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Byline Times @bylinetimes.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
"Picking on Byline Times sends a message to other political journalists: Be careful. Don't be too critical. We can do the same to you." @adambienkov.bsky.social speaks to LBC's @mrjamesob.bsky.social about Byline Times' ban from Conservative Party Conference.
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Was just on LBC with @mrjamesob.bsky.social to discuss Kemi Badenoch's banning of @bylinetimes.bsky.social from attending Conservative conference after calling such bans by Reform "authoritarian" and an assault on free speech bylinetimes.com/2026/09/30/k...
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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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Matt Gallagher @mattmgallagher.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Reminder that LLMs are not 'rogue alien minds'. They are software, no more 'self-aware' than a toaster. Unfortunately the story is about the The Terminator instead of about the utter impunity of Tech CEOs, even when they brazenly churn out dangerous malware. www.axios.com/2026/09/26/o...
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Scoop: Top AI companies probing tens of thousands of security incidents
The massive scale of security incidents points to control problems for AI companies.
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Byline Times @bylinetimes.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
The United Nation’s supposedly “Independent” AI Panel has financial and personnel ties to Big AI firms, Byline Times has revealed. In response to this publication's enquiries, the UN has acknowledged possible 'conflicts' of interest. bylinetimes.com/2026/09/25/u...
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UN Acknowledges 'Conflicts' of Interest After Byline Times Exposes AI Panel’s Ties to OpenAI and Anthropic Funders
The supposedly independent panel has close ties to donors who financed the AI giants they have assessed, a Byline Times investigation has found
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Matt Gallagher @mattmgallagher.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
This should go well www.euronews.com/2026/10/01/e...
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Musk returns to Trump administration to co-lead Pentagon war study
Musk, who in 2024 threw his support behind Trump and helped his return to the White House, served as head of the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), where he spearheaded sweeping job cuts acro...
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Matt Gallagher @mattmgallagher.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
A much needed dose of sanity from @nafeez.bsky.social, while the majority of the press credulously platforms AI executives and launders their talking points.
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Dr Nafeez Ahmed @nafeez.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
If there's a single graph you need to see to understand the AI extinction debate, it's this. To survive, frontier AI giants need to burn $10 trillion (a tenth of world GDP) over nxt 5 years. But they will only earn $3 trillion - a financial blackhole of $7 trillion. Who is going to go extinct?
Anthropic, OpenAI and Google DeepMind will need $10 trillion over next 5 years, but will earn only about $3 trillion.
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Byline Times @bylinetimes.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
“If Republicans fail to hold onto the House or Senate in the 2026 midterms, the nearly inescapable conclusion is that they will reject the results. In fact, they may not even wait for the results to come in.” ✍️ Brynn Tannehill
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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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Peter Geoghegan @petergeoghegan.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Comment requests on Channel 4/Verbatim investigation went out Wednesday morning Then Reform barred me - and other journalists likely to ask critical questions - from their party conference Funny that… 🤔 democracyforsale.substack.com/p/ive-been-b...
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I’ve been banned by Reform. But this isn’t really about me.
My press accreditation for Reform’s conference was revoked. This should concern us all.
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
I can't remember a clearer smoking gun than that Channel 4 News footage. Nigel Farage and his senior aides all filmed discussing apparent plans to break the law by funnelling foreign money into British politics, plans which at least partly went ahead. A criminal investigation surely must follow
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Reform UK, which promises to "defend free speech" at all costs, has again banned Byline Times from its conference
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bylinepodcast.bsky.social @bylinepodcast.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Curious that while MSM is obsessed with #JasonArday the story of another Cambridge academic has been ignored - despite allegations of safeguarding breaches and overseas donors buying influence. @goldbergradio.bsky.social @nafeez.bsky.social @bylinetimes.bsky.social open.spotify.com/episode/3zGv...
