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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

In May of 1940 there was a mass panic in Britain - stirred up by the tabloid press - about 'fighting aged men' who had come to Britain as 'refugees' posing a threat to the women and children of this country - and essentially forming a 'fifth column' that could, at any moment rise up against everyone

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WW2 Soldiers in Croatia: Ivan Janjic Storefront

ALT: WW2 Soldiers in Croatia: Ivan Janjic Storefront

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Anti-Reform @antireform.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

"Do BBC news work for Reform?" via Harry Eccles

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James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Essential thread.

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Robert Saunders @robertsaunders.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

90 years ago, Parliament responded to the rise of Oswald Mosley's Blackshirts by passing the Public Order Act, which banned political uniforms, private militias and the threat of force for political objects. The debates make very resonant reading today. Here's the Liberal Robert Bernays. (Short 🧵)

You cannot conduct a fair match when one side is playing with a ball and the other with bombs and, if democracy is to survive, it must be conducted according to definite and recognised rule. One of them is that no political party should resort to any weapon other than reason and argument. The introduction of private armies, as I see it, strikes at the root of democracy. I know it is contended that the Blackshirts are not armed and, therefore, are not an army, but I do not think that argument can be upheld. … Uniformed men in military formation suggest, and are meant to suggest, the idea of force. It is no argument to reply that at this or that demonstration no force is intended. It is an inescapable fact that a uniform in politics symbolises force, to be used either now or in the future.

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Daniel Moser @dmoser.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Pollution levels in London after 10 years of advancing sustainable transport.

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Ghislaine Hull @ghizzybear.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Twice divorced Richard Tice, currently in a relationship with a divorcee, speaking for a party led by twice-divorced Farage, tells us unmarried people should be deprioritised for social housing.

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Count Binface @countbinface.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

A brief note for Nadhim Zahawi.

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Saganism @sagan.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

41 years ago, Carl Sagan gave a clear and elegant explanation of the science behind global warming.

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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Cambridge City Council has spent £1 million on state of the art toilets and thoughtfully added three... yes just three... squat toilets at the facility for tourists and others who prefer them. Cue Farage losing his teeny tiny mind.

Cambridge City Council have spent £1 million
building 'squat toilets' like this

Labour councillors say the facilities "really
enhance the cityscape."

I promise you, Reform councils will never
spend your money on this nonsense!

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Richard Bleasdale @rbleasdale.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

A 50% fall in migrants crossing the channel and this is what today’s YouGov poll reveals. Disinformation rules.

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James Murray @james-bg.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

This is even worse than Badenoch’s letter yesterday, as she has space to explain what she would do instead of net zero targets to tackle the climate change she accepts is real but then doesn’t. She accuses Labour of not having a plan, then insists we should trust her unannounced plan will be better.

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Nina Willburger @drnwillburger.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

One for #RomanRoadsFriday! “Roman Autobahn” uncovered next to the A8 (a motorway in Southern Germany). Achaeologists have uncovered a 90m stretch of the so-called Roman Alblimes road – a key frontier route linking Rottweil (my hometown) and Heidenheim. 👉 www.tagesschau.de/inland/regio...

Excavated Roman road: large light-colored stones stretching into the distance across an open field.

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

Absolutely, definitely, not “the Establishment”…

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Jim Pickard @pickardje.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

absolutely spot on re Nigel Farage’s speech - from Tom Peck

He was angry, mainly, at all the attention that has been given to the highly unusual sources of his now-considerable wealth. But don't worry, hes definitely earned it.
"Going back to the Nineties, I was in the commodity markets and I had a very, very good, high-earning career," he explained. "I gave that up at a huge cost. Being a member of the European parliament for 20 years cost me a huge amount of money." Being a member of the European parliament for 20 years earned Nigel Farage about two or three million euros. He also, as luck would have it, will be 63 next year and so eligible for a nice little £80,000 a year pension for his dedicated service to Brussels.
Since then, he has, he explained,
"had the equivalent of a lottery win".
This lottery win is the f5m that appeared in his bank one morning, shortly betore he became an MP, and which he didn't think it would be necessary to declare to anyone.
The standards commissioner is investigating this matter so we don't wish to pre-empt his findings, but if he does conclude it was the
"equivalent of a lottery win", then the matter will surely be declared over. Until now, it hadn't been known that millions of other people had bought tickets from the Thai-based crypto billionaire Christopher Harborne and one lucky man, called Nigel Farage, had been randomly chosen as the winner.

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Richard Bleasdale @rbleasdale.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

This is 2026 not 1956. This is where the US is heading and it is tragic.

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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

Cults never blame the prophecy when it fails... instead, they blame the dissenters and non believers who prevented it from happening.

