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I cannot stand by and see Muslims treated this way when I have a privileged platform. And it’s telling who offers support, who justifies being a part of the hate and who allows their careers to benefit from it. This isn’t just a test for Muslims. It’s a test for all our humanity.

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James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 12h

Wall-to-wall praise for the policy in today’s papers but they either don’t understand it or don’t care. We’ve been here before, of course. Bexit, Boris Johnson, Truss… all bigged up by the media despite, all obviously awful.

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James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

No doubt all the people who printed, posted or broadcast this now disproved story respect their readers/viewers/listeners/followers enough to correct the record asap… www.theguardian.com/news/2026/oc...

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‘I reside in Monaco’: billionaire said to have quit UK over potential wealth tax had already left

TaxWatch contradicts claims about David Reuben’s departure and questions stories of super-rich exodus

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Peter Kay @theonlypeterkay.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

This bit is genuinely good. Badenoch on Reform scandals and identity: any prospect of an electoral pact on the right now looks dead in the water. A genuinely impassioned defence of her right, and her children’s, to identify as English with pride. Standing ovation. @mrjamesob.bsky.social @lbc.co.uk

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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Kemi Badenoch accurately notes that the common sense consensus that black people can be Englsh was pretty settled by the early 1990s. It was being contested vocally by the NF in 1984 (when Barnes scored in Brazil) with the Daily Mail vocal against the NF but much less by 1993 (when Ince was captain)

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Rob Ford @robfordmancs.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

This is a positive development, full stop. Anti-racism norms matter, elite cues on anti-racism norms matter, a broad political consensus on anti-racism norms matter so a strong signal from the leader of a party which has been blurring red lines lately is good news.

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LBC @lbc.co.uk · 05/10/2026

'It is rooted in absurd defence of Adolf Hitler!' @simonmarksfsn.bsky.social and @mrjamesob.bsky.social dissect the 'childish' questions that Tucker Carlson asked Jacob Rees-Mogg.

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Simon Marks @simonmarksfsn.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Mine with @mrjamesob.bsky.social on @lbc.co.uk about the clash between Jacob Rees Mogg and Tucker Carlson, which neither man may have anticipated. 📺: www.youtube.com/watch?v=VAAE...

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Simon Marks reacts to Tucker Carlson vs Jacob Rees-Mogg

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ghostierockstar.bsky.social @ghostierockstar.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

1/7 @mrjamesob.bsky.social delivers an absolute masterclass breaking down Andy Burnham’s landmark conference speech. It wasn’t just another political address; it was a rare moment of razor-sharp truth cutting through decades of political cowardice and media prevarication. youtu.be/6lMLTq7PomU?...

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James O'Brien analyses Burnham's speech in mammoth monologue

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LBC @lbc.co.uk · 24/09/2026

"We've got a child leading chants of 'let them drown!' in the United Kingdom in 2026." James O'Brien is disgusted by the 'incremental fascist decline' of the country.

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Dan Snow @thehistoryguy.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

England is a made up thing. It has no basis in the ineluctable laws of nature. Its extent is defined by Edward II getting his arse handed to him. Athelstan conquering York. The Welsh of Cumbria were incorporated, the Welsh of Gwynedd were not. It is a political idea, an aspiration - not taxonomy.

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Gareth Evans @ghevs.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Not true. There's no DNA that spits out a person's ethnicity. It can tell you your human or determine your sex but not your ethnicity or race. There's no black gene or white gene or Asian gene.

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Simon Marks @simonmarksfsn.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

The mutiny spreads, joined even by a prostrate, discredited newspaper.

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Dmitry Grozoubinski @explaintrade.com · 20/09/2026

I don't think we disdain the center-right enough. First, they rode nativist populist tigers to power to get their tax cuts and deregulation; Then, they lost control of their own parties to those tigers; Now, they sit in lucrative jobs as columnists writing about how it's all the left's fault.

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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

First the real extremists are the actual Nazis you fucking idiot. Secondly how is "radical right" more "Orwellian" than "far right"? That doesn't even make sense.

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LBC @lbc.co.uk · 19/09/2026

'Facism thrives when you let it.' Portsmouth RNLI temporarily suspended services after volunteers received abuse following an anti-migration protest. @mrjamesob.bsky.social says it's one of the most 'disgusting' stories he's heard throughout his career.

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Nick Burdett @nickburdett.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Buying flags to support the RNLI during WW1. How times have changed.

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James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Cowardice versus Courage Cruelty versus Compassion Fascists versus RNLI volunteers podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/t...

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They terrorised lifeboat volunteers for saving lives

Podcast Episode · James O'Brien Daily · 18 September · 1hr 3min

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Roland Smith @rolandmcs.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Rachel, the brave lone sane voice from Piddington with @mrjamesob.bsky.social, touching on the idiotic Trumpism of Tim McNally the parish council chairman.

