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Liberal tweedy. Countryside, cooking and wine. Happily married. Anti Trump (president). Etc. Forensic Psychology

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Lizzy Price @lizzyjprice.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
If you are unconvinced by the impact of donations, have a listen to @steverichards.bsky.social
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Byline Times @bylinetimes.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Why Reform UK Could Be Forced to Hand Back Their £72m Donations From Crypto Billionaires Christopher Harborne and Ben Delo gave a record £36 million each over the weekend to… bylinetimes.com/2026/09/14/why-refo…
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Why Reform UK Could Be Forced to Hand Back Their £72m Donations From Crypto Billionaires
Christopher Harborne and Ben Delo gave a record £36 million each over the weekend to Nigel Farage's party, but a new law means they may have to take it all back
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Nicky @nickypattinson.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Republican telling a lie? Shocker!
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Lizzy Price @lizzyjprice.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
This is Reform. Old, angry misinformed white ppl beating up young ppl, literally destroying the future. And grifting, chancer, anti-net zero, liar in chief Farage thinks it’s all just marvellous. What a miserable bunch of horrors.
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Hardeep Matharu @hardeepmatharu.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
After James Orr was filmed by undercover reporters, Cambridge University has told the Guardian that it "is looking into these matters". What about the other extensive concerns raised about Orr, Associate Professor of Philosophy of Religion at the Faculty of Divinity at Cambridge, by Byline Times?
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Cambridge University examines conduct of academic suspended by Reform UK
James Orr, an associate professor, was shown in Channel 4 News footage apparently trying to sidestep electoral law
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
This is a first rate investigation of Reform’s dodgy dealings by C4 News. Would be good if other broadcasters did similar.
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loriagne.bsky.social @loriagne.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
HES CORNERED FOR THE CORRUPT LITTLE BASTARD HE TRULY IS. HE HAD THE CHANCE TO SAY NO! NO LAWYER WILL OR CAN DEFEND ANY OF THIS. DRAG HIS BACKSIDE IN TOMORROW AND FIRE HIM. WE ALL KNEW WTF HES CAPABLE OF, THERES YOUR PROOF. JUST SKIMMING THE SURFACE!!!!!!!
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Byline Times @bylinetimes.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
🔴 NEW ‘The 2026 Plan to Steal This Election, and All Those After’ By Brynn Tannehill Read below. ↓
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‘The 2026 Plan to Steal This Election, and All Those After’
If Republicans fail to hold onto the House or Senate in the 2026 midterms, Brynn Tannehill comes to the conclusion that they will reject the results
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Anti-Reform @antireform.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
"Farage’s £5m sugar daddy linked to dodgy crypto site" 'Nigel Farage’s secret donors can both be linked to crypto betting platform implicated in potentially illegal gambling for first time' www.thecanary.co/trending/202...
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Farage’s £5m sugar daddy linked to dodgy crypto site
Uh oh — it looks like two of Nigel Farage's biggest scandals may be merging into one giant mega-scandal. What will we learn next?
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Warren Oates @warrenoates1.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Please also read this post if you need it right now. bsky.app/profile/sath...
