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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

Police investigate donations by Tice company to Reform UK. Britain Means Business, solely owned by Tice, received £1m from Fiona Cottrell, mother of a convicted fraudster. BMB donated £500,000 to Reform in the run-up to the 2024 general election.

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Police investigate donations by Richard Tice company to Reform UK

Britain Means Business, owned by the party’s deputy leader Richard Tice, made two donations of £250,000 in the run-up to the 2024 general election.

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Ruth Badley @ruthbadley.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

A year ago today I was on my way to Milan to catch the last night of Bruce Springsteen’s Land of Hope Dreams tour to Europe. When I sat down to write about it a whole lotta other stuff came to mind. So here it is, with photos and vids. #Springsteen ruthbadley.com/postcard-fro...

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Postcard from the Land of Hope and Dreams – Ruth Badley

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Ruth Badley @ruthbadley.bsky.social · 02/03/2026

The universe just reminded me what I was doing 9 years ago today. I was visiting #Iran I took a flight from #Dubai. This was taken in the bazaar in #Tehran where baby beetroot is a street food snack! Different time. Different planet. ruthbadley.com/three-cities...

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Adil Ray @adilray.bsky.social · 06/02/2026

A plea to my fellow professionals in the media. Please put Trump’s racism on the top of your news agendas? Where is it? The leader of the “free world” is using his racism to make all of our lives worse instead of better. A racist is a threat to us all. Whatever else he is doing, holds no worth.

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Cynthia Fraase @cfraase.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

Streets of Minneapolis - new song by Bruce Springsteen www.youtube.com/watch?v=wWKS...

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Bruce Springsteen - Streets Of Minneapolis (Official Audio)

YouTube video by Bruce Springsteen

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Ruth Badley @ruthbadley.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

Here’s a little podcast I did about my family history and the story I tell in Where are the Grown-Ups? #familyhistory #mothersanddaughters #memoir open.spotify.com/episode/3MzD...

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Ruth: breaking the cycle

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Mia Farrow @miafarrow.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

We will not forget

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Auschwitz Memorial @auschwitzmemorial.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

20 January 1942 | A meeting was held in a villa in Berlin-Wannsee to discuss logistics and legal aspects of the operation of the extermination of Jews. This is the first page of the #Wannsee conference protocol. Find documents here: buff.ly/3WpxY4e

Historical document titled "Geheime Reichssache," dated from 1942, listing German officials and departments involved in a conference on the "Final Solution of the Jewish Question" held in Berlin. The document is typewritten with numbered points and official stamps.

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PaulApp0505 @paulapp0505.bsky.social · 10/01/2025

search.app/eaB3VpLYM9VL... A must read from the wonderful @ruthbadley.bsky.social 🎉🎉✨✨❤️❤️

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Culture and Food in Chiang Mai – Ruth Badley

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Ruth Badley @ruthbadley.bsky.social · 10/01/2025

On a chilly winter's day, how about a wander round the temples and gardens of #ChiangMai? #Thailand ruthbadley.com/temples-and-...

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Ruth Badley @ruthbadley.bsky.social · 07/01/2025

I seem to be doing a lot of blocking on this platform - all dubious ‘getmylinks’ followers. Sort it out @bsky.app

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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 05/01/2025

For weeks, Elon Musk promoted Nigel Farage’s insurgent, anti-immigrant party, Reform U.K., as the answer to Britain’s problems. On Sunday, he had a sudden change of heart about Farage as its leader.

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In Reversal, Musk Disparages Farage

Elon Musk, the billionaire backer of Donald J. Trump, had been promoting Nigel Farage. But on Sunday Mr. Musk said Mr. Farage “doesn’t have what it takes.”

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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 04/01/2025

Nigel Farage ‘very pleased’ Elon Musk backs Reform UK, calling him a ‘hero’. The man who promoted Brexit and hatred of foreigners to inflict enormous damage to UK economy now welcomes money from a foreigner to advance his prejudices. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

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Nigel Farage ‘very pleased’ Elon Musk backs Reform UK, calling him a ‘hero’

Speaking at party conference, its leader calls reports of tech mogul’s potential $100m donation ‘somewhat overexaggerated’

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Mike Galsworthy @mikegalsworthy.bsky.social · 05/01/2025

“Brexit-optimist economist Julian Jessop, a fellow at the Institute of Economic Affairs, admitted that Brexit has made it harder or “impossible” for small businesses to adjust.” Finally.

