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Matthew Adams

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Retired software/hardware engineer. Photography, linux, home automation. UK

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Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 4h
Nigel Farage, "The Prime Minister is a liar. Yes, a liar" "Boris asked was there seen to be Russian interference in the Brexit referendum campaign, and the answer was no" But Stewart Hosie, who sat on the UK's Intelligence and Security Committee of Parliament said no evidence as gov didn't look
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Make Votes Matter @makevotesmatter.bsky.social · 5h
🗳️❓Your questions about PR - answered! The closer we are to PR, the more conversations we will have to be having about it: with our families, our neighbours and our MPs. The new FAQs section on our website is designed to help you do just that 👇
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FAQs - Make Votes Matter
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 12h
Deloitte in Cyprus helped in falsifying documents to hide Roman Abramovich's wealth and evade tax, Leaked documents show transactions backdated and tailored. Assets spirited away to BVI. Big four accounting firms advise UK govts, get public contracts, routinely implicated in scandals.
bbc.co.uk
Deloitte helped in falsifying documents to evade tax on Abramovich’s wealth
Backdated paperwork also made the Russian oligarch’s yachts and mansions disappear from accounts, BBC finds.
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East Anglia Bylines @eastangliabylines.co.uk · 11h
Trump wants cheaper diesel before the US midterms. Putin wants revenue to finance his war. Both may get something from their agreement. But Richard Murphy argues the real price could be far higher.
eastangliabylines.co.uk
Trump’s Russian diesel deal could come at a devastating price
Trump’s deal with Putin may ease fuel shortages, but risks undermining Ukraine and destabilising an already fragile world
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Michael Spicer @michaelspicer.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
The Room Next Door - Kemi Badenoch
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The Room Next Door - Kemi Badenoch
YouTube video by Michael Spicer
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Trump: I could say the stupidest things and you'd clap
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 10/10/2026
“Zelenskyy could’ve stopped this war many times, and he chose not to … he better damn well stop” — Trump is no longer trying to conceal that he’s fully on Putin’s side
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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
good lord how can anyone be this whiny; are you not ashamed
Donald Trump writes on Truth Social: "This is the woman who received the Nobel Peace Prize over the Great United States of America, whose Representative, ME, settled eight Wars, and many other things. I know nothing about this woman, and neither does anyone else! In fact, to the best of my knowledge, no one ever heard of her other than the fact that she, very obviously, hates Israel. I don’t know what the woman has done. I settled 8 Wars, with letters being sent from every President and Prime Minister from the countries that I helped to the Norwegian Nobel Committee, and I’m about to settle, or win, two more, Iran and, Russia/Ukraine. They’re both happening at breakneck speed but, forget them, it’s the 8 that I’ve already settled, any one of which, in particular, Pakistan and India, would be far more than necessary to win the Nobel Prize. In actuality, I should have won 8 Nobel Peace Prizes, not just 1. The 8 Wars are:"Donald Trump writes on Truth Social: "Cambodia and Thailand
Kosovo and Serbia
The Democratic Republic of the Congo and Rwanda
Pakistan and India
Israel and Iran
Egypt and Ethiopia
Armenia and Azerbaijan
Israel and Hamas
Additionally, I stopped Iran from having a Nuclear Weapon, and blowing up the entire Middle East and, ultimately, far beyond! I saved more lives than anyone in History and, as Maria Corina Machado, a truly fine person, stated to the Media when she gave me her Nobel Prize of last year, “Donald Trump settled many Wars, and deserves the Nobel Peace Prize more than any person that has ever received it.” Based on my record of PEACE, a record like no one else has ever achieved, I agree! I got back all of the hostages in Israel, including the final 28, both living and dead, and worked with Hamas to"
Donald Trump writes on Truth Social: "PEACE, a record like no one else has ever achieved, I agree! I got back all of the hostages in Israel, including the final 28, both living and dead, and worked with Hamas to do it — Nobody believed this was possible! I removed the World’s Evil Dictator, Nicolas Maduro, from Venezuela, and am in the process of making Venezuela a rich Democracy. Likewise, with Iran, I stopped them from destroying Israel, the Middle East, and Europe. I am also preventing, on a constant basis, a War between South Korea and North Korea, and Japan and North Korea. Add China and Taiwan, and numerous other hot spots, which have not been involved in Wars, only because of President Donald J. Trump, and the United States of America. I am responsible for having NATO countries increase spending from 2% to 5% of GDP, creating a stronger alliance and defense, another thing that everybody said was impossible to do. I have negotiated the release, and secured the return, of more than 900 political prisoners from multiple countries"Donald Trump writes on Truth Social: "another thing that everybody said was impossible to do. I have negotiated the release, and secured the return, of more than 900 political prisoners from multiple countries in Eastern Europe. Additionally, I have brought 196 hostages HOME from captivity, from all over the World, and did it without having paid a ransom, unlike Biden and Obama who would pay Billions of Dollars. On top of it all, I have created a soon to be very prosperous Arctic. Despite all of this, the Nobel Prize was given today to a liberal person who works at the United Nations, who nobody has ever heard of. In all of the Wars that I have settled, I never spoke to the United Nations—they were of no help. The United States of America, represented by me, as your President, should have received the Nobel Peace Prize, but didn’t. This is an indelible stain on Norway, one that will never be forgotten. The Nobel “Peace” Prize has been forever discredited by a handful of Radical Ideologues who are Anti-Democracy, and Enemies of Civilization! President DONALD J. TRUMP"
