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Nick Norton

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Nick Norton @quietwun.bsky.social · 6h
It is plain embarrassing. "Flying car!" they all cry, desperate for clicks. Mass-murderer Musk has been conning rubes with the Roadster since 2019. If even a road-legal version comes to market in the next two years, I'll be amazed.
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Nick Norton @quietwun.bsky.social · 6h
Funny how rarely this is mentioned in legacy/mainstream media, yet mass-murderer Musk pulls yet another confidence truck with the illusion of a "flying car!" and these goons are falling over themselves to cover it with the most embarrassing clickbaity coverage..
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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
Extraordinary undercover reporting in Reform by ITV, uncovering what many of its councillors and activists are really like, when they think the cameras are off. A racist party which attracts racist people. www.itv.com/news/2026-10...
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Nick Norton @quietwun.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
Absabloodyexactly: www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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‘He used to say things like ‘Hitler was right’’: Farage faces more allegations of racist behaviour at school
A former friend and others who were at Dulwich college with the now Reform UK leader speak of his behaviour
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Tony Yates @t0nyyates.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
This guy is not really qualified to assess whether the Brexit vote was swayed or not. He should point out that that is outside his expertise and is a social scientific not a security question. www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...
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MI5 chief Ken McCallum confirms Russia did interfere in Brexit referendum but says it had little impact – UK politics live
He argued there was no evidence to suggest the result of the Brexit vote had been swayed as a result of the effort
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Steve Peers @stevepeers.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
Reminder that the EU had no compunction about banning Russia Today. If anything, Musk’s behaviour is more egregious - directly assisting a foreign enemy's military attack. And this is on top of his support for race riots, Nazis and CSAM! By any measure, a threat to national security.
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Kristian Kiehling @kristiankiehling.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
Last night, Starlink was reportedly restricted in Ukraine due to a political decision made in Washington. Europeans should be aware that it is dangerous to depend on a partly hostile government for your security, as they could blackmail you at any time. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/o...
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Ukrainian soldiers in combat have access to Starlink satellite internet restricted
Outage of system managed by Elon Musk’s SpaceX comes as Russia launches ballistic missiles at Ukraine without any advance warning from US
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Steve Peers @stevepeers.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
It's legitimate for the EU, the UK, Canada and others to support their Ukrainian ally. If Musk is going to (in effect) assist Putin's invasion of Ukraine, Ukraine's allies should sanction Starlink, X and Tesla. At the very least, governments (and people) should stop using his fucking site already.
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
The Polish Foreign Minister responds to claims that Musk strangled Starlink access to Ukrainian forces costing Ukrainian lives.
Radosław Sikorski
@sikorskiradek
Hey, @elonmusk, big man, are you playing politics with your products again?
As your European customers, we are watching you.
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David Walker @davidwgw.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
How many warnings will it take, or do we just not care? www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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‘Shocking and sobering’: UK bird populations fall to lowest level on record
Nearly half of species are in decline, with farmland birds and seabirds the worst hit, conservation bodies say
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billkittle.bsky.social @billkittle.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
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Jonathan Hopkin @jonathanhopkin.eurosky.social · 14/10/2026
I’m all for the reset but I don’t see why making net zero more difficult just to bail out the German car industry should be a requirement
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Nick Norton @quietwun.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
Also covered extensively in The Guardian: www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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‘He used to say things like ‘Hitler was right’’: Farage faces more allegations of racist behaviour at school
A former friend and others who were at Dulwich college with the now Reform UK leader speak of his behaviour
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Nick Norton @quietwun.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
Not forgetting the allegations from Farage's classmates - including at least one Jewish pupil - at Dulwich College that he told them Hitler was right, and simulated the sound of gas chambers while saying that Jews should be gassed: www.jpost.com/diaspora/ant...
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Nigel Farage allegedly bullied Jewish students | The Jerusalem Post
Peter Ettedgui, a Jewish BAFTA and Emmy-winning director, alleged Farage would tell him “Hitler was right” and “gas them” while sometimes simulating the sound of gas chambers.