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The damning statistics that reveal the true cost of Brexit, five years on

As January marks five years on from Britain leaving the EU, Alicja Hagopian and Kate Devlin explore its impact

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Ruth Badley @ruthbadley.bsky.social · 28/12/2024

Thank you to everyone who bought my books this year. There’s a special place in heaven for those of you who reviewed them. Means everything. ❤️ For info and new travel writing www.ruthbadley.com/blog/

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Tabitha Potts @tabithapotts.bsky.social · 28/12/2024

Quelle surprise

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Ruth Badley @ruthbadley.bsky.social · 18/12/2024

He drove all night (kinda) just to buy me a pair of shoes. If you know, you know.

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Ruth Badley @ruthbadley.bsky.social · 14/12/2024

Want to know what to eat in Chiang Mai, Northern Thailand? Course you do. Here you go. #travel #food www.ruthbadley.com/culture-and-...

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Ruth Badley @ruthbadley.bsky.social · 13/12/2024

Need a Christmas gift with a difference? Take a chance on me ... award-winning author of Where are the grown-ups? amzn.eu/d/7gGzy6I Travel memoir, Bite-sized World amzn.to/3n8Y1dz More info and reviews at the links #booksky

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Ruth Badley @ruthbadley.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

Beetroot ice cream! Amazing with cheesecake. #Krakow

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Ruth Badley @ruthbadley.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

Some new writing on the lantern festival in Chiang Mai. A beautiful, peaceful experience in a troubled world. #travel #Thailand www.ruthbadley.com/celebration-...

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Lorelei King @loreleiking.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

People made fortunes from substandard and unusable PPE while our loved ones died for lack of it. "The Department for Health and Social Care lost three-quarters of the £12bn it spent on PPE in the first year of the pandemic, largely due to inflated prices and kit that did not meet requirements."

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brianhayes757.bsky.social @brianhayes757.bsky.social · 01/12/2024

I’m looking forward to reading this over 🎄 for ideas for 2025 🤣

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Eric Alper @thatericalper.com · 30/11/2024

On this day in 2001, George Harrison passed away at 58, leaving a legacy that transcends time. Something in the way he still moves us, forever and always.

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Sophie Pedder @sophiepedder.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

Wow. Here is one to brighten up your morning. The first images of the restored interior of Notre Dame cathedral. Breathtaking. In just five years France did it

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Ruth Badley @ruthbadley.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

My Bruce-based birthday continues. More gifts from a lovely friend. ❤️ I’m a lucky girl. Thanks @paulapp0505.bsky.social

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Jim Pickard @pickardje.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

even as a cry for attention this is a little desperate

Times article: Johnson blames Church for Britain's obesity crisis
Steven Swinford Political Editor
Boris Johnson has blamed the Church of England for Britain's obesity crisis, saying that its failure to provide the
"spiritual sustenance" that people need is leading them to "gorge themselves".
The former prime minister said that when he was younger it was "very rare for there to be a fatso in the class. Now they're all fatsos, and I'd be shot for saying they're fatsos, but it's the truth" He criticised the Most Rev Justin Welby and other religious leaders for rather than addressing propies spis tual needs".
Johnson was one of three former prime ministers who were interviewed by Henry Dimbleby, the businessman and author of the National Food Strate-gy, and Dolly van Tulleken, a public health expert. Johnson said that higher needle, all that sort of pot," he said, levels of obesity among children were because they were being told that there
adding that instead of the Archbishop of Canterbury going on about slavery
were "pedophiles everywhere".
reparations, "he should ask himself
He said: "When I was a kid, we were why people in this country are so all out playing in the streets the whole bloody fat". time. You don't see that with kids
Johnson also attempted to bolster his
nowadays ... Now they're all fatsos, and I'd be shot for saying they're fatsos, but
government's obesity policy
after
nearly dying from coronavirus. "Covid
that's the truth.
was hitting Britain particularly badly
"People were skinnier, they ran because we were so fat and I had my around a huge amount, they drank own experience in ICU... I noticed it phenomenal quantities of Tizer, they was all middle-aged men and quite fat... ate Spangles and Curly Wurlies and and I came out of that thinking crikey, dog s*** ... and nowadays kids are we ve got to sort this out." sitting on screens and being told that it's
Johnson conducted his interview
too dangerous to go outside because
before Welby announced that h…

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