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Mothin Ali @mothinali.bsky.social · 16h

Please retweet

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Steve Hyndside @stevehyndside.bsky.social · 23h

Again, the point is that these apologies rarely travel as far as the original lie(s). Solidarity and love to my friend and colleague @mothinali.bsky.social, one of the most gentle and kind people I’ve ever met. www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...

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GB News presenter to pay damages to deputy Green Party leader over social media posts

Mothin Ali sued GB News presenter Alex Armstrong and social media commentator Bernadette Spofforth for defamation

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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

From the new Private Eye

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Laura Phillips @lauraphillips.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

The BBC’s flagship serious news radio programme should definitely not, IMO, be relying on an independent expert to be the first contributor to report the *facts* about Ben Delo’s background to its audience. This is an inexplicable, strikingly timid lapse, and not excusable, I believe.

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mjr2024.bsky.social @mjr2024.bsky.social · 13/12/2024

Every government since 2010: “there’s no money” and “ let’s have an expensive overhaul of…” the NHS, education, local government etc

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mjr2024.bsky.social @mjr2024.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

How media owned by the billionaires become the state media for an authoritarian government which serves their interests

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Byline Times @bylinetimes.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

📌 ICYMI — The Dark Money Questions Surrounding Kemi Badenoch’s Net Zero Attacks — Donnachadh McCarthy Onward, whose report underpinned Claire Coutinho's speech tearing up the 2050 target, has taken money from National Grid, Equinor, Shell and BP

bylinetimes.com

The Dark Money Questions Surrounding Kemi Badenoch’s Net Zero Attacks

Onward, whose report underpinned Claire Coutinho's speech tearing up the 2050 target, has taken money from National Grid, Equinor, Shell and BP

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Eleanor Morton @eleanormorton.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

FRINGE GOERS! I decided to record my show this Thursday despite it being the day with incredibly low sales so if you DID want to come, Thursday would be a great day!

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Dr Ellie Chowns MP @elliechowns.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Ahead of Parliament's return in one week, I've written to the Foreign Secretary urging him to learn from the mistakes of his predecessors and take action to protect human rights, uphold intl law, and make clear that the UK will no longer be complicit in genocide and other war crimes in Palestine.

Dear Ed,

As you will be aware, we are quickly approaching the return of Parliament following a summer which has ushered forth a new Prime Minister, a largely new Cabinet, and a new position for yourself, as Foreign Secretary. What is yet to be seen is whether we will also see a new and more effective and principled way of responding to the Israeli Government’s grave and ongoing human rights abuses in Palestine. It is vital that the UK Government does not simply condemn breaches of international law, but acts decisively to stop them.

The need for urgent action cannot be overstated; the ongoing genocide has seen more than 1,000 Palestinians in Gaza killed by Israeli forces since the ceasefire came into effect in October 2025. Access to critical humanitarian aid such as food and medical supplies remains heavily restricted, and the displacement of Palestinians has continued as Israeli forces expand further into Gaza beyond the agreed ceasefire boundaries. Illegal Israeli settlement expansion and settler violence in the West Bank also continues to escalate, with the UN’s Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs reporting about 190 attacks a month in the first four months of 2026, alongside the publication of construction tenders for 1,200 homes in the E1 area.

While I recognise your condemnation of the E1 plans and acknowledgement of the destructive threat that settlement expansion poses to peace in the region, it is clear that simply issuing statements of concern is not enough to make the Israeli Government change course.

I therefore urge you to learn from the mistakes of your predecessors and take genuine action to protect the human rights of Palestinians, uphold international law, and make clear that the UK will no longer be complicit in genocide and other war crimes in Palestine. These actions include, but are not limited to:

Ending all arms sales to, and military cooperation with, Israel;

Banning all trade with illegal Israeli settlements in o…

There is significant and growing support for these measures across Parliament, including from many MPs within your own party. Indeed, the Prime Minister himself has acknowledged that Labour previously “got it wrong” on Gaza and has said that more needed to be done to ensure Israel adheres to international law; your new position grants you an opportunity to turn that recognition into meaningful action.

I therefore hope that you will act with the urgency that this moment demands. The UK Government must stand firmly for international law, human rights, and the protection of civilians, not for further impunity for those responsible for war crimes.

I would welcome the opportunity to meet with you to further discuss the cross-party role Parliament can play in securing justice, accountability, and a lasting peace for Palestinians and Israelis alike.

