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Jim Higham

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Photographer. Love wildlife. Climate change is our biggest existential threat.

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Peter Geoghegan @petergeoghegan.bsky.social · 6h
Here's the full story that the Tony Blair Institute doesn't want to answer questions about, on Democracy for Sale
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Tony’s minor tantrum: how Blair’s institute responded to fresh “cash for access” questions
We asked TBI about allegations of £500,000 corporate memberships and a logo that vanished at Labour conference. They said they’re not talking to us anymore
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 6h
Kemi Badenoch condemned Reform's ban on critical journalists covering their conference as "authoritarian", saying her own party would never do the same as "we believe in free speech. We believe in a free press." Now the Conservatives have banned Byline Times from their conference
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Kemi Badenoch's Conservatives Ban Byline Times From Conference After Condemning Reform for Journalist Ban
The ban comes just weeks after the Conservative leader called Reform's barring of critical journalists from their conference an "authoritarian" attack on the free press
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Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 13h
It’s pretty nuts. Tom Watson’s very first intervention in his new job at spytech firm Palantir is to write a letter to his former colleague @labourlewis.bsky.social detailing all the times the firm has monitored his anti-Palantir activities
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Paul Bernal @paulbernal.bsky.social · 11h
“Stop accusing us of spying! We’ve been watching you!”
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 13h
This is an outstanding point
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
If people don't want to pay tax to make this country function and help out the rest of society and particularly those who need help most... then maybe they should move to Dubai and stop bleating about it. Really sick to death of it.
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Kevin the Librarian 🇪🇺🇺🇦🇨🇦🏳️‍🌈 @the-librarian.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Just another ‘man of the people’ having a break in a turreted villa on the French Riviera with the wife of Russian oligarch and ex Kremlin finance minister Vladimir Chernukhin.
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Richard Tice failed to register lavish hospitality from former Russian finance minister's wife – HOPE not hate
IN BREACH OF PARLIAMENTARY RULES: REFORM UK’S RICHARD TICE Reform UK deputy leader Richard Tice has broken parliamentary rules by failing to register lavish hospitality...
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Guy Shrubsole @guyshrubsole.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Energy Secretary Miatta Fahnbulleh earlier today at Labour conference: “This summer something changed… the hottest summer since records began… climate change is here. And yet there are politicians who refuse to see it… we have a duty to protect our communities. This has always been Labour’s fight”
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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
It will never not be wild to me that the Russians attacked Keir Starmer's home, successfully spread falsehoods about Starmer's love life, and this didn't changed British politics and British political elite behaviour *at all*.
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Jim Higham @jimhigham.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
The last brood of small copper butterflies of the year, at @kentwildlife.bsky.social Oare reserve. Box fresh, as apparently they say these days. @savebutterflies.bsky.social
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Pope Innocent III,who died in 1216, spoke of a certain kind of older man, who is "easily provoked", "will believe anything and question nothing", is "stingy and greedy" and "praises the good old days and hates the present." Reform UK's voter base has been knocking around for a very long time.
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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
They warned us Mamdani would impose Sharia law. Instead, he unleashed the real threat: line dancing in Bryant Park.
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Abilu Tangwa. @abilutangwa.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Floods don’t ask for your passport. Droughts don’t care about your politics. Heatwaves don’t check your race or income. Climate change is the definition of a global crisis. It will only be solved by global leadership that puts people and planet above short-term politics. Let’s demand it.
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Jim Higham @jimhigham.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
I’d be grateful for help identifying this please, taken in Canterbury UK lad week. Thank you. #birds @rspbengland.bsky.social @rspbengland.bsky.social @kentwildlife.bsky.social @birdlifeeurope.bsky.social
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Jim Higham @jimhigham.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Lots of clouded yellow butterflies in Kent especially at Elmley NNR @savebutterflies.bsky.social @kentwildlife.bsky.social @naturalengland.bsky.social
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James Austin @jamesdaustin.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
The Guardian at least leading with the actual story here
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Far-right activist Daniel Thomas slashes dinghy in Channel with blade while rescue worker onboard
Thomas called followers to protest against arrival of asylum seekers in Gosport, but Border Force instead transported them to Dover
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
The total weaponisation of the poppy over the last ten years by the right is undoubtedly one of the more unpleasant and depressing elements in our national pantomime. It's become a de facto nationalist symbol.
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Jim Higham @jimhigham.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Lots of clouded yellow butterflies in Kent especially at Elmley NNR @savebutterflies.bsky.social @kentwildlife.bsky.social @naturalengland.bsky.social
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Carole with an e @crwright.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Having lived through those years, I remember the fear many reporters faced but carried on despite all. Thank you.
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Reece Dinsdale @reecedinsdale.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
It’s time to stop adhering to a decade-old referendum that caused us nothing but problems. An increasingly volatile world now changes faster, year on year. The days of Empire are long gone. We cannot survive alone. We need the power/safety of our neighbours. Unity not isolation.
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Jim Higham @jimhigham.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Wait for it, wait for it. #kingfisher dives and returns without a fish. Stodmarsh NNR, Canterbury. #birds @naturalengland.bsky.social @rspb.bsky.social @rspbengland.bsky.social @kentwildlife.bsky.social
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Eddie Burfi @eddieburfi.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Jim Ratcliffe. A man so ‘patriotic’ he pushed for Brexit, then jumped ship to Monaco as a tax exile. Loves the prestige and benefits of his British knighthood, of owning a British club, and of getting British gov grants. Just not paying into the country that provides these. Listen to Manchester.❤️
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Fionna O’Leary @fascinatorfun.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Rich assholes like this grind my teeth. Earned his billions off the petrochemical industry Backed Brexit squeezing the UK into a poorer less powerful corner Doesn’t admit that HE is one of the reasons we are in the state we are in Not worth the steam off my coffee www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Billionaire Manchester United owner Sir Jim Ratcliffe says he has lost confidence in UK
Ineos founder Sir Jim Ratcliffe tells the BBC he thinks the country is "on the slide" and calls for more investment in the North Sea.
