Reposted by Mary KateTeam Talarico @teamtalaricohq.bsky.social · 16hNew documents reveal Ken Paxton has grown his net worth up to $27 million since taking office. His yearly salary is just $153,000. 1002240964
Reposted by Mary KateRon Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 15hThis is completely outrageous and disgusting. This must immediately be blocked by Congress and Trump should be impeached for this. The US is now funding Putin’s war machine as he murders civilians including children. We are lost as a country. 1839139214867
Reposted by Mary KateJames O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 09/10/2026Another resounding victory for Kemi Badenoch. They’ll have to extend the tapestry now… 931342187
Reposted by Mary KatePrem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 09/10/2026Tories overstate net zero cost by nearly £500bn in apparent spreadsheet error. Same error amplified by right-wing think-tanks, press It suited their ideological leanings. Future historians might say - planet earth and human life was shattered by a spreadsheet error.theguardian.comTories overstate net zero cost by nearly £500bn in apparent spreadsheet errorExclusive: Badenoch’s flagship conference policy document cites £957bn estimate, twice the total in climate advisers’ data 64636308
Reposted by Mary KateRDCK98 @comradekenobi.bsky.social · 09/10/2026Nice little nugget of horror buried in there 40660260
Reposted by Mary KateTwlldun @twlldun.bsky.social · 09/10/2026Astounding Badenoching. Pure, liquid Kemi. 912221
Reposted by Mary KateJonathan Portes @jdportes.bsky.social · 09/10/2026This prompted me to go back and check the claim that "On current DWP forecasts, from the 2024 election until 2030, Labour will have increased working-age benefit spending by a further £51.6 bn/year." It appears to be equally fictional/spreadsheet error. Correct figure is maybe £36bn.. 17254131
Reposted by Mary KateRachel Cunliffe @rmcunliffe.bsky.social · 08/10/2026In light of the guy wanting to a train an AI to read to his kid, may I propose the counterpoint and repost this ode to reading to children www.newstatesman.com/politics/fut...newstatesman.comThe magic of reading to childrenIts appeal is in the forging of memory as much as the story itself 86114
Reposted by Mary KateBest for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 08/10/2026@pimlicat.bsky.social: These repeated invitations from our French allies prove the claim they would not welcome the UK back is nothing more than a defeatist trope. Our close neighbours have always been clear that they would open their arms to us joining the fold once more.huffingtonpost.co.uk'Come Back Anytime': French Minister Rolls Out The Welcome Mat For Britain Rejoining EUAndy Burnham has said overturning Brexit is “an option”. 69729
Reposted by Mary KateAdam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 07/10/2026Listening to Kemi Badenoch list her many supposed triumphs you wouldn't have any idea that the Conservatives just suffered their worst set of election defeats in their history and are now polling eight points lower than when she first took over as leader 2142974
Reposted by Mary KateAndy Muirhead @andymuirhd.bsky.social · 07/10/2026Won't be long now folks #celticfc 1245
Reposted by Mary Katemimij9.bsky.social @mimij9.bsky.social · 07/10/2026Fuck me, this Badenoch speech is awful. Bitter, angry and weird. She’s going on about Burnham taking us back to the days of British Leyland, most aren’t going to know what’s she’s talking about? The only difference between the Tories and Reform is Badenoch knows black people can be English? 2416228
Reposted by Mary KateZoë Grünewald @zoegrunewald.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Kemi Badenoch’s whole shtick is slash and burn, which is red meat for the Westminster-brained, but for the wider electorate… what actually is her vision for what emerges from the ashes? What sort of country does she want us to become? Seemingly just one that’s punitive, uncaring and nasty? 2827572
Reposted by Mary Katecpuk (trampoline park connoisseur and occasional comic printer) @comicprintinguk.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Greens earlier this year: “hooray! We have momentum!” Greens now: “oh no. We have Momentum.” 28414
Reposted by Mary KateNaomi Smith @pimlicat.bsky.social · 05/10/2026The door has - finally - been opened. The taboo has been smashed. EU membership is back on the table. It’s time to make it the closing paragraph of this new chapter in UK-EU relations. encompass-europe.com/comment/a-pi...encompass-europe.comA pivotal moment for UK-EU relationsWhen the sun rose on June 24, 2016, one thing was clear: the relationship between the UK and the EU had entered a new, arduous chapter. As Boris Johnson and Michael Gove blinked into the cameras,… 723251
Reposted by Mary KateMusa Okwonga @okwonga.bsky.social · 02/10/2026This can't be talked about enough. "President Donald Trump's move to cut most of the US funding towards foreign humanitarian aid could cause more than 14 million additional deaths by 2030, according to research published in The Lancet medical journal." www.bbc.com/news/article...bbc.comTrump's aid cut risks causing 14 million deaths, report findsThe figure from the Lancet, a leading medical journal, includes 700,000 child deaths globally a year. 9229148
Reposted by Mary KatePaul Bassett Davies @thewritertype.bsky.social · 25/09/2026It’s not that Kemi Badenoch isn’t reading the room, it’s that the room she’s reading is the dining hall in the workhouse from Oliver Twist, while she and her friends sit in armchairs around a fire, delivering morally improving lectures to the paupers. 87422
