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We Own It @weownit.org.uk · 31/07/2026
🔥🔥🔥"That statement is an untruth; it's a fabrication. It is totally disingenuous" Feargal Sharkey DEBUNKS Thames Water CEO's claim that public ownership means no investment in our water infrastructure Take action to demand the BBC and Ofcom correct the record: vist.ly/5d6q4
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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
57 people have died in the chaotic scenes on the Spanish border with Morocco. After 50,000 people entered Spain from Morocco, over 9/10 (approx 96%) have returned to Morocco
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 31/07/2026
Trump says he is not sure about giving Patriot missiles to Ukraine, calling it a ‘big step’ – live
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Trump says he is not sure about giving Patriot missiles to Ukraine, calling it a ‘big step’ – live
US president says ‘people can someday turn on you’ if given missiles after Zelenskyy requested them during meeting earlier this week * Sign up for the US Breaking News email When asked by a reporter at Camp David about negotiations with Iran, Trump said the US would be “hitting them very hard”. “We just want to win,” he said. “We’re doing very well, trying to be nice, as nice as you can be in a situation like that, but, you know, they’re being decimated. They have no Navy. They have no air force, they have no anti-aircraft. They don’t have any capability. They have some, but very little.” Continue reading...
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The Canary @thecanaryuk.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
The Russia-Ukraine peace deal was sabotaged by the US and the UK with the help of former PM Boris Johnson, Victoria Nuland admits By @skwawkbox.org
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WATCH: Senior diplomat admits US sabotaged 2022 Russia-Ukraine peace deal
The Russia-Ukraine peace deal was sabotaged by the US and the UK with the help of former PM Boris Johnson, Victoria Nuland admits
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fife4europe #FBPE #RejoinEU @fife4europe.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
Police probes into political donations often hang on whether corporate structures were used to mask true sources. With £500k routed via a company linked to Richard Tice, transparency rules and campaign finance oversight are facing a crucial test ahead of electoral scrutiny. 🔍
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Byline Times @bylinetimes.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
🚨 Major Investigation: George Cottrell, the convicted fraudster and long-time Farage ally, has influenced Reform UK’s finances through an apparent act of identity fraud. Thread on the key findings below 👇 bylinetimes.com/2026/07/23/p...
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‘Posh George’, Two Passports, and a Fraudulent Identity: Convicted Fraudster and Nigel Farage Funder's Connections to Reform UK’s Murky Financial Structures
Why did Reform UK change from being a privately-owned company to a non-profit company limited by guarantee in 2025? Nafeez Ahmed investigates a fraudulent identity used by George Cottrell – and how hi...
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
Intentionally concealing the death of a U.S. senator to manipulate legislative business or the succession process could expose those involved to serious federal criminal charges. No one gets to hide a death for political gain.
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Financial Times @financialtimes.com · 23/07/2026
Betting account in Cottrell’s name received $9mn in crypto from unidentified sources ft.trib.al/8PXAsSa
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Betting account in Cottrell’s name received $9mn in crypto from unidentified sources
Deposits in Polymarket wallet came as convicted fraudster was providing gifts to Farage
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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
The UK State Pension age will be increasing to 68 in 2037 instead of 2044. Meaning if you are under 58 your retirement just went up to 68 when it would have been 67. But it will barely be on news.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 16/07/2026
NBC: The 2024 election is widely believed to be safe and secure LEAVITT: Because it was too big to rig! There was a massive amounts of votes for this president NBC: There were a significant amount of votes for Joe Biden who won in 2020 (Biden 2020 got more votes than Trump 2024)
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Senate Judiciary Democrats 🇺🇸 @judiciarydems.senate.gov · 16/07/2026
Epstein survivor: I found my name in two places in the first Epstein Files release. In the next release, the redactions were far worse. The Files displayed my name, phone number, and more. These documents contain disturbing yet incomplete accounts of my abuse. It was humiliating.
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Michael J. Stern @michaeljstern.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
I remember.
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Democracy Docket @democracydocket.com · 15/07/2026
Trump justified his complete dismissal of the Election Assistance Commission by asserting his presidential power. But that’s not the only reason, Marc Elias says. “[Trump] doesn’t like there to be true experts who are willing to tell the truth to the American public.”
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Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
A doctor is now recommending staying away from fresh produce for the next week — even if you wash it — because of an explosive diarrhea-causing parasite. This comes after Trump gutted the tracking of this parasite. www.nbcsandiego.com/video/videos...
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 15/07/2026
The scary rise of locksmith scams: ‘I was shut out with my baby – and charged £2,200 to get back in’
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The scary rise of locksmith scams: ‘I was shut out with my baby – and charged £2,200 to get back in’
In the UK, these scams have become an epidemic, rising 147% between January and March, compared with the same time last year. Why are they suddenly so common? And what can you do if you’re charged thousands for a quick, easy job?