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Byline Times @bylinetimes.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
🔴 NEW Nigel Farage Funder George Cottrell’s Accountant Co-Invested With Russia-Linked Indicted Cocaine Trafficker By @nafeez.bsky.social Read below. ↓
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Nigel Farage Funder George Cottrell's Accountant Co-Invested With Russia-Linked Indicted Cocaine Trafficker
The accountancy firm that administers George Cottrell’s Montenegro company, has invested in a property development with the alleged ringleader of the country’s largest money laundering cartel
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Byline Times @bylinetimes.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Nigel Farage Funder George Cottrell’s Accountant Co-Invested With Russia-Linked Indicted Cocaine Trafficker The accountancy firm that administers George Cottrell’s Montenegro company, has invested in a property development with the alleged ringleader of the country’s largest money laundering…
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Nigel Farage Funder George Cottrell’s Accountant Co-Invested With Russia-Linked Indicted Cocaine Trafficker
The accountancy firm that administers George Cottrell’s Montenegro company, has invested in a property development with the alleged ringleader of the country’s largest money laundering cartel
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
Ending rough sleeping should be perfectly achievable if Burnham has the will to achieve it. Official figures suggest there are fewer than 5,000 people sleeping rough on a typical night across England. A problem that one of the richest countries in the world really should be able to fix
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Debbie Northway 🇦🇺🦘🐨 @debbienorthway.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
Trump is going to corrupt the midterms anyway he can
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Nigel (no, not *that* one) - I ♥️ 🇨🇦 @nigelingledew.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
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The Daily Britain @thedailybritain.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
A new investigation alleges Christopher Harborne, now Reform's biggest donor and at the centre of the £5m scandal, was present at the secret Blackfriars meeting and on the campaign trail in Hartlepool the day Farage made the decision that delivered Boris Johnson's Brexit majority.
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Barry Howard 🔶h @barryhow2c.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
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THE NERVE @thenerve.news · 14/06/2026
We are a small, independent news organisation facing aggressive legal pushback. Please consider becoming an annual member of the Nerve for £68 (£5.67/month) to help fund our investigations. thenerve.news/membership
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membership | The Nerve
Fearless, independent journalism on culture, politics and tech
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THE NERVE @thenerve.news · 14/06/2026
We published part one of our investigation - tracking Harborne's political donations alongside pro-crypto announcements from Farage and Johnson last month. You can read that here: 11/ www.thenerve.news/p/investigat...
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Billionaire Christopher Harborne donated millions to Farage and Johnson. Then the pro-crypto announcements began. Is there a connection?
The crypto investor’s £5m gift to Reform’s leader coincided with the party’s new-found advocacy for digital assets – part of a pattern of significant political donations that also included £1m to the ...
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THE NERVE @thenerve.news · 14/06/2026
The Harborne Receipts Crypto, peerages or self-sacrifice– why did Farage gift Boris the 2019 election? Part two of our investigation into the cryptobillionaire’s donations leads to the pivotal general election that took the UK out of Europe. By @carolecadwalla.bsky.social and @luciaoc.bsky.social 1/
 Illustration of Nigel Farage and billionaire Christopher Harborne and Boris Johnson with £  signs mimicking EU logo stars and colours, with the banner ‘The Harborne Receipts’
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Kerry @kerry10.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
This👇👇 Yet who will bleat the loudest? The very same incompetent psychopathic bastards in the Reform Party.
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Helen Morgan MP @helenmorganlibdem.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
We need to end corridor care by freeing up beds throughout hospitals and in social care to end the blight of excess deaths in overcrowded A&E departments.
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Ed Davey @eddavey.libdems.org.uk · 07/06/2026
Yesterday we had JD Vance wading in on British politics. Now we have Pete Hegseth using D-Day commemorations to score a political point. A complete insult to the memory of our D-Day heroes.
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CatWoman @catwomanresists.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
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Sir Richard Mountbasket🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @richmountbasket.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
I knew Harborne gave millions to corrupt Farage - I didn't know he gave £1M to Boris Johnson and nearly £2M to the Tories!
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DrJHAmsterdam @drjohamsterdam.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
Trump gebruikt de VS als melkkoe om zichzelf en zijn familie te verrijken. En er zijn nog steeds onnozelen die in zijn praatjes trappen
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 22/05/2026
In Opinion Trump "may wish to be considered in the same class as Napoleon or Alexander the Great, but he is in danger of turning himself into the next Mobutu Sese Seko or Mohamed Suharto: a kleptocrat remembered not for his ideas, not for his power, but for his greed,” Noah Shachtman writes.
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Opinion | Trump Just Took Us Somewhere the Country Has Never Been Before
There’s no telling where this leads.
