Reposted by @kayez.bsky.socialDorian Lynskey @dorianlynskey.bsky.social · 09/08/2026This song hits so hard youtu.be/Gxd23UVID7k?...youtu.beLeonard Cohen - Everybody Knows (Official Audio)YouTube video by LeonardCohenVEVO 101058
Reposted by @kayez.bsky.socialPrem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 28/04/2026Curse of Private Equity. Claire’s to close remaining UK stores, 1,000+ job losses. Unsecured creditors to lose £10.6m. Same PE owner to close 100 TG Jones (WH Smith) shops, plans to use insolvency procedure to avoid paying creditors. The same firm gutted The Original Factory Shop and Hobbycraft.theguardian.comClaire’s to close remaining UK stores on Tuesday with more than 1,000 job lossesSources say staff have been asked to pack up final stock and equipment after waves of closures 27469285
Reposted by @kayez.bsky.socialIan Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 17/03/2026Thank God Starmer is in charge, really. If it had been any of his immediate predecessors, we'd currently be at war with Iran, playing lapdog to a deranged US administration, unable to say what we were doing or why. 1223565586
Reposted by @kayez.bsky.socialPrem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 09/03/2026UK has only two days of gas stored, Iran war threatens supplies. Maximum capacity is 12 days. Mainland Europe has reserves of several weeks’ worth of gas. UK storage capacity shrank after privatisation. The Rough storage facility closed in in 2017. British Gas wanted subsidies.theguardian.comGreat Britain has only two days of gas stored, while Iran war threatens to disrupt suppliesNational Gas insists storage broadly in line with levels for time of year despite disruption for tankers carrying LNG 34405219
Reposted by @kayez.bsky.socialTim Bale @timbale.bsky.social · 09/03/2026Aw, bless.ft.comFarage misses out on Trump meeting as their relationship coolsBritish populist politician aimed to reinforce his view about the UK’s Chagos Islands deal in conversation with US president 36814
Reposted by @kayez.bsky.socialEdwin Hayward @edwinhayward.com · 09/03/2026Renaming the Department of Defense as the Department of War was the only honest thing Trump ever did. When people tell you who they are, believe them. 1427
Reposted by @kayez.bsky.socialByline Times @bylinetimes.bsky.social · 09/03/2026📌 ICYMI — Revealed: The Staggering Amount of Time Nigel Farage has Spent on ‘Second’ Jobs Since Becoming an MP The Reform UK leader has logged more than 1,100 hours for 14 outside employers since his election in July 2024bylinetimes.comRevealed: The Staggering Amount of Time Nigel Farage has Spent on ‘Second’ Jobs Since Becoming an MPThe Reform UK leader has logged more than 1,100 hours for 14 outside employers since his election in July 2024 1019099
Reposted by @kayez.bsky.socialEdwin Hayward @edwinhayward.com · 09/03/2026If your energy needs are met from solar, wind, tidal, geothermal and nuclear sources, backed by copious battery storage, you're far less vulnerable to sudden crazy oil and gas price spikes. Trump's war on Iran is the best possible ad for accelerating the greening of the economy. 721276
Reposted by @kayez.bsky.socialOtto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 09/03/2026It's a bit like one of those Adele songs where she keeps ringing her ex boyfriend in the middle of the night... www.ft.com/content/9391...ft.comFarage misses out on Trump meeting as their relationship coolsBritish populist politician aimed to reinforce his view about the UK’s Chagos Islands deal in conversation with US president 1733252
Reposted by @kayez.bsky.socialPhillips OBrien @phillipspobrien.bsky.social · 09/03/2026Trump's decision to bomb Iran is now the greatest windfall to the Russian war effort on record. If it continues, it might save the Russian war economy. 9223041187
Reposted by @kayez.bsky.socialdoom boy @doomboy.bsky.social · 09/03/2026love how we killed the old, frail anti-nuke ayatollah just to have him replaced with his young, healthy son who wants nukes and who just had his father, mother, wife, and child murdered on the same day by his mortal enemy. surely this will bring peace to the region 225192464806
Reposted by @kayez.bsky.socialJon Will Chambers @jonchambers.co.uk · 09/03/2026Too busy carping on about Brown selling the gold. 021
Reposted by @kayez.bsky.socialMike Galsworthy @mikegalsworthy.bsky.social · 09/03/2026This is an absolutely huge jump in oil prices. It's also why Europe needs to get off fossil fuels asap (beyond climate change impact). We can't be beholden to this. 571354365
Reposted by @kayez.bsky.socialAnthony Painter @anthonypainter.bsky.social · 09/03/2026Gilt yields surging, oil and gas prices soaring, wider systemic impact transmitted through food prices and everything else. Iran didn't need a nuclear weapon to create mayhem. It just needed an idiot US President. And as for those who backed him- eyes open yet? 311041
Reposted by @kayez.bsky.socialKatie Martin @katie0martin.ft.com · 09/03/2026Rabobank on the unfolding worst case scenario: 40841354
Reposted by @kayez.bsky.socialOtto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 09/03/2026In which Richard Tice gets a very big pot of paint and then starts painting himself into a corner 44609156
