Reposted by Jane WallaceArthur Snell @snellarthur.bsky.social · 13/10/2026Boris Johnson’s claims about asking whether Russia interfered in Brexit are misleading. He didn’t ask for any formal assessment and nor did he receive a categorical response. Anyone printing a notorious liar’s disingenuous comments is engaged in deliberate obfuscation. 9863214
Reposted by Jane WallaceArthur Snell @snellarthur.bsky.social · 12/10/2026British Conservatives: "Russia has disgracefully interfered in politics in France, Germany, Sweden, Hungary, Moldova, Romania and invaded Ukraine. They even meddled in the US elections." Also British Conservatives: "What? Russia! Interfere in Brexit? Ridiculous! Just a tired old conspiracy theory." 91280372
Reposted by Jane WallaceJames O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 13/10/2026Interference is easy to prove or disprove if, unlike Boris Johnson, you can be bothered to investigate, influence almost impossible. The average Brexit voter would not be able to tell you which lies - or liars - they found most persuasive. Many of them still claim they didn't fall for any of them. 52827137
Reposted by Jane WallaceJames O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 08/10/2026Wall-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. 29694156
Reposted by Jane WallaceSarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 08/10/2026For 14yrs, the Tories cratered our economy, added thousands to our cost of living, melted down public services and brexited us into decades of eye-watering expense and lost opportunity. That’s still their plan. With tax breaks for the super rich paid for by welfare cuts. So what TF is this headline? 1621424541
Reposted by Jane WallaceByline Times @bylinetimes.bsky.social · 02/10/2026"Picking on Byline Times sends a message to other political journalists: Be careful. Don't be too critical. We can do the same to you." @adambienkov.bsky.social speaks to LBC's @mrjamesob.bsky.social about Byline Times' ban from Conservative Party Conference. 23551207
Reposted by Jane WallaceAdam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Kemi Badenoch condemned Reform's ban on critical journalists covering their conference as "authoritarian", saying her own party would never do the same as "we believe in free speech. We believe in a free press." Now the Conservatives have banned Byline Times from their conferencebylinetimes.comKemi Badenoch's Conservatives Ban Byline Times From Conference After Condemning Reform for Journalist BanThe 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 661092548
Reposted by Jane WallaceEmma Monk @monkemma.bsky.social · 25/09/2026🧵 As front-page headlines go, this has to be one of the most misleading I've seen in a long time It's an out-and-out lie But notice the trick they use to get away with it...👀 *They're* not lying - they're just quoting someone else who is👍🏻 In this case, the leader of the opposition🙄 1/33 321039552
Reposted by Jane WallaceAnti-Reform @antireform.bsky.social · 21/09/2026Funny how Farage & the far right keep lying about the ratio of non-white & Muslim rapist & paedophiles and never mentioning horrific abuse by all white gangs ... memes via Chris Payne 441123519
Reposted by Jane WallaceDaily Herald #FBPE #NAFO 🇬🇧🇺🇦🇬🇱 @dailyherald.bsky.social · 21/09/2026Labour is investing £30 million in community power to reindustrialise Britain. Over 1,000 local clean energy projects across the UK will be owned by communities and local authorities, so local areas get the benefit. 173
Reposted by Jane WallaceCarol Hedges @riotgrandma.bsky.social · 20/09/2026😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱 The Innernet never forgets 715677
Reposted by Jane WallaceJane @localnotail.bsky.social · 16/09/2026Solidarity with this Piddington resident ♥️✊ #Newsnight 721799537
Reposted by Jane WallaceAnti-Reform @antireform.bsky.social · 16/09/2026"Do BBC news work for Reform?" via Harry Eccles 742029806
Reposted by Jane WallaceLa Reine des Metaphores @metaphorqu.bsky.social · 14/09/2026Well done Rachel Reeves? 36713
Reposted by Jane WallaceAndy Burge 🇬🇧🇪🇺 @andygjburge.bsky.social · 14/09/2026www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cr... Tice serving up his usual lying bullshit - he's known about the Bill since Feb of this year and specifically about the retroactive element since it was accepted as an amendment by the gov't in July - a full 2 months ago.bbc.co.ukTice says government trying to 'retrospectively change rules' as Reform receives £72m in donationsReform UK announced two £36m donations this weekend, as a bill that could change the rules passes through Parliament. It's being debated again in the Lords later. 69688271
Reposted by Jane WallacePrivate Eye Magazine @privateeyenews.bsky.social · 10/09/2026Number crunching: Graduate vacancies From the new Private Eye, out now. 822358
