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Rachel Parris @rachelparris.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Hey folks. In total honesty my tour is NOT selling well. I’ve sold 30 tickets in a 400 seater in Birmingham, and not much more elsewhere. If you like musical comedy, if you like standup, then please come see my show! And spread the word! The Rachel Parris Songbook tour starts in Nov! Link in bio! 🎶
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Prospect Magazine @prospectmagazine.co.uk · 07/10/2026
If you think of GB News as the media wing of Nigel Farage’s political project, the total subsidy funnelled his way by its owners and his crypto donors (just four men) tops £200m, writes Alan Rusbridger
prospectmagazine.co.uk
Farage and the £130m even his detractors have missed
GB news has provided relentless positive PR for Nigel Farage while racking up tens of millions in financial losses. And now there is a new channel in ...
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Anonymous @youranoncentral.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
If Trump started bombing US cities himself right now, MAGA would cheer, the GOP would justify it, Media would downplay it, and I doubt anyone else would do much else about it, the guy has total impunity. Good luck with the midterms, and if that doesn't work out, good luck in general.
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Kevin the Librarian 🇪🇺🇺🇦🇨🇦🏳️‍🌈 @the-librarian.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Now that Nigel Farage has had his demands answered in the RAF Fairford investigation can we all demand an update from the Parliamentary standards commission and Met police regarding their investigations into him and Reform.
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Roland Smith @rolandmcs.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Farage posted this at 12.38 today. It has been hopelessly overtaken by events and shown to be entirely wrong (British nationals involved and they've been released on bail - not very terrorist-like). And if you believe anything Trump says, you are a credulous moron.
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Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
We just dropped a bombshell investigation into ChatGPT's role in the Tumbler Ridge mass shooting. Incredible reporting from @markfollman.bsky.social that will have far-reaching effects...hopefully: www.motherjones.com/media/2026/0...
motherjones.com
ChatGPT helped the Tumbler Ridge school shooter focus on guns, tactics, and terror, our investigation reveals
OpenAI’s chatbot fed the shooter’s violent fantasies and planning up to the massacre.
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
A dangerous perversion of the criminal justice process. Three of Britain’s top corruption prosecutors started working for Alejandro Betancourt, the Venezuelan billionaire who recently signed a major oil deal with Donald Trump, when Swiss authorities were seeking his extradition on suspicion of
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Top UK graft prosecutors joined Trump’s Venezuela oil baron during Swiss probe
Alejandro Betancourt was previously wanted by authorities in Switzerland as part of a money-laundering investigation
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Cameron Clark @cameronclark.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
When you make these statements, you do need the underlying thesis to be accurate
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Odd This Day @oddthisday.bsky.social · 21/09/2025
It’s the 110th anniversary today of the last time Stonehenge was sold by one private owner to another. Wealthy local barrister Cecil Chubb went along to a property sale at the Palace Theatre in Salisbury on 21 September 1915 and bought the monument on impulse for £6,600
1915 Country Life advert for Stonehenge, featuring b/w photo of the monument, and the words “STONEHENGE, THE WHOLE EXTENDING TO ABOUT 6,400 ACRES. The Vendor is prepared to leave two- thirds of the purchase money upon mortgage at 4 per cent. for five years to approved purchasers of lots exceeding £300 in accordance with the conditions of sale. TO BE OFFERED BY AUCTION ON 21ST SEPTEMBER, AT THE NEW THEATRE, SALISBURY, BY Messrs. KNIGHT, FRANK & RUTLEY, IN CONJUNCTION WITH Messrs. EDEN, BAINES & KENNAWAY. ESTATE OFFICE, HEYTESBURY, WILTS. Solicitors: Messrs. FARRER & Co., 66, Lincoln's Inn Fields, London, W.C.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 19/09/2026
Read this thread ⤵️
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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 19/09/2026
A new mega poll by YouGov reveals that an overwhelming majority of constituencies want to rejoin the EU. Only 4 constituencies were not sure. It’s time to put EU membership on the table. bestforbritain.org/uk-membership-mo…
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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
This is pitiful. Allowing the very thing it claims to condemn because it is too cowardly and self-interested to support that which would stop it.
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Jesse Eisinger @jeisinger.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
“This should be unthinkable for the son of the president. End of story.” A Russian oligarch close to Putin bankrolled Don Jr.’s wedding. www.propublica.org/article/dona...
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Donald Trump Jr.’s Wedding Bankrolled by Putin-Linked Russian Oligarch
The oligarch, Umar Kremlev, spent hundreds of thousands on expenses like renting out a private island. He appears to have met Trump Jr. only recently, but he attended the intimate wedding with a large...
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Ian Fraser @ianfraser.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
There’s no need for a windfall tax on bank profits; it would be simpler to stop paying them subsidies by removing the 3.75% the Bank of England pays out on their reserves. Before 2006 this didn’t happen — Gerard Holtham, partner at Cadwyn Capital and visiting professor at Cardiff Metropolitan Uni
theguardian.com
Why are we giving a £24bn-a-year subsidy to profitable commercial banks? | Letter
Letter: Gerald Holtham suggests that it time to cut the 3.75% that the Bank of England pays out on the lenders’ reserves
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David Osland @davidosland.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Billionaires who don't pay taxes give tens of millions of pounds to the racist right while newspapers owned by billionaires who don't pay taxes smear the politicians who challenge them. Because they want to ensure 'a fair fight and a level playing field', apparently.
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Peter Geoghegan @petergeoghegan.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
The Ben Delo who has just given Reform £36m is the same Ben Delo who US prosecutors said was the leader of a ‘criminal enterprise’ But hey ho, it’s fine for him- and any other crypto bro - to buy British democracy lock stock and barrel democracyforsale.substack.com/p/reforms-4m...
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Reform's £4m donor "thumbed his nose at the law", US prosecutors said
Ben Delo has called his US conviction a "non-crime". Prosecutors said the Farage-backing crypto billionaire was a “leader of a criminal enterprise”.
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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
The Telegraph's scrutiny of overt racism in Restore for the last month is welcome. But its odd for Mr Shipley to call it a "hostile takeover" when overt racists joined *by invitation* on day one + their membership was defended by key party staff + officials, against challenge from within + without
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The Empty City @davidallengreen.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
NEW Why holding a placard is a terrorist act, while causing disruption in a balaclava is not The mess caused by ministers and the police not taking terrorism law seriously By me at @prospectmagazine.co.uk www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/law/th...