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Glasgow For Europe @glasgowforeurope.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
Why indeed?
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Graham Davis @agendaforreform.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
This is a must read!
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
Johnson failed the UK just like Trump is failing the US. Both cut from the same cloth.
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PPE failures left NHS staff poorly protected and wasted billions, Covid inquiry finds
Healthcare staff were unable to properly protect themselves, or those in their care, from dangerous infections, says the latest inquiry report.
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European Commission @ec.europa.eu · 01/07/2026
A 2025 EU investigation found that over 60% of items bought online from outside the EU failed to meet our product safety standards. Unsafe products, delivered directly to your door.
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EUwatch 🇪🇺 @euwatch.live · 01/07/2026
Russia’s information war against Ukraine’s European future is a threat to Europe itself
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Russia’s information war against Ukraine’s European future is a threat to Europe itself - EUvsDisinfo
Ukraine’s accession to the European Union is not only a political process. It is a strategic security choice for Ukraine and for Europe. That is why Russia is attacking it not only with missiles, but also with manipulation, fear, and distrust.
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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 01/07/2026
Very concerning. Social media companies must combat misinformation on their platforms.
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Andrew Hesselden @andrewhesselden.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
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Andrew Hesselden @andrewhesselden.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
Very good video here from @mikegalsworthy.bsky.social about the Euro. Reminding those worried about it that the UK can’t be forced to join the Euro and that it probably wouldn’t be in the EUs interest to do so anyway. Of course this all presupposes that our government won’t want to swap £ for €.
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Bremain in Spain @bremaininspain.com · 01/07/2026
A problem few know about. Once met a British lady who lives in the Canaries. She voted for Brexit and then found out that in a few years, when her young daughter would go to uni. Brexit meant even UK nationals in EU have to pay intl fees. Her exact words ‘I didn’t vote for us to be punished’
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Starmer offers cut in tuition for EU students as part of reset talks
A deal could see EU students have their fees cut from £38,000 to £9,535, in line with UK undergraduates
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The New World @thenewworldmag.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
The charlatans who said we had nothing to fear from Brexit now make the same claim about the world getting hotter ✏️ @alastaircampbell2.bsky.social
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Alastair Campbell's diary: We are living in the age of climate unreality
The charlatans who said we had nothing to fear from Brexit now make the same claim about the world getting hotter
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Bremain in Spain @bremaininspain.com · 18/06/2026
Nigel Farage has attracted criticism recently for avoiding the media. In the latest example of this, the man has posted a two-year old picture and used it to pretend he was out last night watching the football: He's given up. Reposting an image from two years ago; www.thecanary.co/trending/202...
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Farage posts years’ old photo to pretend he watched England game
Nigel Farage supported England back in 2024; why support them again when he can just keep posting the same picture?
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Lauren Ashley Davis @laurenmeidasa.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
Trump administration quietly shifts $352m in federal funds for White House ballroom Funds meant for Secret Service were transferred to project president promised would be financed by private donations www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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Trump administration quietly shifts $352m in federal funds for White House ballroom
Funds meant for Secret Service were transferred to project president promised would be financed by private donations
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James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
It never ends.
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Chris Grey @chrisgrey.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
I reposted this earlier without comment but have now read the report. It's excellent & of particular value in disaggregating SM & CU effects. The result won't surprise ppl who know how businesses have experienced Brexit, but v. useful to have it systematically evaluated + policy imps are important.
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Sue Wilson MBE @suewilson91.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
"Division, hatred & tension? Bring them on". www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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Losing support to Restore, Farage seizes a golden opportunity to bring racists back into the fold | John Crace
Mark Nowak had asked for his son’s murder not to be used to spread division. But Nige is just not the kind of guy to miss out
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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
I think "Henry Nowak protestors" (Telegraph) seems a very inappropriate label for these violent scenes, dishonouring the murder victim + ignoring the calls of his family not to do this. "Protestors throw bricks and bottles at police in violent rage after Southampton murder" would be much better.
It dishonours the name of the murder victim + to present this violence as "Henry Nowak protestors" acting in his name when those involved are ignoring his family's wishes. 

"Protestors throw bricks and bottles at police in violent rage after Southampton murder" would do it.
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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
Farage has spent years trying to avoid associating his parties with coked up racist thugs and Restore have panicked him into forgetting why.
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
Utter disaster’: Alan Bates attacks schemes compensating post office scandal victims. 7 schemes. £1.5bn paid from public purse, could hit £3.5bn. Zero contribution by Fujitsu, PO execs, lawyers, accountants, advisers, other perpetrators. No one charged for false criminal convictions.
