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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Here's today's column on the astonishing, ongoing mistreatment of people with #ME/CFS. Please spread it far and wide: the only thing which can break the media's wall of indifference is seeing an article about the issue go viral. Thank you. 1/2 www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Abandoned, dismissed and gaslighted: there is no excuse for the way ME sufferers have been betrayed | George Monbiot
Changes in guidance and science seem to have little impact on millions of devastated lives. It’s a social crisis playing out behind closed doors, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
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Will Jennings📉🗳️ @drjennings.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Funny how nobody ever talks about the “legitimate concerns” people have about the extreme concentration of wealth among a small number of billionaires.
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Alex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
I would love to ask a prominent BBC journalist to give me an example of an illegitimate concern. Is seems to me that it has become a question not of fact, logic, or ethics but of volume. If a big enough proportion of a village was anxious about Bigfoot or Chemtrails, BBC would cover it in a way...
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Peter Geoghegan @petergeoghegan.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
🔴 The £72million pound question - how worried are you about big money in British politics? Democracy for Sale is running a survey to find out what the public thinks about money in politics - and what we should do about it Please take it!! And share widely!! thx! 😀 docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
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How concerned are you about UK political funding? – A Democracy for Sale survey
We're Democracy for Sale, a newsletter covering dark money and influence in UK politics. We're trying to better understand our readers' and the wider public's opinions and concerns about political fun...
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Reform UK's record-breaking donor was accused of running “in effect a money laundering platform”. Prosecutors accused Delo of being the “leader of a criminal enterprise” who knew that his Bitmex platform had become a “magnet for money laundering and criminal activity”.
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Reform UK Is Now a Wholly-Owned Subsidiary of the Corrupt Crypto Industry
As criminal investigations into Reform’s funding continue, much of the British press continues to give a free pass to Nigel Farage’s shady funders
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Kevin Anderson @kevinclimate.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
I was asked by a colleague from my oil & gas days (who has remained in the industry) why UK producing its own gas is less acceptable to the Greens (& others) than importing it from America and West Africa.' The full question & my reply is now online at: climateuncensored.com/there-is-no-...
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There Is No Atmospheric Exemption for British Oil and Gas - Climate Uncensored
I was recently contacted by a colleague from my days in the 1980s and 90s when I worked as an engineer in the offshore oil and gas sector. He remains in the
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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Ryan Bridge - Founder of "Raise the Colours" flag protests - charged with 14 offences including common assault. Danny Thomas - ringleader of Dover/Portsmouth thuggery - an ex-con jailed for attempted kidnap at knifepoint. Almost like they're not "ordinary people with concerns" but criminals.
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Nick Stripe @nickstripe.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
WTF has happened to America? So sad.
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Matthew Taylor @mat8iou.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
Bold move by the crossword writer in the UK's i newspaper. But they likely realised that the typical Reform Party fan doesn't do cryptic crosswords so they're maybe safe from their ire. For those struggling with it - the key for is primary - take the first letters of the words.
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Nick Stripe @nickstripe.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
@mrjamesob.bsky.social - they’re co-opting Stephen Lawrence and George Floyd’s murders. Many people will not recall the details or context, merely that they were hideous and totemic crimes. They rely on an environment with little pushback or fact checking. They’re just getting them on their team.
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Nick Stripe @nickstripe.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
Thank you Mr @mrjamesob.bsky.social On days like these, you help keep us sane
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
If you say "I support Palestine Action", they might put you in jail. If you incite a racist riot, they put you on the news.
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Jim Parkin @parkinjim.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
Reform UK Treasurer and Donors Share London Address with Sanctioned Russian Oligarchs – Byline Times 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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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
Christopher Harborne is a new entry on the Sunday Times rich list top ten - worth £18 billion. He bought Reform for 0.1% of his fortune...
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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
Not sure there’s any point having elections any more. We should just ask crypto billionaire, Christopher Harborne, who he’s paid to be the next prime minister and drop the absurd notion that the voters get to decide anything.