Recent events in England now reveal the practical difference between terrorists and protesters. It would seem that terrorists peacefully hold placards and get immediately arrested, while protesters wear black uniforms and balaclavas and disrupt infrastructure and do not get arrested.

How did we get into this mess? How have we placed ourselves in the position where terrorism legislation is used to detain and prosecute peaceful protesters, while those adopting the terror tactics of private armies seem to be free to do as they wish?

The reason is that for some time British politicians have not taken terrorism legislation seriously, and that ministers have got into the habit of misusing terror laws for easy targets.
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Henry Mance @henrymance.ft.com · 11/09/2026
How it started / How it's going
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Chris Grey @chrisgrey.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
This is outrageous in and of itself. It's also outrageous that the government isn't doing anything about it. There's a constant political refrain that 'the first duty of government is to protect its citizens'. So do it.
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Twlldun @twlldun.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Frankenstein regrets role in creation of monster
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Tom Roberts @tpgroberts.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
I know I have now said this three times in the last hour, but what do you mean they still haven't arrested Daniel Thomas? This is his third incident, the first two were definitely illegal, the last is clearly a breach of the peace, he is identifiable and has literally recorded himself planning it!
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Jonathan Portes @jdportes.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
What Sam said. Meanwhile, in Denmark, migrants' kids lag 20/30/40 points behind on average -and there are still people here who think *we* should copy *them* on immigration/integration.
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JWexTheSpa @jwsidders.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
On the day of the attack Trump was actually interviewed on TV and said that thanks to the Twin Towers collapse he now owned the tallest building in downtown Manhattan ... youtu.be/aPvemZHnd0s?...
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Donald Trump on 9 /11 bragging that his building is now tallest in NYC
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David_j_roth @davidjroth.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Obviously this is a hilarious and obvious lie but it's instructive in that Trump knows he's supposed to care about this thing, and manifestly does not and cannot care about it, and so he has to put himself into the story just to make it something he can talk about. He almost died that day!
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Robert Saunders @robertsaunders.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
The really alarming figure here is the 48% of Conservatives who apparently DO think masked gangs marching through the streets are legitimate. The radicalisation of the right goes far beyond Reform and Restore.
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Albert Pinto @70sbachchan.bsky.social · 10/05/2026
Same. HUGE gap between experts & everyone else. This was already expert consensus 2 years ago. Now? Trump's horrible & evil war have wrecked the perception of oil & gas as stable and cheap in the decade when solar, wind, batteries, EVs are SURGING worldwide www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/daw...
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Lee Hurley @hleehurley.com · 06/09/2026
"Wait until the Sundays" people told me discussing why the papers weren't going hard on Farage being caught in the Channel 4 sting. Ok. It's Sunday. Times - front page has Farage's 'I wasn't listening' denial, inside is double-page spread on 'Nigel's Motley crew' (that's them covering the sting)
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Nigel Farage’s pile of financing scandals. Unexplained £5m from Thailand. Gifts from convicted fraudster. Willingness to circumvent laws on political donations Threats to judges, civil servants, journalists, parliament, anyone who disagrees. archive.ph/eiR9R
ft.com
Nigel Farage’s pile of financing scandals
Undercover report raises new questions over funding of Reform UK
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Lee Hurley @hleehurley.com · 05/09/2026
As gangs of masked men block Dover port, I will just leave this here www.theguardian.com/environment/...
theguardian.com
Five Just Stop Oil activists receive record sentences for planning to block M25
Campaigners receive longest ever sentences for non-violent protest after being convicted of conspiracy to cause public nuisance
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Nick Pettigrew @nick-pettigrew.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
If you can watch Farage laughing and joking with obvious delight as a young woman is beaten up in front of him and still vote for Reform I can only conclude you're an absolute piece of fucking shit. This does not seem an unfair assumption to make.
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Jane A. @jane-in-progress.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
If they have no visible message, is it a protest? Or just a bunch of thugs blocking the road? It is legal to hold a static protest in a public place, but not to block traffic/commerce – why haven't they been arrested and removed? Like when Just Stop Oil blocked roads. www.bbc.com/news/article...
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Masked protesters block access at Port of Dover
Images appear to show hundreds of protesters, all dressed in black and wearing face coverings.
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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
The writers of this show getting increasingly desperate in finding new ways to reset the status quo to “there is a Tory government”. “Guys, what if Farage just started saying and doing mad things, like ‘let’s dig up Napoleon III’?”
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Sam Bright @writesbright.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Incredible moment in the doc when Farage’s right-hand man Dan Jukes lists several foreign donors who’ve given money to the party via their kids. It’s not just one or two backers - it’s a huge conspiracy cooked up by the party to break the law. It’s bigger than we even thought
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Peter Geoghegan @petergeoghegan.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
What really struck me watching Channel 4 investigation into Reform is that the wilful breaking of electoral law isn’t an accident - it’s by design At every turn it’s Reform - Orr, Dan Jukes - saying how to break the law Exactly why I’ve been banging on about weak election law for so long
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RShelby @rshelby.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie... - Elon Musk Unmasked in Alex Gibney Documentary: “Insane a Person This Chaotic Has So Much Power”
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Elon Musk Unmasked in Alex Gibney Documentary: “Insane a Person This Chaotic Has So Much Power”
He is the richest man on earth. An explosive new film from the Oscar-winning director suggests he also may be among the most dangerous.
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Maybe the rules are just dandy Nige... maybe the problem lies with someone else
Farage says Reform UK's bank
account has suspended several
times, claiming this shows money
laundering rules too strict
Nigel Farage, the Reform UK leader, has
revealed that his party's bank account has
been frozen several times.


