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Richard Fearn

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Alex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
I would love to ask a prominent BBC journalist to give me an example of an illegitimate concern. Is seems to me that it has become a question not of fact, logic, or ethics but of volume. If a big enough proportion of a village was anxious about Bigfoot or Chemtrails, BBC would cover it in a way...
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Shannon Vallor @shannonvallor.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Truly astonishing that all any world leader can think to do is keep inviting the same guys into a room to give their considered advice on how we can protect ourselves from all the harmful, unsafe things deliberately done by the guys in the room
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King Charles warns of 'existential danger' of AI falling into wrong hands
The comments were made at a summit in Ayrshire with participants from AI giants including Nvidia, OpenAI and Anthropic.
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Prof Christina Pagel @chrischirp.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
I know Trump loves this AI slop but I'm not sure him posting these images yesterday is really screaming "liberal democracy" to me...
AI image of Trump with black robots with red glowing eyes and fractured moon behind himAI image of Trump with on a huge black throne flanked by two gigantic robots
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The Empty City @davidallengreen.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Seems the difference between ‘protestors’ and ‘terrorists’ is that protestors wear balaclavas while terrorists hold placards.
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Richard Smyth @rsmythfreelance.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
In June 1934 the British Union of Fascists - the Blackshirts - staged a rally at the Olympia in London. One protestor after another was singled out and beaten up by the crowd. Here's how Ronald Blythe described it.
Description of the BUF Olympia rally, at which a series of hecklers were violently attacked by Blackshirts. The sadism, Blythe writes, reached "an erotic intensity". Stanley Baldwin's private secretary expressed shock and dismay: "It was a deeply shocking scene for an Englishman to see in London."
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sianushka.bsky.social @sianushka.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
“Protecting our women” This footage is genuinely distressing
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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 25/04/2026
Reform voted against the improvements to workers’ rights in the Employment Rights Act and they plan to scrap the Equality Act and lower the National Minimum Wage. Are they hell on the side of working people. Rich people maybe. Working people, definitely not.
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'Appalling' and
'frightening' Reform 'ready to legalise discrimination' by scrapping Equality Act
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'Appalling' and
'frightening' Reform
'ready to legalise discrimination' by scrapping Equality
ActWHICH FOUR MPS DID NOT SUPPORT YOU HAVING BETTER RIGHTS AT WORK?
Contact: media@hopenothate.org.uk / 0207 952 1183
With the British Steel factory in Scunthorpe in the news this week, Nigel Farage and Reform UK have attempted to portray themselves as being on the side of the working people in the UK.
However, all four Reform UK MPs voted against the Employment Rights Bill workers rights, including voting against banning zero hours contracts and giving all workers sick pay from day one - policies which are overwhelmingly popular across the country.
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Caroline Lucas @carolinelucas.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
Starmer should immediately & unequivocally ban access to British airspace to US warplanes. The UK should not be accomplice to a US President who is threatening more war crimes. Period.
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Will Sebag-Montefiore @wsebag.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
If Matt Goodwin wrote The Very Hungry Caterpillar 🐛
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Frances Ryan @francesryan.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
Brilliant. An expat im Dubai has a startling revelation, by @stephencollins.bsky.social
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Russ Jones @russincheshire.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
It's good that Andrew has been arrested, but more than a thousand women and girls were abused by men on Epstein island, and the only person currently incarcerated for it is a woman.
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Andrew Copson @andrewcopson.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
Repealing the Equality Act would roll back decades of hard-won law inspired first and foremost by the idea that no one’s freedom should be constrained by irrelevant discrimination. It would be a fatal blow to any aspirations of fairness and justice in the UK.
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Dale Vince @dalevince.com · 19/02/2026
Hard not to think that allegations of sharing government secrets is dealt with rather differently to allegations of crimes against girls. www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c7...
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Larry & Paul @larryandpaul.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
BREAKING: “Justice Served” In Epstein Case - #BrokenNews youtu.be/DEHeex3VaOI
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BREAKING: “Justice Served” In Epstein Case - #BrokenNews
YouTube video by Larry & Paul
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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 15/02/2026
Reform have totally let the cat out of the bag about who they are. Zia Yusuf lecturing that poverty and peoples everyday struggles with rising bills and rent is exaggerated. A party of the failed status quo, funded and representing big corporate interests.
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
It's almost like being fabulously rich doesn't make you happy or well adjusted. It's almost like it makes you sad and lonely. And leaves you forever casting about for scapegoats to offset your deep self-loathing. Thank you Jim Ratcliffe and Elon Musk for these important life lessons.
