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Julia

@ju1965.bsky.social
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Writer, mum, dog lover (Viszla owner), Labour Party member, foodie

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Simon Nixon @nixonsimon.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Bravo to Private Eye for reporting what the cowardly mainstream client media chose to ignore…
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Henry Mance @henrymance.ft.com · 03/10/2026
More than 20 NHS trusts in England have stopped using Palantir’s waiting list tools, according to FT analysis that casts doubt on widely cited claims about the success of the controversial data project led by the US software giant. as.ft.com/r/6c8844ae-e...
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Over 20 NHS trusts have ditched Palantir waiting-list tools, analysis shows
FT findings prompt fresh probe by statistics regulator into health service claims over controversial data project
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Parody Nigel Farage @parodypm.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
"I should just point out that we don't have any Lib Dems on the panel as they only have 71 MPs, but Suella Braverman is here because Reform have 8 MPs"
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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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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Donald Trump trying to dismantle the International Criminal Court, so the US can't be tried for war crimes, is like a serial killer lobbying for the repeal of the criminalization of homicide. It also mean Donald Trump and Pete Hegseth are *definitely* committing war crimes.
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How Rubio’s trying to keep the U.S. from being investigated for war crimes
When he was a senator, Secretary of State Marco Rubio called on the International Criminal Court to investigate Russia for war crimes while invading Ukraine. Now he wants the court “dismantled.”
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
CEO pay is up 1,316% since 1978, while typical worker pay is up just 28%. CEOs are now paid 325 TIMES as much as the typical worker in their industry, according to @epi.org Why do we always hear "we can't afford to pay our workers more" but never "we can't afford to pay our CEO more"?
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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Rebuilding our relationship with the EU “is the cheapest way to boost the economy, the fastest way to unite Europe in the face of security threats and the best way to get leverage on a global system that no longer has an American anchor.” So obvious it hurts. www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...
independent.co.uk
Brexit has left Britain ‘impotent – a bobbing cork in the sea,’ says David Miliband
Exclusive: Former foreign secretary adds to mounting pressure for a new UK deal with EU to repair Brexit damage
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Richard Corbett CBE @richardcorbett.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Just 4 months after the local elections, Reform UK (RefUK) have lost 158 of their local councillors: -55 resigned -42 went Independent -28 defected -24 were kicked out -5 lost their seats -2 disqualified -2 suspended. Appalling record - and a waste of taxpayers’ money!
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East Anglia Bylines @eastangliabylines.co.uk · 08/09/2026
Both UK & Denmark believe in universal healthcare, but principles are not outcomes. Denmark treats health as whole-society issue: housing, education, inequality, prevention. UK tries to treat its way out with NHS alone. Results speak.
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Denmark versus UK: which country gets more health for their money?
Britain and Denmark both have health services free at the point of use, but Denmark is healthier. Why? Its not just about money
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Gunner Regretit @gunnerregretit.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
I’ve been wondering this. Sadiq Khan gets massive grief about ‘lawless London’ even though its crime rate is relatively low. Middlesbrough has the highest crime rate in the UK but nobody points the finger at Ben Houchen.
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Grenfell cladding firm Arconic paid shareholders $31m more than to fire victims/survivors. 72 Britons died in fire due to faulty cladding. US shareholders sued for inadequate disclosures about cladding, received $74m compensation. Victims of fire, their families received $43m. No one prosecuted.
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Grenfell cladding firm Arconic paid shareholders £23m more in compensation than to fire victims
Report’s author said findings highlighted ‘near-total failure’ to hold corporations accountable over the disaster that killed 72 people
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Nadine Batchelor-Hunt @nadinebh.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
I don’t think there’s ever been a clearer example of the British media bullying someone, who was so clearly vulnerable, to death so shamelessly in my lifetime for engagement and clicks And now we’ll have to watch the people that did it claim they’re shocked, and horrified Revolting
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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
£5million for his security and Farage pretends he’s been threatened and won’t turn up to thank the people who managed his monstrous tantrum by-election, staying up through the night counting votes… or the voters who let him get away with his gross abuse of power. From start to end, an epic disgrace.