Yours sincerely,

Dr Ellie Chowns

MP for North Herefordshire

Leader of the Parliamentary Green Party and Spokesperson for Foreign Affairs

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Natasha Devon @natashadevon.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

When faced with the irrefutable evidence that men of all faiths, skin colours and cultures commit sexual violence there will always be some men who will seek to persuade themselves and others that actually it’s a particular problem of a group of men who are not like them.

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Alex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

The state of this. A lovely day out for Badenoch and Philp, playing dress up and making pronouncements about early release schemes - having left the country with one hundred available men's prison places, after fourteen years in charge. You read that right. One hundred places.

Opposition Leader Kemi Badenoch and Shadow Home Office Secretary Chris Philp, in high-vis police jackets enjoy a photo opportunity.

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Men in Blazers Media Network @meninblazers.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

Spain’s Nico Williams gave his mother, Maria, his World Cup winner’s medal after Sunday’s final ❤️💛 Nico's parents trekked some 2,000 miles across the Sahara from Ghana to Spain as refugees. Now, their son is a world champion 🥹

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Tom Humberstone @tomhumberstone.com · 16/07/2026

The Luddites loved technology. They owned looms at home and would ‘mod’ them to count threads. Their battle was against worker exploitation. The degradation of their rights, safety and wages. They were against a handful of rich businessmen owning the means of production. Sound familiar?

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Lizzie Dearden @lizziedearden.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

At a press conference on Thursday, the head of UK Counter Terrorism Policing, Laurence Taylor, said the threat from extreme-right wing terrorism was rising and had been a key driver of the decision to raise the national terror threat level from substantial to “severe” in May

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Alice Roberts @profaliceroberts.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

Absolutely, definitely, not “the Establishment”…

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The Author, Séamas O'Reilly @seamas.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

On legitimising yet another pogrom.

Some prefer to step two degrees away from the above conclusion, blaming the violence not on one discrete crime, but rather on long-simmering discontent about “unfettered immigration”, to use the words offered by loyalist MP Jim Allister, in the wake of last year’s Ballymena riots. Such riots are appalling, the argument goes, but their anger reflects a legitimate concern; that immigration has simply gone too far.

Again, we risk demeaning ourselves by pointing out that rates of migration into Northern Ireland have never been connected to any rise in crime, and represent a tremendous benefit to the economy, from workers in hospitality and agri-business sectors to manufacturing and academia. Migrants are most beneficial in the health and care sectors, with 22 per cent of carers in the state coming from outside the UK and Ireland, without whom Tracey Reid, chief executive of the Northern Ireland Social Care Council, says the sector “could not survive”. Such statistics are, of course, broadly similar throughout the UK and Ireland, and were regarded as truisms until it became seemingly gauche for any prominent newspaper or politician to repeat them, in favour of contorting gymnastically to flatter the perceptions and prejudices of those who just hate migrants for entirely racist reasons. No matter how much they contribute to society, and no matter how few of them there are.

A compelling argument that this is the case can be found in the demographics of Northern Ireland itself. Its current population is just shy of two million. According to the most recent figures available, net migration in the state between 2001 and 2023 amounted to around 62,000 people, including less than 2,400 refugees in secure accommodation. Ballymena, which until this week had been the most prominent site of anti-immigrant violence in the state, sits in the Mid and East Antrim council area, which has seen fewer than 5,000 international migrants settle there this century. Only 3 per cent of Northern Ireland’s population belong to any ethnic minority at all.

For those of us who find the constant discussion of “the immigration problem” dehumanising and dishonest in any context, it’s revealing to see it deployed in places where immigration barely exists, not least for what it might suggest about such legitimate concerns everywhere else. We are left to presume that any number of non-white faces, no matter how few, is a salient enough horror for locals that their concerns become legitimised automatically. Even one, it would seem, is one too many.

Most confusing of all has been the near-total absence of any context regarding who, exactly, is committing all this violence. The reluctance among media outlets to specify that these pogroms are the work of far-right loyalist gangs is particularly odd, given that such groups are fond of signing their work. The LVF, and associated gangs, have for decades sprayed their tags on the houses of the people they burn out, whether Catholics, economic migrants or refugees. Even now their graffiti proudly adorns walls and estates, demanding they be reserved for “locals only”. I’m old enough to remember when the LVF attacked the specially modified home of a severely disabled child because his family was insufficiently Protestant. I’m old enough to remember it because it happened less than two years ago.