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Peter Walker @peterwalker99.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
Pretty extraordinary for the Jewish Chronicle to run an op ed & news story about Nigel Farage warning of antisemitism in the Greens without mentioning that he is the only serving major party leader to have been criticised by Jewish groups for using tropes linked to antisemitic conspiracy theories.
Exclusive: Nigel Farage calls on Labour to rule out pacts with Green Party
After Polanksi’s party calls Zionism racist, former Labour minister says: I’m no fan of Reform leader but he’s right hereLabour must rule out electoral pacts with the Greens who have embraced antisemitic dogma
Reform UK’s leader says sectarian politics and importation of fundamentalism have no place in our democracy
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Sharon 🪳🌹 @sharonk.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
the fact that they unironically use the term Boriswave is a good sign that the Times has cooked its brain on X
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Henry Dyer @direthoughts.com · 12/10/2026
Exclusive: Do you remember the polling company Redfield and Wilton, which appeared from nowhere in early 2020, whose polls quickly appeared in lots of publications? The company’s director is a registered solicitor, prompting questions over where the polling expertise came from. Here’s the answer…
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Nigel Farage adviser had unpublicised role at polling firm
Exclusive: Chris Bruni-Lowe used Redfield & Wilton Strategies role to develop potential campaign tactics, sources say
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Dorian Lynskey @dorianlynskey.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Two things that are in trouble but this government doesn’t give a shit about for some reason: 1. The BBC 2. Universities
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Craig Grannell @craiggrannell.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Gah. Stop this nonsense. FOM is a benefit. Stop framing it as a negative. Also, FOM is one of the four freedoms. Without it, you can’t be in the EU and can’t even be in the single market. This isn’t difficult.
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Dr Ellie Chowns MP @elliechowns.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
We cannot speak about global security and international cooperation without mentioning the climate crisis. If we want to safeguard our children and build a prosperous future for all, the govt must keep dirty fossil fuels in the ground.
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Private equity puts PizzaExpress, Morrisons and Itsu up for sale. All devoured and declining brands, asset-stripped. PE has no long-term commitment to any product, people or place. Chances are another PE group will see opportunity for scavenging. archive.ph/DFYPq
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Private equity puts string of UK high street names up for sale
Owners of PizzaExpress, Morrisons and Itsu seeking exits as buyout groups cool on sector
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Nick Norton @quietwun.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
*typo in 1/2, which should read: Just a few days after *it was reported that* Michael Gove split up with
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Nick Norton @quietwun.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
2/2 I'm sure that Gove will ensure that she is given the same treatment as Jason Arday received from The Spectator and its fellow far-right publications, right??? www.lbc.co.uk/article/oxfo...
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Oxford University tutor faces trial accused of possessing indecent child images | LBC
Lola Salem, 33, has denied one count of possessing three category B images and one category C image
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Nick Norton @quietwun.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
1/2 Just a few days after Michael Gove split up with his ex-girlfriend - a tutor at Oxford University - last month, she was charged with possessing indecent images of children, three of which fall into the second-worst CSAM category: www.noticer.news/oxford-profe...
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Oxford professor charged over alleged indecent images of children
A female Oxford University professor who recently split from her much-older former UK Cabinet minister boyfriend is fighting child abuse material charges.
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Musa Okwonga @okwonga.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
They need to start calling them people and not migrants, because too many people think migrants aren’t human.
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Nick Norton @quietwun.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Aaronson: why?
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JLRay @jlray.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
a meth head with a fishing rod should not be valued at the worth of the planet's supply of fish and sunken pirate booty
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James Murray @james-bg.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
'Why is it only the UK that's trying to decarbonise' latest: www.businessgreen.com/news-analysi...
businessgreen.com
Global Briefing: South Korea unveils $750bn clean energy transition plan
Plus: New Zealand's emissions hit record high; EU critical materials projects; and Google's PPA with Constellation Energy, in our round of the top green business news from around the world this week
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Nick Norton @quietwun.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Prediction: when Donald Trump dies, the truth about his - and many other men's - involvement with Jeffrey Epstein's sex-trafficking ring will seep out... and it will be many, many times worse than the crimes of Jimmy Saville. www.youtube.com/watch?v=z13M...
