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This can't be talked about enough. "President Donald Trump's move to cut most of the US funding towards foreign humanitarian aid could cause more than 14 million additional deaths by 2030, according to research published in The Lancet medical journal." www.bbc.com/news/article...

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Trump's aid cut risks causing 14 million deaths, report finds

The figure from the Lancet, a leading medical journal, includes 700,000 child deaths globally a year.

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Josiah Mortimer @josiahmortimer.bsky.social · 16h

New GB News accounts are out. Here are their losses to date. Or "spent political donations" if you prefer

Line chart titled 'GB News has lost £142m to date', showing cumulative losses in pounds rising steadily from around £3m in 2020/1 to £142m by 2025. The red line climbs most steeply between 2021/2 and 2023/4, reaching roughly £110m, then flattens as growth slows towards £142m. A note states the latest figures cover the seven-month period to 31 December 2025. Chart by Press Gazette, source: Companies House

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General Boles @generalboles.bsky.social · 16h

If you thought your appeal was likely to succeed you probably wouldn't feel the need to threaten a nation-state with blackmail bsky.app/profile/laur...

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Nick Cohen @nickcohen.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

“American power will never recover from Trump. We’re looking at a superpower suicide.” Reposting my interview with Anne Applebaum. This time with an edited transcript!

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Anne Applebaum on Trump’s Empire of Grift

Podcast with transcript

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Nick Cohen @nickcohen.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Farage incites fear to secure the racist vote Podcast and piece from me on the breath-taking cynicism of his manipulation of the alleged terrorist incident at RAF Fairford

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Farage manufactures fear

Propaganda and paranoia

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Nick Cohen @nickcohen.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Farage incites fear to secure the racist vote Podcast and piece from me on the breath-taking cynicism of his manipulation of the alleged terrorist incident at RAF Fairford

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Farage manufactures fear

Propaganda and paranoia

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Nick Cohen @nickcohen.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

After his disgraceful falsehoods about Fairford, here is a piece from me on how Farage follows the dictator’s tactic of telling a big lie so often his gormless supporters come to believe it. (Free to read but please subscribe)

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Fake-news Farage gives vultures a bad name

Fairford and the dictator’s playbook

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Nick Cohen @nickcohen.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

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Fake-news Farage gives vultures a bad name

Fairford and the dictator’s playbook

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gerickson.bsky.social @gerickson.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

“Look, it’s a form of superpower suicide.”

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Will Cooling @willcooling.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I don't want to pick on people, but I do think a lot of the angst here and elsewhere is middle class people who have relatively less prestigious/profitable jobs or a more expensive lifestyle than their parents at the same point in their lives, confusing their situation for a more general malaise

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Nick Cohen @nickcohen.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

“American power will never recover from Trump. We’re looking at a superpower suicide.” Reposting my interview with Anne Applebaum. This time with an edited transcript!

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Anne Applebaum on Trump’s Empire of Grift

Podcast with transcript

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Miguel Delaney @migueldelaney.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

City have until 2 October to appeal One conclusion from the decision reads: "that certain of those factual witnesses had given evidence at the hearing that they knew to be untrue and so had been dishonest."

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The Empty City @davidallengreen.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

That is about as hard-hitting a ruling as was possible, and at first reading It does not look easily appealable.

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Rich @pibasedlifeform.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Viz letter page will always say it best thou

The famous Viz letters about Lance Armstrong on drugs

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Nick Cohen @nickcohen.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Interview with @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu on America’s corrupt empire “The U.S. we once knew is never coming back” Podcast and piece on the end of the liberal order

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Anne Applebaum: America’s corrupt empire

The U.S. we once knew is dead and gone

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Nick Cohen @nickcohen.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

The BBC and its chair Samir Shah deserve enormous credit for fighting Donald Trump’s attempts to extort money from the British public Piece from me on how Shah’s bravery contrasts with US broadcasters’ cowardice

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Praise the BBC’s fight against Trump’s gangsterism

Samir Shah: Hero of liberal democracy!

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Nick Cohen @nickcohen.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Don't descend into Yorkist tuthism. Richard IIII had the means, motive and opportunity to murder the princes in the Tower. End of.

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Nick Cohen @nickcohen.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

The crypto threat to democracy: how the crypto industry is buying up the radical right – and why Podcast and piece on the crypto-political scandals hitting the US, UK and Poland

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Crypto corruption: Who buys politicians and why

Watch now (13 mins) | Crypto pays the radical right for immunity

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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

It will never not be wild to me that the Russians attacked Keir Starmer's home, successfully spread falsehoods about Starmer's love life, and this didn't changed British politics and British political elite behaviour *at all*.