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James Orr: Reform's Cambridge Kingmaker
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Byline Times @bylinetimes.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
“Prediction markets threaten to sublimate the remaining parts of American civic and community life into a commercialised, cheapening logic – grief, death, war, elections, and culture all quantified and turned into products.” ✍️ Matt Gallagher
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The Casino Republic – Byline Times Digital / Print Edition
Matt Gallagher explores how the American Dream’s next evolution is selling a ‘permanent underclass’ a route out of a rat race they won’t ever win
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
GB News has the smallest proportion of young people in its audience among all the 50 biggest UK newsbrands pressgazette.co.uk/media-audien...
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Which UK national newsbrands reach the most under-35s?
New research based on Ipsos iris data reveals proportion of young amongst audience of major online newsbrands.
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Byline Times @bylinetimes.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
“Britain could build a foreign policy around what it actually is … But it would require giving up the fantasy that the Empire has somehow survived by merging with America’s” ✍️ @jamesbloodworth.bsky.social
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A ‘Special’ Relationship, Indeed – Byline Times Digital / Print Edition
James Bloodworth explores whether Britain and the United States can ever mature their mutual fascination with each other into more than symbolic fantasy
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Byline Times @bylinetimes.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Despite this extraordinary heatwave, many in the press still pretend the climate crisis is years away and miles off. Our next exclusive edition explores Britain's inability to confront the disaster on our doorstep. Subscribe and get *30% off* your first year 👇
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Annual Subscriptions with 30% discount – Byline Times
30% off your first year! Read Byline Times online with our basic digital-only subscription, or get our monthly print magazine delivered to your door. By clicking on our ad, you’ve earned 30% off whichever subscription you choose.  If you’d like to support our journalism more generously, and would like to see your name in print, we […]
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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Insane that AOC is being quoted as saying "Woke 1 was crazy" when this is what she actually said. youtu.be/SFwAnMLBSOw?...
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Jared Holt @jaredlholt.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
The "centrist" think tank Third Way is looking to pay someone between $140,000 and $150,000 to spend their days trying to dig up dirt on DSA members. They're trying to sell this gig as "anti-extremism" work, which I find completely disgusting.
from job listing:

As the Director of Anti-Extremism, a typical day might include…

Assembling and updating a database of the DSA’s most extreme ideas and statements and a repository of voting records, affiliations, and issue positions to make available to allies and partners;
Leading public opinion research to identify and test the contrasts that move base voters away from these extreme candidates;
Overseeing the development of memos, talking points, rapid response materials, and other products that make the case against these extreme forces in American politics;
Promoting and marketing our research and materials to ensure they reach decisionmakers quickly, repeatedly, and at scale through a coordinated distribution infrastructure;
Recruiting and arming a group of young, diverse spokespeople to fight the DSA from a center-left perspective and assembling a broad coalition of organizational partners to make the case against extremism;
Running an earned media program to create a drumbeat of our message in op-eds, television appearances, podcasts, and traditional and digital media engagement.
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Byline Times @bylinetimes.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
“Gambling has been integrated into digital entertainment, with influencers (who can afford to lose) placing monumental bets and enticing their audience with the promise of easy money.” ✍️ Matt Gallagher
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The Casino Republic – Byline Times Digital / Print Edition
Matt Gallagher explores how the American Dream’s next evolution is selling a ‘permanent underclass’ a route out of a rat race they won’t ever win
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ashley greb photo @ashleygrebphoto.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
Literally thousands on the outside listening in, for @zackpolanski.bsky.social with @bylinetimes.bsky.social at World Of Words today. @bylinefestival.bsky.social at WOMAD Festival - 25.Jul.26
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Quinn Slobodian @quinnslobodian.com · 22/07/2026
waiting for the cavalry
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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
“The left is going to lose these elections for us,” say the people who lost 2000, 2002, 2004, 2010, 2014, 2016, 2024 — often because they were fixated on the “winning” strategy of punching left and wooing center right voters
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Byline Times @bylinetimes.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
"Britain has spent the post-war period trying to convince itself that proximity to American power is itself a form of power." ✍️ @jamesbloodworth.bsky.social subscribe.bylinetimes.com/edition/88/a...