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Zelenskyy says Trump has betrayed Ukraine.
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
This is brilliant. Norwegians do humour well and here to make a serious point.
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Luiza Jarovsky, PhD (@luizajarovsky)
Norwegian humor is on another level. Here's how the Norwegian Consumer Council explained @Cory Doctorow's concept of 'enshittification':
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@AlanWalter @alanwalter.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
I’m an RNLI volunteer crew member and I invite her to get on a plane from her hideout in Dubai and say that to my face here in the UK
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Parody Nigel Farage @parodypm.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
The person responsible for carrying out the totally independent investigation into Reform and clearing the party of all wrongdoing has been identified.
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Vrachteend, BGK @vincentdehart.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Just to stoke up hate and xenophobic bile
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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Support the National Trust by voting for Council members by 11:59pm on 30 October 2026. Quickvote is convenient if you're short of time or worried about inadvertently voting for Restore Trust's Bonigala, Cristea, Goldman, Mealing or Omrani. In our often bad times, the Trust's doing good things.
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James Murray @james-bg.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
The pitch here seems to be, ‘we’ll build the houses and infrastructure we failed to build during the 14 years we were in government, but we’ll do it in the most damaging and lowest quality way possible’. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
theguardian.com
Tories to pledge to scrap Environment Agency and Natural England
Shadow chancellor will also promise to scrap affordable homes regulations as part of strategy to refocus on growth
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Dan Sohege @danielsohege.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
It is incredibly telling, to me at least, how Cameron and May were more progressive on trans rights, and yet even those areas of recognition are being rolled back/completely destroyed by Labour, yet trans and non-binary individuals are ignored, talked over, and told to shut up and support Labour.
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Phillips OBrien @phillipspobrien.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
This proves only two things. The Ukrainian campaign against Russian refineries is causing serious damage. Putin has asked Trump to help him out and the US president obliged.
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Parody Nigel Farage @parodypm.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
For a long time I have heard rumours that you strangle kittens for fun and worship Satan. I have never believed it and still don’t. Am I doing this right?
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Phillips OBrien @phillipspobrien.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Latest piece out. There was some confusion about why the UK, France and the Baltics were not invited by the US to its NATO meeting. Its actually brutally simple and part of a US strategy of divide and rule towards European security. And it might work. phillipspobrien.substack.com/p/divide-and...
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Divide And Rule: The US Strategy Towards Europe
And Why It Could Work
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Simon Evans @drsimevans.carbonbrief.org · 30/09/2026
NEW ANALYSIS: Record wind and solar save UK from gas imports worth £5.9bn during Hormuz crisis 🌤️ wind/solar generation up 14% in 2026 to date 🏭 gas down ~10% 🚢 >100 LNG cargoes avoided
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
I've been a member of the lobby for well over a decade. Not a single one of my lobby colleagues has said a word about the Conservatives banning me from their conferences, without any explanation. Contrast with the US where even Fox News stood in solidarity when Trump banned news outlets he disliked
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Kemi Badenoch's Conservatives Block 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 · 30/09/2026
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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Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
NEW: ‘It’s an implicit threat’. Lord Tom Watson of Palantir writes to one of its biggest critics -Labour MP @labourlewis.bsky.social - to tell him the surveillance firm is watching him. www.thenerve.news/p/clive-lewi...
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They’re saying: we’re watching you’: MP Clive Lewis reveals Tom Watson has warned him over criticising Palantir
In a letter to his former Labour colleague, the peer, who joined Peter Thiel’s AI company this month, writes: ‘You have made the case against the company more or less continuously’. By Carole Cadwalla...
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Ben Goldsborough MP @bengoldsborough.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
🚨 This is deeply troubling. Labour Cllr Ben Weston has uncovered that Reform’s Norfolk leader dined at a luxury restaurant owned by the man later appointed Norfolk’s £215k CEO — just ONE DAY before the job was advertised. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
bbc.co.uk
Norfolk council leader dined at CEO's hotel before £215k hiring
Reform UK's David Bick says he cannot recall meeting Dennis Bacon at the luxury venue.
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Emma Monk @monkemma.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
🧵 As front-page headlines go, this has to be one of the most misleading I've seen in a long time It's an out-and-out lie But notice the trick they use to get away with it...👀 *They're* not lying - they're just quoting someone else who is👍🏻 In this case, the leader of the opposition🙄 1/33
Daily Express headline:

"More Freedoms Handed to New Arrivals than British Citizens"

Above an image of Kemi Badenoch

All with a Monk Debunked stamp on top
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Cllr Owen Burbidge 🔶 @oburbidge.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
This is what we are up against. It’s why I’ve always said the under 16 social media ban doesn’t go far enough. We shouldn’t be banning it for children, we should be properly regulating it for everyone. This is scary. How do we fight this?
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Rae Radford @raeradford.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
About right….. #BookSky
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
GB News, the propaganda arm of Reform UK, wants to make it illegal for the UK to rejoin the the EU. How does that work? Parliament to pass a law so that it can't pass another law, or hold a referendum? Bizarre. Maybe they are counting on a Farage dictatorship? 👇👇👇👇👇
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Stephen Collins @stephencollins.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
#TBT to this from 2012 in honour of Michael Gove starring as an invasion-battling leader in Sky's new show The Wargame. If you don't know what or who this comic is about... just count yourself lucky and scroll on, no worries.
[Opening scene is WESTMINSTER, LONDON. Over Downing Street a huge ALIEN SPACECRAFT hovers, silent, still, filling the whole sky a la Independence Day]. 

[Cut to INSIDE 10 DOWNING STREET. The (then) prime Minister DAVID CAMERON is looking out of his office window at the ship.]

VOICE FROM OFF-SCENE, BEHIND CAMERON:
Prime Minister…

CAMERON [addressing the person behind him, still keeping his eyes fixed ahead in dread at the spaceship]:
Yes?

[We see the speaker is MICHAEL GOVE, then Education Secretary]:

GOVE:
Let me do it.

CAMERON:
For God's sake, Michael, you're the Education Secretary! You've never flown a fighter plane in your life!

GOVE:
But I know I could do it, David. I could fly a fighter plane into the big space- ship...

...and shoot all the aliens.

CAMERON:
But you have no military training!

GOVE:
David

I haven't told you this, but...

I used to be a journalist. For The Times.