Reposted by @kayez.bsky.socialFeministSociologistPhD @femsocphd.bsky.social · 20/02/2026Piggy says he doesn't know Andrew. Too bad there's something called reality. 1512163
Reposted by @kayez.bsky.socialפינחס יוסף מונד @pymundgenealogy.bsky.social · 13/02/2026He does not feel compelled to post this. This is stock internetese (especially popular among Massie's groyper fans) for "what I said is so important that it's going to make Them try to kill me" 45315
Reposted by @kayez.bsky.socialFifty Shades of Whey @fiftyshadesofwhey.bsky.social · 23/01/2026This is why ICE is in Minnesota 318366
Reposted by @kayez.bsky.socialFiona "Fi" Webster 🌎🌍🌏 @fiona-webster22.bsky.social · 07/01/2026Sunday Jan 4, when we were freaking out over the Venezuela military operstion, the Guardian published an exposé on the 32 people who died in ICE custody in 2025—the agency’s deadliest year in more than two decades This article has short write-ups on every single one of the 32 people. No pay wall.theguardian.com2025 was ICE’s deadliest year in two decades. Here are the 32 people who died in custodyThe deaths came as the Trump administration ramped up immigration enforcement, detaining a record number of people 1294211
Reposted by @kayez.bsky.socialOtto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 24/12/2025A patently stupid and self-destructive idea, pushed by very entitled people who had nothing to lose and Putins disinformation machine and voted for in large part by bigots who thought it would make this country great again. All to the colossal detriment of the UK. F*** them all a million times. 43856224
Reposted by @kayez.bsky.socialSarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 22/12/2025“We have sacrificed our national success because of our fear of immigration. And now, if Farage has his way, we'll do it all over again” Superb, important analysis of the profound harm Farage does to our country in his rabidly racist and egotistical bid for power liveapp.inews.co.uk/category/407... 28660297
Reposted by @kayez.bsky.socialWe Own It @weownit.org.uk · 09/12/2025At our event on the Future of Water leaders from publicly owned water systems across Europe spoke to us about their experiences in the transition from private to public, and the many forms that truly democratic participation in water ownership might take. 1/2 32920
Reposted by @kayez.bsky.socialUCL Constitution Unit @conunitucl.bsky.social · 09/12/2025How are people chosen for honours? How does the system work behind the scenes? Could it be improved? In three hours, join Sue Owen, Peter Riddell and Dominic Grieve to discuss just this at our free, online event. Sign up 👉 www.ucl.ac.uk/social-histo.... 112
Reposted by @kayez.bsky.socialOtto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 07/12/2025This story more than any other disgusts me. Yinka was a little 9 year old boy Farage was a swaggering bully aged 17 We all knew those bullies at school and in this case teenager Farage was a racist bully too 30873325
Reposted by @kayez.bsky.socialOtto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 07/12/2025I'm old enough to remember when Gordon Brown was forced to apologise to a woman for calling her a bigot. The very least we should expect is that Nigel Farage apologises for being one. 2060597
Reposted by @kayez.bsky.socialMrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 07/12/2025This will be remembered as the most pathetic moment in American history. What a needy fool. 2193264335803
Reposted by @kayez.bsky.socialFarrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 27/11/2025LibDem Calum Miller, "The biggest opportunity the UK has to grow is to restore our relationship with the European Union" "The National Bureau Of Economic Research in the US says the UK loses £90 billion a year in tax revenue" #RejoinEU #BBCQT 12469157
Reposted by @kayez.bsky.socialFarrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 27/11/2025Left: Luke Johnson, Chairman of Gail's Bakery, who was pro-Brexit, criticises Labour for not understanding the private sector and how wealth is created Right: The thing he voted for, Brexit, costs the UK £90 billion in lost tax revenue every year #BBCQT 41388136
Reposted by @kayez.bsky.socialSunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 26/11/2025Nus Ghani MP - the Deputy Speaker - moved to the UK as a small child. She has been elected by the voters in Wealden in 2015, 2017, 2019 and 2024 More outright racism from the regular GB News & Talk TV contributor Lucy White - who previously called (on GB News) for all Muslims to leave Britain 36673241
Reposted by @kayez.bsky.socialGeorge Mann @sgfmann.bsky.social · 18/11/2025Daily Mirror: Farage told me 'Hitler was right' #TomorrowsPapersToday 196
Reposted by @kayez.bsky.socialOtto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 18/11/2025Farage at school by those who knew him best: www.theguardian.com/politics/ng-... 411077447
