleeve shirt. Who on earth visits a Zoo on a very hot day wearing a suit and tie?
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Jane Duncan @janecourt.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
Why do tennis players of all levels, have to carry two huge sports bags full of their gear, on to court? It’s a wonder they don’t have shoulder problems. Couldn’t one of their team carry the kit?
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Farage resigns his seat in Clacton forcing a by election which he ... er plans to stand in. Huge performative cost to the taxpayers to feather his ego. I hope it backfires spectacularly
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Robert Hutton @roberthutton.co.uk · 07/07/2026
Calling a by-election over the sovereign right of every MP to take secret gifts from a convicted criminal. What a time to be alive.
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David Henig @davidheniguk.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Farage is doing what fascists do. Claiming the "will of the people" or "his people" is more important than the law.
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David Henig @davidheniguk.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
The age old persecution ruse, it wasn't fair that I was asked questions about a five million bung and goodness knows what else from the crypto bros, I'm a man of the people really.
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Paul Brand @paulbrand.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
The tactic is clear: Bulldoze the various investigations into his finances. Recapture the limelight just as Burnham becomes Prime Minister. Win a likely victory to try and regain momentum for Reform UK after a rocky two months.
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Jane Duncan @janecourt.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
He’s going to stand again in the by-election — Let’s make sure he loses heavily. Will they recognise him? He’s hardly been seen there.
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Jane Duncan @janecourt.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Oh he’s resigning as the MP for Clacton. Will they notice?
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Jane Duncan @janecourt.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Farage using the media for a 20 minute party-political! What an unconscionable load of rubbish.
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sianushka.bsky.social @sianushka.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
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Loon Watcher @loonwatch.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
You can prove anything with facts...
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Naomi Smith @pimlicat.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
Migrant homes and businesses being set alight by “protestors” in Belfast tonight. Musk has helped start another pogrom in the U.K. Yet still our Gvt won’t leave X.
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Jane Duncan @janecourt.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
Strange how the BBC failed to mention that the Sudanese man accused of horrible stabbing in Belfast, was granted asylum by Suella Braverman, Tory Home Secretary, & Robert Jenrick, Tory immigration minister. Both now members of Reform .
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Good Law Project @goodlawproject.org · 03/06/2026
🚨 BREAKING 🚨 MPs call for government to kick Palantir out of the NHS goodlawproject.org/mps-call-for-gov…
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MPs call for government to kick Palantir out of the NHS | Good Law Project
Cross-party committee identifies Palantir’s ‘clear mismatch with UK values’ and calls on ministers to bring the spy-tech firm’s data contract with the NHS to an end
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Jane Duncan @janecourt.bsky.social · 31/05/2026
Roland Garros: Could somebody tell McEnroe to stop yacking through the rallies. It’s infuriating.
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Bremain in Spain @bremaininspain.com · 25/05/2026
Farage said ‘he can’t be bought’ - the facts say otherwise! On the same day Christopher Harborne gives Reform £3m, Nigel Farage says Reform will lift cap on stablecoin ownership Christopher Harborne’s money comes from Stablecoins! Superb from @thenerve.news www.thenerve.news/p/investigat...
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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 24/05/2026
Farage plans to ditch workers’ rights, cut the NMW, scrap the Equality Act, legalise discrimination, take us out of the ECHR and have a deregulation bonanza to remove our protections and make it easier to exploit and endanger us… for profit. He couldn’t give a shit about working people.
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Reform UK is the true party of the workers now If I am prime minister there will be no tax payable on overtime. Millions will be noticeably better off
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Parody Nigel Farage @parodypm.bsky.social · 24/05/2026
80% of Reform's funding comes from people who avoid tax by hiding money offshore. Our idea of true patriotism is to hoard money while contributing nothing towards public services. Just ask Richard Tice.
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The News Agents @thenewsagents.co.uk · 23/05/2026
A cellist with bacon on his shirt. A tuneless You'll Never Walk Alone. Rubbish piled up in the streets. To many, Tommy Robinson's Unite The Kingdom event was a national embarrassment, but JD Vance has praised the march. Are MAGA brains "pickled"? www.thenewsagents.co.uk/article/why-...
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Why is JD Vance siding with Tommy Robinson? | The News Agents
Far-right criminal Tommy Robinson has been backed by the US deputy president. What does US support for the UK's growing far-right movement say about the MAGA mentality right now?
