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Oldtrout59

@oldtrout59.bsky.social
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Retired old trout. Finnish/British dual citizen. Proud lefty. Pro EU.

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James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 20h
It never stops being important that, no matter what the subject, politicians like Farage, Trump & Rubio are entirely untethered from the most basic requirements of honest discourse. They might turn out to be telling the truth sometimes but only ever in the spirit of stopped clocks.
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Matthew Wright @matthew-wright.bsky.social · 16h
Brilliant news for CNJ et al. Nice one @dalevince.com 👍👏👏👏 www.theguardian.com/business/202...
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Dale Vince plans London-wide news operation to take on ‘rightwing bias’ in the media
Green energy entrepreneur plans rescue package for the group behind the Camden New Journal, Islington Tribune and Westminster Extra
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Steve Peers @stevepeers.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Cheers, Nigel Farage is crying now
Headline: men arrested near RAF airbase are UK citizens from London
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Oldtrout59 @oldtrout59.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
After @mrjamesob.bsky.social mentioned a mistake, I knew I hadn't misheard. BBC indeed...
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Supertanskiii @supertanskiiii.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Danny Tommo tries to look well 'ard but always ends up looking like Frank Spencer. A deep dive into the comically hapless Tommo, his "Christian Army", the endless crowdfunding and the gaggle of bells supporting him. Spoiler: This is FULL of pisstaking. youtu.be/K5-56mveR9s
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Danny Tommo: The Far Right Frank Spencer
YouTube video by Supertanskiii
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aidThompsin (live, fridays @ 19:30) @aidthompsin.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Like clockwork... youtu.be/wRNyIarog8Y
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Far-right LOSERS beg for your money.
YouTube video by aidThompsin CLIPS
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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,

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
So now we get to hear from Trump that he doesn’t believe US intelligence that China is helping Iran with targeting and weapons because his good friend Xi told him they weren’t.
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Brexit and Trump have combined to be an absolute disaster for UK food and drink exports. Deficit worst in a quarter of a century and sales have plummeted ever since we left the single market
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Brexit and Donald Trump’s tariffs push UK’s food and drink trade deficit to £21bn
In the first half of 2026, the sector’s export volumes fell 11.7% to hit their third-lowest level on record
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Ash Oro @ashoro.co.uk · 24/09/2026
It may have seemed quiet due to Western media focusing on other areas, but the Houthi / Saudi war in Yemen is still raging. This was in the last hour. Missiles headed for Saudi Arabia intercepted. The Bab al'Mandeb Strait is still closed to Saudi-aligned traffic and controlled by the Houthis.
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Simon Marks @simonmarksfsn.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Erm....wot?
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
In case anyone was wondering why Trump is pushing AI so hard and doesn’t want any government regulation.
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
How the BBC’s latest platforming of the bigoted views of the anti-migrant billionaire tax exile Jim Ratcliffe is the sign of a national broadcaster that is increasingly losing its way www.adambienkov.co.uk/p/how-the-bb...
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How the BBC Mainstreams the Right’s Anti-Migrant, Anti-British Agenda
The BBC’s platforming of the bigoted views of billionaire tax exile Jim Ratcliffe is just the latest sign of a national broadcaster that has lost its way
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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 19/09/2026
Ukrainians are bravely fighting for the freedom of all of Europe. We need to stand with Ukraine. Always.
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Putin’s election victory is assured. His victory in Ukraine is anything but
As Russia heads to the polls in its first ‘war election’, it is after a summer of major battlefield gains by Ukraine – m
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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Obama: “Imagine if I had pulled Fox News’ credentials from the White House press corps. You’re laughing, but this is what’s happening. It’s unimaginable that the same parties that are silent right now would have tolerated behavior like that from me.” Clip courtesy @meidastouch.com
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Dominic Minghella @dminghella.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
1. Let the people of Pidlington leave the UK. 2. Revoke any UK driving licences, passports and official documents they may hold. 3. Arrest any of them found outside Pidlington on the basis that they would then be undocumented migrants.
