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Pat Richens

@patrichens.bsky.social
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Socialist. Cornwall. Favourite quotation: “If God wanted us to believe in Him, He’d exist.” (From the late, wonderful Linda Smith.)

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Normal Island News @normalisland.co.uk · 09/10/2026
As the Green Party more than triples its vote share in Holborn and St Pancras, we in the media must ask a very obvious question: why is Zack Polanski's leadership such a massive failure?
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Oliver @oliver48.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
The BBC & billionaire press are pretending this massive increase in Green share of the vote is a failure But if Reform had done the same instead of crashing down they'd be bigging Farage up into no. 10! Why? Because Green policy is to #TaxTheRich Which terrifies the British Establishment ...
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Jonathan Cook @jonathan-cook.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
There’s a reason why so few truly leftwing politicians are visible in public life. Because the media’s role is to weed them out, discredit them, place them beyond the pale. Read my latest here: jonathancook.substack.com/p/how-the-bb...
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How the BBC sets a trap to make sure leftwing politicians never get a fair hearing
There’s a reason why so few truly leftwing politicians are visible in public life. Because the media’s role is to weed them out, discredit them, place them beyond the pale
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Oliver @oliver48.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
The billioires press are terrified of the Green Party Don't let them do #ItWasAScam on Zolanski Genocidal Israel is an Apartheid State, Zionism is racist The by-election was a Green success "An increase voter share of 22.4% for the Green Party of England and Wales" meme via Theresa O'Shea
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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Mick Lynch "Zack Polanski isn't inciting hatred for Jews he believes he is an agent of peace and that Israel is carrying out Mass Murder in Gaza and the West Bank, and I believe that too." When Mick Lynch speaks sense, he speaks sense.
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Xela Hart @xelahart.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
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Clive Lewis MP @labourlewis.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Former Labour Deputy Leader Lord Thomas Watson, now Senior VP at Palantir UK, wrote to me defending their public contracts. Instead of trading letters, I’ve challenged him to an open, public debate. He can defend Palantir’s ethos; I’ll argue for public accountability. Will you accept, Tom?
Formal letter from Clive Lewis MP, Member of Parliament for Norwich South, to Lord Thomas Watson of Wyre Forest, Senior Vice President of Palantir Technologies UK Limited, dated 7 October 2026. In the letter, Lewis challenges Watson to a public debate regarding Palantir's role in government contracts and public institutions. Lewis rejects Watson's claim that criticisms malign software engineers, stressing that elected officials must scrutinize corporate power, democratic control, and public accountability. He proposes a debate with an impartial chair, equal time, and audience questions.
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Oliver @oliver48.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
"Exclusive: Britain launched a ‘world wide lobbying exercise’ to overturn a landmark United Nations (UN) resolution which recognised Zionism as racism, declassified files reveal. The information is in a private exchange between UK foreign secretary ..." via Alex Tee www.facebook.com/groups/Green...
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Wulfhelm @wulfhelm.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Everything that's wrong with our nation. Everything that's broken. Everything that's corrupted. Started with her.
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Pat Richens @patrichens.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Big news from Labour Conference: the PM has announced the government's plan to scrap first past the post. Seats that match votes would change British politics for good, but only if it happens. I've added my name. Join me? action.electoral-reform.org.uk/page/201578/...
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The PM used his big speech to promise to fix Westminster's broken voting system.
We've heard promises before. I've signed to make sure this one is kept. It takes 30 seconds
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Oliver @oliver48.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
via Campbell Finnie
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Pat Richens @patrichens.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Big news from Labour Conference: the PM has announced the government's plan to scrap first past the post. Seats that match votes would change British politics for good, but only if it happens. I've added my name. Join me? action.electoral-reform.org.uk/page/201578/...
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The PM used his big speech to promise to fix Westminster's broken voting system.
We've heard promises before. I've signed to make sure this one is kept. It takes 30 seconds
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Paul Marvin @paulmarvin.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
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Tom Booker @tbooker1.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
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Defend Our Juries @defendourjuries.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
BREAKING: 94 year old Jewish human rights barrister, Margaret Owen arrested under the Terrorism Act outside Andy Burnham’s Labour Party conference. UK taxpayers are funding these arrests while masked men terrorise the streets in coastal towns. Lift The Ban on Palestine Action.
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Bremain in Spain @bremaininspain.com · 24/09/2026
A senator in Vermont has noticed who is buying Reform. Why have so few British front pages?
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Pat Richens @patrichens.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
“Thomas yelled abuse and knifed the dinghy to deflate it - with a rescuer still on board.”