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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

It's the 10th anniversary of the dumbest moment in modern British history so let's celebrate some of the idiots who made it happen. First up ... Jacob Rees-Mogg and his promise of cheap food and wine... In fact food prices have increased some 12% as a direct result of Brexit (LSE) 1/5

Brexit will REDUCE food,
wine and clothes costs
by 20% - Rees-Mogg
fires back at Remainers

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Bridget Phillipson MP @bphillipsonmp.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

The Gestapo marched hundreds of thousands of innocent people to their deaths. I've ended private schools' tax breaks to invest in state schools. No responsible leader makes vile comparisons like this. Kemi Badenoch is not fit to be Prime Minister.

A quote from a Kemi Badenoch interview in the Spectator, comparing Bridget Phillipson to a Gestapo officer.

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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

In the face of frenzied right-wing attacks, this government has successfully executed one of the most ambitious climate change projects in the world. Time to give credit where it's due iandunt.substack.com/p/guest-post...

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Paul Blinkhorn @paulblinkhorn.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

Well done to the BBC, who throughout their coverage of this case so far have somehow failed to notice that the alleged murderer is one of the organizers of "Raise The Colours", the dickheads who've been tying flags to lamp-posts

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Solihull man charged with murder over fatal Lichfield street assault

Billy Allison is accused of murder over an attack outside a Lichfield pub on Sunday.

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kaybell27.bsky.social @kaybell27.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

Anyone still questioning why Farage's Reform did so well? The majority of the British public have no idea how politics work in this country, they listen to our press and its lies and believe every word. If there is to be real change we have to take on our media.

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Richard Bleasdale @rbleasdale.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

@teedixie.bsky.social Today’s YouGov daily questions poll results. 4 Tory prime ministers replaced without an election but 77% of Tories think there should be on if Starmer goes. I can’t get my head around how craven these people are.

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TeeDixie ✊🏼 @teedixie.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

This is absolutely brilliant, from #DiaperDiplomacy (I’m told) and it exacerbates the succession of small burns from King Charles’ speech at the White House 😂👏🏼😂👏🏼😂

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TeeDixie ✊🏼 @teedixie.bsky.social · 25/04/2026

An exceptional piece of evidenced work by brilliant colleagues examining Reform's UK policy agenda - super detailed and useful to all. Please share widely - as politics and political policies changes quickly, parts of it will go out of date relatively soon. www.unison.org.uk/content/uplo...

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Richard Bleasdale @rbleasdale.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

A cafe in Stockport. Oil on paper.

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Richard Bleasdale @rbleasdale.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

Awe inspiring pictures from Artemis II.

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Michelle @michelleroy78.bsky.social · 04/04/2026

The best explanation why millions of Americans worship and support a convicted felon and sexual predator...

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James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

OK. My career just peaked.

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Dmitry Grozoubinski @explaintrade.com · 24/03/2026

Wondering what leverage in negotiations looks like? Australia's new FTA with the EU provides 16,830 tonnes of tariff free access for beef. Australia's FTA with the UK, completed with a desperate Johnson administration, provided 35,000 tonnes tariff free, rising to unlimited over 15 years.

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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

Robert Jenrick calling Palm Sunday 'Psalm Sunday' reminds us once again that dim witted rage baiting populists never know the slightest thing about what they are purporting to defend.

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Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

Left: President Trump, "Try finding wind farms in China, there aren't too many of them" Right: There are 10,066 wind farms in China (operating, announced, construction, and pre-construction)

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Richard Bleasdale @rbleasdale.bsky.social · 29/01/2026

Blyth Harbour Northumberland. Unfinished

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Pippa Crerar @pippacrerar.bsky.social · 21/01/2026

NEW: NEW: Standards commissioner finds Nigel Farage committed seventeen breaches of MPs code of conduct. He failed to declare £333,000 in outside interests (more than 3x MPs annual salary)…

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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 18/01/2026

All of these people - Mogg, Farage, Carswell, Jenrick, Hannan and the rest need to be forever reminded of what they backed and supported

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Patrick - Here for the craic❗️🤷🏼‍♂️😉 @paddyopatrick.bsky.social · 08/01/2026

34 ex pupils have now come forward to speak out about Farages bullying and racial abuse they suffered at school.. It’s a great shame he didn’t go to my school because anyone racially abusing kids, especially younger ones would get a beating from their peers to make them mend their ways & it worked❗️

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‘Go back home’: Farage schoolmate accounts bring total alleging racist behaviour to 34

Exclusive: Dulwich college contemporaries say Reform leader often used antisemitic language and racial epithets

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Richard Bleasdale @rbleasdale.bsky.social · 04/01/2026

A quaint corner of Newcastle. Oil on paper.

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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 29/12/2025

So Boris Johnson, Prince Phillip, Andrew Bonar Law, Freddie Mercury, George I, George II, Richard E Grant, Douglas Carswell, Rudyard Kipling, Cliff Richard, Joanna Lumley and Spike Milligan weren't British? Interesting www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

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Number of people who say Britons must be born in UK is rising, study shows

Exclusive: Research finds ‘worrying’ surge in support for hard-right narratives on national identity

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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 13/12/2025

Just when I thought I couldn't admire the man more... 🎯 🎯 🎯 💯 💯 💯 👍 👍 👍

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