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A ‘Special’ Relationship, Indeed – Byline Times Digital / Print Edition
James Bloodworth explores whether Britain and the United States can ever mature their mutual fascination with each other into more than symbolic fantasy
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Byline Times @bylinetimes.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
"Prediction markets threaten to subsume the remaining parts of American civic and community life into a commercialised, cheapening logic – grief, death, war, elections, and culture all quantified and turned into products." ✍️ @mattmgallagher.bsky.social subscribe.bylinetimes.com/edition/88/t...
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The Casino Republic – Byline Times Digital / Print Edition
Matt Gallagher explores how the American Dream’s next evolution is selling a ‘permanent underclass’ a route out of a rat race they won’t ever win
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Jeremy Rodell @jeremyr1.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
America: ”the financialisation of everything”, on steroids in the age of Trump, Musk and the other billionaires - the needs and hopes of ordinary people monetised, Elon’s suckers provide the ’dumb money’. And we are not immune.
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Byline Times @bylinetimes.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
🟡 MAGAZINE: The Casino Republic Matt Gallagher explores how the American Dream’s next evolution is selling a ‘permanent underclass’ a route out of a rat race they won’t ever win Read the full story below.
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The Casino Republic – Byline Times Digital / Print Edition
Matt Gallagher explores how the American Dream’s next evolution is selling a ‘permanent underclass’ a route out of a rat race they won’t ever win
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Meg Howarth @howarthm.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
🚨 #PoliticalDonations ➡️ #MoreReform #Reform has so far raised more than £30mn in declared donations since 2024. 💥 It is vital that the party should be able to demonstrate exactly where all of that money originated from💥 Excellent piece! 🙏 @mattmgallagher.bsky.social FYI @rbrooks45.bsky.social
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Nic Boothby @nicboothby.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
Nigel Farage’s party is now connected to multiple parliamentary and police investigations, as questions grow about its opaque crypto-connected funding... reports @mattmgallagher.bsky.social @bylinetimes.bsky.social bylinetimes.com/2026/07/10/t...
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The Walls Are Closing In Around Nigel Farage's Crypto Insurgency
Nigel Farage's party is now connected to multiple parliamentary and police investigations, as questions grow about its opaque crypto-connected funding, reports Matt Gallagher
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Jon Owen @anotherjon.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
"Navigating the labyrinth of influence and financial connections beneath the surface of Reform UK, cryptocurrency really does seem to appear at every turn." - A great piece, this, by @mattmgallagher.bsky.social for @bylinetimes.bsky.social bylinetimes.com/2026/07/10/t...
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The Walls Are Closing In Around Nigel Farage's Crypto Insurgency
Nigel Farage's party is now connected to multiple parliamentary and police investigations, as questions grow about its opaque crypto-connected funding, reports Matt Gallagher
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Byline Times @bylinetimes.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
"A political movement promising to take on 'the establishment' has been unusually reliant on an industry built around borderless capital, fragmented regulation and financial opacity." ✍️ @mattmgallagher.bsky.social bylinetimes.com/2026/07/10/t...
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The Walls Are Closing In Around Nigel Farage's Crypto Insurgency
Nigel Farage's party is now connected to multiple parliamentary and police investigations, as questions grow about its opaque crypto-connected funding, reports Matt Gallagher
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Byline Times @bylinetimes.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
🔴 The Walls Are Closing In Around Nigel Farage’s Crypto Insurgency Nigel Farage’s party is now connected to multiple parliamentary and police investigations, as questions grow about its opaque crypto-connected funding, reports @mattmgallagher.bsky.social bylinetimes.com/2026/07/10/t...
