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Nigel Brown

@nigel-brown.bsky.social
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Em. Prof of Molec Microbiology & former Vice-Principal, Univ Edinburgh. OBE, FLSW, FRSE, etc.. Not retired, just unsalaried! Trustee FairFrome charity. Pro-EU Brit. #iPhobe. Editor #AccessMicrobiology

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Lynne #TaxTheRich #WelfareNotWarfare. Eco-Socialist. Pro-🇵🇸 @bebsdotteragain.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Some MPs are taking lucrative second jobs is giving all MPs a bad name. We're calling on the Government to take action on MPs' second jobs. Please sign our letter. secure.unlockdemocracy.org.uk/page/199569/...
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MPs' Second Jobs
A small number of MPs taking lucrative second jobs is giving all MPs a bad name. We're calling on the Government to take action on MPs' second jobs. Please sign our letter.
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HappyToast @happytoast.co.uk · 14/08/2026
#Clacton
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NewsThump @newsthump.com · 14/08/2026
At some point in the near future...
Nigel Farage reading from a card on the set of the BBC's "Would I Lie To You?" with large overlaid meme text: "I once wasted £300k of the taxpayer's money to win a by-election against a bin."
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DavidC @pumpchimp.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Standards watchdog resumes investigation into Nigel Farage over financial gifts www.theguardian.com/politics/202... What a waste of 250k of taxpayers money, the man is an utter arse.
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Standards watchdog resumes investigation into Nigel Farage over financial gifts
Reform UK leader’s return to Clacton restarts inquiry into £5m gift from crypto-billionaire and support from fraudster
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
A reminder that this is the guy we're all now supposed to be listening to on the subject of the safety of MPs
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Nigel Brown @nigel-brown.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
Never,never drink raw milk that has not been properly tested. Pasteurisation was developed for a reason! bsky.app/profile/prop...
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
Terrible news: the Court of Appeal has just ruled that the Government’s ban on Palestine Action is lawful. PA is now likely to lodge an appeal before the Supreme Court. So the mass arrests of peaceful people sitting with cardboard signs will continue. Because that is what terrorism looks like ...
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calliesue.bsky.social @calliesue.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
May 2026. It just keeps getting worse...
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
Maybe it's not *ideal* to have someone with so much anger and so little self-control responsible for deciding if the US should start a nuclear war.
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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
Robert Gros made £27m selling useless gowns via the VIP PPE Lane, of course he never paid back a penny, he bought 2 mansions instead. RT and see if we can make him as famous as Michelle Mone.
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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
Blimey. This petition is now is now at almost 98,000 signatures. Let’s get it to 100,000 today and have that debate petition.parliament.uk/petitions/74...
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Adam Schwarz @adamjschwarz.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
Incoming Hungarian PM Péter Magyar calls for the UK to rejoin the European Union: "I remember when I was a diplomat in Brussels... We were able to influence decisions. At the time, the Brits were also part of the EU. Let's hope they will rejoin."
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James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 05/04/2026
I feel much more anger towards the British pundits & politicians who failed to understand the depravity & derangement of Donald Trump than I do the ones who failed to understand the idiocy of Brexit. But it doesn’t really matter because they’re exactly the same bloody people.
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 29/03/2026
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
This is excellent. Absolutely scandalous that GB News essentially has a licence to spread misinformation like this without OFCOM stepping in. www.thenewworld.co.uk/the-gb-news-...
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GB News Scandal: The dossier
Twenty journalists analysed 15 hours of television – none of which complied with Ofcom’s regulations. These are their findings
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
He was certainly afraid of Vietnam-style combat in Vietnam.
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Saul Staniforth @saulstaniforth.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
Sarah Sackman: "The British governments position is clear, we want to see a de-escalation of this conflict" .. and that's why we're allowing the US to use British military bases to bomb Iran! Sackman & the govt are treating us like fools.
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Nigel Brown @nigel-brown.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
Impeach Trump NOW action.eko.org/a/impeach-tr...
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Impeach Trump NOW
Last week, while Washington D.C. was asleep, Donald Trump pushed the button. He didn't ask Congress, he didn't show proof of a threat, and he didn't care about the consequences. He just selfishly star
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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
Thank god. A great win for Hannah Spencer and the Greens, for #GortonAndDenton and for progressive voters. Made even greater by the huge Reform sulk. And the fact that the hateful Goodwin got whooped. Now Labour, look to your left because you will not win from the right. We’re sick of that failure.