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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 28/09/2026

🚨 Ed Miliband: "Europe is not just our geography, but so much more. "And on economics, on defence, on security, I say to this conference: our future lies in a stronger, deeper partnership with the European Union."

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Nick Cohen @nickcohen.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Interview with @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu on America’s corrupt empire “The U.S. we once knew is never coming back” Podcast and piece on the end of the liberal order

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Anne Applebaum: America’s corrupt empire

The U.S. we once knew is dead and gone

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Ben Ansell @benansell.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Final point on this. There’s nothing new to HO wanting lower numbers and HMT wanting higher numbers. Was ever thus (eg May vs Osborne). What is more surprising is that Mahmood never gets asked about this and the relative silence of Govt ministers (other than Rayner) on positive side of immigration.

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Peter Geoghegan @petergeoghegan.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

The online far right conspiracy theorists’ obsession with the Fabians - stoked massively by GB News, Talk TV et al - is one of the weirdest, most disturbing things in British politics right now (and that’s saying something) Like a mini British QAnon Must be awful working for Fabians rn

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András Forgács W @andraswf.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I'm sorry if Low Traffic Neighbourhoods made you "flee" Britain, then maybe it's on you

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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Liar. Small boat crossings peaked under Johnson in 2022 reaching 46,000 in 2022. In current year they are 18,565 and falling. Also prior to Boris Johnson's Brexit there were none.

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,

Johnson on X

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Nick Cohen @nickcohen.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

The crypto threat to democracy: how the crypto industry is buying up the radical right – and why Podcast and piece on the crypto-political scandals hitting the US, UK and Poland

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Crypto corruption: Who buys politicians and why

Watch now (13 mins) | Crypto pays the radical right for immunity

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Anthony Painter @anthonypainter.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Clearly the just outcome is: 1. Stripping of all titles. 2. An enormous fine distributed on some fair agreed basis to impacted clubs with parameters. Maybe a points reduction too but that clearly benefits different clubs to those impacted by the transgressions. www.bbc.co.uk/sport/footba...

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Manchester City charges: Legal fight could spiral out of control, says former executive

Manchester City's legal fight with the Premier League has the potential to "spiral out of control" a former top club executive has warned.

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Daniel Knowles @dlknowles.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Some unintended consequences I suspect the rise of AI agents will create: 1. Restaurants that only take reservations by hand written letter, or more likely, don't take them at all. 2. Gigs where you can only buy tickets in person. 3. Businesses that operate without websites.

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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

As the Tories tie Reform in the polls, the high profile online influencer Raheem Kassam (a longterm associate of the leader) is persistently promoting a xenophobic racialised focus on Bsdenoch's heritage: a "Nigerian scammer" & encouraging the use of 'Olukemi Olufunto Adegoke “Kemi” Badenoch'

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Twlldun @twlldun.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Others will have their say about this, but I think it’s worth pointing out that this - or laundered versions of it - are accepted wisdom amongst a big chunk of our political and media classes and it is simply bad for society when the elites have little or no understanding of *the systems they run*

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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Who did Manchester City beat to their trophies

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Nick Cohen @nickcohen.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

The crypto industry is trying to protect itself from scrutiny by bulk-buying politicians in the UK, US, Poland and Latin America Piece from me on the corruption organised crime’s favourite means of exchange is unleashing

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Crypto corruption goes global

A criminal currency buys politicians by the score

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Will Jennings📉🗳️ @drjennings.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

These groups need to be proscribed immediately. They are a threat to public order and the rule of law.

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Mark O’Neill 🐻 @radiobeartime.com · 24/09/2026

“Defence barrister Helen Easterbrook said Somerville had been "caught up" in the disturbances. She said he had been attempting to be a "calming influence" on the crowd but had thrown the bottle "in frustration".”

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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 24/09/2026

Interesting. The Phillipines pivoted to the US, away from China, and now, under Trump, are beginning to regret it www.worldpoliticsreview.com/philippines-...

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The Philippines Chose to Align with the U.S. Now It Regrets It

Despite Manila’s efforts, it is increasingly evident that Washington cannot be trusted to uphold its commitments.