[Cameron reacts, turning to look at Gove with awe and respect, as if only now truly seeing him for the first time]. 

GOVE:
I wrote two articles about planes, David.

I've got strong opinions about aliens.

I know I can do this job.

[Cut to a title card panel]:

AND SO:

[Then cut again to Cameron on the roof of Number 10, watching a Michael Gove pilot a fighter jet up towards the spacecraft, and then completely miss it, careering towards Earth, as Cameron buries his face in his hands].

[Ends]
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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Times reporter Emma Yeomams on how vigilante Mr Daniel Thomas attempted to endanger life of a rescuer at sea (fortunately unsuccessfully on this occasion).
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Josiah Mortimer @josiahmortimer.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
🔴 Nigel Farage-Backed Bitcoin Firm to Buy Gold Dealer That Paid Him £685,500 The deal would put the Reform leader’s gold bullion ‘brand ambassador’ fees in the hands of a crypto company he part-owns bylinetimes.com/2026/09/23/n...
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Nigel Farage-Backed Bitcoin Firm to Buy Gold Dealer That Paid Him £685,500
The deal would put the Reform leader's gold bullion 'brand ambassador' fees in the hands of a crypto company he part-owns
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Stephen Collins @stephencollins.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

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Wide shot of the BRITISH MUSEUM. There are suggestions of fascism around the streets - tanks, barricades, an Orwellian 'Big Brother'-style poster on a wall. A voice of a TOUR GUIDE emanates from the museum:

TOUR GUIDE:
So the Tapestry tells acrucial chapter of our nation's history...

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[Cut to interior of museum. A long Bayeaux-style TAPESTRY is on display, and the Tour Guide is speaking to a tour group]

TOUR GUIDE [smiling]:
How modern fascist Britain was created. 

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TOUR GUIDE:
The Tapestry begins here with the 2008 Crash, then austerity, then the AI Crash...

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TOUR GUIDE:
...and by the end of the room it's just full-on fash. 

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CHILD IN TOUR GROUP [gesturing to the tapestry]:
What's this middle bit?

TOUR GUIDE:
This is the 2026 Battle of Legitimate Concerns 

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TOUR GUIDE:
[show a reporter standing next to the Dover protests]
Here's the media saying the government have got to do something about the legitimate concerns...

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CHILD:
...About the failure of capitalism?

TOUR GUIDE:
No about brown people on boats

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CHILD:
[pointing at boats crossing the sea on the tapestry]
Are these boats the mega-dinghies?

TOUR GUIDE:
Not all of them

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[we see one of the boats  is a giant yacht]
TOUR GUIDE:
That one's a superyacht,
carrying money from the American fascists to the British ones.

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TOUR GUIDE:
You see really it's as much a story of convergence as it is of conflict.

[An alarm sounds in the museum]
DING DING DING DING 

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TOUR GUIDE:
Ok, tour over everyone 

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TOUR GUIDE:
It's time for the Two Minute Hate!

[They all leave the museum]

