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Emma Monk @monkemma.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

🧵 As front-page headlines go, this has to be one of the most misleading I've seen in a long time It's an out-and-out lie But notice the trick they use to get away with it...👀 *They're* not lying - they're just quoting someone else who is👍🏻 In this case, the leader of the opposition🙄 1/33

Daily Express headline:

"More Freedoms Handed to New Arrivals than British Citizens"

Above an image of Kemi Badenoch

All with a Monk Debunked stamp on top

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ericliddel.bsky.social @ericliddel.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Amen. Also, anyone else still posting on X should challenge themselves as to whether they would still be on it, if it was owned by a Russian oligarch with close ties to Putin.

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Count Binface @countbinface.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Riddle me this. If somebody donates £36 million to a political party and £5 million to its leader, how is the £5 million not political? Asking for a parliamentary standards commissioner.

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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Wonder what it is about off shore tax hating billionaires being so drawn to Nigel Farage's "people's party"

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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

A reminder that Delo previously pled guilty in the US to violating money laundering protections and agreed to pay a $10 million fine for "willfully” breaking the law with his BitMex platform, which was described as "in effect a money laundering platform.” This is who owns Farage now

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Count Binface @countbinface.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

You might have to turn up for the results of this one, Nige.

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Nick Pettigrew @nick-pettigrew.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

The BBC still manages to try and minimise Farage's direct involvement with their headline. He's filmed being told Reform accepted illegal donations and saying 'Yes, thank you'.

BBC headline 'Farage senior aide filmed suggesting way to avoid donations law'

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Vincenzo @onecenz.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Of course Farage won't attend the count. That would mean actually spending time in Clacton.

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Vincenzo @onecenz.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

BBC News - The secretive crypto firm backed by Farage's biggest donor www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... This is a really good BBC article on Farage. It really shows how nefarious his £5m g(r)ift and involvement with didgy crypto is, how much it stinks of corruption. Boot him out, vote Binface!

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Nigel Farage: The secretive crypto firm backed by Reform's biggest donor

Tether is a giant in crytocurrency, an industry that Nigel Farage believes the UK should be embracing.

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Alice Roberts @profaliceroberts.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

There may be some clues here, who knows? “Fiona Cottrell’s son… had offered money-laundering services on the dark web and subsequently wrote a book called How to Launder Money” www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

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Police investigate £500,000 Reform donations from mother of fraudster who backed Farage

George Cottrell’s mother, Fiona, at centre of criminal inquiry over potential evasion of restrictions on donations

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Vincenzo @onecenz.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

So, time for Jenrick to call a by-election as well? Maybe get the British Wildlife fox to stand at this one BBC News - Met investigate donation to Jenrick's Tory leadership campaign www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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Robert Jenrick: Met investigate donation to Tory leadership campaign

The former Conservative, now Reform UK, MP says the allegations are "entirely false".

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Emma Monk @monkemma.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

It was inevitable, wasn't it🙄 Of course the Telegraph would run with something like this👇 So let's remove some of the rose-tinted spectacles and also look at some of that data comparing 1976 with modern heat waves Because the 1976 nostalgia porn is wearing a bit thin at this stage 🧵1/23

Telegraph headiline:

"Heatwave hysterics wouldn't have lasted a day in 1976", overlaid with a bold “MONK DEBUNKED” stamp.

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Emma Monk @monkemma.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

🚨FURY as Thames Water to host Careers Day for Refugees 🚨 Apparently...🤔 Who are all these furious people, making this newsworthy across several newspapers, TV channels, radio shows and countless YouTube videos? 🧵 1/23

Express headline:
Fury as Thames Water to host Careers Day for Refugees
Headline has a Monk Debunked stamp across the front.

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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 30/05/2026

Absolutely shocking. No clue. No idea. No respect for workers rights - doesn't affect him so he doesn't seem to care...

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Alex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

I really wanted this Burnham speech to leave me hopeful and was actively rooting for it. I found it deflating - to put it mildly. Where it needed to be brave and expansive, it was small and meek. Let me give one example that I found quite instructive, since Andy used it as a framing device. 1/

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Vincenzo @onecenz.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

BBC News - Farage facing new questions over home purchase funding www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... This massive scandal should be near the top of the BBC's news page, not buried ⅔ of the way down. I support the BBC but they do make it difficult.

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Farage facing new questions over home purchase funding

Reform UK has insisted the £5m party leader Nigel Farage received in April 2024 from crypto-billionaire Christopher Harborne was a gift.

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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

Ukraine is holding back Russia and thus fulfilling the entire traditional mission of NATO without any soldiers or sailors from other countries. Trump is meanwhile demanding NATO allies leave the continent they are supposed to be defending to join him in a doomed adventure he chose in the Middle East

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Stephen McGann @stephenmcgann.uk · 16/03/2026

It's not even him any more. It's the legion of minions. Those snivelling, squirming, faceless, loose-shoed head nodders in back of shot. Every ounce of self-respect squeezed out of them by the school bully till they can't even take a dump unless he gives his blessing.