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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
God help journalism if these people ever get into power www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
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Richard Tice accused of ‘nasty tactics’ over legal threat to the Guardian
Reform deputy leader condemned for seeking disclosure of documents that could reveal reporter’s sources
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Hetan Shah @hetanshah.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
‘Afghanistan is the only place on Earth where girls are banned from high school and university. Women are banned from parks, gyms and most jobs and not allowed outside without a male guardian’ Important reminder from the great @christinalamb.bsky.social www.thetimes.com/article/83bb...
thetimes.com
Taliban are cheering five years in power while Afghan women starve
Global aid cuts mean malnourished families — already suffering under ‘gender-based lockdown’ — are being turned away from barren clinics
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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
Hahahaha. Farage now whining that he was badly advised by his overpaid team into calling his stupid by-election. Confirming then that he’s incapable of working it out for himself. Too busy counting his money. Honest to god, Clacton. Don’t be the constituency dunces he needs you to be. (Times)
One senior source said they believed Farage had been poorly advised over calling the by-election in Clacton.
They said that "young advisers" around Farage had not checked whether the standards' commissioner's investigation would continue in the event of the by-election and they had incorrectly assumed it would not. They also criticised "massive salaries" paid to staff who they said were "letting Nigel down".
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Financial Times @financialtimes.com · 08/08/2026
'I’d be a lot more confident about the future if it wasn’t in the hands of people who seem to think Brave New World is a parenting manual.' Read Robert Shrimsley's latest column: ft.trib.al/1ycEjCV
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UK Politics News // Papernaut @ukpolitics.papernaut.co · 08/08/2026
DAILY MIRROR: Farage promised Brexit would “stop the boats”. Now Reform sells an all-white fantasy of national restoration - an illusion that traps voters in a mental straitjacket while real crises go unaddressed. - by Brian Reade
mirror.co.uk
Brian Reade: 'Farage said Brexit would stop the boats - we must ignore his cynical fantasies'
Nigel Farage and Reform flog the illusion Britain can be magicked back to some glorious, all-white, problem-free past, says Brian Reade, and it's trapped a naive group into a mental straitjacket
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
Trump govt offers grants of $500,000 to change UK politics. Foreign money for right wing groups. Disguised as “public education” it promotes MAGA propaganda on abortion, regulation, hate speech, climate change, diversity and more. Is UK the 51st state?
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US accused of meddling in British politics with $500,000 grant for ‘public education’ courses
Documents published on US embassy’s website prompt claims of attempt to export Maga propaganda to UK
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South-East London for Europe (Selfe) @selfe.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
You know things must be getting desperate for #Farage and #Reform when Andrew Neil starts calling them out for lying #ReformLiars
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Inside Ukraine 🇺🇦 @insideukraine.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
We see that, unfortunately, Russia is regaining its positions in international sports organizations, while not stopping the war and the killings, - Zelenskyy.
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Caroline Lucas @carolinelucas.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
I can’t believe these arrests are still happening - the new PM could end this utterly absurd proscription if he chose. As Jonathon Porritt says - trying to save lives is not terrorism. Exposing this government’s complicity in genocide is not terrorism
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Robert Saunders @robertsaunders.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
Absolutely shameful piece. Even if a "Mediterranean" future were desirable - and a third of a million people are currently fleeing an inferno - what about those parts of the world being made uninhabitable? Where do their people go? Heath doesn't want them here. www.telegraph.co.uk/opinion/2026...
telegraph.co.uk
Britain can’t stop climate change. Scrap net zero and embrace Mediterranean life
We’ve lost the war against global warming so let’s learn to handle hotter weather
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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
Because Reform councillors are so corrupt, idiotic and unquestioning themselves, they need to be given a script to protect dear leader. Farage’s spokesman clearly knows it off by heart. But answering “hit job” to all attempts at scrutiny is about as infantile and unconvincing as it gets. (Times)
Reform tells councillors to say donation inquiry is a 'hit job'

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Reform UK has instructed its thousands of councillors to describe a police inquiry into donations from the mother of George Cottrell as an establishment stitch-up, The Times can reveal.