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Nick Cohen @nickcohen.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

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Crypto corruption goes global

A criminal currency buys politicians by the score

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David Wilcock @davidtwilcock.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

BREAKING: Daniel Thomas, aka Danny Tommo, has been arrested by Hampshire police over boat slashing incident in the Channel.

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Katie Martin @katie0martin.ft.com · 24/09/2026

At what point do we stop saying the AI has gone rogue and start accepting this is what it's for? Hacking and nudifying and killing the internet and maybe some useful speak-and-spell. And then killing humans obv as.ft.com/r/dc864f30-7...

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OpenAI ‘agent’ hacked an Australian health service website

AI lab took months to spot the problem, which Prime Minister Anthony Albanese called ‘obviously unacceptable’

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David Higham @oldtrotter.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Well said by @theguardian.com Rather a problem when you’re increasingly dependent on those American big tech companies to generate growth and also when the US President is assiduous in spreading falsehoods about the U.K.

Mr Burnham is right to highlight the threat, but he told only part of the story.
The Kremlin would be wasting its money pumping out disinformation if large US tech platforms didn't provide convenient channels for the toxin to spread, if there weren't a complicit audience in Britain sharing the offending material and if the market for spreading pernicious propaganda weren't so lucrative. Information warfare is only effective when it exploits structural vulnerabilities in the target society. Far-right material sowing hatred against migrants is most fruitful where the terrain has been fertilised by domestic politics.
Earlier this year, analysis by the Guardian found that more than half of accounts on X that were posting about racially aggravated riots in Belfast and civil disorder in Southampton were based outside the UK. Seven of the most-read tweets originated in the US, including one posted by X's proprietor, Elon Musk, the world's richest man.
Mr Musk has been assiduous in promoting a warped, dystopian idea of Britain as a failed state whose culture is being corroded by mass migration.
His platform has been invaluable to far-right activists who have mustered gangs of masked men into mobs that obstruct roads, intimidate people and threaten asylum claimants at British ports. Last year, Mr Musk addressed a rally organised by the far-right activist Tommy Robinson, where he called for the Labour government to be removed. Earlier this year, Mr Robinson, whose real name is Stephen Yaxley-Lennon, travelled to Moscow on a trip funded by the Musk Foundation. He said the purpose of the trip was to "see the beauty of a civilised society".

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Steven Beschloss @stevenbeschloss.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

50 percent tariffs for our beloved neighbor and historic ally, Canada. A red carpet and a military flyover for Communist China’s leader. Donald Trump is a sick man and a danger to America.

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Jacob Öberg @profjacob.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

🚨🚨 #MAGA is making the world safe for #corruption. Strong piece by @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu on how far-right ideologies have transformed #American #foreignpolicy into a tool of private gain and anti-democratic reaction. www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...

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MAGA Is Making the World Safe for Corruption

Far-right ideologues have transformed American foreign policy into a tool of private gain and antidemocratic reaction.

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Nick Cohen @nickcohen.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

The latest grim assertion from an emboldened far right is that, however hard they try to integrate, migrants and their descendants can never be English Piece by me on a modern revival of dark racial fantasies

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If you’re not white, you can’t be English

Neo-fascism, modern style

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Simon Harries @simonharries.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

It is very hard to explain how deeply shocking and depressing this is. The worst point of all is not even the existence of racist fanatics but the total lack of response by politicians. Why and how is this the case?

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#ContessaLucia superfan/ Your favourite Mkhedari. @mkhedari.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

With all due respect I have been called a "Kaka Siah like Hossein Obama", which is the Persian equivalent to the n-word with the hard R by Iranian monarchists and told that I need to be deported to Africa as a Gorji/Georgian and I am whiter. They don't even accept white, they mean aryan.

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"Sources close to" Bob Borsley @bobborsley.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Good piece by @nickcohen.bsky.social on those who are obsessed with who is and who is not ethnically English. Either they are engaged in a pointless bit of labelling, or they have a racist agenda. They should tell us which: open.substack.com/pub/nickcohe...

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If you’re not white, you can’t be English

Neo-fascism, modern style

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Nick Cohen @nickcohen.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

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If you’re not white, you can’t be English

Neo-fascism, modern style

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Nick Stone @typejunky.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Just emailed Burnham to ask him why the fuck he’s not doing anything about the coked-up blackshirts infestation. Will almost certainly achieve nothing but: subject ‘Blackshirts’ to andy.burnham.mp@parliament.uk from enough people might.

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Duncan Weldon @duncanweldon.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Struggling to see why this isn’t, under existing law, piracy?

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