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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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Robert Hutton @roberthutton.co.uk · 09/10/2026

I'm not sure, that doesn't sound like the sort of thing Kemi would do.

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Dan Neidle @danneidle.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Luxury retailers want taxpayers to fund a 20% tax break for foreign tourists. They paid consultancy Cebr to claim this will raise £2.6bn for the UK. That convinced Sadiq Khan and Kemi Badenoch. But it's false: a free lunch. Four basic errors mask a £600m loss. Thread:

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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Crypto billionaire Christopher Harborne has now matched Ben Delo's record-breaking £36m donation to Reform, months after Nigel Farage's party promised to slash crypto sales taxes in half Reform UK is now a wholly owned subsidiary of the crypto industry www.adambienkov.co.uk/p/reform-uk-...

adambienkov.co.uk

Reform UK Is Now a Wholly-Owned Subsidiary of the Corrupt Crypto Industry

As criminal investigations into Reform’s funding continue, much of the British press continues to give a free pass to Nigel Farage’s shady funders

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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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Rob Chapman @scribblerrob.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Are any of you getting this authentic looking gmail saying some of your password security has been breached? Log in here to change your passwords. Don't log in. It's a scam.

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Mic Wright @brokenbottleboy.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

A detail missing from The Times story… the woman who took the photo shared it to a Facebook group called ‘South east patriots’.

Facebook post showing the photo of three white women on a train with a group of black-clad, masked men being shared to a group called ‘South east patriots’

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Simon Pease @simonpease.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

I have little confidence in any poll these days.

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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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Robert Hutton @roberthutton.co.uk · 04/09/2026

That money never even rested in my account! Nigel Farage struggles to explain the latest cash scandal. thecritic.co.uk/mone...

“I’ve got a statement here,” Nigel Farage began, unfolding a piece of paper. That’s how bad things were: the great off-the-cuffster had been handed a line to which he was required to stick. It was like Miles Davis announcing that he would be playing a medley of elevator music.

We were in Birmingham, at the conference of Reform, the greatest political party that money can buy. Last year, the conference was disrupted by a scandal over Angela Rayner, which meant the focus shifted to the Labour government. This year the party was taking no chances about losing the spotlight and had brought along its own scandal.

The Channel 4 report the previous evening had thrown the entire event into chaos. At 7am the story was denounced as a put-up by a far-left outfit, the videos edited. At 8am Farage had lost his closest aide, Dan Jukes, and his policy chief, James Orr. At 8.15am they were on a brief suspension, and by 9am Farage was explaining that they were mere “contractors”. I know thee not, you

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Robert Hutton @roberthutton.co.uk · 04/09/2026

With all respect to the BBC, the reason this story "matters" is not about whether it distracts from Reform's conference. It "matters" because it is important our leaders are not conspiring to break the law.

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Tony Yates @t0nyyates.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Haha an 'internal investigation' is an interesting concept. How do you investigate something you did repeatedly and knowingly? Who is going to investigate what?

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Alex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

I note with astonishment the total lack of reporting about gilt yields falling back to their pre-spike level, the Times piece on how this makes it easier for gov't to fund stuff, and of course the Telegraph front page MARKETS LOVE BURNHAM.

UK 30-year gilts down to the sub-5.8% they opened this week.

UK 10-year gilts down to the sub-5.1% they opened this week.

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Peter Geoghegan @petergeoghegan.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

🔴Isabel Oakeshott has fiercely defended Nigel Farage's £5m 'gift' from Christopher Harborne. But privately, weeks before the 2024 election, she called Harborne "untrustworthy" - and said she didn't believe he was funding Reform at all. 🧵 democracyforsale.substack.com/p/untrustwor...

democracyforsale.substack.com

“Untrustworthy”: Isabel Oakeshott’s private concerns about Farage’s £5m donor

Exclusive: Pro-Reform journalist has fiercely defended Farage's 'gift' but privately has said she didn’t trust donor Christopher Harborne and his money

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Peter Geoghegan @petergeoghegan.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Half an hour after publish this, get an email from Reform saying can’t come to this year’s conference 🤔

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Pete Howe @petehowelondon.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Appalling plagiarism from journalists at The Times—the paper whose same journalists led the feeding frenzy against Jason Arday—hounding the man to his death with their relentless unsubstantiated accusations of plagiarism.

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The Maths Bazaar @themathsbazaar.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

"George Greenwood is investigations reporter at The Times. He specialises in the use of the Financial Times. George started his career at BBC News, moving to The Times in 2018 as a data journalist, and plagiarising the FT in 2026."

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Jim Pickard @pickardje.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

looks like I’m not getting one of the questions at today’s Robert Jenrick press conference today almost like they guessed I would ask him about the Met Police investigation into his donation www.ft.com/content/1527...

ft.com

Police launch probe into donations to Robert Jenrick’s Tory leadership campaign

Investigation by Metropolitan Police follows allegations that money wrongly came from an overseas donor

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The Secret Barrister @barristersecret.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Given that driving without insurance is not an imprisonable offence, these 220 people should probably think about appealing.