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Peter Geoghegan @petergeoghegan.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
🔴 Keir Starmer promised to crackdown on "Slapps" - abusive libel cases to silence journalists and critics Then Labour quietly dropped it We can reveal why: a three-year lobbying blitz by libel lawyers who've acted for Russian oligarchs, Epstein + more democracyforsale.substack.com/p/how-lawyer...
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How lawyers to the super-rich strangled Labour's Slapp bill
Exclusive: A discreet lobbying campaign by lawyers who have acted for oligarchs and the super-rich told government that reforming England's libel laws was too difficult.
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Jane Duncan @janecourt.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
Interesting seating in China: Xi’s chair about 18” higher than Trump’s?
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Jane Duncan @janecourt.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
Why is the BBC pandering to the bigots on immigration? Surely they can leave it to xenophobic Reform UK. There will always be some who play the system but those who lie to the Home Office must be minimal in the scheme of things & the BBC must have more serious matters to investigate.
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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
This government's anti-immigration agenda will starve Britain of skilled labour and global talent for decades to come inews.co.uk/opinion/reev...
inews.co.uk
Reeves's real nemesis isn't Trump. It's the British woman intent on making us poorer
The anti-immigration agenda which will starve Britain of skilled labour and global talent for decades to come
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Stuart Davidson 🇬🇱 @stutheeditor.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
So, the 'regime change' wasn't Iran after all, it was Hungary 🤔
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Daniel Drezner @dandrezner.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
Really looking forward to JD Vance campaigning for Netanyahu later this year.
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 11/04/2026
Those US-Iran negotiations in a nutshell: Iran sent 4 PhDs to Islamabad. The US sent a real estate developer, a son-in-law, a lawyer and a general.
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The Empty City @davidallengreen.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
Trump may not carry out the threat. But the fact he even made such a threat means he should immediately be removed from office. For that is the purpose of a constitution with checks and balances.
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John Oxley @joxley.jmoxley.co.uk · 08/04/2026
If US politics had discovered the concept of object permanence, he'd be fucked. Alas...
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Cambridge for Europe @cambsforeurope.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
Europe will breath a collective sigh of relief at Trump backing down on Iran, but this whole episode has highlighted how dangerously unreliable the US has become. European democracies must unite to defend our collective security and sovereignty www.theguardian.com/commentisfre... (1/2)
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Europe cannot bet on a post-Trump US turning back to sanity | Rafael Behr
If the president’s first term didn’t inoculate the American body politic against tyranny, there is no guarantee that a second dose will work, says Guardian columnist Rafael Behr
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Judd Legum @juddlegum.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
Whatever happens, this is a deeply shameful episode in American history that will leave a permanent stain on the country. Repeatedly vowing to commit war crimes against millions of innocent civilians is beyond the pale.
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Russ Jones @russincheshire.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
He is insane. And this is an open declaration of intended genocide. If any other world leader said this, there would be sanctions and an arrest warrant, not just for him, but for his whole regime.
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Spencer Ackerman @attackerman.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
“A whole civilization will die tonight” is the most vile thing a US president has ever said, certainly during the post-1945 era when they’ve had the power to kill civilizations with the dropping of a bomb. I’m staring into the darkness. May this not be one of the most fateful days in human history.
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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 07/04/2026
🇬🇮 "Under the treaty, weighing in at more than a thousand pages and taking far longer to produce than the Brexit Withdrawal Agreement, Gibraltar, for the purposes of free movement, will effectively be part of the EU’s passport-free Schengen area." Are we the only ones that are jealous?
realinstitutoelcano.org
Gibraltar set to feel the impact of its new reality
The EU-UK treaty on Gibraltar will enter provisionally into force, avoiding a hard and not a fluid border and its econom
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Garrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
In all seriousness, one thing that might be worth doing today: Tell your Reps and Senators to call Adm. Richard Correll, the Commander of U.S. Strategic Command, which controls the nation's nukes, and remind him of *his* unique responsibility to refuse an illegal order.
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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
UK will not allow US to use air bases for infrastructure attacks, signals Downing Street www.ft.com/content/e7b1...
ft.com
UK signals it will not let US use British bases to attack Iran’s civilian infrastructure
Downing Street reiterates that Iran conflict ‘isn’t our war’
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Maxwell Frost @maxwellfrost.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
I'm not sure how you can be against removing this man from office right now. What will it take? A nuke being dropped? It's too late then. The purpose of impeachment and the 25th Amendment is to prevent that type of thing from happening, not just to react to it.
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