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robculley.bsky.social @robculley.bsky.social · 10h
He’s probably thinking of live-streaming it
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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 11h
People voted to leave the EU because they were fed up, often for reasons that had nothing to do with the EU. And there was no agreement on what Brexit would look like. The country has moved on since 2016. Politicians need to catch up. @pimlicat.bsky.social on LBC
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Pollsters Redfield and Wilton, which have consistently produced some of the highest figures for Reform of any firm, employed a senior aide to Farage to oversee their political polling, without disclosing his role. A second Farage aide was also used to place exclusive polling by R+W in the press
theguardian.com
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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Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Andy Burnham confirms what previous PM's - May, Johnson, Truss, Sunak and Starmer - failed to, that Russia interfered in the Brexit referendum.
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robculley.bsky.social @robculley.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
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Vanilla: a far from ordinary history
Podcast Episode · HistoryExtra podcast · 6 October · 33min
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robculley.bsky.social @robculley.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
That’s what they call a twofor
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
That 'Keminaissance' in full
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robculley.bsky.social @robculley.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Franciacorta
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
"People are looking through the shop window and they like what they see..." says Kemi Badenoch, of the Conservative party, which is currently polling at its lowest level in its entire history
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Reform Party UK Exposed @reformexposed.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
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Naomi Smith @pimlicat.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
The door has - finally - been opened. The taboo has been smashed. EU membership is back on the table. It’s time to make it the closing paragraph of this new chapter in UK-EU relations. encompass-europe.com/comment/a-pi...
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A pivotal moment for UK-EU relations
When the sun rose on June 24, 2016, one thing was clear: the relationship between the UK and the EU had entered a new, arduous chapter. As Boris Johnson and Michael Gove blinked into the cameras,…
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Robert Hutton @roberthutton.co.uk · 05/10/2026
Andrew Griffith delivers one of the all time rhetorical stinkers. My Tory conference SKETCH. thecritic.co.uk/an-h...
On reflection, it would have been better for Andrew Griffith if he’d abandoned his speech when the announcer got his name wrong. He is the Shadow Chancellor of the Exchequer, supposedly the second most important figure in the Conservative Party. If they don’t even know what he’s called, he should take the hint.

It was an oration that party managers will describe as a cautionary tale to generations of MPs yet unborn

He didn’t, of course. Perhaps he thought that after such a slip, things could only get better. If so, it was a judgement in which he was profoundly mistaken. He was about to give one of the all-time terrible party conference speeches. It was an oration that party managers will describe as a cautionary tale to generations of MPs yet unborn. Some speeches are written terribly. Some are delivered terribly. This one was so terrible in every way that it should be sealed in lead and buried at the bottom of the ocean.
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robculley.bsky.social @robculley.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Luddite
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Robert Hutton @roberthutton.co.uk · 04/10/2026
Welcome to Toryland, where victory is inevitable. My SKETCH. thecritic.co.uk/welc...
The Tory leader has opened her party’s conference with so many sketchable interventions that it might be a deliberate bid simply to overwhelm satirists. There’s the 30,000-word tract on her beliefs whose 16 pages on the economy contain no mention of trade and a single allusion to Brexit — “I call it Kemistry,” she told the Sunday Times. There’s the 87-foot “Birmingham Tapestry”, which celebrates Badenoch’s endless triumphs of the past two years. There’s the amazing levels of confidence: in her opening address on Sunday, Badenoch confidently predicted election victory with David Steel-like brio.