Reposted by Mary KateJordan @jordanpfot.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Lisa Nandy has never attended the Proms as Culture Secretary btw. 714713
Reposted by Mary KateJames Butler @piercepenniless.bsky.social · 25/09/2026When was the last time our Secretary of State for Culture displayed anything approaching this degree of public enthusiasm for our world-class arts industry? Has she been seen anywhere? Given impending charter renewal... did she even bother to visit a single prom? 311328270
Reposted by Mary KateDavid Higham @oldtrotter.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Just been listening to Charlie Mullins saying that he'll only return to Britain if Farage becomes PM. Labour should put that on their election leaflets. 2427558
Reposted by Mary KateBest for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 24/09/2026Our new megapoll with YouGov finds that pledging to rejoin the EU could win Labour 321 seats at the next election - just 5 short of an absolute majority. Read more here: bestforbritain.org/eu-membership-pl… 22336116
Reposted by Mary KateLeeds for Europe @leedseurope.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Brexit's "Empire 2.0" fantasy is dead! In @yorkshirepost.co.uk 📰, Chair @leedsblue67.bsky.social says Commonwealth allies bypass London for Brussels. Leaving the Single Market cost 4% of GDP, while the EU acts as a vital superpower counterweight! ⚖️ #Leeds #Yorkshire #Brexit #RejoinEU #UKPolitics 095
Reposted by Mary KatePeter Geoghegan @petergeoghegan.bsky.social · 23/09/2026This shit will continue to happen as long as publishers don’t fact check books - which they don’t (as admitted with Jason Arday) I paid someone - out of my own pocket - to fact check my book. But you can pretty much put anything in a book if you want. It’s mad www.theguardian.com/media/2026/s...theguardian.comPiers Morgan says he will sue Earl Spencer over ‘fabricated inaccuracies’Broadcaster refutes memoir claim that he was behind publication of gym photos of Diana, Princess of Wales 2617324
Reposted by Mary KateSarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Thank you for this, @privateeyenews.bsky.social Farage needs ridiculing far more. It’s a form of scrutiny he can’t cope with and one he so richly - yes pun intended - deserves. 10398159
Reposted by Mary KateTanita Tikaram @tanitatikaram.bsky.social · 23/09/2026How I feel right now about the British/ 🇬🇧English( whatever) political landscape is that some one wrapped in a Union Jack could whack me over the head with a flag pole & the BBC would shove a microphone in my face asking why I provoked the attacker & the Home Sec would invite the attacker for tea . 271370380
Reposted by Mary KateMark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 23/09/2026“His time is up. He had his chance and he blew it with his own crippling incompetence. For the next two years the world can watch him wither away, still causing chaos, still failing, but everyone will be looking to what comes next.”chadbourn.substack.comLast Days Of TrumpThe decline and fall is now underway 82773190
Reposted by Mary KateIan Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 21/09/2026Lots of talk of growth ahead of the Budget, as if it were a baroque puzzle. Our problem is basic. It's that we no longer support the things which facilitate growth: Europe, immigration, higher education, tax simplification, policy stability. These are all choices and could stop making them anytime. 591611423
Reposted by Mary KateAndy Muirhead @andymuirhd.bsky.social · 20/09/2026Clear handball from Kelsey. Beaton looking straight at it. No foul. 253
Reposted by Mary KateM Meerkat @kackbro.bsky.social · 18/09/2026Asking 77 Million People How......? 1172121623061
Reposted by Mary KateIan Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 18/09/2026British journalism and polling are both utterly implicated in the Farage funding scandal iandunt.substack.com/p/british-jo... 561582563
Reposted by Mary KateOtto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 18/09/2026Piddington's independence ref is being presented as a quaint 'crumpets and muffins' comedy of plucky country folk. It's much darker and nastier than that and shows how deeply entrenched the bigoted 'fighting aged men on boats' narrative runs. Me for @noosphere.app www.noosphere.app/passport-to-...noosphere.appPassport to PiddingtonLast week an Oxfordshire village declared independence from the United Kingdom - ostensibly in protest at a local refugee centre. But is something darker going on? 75812215
Reposted by Mary KateNeil Mackay @neilmackay.bsky.social · 18/09/2026Well I think that’s me done with Radio Four’s Today programme. It’s just culture war clickbait now. All I want is intelligent in-depth reporting of the news. Not this constant attempt to provoke division in the country seemingly over every damn matter. The ruination of the BBC is a national tragedy. 2012626
Reposted by Mary KatePaul Bernal @paulbernal.bsky.social · 18/09/2026There is no middle ground with the kind of people who attack the RNLI. We don’t need to ‘listen’ to them. We need to tell them where to go. 751935432
Reposted by Mary KateAlex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 15/09/2026The people of Piddington have spoken. I say, grant them independence. Border controls. Visas to cross into the UK. Tariffs on goods. No GBP. No NHS. No benefits or pensions. Let us know when your little lilywhite enclave has gone all Mad Max and you started eating each other. BUH-BYE! 1251253237