Reposted by @kayez.bsky.socialBest for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 10/11/2025Meanwhile, in Reform's Lancashire CC, the councillor in charge of care homes, owns a private care home, and is closing council care homes. 👀 A resident’s son, a Reform party member, said any move would “kill” his mother. ~AA #NeverThoughtTheLeopards www.theguardian.com/politics/202...theguardian.comLancashire’s Reform-run council plans to close care homes and day centresQuestions about potential conflict of interest as council’s cabinet member for social care owns private care company 41446283
Reposted by @kayez.bsky.socialJosiah Mortimer @josiahmortimer.bsky.social · 10/11/2025Eek. The Fire Brigades Union has slammed the record of Reform’s ‘flagship council’ as it emerged that Kent and Medway Fire Authority is in disarray following the removal of five councillors, including its chair and vice chair. 5 of the 9 Reform cllrs suspended since May sat on the fire authority... 8191104
Reposted by @kayez.bsky.socialPeter Geoghegan @petergeoghegan.bsky.social · 10/11/2025Incredible that Robbie Gibb - most influential person on BBC board by many accounts and from journalists I speak in BBC - was involved in setting up GB News. GB News of course has breached Ofcom rules on *multiple* occasions - no sign of resignations though www.theguardian.com/environment/...theguardian.com‘Enforced veganism’: Ofcom lets GB News flout accuracy rules, say climate campaignersExclusive: Regulator has received 1,221 complaints about UK broadcasters since 2020 but found no breaches of its code 351105483
Reposted by @kayez.bsky.socialFarrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 31/10/2025Lady in scarf, "We are the only country in the G7, apart from Italy, that doesn't charge an exit tax" #BBCQT "The CEO of Revolut bank - net worth £11 billion- who has decided to take his money to the UAE" "He's not taxed on the money he's made, but a cleaner is taxed on her minimum wage" 8515182
Reposted by @kayez.bsky.socialFarrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 31/10/2025Sharon Graham, UNITE, "If you've got a £1,700 bill, £500 of that is profit.. They've made £30 billion in a single year.. It's obscene" Meanwhile Labour go after the poor, the disabled, the elderly, instead of windfall taxing energy companies. Disgraceful 15353149
Reposted by @kayez.bsky.socialJosiah Mortimer @josiahmortimer.bsky.social · 31/10/2025The buses bill also became law this week, allowing councils in England to finally take control of local services used by millions of people. Almost nothing from No 10 or Govt Comms as a whole. It's beyond woeful. Meanwhile Reform are holding multiple press conferences a week. 611347
Reposted by @kayez.bsky.socialOtto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 01/11/2025Thorough piece on Farage’s close colleague and friend Nathan Gill and the Kremlin cash he took www.theguardian.com/news/ng-inte...theguardian.comReform UK, the Russian spy and rolls of Kremlin cash: the inside story of Nathan GillHow did a former Mormon bishop end up pleading guilty to taking bribes to make statements in favour of Russia in the European parliament? 43989553
Reposted by @kayez.bsky.socialMrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 11/10/2025"A future president, even dumber than you, will allow Qatar, the country that harbored Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the architect of the plane attacks in NY, PA, and DC today, and whose royal family will help him escape capture by the US, to build a military base on US soil to train Qataris to fly jets." 26675933212
Reposted by @kayez.bsky.socialnarceducator.bsky.social @narceducator.bsky.social · 10/10/2025No one is giving a malignant narcissist a peace prize. They are chaos creators and destroyers. Any social benefit they perform is serendipitous in their singular, self-serving, deceptive, narcissistic and psychopathic pursuit of omnipotent power and control. 32695145
Reposted by @kayez.bsky.socialDave Bagpuss Forsey 🍻 @bagpuss.org · 07/10/2025Robert Jenrick and his wiggy puppet 26423124
Reposted by @kayez.bsky.socialOmar Khan @omaromalleykhan.bsky.social · 07/10/2025I know statistics are poorly understood and are misused. But facts matter Between the 1991, 2001, 2011 and 2021 Census *every* ethnic group in the UK has become *less* geographically segregated and *all* groups, majority and minorities, are more likely to interact with people not like them 351887647
Reposted by @kayez.bsky.socialFarrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 07/10/2025Victoria Derbyshire, "You described Reform UK as the right wing fascists of 1930s, why?" Lord Heseltine, "Because that's what they are" 37707225
![Andy Field, 61, an NHS doctor who said he
knew Farage well because they took the
same train to school, has similarly clear
memories.
"When I became a prefect, he [Farage] said,
Tll show you how to do it,' claimed Field,.
"He took me for a walk up to the lower
school playground, where all the children
from about nine years old to 12 would be.
And he singled out, completely at random, a
kid of Asian extraction, and just put him in
detention for no reason whatsoever. I was
flabbergasted, absolutely stunned. I was just
disgusted, really. No rhyme or reason, just
purely based on the colour of his skin.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:5mqpgxjffcckasqv7h6g7itu/bafkreifwa2hlzevsllsekm44ne6yprkgrfhwryxxclupy3cz2qqj42sxma)