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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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Anti-Reform @antireform.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
6 months ago: "Nigel Farage pledges to repeal ‘idiotic’ smoking ban if Reform wins next election" Reform 2026 Conference ... What next ... the association of bank robbers sponsors Reform UK, and Farage argues for heists to be legal ...???
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Parody Nigel Farage @parodypm.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
I may have received £72 million, but at least I wasn't given a pair of glasses and some football tickets.
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Quiet Majority @majorityquiet.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
We loved this so much we just had to put English subtitles on it, apologies to the French speakers for our translation. But this is what it would look like here in the UK if Farage or Lowe or another of their ilk got their own way.
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Steve Hyndside @stevehyndside.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
It never does. But the apology from @thetimes.com to @mothinali.bsky.social should travel as far as the original article.
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Dale Vince @dalevince.com · 12/09/2026
Ridiculous sums of money don’t level the playing field - they distort it. It’s increasingly urgent that we get to grips with Political funding in Britain - our democracy is for sale to the highest bidder.
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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Iran is back to trolling him again.
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Parody Nigel Farage @parodypm.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Richard Stupid Tice living up to his name by calling a British Jew antisemitic for having a problem with an extremist government carrying out ethnic cleansing.
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Oliver @oliver48.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Your reminder that Reform UK's policy of even more privatisation is hugely unpopular meme via @weownit.org.uk
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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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Larry the Cat @number10cat.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Since its foundation in 1824 the bravery of Royal National Lifeboat Institution volunteers has saved more than 146,700 lives at sea. Hundreds of those volunteers have died attempting to save others. They are the best of us.
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Charles Fourier @charlesfourier.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Bill Bryson’s words seem appropriate to post right now
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Byline Times @bylinetimes.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
“We now need to examine and understand the ideologies, motivations and power behind this rancid movement that sacrificed Jason Arday on the altar of their culture war.” ✍️ Richard Sudan
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'Our Anger Over Jason Arday’s Death Is Not Enough'
As Cambridge University launch an inquiry into the case of Professor Arday, led by former Chief Prosecutor Nazir Afzal, Richard Sudan from The Voice argues his death must inspire action, accountability and lasting change
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HOPE not hate @hopenothate.org.uk · 06/09/2026
Patriot Platform, the far-right group whose black-clad masked members caused hours of disruption in Dover yesterday, calls itself a Christian “army of patriots” dedicated to protecting women and children. There’s a problem with that story.
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Parody Nigel Farage @parodypm.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
If you block the roads you can expect angry condemnation from Rupert. Unless you're a masked far-right fuckwit, in which case you can expect wholehearted support.
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Parody Nigel Farage @parodypm.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
In case you had any doubts about the judgement and moral standards of my (former) Chief of Staff, Dan Jukes, here he is with Andrew Tate.
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Parody Nigel Farage @parodypm.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
"I once did an interview where I claimed that I had lunch and a long conversation with someone while not listening"
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Byline Times @bylinetimes.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
📌 ICYMI: Lest we forget — the key roles of James Orr, Nathan Cofnas, Toby Young and the Free Speech Union in the persecution of Jason Arday One of this month’s most-read stories.
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The Peter Thiel-Linked Race Science Network that Penetrated Cambridge University and Targeted Jason Arday
The media's coverage of the academic's life was fuelled by the campaign of an established far-right network
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LuxJude352 @luxjude352.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
This is Reform UK - the Party that claims to want to “Protect Our Women”. #NigelFarage stood at the podium looking on - and laughed. #Fascism #r4today
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Parody Nigel Farage @parodypm.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Now why would anyone in Dover feel threatened by a couple of patriots, helpfully organised by Danny Tommo, the flag shagger with a made up name who's been to prison for various drugs and violence offences including kidnap.
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Robert Hutton @roberthutton.co.uk · 05/09/2026
How could an associate professor in divinity at Cambridge be expected to know that lying is bad? thecritic.co.uk/mone...
Ah yes, James Orr. A lot of us had been hazy about what it is exactly that associate professors in a divinity department do all day. It doesn’t seem to involve a lot of work: Orr is often to be seen at Reform events in London, which take up the whole morning even for those of us with offices down the road. Now we know he was also sipping cocktails while discussing ways in which wealthy foreigners might be able to get round the laws that ban them donating to the party.