Reposted by Mary KateAlex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 15/09/2026Helen Whately on Sky News: "We want to bring down the tax burden on working people. Kemi has asked her economic unit for a fiscally responsible way to bring down inheritance tax, another tax that hits hard working people hard." One of the dumbest people in politics. Liz Truss levels of stupid. 1281107221
Reposted by Mary KateJosiah Mortimer @josiahmortimer.bsky.social · 14/09/2026£72m for Reform over the weekend could be just the tip of the iceberg There's nothing to stop Elon Musk giving, via a UK X subsidiary, £300m to Restore Britain today Or a Trump ally giving £500m to Farage via a UK-registered firm There's a v narrow window to tackle big money in the elections bill 22466182
Reposted by Mary KateWarren Oates @warrenoates1.bsky.social · 09/09/2026So, despite the media and high profile so called 'farmer' hoo-ha, it looks like Rachel Reeves was right about inheritance tax on large agricultural estates! 915855
Reposted by Mary KateMartin Lewis @martinlewis.moneysavingexpert.com · 04/09/2026It is an outrage that the family income threshold where Eng students start to lose maintenance loan has been frozen at £25,000 since 2008, so its now not much more than a single earners min wage! If it'd risen with CPI inflation (never mind RPI or avg earnings) it'd be c£43,000 313329
Reposted by Mary KateMark Norman @mark60.bsky.social · 04/09/2026Now that James Orr has been forced to step down from his role at Reform UK, perhaps the rest of the media will, belatedly, wake up to the story unearthed by @bylinetimes.bsky.social about what he’s been up to at Cambridge. 311138
Reposted by Mary KateThe Empty City @davidallengreen.bsky.social · 04/09/2026"If there there was a window it was not broken, but it if was broken it was not by Nigel Farage's ball, but if it was his ball he certainly did not kick it, and if he did kick it, it was an accident and he knew nothing about it" said a Reform spokesperson. 181078307
Reposted by Mary KateAlex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 04/09/2026And, of course... hopenothate.org.uk/2017/05/30/f...hopenothate.org.ukFarage’s spin doctor poses with far-right conspiracy theorist – HOPE not hateJukes, who began handling communications for the former UKIP leader in January, tweeted a photo of him standing side by side with Watson in front... 46719
Reposted by Mary KateAlex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 04/09/2026I knew I had heard of Dan Jukes before... www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/politics/465...prospectmagazine.co.ukYoung Independence: What drives Ukip's youth wing?The party's junior membership are well-drilled and professional 109429
Reposted by Mary KateMark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 03/09/2026Reform’s Zia Yusuf, the son of Sri Lankan Muslims: 812525
Reposted by Mary KatePeter Jukes @peterjukes.bsky.social · 03/09/2026Without sounding our own horn, or disparaging an excellent piece, a lot of this was reported two months ago by @nafeez.bsky.social on @bylinetimes.bsky.social bylinetimes.com/2026/07/09/p...bylinetimes.comPalantir Co-Founder Peter Thiel and Reform UK's Cambridge University Recruitment Pipeline Project RevealedThe world-renowned academic institution has nothing to say in response to a six-month investigation by Byline Times raising serious concerns about the safeguarding of students and foreign influence at... 617864
Reposted by Mary KateSam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 03/09/2026There's a new Italian far right party challenging Meloni, particularly on her support for Ukraine. It's led by Roberto Vannaci who was posted to Moscow as Italy's military attache in early 2021. Can't imagine what's happened there.... 832664
Reposted by Mary KateSunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 03/09/2026Zia Yusuf has tweeted this about the leader of Camden Council, Sagal Abdi-Wali, who has lived in Camden for over 35 years, after arriving as a child refugee in the early 1990s. (Nadhim Zahawi, born in Baghdad to an Iraqi Kurdish family, came to the UK as an 11 year old:should be asked about this) 1161462523
Reposted by Mary KateJames Ball @jamesrball.com · 03/09/2026I was banned last year, so didn't even bother applying this year. Partly just because Reform isn't where the action is this year: can get what I need viewing remotely. 💅 8629
Reposted by Mary KateJessica Elgot @jessicaelgot.bsky.social · 02/09/2026Reform UK has banned some journalists from its annual conference who have reported critically on the party and Nigel Farage. It includes the Guardian’s City editor, Anna Isaac, who uncovered the £5m gift. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...theguardian.comReform UK bans three journalists from its conference after critical reportingGuardian City editor Anna Isaac among those who had credentials to cover event declined 64432201
Reposted by Mary KatePeter Geoghegan @petergeoghegan.bsky.social · 02/09/2026I try to be generous in general but this farewell to Amol Rajan is toe curling It’s way too long and to listen to it you’d think the subject was a genius who has a terminal illness, not Lebedev’s ex bagman off to set up a Substack 3032362
Reposted by Mary KateMark Hale just wrote a novel! @ver-bat-man.eurosky.social · 02/09/2026Never a fan of Rajan. Too oleaginous for his own good. Like artisanally hand-picked nuggets from the Jeremy Vine, carefully olive wood screw-pressed and filtered through the finest muslin, before being flavoured with sun-dried herbs from Chris Mason's garden. 2273