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The Empty City @davidallengreen.bsky.social · 21/01/2026

We are Christopher Isherwood, watching the violent racist authoritarian lawless scenes in the Berlin street below from our apartment window above.

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The Empty City @davidallengreen.bsky.social · 15/01/2026

Keep watching - Trump and his circle almost have their precious goal: invoking the Insurrection Act. As per said before: a great deal of what is being done is simply Trump and his circle working backwards from this objective.

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Vincenzo @onecenz.bsky.social · 10/01/2026

"Every ICE agent will be held to account" This photo from September feels even more relevant after the murder in Minneapolis

Man with curly hair strides through a thick cloud of tear gas outside the ICE processing facility in Broadview, Illinois, holding a large American flag over his shoulder and a smaller one at his side, while a protest sign reading “Every ICE agent will be held to account” lies on the pavement in front of him; photo by Chicago Tribune visual journalist Stacey Wescott.

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Ruth Deyermond @ruthdeyermond.bsky.social · 01/01/2026

It's New Year, so time to look back and forward. These are 10 things I think we need to recognise in 2026. It’s a response to what I think are profoundly damaging mistaken assumptions I’ve heard and read from practitioners, journalists, and analysts in 2025. Warning: very long🧵

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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 13/12/2025

The fact is no presenter has ever had to leave the BBC for expressing conservative views, or even explicitly endorsing a right-wing party. Was never a problem for Jeremy Clarkson. Was never a problem for Andrew Neil. Was never a problem for Alan Sugar

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Robin Ince @robinince.bsky.social · 13/12/2025

Very sad that I felt I had no choice but to resign from The Infinite Monkey Cage - a victory for the transphobes and other bigots - I did it because so much of the media has chosen to believe the kind and empathetic people are a fiction - they are real and so often unrepresented.

This is the saddest day of my professional life.
Today is not only the final recording of the latest series of The Infinite Monkey Cage, it is my last ever Monkey Cage.
I never thought that I would have to leave the show. I always imagined going on until | dropped dead under the studio lights due to a brain aneurysm caused by my final attempt to understand notions of quantum gravity or the shock of being told about fly maggot infestations in the sacks of macaque monkeys.
I resigned in September, after sixteen years of dedication to the show,
A show that I named and helped develop over all those years.
Unfortunately, my opinions outside the BBC have been considered problematic for sometime, whether it has been voicing support for the trans community, criticism of Donald Trump, numerous other outlandish opinions, including once gently criticising Stephen Fry.
These things were considered to conflict with being a freelance BBC science presenter

In a recent meeting where BBC Studio executives again voiced problems with me, I realised my choices.
Obedience and being quieter to remain making Monkey Cage, or 'Resign and have the freedom to speak out against what I believe are injustices'.
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I chose the latter.
It broke my heart.
I love this show and I love the audience, and it is because of the audience in particular, that this decision was so difficult to make.
I kept thinking about all the extremist voices promoting hate and division. They are being given so many platforms, while voices that represent kindness, open mindedness, empathy seem to be scarcer and scarcer.
I felt I couldn't pamper myself with the luxury of silence.
One of my many privileges is that I am able to resign and I can speak out even if it is to the detriment of my career.

I have thought a lot about my heroes, Sinead O Connor, James Baldwin, Audre Lorde, and so many more.
I think of Sinead's words, "the job of an artist is to be themselves at any cost".
James Baldwin said prejudice was really just a word for cowardice.
Audre Lorde, viewing her life, wrote that her only regrets were her silences.
I think of my father as I resign, he brought me up to believe in fairness , justice and kindness.
Though my heart is broken, it is also full of fire.
I apologise to our incredible listeners for my departure, your love of the show means a great deal.
I am so sorry to let you down.
I hope that you can understand my reasoning.
I have to accept that I am not what the current
BBC expects of their freelance presenters.

Despite this I should add that I have always worked far more than my contracted hours to try and ensure the show was always the best it could be, as well as making myself accessible and responsive to the audience wherever and whenever I met them. Every night, we have recorded, I have been filled with determination to make the best show possible. This was not
"just a job"
I hope that with my departure I can be a better ally to the LGBTQ community, to the neurodivergent community, to activists fighting against those who aim to brutalise society, to those currently in prison on hunger strike, and to all those who fight for a more inclusive world.
From many conversations, I know there are many Monkey Cage listeners who support these communities and activists too.
The strawberry is dead.
Long live the strawberry. B

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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 12/12/2025

🇪🇺 "Donald Trump is forcefully making the case for a more unified Europe. Labour’s potential voters want to reverse Brexit, this policy could solidify its fraying support. Finally it would allow a line of attack on Nigel Farage, Britain’s Mr Brexit." on.ft.com/48KXplR

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A Brexit survival strategy that shows Starmer’s days are numbered

Labour will need a different leader if it pursues a policy of rejoining the EU customs union or single market

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Vincenzo @onecenz.bsky.social · 11/12/2025

It's NOT about the drugs. Watch to the end for the additional links between Venezuela, Canada and Russia. Ed Conway doesn't miss.