[ends]
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Astronomer Royal for Scotland | Catherine Heymans @astroroyalscot.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
NASA picture of the day today is a real 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿beauty! This is a composite image of the ~5000yo Callanish Stones on the Isle of Lewis. The amazing Giuseppe Petricca has only gone and photographed the Sun at noon there, every few days, for a whole year. #Dedication 🔭🧪👌 ℹ️: science.nasa.gov/image-articl...
The imposing Callanish Stones stand talk with their shadows spanning out across the glass.  It's a super clear sky, but looks cold. Above the central stone is a strange figure-of-8 shape of dots.  This is the location of the Sun, at noon, on various different days across the year.
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theycantalk.bsky.social @theycantalk.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
shocked
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Mark Kersten @markkersten.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
I’ve been told this too, from UN sources - the US will sanction the #ICC as an institution this week, & that they have considered designating the Court as a terrorist or terrorist supporting body. All for Netanyahu (and Putin). States that believe in the rule of law must denounce this lunacy.
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Blue Oleta @blue-oleta.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
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Mr. Blabalino 🇳🇴🇺🇸💙 @blabalino.com · 20/09/2026
This is an actual public service ad created by the Norwegian government regarding this problem. If you think the Internet sucks now, you're not alone.
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The News Agents @thenewsagents.co.uk · 17/09/2026
"I don't like to use expletives on this podcast, but what the actual f**k?" says Jon Sopel, who uses expletives quite often on this podcast, says. How will Trump and MAGA "wiggle out" of scrutiny over why Putin's best mate paid for Don Jr's wedding? www.thenewsagents.co.uk/article/why-...
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Why did Putin’s mega-rich mate spend so much on Don Jr’s wedding? | The News Agents
A senior Republican has told Miles Taylor he is “very concerned” about Umar Kremlev, a close friend of Vladimir Putin, giving a huge amount to Donald Trump Jr and his second wife, Bettina Anderson.
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Rosie Holt @rosieisaholt.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Thrilled to announce I’m Ed Sheeran’s new support act 💚 For tickets: www.seetickets.com/tour/rosie-h...
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Duncan Mackay @theduncanmackay.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Rod Hull, time traveller. Villa Romana Del Casale.
Roman mosaic depicting man carrying a large bird like an emu.
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Butterfly Conservation @savebutterflies.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
The results are in 🦋📢 A huge thank you to the 101,565 of you who took part in this year's #BigButterflyCount! While many widespread butterfly species had a good summer, drought and record heat could impact next year’s populations. Read the full results 👉 buff.ly/V75ZHi7
A Peacock butterfly feeding on buddleia. Text overlay reads 'The results are in' with Butterfly Conservation's Big Butterfly Count logo in the bottom right. Image by Gundula Vogal
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Amanda @pandamoanimum.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Happy 5th anniversary to the time this happened over on that other place.
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Hassinator @hassinator.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
a great letter in the times today. perhaps worth sharing in these troubled times. #RNLI #heroes
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Phil Brickell MP @philbrickellmp.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Coverage of the letter I wrote to the Electoral Commission about hospitality Nigel Farage received in Dubai which hasn’t been declared. The Commission is now investigating.
mirror.co.uk
Farage accused of failing to declare donors from events in the Middle East
EXCLUSIVE: The Electoral Commission has confirmed it will look into hospitality heaped on Nigel Farage and senior party figures in Dubai last January by mega-rich supporters
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Caroline Lucas @carolinelucas.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Deeply disappointing. Assisted Dying and improved palliative care are not alternative options - we urgently need them both.
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MPs vote against legalising assisted dying in England and Wales
Bill fails at second reading despite near-identical legislation being approved by Commons in last parliament
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Dave Keating @davekeating.substack.com · 11/09/2026
More extortion using the NATO protection racket. Will European leaders keep surrendering to the extortion?
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US pressures NATO allies to destroy International Criminal Court
Washington said it “would be watching closely” to see which allies help in its campaign against the court during a closed-door meeting this summer.
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HOPE not hate @hopenothate.org.uk · 09/09/2026
🚨 THE TOMMY FILES: Tonight, our work with #C4Dispatches put Tommy Robinson’s finances under scrutiny. Now, we’re publishing everything we found, in one place. hopenothate.org.uk/tommy-files-...
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Tommy Files: The Game Is Up
For years, Stephen Lennon, better known as Tommy Robinson, has asked his supporters to fund his political campaigns, legal battles and media operation. Now his finances are coming under unprecedented ...
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HOPE not hate @hopenothate.org.uk · 09/09/2026
🍿 WATCH: ‘Tommy Robinson: Where’s the Money Gone?’ TONIGHT at 10pm on Channel 4. Then head back here after the show. We’ve got more to reveal.
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Elle Cordova @ellecordova.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Rough Draft vs Final Draft
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Elle Cordova @ellecordova.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
I am the very model of a modern day typographer A font take on the tune “Modern Major General” by Gilbert & Sullivan #typography #fonts #graphicdesign
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