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Museum Bums @museumbums.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
When the alarm goes off but you're not sure where you are, who you are, or what's going on... 🥴 👍🏛️🍑 #MuseumBums Salvador Dalí's "Birth of Liquid Desires", 1931, from the Guggenheim 😁
A surrealist painting showing a giant yellow skull buried face down into green land. The first figure bends to peer into the eye socket. The second figure stands in front of the nose and a third figure languishes in the mouth. A large black bird dips from the sky to touch their beak to the standing figures head
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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
Reform politicians are happy to throw insults from a distance. But when it comes to debating their ideas? No show. Richard Tice pulled out. Farage won’t face me. Now their candidate in Gorton & Denton has ducked our candidate Hannah Spencer. Vote Green.
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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
Nothing like enjoying your slightly cheaper pint while imagining the toddler crying from hunger that paid for it.
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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 06/12/2025
The Nobel Prize committee should announce the World Cup winner tomorrow
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Carla Denyer @carladenyer.bsky.social · 24/11/2025
Across Bristol, people are at breaking point Bills keep going up. Rents are spiralling. Families are struggling to put food on the table. This must be a cost-of-living budget to make our system fairer and, most importantly, to make life affordable again www.bristol247.com/opinion/your...
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'My message to Rachel Reeves is simple: cut bills, tax billionaires'
Carla Denyer sees the autumn budget as a chance to "make our country affordable again"
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Alice Roberts @profaliceroberts.bsky.social · 23/11/2025
“Have they given up? Are they just deciding to build up herd immunity by watching us die? The government has given up, hasn’t it? They are throwing us into the slaughterhouse.” It’s not hindsight - we knew this at the time @drrachelclarke.com writes: observer.co.uk/news/nationa...
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I’ll never forget the horror of the Covid wards | The Observer
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Susie Dent @susiedentwords.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
Word of the day is ‘quockerwodger’ (19th century): a puppet politician whose strings are pulled entirely by someone else.
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
UK and Norway won nature's lottery in 1970 - found oil/gas in the North Sea. UK squandered wealth, appeased corporations. Norway levied 78% tax, took direct stake in companies. Norway now has $1.8 trillion sovereign fund. UK has public finance crisis. UK Govts still appeasing corporations/rich.
fortune.com
How sparsely populated Norway amassed $1.8 trillion | Fortune Europe
Launched in the early 1990s to invest mostly in bonds, the fund has grown to become the largest of its kind by acquiring small equity stakes in thousands of companies across the world.
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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 15/11/2025
To negotiate a trade deal with the President of the United States, the Swiss government arrived with a "special Rolex desktop clock" and "a 1-kilogram personalized gold bar" www.axios.com/2025/11/14/t...
axios.com
How to lobby Trump with Swiss precision: gifts, gold and gab
How the Swiss broke a diplomatic logjam on tariffs by arriving with tributes fit for a king.
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Lewis Goodall @lewisgoodall.com · 15/11/2025
Interesting to see so many great British patriots right now begging an American president to bankrupt one of Britain’s last remaining truly national institutions.
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Rob Ford @robfordmancs.bsky.social · 15/11/2025
This statement not acceptable and I suspect not sustainable. Large majority of public support principle of asylum, support letting people stay permanently. Majority for that among Labour and other progressive parties’ voters is overwhelming. The Reform voters this is aimed at will never vote Labour
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 15/11/2025
This is as bad as anything proposed by Reform. Leaving refugees in permanent limbo and unable to build a new life in the UK would be a complete abdication of our humanitarian responsibilities www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
bbc.co.uk
UK set to limit refugees to temporary stays
Shabana Mahmood is expected to say the era of permanent protection for refugees is over, in major changes to the UK's asylum and immigration system.
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Prof Nisreen Alwan @nisreenalwan.bsky.social · 15/11/2025
The cruelty competition: This is what we are witnessing here. Who can win votes by being seen to be more cruel to a bunch of generally poor and vulnerable people? It’s heartless and regressive strategy that is eventually most cruel to the heart of this nation. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
bbc.co.uk
UK set to limit refugees to temporary stays
Shabana Mahmood is expected to say the era of permanent protection for refugees is over, in major changes to the UK's asylum and immigration system.
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Andrew Copson @andrewcopson.bsky.social · 09/11/2025
Alongside my poppy at the cenotaph this year, I’ll be wearing the red triangle to remember the liberation 80 years ago of humanists who were held in the camps wearing this badge like other political opponents of fascism. We must have courage to stand against fascism and for freedom in every age.
Red triangle badge on a grey suit lapel
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Alex Hall Hall @alexhh.bsky.social · 08/11/2025
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🔥🔥🔥
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
Farage has been consistent for 15+ years. Opposing decent pay and conditions for ordinary hard-working young people and expectant parents. Meanwhile, he makes a mint hawking bullion, presenting tv shows and flying to the USA to big up his interests - instead of serving his constituents.
The European Parliament, in their foolishness,
have voted for increased maternity pay. I'm
off for a drink. #UKIP


12:57 PM - 20 Oct 2010


4,458 Retweets 1,233 LikesNigel Farage says Reform
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Mr Farage gave a wide-ranging news
conference setting out Reform UK's
economic plans, and defending claims of
U-turning on 2024 election manifesto
pledges.
