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Peter Walker @peterwalker99.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Long tribute from Kemi Badenoch in her conference speech to Jeffrey Archer, complete with round of applause. The world is a "less colourful" place without him, she says, which is one way to describe a serial fraudster, fantasist and liar who wrecked several lives in the process.

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The London Economic @thelondoneconomic.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Reform's barrister, who cleared the party and aides of wrongdoing alleged in an undercover investigation into foreign donations, was a UKIP member for years and has a longstanding association with Farage.

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Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Credit to the US for making the point the conference was trying to make about US foreign interference in European democracies for them, and bringing more attention to the conference and its themes than they could have possibly hoped for. www.politico.com/news/2026/10...

politico.com

EU, Canada and Lithuania pull out of disinformation conference after US pressure

The Trump administration was bothered by panels that referred to the U.S. as a disinformation threat.

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Dan Neidle @danneidle.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

We'll have a full analysis of the Conservatives' proposed inheritance tax cuts tomorrow. But, for now, three charts. 1. Who would benefit from the cuts?

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Jim Pickard @pickardje.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

I'm sorry if this is obvious but the Tory proposal to exempt family homes completely from IHT will lead to 1] pensioners buying the biggest houses they possibly can 2] pensioners refusing to downsize which can only be bad news for younger families trying to buy family homes

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Dan Neidle @danneidle.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Kemi Badenoch wants to exempt the family home from inheritance tax. But that creates a perverse incentive for elderly people to *upsize* to save IHT. That could double the cost of the policy, and push £100bn+ from savings into housing. A 🧵 on bad tax cuts.

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Chris Hewson @chrishewson.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

At some point you just have to ask 'why does my license fee pay for this sort of chaff?'

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Alex Hall Hall @alexhh.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Rubio’s world view - hailing the alleged greatness of men (all men!) such as Alexander, Caesar, the Conquistador Hernan Cortes - glossing over the millions who died in their wake, the civilizations destroyed, the people enslaved in their pursuit of glory 🧵 www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

theguardian.com

Rubio in Greece digs into past to tout Trump’s ‘America first’ approach

In the shadow of the Parthenon, the secretary of state gave a selective reading of history as he urged Europe to ‘awaken from its slumber’

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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

For 14yrs, the Tories cratered our economy, added thousands to our cost of living, melted down public services and brexited us into decades of eye-watering expense and lost opportunity. That’s still their plan. With tax breaks for the super rich paid for by welfare cuts. So what TF is this headline?

THE TIMES

Thursday October 8 2026 | thetimes.com | No 75158

Tories will make you better off
Badenoch vows to scrap inheritance tax on family homes and abolish Labour's levy on properties worth more than £2m

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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

"The prosecution case is that Andrew Tate and Tristan Tate used and threatened physical and sexual violence in order to maintain control and compliance." Where are the voices from the self appointed defenders of women and young girls who would usually be on this? www.reuters.com/world/uk/tat...

reuters.com

Tate brothers used 'lover boy' model to exploit women, Britain says

Social media influencers Andrew and Tristan Tate used a "lover boy" model to lure women with the ‌promise of romantic relationships before coercing them to create online pornography, British law enfor...

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Parody Nigel Farage @parodypm.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Suspended sentence for man found to have a collection of more than 114,000 indecent images of children. Tommy Robinson and co are going to be all over this. They'll be SO angry... Just you wait... Any second now... ...

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Gerry Hassan @gerryhassan.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Funny how things are so much simpler in opposition. Now the Tories are claiming they can do all the things they failed to do during 14 years in office.

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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 03/10/2026

Farage is a sitting MP and yet he is allowed to have his own show on GB News. More than 8,000 people have signed the petition to demand that Ofcom take immediate action. Help us reach 10,000 signatures. 📊

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Farage on GB News: Demand that Ofcom takes immediate action - Best for Britain

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Peter Geoghegan @petergeoghegan.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Like the Institute of Economic Affairs were running events and writing articles advocating against football regulator last year Wonder who paid for these? 😱 iea.org.uk/films/is-a-f...

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Is a football regulator necessary?

Is English football broken? Should government try to fix it? And are any of the proposals in the Fan-Led Review … Continue reading "Is a football regulator necessary?"

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Peter Smith @redpeter99.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

If Badenoch could replicate the popularity she enjoys at the BBC with the rest of the country she'd win the next election by a landslide. The uncritical nature of the puff piece by ##bbclaurak is embarrassing.