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Cat Neilan @catneilan.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

When I went to Reform to ask why Tice had not declared his trip properly, Tice's response was to ask if I was antisemitic This is a vindication of sorts (also for @garethceredig.bsky.social, and the Naked Week team who had to reassure me that I wasn't) www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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Richard Tice apologises for not declaring Israel trip during debate

The visit, funded by Reform Friends of Israel, was declared in his register of interests but not during the debate.

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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 14/09/2026

Your regular reminder: If the Russians stop fighting, the war ends. If the Ukrainians stop fighting, their land will be occupied, their leaders will be killed, their history and language will be erased, their children will be kidnapped to serve Russia.

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Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan @london.gov.uk · 13/09/2026

Trees work harder than you think. They cool our streets, clean our air and provide us with shade. We’re planting 5,000 more where heat risk is highest - growing London’s tree canopy for future generations. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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Drought devastation: How to save London's parched trees

Heatwaves and drought make planting native trees and maintaining the existing canopy more and more difficult.

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Peter Geoghegan @petergeoghegan.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

🔴 More than 80% of all the donations ever received by Nigel Farage’s Reform UK have come from just two cryptocurrency billionaires, new Democracy for Sale analysis reveals. “If that isn’t a massive corruption risk I don’t know what is.” democracyforsale.substack.com/p/breaking-8...

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BREAKING: 80% of Reform’s funding comes from two crypto billionaires

“If that isn't a massive corruption risk I don't know what is.”

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

9/11 victim Michael Massaroli’s son: "You do my dad's legacy & the legacy of all victims no honor using this tragedy to spread hate. I've had to spend 25 years seeing people use it to hate on our Muslim brothers & sisters, people who don't look like them."

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Richard Corbett CBE @richardcorbett.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Elections could once be won by having good policies and campaigning for them on the doorstep and in debates. Now they are more likely to be won by whoever has the most money to spread lies & misinformation www.bbc.com/news/article...

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Ben Delo: Reform receives record £36m donation from cryptocurrency billionaire

Ben Delo's donation, the biggest single sum ever given to a political party in the UK, comes amid scrutiny of Reform's finances.

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The News Agents @thenewsagents.co.uk · 11/09/2026

"Technically Nigel Farage could have lost, not just the UK election on this, but the French election for the far right too." "That's quite a week's work." How Reform blew it with the French www.thenewsagents.co.uk/article/the-...

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The sad, sad story of how Nigel Farage lost his friends in France | The News Agents

Last week, Nigel Farage signed an oversized ‘memorandum of understanding’ with French far-right leader, Jordan Bardella. This week, it could have cost his French pal a chance at becoming president.

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

Surely he has to resign again to let the people of Clacton prejudge the resukt of the police investigation? It’s much more serious than the investigation he resigned over last time…

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Yes, of course he's aware. Hello? www.citizen.org/article/dona...

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

Finally they came for the Daily Mail and my irony meter just packed up and left and I never heard from it again.

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LBC @lbc.co.uk · 08/09/2026

'It's either cowardice, or criminal intent.' James O'Brien spells out the 'two options' behind the anti-migrant protesters wearing masks.

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Financial Times @financialtimes.com · 08/09/2026

Opinion: We need to support the next generation of start-ups to become internationally competitive, writes former UK prime minister and author of ‘The Future Starts with Us’ Gordon Brown ft.trib.al/NyHFlP3

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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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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

The AfD and Reform immigration policies are almost identical. There is no plausible reason for considering one far right and the other not.

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James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Germans vote (neo-)Nazi in 2026 and, just as in the 1930s, we all know exactly which British papers, politicians, presenters & pundits will be absolutely loving it… Spoiler alert: they also love Trump.

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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Fascism on the streets of Dover

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James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

The ‘British values’ brigade in action.

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Jonathan Coe @jonathancoe.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Farage's grinning response says it all. Every day Reform and its supporters reveal themselves for who they are and yet the media continues to treat them as just another normal political party.

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Byline Times @bylinetimes.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Our undercover reporter @scatatkins.bsky.social posed as a far right journalist at the Reform Conference, and got thrown out for asking difficult questions about Farage's corruption scandal.

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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

This is deeply shocking.

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Dmitry Grozoubinski @explaintrade.com · 04/09/2026

So, if I understand Nigel Farage's argument correctly it is: "Everyone I trusted and elevated into a position of responsibility is constantly doing crimes that benefit me but of which I somehow have no knowledge. I am a man with the character, judgement, and intelligence to run the country." Ok.

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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Reform isn't a political party. It's a vanity cult to the ego of Nigel Farage. If he quits, it would be the Gnasher fan club sans the dog.

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Ed Davey @eddavey.libdems.org.uk · 04/09/2026

Three senior Reform figures were involved in those Channel 4 revelations we saw last night. Two have been kicked out. The third is Nigel Farage. Farage should be suspended while this matter is investigated. He has very serious questions to answer.

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