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Nick Stripe @nickstripe.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
The bloated carcass of our economic system is just one big grift
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Nick Stripe @nickstripe.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
Families can't pay the bills because billionaires own everything we need to survive, have jacked up prices, then protected themselves from investigations and liability by cosying up to the regime and telling us what to believe. The system is rotten. It could be so much better. Can we try please?
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Nick Stripe @nickstripe.bsky.social · 21/03/2026
Ha ha. Very suspicious. Never heard less about a potential presidential assassin since he served his purpose for a week or so. And such a great photo op!
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David Osland @davidosland.bsky.social · 15/03/2026
Attention BBC and Daily Mail newsdesks. It is being reliably reported that Reform UK MP Richard Tice dodged a £600,000 tax bill. Where's the media coverage?
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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 15/03/2026
If we made the green energy transition this war would be unthinkable and these authoritarians wouldn’t be in power — not in the US, not in Iran, not in Saudi Arabia, not in Russia. Hydrocarbons are killing our freedom and just plain killing us.
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Emma Monk @monkemma.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
Did you see this headline? Did you feel the requisite anger and rage at asylum seekers that The Sun was asking of you? Did you maybe blame Starmer because.... um... it was probably his fault🤷‍♀️ Would you like to know the reality behind the headline? Course you would!😜 Let's take a look 🧵 1/25
Sun headline about £500k compensation for migrants, discussing human rights, and public outcry over payouts.
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Nick Stripe @nickstripe.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
With a nice bowl of spring greens
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
The richest man owns X. The second and third richest men control Google. The fourth richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp. The fifth richest man owns The Washington Post. And now the sixth richest could soon take over both Paramount and Warner Bros. See the problem here?
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Netflix Backs Out of Bid for Warner Bros., Paving Way for an Ellison Takeover
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Nick Stripe @nickstripe.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
The devil is fluent in doublespeak
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Hardeep Matharu @hardeepmatharu.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
The Epstein Files tell a horrific and heavy story of abuse and corruption. But power protects itself through the expectation that we will feel paralysed by the sense of powerlessness. Their release is a seminal moment. That's why our new Byline Times print edition delves into the deeper story 👇
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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
Nadhim Zahawi covered up and lied about £3m in unpaid tax for 6 years. If he's looking for criminals he only needs a mirror.
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Nick Stripe @nickstripe.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
As evidence goes, this is about as weak as their usual garbage. But a barrel has been well and truly scraped.
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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
UPDATE: A former Trump attorney has now publicly stated that he believes Kasparov has summarized Trump's intentions *perfectly*: what the convicted felon, adjudicated rapist, and pedophile protector-in-chief is planning is the end of democracy—a fascist regime—this year or next.
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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
I and millions of Americans believe exactly the same thing Kasparov does. Too many troops, too many new prisons, too much money not under Congressional supervision. We're not just witnessing a mass deportation scheme anymore. This is something significantly bigger and scarier.
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Peter Jukes @peterjukes.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
It also needs to be added that when Boris Johnson resigned and plotted to topple Theresa May, Bannon said he advised him on his opening gambit — the nasty Islamophobic column about Muslim women looking like letterboxes and bank robbers bylinetimes.com/2019/10/10/a...
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'A Sikh Man Standing Up for Muslim Women Mattered in Exposing Boris Johnson's Divide and Rule Dog Whistle Politics'
Hardeep Matharu sat down with MP Tanmanjeet Singh Dhesi to discuss his passionate taking down of the Prime Minister and his derogatory comparisons labelling Muslim women as letter boxes and bank robbe...
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
1. In 2009 I wrote this. I argued that Peter Mandelson's department “functions as a fifth column within government, working for corporations to undermine democracy and the public interest.” This thread explains what I saw, and reaches a startling conclusion.🧵 www.monbiot.com/2009/05/04/m...