The associate professor of divinity was filmed explaining to an undercover reporter that so long as everyone kept their mouths shut, there was no way that the authorities would ever find out. Orr spent four years as a postdoctoral fellow in theology, ethics and public life at Oxford, and it would be fascinating to know at what point he developed this theory of What the Electoral Commission Don’t Know Won’t Hurt Them. Perhaps he was off sick the day they opened the gospel of Luke: “What you have said in the dark will be h
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Paul Bernal @paulbernal.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Just to say, being an associate professor is not a senior position. James Orr is small potatoes. With worms.
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Still scarcely any mainstream coverage of this massive story, despite the new and separate scandal involving James Orr. This is not just double standards. I'm struggling to detect any standards at all.
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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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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
The pay off at the end is a thing of beauty
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Anti-Reform @antireform.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
"Another reform council in disarray " via SteadyGiraffe2322 'Reform councillor quits party as row erupts over alleged missing funds' "Tanya Brasted insisted she had ‘nothing to hide’ after Reform launched an investigation" www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...
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Reform councillor quits party as row erupts over alleged missing funds
Tanya Brasted insisted she had ‘nothing to hide’ after Reform launched an investigation
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The Scales ⚖️ @shakethescales.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Who are the terrorists: rickety old pensioners waving placards against genocide, or balaclava wearing gangs of men in black blocking roads and intimidating the vulnerable? www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Disruption at Port of Dover as masked men hold protest
Images appear to show hundreds of protesters, all dressed in black and wearing face coverings.
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Oliver @oliver48.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Tell Andy Burnham that a company founded by a BFF of a child trafficking rapist which facilitates mass murder of children is not fir to hold patient data of vulnerable young people "Andy Burnham: Kick Palantir out of our NHS!" act.38degrees.org.uk/act/Kick-Out...
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Andy Burnham: Kick Palantir out of our NHS!
I just signed the campaign calling on the Prime Minister to kick Palantir out of our NHS and police, can you ad your name now?
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Russell England @russellengland.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Reform UK Ltd : "Counter Terror Police won’t let Farage on stage" West Midlands Police : "We can confirm that Counter Terrorism Policing have had no involvement" www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c6...
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Chris Mason
Political editor

"Counter terror won’t let him on stage yet” a senior Reform figure says, explaining the delay in Nigel Farage’s speech at the Reform UK conference.20:08 4 September

Jack Fenwick
Political correspondent

West Midlands Police say the decision to delay Nigel Farage's conference speech "was made by Reform UK".

A senior Reform figure earlier told the BBC that Farage's speech was delayed because "counter terror won't let him on stage yet".

But West Midlands Police say: "We can confirm that Counter Terrorism Policing have had no involvement in the delivery of the Reform UK Party Conference 2026."
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Byline Times @bylinetimes.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
📌 ICYMI: The Peter Thiel Backed Race Science Network There is a connection between the two Cambridge Professors. Orr was part of the ‘race realist’ group which targeted Arday as a ‘DEI hire’ Support our investigations
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The Peter Thiel-Linked Race Science Network that Penetrated Cambridge University and Targeted Jason Arday
The media's coverage of the academic's life was fuelled by the campaign of an established far-right network
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
This is deeply shocking.
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
I mean this is just an open invitation to get photoshopped into ridicule.
Farage and French politician holding gigantic piece of paper
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Will Sebag-Montefiore @wsebag.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Every Reform MP today
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