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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

Nigel Farage just took a question from a 'journalist' at his press conference, who turned out to be his former chief adviser Raheem Kassam, who asks him why the media are being so unfair to him

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Robert Hutton @roberthutton.co.uk · 03/08/2026

Weirdly, despite repeated requests, I haven't had any invitations to Reform press events since I asked a month ago whether Farage was scared of questions about his finances.

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Nicky @haystackgirl.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

Alex. You’re doing it now. The WFA hasn’t been cut it’s been means tested. The media have driven “it’s been cut”. If we’re going to be a grown up country in this world we simply can’t afford across the board payments. I got the WFA payment. I didn’t need it. My sister (millionaire) got it too!

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Russ Jones @russincheshire.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

Nigel Farage vs "the establishment" He went to private school, worked as a stockbroker, has been a professional politician for 31 years, has his own TV show, is a brand ambassador for gold, is mates with POTUS, accepted a secret £5m gift, and owns five houses bought outright with cash What a rebel

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Alex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

Amazing detective work.

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Robert Hutton @roberthutton.co.uk · 07/07/2026

Populism in its Purest Form: my SKETCH of Nigel Farage's demand that the people of Clacton back his quest to keep his sources of cash secret. thecritic.co.uk/popu...

He’s off again! I feel like I’ve spent most of my life covering Nigel Farage’s departures from parts of public life, and yet every time I turn around, he’s popped back up, complaining about the unfairness of it all. Tuesday’s resignation from Parliament wasn’t even a real one: he’s leaving to fight a by-election on the great national issue of our time: should Nigel Farage have to explain who’s paying him?

We should be clear that the question isn’t whether the Reform leader should be allowed to accept millions of pounds in gifts, work for a TV channel, promote financial investments or take tens of thousands in speaking fees around the world. All of that is completely allowed. The only question is whether he should have to tell the rest of us about it. For some reason, this wasn’t exactly how he put it.

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Robert Hutton @roberthutton.co.uk · 07/07/2026

The harassment of my family over a few completely within-the-rules gifts from friends has gone in long enough! thecritic.co.uk/from...

All of this is, as I say, the kind of quite normal thing that any friend would do for another. Hutton might toss Oiky Ben a book he’s finished reading, and Oiky Ben might rent a five-storey house in Belgravia from which Hutton could work. Who keeps track of such things?

Far too much has been made of Ben’s habit of referring to Hutton by an affectionate nickname. After all, what could be more normal than one adult man calling another, to whom he is not related, “Daddy”? I assure you, such things happened all the time in the gulags where I spent my adolescence.

Then there is the matter of Oiky Ben’s so-called “conviction”. It is a sad thing when simply pleading guilty to fraud and going to jail is enough to see someone treated as a criminal. Which of us, after all, can honestly say we have not offered money laundering advice to undercover FBI agents? If a youthful mistake like that is enough to stop someone being able to buy things for a friend, then our public life will be a great dea

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

Labour has urged the elections watchdog, the Electoral Commission, to investigate the previously secret donations made to Nigel Farage by convicted criminal, George Cottrell.

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Hugo Rifkind @hugorifkind.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

My Week: Nigel Farage* www.thetimes.com/article/ba64...

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Sarah Owen MP @sarahowen.org.uk · 01/07/2026

Ben Cullen, a leading figure of the "Raise the Colours" campaign, will stand trial for three separate charges regarding a total of 78 indecent images of children. I have only seen this covered in local newspapers, so far. Grim as it is, it needs wider coverage www.oxfordmail.co.uk/news/2624087...

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Alex Sowden @ajs1977.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

In a sane world, this demented prattling by Claire Fox would be the end of her media appearances. But in a sane world, Fox & her fellow Brexit quislings would be held to account for the barefaced lies they all told about the EU and Brexit. And so here we are #PoliticsLive bsky.app/profile/stur...

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Rob Chapman @scribblerrob.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

GB News are currently broadcasting racist bile under the guise of debating Brexit and should be reported and taken off air. Their very existence is a statement on how truly fucked we are as a country.

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Rob Chapman @scribblerrob.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

The media and social media need to sort out their petty factional squabbles and get together and run this country properly.

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Meep @morningcrescent.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

Well yes, she’s a Tory who wants Labour to lose the election. Why would she be honest about what they should do?

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Robert Hutton @roberthutton.co.uk · 15/06/2026

NIGEL FARAGE - AN APOLOGY. thecritic.co.uk/once...