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Nigel Brown @nigel-brown.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
Are you watching Dirty Business? I can't believe how much water companies have gotten away with. They're putting profit before public health - it’s a scandal and the Government MUST take action! Sick of sewage? Add your name to the petition today: you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/pr...
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End the sewage pollution scandal
We're sick of it. Sick of the lies, sick of the greed, and sick of a system rigged against us. This is a scandal and this dirty business must end. For more than 30 years water companies have put corpo...
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Mary L Trump @maryltrump.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
Every American needs to watch this:
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Left Foot Forward @left-foot-forward.bsky.social · 16/12/2025
Your regular reminder 👇 🏥 81% want publicly owned NHS 🏫 78% want publicly owned schools 💧 73% want publicly owned water 🚂 70% want publicly owned rail ✉️ 70% want publicly owned mail 🚍 67% want publicly owned buses 💡 65% want publicly owned energy
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EXCLUSIVE: Poll shows huge support for nationalisation of key industries and utilities
Privatisation has failed.
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Nigel Brown @nigel-brown.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
ee.co.uk is my UK broadband/mobile phone provider, having taken over BT's provision, and has simply an appalling website to interact with. Whoever would have thought I would miss BT?
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Bookshop.org @bookshop.org · 30/10/2025
Amazon is helping fund a $300 million build of a ballroom for the White House. Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity. They are not the same.
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Nigel Brown @nigel-brown.bsky.social · 10/10/2025
Sign the petition! weownit.org.uk/act-now/peti...
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Thames Water want to pollute illegally until 2040. Ofwat must say NO.
Thames water want to make at deal with Ofwat, to pollute illegally for 15 years
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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 05/10/2025
We flounced out of the EU on the say-so of politicians who lied to us. And what a total shitshow that’s turned out to be. The polar opposite of what they promised. Now the call to flounce out of the ECHR. By the same people. Telling the same lies. Has the country been kicked in the head by a horse?
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Dr Rachel Clarke @drrachelclarke.com · 01/10/2025
Here I am in 2020 in the flimsiest, most pitful PPE - like so many other NHS staff, some of whom died from the Covid they caught in their hospitals. Tory peer Michelle Mone - who today lost her legal case & must repay the govt £122m - dares to claim she’s been ‘scapegoated’. What, Michelle? 🧵
Rachel wearing very flimsy looking apron, mask and visor in NHS setting
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Nigel Brown @nigel-brown.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
PPE fraud comes home to roost! (Or one of the VIP lane frauds, anyway) www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cy...
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Firm linked to Baroness Michelle Mone must pay £122m after breaching Covid PPE contract, judge rules
The government wins its case against PPE Medpro - part of a consortium led by Baroness Mone's husband - after it supplied non-compliant gowns in 2020.
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Oliver @oliver48.bsky.social · 15/09/2025
Only those bought by billionaires would think #TaxTheRich was a 'tough choice'
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Byline Times @bylinetimes.bsky.social · 09/09/2025
🔴BBC Accused of Pro-Reform Bias as Lib Dems Launch Campaign to End ‘Wall to Wall’ Farage Coverage They accuse the BBC of “following Farage around like a lost puppy” and have complained to Ofcom to demand fair coverage bylinetimes.com/2025/09/09/b...
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BBC Accused of Pro-Reform Bias as Lib Dems Launch Campaign to End 'Wall to Wall' Farage Coverage
They accuse the BBC of "following Farage around like a lost puppy” and have complained to Ofcom to demand fair coverage
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Parody Nigel Farage @parodypm.bsky.social · 09/09/2025
It's no surprise that Nigel Farage hardly ever bothers to visit Clacton or turn up at Parliament. When he was an MEP, his attendance record was 748th out of 751. He's a workshy grifting gobshite.
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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 06/09/2025
This too should be in the Media non-stop for a week until Nigel Farage is forced to resign.
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Owen Jones @owenjones.bsky.social · 02/09/2025
This is how dictatorships behave
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Nigel Brown @nigel-brown.bsky.social · 29/08/2025
Bluesky is better than Twitter for academic research discussions. (and for lots of other reasons! 😁) www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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Research posts on Bluesky are more original — and get better engagement
Bluesky posts about science garner more likes and reposts than similar ones on X.
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Nigel Brown @nigel-brown.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
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I thought this headline was a joke when I first read it, but no…it's real.
I've signed a petition telling Ofgem to reject Musk's application to supply electricity to British households. Will you join me and add your name?