Leaked internal briefing documents circulated to the party’s representatives in local government included instructions to respond to questions about the Metropolitan Police investigation with: “It is now clear that the establishment will try anything to stop us.”

Councillors were also instructed to respond to questions with: “The British people are tired of the establishment media doing anything they can to stop Reform. A daily routine of hit jobs and smears will not deter us from winning the next general election and fixing broken Britain.”

The Met launched a criminal investi- gation into at least £500,000 of donations made to Reform UK by Fiona Cottrell, the mother of the crypto-gambler and convicted fraudster “Posh George”, whom an Insight investigation found has secretly been funding Nigel Farage. George Cottrell was reportedly questioned under caution by police in relation to the investigation.

The parliamentary commissioner for standards opened an investigation into Cottrell’s support for Farage, as well as into a previous undeclared £5 million donation from the crypto-billionaire Christopher Harborne. The investigations were halted after Farage resigned and called a by-election in his constituency, Clacton, in Essex.

The briefing includes detailed instructions on how to challenge media scrutiny of the party and Farage’s finances, and his relation to Cottrell.








A Reform spokesman said: “The British people are tired of the establishment media doing anything they can to stop Reform. A daily routine of hit jobs and smears will not deter us from winning the next general election and fixing broken Britain. It’s now clear that the establishment will try anything to stop us.”
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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
Your weekend reminder Nigel Farage wants to - leave the ECHR - repeal the Equality Act - Strip back workers rights - Lift restrictions on exploitative zero-hours contracts - repeal the Renters’ Rights Act PEOPLE OF CLACTON, MAKE YOUR VOTE COUNT! youtu.be/KxOQRt8PQys?...
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If UK media actually explained Nigel Farage’s policies to the public no one would be supporting him
YouTube video by Peter Stefanovic
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Lester @lesterlee.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
OpenAI is trying to spin this as "Our AI is so impressive it even caught us off guard" when really the narrative should be "We are so grossly incompetent about our own technology we cannot possibly be trusted with its stewardship" www.cbc.ca/news/busines...
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AI model went rogue, hacked another company during testing, OpenAI says | CBC News
OpenAI said on Tuesday that an autonomous agent powered by its advanced artificial intelligence models went rogue during a security test and triggered ‌a hack that compromised the infrastructure of th...
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Parody Nigel Farage @parodypm.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
Lee Anderson once got his mate to pretend he didn't know him in a failed attempt to trick a journalist. Just let that sink in.
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aidThompsin (live, fridays @ 19:30) @aidthompsin.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
Boris sharing articles referring to Ed Miliband as the worst possible choice for Foreign Secretary. A reminder that when Johnson was foreign sec he was busted getting a blow-job under his desk, had Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe jailed in Iran & got drunk & "accidentally" attended a KGB house party
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Fionna O’Leary @fascinatorfun.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
Proof that @ofcom.bsky.social is simply not functioning and needs the most massive shakeup. This is a factual matter. Clear error. Yet it cannot bring itself to act because ….GB News. What is the point of an @Ofcom like this?
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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
No. No. No. No. No. This is not fine. Tell me, Brexiters, what version of ‘sovereignty’ is this? Trump buying up our democracy because he thinks he can own bloody everything. And these hideous ‘take back control’ tossers letting him.
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Michael J. Stern @michaeljstern.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
I'm never going to get over the fact that the president of the United States paid a woman more than $5 million after a jury found him liable for raping her. And he's still president. And people still support him. Never. Get. Over. It.
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Fionna O’Leary @fascinatorfun.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
Much more likely that he would not want police officers/ state security knowing what he was up to and who he was seeing.
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mimij9.bsky.social @mimij9.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
Zia Yusuf said that Nigel Farage’s was offered ZERO security. That is a BIG FAT LIE!
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Dominic Minghella @dminghella.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
The 12 wealthiest billionaires are richer than the poorer half of the global population combined. This is the issue of our times.
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Mike Galsworthy @mikegalsworthy.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