In an interview with the BBC's political
editor, Chris Mason, Farage said this was
evidence Britain has become a
"complainant society' where too much
time is spent in investigating unfounded
allegations.


Farage was responding to a question
about why - as the Sunday Times revealed
in July - Reform UK had its bank account
frozen for two weeks ahead of the 2024
general election over concerns about
potentially illegal donations.
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Peter Geoghegan @petergeoghegan.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Half an hour after publish this, get an email from Reform saying can’t come to this year’s conference 🤔
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Albert Pinto @70sbachchan.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Thread: The enormous unprecedented SCALE of the American AI investment boom is "crowding out" investment going into any other sector of the economy. At this point in mid 2026, it is literally sucking away all factors of production -capital, land, labour, knowledge, ecology. @katemac.bsky.social
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Steve Peers @stevepeers.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
The banality of media evil
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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
It’s wild that the IDF just straight up murdered some British ex-marines for no real reason except to demonstrate they can and will kill *anyone*, and maybe also as a big fuck you to Barack Obama personally, a patron of the charity. And it wasn’t even an issue, glossed over within one day.
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Appalled and angry for the families of John Chapman, James Henderson and James Kirby after the Israeli authorities decided to bring no criminal action over the fatal strikes on a @WCKitchen convoy in Gaza.
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Kentish Fran #FBPE @kentishfran.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
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Dr Negrin's Victory Pills @dr-negrin.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Very interesting stuff. Re-wilded areas are staying green through recent droughts. It's almost as if modern agricultural methods aren't great for the landscape. . . www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Rewilded land remains green amid drought-stricken English countryside, images show
National Trust’s Holnicote estate says restored wetlands and rivers offer proof of resilience to drought, wildfires and flooding
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Grenfell cladding firm Arconic paid shareholders $31m more than to fire victims/survivors. 72 Britons died in fire due to faulty cladding. US shareholders sued for inadequate disclosures about cladding, received $74m compensation. Victims of fire, their families received $43m. No one prosecuted.
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Grenfell cladding firm Arconic paid shareholders £23m more in compensation than to fire victims
Report’s author said findings highlighted ‘near-total failure’ to hold corporations accountable over the disaster that killed 72 people
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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Why isn’t there a total moratorium on all reporting on Reform until after the multiple investigations into their finances have been completed? Free propaganda for potentially corrupt liars should be banned. It might make them think twice before breaking rules and taking the piss out of all of us.
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Dave Andress @davidandress.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
At some stage, you have to recognise that none of this is "policy". It's things that make bad people feel good thinking about. That's it. REFUK is a factory-farm for nasty people's jollies. If they get voted in, they don't even know what they'd do. But they know who they'd hurt.
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John Oxley @joxley.jmoxley.co.uk · 17/08/2026
More, both sides need to understand a civil war isn't you gloriously defeating your Ideological enemies. It's your local criminal gang shooting you in the head for your car.
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