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‘Utter disaster’: Alan Bates attacks schemes compensating post office operators
Government should not be involved in providing redress to victims of Horizon IT scandal, campaigner tells MPs
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 01/06/2026
Staging these sites under the EOP & circumventing fedramp means we can’t see who’s doing what, who’s writing the code, etc - things required for govt sites. This is scary stuff. They could fabricate voter registration fraud and use it to throw out votes, for example, and we couldn’t check it. END/
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 01/06/2026
Additionally, the USPS is now working to implement the rule that would prevent voters not appearing on Trump’s list from receiving ballots in the mail. 3/ www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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Postal Service moving forward with Trump’s attack on mail voting
It signaled it plans to send ballots only to voters who are registered with the federal government.
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fife4europe #FBPE #RejoinEU @fife4europe.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
The FCA is using Palantir's AI to track financial crime. However, digital rights groups warn that under US surveillance laws, Washington could force the tech firm to hand over massive troves of UK citizen and commercial data. 💸🔒
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FCA’s Palantir deal could expose UK financial data to Trump’s US, critics fear
Exclusive: MP and campaigners say sensitive citizen and company data could be subject to US disclosure laws
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Brian Wernham C.Eng. @brianwernham.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
The Count of Dodgy Crypto
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Akshat Rathi @akshatrathi.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
The Rest Is Politics podcast gets a question: "Have you seen the car crash interview that Richard Tice did with Bloomberg, where he refused to engage with simple factual questions about the science of climate change and its economic realities? Curiously this is getting virtually zero coverage."
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Anti-Reform @antireform.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
"21 kicked out. 28 defected. 39 resigned. 5 suspended. 1 disqualified. 5 lost seats. That’s ~ 99 Reform UK councillors and representatives who have left the party. 22 of them since the local elections just two weeks ago. The party claims “some of the strongest vetting in the country”' via Instagram
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Denise Carver @Sligogirl @sligogirl.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
@suewilson91.bsky.social After your question on summing up Brexit , this article by @peterjukes.bsky.social reminds me of how Britain's apathy led to Brexit. bylinetimes.com/2022/03/08/p...
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Putin’s Plot Against ‘Great’ Britain – And How He Got Away With It
Peter Jukes tracks Vladimir Putin’s long war against the West and the allies he has found in the pro-Brexit establishment in the plot to derail Britain
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Private Eye Magazine @privateeyenews.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
Joe Duggan (i paper) told the story of workers who have suffered and even died of silicosis after cutting quartz kitchen worktops without sufficient protection. The reporting has been followed by a criminal investigation into one death and the tabling of a bill outlawing unsafe quartz cutting.
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
Labour lost almost four times as many voters to the Greens as they did to Reform UK in the local elections, according to new YouGov polling
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Chris Newfield @cnewf.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
the FT has two pieces on the slow-motion collapse of UK higher ed. 4/5ths of unis are doing voluntary layoffs; 38% are doing compulsory. Meanwhile Britain and its flatlined productivity growth sleepwalks through its unprecedented loss of advanced capabilities www.ft.com/content/8097...
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We Own It @weownit.org.uk · 25/05/2026
😡😡😡”The analysis done by private firms was sometimes so poor that NHS radiologists had to read scans again, raising questions about the benefit of outsourcing.” The government promised “the biggest wave of insourcing in a generation”. They must deliver it now.
A headline about the NHS spending on outsourcing scan analysis to private firms with a photo of radiology scans on a screen. The mood is serious and informative.
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Parody Nigel Farage @parodypm.bsky.social · 24/05/2026
80% of Reform's funding comes from people who avoid tax by hiding money offshore. Our idea of true patriotism is to hoard money while contributing nothing towards public services. Just ask Richard Tice.
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Peter Jukes @peterjukes.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
Amazing work from @hopenothate that found ANOTHER account for Robert Kenyon, Reform UK’s Makerfield candidate, after my deep dive yesterday into his suspended one
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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
Nigel Farage was screaming to scrap furlough because it was a waste of money, while he had already claimed £120,000 for himself. He is a fraud every word is a lie.
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 21/05/2026
Five arrested after police investigate alleged electoral fraud in Tameside
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Five arrested after police investigate alleged electoral fraud in Tameside
Greater Manchester police made the arrests after concerns over several independent candidates in May’s local election Five people have been arrested as part of a police investigation into allegations that fake independent candidates were used to influence the outcome of a local election in Tameside. Greater Manchester police said four men and a woman, aged between 23 and 47, were arrested on suspicion of fraud offences on Thursday morning in the Ashton-under-Lyne area. Continue reading...
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 21/05/2026
TRUMP: "We have total control of the Strait of Hormuz" TRUMP MOMENTS LATER: "We want the Strait of Hormuz open"
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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
Or Brexit… Or the Single Market… Or Freedom of Movement… (all linked to immigration) Given the long term consequences for our country, you have to question whether we are a functioning democracy at all if voters have - at best - no clue, at worst - complete misconceptions about key policy outcomes.
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