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The Walls Are Closing In Around Nigel Farage's Crypto Insurgency
Nigel Farage's party is now connected to multiple parliamentary and police investigations, as questions grow about its opaque crypto-connected funding, reports Matt Gallagher
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
So they're all taking this really well
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Josiah Mortimer @josiahmortimer.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
A six-month investigation by Byline Times reveals that with the support of Palantir's Peter Thiel, Reform's policy chief James Orr has used the University of Cambridge as a student recruitment ground for a hard-right, theocratic political project aimed at bolstering talent in Farage’s party
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Palantir Co-Founder Peter Thiel and Reform UK's Cambridge University Recruitment Pipeline Project Revealed
The 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...
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Peter Jukes @peterjukes.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
Does any other country get this swarm of Trump pardoned felons and fraudsters lining up to make political donations? Does any other party than Reform UK? Don Vito Corleone was revered for having politicians and judges in his pocket Now it seems dirty money can buy a whole party
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Byline Times @bylinetimes.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
🔎 From the archive: Robert Jenrick's Alleged £40k Donor Pled Guilty to Wire Fraud in California Ponzi Scheme — Matt Gallagher 🔁 Relevant again: Following news of a Met investigation
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Robert Jenrick's Alleged £40k Donor Pled Guilty to Wire Fraud in California Ponzi Scheme
Police are examining allegations that the Reform UK MP's Conservative leadership campaign was unlawfully funded by a US-based investor who pled guilty to fraud
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Byline Times @bylinetimes.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
"Never before has a politician announced their intention to run for re-election on an explicitly pro-sleaze, anti-transparency ticket." ✍️ @adambienkov.bsky.social bylinetimes.com/2026/07/08/n...
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Nigel Farage’s 'Pro-Sleaze' By-Election Is A Sign Of Terminal Weakness
The Reform leader's desperate decision to call a back-me-or-sack-me by-election is a sign of a politician who knows he is finally being exposed for the man he really is, argues Adam Bienkov
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Byline Times @bylinetimes.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
🔴 NEW: Nigel Farage’s ‘Pro-Sleaze’ By-Election Is A Sign Of Terminal Weakness The Reform leader's desperate decision to call a back-me-or-sack-me by-election is a sign of a politician who knows he is finally being exposed for the man he really is, argues Adam… Read the full story below.
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Nigel Farage’s 'Pro-Sleaze' By-Election Is A Sign Of Terminal Weakness
The Reform leader's desperate decision to call a back-me-or-sack-me by-election is a sign of a politician who knows he is finally being exposed for the man he really is, argues Adam Bienkov
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Peter Jukes @peterjukes.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
In politics, we’re torn between ideals and practicalities, aspirations and realities, the world as we want it, and as we find it But one day a manifesto comes along that reconciles both in every pledge. A rare moment of clarity and hope
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Daniel Burke - 🍺Innkeep @innkeep.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Le Guin on the idea that there is a secret to getting good at writing.
I will dispose of the first myth as quickly as possible. The “secret” is skill. If you haven’t learned how to do something, the people who have may seem to be magicians, possessors of mysterious secrets. In a fairly simple art, such as making pie crust, there are certain teachable “secrets” of method that lead almost infallibly to good results; but in any complex art, such as housekeeping, piano-playing, clothes-making, or story-writing, there are so many techniques, skills, choices of method, so many variables, so many “secrets,” some teachable and some not, that you can learn them only by methodical, repeated, long-continued practice — in other words, by work.
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Rex Huppke @rexhuppke.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
Hello, I am a centrist Democrat. I appeal to 'the center,' which is an ambiguous blob-like thing that exists only in the minds of Democratic strategists whose brains stopped working in the 1990s. Progressives keep winning. Feel my fear! My column: www.usatoday.com/story/opinio...
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I am a centrist Democrat and I am terrified of success | Opinion
Hello, I am a centrist Democrat who is terrified that progressive liberal candidates keep winning primary elections.