🔥 Europe is starting to push Palantir out. Things are looking rough for Palantir in Europe… …as they are increasingly seen as a danger to sovereignty with a high risk of structural lock-in and major ethical concerns. Please share.
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Europe is pushing Palantir out.
YouTube video by Scientists for EU
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I Am Incorrigible @imincorrigible.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
The Telegraph has been knocking on the door of White Supremacism for many years now, but it looks like they're now ready to cross the threshold.
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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
Reform MP Lee Anderson asks if Keir Starmer agrees that all illegal migrants in the UK should be deported Starmer: "He should be asking questions of his party leader. Why did he keep his £5m gift secret? And are they happy with him earning £22,000 per hour?" #PMQs
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La Reine des Metaphores @metaphorqu.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
Reading the write up of the PM's speech on defence I had a sense of safety. With Burnham I don't feel that. He may be personable, but has he got the ballast to work at this level?
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Cat Hobbs @cathobbs.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
📮We could and should TAKE BACK ROYAL MAIL Why should this 500 year old institution with a universal service obligation be owned by a Czech billionaire? It's failing to fulfil its statutory duties Use special administration process to bring it into permanent PUBLIC OWNERSHIP
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Josiah Mortimer @josiahmortimer.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
Excellent timing, if they're trying to make themselves look like total maniacs www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
bbc.co.uk
Sunderland Council rescinds climate emergency declaration
Reform councillor Bill Blackett says polar bears are not extinct and the Maldives has not sunk.
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
This is going to be a bit tricky because he's "in exile" in Russia
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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
Oh look a proper grownup being sensible and straight with us. What a refreshing change… John Major interviewed by the Independent. He called on govt to be “honest” about the devastating damage of Brexit, saying we should join the Single Market in the next 5yrs. app.independent.co.uk/2026/06/26/3...
Britain must rejoin the single market in five years, John Major says Exclusive: In a wide-ranging interview for The
Independent with editor in chief Geordie Greig, the former PM warned that the UK is losing £100bn a year in trade and £40bn in tax receipts because of Brexit
David Maddox Political Editor
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Major's challenge to Burnham: Britain must rejoin the EU single market in five years'Reform UK offer no hope
Sir John dismissed the 'crude hostility' and lack of 'positivity' of Farage's
Reform UK.
"What is their unique selling brand?
They don't offer any inspiration or hope.
The button they push is migration - which is falling, and so is their vote.
And that that will continue to happen."
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
Galloway lives in Russia and has done since last year. Feel this has rather gone under the radar.
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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
Badenoch has no grace. And only arrogance where empathy and social intelligence should be. She is what the Tories have now become. Unelectable. Deeply unpleasant, unprincipled and really very dim.
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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
She can't sack ministers only the PM can.
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James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
Djed Spence, the first Muslim man to play football for England, refused to shake hands with alleged rapist Thomas Partey last night. Nigel Farage, self-appointed saviour of ‘Judeo-Christian values’, described alleged rapist Andrew Tate as ‘an important voice’ for men young men a couple of years ago.
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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
This man is absolute fucking poison.
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Gerry Hassan @gerryhassan.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
"Conducting a coup": the shameless chancerism of Farage & Reform. No one elected Farage Reform leader. Farage appointed Malcolm Offord Scottish leader. Farage appointed Dan Thomas Welsh leader. Not one Tory MP defecting to Reform called a by-election.
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Barry James @barryjames.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
If the £5 million secret payment influenced Farage’s actions as a sitting MP, that raises extremely serious questions. Potential issues could include parliamentary standards breaches, tax issues etc. Under the Bribery Act 2010, bribery offences carry a maximum sentence of 10 years’ imprisonment.
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I Am Incorrigible @imincorrigible.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
Spending all of that deeply corrupt looking £5 million won't just happen on its own you know, it takes time.
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