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“Ample Evidence In Epstein Files”: Ted Lieu REVEALS Trump R*P*D 13-Year-Old Minors On Videotape
YouTube video by Oneindia News
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Laura Bassett @lebassett.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
“If you don’t like public executions just don’t watch it” says the crowd trying to ban drag shows and books
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Nick Norton @quietwun.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Grant me immunity, leave me alone in a room with Bobby J, and lock the door...
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jenniferharvey.bsky.social @jenniferharvey.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
I'd say that we can understand how Austria felt in the mid 1930s
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Nick Norton @quietwun.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Please, someone tell me how this Rabid Twitter Account Made Flesh is going to lead the Tories back to triumph?
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Mic Wright @brokenbottleboy.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Tom Watson on Today accusing people who criticise Palantir of “mob rule”. The guy is a worm and he *should* spend his time watching out for flaming torches and pitchforks.
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
UK water companies made £340m by pouring billions of litres of industrial/commercial wastewater into sewage treatment works. Treatment works are not designed to remove most chemicals, leaving pollutants to pass into rivers, seas and farmland. Investment neglected. Practices are mostly unregulated.
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Revealed: the ‘black box’ wastewater trade that rakes in millions for UK utility companies
Exclusive: Firms made more than £340m last year from processing industrial and commercial wastewater at sewage works that are unable to remove many chemical pollutants
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Sophie in't Veld @sophieintveld.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Barbarism. Pure and undiluted. Europe cannot remain silence and pretend this falls within the “shared values”. If any other country did this, the EU would issue a public condemnation.
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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
This level of naked, open corruption is unprecedented in our history.
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Nick Norton @quietwun.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Is it time for a modern Luddite movement? One that - like the original Luddites - didn't want to stop progress, but make it not make life and things sh*tter for all but the wealthy elite.
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
It's almost like putting a quack anti-vaccine conspiracy theorist in charge of the nation's health policy has consequences. "The United States has now had more measles deaths in the past two years than we have had in the previous three decades combined...": www.ms.now/news/pennsyl...
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Pennsylvania’s measles outbreak is the largest in decades in the U.S.
The state has surpassed 1,000 measles cases this year, health officials said Monday, making it the largest outbreak in the U.S. in more than three decades.
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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Remember it was Trump that called for the destruction of 2 American cities.
Not Mamdani. Not El-Sayed.
Not any Muslim.
Trump.
A white, billionaire, rapist, pedophile.
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Paul Marvin @paulmarvin.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
The alarmists have yet to be wrong 😕🇺🇸
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Nick Norton @quietwun.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
It should be banned from serving beans on toast until its chefs have been sent to a proper greasy spoon for full English breakfast training!
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Nick Norton @quietwun.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Ignore the elitism, BUT MY GOD - WHY HAS THAT TOAST NOT BEEN BUTTERED! 😱
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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Just the dumbest collection of halfwit confetti emerging out of that conference. Tax cuts everywhere, paid for with imaginary spending cuts. Huge spending projects with precisely zero utility, except to anchor their 'defence day' narrative. Clowns.
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Josiah Mortimer @josiahmortimer.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Just leaving this here... bylinetimes.com/2026/09/25/r...
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Rupert Murdoch Flew Kemi Badenoch and Her Deputy to Mediterranean for Summer Trips Worth £12,000
The Conservative leader and Alex Burghart MP held "off-site meetings" with the billionaire media mogul in August
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
My man looks like a beluga whale pitching Bitcoin
Elon Musk, douchy and doughy and pale
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Sir Michael Take CBE @sirmichaeltake.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
For a long time I have heard rumours of secret flights into Dubai: plane loads of complete nutcases. I have never believed it and still don’t. If true, it should bring down Isabel Oakeshott as she is one. 🤪
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Heba Gowayed هبة جويد @hebagowayed.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
When my father was faculty at Cornell he was stopped by the police chief in the street & asked who he was & where he was going. When he balked at the fact that no one but him, an Arab man, was being asked, the chief said “I’m just protecting students” Same guy failed to investigate 7 rapists.
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