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
As former Labour minister Tom Watson joins Palantir, please read this devastating exposé by @petergeoghegan.bsky.social & @lucasamin.bsky.social of how the company, with Peter Mandelson's help, wormed its way into the UK government to sell its dire & dangerous products. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
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Peter Geoghegan and Lucas Amin · ‘This looks absolutely rubbish’: Palantir and the NHS
A decade ago Palantir was largely unknown in the UK. It now holds public contracts worth hundreds of millions of pounds...
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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 14/09/2026
Kremlev, the Russian who sponsored Don Jr's wedding, is a former member of the Night Wolves biker gang, went to China with Putin and is personally sanctioned by Ukraine for his role in abducting children. He praises Stalin on social media 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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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
How is this bully able to just act like this with free rein?
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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 13/09/2026
⚠️ "Reform is facing questions about explicit links to the nationalist hard right after Ryan Bridge, a co-founder of the anti-migrant Raise the Colours group, was given a prominent platform at Reform’s conference, where Farage pledged to “legally back” him."
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Reform UK beset by internal row over response to Dover and Portsmouth protests
Nigel Farage said demonstrators in balaclavas were ‘horrible’, but others in the party defend them as ‘brave, passionate
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Daily Herald #FBPE #NAFO 🇬🇧🇺🇦🇬🇱 @dailyherald.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Just to be clear, two men now control Reform UK. One who lives in Thailand, one who until a split second ago lived in Hong Kong. These aren’t your friends, neighbours and work colleagues.
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Oldtrout59 @oldtrout59.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Horizon22 and Abigail's Party yesterday. Now home in Wiltshire.
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Adrian Littlejohn @yorksfella59.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
£36 Million, to be precise. At least Reform are utterly shameless about what they're up to - attempting to subvert democracy by buying themselves power, courtesy of the very wealthy. #Trump would be proud of them... Are British people really going to let the filthy rich get away with this coup?
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No To Racism @notoracism.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
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Oldtrout59 @oldtrout59.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Listening to @mrjamesob.bsky.social and remember 11th Sept 2001. Was working in a factory shop in Scotland. My husband was in RAF air traffic control. He called me, as they'd seen it on Sky News at work. I was later telling American customers how sorry I was, and they seemed totally undisturbed.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Look at this loathsome repulsive creature yelling at a reporter. In addition to the fact that he’s the worst president in US history, he’s one of the worst human beings on planet earth. His supporters have a very serious defect in their character.
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Oldtrout59 @oldtrout59.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
What an interesting event with Gordon Brown!
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HOPE not hate @hopenothate.org.uk · 08/09/2026
Other villagers seemingly did the same, many with complaints about the careless and illegal parking in the village. A crime number was allotted, but that was it.
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HOPE not hate @hopenothate.org.uk · 08/09/2026
At 5.30am on the Saturday morning a fleet of small Bedford lorries arrived, each of which could accommodate a couple of dozen people. Videos later showed the protesters disembarking from the back of these vans in the port of Dover.
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HOPE not hate @hopenothate.org.uk · 08/09/2026
Read the whole story: hopenothate.org.uk/2026/09/07/e...
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EXCLUSIVE: Did Kent Police ignore Dover blockade 999 call? – HOPE not hate
HOPE not hate can exclusively reveal that Kent Police were tipped off about the Patriot Platform mobilisation – and seemingly did not act.
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Daily Herald #FBPE #NAFO 🇬🇧🇺🇦🇬🇱 @dailyherald.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
The real face of Reform UK. Share far and wide
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Kevin Maguire @kevmag.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Follow the money and with Nigel Farage and Reform it leads to sleaze. www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...