When loyalist gangs burned Catholic families out of their homes in past years, there were few stern and sombre pleas that we should understand the arsonists’ concerns. Nor was there a reflexive jolt to place such acts in a context the perpetrators themselves might have liked, perhaps by drawing direct links between their violent acts and the existence of alleged crimes committed by disconnected Catholics many miles away. That this same logic is no longer applied to vast acts of violence against dozens of non-white people of all nationalities in Belfast, purportedly due to the actions of a single man from Sudan, is as preposterous as it is repulsive.

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Treblig 🇺🇦 @camtreblig.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

Since our political leaders and media have decided that the only reason Henry Nowak died was because the police are too woke, here are my two cents, based on what I've read of the public information 🧵

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Greg Jenner (Historian) @gregjenner.bsky.social · 31/05/2026

This is extraordinary — the Facebook whistleblower was threatened with legal action from Meta if she spoke or nodded during her hour on stage www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

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Meta legal action forces Facebook whistleblower to sit in silence at Hay festival

Sarah Wynn-Williams did not speak during event after lawyers warned of possible sanctions from tech firm

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Graeme Swanson @swansonian.bsky.social · 31/05/2026

“I’ve been on Question Time 400 times but not being asked to name my 8 favourite songs from adverts has hurt me deeply.”

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Oh God, What Now? – the politics podcast @ohgodwhatnow.bsky.social · 24/05/2026

Telegraph story bemoaning the UK music biz which does not once mention: A] Brexit and how it wrecked touring & thus the ability of British acts to build audiences in the EU B] Tory govts treating the biz as a nest of lefties and sniggering when Brexit damaged it www.telegraph.co.uk/business/202...

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Natacha @natacha.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

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Ed Poole @edpoole1975.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

I remember when Andy Burnham failed to take a stand against the Conservatives massively destructive welfare bill. www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...

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Labour Party sees massive revolt but welfare bill that will cut £12bn

Abstainers include many contenders for the Labour leadership, including Andy Burnham

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Chris Washington @cwashington.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

A man who received £5 million to cover his security and yet doesn't hold constituency surgeries due to lack of security.

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Byline Times @bylinetimes.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

Reform UK Treasurer and Donors Share London Address with Sanctioned Russian Oligarchs “What’s clear is that Reform UK’s treasurer built his career marketing properties to the very ‘globalist elites’ its leader denounces.” bylinetimes.com/2026/05/07/r...

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Reform UK Treasurer and Donors Share London Address with Sanctioned Russian Oligarchs

Reform UK’s Treasurer and three other donors have handed £1.55 million to Nigel Farage from Britain’s most expensive apartment block which is home to sanctioned Russian oligarchs and massive post-Sovi...

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Lewis Goodall @lewisgoodall.com · 02/05/2026

NEW: Weekend News Agents A story which hasn’t had as much attention as it should. How did Reform become so financially dependent on one Thailand based crypto billionaire? And why did that donor personally gift Farage £5m? Listen now podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/t...

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Why has Nigel Farage taken £5m from a crypto billionaire?

Podcast Episode · The News Agents · 1 May · 40min

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Mic Wright @brokenbottleboy.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

The level of disrespect would be shocking but it’s Kemi Badenoch so it’s not remotely surprising. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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Kemi Badenoch criticised over use of Bloody Sunday footage

The footage of soldiers on Bloody Sunday appeared in a Conservative Party video opposing reforms to the Legacy Act.

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The Green Party of England & Wales @greenparty.org.uk · 30/04/2026

⏰ Don't miss Rachel Millward on BBC Question Time tonight. 📺 BBC News Channel & iPlayer at 7pm 📺 BBC One at 10.40pm

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Carla Denyer @carladenyer.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

Well that was an exceptionally short kite-flying expedition! I guess renters will just have to vote @greenparty.org.uk next week after all 🤷‍♀️

Screenshot of a post from the FT saying "Downing Street rules out temporary rent freeze"

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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 28/04/2026

Remember, this was the party of "patriots"

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Laura Phillips @lauraphillips.bsky.social · 18/04/2026