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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
British journalism and polling are both utterly implicated in the Farage funding scandal iandunt.substack.com/p/british-jo...
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Jim Higham @jimhigham.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Let me state this clearly. For the UK, fossil fuels are unreliable as a power source. Because they’re controlled by foreigners who just want profit. The UK must rapidly move away from dependence on fossil fuels and take back control of its energy. Health and wealth will improve.
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M Meerkat @kackbro.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Asking 77 Million People How......?
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Lady Tina Murphy @tinamur.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
I believe they're deadly serious! I am Irish and when my family went to England we were met with No Blacks, No Irish, No Dogs. Years later I met a woman who, not knowing I am Irish, espoused the view "why did they have to bring their families" in a discussion about immigrants building England.
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Anyone remember that time when two fighting aged men living at those barracks ran amok and assaulted a member of the public.... why didn't Piddington declare independence then I wonder? www.oxfordmail.co.uk/news/2324828...
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Soldiers banned from every pub in Bicester after 'dreadful' attack on civilian
Bradley Barr and Owen Thomas, both 20, were given community orders
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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
“Life is crap, vote for us” is a losing message. The first half is not true and, even if it were, the second does not follow. Farage…used to know all this.” But now he just lines his pockets while he moans and exudes hatred and disloyalty. We’re very bored of it. giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...
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The British right’s patriotism problem
Andy Burnham seems at ease in his country. Are his opponents?
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ResJudicata22 @resjudicata22.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Cartoonist: Slyngstad
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Paul Brand @paulbrand.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Andy Burnham’s father, Roy, has passed away. The Prime Minister said one of his greatest regrets was that his dad didn’t quite understand that his son had made it to Number 10. The PM has cancelled all engagements for today.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
What a surprise to learn that a Russian oligarch close to Putin paid for Junior’s lavish wedding. Who could’ve expected it?
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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Paul Simon pays tribute to the victims of 9/11 by performing “The Sound of Silence.”
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Miaganga @miaganga.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
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Tanita Tikaram @tanitatikaram.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
What I love about Western democracy is you can bung a political party £ 36 million earned from criminal activity & most media will continue to point at asylum seekers & migrant care workers with families as the barbarians at the gate we need to defend ourselves from 🙄.
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Jim Higham @jimhigham.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Golden brown #hare #autumn at Elmley NNR. @kentwildlife.bsky.social @naturalengland.bsky.social @rspbengland.bsky.social @rspb.bsky.social
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Jim Higham @jimhigham.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Golden brown #hare #autumn at Elmley NNR. @kentwildlife.bsky.social @naturalengland.bsky.social @rspbengland.bsky.social @rspb.bsky.social
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Jim Higham @jimhigham.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Badenoch being a typical hypocritical lying Tory. Yes, she like Farage barred journalists she didn’t like from her conference. Disgusting. Undemocratic.
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Jim Higham @jimhigham.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
At Elmley NNR on Monday a small group gathered to commemorate a brave British pilot who died that day, shot down and undiscovered for 10 years. He and remains of his plane landed in water at what is now ElmleyNNR in Kent.
Memorial plaque at Elmley NNR to a WW2 pilot killed in September 1940 at the start of the blitz
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Kevin Thurston @del-boy.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
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Donate to the RNLI and help save lives at sea
Your donations really make a difference. We depend on your generosity to educate people to stay safe and prevent tragedies on and offshore. Donate here.
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
⏱️ www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Police launch criminal investigation into Reform UK donations
The investigation, which follows a broadcast by Channel 4 News, is being folded into the inquiry that has been underway into other donations.
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Photography by Alfie Goodrich @alfie.photography · 07/09/2026
And 90 years later we have Mosley’s grandson running the UK arm of Palantir. A company that should not be within a million miles of the Police and NHS. Pretty much every time you see Louis Mosley on tv, he’s dressed like this. Could be that he just likes black shirts, I guess.
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Jim Higham @jimhigham.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Fascism is not acceptable in any form
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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 08/09/2026
On point ⬇️ The ‘stop the boats’ narrative is increasingly presented as if it stems from a concern for women’s safety. This is just the laundering of thuggery.
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Why does the hard right have such a high tolerance for domestic abusers in their midst?
The ‘stop the boats’ narrative is increasingly presented as if it stems from a concern for women’s safety. This is just
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Jim Higham @jimhigham.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Golf clubs get exemption from hosepipe bans but still break water rules. The rich don’t think rules apply to themselves.
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Jim Higham @jimhigham.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Strong #autumn vibes at Elmley NNR. @kentwildlife.bsky.social @naturalengland.bsky.social @rspbengland.bsky.social @rspb.bsky.social
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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
“We didn’t do anything wrong” •They did something wrong. “The donation wasn’t made” •Doesn’t matter. And plenty were. “We didn’t commission the polling” •They did. “Loose pub talk” •Haha. It’s their business model. “Contractors” •Fallguys “I wasn’t listening” •Utter horseshit. Farage translated.
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🏃‍♂️The Runner🏃‍♂️ @therunnner.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
The current Congress is the worst in history. period.
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RB @rbisrb.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Same As It Ever Was...
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Jaime @llamasngeese.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
For a second there I was worried the Secretary of Defense might be expected to know something about our weapons stockpiles... You either have depleted inventories that will take years to replenish or you don’t. “Years” isn’t a rounding error.
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