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Jeremy Corbyn @jeremycorbyn.bsky.social · 27/08/2025
I am sickened by the relentless demonisation of refugees. No refugee underfunded a school. No refugee closed a hospital. No refugee took away support from the sick and disabled. We need solutions not scapegoats. Stop blaming refugees and tax the rich instead!
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keyser soze @keysersoze2024.bsky.social · 15/08/2025
FIFA should pull all of the 2026 World Cup matches scheduled to be played on US soil & reassign them to venues in Canada. That includes the World Cup final scheduled to be played at the Meadowlands. This is not a country suited to host an international event now & won’t be until 2029.
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Nigel Brown @nigel-brown.bsky.social · 15/08/2025
Feeding Britain is circulating a petition to urge the Government to extend the Holiday Activities and Food (HAF) programme during the school holidays in England through to the next general election. Please do sign and circulate the petition: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
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Petition to extend The HAF Programme
Dear Prime Minister, We are writing to urge you to extend the Government’s support for the provision of meals and activities, for children and young people during school holidays, through to the next...
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Paul Brand @paulbrand.bsky.social · 25/07/2025
A *third* of the Commons has called on the PM to recognise Palestine as a state. Never seen anything quite like this.
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Max Berger @maxberger.bsky.social · 25/07/2025
The way that I was raised, being Jewish meant believing that every human life was sacred; to save a single human life meant saving all of humanity. That no law or ritual was more important than saving a single human life. It's unfathomable that any Jew can accept what Israel is doing in Gaza.
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Mike Galsworthy @mikegalsworthy.bsky.social · 25/07/2025
This article… … is, by a long way, the clearest account of the UK government’s complicity in Israel’s genocidal war on Gaza that I have ever read. Please read and share.
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In all but name: is Gaza Britain’s undeclared war?
Britain isn’t just watching Gaza burn – it’s helping fuel the fire, with weapons, intelligence, and silence
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Nigel Brown @nigel-brown.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
Wordle 1,496 2/6 🟨⬜⬜🟨🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
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Stephen Kinsella @stephenstroud.bsky.social · 22/07/2025
The story I heard concerned a Japanese businessman who was told we were going to make our universities more businesslike. His response: why would you do that? Your universities are excellent and your businesses are rubbish. But we appointed the wrong people and pressed ahead.
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 21/07/2025
Looting at Thames Water Net assets in 1990, £1,329m; 2024, £1,301m; 2025, £359m negative - liabilities exceed assets NO shareholder investment since privatisation? Dividends £10.4bn. Can't rebuild water services without ending privatisation. Water Commission didn't spot looting,
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Dorian Lynskey @dorianlynskey.bsky.social · 21/07/2025
I really don't want to go through the whole rigmarole of seeing Farage win power and then fuck everything up and have loads of sympathetic voxpops with dismayed Reform voters expressing their regrets when it was extremely fucking obvious what would happen because his platform is incoherent garbage
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Nigel Brown @nigel-brown.bsky.social · 18/07/2025
What a fantastic thought! (For the non-microbiologists among you, there is such a thing as the Epstein-Barr virus, which is linked to certain cancers, but not discovered by Jeffrey Epstein and William Barr))
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Mike Galsworthy @mikegalsworthy.bsky.social · 17/07/2025
Yorkshire Water’s hosepipe ban is a symptom of a broken system Last week, Yorkshire Water announced a hosepipe ban that will affect over five million people across Yorkshire, with a threat of £1,000 fines. – it’s time to take back control of our water. By Jon Trickett MP
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Households are tired of carrying the can for water companies
Yorkshire Water’s hosepipe ban is a symptom of a broken system – it’s time to take back control of our water
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Yorkshire Bylines @yorkshirebylines.co.uk · 03/07/2025
Wow, last week our writer David Goff wrote of the NEVLAs (never voting Labour again): "Perhaps a party led by the Zarah Sultanas of this world might entice the NEVLAs back to the voting booth." Today this ⤵️ (see thread) David must have a crystal ball 🔮 @tubbyewe.bsky.social
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Meet the NEVLAs – (Never Voting Labour Again)
It’s not Reform voters Starmer needs to entice back to the Labour fold, they were never in it. There’s another group he should be worrying about
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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 29/06/2025
Tommy Robinson sent a letter to himself, he meant to log out and send it from a different account. But he didn't. Don't RT 🤣
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Taryn T, Duchess of the Blue Sea @tarynt.bsky.social · 14/06/2025
Happy Barack Obama Appreciation Day!!! #ObamaAppreciationDay
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