NIGEL FARAGE — AN APOLOGY. Last week, I noted that since The Guardian revealed that he’d accepted a £5 million “gift” from a crypto-billionaire, the leader of Reform has carefully avoided places where people might ask him questions. In response, I find I’m now being shunned by Reform: when shame-vacuum finance spokesman Jenrick spoke on Monday morning, I was the only sketchwriter not invited.

To some journalists, the discovery that they were no longer going to have to attend events with Richard Tice would be a source of profound relief. Such hacks might take it as a compliment to have so riled the not-at-all fragile people who run Reform that they enacted petty revenge. But I am not that kind of writer. Goodness no.

So I would like to take this opportunity to say that I apologise for ever implying that Farage might be scared of questions. Quite the opposite: the leader of Reform is a giant among pygmies, a vigorously healthy man of tremendous moral and physical courage who has only

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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

"What if we did all the right-wing things the Conservatives failed to do in 14 years and I don't bother to interrogate that failure at all?"

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Jim Pickard @pickardje.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

Nigel Farage’s hyperactive press engagement - which involved a weekly press conference - suddenly stalled after revelations about his mysterious secret £5mn gift from a reclusive Thailand-based crypto billionaire www.ft.com/content/2678...

ft.com

Nigel Farage scales back press events amid scrutiny over £5mn gift from crypto investor

Senior figures suggest Reform leader has been working behind the scenes on party strategy

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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

Farage claims that crypto-billionaire, Christopher Harborne, wanted “absolutely nothing in return” for giving Farage £5million. Meanwhile…

Revelations of the £5mn gift have led critics to allege that the money may have been a way of securing political favours from Farage, including his willingness to stand in the general election and take over leadership of the party again.
They also pointed out that Reform announced several crypto-friendly policies after the general election, including a pledge to lower the capital gains tax rate for crypto assets from 24 per cent today to 10 per cent, and to create a national bitcoin reserve at the Bank of England to stockpile crypto assets.
The party also took the unusual step of publishing a draft Cryptoassets and Digital Finance Bill, setting out exactly how it planned to deregulate the sector.

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Dan Neidle @danneidle.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

The hospitality industry wants their VAT cut to 10%. It will cost £12bn Who benefits? ❌ The smallest most vulnerable businesses? Nope. 45% get nothing. ❌ Consumers? Nope - prices won't fall. ✅ Nearly half the cash goes straight to large chains. McDonald's gets £400m. 🧵:

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Lewis Goodall @lewisgoodall.com · 11/06/2026

Though you might argue HMT/No10 has dragged its feet and isn’t willing to spend enough it’s also worth remembering that deficiencies in Britain’s defence spending/capabilities did not start with this Labour govt- not that you’d know it listening to a lot of the commentary today.

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John Maguire @johnmaguire.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

Calling on the Irish government and state agencies to immediately close their X accounts. Continued use of a fascist agitator's social media site is both incompatible with democratic values and immoral.

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Tim Bale @timbale.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

Get off X, then. #Feeble

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Tim Bale @timbale.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

And playing the soundtrack of a video clip that the PSNI have implored people not so share. Aural clickbait or what? 🤬

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Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

Like clockwork

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Pete Thompson @pete-t.bsky.social · 07/06/2026

He should publicly correct his misinformation.

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Alex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 07/06/2026

Nadhim Zahawi describes Nowak as someone "who lost his life because of incompetence". Greg Dyke points out that nobody is saying the mistake by police caused the death. Phillips intervenes with "nobody knows". A lack of basic research on a very sensitive topic. Paragraph 16 of sentencing remarks:

The pathologist, Amanda Jeffrey, found 1200 ml, or over 2 pints, of blood there.
She said that no emergency medical treatment would have permitted access to
the bleeding vein. In simple terms, he would not have survived, however quickly
he received first aid, CPR or expert medical treatment.

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James Ball @jamesrball.com · 28/05/2026

Mini-scoop: Reform hasn't reported its alleged Russian hack to the Information Commissioner's Office. Any significant breach of personal data must be disclosed. Reform hasn't done so, nor have they explained why they don't think it needed doing. www.thenewworld.co.uk/james-ball-e...

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Exclusive: Reform failed to tell the UK’s data watchdog about Farage’s ‘hacked’ phone

Party faces new questions over the alleged Russian cyberattack it claims sparked the £5m Harborne donation scandal

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Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

Channel 4 News's Clare Fallon tracks down Nigel Farage who was absent from Parliament today avoiding questions about the £5m donation She asks him about it He jumps into his car and drives off

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Jim Pickard @pickardje.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

Nigel Farage’s claim that he paid for a £1.4mn house with his fee from a reality TV show has been challenged by corporate accounts that appear to show that the income remained on his company’s balance sheet after the property purchase. www.ft.com/content/88ce...

ft.com

Nigel Farage’s accounts challenge claim that he paid for £1.4mn house with TV fee

Reform UK leader has said he did not use £5mn gift from crypto billionaire to buy Surrey property

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