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NaqviMA @naqvima.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
Morning Everyone🤲✊🏻☮️ “Nothing sums up death of accountability like the prospect of Farage in No10” Despite these bungs: £5m for personal use £12m for #Brexit £1M to stand down in favour of Boris in 2019 £885K for Clacton 🏠 7 outside Job whilst an MP & MSM want him to be the next PM #ToriesGone685
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Parody Nigel Farage @parodypm.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
Me explaining what the £5 million was for.
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loriagne.bsky.social @loriagne.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
Reform has no answers over Farage photo with church attackers www.thecanary.co/uk/news/2026...
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Reform has no answers over Farage photo with church attackers
Reform has repeatedly refused to explain why leader Nigel Farage met and posed for a photo with a group of far-right activists.
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loriagne.bsky.social @loriagne.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
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Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
Left: In light of pressure on Keir Starmer to resign, Robert Jenrick calls for a general election Right: Your reminder than when Robert Jenrick was a Conservative MP and he moved across to Reform UK, he refused to call a by-election
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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
Prime Minister Keir Starmer says that on Brexit Nigel Farage said “we’d be stronger, we’d be richer, we’d have lots of money for the NHS, immigration would come down and it all proved to be false”
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Audrey @parickards.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
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Bill Leibenguth @bill-leibenguth.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
www.dworkinsubstack.com/p/the-regime...
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The Regime Got Caught Hiding Proof That Vaccines Are Safe—And That’s Not Even The Best Story Today
Zero chance we’d let this slide
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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
Nigel Farage does not give a toss about winning a 2nd election. If he gets into power he will Americanize the UK. Health Insurance will make HIM billions and the US billionaires TRILLIONS. He will destroy the UK and the lives of 99% of the people in it. And retire to the USA
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R1ch1e5 @r1ch1e5.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
Yep! www.thecanary.co/uk/analysis/...
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Sunderland Reform councillor David Barker beat up his girlfriend and abused child
So much more than a slip-up in vetting, Reform UK are allowing these men to run because they don't see anything wrong with what they did
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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 02/05/2026
In 2024 the Police tasered this guy and then kicked him in the head when he was on the floor. Zack Polanski was right to bring it up, the Police seem to think tasers are to be used to kick suspects in the head easier.
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
In case you’re wondering, this is a real post.
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Für sachliche Politik @sachlichepolitik.eurosky.social · 01/05/2026
"Let them attack. We're here to win."
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Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
Left: BBC News cover Nigel Farage condemning antisemitism in Golders Green Right: One of the 34 people who accused Nigel Farage of antisemitism and racism at school
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
Odd, how a lone gunman failed to even enter a targeted room and no one was harmed—and Republicans go HYSTERICAL over the “tone” of Democrats. And yet heavily armed and masked fascists murdered two people at point-blank range in the streets of Minneapolis—and not a peep about the “tone” of the right.
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Ed Davey @eddavey.libdems.org.uk · 27/04/2026
Foreign tech billionaires like Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg should be paying more tax to tackle the harm their social media companies are doing, not getting a tax cut for backing Trump.
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Katie Martin @katie0martin.ft.com · 25/04/2026
Guys I'm sorry but Piers Morgan wins the internet today. I don't make the rules.
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
Private firms got £12bn NHS contracts. Private equity, offshore tax haven firms big winners. Donations to Ministers pay dividends. £1.6bn profit in 2 yrs. Enough to pay for 9,178 doctors or 19,428 nurses Health service “taken for a ride”. Say NO to privatisation. Must expand NHS capacity
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Private firms providing services to NHS made £1.6bn profit in two years, research finds
Exclusive: MPs say profit-making levels in England are ‘scandalous’ and call for cap on amount private companies can make from NHS
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Arvindjadwa @arvindjadwa.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
Nigel Farage earns over a million pounds a year. Still claims £160,900 in expenses (benefits) Moans about people abusing benefits. But not himself, of course.
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Rep. James Walkinshaw @repwalkinshaw.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
The cover-up of the Epstein files continues, as Bondi skips out on testifying. Make no mistake — accountability is coming. She will testify or face contempt.
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