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Hugo Gye @hugogye.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Ridiculous behaviour from the Tories. Dealing with unfriendly journalists is a basic requirement for a political party!

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I Am Incorrigible @imincorrigible.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Simon Clarke MP was born on 28 September 1984. That's all you need to know. #r4today

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Byline Times @bylinetimes.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

“We urge the Conservative Party to explain why Byline Times journalists have been denied accreditation and to rethink its decision. Once again, the union calls on all political parties to uphold press freedom, freedom of expression and the public's right to be informed.” ✍️ NUJ responds

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NUJ responds to reports of Conservative party banning Byline Times journalists from conference

The NUJ has responded to reports that Byline Times journalists have been denied access to the Conservative Party conference.

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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

“The question is not whether we can afford to remain within the Convention [ECHR]. It is whether, in an increasingly dangerous world, we can afford not to” Political liars and lightweights, like Badenoch and Farage, must never be allowed to take that risk. www.lawgazette.co.uk/commentary-a...

The Law Society
Gazette

In short, if Britain were to leave the ECHR, it would not be
'taking back control. It would be surrendering influence over the rules and institutions that help keep us safe.
The debate about the ECHR is too often conducted as though it were a choice between national sovereignty and international law. That is a false choice.
The Convention advances British interests because it reflects British values: liberty under law, democratic government and the accountability of power.
Walking away would not make Britain freer. It would make Britain weaker.

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HOPE not hate @hopenothate.org.uk · 29/09/2026

Last weekend, Rupert Lowe MP called on "the establishment" to stop referring to Restore Britain as “somehow ‘nazi’”. Unfortunately for Lowe, we have repeatedly exposed the neo-Nazis, fascists and ethnonationalists within the party. 🧵 hopenothate.org.uk/2026/09/29/r...

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Restormtroopers: Restore Britain’s Nazi problem in pictures – HOPE not hate

Warning: this article includes offensive language and imagery Last weekend, Rupert Lowe MP, leader of Restore Britain, called on “the establishment” to stop referring to...

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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Kemi Badenoch condemned Reform's ban on critical journalists covering their conference as "authoritarian", saying her own party would never do the same as "we believe in free speech. We believe in a free press." Now the Conservatives have banned Byline Times from their conference

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Kemi Badenoch's Conservatives Ban 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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Peter Smith @redpeter99.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

The go to Opposition spokesman after Sky News coverage of Burnham's speech was.......Nigel Farage. Why?

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John Oxley @joxley.jmoxley.co.uk · 30/09/2026

Think is the problem of being oppositional rather than just the Opposition. Implementation is only going to happen if you lose the next election, so why not have input into shaping it - and even if you don't want to co-operate, politically, storm out when they suggest sth you can paint as outrageous

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Adrian Littlejohn @yorksfella59.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Evening, #Ofcom. A British politician is advertising, in advance, that his "full verdict" on the Prime Minister's speech today will be given in his own programme, which carries his name, on GB News tonight. Aren't News channels supposed to show due impartiality? 🤮 x.com/Nigel_Farage...

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Nigel Farage (@Nigel_Farage) on X

I will give my full verdict on Andy Burnham’s speech LIVE on GB News at 7PM tonight.

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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Each week you think: Braverman will never outdo this. She'll never say something madder than what just came out her mouth. And each week, she proves you wrong. Just the maddest fool on earth.

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Marina Purkiss @marina-purkiss.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Here’s an idea… Why don’t we try facts first, frothing later? Let the Fairford investigation finish before anyone decides what it means …and for goodness sake, don’t believe a word from Trump and his lot. Me on @jeremyvineon5 this morning…

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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Every private conversation in Westminster: "Well the triple lock obviously has to go at some point". Every commentator on Burnham: "completely mad to propose getting rid of triple lock - political suicide".

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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

These anonymous MPs saying it's 'electoral suicide' to tinker with the triple lock. Exactly the type who got us into this mess: unwilling to lead, unwilling to recognise reality for fear of offending voters, unwilling to solve long-term problems if it presents the slightest short-term risk.

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Andy @andy-1967.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

The announcement from Rubio just confirms, by agreeing with Farage’s narrative, that we should start thinking of the US administration as a hostile actor in UK politics.