Was any of this a touch previous? Well, in a party that was performing less well it might be, but these are the Conservatives, the party currently enjoying a 19% lead in the polls, predicted to win a majority of 130 at the next election. It’s no wonder that… hang on, I’m hearing that, apologies, those numbers should be “currently polling at 19% and predicted to win 130 seats.”
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Phil Brickell MP @philbrickellmp.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Cutting jobs at the Environment Agency after a summer of wildfires. Which would never raise the £700m Kemi claims. How much do the Tories think EA staff get paid? All to subsidise childcare for six figure earners. Utterly delusional
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Tories would expand free childcare to high earners, Badenoch says
Kemi Badenoch says those earning more than £100,000 should not be discouraged from working more
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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 04/10/2026
Reform UK’s ‘Small Boat Watch’ app is in flagrant violation of both Google Play and the Apple Store’s rules. Send an email to the Apple’s Head of the UK App Store and the General Manager of Games on Google Play to demand that this app is removed immediately.
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Tell Apple and Google: Remove 'Small Boat Watch' from your app store - Best for Britain
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Б'єрнберт @bjornbert.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
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Liz Webster 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🇬🇧🇪🇺 @lizwebster.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Truly vile. At a public event, Mike Graham mocked Andy Burnham’s father for having Alzheimer’s, less than three weeks after Roy Burnham died and apparently on the day of his funeral. Just the lowest of the low.
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
The Conservative party Shadow Culture Secretary to speak at conference tomorrow about how to "defend press freedom", whilst her own party bans journalists whose coverage they don't like
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
On LBC talking about Kemi Badenoch's banning of @bylinetimes.bsky.social from Conservative conference after calling such bans of journalists by Reform UK "authoritarian" and an assault on free speech www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ps4T...
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Adam Bienkov on LBC with James O'Brien talking about being banned from Conservative conference
YouTube video by Adam Bienkov
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Was just on LBC with @mrjamesob.bsky.social to discuss Kemi Badenoch's banning of @bylinetimes.bsky.social from attending Conservative conference after calling such bans by Reform "authoritarian" and an assault on free speech bylinetimes.com/2026/09/30/k...
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Kemi Badenoch's Conservatives Block Byline Times From Conference After Condemning Reform for Journalist Ban
The ban comes just weeks after the Conservative leader called Reform's barring of critical journalists from their conference an "authoritarian" attack on the free press
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Alex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
"It is hard enough to be a carer for your own loved ones. The tenderness I dispensed to my mother, came from a battery she had charged with five decades of love. Being able to muster the energy and patience it takes to care for a complete stranger... Well, it's magical. It's a sort of superpower."
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Cold War Steve @coldwarsteve.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 29/09/2026
🚨 NEW POLL 🚨 🇪🇺 Committing to EU membership could be the difference between a Labour-led and Reform-led government at the next election. A commitment to EU membership could bring the Labour Party to 321 seats, just five short of a majority in the House of Commons, the study found.
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FAQ: Why EU membership might win Labour the next election - Best for Britain
Committing to EU membership could be the difference between a Labour-led and Reform-led government at the next election.
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
I had a massive bust-up over North Sea gas and oil with Lord Jackson on Politics Live today. "It shocks me to the core that sopmeone so ignorant, so ill-informed, sits in the House of Lords." I just wish I could figure out how to clip it. From 20'47" www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
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BBC Two - Politics Live, 23/09/2026
The big political issues of the day.
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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 22/09/2026
YouGov’s latest poll shows that 628 constituencies want to rejoin the EU. Only 4 don't. It’s time to talk about EU membership. bestforbritain.org/uk-membership-mo…
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robculley.bsky.social @robculley.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Ever buttered a slice of Christmas cake?
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Roland Smith @rolandmcs.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
I wonder what the local vicar and Piddington church goers make of all this, what with being the guardians of morality, compassion and all the other goodness in the human condition...
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robculley.bsky.social @robculley.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
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The Iberian Knot - A History of the Spanish Civil War
Society & Culture Podcast · Host Seth Reeves goes through the history of the Spanish Civil War that occurred between July 17th, 1936 and Apr 1st, 1939. Each episode will be from 30-60 minutes and the ...
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
A reminder that the "generosity" he refers to here follows Nigel Farage announcing Crypto tax policies that would net them both hundreds of millions of pounds in additional profits
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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 15/09/2026
🚨 The headline numbers are large: a 53.8% decline in export product varieties to the EU and a 16.5% fall in export values (meaning that fewer types of products are now being sold by UK firms to the EU). Creating trade barriers with your largest trading partner is economically illiterate.
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After SPS: the EU trade barrier that needs fixing next - British Chambers of Commerce
EAC member, Prof. Jun Du, explains how to solve the UK trade barriers with the EU.
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Arthur Snell @snellarthur.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Given that it’s been extremely widely reported I don’t really understand, but apparently Ben Delo doesn’t want people to know about his guilty plea in the case where he, according to the DOJ “Designed BitMex as a Platform to Flout U.S. Anti-Money Laundering Rules”. www.justice.gov/usao-sdny/pr...
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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-...
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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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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Reform UK's record-breaking donor was accused of running “in effect a money laundering platform”. Prosecutors accused Delo of being the “leader of a criminal enterprise” who knew that his Bitmex platform had become a “magnet for money laundering and criminal activity”.
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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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Bridget Phillipson MP @bphillipsonmp.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Young women were beaten on the floor of the Reform UK conference and senior politicians responded with 'boo hoo'. Let's be clear: you cannot condemn violence women and girls in one breath, then condone it in another.
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James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
The ‘British values’ brigade in action.
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robculley.bsky.social @robculley.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Yeah and experts can do one as well
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robculley.bsky.social @robculley.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Let’s hope ambulances can pass otherwise they’ll be called terrorists won’t they?
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robculley.bsky.social @robculley.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Women need to be wary around these clowns
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Roland Smith @rolandmcs.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Sent out to face the cameras like a lamb to the slaughter. I wonder if Laila Cunningham ever goes to bed at night thinking 'WTF am I doing with my life?'
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robculley.bsky.social @robculley.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Badge of honour
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Dave Vetter @davidrvetter.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Content warning: Multiple men violently assault a female protester at Reform's conference at the Birmingham NEC, to the visible delight of Nigel Farage.
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robculley.bsky.social @robculley.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Amen
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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 04/09/2026
On LBC, @pimlicat.bsky.social analyses how scandals surrounding Reform UK have affected the party's popularity. "This is a party that is struggling now to reach beyond that core support."
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James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Farage is never drinking pints when he doesn't know he's being filmed but is always drinking pints when he does...
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
The Nigel Farage and Reform foreign donations scandal excluded from all but one national newspaper front page this morning. No sign of it at all on the front pages of the two papers which splashed the polls secretly funded by a Reform donor earlier this year
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robculley.bsky.social @robculley.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
twofer
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robculley.bsky.social @robculley.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
You’ve done it to yourselves
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Reform Party UK Exposed @reformexposed.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Reform UK Councillors Gone: Update
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robculley.bsky.social @robculley.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Spits out tea
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