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Mandelson’s Fifth Column
The British government’s business department exists to undermine democracy.
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
Sometimes you have to say it out loud to appreciate how dire t all is: The president just openly declared his plans to steal the midterm elections — in an interview with the former number two person at the FBI.
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Billy Bragg @billybragg.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
I wrote this yesterday about the hero city of Minneapolis www.youtube.com/watch?v=IKOW...
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BILLY BRAGG - CITY OF HEROES
YouTube video by Billy Bragg
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Nick Stripe @nickstripe.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
The real Boss ✊
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Nick Stripe @nickstripe.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
Oh Randy. That ain’t Fine. Ain’t Fine at all. Do you beat your wife, by any chance? Is it her fault?
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Nick Stripe @nickstripe.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
Or shot in the ear lobe?
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Nick Stripe @nickstripe.bsky.social · 12/07/2025
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Nick Stripe @nickstripe.bsky.social · 17/05/2025
The story of crime in numbers... www.youtube.com/watch?v=dKpe...
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Nick Stripe @nickstripe.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
Thank you for writing this forensically thorough piece. Alarmed at seeing unexpected folk spreading the extreme culture war guff of our grifting class on this topic, I was considering the need for an intervention. You have saved me hours of research.
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Nick Stripe @nickstripe.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
Aww, no. Another one gone. Best gig I ever went to was seeing Roy Ayers at Ronnie Scott's club in London thirty odd years ago. Roy was fantastic. And Ronnie, as the MC and raconteur on the night, was his usual hilarious self. www.rollingstone.com/music/music-...
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Roy Ayers, Jazz-Funk Virtuoso, Dead at 84
Roy Ayers, the "Everybody Loves the Sunshine" jazz-funk virtuoso who paved the way for neo-soul, has died at age 84
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Edward Luce @edwardluce.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
"The most striking aspect to Trump's crypto reserve and the scrapping of anti-money laundering rules, which together amount to a global charter for criminals, is that he's making no effort to dress them up. This pig has no lipstick." My column. on.ft.com/43kiBOu
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Trump’s heist in broad daylight
[FREE TO READ] Having previously declared bitcoin to be a ‘scam’, the US president now wants to add it to the Fed’s balance sheet
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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 02/03/2025
Every accusation is an intention.
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Nick Stripe @nickstripe.bsky.social · 02/03/2025
What a refreshing FA Cup quarter final draw. Vitality!
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Nick Stripe @nickstripe.bsky.social · 02/03/2025
The Institute of Egregious Arseholes (IEA)
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Nick Stripe @nickstripe.bsky.social · 02/03/2025
Fully agree. That's not journalism. That's shit stirring. At a moment of such delicacy and importance. A generous assessment would be that they've just totally lost sight of their lodestar - for whatever reasons A less generous one is that vast swathes of our mainstream media are fifth columnists
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Nick Stripe @nickstripe.bsky.social · 02/03/2025
Hmmm - people are living longer than expected? Not so much in the US. Their profit-motive-based health system costs far more than anywhere else. And for what? A poor level of life expectancy given the wealth of the country. I wonder where all that profit and wealth ends up? 🤔
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Nick Stripe @nickstripe.bsky.social · 02/03/2025
Gwen McCrae, Roberta Flack, and now Angie Stone 😪 It's been a tough week or so. Thank you for the music, ladies 🙏 youtu.be/9PWz-NubVpM?...
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Angie Stone - Wish I Didn't Miss You
YouTube video by AngieStoneVEVO
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Dan Snow @thehistoryguy.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
On 15 March 1939 Hitler and his deputy summoned the Czech President to Hitler’s residence in Berlin and then bullied him to submitting to a German invasion of his country. They drove him to the point of physical collapse, threatening him until he eventually signed his country’s death warrant.
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Nick Stripe @nickstripe.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
Everyone needs respite from the madness for a couple of hours. Do yourself a favour. Go see this. At a cinema. With good sound. It put a great big smile on my face.
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