@gabrielpogrund.bsky.social: ‘Exclusive: Richard Tice failed to pay £100k in tax, benefiting his investment firm — which then gave big sums to Reform Tice gave contradictory reasons for why four shell companies paid zero tax. @DanNeidle says they flouted "basic" rule, face HMRC probe’

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Reform dragged into tax row by Richard Tice’s unpaid £100,000

The party’s deputy leader says he will ‘pay what is owed if numbers need rechecking’ after more revelations from The Sunday Times

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Chris Meder @evcurvefuturist.com · 19/04/2026

Spain is crushing it ⚡🇪🇸 Solar is delivering the equivalent of 27 nuclear plants during the day. Pumped hydro stores ~3 nuclear plants worth. Batteries already stepping in. This isn’t a generation problem anymore. It’s storage scale. Energy scarcity → energy timing. #BESS #Solar

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mjr2024.bsky.social @mjr2024.bsky.social · 18/04/2026

“Why did no one tell me that it might be risky to give a key role to someone whose nickname was ’the Prince of Darkness’ ?”

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Jane @localnotail.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

Nigel Farage has form for this - you'd think he'd learn from the outcry when his chauffeur used a disabled parking spot in May 2024 so his boss could go to M&S archive.ph/1xBdc

express.co.uk

Nigel Farage spotted using disabled parking spot for 45 minutes to do M&S shop

The former Ukip leader got out of a white BMW in central London's Paddington, which was parked in a space marked as disabled parking only.

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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

Farage thugs manhandle man with pacemaker after he objects to the Reform leader's chauffeur parking in disabled bay that he needs to use. Lovely People. www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...

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Moment Nigel Farage henchmen manhandle disabled OAP in parking row

Henchmen working for the divisive Reform leader were seen on camera manhandling a retired engineer who was trying to park in a disabled spot to drop off his wife in Shetland

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Sian Berry MP @sianberry.bsky.social · 16/04/2026

This week I’ve been challenging the Govt’s sinister attempts to abolish the right to choose a jury trial. Here is the Minister confirming that the right to elect a jury trial IS being completely abolished with this Bill! A fundamental cornerstone of our justice system established in 1670: gone.

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Colne Valley Regional Park @colnevalley.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

Lots of family fun to be had on the Woodoaks Farm Easter Trail runs until Sunday 12th April #MapleCross #Herts Follow the trail around the farm. Discover wildlife facts, complete EGG-ercises and find the hidden word. #FamilyFriendly #FreshAir www.colnevalleypark.org.uk/events/woodo...

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

Just what we don't need. Already, our rivers are overloaded with both human and livestock waste, leading in many cases to #rivercide. Now the government, responding as always to lobbyists, wants to make it worse. Then it wonders why it loses public support. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

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UK looks to relax planning rules for factory farms after industry lobbying

Exclusive: documents chronicle years-long campaign to make it easier to build intensive livestock units

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Edward @fornbirkibeinn.bsky.social · 28/03/2026

Maybe it's the other way round? The husbands wanted to vote Reform, but they're all too scared of their wives.

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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 28/03/2026

There's having a brass neck and then there’s whatever this is from Boris Johnson

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Robert Hutton @roberthutton.co.uk · 22/03/2026

On the one hand, I had doubts about my sons' school insisting they take GCSE Religious Studies. On the other hand, at least every 16-year-old there knows more about basic claims made by religions than anyone in His Majesty's Loyal Opposition.

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Jan Rosenow @janrosenow.bsky.social · 19/03/2026

Spain's renewables build-out has structurally decoupled its electricity prices from gas markets. Gas now sets the price in only 15% of hours, compared to 90% in Italy. Countries that invested early in clean power are far less exposed to fossil fuel price shocks. Those that didn't now pay the price.

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James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

And the co-host of Peter Mandelson’s drinks reception before last year’s White House Correspondents Dinner was…

Daily Mail front page regurgitating Badenoch’s claim that appointing Mandelson USA ambassador makes Starmer ‘unfit to govern’.

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Jo Kibble (Political Animal) @politicanimal.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

A week is a long time in politics.

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Caroline Lucas @carolinelucas.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

Awks for Tories & Reform who want to keep us hooked on fossil fuels: new @theCCCuk report shows transition to net zero will cost less than a single oil shock - £4bn a year - as well as delivering health & security benefits

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Reaching net zero by 2050 ‘cheaper for UK than one fossil fuel crisis’

Climate change committee finds move to renewable energy would also bring health, economic and security benefits

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