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Parody Nigel Farage @parodypm.bsky.social · 03/11/2025
Nigel Farage says he wants to 'raise aspiration' by cutting the minimum wage for young people (currently £10), but reducing tax for young people earning over £100k. Presumably he wants them to just ask their stockbroker fathers to fix them up with a job in The City, like he did.
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 03/11/2025
Nigel Farage, whose party recently put a teenager with zero work experience of any kind, in charge of running an entire county, is currently giving a speech railing against "unqualified" politicians being put in charge of Government departments
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 03/11/2025
Nigel Farage, who has so far registered a total of £280,500 for four hours a month as a "brand ambassador" for a company selling gold bars, thinks a £10 an hour minimum wage for young people is too high bylinetimes.com/2025/11/03/n...
bylinetimes.com
Nigel Farage Says Minimum Wage Should Be Cut for Young People
The Reform leader said cutting the minimum wage for young people would boost business, as he attacked plans to raise taxes on the wealthy
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Natasha Devon @natashadevon.bsky.social · 25/10/2025
lol.
A warning has been issued after fake letters were posted through letterboxes, claiming people would have to house refugees if they flew St George's flag.
The letter said that "patriotic" households displaying the country's flag will temporarily house refugees because ‘we know you would be proud to assist your country’.
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Alex Hall Hall @alexhh.bsky.social · 19/10/2025
The most utterly crass, classless, tasteless, tacky, toxic, trashy, low grade, low rate, vulgar, vile, vain, vomit inducing, nauseating, nasty, noxious, bilious, boorish, brutish, creepy, corrupt, gross, greedy, sleazy and selfish human being - and he’s the President? C’mon America, seriously?
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Humanist Society Scotland @humanistsociety.bsky.social · 19/10/2025
Sunday thought for the day: You don’t need the threat of eternal punishment to be good. True morality comes from empathy, reason, and doing right even when no one’s watching. However you choose to spend your Sunday, we hope you have a wonderful time 💗
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Parody Nigel Farage @parodypm.bsky.social · 07/10/2025
Reform's brilliant DOGE team at Kent council found zero savings and now want to raise council tax. It's almost as if they were lying and haven't got a clue what they're doing.
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Andrew Copson @andrewcopson.bsky.social · 04/10/2025
The Convention on Human Rights is one of the greatest achievements of European civilisation following one of its greatest tragedies. To join Russia in leaving it would be one of the biggest acts of national self-sabotage in history and have zero positive consequences www.bbc.com/news/article...
bbc.com
UK will leave ECHR if Tories win election, Badenoch says
The European Convention on Human Rights has become a focal point in debates around changing immigration policy.
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Sian Berry MP @sianberry.bsky.social · 25/09/2025
Well this is RACING along and means compulsory ID will be debated in Parliament soon. Needs more Brighton Pavilion signatures in my opinion. You know what to do: petition.parliament.uk/petitions/73...
petition.parliament.uk
Petition: Do not introduce Digital ID cards
We demand that the UK Government immediately commits to not introducing a digital ID cards. There are reports that this is being looked at.
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Susie Dent @susiedentwords.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
To ‘ultra-crepidate’ (19th century) is to lecture others on subjects you know very little about.
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 22/09/2025
Their daughter, Gladys, later married a descendant of French Huguenots called Harry Farage... and Gladys and Harry are the grandparents of this man. Maybe someone should ask him who of his ancestors he'd have liked to deport. 3/3
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Ed Davey @eddavey.libdems.org.uk · 14/09/2025
Elon Musk openly called for violence on our streets yesterday. I hope politicians from all parties come together to condemn his deeply dangerous and irresponsible rhetoric. Britain must stand united against this clear attempt to undermine our democracy.
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Bethany Elliott @bethanyaelliott.bsky.social · 14/09/2025
Trump’s latest sanctions threat should worry NATO. Me for @unherd.com unherd.com/newsroom/tru...
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Trump’s sanctions threat is directed at Nato, not Russia
US President Donald Trump has once again announced plans to implement major sanctions on Russia. This time, there is a new condition attached, rather than the past open-ended threats which never mater...
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Alex Hall Hall @alexhh.bsky.social · 14/09/2025
Too little, too late. (How often have these words been applicable to politicians without the moral courage to confront extremists and wrong doing?) Racism and violence need to be nipped in the bud, before they become huge, ugly unstoppable monsters. Zero tolerance should be the approach.
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Susie Dent @susiedentwords.bsky.social · 13/09/2025
Word of the Day is ‘snerdle’ (19th century): to stay warm and still beneath the covers for as long as humanly possible.
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Helen Lewis @helenlewis.bsky.social · 05/09/2025
This is why the Coutts "debanking" story was such a gift to Farage. Like Trump, he makes a mint (pun intended) from advertising crypto and bullion to people primed to distrust anything you can put the word "mainstream" in front of.
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