Reposted by Jane WallaceJessica Elgot @jessicaelgot.bsky.social · 09/09/2026Statement from Progressive Judaism leaders - Rabbi Josh Levy and Rabbi Charley Baginsky “Holding an Israeli government accountable for its actions does not cause antisemitism. Antisemites cause antisemitism. progressivejudaism.org.uk/rabbi-charle...progressivejudaism.org.ukRabbi Charley Baginsky and Rabbi Josh Levy: No single response can speak for British Jews - The Movement for Progressive JudaismAs we approach the High Holy Days, we enter a season of teshuvah, of looking honestly at ourselves, taking responsibility and asking what must change. Yet there is a temptation, on days like these, to... 7559203
Reposted by Jane WallaceSam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 08/09/2026One reason England does so well is our second generation immigrants outperform their peers which is not true in most OECD countries. We are also very good at integration. And it's v sad that this is never acknowledge in debates on immigration. 602405851
Reposted by Jane WallaceSam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 08/09/2026New PISA data out England is now top ten in all three areas (reading, maths, science) and the second highest performing country outside of east Asia (after Estonia). This is a huge public policy success. 451038253
Reposted by Jane WallaceSam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 08/09/2026Worth noting that England is now also outperforming Northern Ireland with its grammar schools, which use to get similar results. Comprehensive education works! 1031525
Reposted by Jane WallaceSam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 07/09/2026Ryan Bridge - Founder of "Raise the Colours" flag protests - charged with 14 offences including common assault. Danny Thomas - ringleader of Dover/Portsmouth thuggery - an ex-con jailed for attempted kidnap at knifepoint. Almost like they're not "ordinary people with concerns" but criminals. 391642616
Reposted by Jane WallaceByline Times @bylinetimes.bsky.social · 05/09/2026Our 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. 531039402
Reposted by Jane WallaceWarycat @warycat.bsky.social · 04/09/2026If you want to know who James Orr really is, read @bylinetimes.bsky.social bylinetimes.com/2026/07/08/j...bylinetimes.comJames Orr: Reform UK's Religious Cambridge Professor’s Politics of ContradictionsNigel Farage’s Head of Policy provides a veneer of respectability to a politics that seeks fewer restraints, fewer mediating institutions, and less liberal democracy 04522
Reposted by Jane WallaceNeil Mackay @neilmackay.bsky.social · 05/09/2026Who would ever have thought that the BBC’s political editor would put out a single source claim that was both false and also great propaganda for Reform… 981257472
Reposted by Jane WallaceByline Times @bylinetimes.bsky.social · 05/09/2026📌 ICYMI: The Peter Thiel Backed Race Science Network There is a connection between the two Cambridge Professors. Orr was part of the ‘race realist’ group which targeted Arday as a ‘DEI hire’ Support our investigationsbylinetimes.comThe Peter Thiel-Linked Race Science Network that Penetrated Cambridge University and Targeted Jason ArdayThe media's coverage of the academic's life was fuelled by the campaign of an established far-right network 9395233
Reposted by Jane WallacePhil Free @philfree.bsky.social · 03/09/2026“BBC Breakfast interrupted its programme to go live to Waterhouse as he waded into the sea, giving an impression to viewers of urgency & threat. It was, as one viewer succinctly put it, ‘puerile crap’.” - @brokenbottleboy.bsky.social brokenbottleboy.substack.com/p/the-ballad...brokenbottleboy.substack.comThe ballad of the ‘mega-dinghy’With the number of irregular boat crossings in the Channel at a seven-year low, the use of a scary new term is reaching an all-time high. 02911
Reposted by Jane WallaceAdam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 03/09/2026The utter hypocrisy of Kemi Badenoch here, after banning myself and the late great David Hencke from Conservative Party conference last year. Needless to say my application to attend this year on behalf of Byline Times has still not been approved 21924288
Reposted by Jane WallaceSarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 30/08/2026Iceland is not in the EU, but it is a member of the Schengen area. It’s also a member of the European Free Trade Association (EFTA) and is part of the Single Market, meaning it enjoys freedom of movement with the EU. Good to know that doesn’t impact their independence. Maybe we should try it, Nige. 772449723
Reposted by Jane WallaceHardeep Matharu @hardeepmatharu.bsky.social · 19/08/2026Jason Arday's death will/has quickly become about 'the media shouldn't be censored' & 'journalists shouldn't be condemned'. The discussion that should be had is why journalism can't calmy reflect & scrutinise itself. It's about the culture. The water we swim in. The knee-jerk response confirms this. 1234089
Reposted by Jane WallaceMayor of London, Sadiq Khan @london.gov.uk · 19/08/2026This stopped me in my tracks. An independent study by @qmul.bsky.social has found that after ULEZ was introduced, children’s lungs grew faster in Central London and have now caught up with children outside of the capital. Incredible. 1563368974