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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Faragists rely on the narrative of "men on boats" creating a de facto Fifth Column in the UK to feed their agenda and to stir up hostility and to win votes and ultimately power. Suckers fall for it. Media boosts it. We've been here so many times before and you'd think we'd all wise up but hey ho

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Peter Walker @peterwalker99.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I do sometimes wonder if the political history of this period, when written, will mainly conclude: “Many people lost their way simply by spending too long on X.”

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Tom Scott @tom--scott.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Outstandingly dishonest even by Nigel Farage's standards. Farage knows that the men arrested at Fairford would not have been released if they were still suspected to be terrorists. He's stirring up fear, hatred & resentment against both immigrants & the police. Pure malice.

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Stewart Macdonald @mrred8691.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Farage should be arrested for incitement. It’s what he’s trying to do with his demands . Fuck off twat you demand nothing you aren’t important at all.

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Andrew @andydownie.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

So the BBC continue to quote Farage, who is now bellyaching on about National Security (he is the expert and the only MP quoted - so must be). Oddly enough he’s now silent about the ethnicity of the terrorists.

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Gerry Hassan @gerryhassan.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

The quality of broadcast media coverage of politics & interviewing has long been in decline & is part of the problem of how politics is done. Laura Kuenssberg thinking it appropriate to call the UK PM "Santa Burnham" is tabloidesque, soundbite & vacuous politics. Not what the #BBC should be about.

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Paul Bernal @paulbernal.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Personally, I’d rather have healthy kids than mollycoddled millionaires

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Josiah Mortimer @josiahmortimer.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

🔴 Rupert Murdoch Flew Kemi Badenoch and Her Deputy to Mediterranean for Summer Trips Worth £12,000 The Conservative leader and Alex Burghart MP held “off-site meetings” with the billionaire media mogul in August bylinetimes.com/2026/09/25/r...

bylinetimes.com

Rupert Murdoch Flew Kemi Badenoch and Her Deputy to Mediterranean for Summer Trips Worth £12,000

The Conservative leader and Alex Burghart MP held "off-site meetings" with the billionaire media mogul in August

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HOPE not hate @hopenothate.org.uk · 24/09/2026

There is no concrete evidence yet that Lennon is paid by Russia. But when Russian networks promote you, pro-Kremlin propagandists welcome you and you repeatedly parrot Moscow’s lines, the obvious question remains: Russian asset? Or just Putin’s useful idiot? hopenothate.org.uk/tommy-robins...

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Tommy Robinson: A Global Far-Right Figure

From Russia and America to Israel and the UAE, Lennon has built an increasingly powerful international network. We investigate the foreign politicians, wealthy backers and influence operations helping...

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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Jeez. By now even Larry the cat knows it was Boris Johnson’s Brexit deal which caused the skyrocketing number of small boat crossings in the English Channel

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Rob Sherry 🇪🇺🇬🇧🇳🇱 @robsherry.co.uk · 26/09/2026

Idiot who negotiated the Brexit deal which removed the Dublin agreement says what?

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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

What’s your legacy Johnson? Brexit. Total collapse of trust in politics. And this. The small boats symbolise your dishonesty and your failure. You’re responsible for nothing but damage. Not one good thing. Not one proud moment. You’re forever a shameful disgrace who threw his own mandate in the bin.

Boris Johnson @BorisJohnson
X.com
It's a disaster, and it can all be traced to Labour ideology. Burnham has no mandate from the people. He has no real ideas, and no plan.
BORIS JOHNSON: UK is defenceless against migrants without...

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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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Byline Times @bylinetimes.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

🔎 From the archive: Nigel Farage’s £9m Donor Profits From Putin Propaganda Platform While Holding MoD Stake Shocked by the NYT revelations about how Tether, with the big Reform Donor Harborne, its biggest investor, makes money avoiding sanctions for Russia? There's more...

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Nigel Farage’s £9m Donor Profits From Putin Propaganda Platform While Holding MoD Stake

Reform UK's biggest donor is profiting from ties to a pro-Kremlin platform that hosts a Russian intelligence-backed influence operation

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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

If these people were not so very dangerously stupid this would be very funny indeed. Jaymey McIvor of Reform insisting people from Chingford and Woodford are claiming asylum in Ongar.

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Simon Gosden @simongosden.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

True patriots would surely welcome such a plan. Unless they have something to hide?

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