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Peter Jukes @peterjukes.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
Very sad news - our great reporter David Hencke passed away peacefully yesterday evening at home with his family at his side. Will have more to say about this legend later but meanwhile - rest in peace, David
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Byline Times @bylinetimes.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
🔴The Real ‘Moral Bankruptcy’ That Brought Down Keir Starmer’s Premiership The Prime Minister promised to restore morality to our politics, but ended up falling far short of his own standards, argues @adambienkov.bsky.social bylinetimes.com/2026/06/22/k...
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The Real 'Moral Bankruptcy' That Brought Down Keir Starmer's Premiership
The Prime Minister promised to restore morality to our politics, but ended up falling far short of his own standards, argues Adam Bienkov
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Matt Gallagher @mattmgallagher.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
We should absolutely do something about the growing, dystopian side of the internet – the parts where trillionaires fiddle with our brain chemistry for political clout. For so many reasons, this isn't the way. www.uglypolitix.com/p/why-i-dont...
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Why I Don't Back Starmer's Youth Social Media Ban
We absolutely need to take Big Tech to task. But this is just a dangerous publicity stunt.
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Byline Times @bylinetimes.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
🔴Revealed: The ‘Right-Wing Arms Race’ to Deport Non-White Britons – Backed By the Tufton Street Brexit Lobby EXCLUSIVE: A Reform UK donor is underwriting a dark money network that promotes the forced removal of ethnic-minority Britons, reports @nafeez.bsky.social bylinetimes.com/2026/06/18/r...
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Revealed: The 'Right-Wing Arms Race' to Deport Non-White Britons - Backed By the Tufton Street Brexit Lobby
EXCLUSIVE: A dark money lobbying network backed by a Reform UK donor is hosting figures pushing for the forced removal of millions of ethnic-minority citizens from the UK, reports Nafeez Ahmed
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Matt Gallagher @mattmgallagher.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
More from me on why I think this will be a bad legacy for Keir Starmer www.uglypolitix.com/p/why-i-dont...
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Why I Don't Back Starmer's Youth Social Media Ban
We absolutely need to take Big Tech to task. But this is just a dangerous publicity stunt.
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Josiah Mortimer @josiahmortimer.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
Chris Packham's petition calling for Government to broadcast a briefing on the climate and nature breakdown's impact on the UK (a National Emergency Briefing) has now triggered a response from government - in full at the link below.
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Petition: Hold a UK-wide briefing on climate and nature risks
The UK faces growing risks from climate and nature breakdown - from extreme weather to economic disruption and national security threats. Yet the public has never been given a clear national briefing ...
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Matt Ford @mford.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
It must be so cool to live in a functional republic.
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Jair Bolsonaro’s son sentenced to four years in jail for seeking US interference in father’s Brazil coup trial
Brazil supreme court finds that Eduardo Bolsonaro – who resides in the US - tried to get sanctions put on judges trying ex-president over coup plot
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Byline Times @bylinetimes.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
"If Reform were to exercise power nationally, decisions on planning rules, environmental regulation, infrastructure investment and development policy would directly benefit many of the companies that currently fund the party." ✍️ @iainoverton.bsky.social bylinetimes.com/2026/06/17/t...
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The Property Moguls and Landlords Funding Reform UK Who Would Gain From Its Housing Policies
EXCLUSIVE: More than half of Reform UK's corporate donors are property and construction figures who are set to benefit from Farage's deregulation plans
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
The decision to go ahead with this 'debate,' even after Robinson is questioned under anti-terror laws, following his return from Moscow where he helped stoke racist riots on the streets of the UK, is utterly shameful from the Oxford Union bylinetimes.com/2026/06/17/p...
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Pubs Shut and Streets Close as Police 'Screen Attendees' for Oxford Union Tommy Robinson Debate
The world's most prestigious debating society is set to host the far-right agitator just days after his return from Moscow and questioning under anti-terror legislation
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