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Why Trump cares about Venezuela’s oil | Ed Conway explains

YouTube video by Sky News

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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 07/12/2025

Three more British MEPs in Nigel Farage’s bloc now alleged to have “followed the script” given to Nathan Gill by an alleged Russian asset, according to prosecutors. At least eight UKIP and Brexit Party MPs were focus of efforts by Nathan Gill www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

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Three more Farage bloc MEPs alleged to have followed Russian asset’s script

At least eight MEPs elected for Ukip or Brexit party now known to have been focus of efforts by jailed Nathan Gill

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Alex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 02/12/2025

This is how Chris Mason, like a child filled with wonder, described "the choreography and theatre that surrounds a Budget" in Feb 2024, when a male Tory Chancellor was in post. "Plans, or even just options, can be floated... Reaction to them can be tested. Opponents can be teased or wrongfooted." 👀

Screengrab from BBC website:

Looming election takes centre stage in Budget week
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Rachel Reeves and Jeremy Hunt
Image source,Getty Images
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Political editor, BBC News
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The choreography and theatre that surrounds a Budget invariably involve public performance before the curtain formally rises and the chancellor takes to his feet in the Commons.

The acts in advance, whether briefed out intentionally or leaked - or a combination of the two - turn a single-day event into a sprawling thing over a week or more.

Plans, or even just options, can be floated, commanding more attention than they would individually get, amid the cacophony of the big day itself.

Reaction to them can be tested. Opponents can be teased or wrongfooted, or so a chancellor might hope.

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Vincenzo @onecenz.bsky.social · 25/11/2025

Trump IS the most corrupt American President in history. The BBC are cowardly for taking this decision, for not defending democracy. It undermines them.

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Vincenzo @onecenz.bsky.social · 12/11/2025

In 2025 alone, The Telegraph was forced to publish over 100 corrections, clarifications, and formal regulatory apologies, significantly more than the 33 corrections the BBC was forced to make, despite the BBC's larger output. Who's getting fired at the Telegraph then?

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I Am Incorrigible @imincorrigible.bsky.social · 10/11/2025

To allow the BBC to be defunded, decayed & ultimately destroyed by right wing ideologues is to finally submit to a society based on callousness & selfishness, and an end to what we have claimed for generations to be true British values. We must fight for it.

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I Am Incorrigible @imincorrigible.bsky.social · 10/11/2025

If there is a national institution that reflects, represents, and encompasses the shared social and cultural values of the UK, it is not the royal family, it is the BBC. Ultimately that's why the Tories hate it, because it is a bulwark against selfish individualism.

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Steve Bullock @guitarmoog.bsky.social · 10/11/2025

It is also a near-unmatched internationally recognised and trusted (perhaps more so than in the UK) brand, the UK’s largest cultural export, and a driver of investment in the UK. But, yeah, the patriots with their little flags want it gone.

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HappyToast @happytoast.co.uk · 10/11/2025

The BBC employ roughly twice as many people as the UK fishing industry. You'd think people would question Farage's patriotism and intentions wanting it shut down.

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Alex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

The BBC News website now have a live, minute-by-minute blog on this. Then, when 100k+ people turn up for Yaxley-Lennon's riot, everyone rings their hands and wails: "HOW COULD THIS HAVE HAPPENED?"

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Vincenzo @onecenz.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

Remember all the media attention when 50-70 prisoners a year were released in error under the Tories? Yeah, me neither. This is not new so why is it only making headlines now? *From 2010 through roughly 2023, the number of prisoners released in error was around 50 to 70 per year*

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Stretch Cunningham @stretchcunningham.bsky.social · 20/10/2025

I often wondered how this photo could happen. How did they find so many seemingly 'regular' people willing to sign up to be concentration camp guards and commit atrocities (and apparently enjoy their job). Now I know.

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Emma Monk @monkemma.bsky.social · 27/09/2025

And yet - nothing about this is on the BBC main app. It’s hidden under Welsh news. Nothing in the Daily Mail, Express, The Sun, The Times. Seems like Farage’s opinions on everything make front page news EXCEPT when one of his guys admits to taking Russian bribes….🤷🏼‍♀️ 13/14

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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 18/09/2025

Here is my best guidance, rendered beautifully by the great John Lithgow. I first published these lessons nearly nine years ago, in late 2016. They open the twenty chapters of "On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century." snyder.substack.com/p/twenty-les...

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Twenty Lessons, read by John Lithgow

Key selections from On Tyranny, for viewing and sharing

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Johanna Saunders @johannasaunders.bsky.social · 18/09/2025

Something has gone terribly wrong when you know that if he were alive today Hitler would be receiving state visits and unfettered media coverage. If you don’t take a stand when it counts then don’t you dare claim you’re outraged when they come for you.

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Russ Jones @russincheshire.bsky.social · 24/08/2025

I feel nothing but shame and disgust at my nation's flag being turned into a weapon and a threat.

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