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'Farage's Reform crisis means Burnham is becoming luckiest man in politics'
OPINION: Nigel Farage’s very appearance on Laura Kuenssberg’s show confirmed he’s sweating over a scandal where “looks bad” doesn’t do it justice
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
At the same time as banning myself and other journalists from their conference this week, this is who Reform laid out the red carpet for www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
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Raise the Colours leader given access to Reform UK conference while on bail
Ryan Bridge, arrested this year on suspicion of religiously and racially aggravated harassment, says party invited him
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Oldtrout59 @oldtrout59.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
At yesterday's Goatfest in Goatacre.
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skaart.bsky.social @skaart.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
bsky.app/profile/davi...
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Byline Times @bylinetimes.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Our undercover reporter, Chris Atkins, posed as a far-right journalist at the Reform Conference and got thrown out for asking difficult questions about Farage's corruption scandal @scatatkins.bsky.social
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James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Farage is never drinking pints when he doesn't know he's being filmed but is always drinking pints when he does...
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Kevin Maguire @kevmag.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
There’s more chance Nigel Farage will quit than become Prime Minister www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...
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'Shameless Nigel Farage is the bad boss from hell and a cynical con man'
"Operation Save Nigel after the claims of dodgily-funded opinion polls and discussion of what would be illegal foreign donations will repel curious floating voters already deserting a leader and party...
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
The Electoral Commission respond to the Reform foreign donations scandal, after a senior party figure is recorded saying they shouldn't worry about the watchdog finding out what they've been doing because they're "dumb and ineffective"
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Oldtrout59 @oldtrout59.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Just watching C4 News on 4+1.
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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Chris Mason (BBC) reports on his “interview” with Nigel Farage. It’s not an interview. It’s an idiotic, moany rant from Farage about how he’s being picked on cos he reckons he’s a threat to the establishment. And Mason just folds like a wet cardboard box in the face of this delusional bollox.
Farage pictured with his innocent face on… (it’s hideous - my opinion) 

Nigel Farage insists he's 'broken no rules'He added: "The point is, we live in a complainants' society. If you complain about me, automatically that triggers an investigation."
He said that political parties were "constantly writing to all the authorities", meaning Reform was "under investigation every day for virtually everything we do".
"There's a big picture here. The old two-party system that has dominated since the end of the First World War feels for the first time it faces an existential threat.
"There is a whole ecosystem with a century of development around this. And we come along from virtually nowhere and threaten the whole thing.”
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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 03/09/2026
The party that claims to defend freedom of speech bans journalists from attending its conference.
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
The utter hypocrisy of Kemi Badenoch here, after banning myself and the late great David Hencke from Conservative Party conference last year. Needless to say my application to attend this year on behalf of Byline Times has still not been approved
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Oldtrout59 @oldtrout59.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
www.justgiving.com/page/oscar-f... His mum is my cousin. That's why I'm sharing this.
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Breaking myself for Alzheimer's!
Help Oscar Forth raise money to support Alzheimer's Society
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James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
As discussed on Mystery Hour!
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Natasha Devon @natashadevon.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
@mrjamesob.bsky.social - ‘Farage said he could spend his five million on high performance motor cars if he wanted to’. Caller - ‘NO, you’re taking it completely out of context. What he actually said was he could spend the money on high performance motor cars if he wanted to’.
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
As small boat numbers reach a six year low, this is what they choose to splash on
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Reform UK, which promises to "defend free speech" at all costs, has again banned Byline Times from its conference
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Matthew Wright @matthew-wright.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
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Thames Water, I refuse to pay the sewage charge in my bill while you pollute Britain’s rivers and coastlines | Jenny Jones
I will calmly read all the threatening letters and await the court case against me. But I will take a stand even if our government won’t, says Jenny Jones, a Green party peer
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Andrew Fisher @fisherandrew79.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Conservative MP on #PoliticsLive says Burnham has to explain why he's not spending 3% on defence The Conservatives were in power for 14 years and when they left office it was 2.3% (down from 2.5% in 2010) #PMQs
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