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Private Eye Magazine @privateeyenews.bsky.social · 6h
Businessman in the Eye: Tax exile Ineos boss Sir Jim Ratcliffe loves complaining about anything – from high energy prices to taxes – that doesn’t suit him. But he’s more forgetful about the British economic policies and fortuitous conditions that have bestowed vast riches on him.
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Media Diversified @writersofcolour.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
'When one of their own is in the dock, the right-wing press can be remarkably and uncharacteristically kind.' – @brokenbottleboy.bsky.social brokenbottleboy.substack.com/p/michael-go...
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Peter Jukes @peterjukes.bsky.social · 18h
God. Since @carolecadwalla.bsky.social left it, even the @theguardian.com gets it wrong. There weren’t just four meetings between Banks/Leave EU and Kremlin officials during Brexit: the judge in the libel case concluded at least a dozen
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 20h
Exactly this. It's what Russia has done for 100+ years. Disinformation and meddling are what Russian intelligence does.
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Peter Jukes @peterjukes.bsky.social · 17h
Funny how both Nigel Farage and Boris Johnson echo Kremlin talking points about Russian Brexit meddling being a ‘lie’, exactly as they did a decade ago blaming the EU for Putin’s first invasion of Ukraine
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Peter Jukes @peterjukes.bsky.social · 18h
Was that the same security services you dumped to visit ‘ex’ KGB colonel Alexander Lebedev and party in Umbria just after the Novichok Salisbury attack? Or the same security services whose advice you defied to put his son Evgeny in the House of Lords? Those security services?
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Byline Times @bylinetimes.bsky.social · 10h
📌 ICYMI — Reform UK’s James Orr’s Foundation Hosted Sanctioned Israeli Minister — @nafeez.bsky.social The latest National Conservatism conference, held in Jerusalem, was co-sponsored by an Israeli NGO sanctioned by the EU and Canada
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Reform UK’s James Orr’s Foundation Hosted Sanctioned Israeli Minister
The latest National Conservatism conference, held in Jerusalem, was co-sponsored by an Israeli NGO sanctioned by the EU and Canada
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Alex Hall Hall @alexhh.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Bravo, that man. Thank you to all the people of Ukraine.
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Jim Pickard @pickardje.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
I'm gobsmacked by ministers' failure to defend Burnham's claim about Russian interference in Brexit (and Tories' claim that he has no proof of it) when there were well-documented troll farms, funded by Russia, spewing out aggressive pro-Brexit attacks on social media at the time
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Dan Neidle @danneidle.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
This is pretty astonishing: buff.ly/PhlYzPs As is the response from Deloitte Cyprus: it didn't comment "because the documents were more than 20 years old and no longer accessible." They certainly seem to be accessible...
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Deloitte helped in falsifying documents to evade tax on Abramovich’s wealth, BBC finds
Backdated paperwork also made the Russian oligarch’s yachts and mansions disappear from accounts, investigation finds.
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paulusthewoodgnome @paulusthewoodgnome.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
It's beautiful to see such an indisputable, physical connection being exposed between Russia and its legions of bots. 'Cloudflare reports bot traffic from the Yandex network has dropped to 0.4% of the maximum number of HTTP requests recorded over the past two weeks.' www.yahoo.com/news/world/a...
yahoo.com
Russia's Yandex bot traffic nearly eliminated overnight after Ukraine drone strikes cripple multiple of 'Russia's Google' data centers
Russian bot traffic falls dramatically as Ukraine takes out several Yandex data centers.
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Byline Times @bylinetimes.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
🔎 From the archive: Putin’s Plot Against ‘Great’ Britain – And How He Got Away With It Now Andy Burnham has revealed there was key evidence Russia interfered in the Brexit Referendum
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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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Jim Pickard @pickardje.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Donald Trump wants regime change in Ukraine but not in Russia, go figure www.thetimes.com/world/russia...
thetimes.com
Time for Zelensky to go, Trump tells Ukraine in diesel row
Andy Burnham pledges ‘solidarity’ with Kyiv after US president strikes Putin oil deal
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Steve Peers @stevepeers.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
I try to avoid this language, but what a fucking piece of 💩
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Jim Pickard @pickardje.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
just when you thought it couldn’t get worse
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John Springford @johnspringford.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Nothing is more important than intimidating asylum seekers
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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Exactly what “standards” are those, Robert? You collude with pornographers over property deals. You take dodgy donations. You whore for racists and christofascists for personal gain. You betray your political allies, friends and your country to sniff at power. You have no standards. You’re poison.
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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
it transpires that billionaire David Reuben moved his tax residence to Monaco under the Tories www.theguardian.com/news/2026/oc...
theguardian.com
‘I reside in Monaco’: billionaire said to have quit UK over potential wealth tax had already left
TaxWatch contradicts claims about David Reuben’s departure and questions stories of super-rich exodus
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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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miket48.bsky.social @miket48.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
www.theguardian.com/news/2026/oc...
theguardian.com
‘I reside in Monaco’: billionaire said to have quit UK over potential wealth tax had already left
TaxWatch contradicts claims about David Reuben’s departure and questions stories of super-rich exodus
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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. 📊
bestforbritain.org
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...
iea.org.uk
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
nuj.org.uk
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
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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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Byline Times @bylinetimes.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
🔴 NEW Kemi Badenoch’s Conservatives Ban Byline Times From Conference After Condemning Reform for Journalist Ban By Byline Times Team Read below. ↓
bylinetimes.com
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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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
bylinetimes.com
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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miket48.bsky.social @miket48.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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UK banks are Europe’s biggest coal financiers, report finds
Study says UK-based banks provided $8.3bn in coal financing in four years, with Barclays and HSBC leading rise
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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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