Reposted by Jane WallaceMagdaDefiant.bsky.social#FBPE#FBR @magdadefiant.bsky.social · 18/08/2026Really important thread from @stephlamy.bsky.social. There were at least 2 far-right,male, white academics who had been removed from post, behind the emails and posts which started the MSM campaign. The PhD plagiarism claim was investigated + dismissed in February - did any tv news coverage 1199
Reposted by Jane WallaceCarole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 17/08/2026NEW: It was a digital lynching. And the media is never going to hold itself to account for the role it played in Jason Arday’s death. But there are things we can do. This is a practical guide based on my own experience. broligarchy.substack.com/p/a-digital-...broligarchy.substack.comA Digital LynchingA practical guide for individuals and organisations when the mobs gather 411999914
Reposted by Jane WallaceMayor of London, Sadiq Khan @london.gov.uk · 17/08/2026The loudest voices online aren't always the most accurate. New data shows our homicide rate is lower than every US state, while murder rates are at record lows. The evidence is clear: our approach to tackling crime and its causes works. It’s driving down violence right across the capital.economist.comIs Europe safer than America?A novel dataset provides some surprising answers 25955296
Reposted by Jane WallaceJosiah Mortimer @josiahmortimer.bsky.social · 16/08/2026I don't believe Byline Times' extensive reporting on Cambridge academic - and Reform policy chief - James Orr has received a single piece of pick-up by other outlets 18790317
Reposted by Jane WallaceCount Binface @countbinface.bsky.social · 16/08/2026A brief note for Nadhim Zahawi. 33687322864
Reposted by Jane Wallace🦋 Mark Edgerton @mark-edgerton.bsky.social · 16/08/2026A very reasoned and well thought through thread #JasonArday 073
Reposted by Jane WallaceOlúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 16/08/2026Plenty to reflect about re: the Arday affair, but I'm going to repeat this one thing. The playbook the right used here is effective even though it's not especially sophisticated, as it relies on the audience to do the dirty work. I've been calling it "Trojan horse propaganda", let's go with that. 1/ 5763072015
Reposted by Jane Wallacemilominder @milominder.bsky.social · 15/08/2026Ofcom, the Met, Parliament need to take a look at coverage like this from Pearson and The Telegraph after the Jason Arday tragedy. Unconscionable bile. #r4today 1371612445
Reposted by Jane WallaceHardeep Matharu @hardeepmatharu.bsky.social · 14/08/2026Jason Arday's utterly sad death holds a stark mirror up to the dehumanising political-media-societal culture we are in – one we must all be honest about being complicit in – which forgets there is a human being at the centre of a story, a case study, an issue, a scandal. It is dehumanising. 291187218
Reposted by Jane WallaceRewilding Britain @rewildingbritain.org.uk · 14/08/2026Rewilding is the buffer we need now. 🌳🦫 In response to the Daily Mail's recent piece on wildfires and land restoration, our CEO Rebecca Wrigley has written directly to set the record straight: f.mtr.cool/wohxycndfw 🧵(1/4)f.mtr.coolRewilding is the buffer we need nowA response to the Daily Mail from Rewilding Britain CEO, Rebecca Wrigley, addressing recent misinformation about rewilding and increased wildfire risk. 117389
Reposted by Jane WallaceAsaad @asaadals.bsky.social · 13/08/2026Don't let the charlatan lie to you. bsky.app/profile/d4rk... 516938
Reposted by Jane WallaceTorsten Bell @torstenbell.bsky.social · 13/08/2026UK economy has been far more resilient than the commentators/gloomsters/forecasters thought. Strong start to 2026 continues despite the headwinds of the Iran conflict - GDP growth of 0.4% in 2nd quarter. What matters most (gdp/capita) is also up 0.4%, and has risen 1% on the year 2014039
Reposted by Jane WallacePrivate Eye Magazine @privateeyenews.bsky.social · 13/08/2026It's Clacton by-election day. Or, if you prefer, Farage-Commons-standards-inquiry-reopening-eve. 12564781528
Reposted by Jane WallaceStoatwobbler @stoatwobbler.bsky.social · 08/08/2026Oldspeak Books is shutting their premises. Citing an inability to maintain a welcoming environment. But if you want to create a welcoming environment, don't be so utterly stupid as to put "remigration now" flags in your front window! 99929151
Reposted by Jane WallaceStephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 09/08/2026It’s just depressing. Further education has been cut to ribbons. Higher education is in crisis. Labour turns its eyes to the bit of the education system which is turning out the highest literacy rates in the western world and goes “that’s the bit that needs to change” 30710198
Reposted by Jane WallaceEmma Monk @monkemma.bsky.social · 08/08/2026Do you want to hazard a guess at what this “jaw-dropping” list of freebies included? What luxuries asylum seekers might be being given “for free” in Thetford? Xboxes? Plasma TVs? iPhones? Ferraris? Let's take a look👀 🧵 1/22 671255656