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Robert Saunders @robertsaunders.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
Tell me again how we "can't afford" Net Zero.
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The Economist @economist.com · 19/06/2026
Forecasts suggest a rise in sea-surface temperatures of more than 2.5°C—and perhaps even more than 3°C. That would be unprecedented in the 75 years for which scientists have been keeping records
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The coming El Niño could be the strongest ever recorded
It is bad news for a warming world
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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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Prospect Magazine @prospectmagazine.co.uk · 14/05/2026
“When it comes to the wall of money and lawyers propping up Nigel Farage and his finances, there is barely a squeak from the British press”, writes Alan Rusbridger
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Nigel Farage pocketing £5m from a donor shows he’s unfit for power
The British media is obsessed with Zack Polanski, but raises barely a squeak over huge donations to Reform
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Sam @samamc.bsky.social · 10/05/2026
The parties of the left or centre left (labour, green, lib dems) have a higher vote share than those on the right (reform, conservative). There's potential to defeat Reform if one party could rally enough of those voters #localelections
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Supertanskiii @supertanskiiii.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
In Sunderland, Reform stood David Barker. Who beat his girlfriend “black and blue”. He also neglected and burnt his child with cigarettes. He was handed a suspended sentence. It comes up when you Google him. He won in the council election. A vicious domestic abuser is now a Reform Councillor.
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Russ Jones @russincheshire.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
We act like things that exist HAVE to exist That it's normal Billionaires Political donations Private equity Tax havens Hungry kids in the world's richest nations Lives built on debt As if these are laws of physics As if they emerged from nature rather than lobbying, ideology, and inertia
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
Lovely people, these Reform UK candidates for the upcoming election, and great to know they're on our side.
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Hate is too weak a word for what I feel towards the NHS. I'd tear it down and salt the earth upon which it stood.
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Joe Walsh @walshfreedom.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
When Angela Rayner underpaid £40,000 stamp duty on her flat, Richard Tice said it was "morally completely indefensible” and she should immediately resign if she had “any moral decency”. Now we learn he personally made £91,000 in excess payments by failing to pay the tax his company legally owed
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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
Orban has conceded. Majority too big for him to try any nonsense. Tisza is going to have plenty of challenges in sorting out Orban's mess but this is a good day.
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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
Turns out getting JD Vance to campaign for you is a powerful voter repellent.
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The Empty City @davidallengreen.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
Guardian says "marathon" peace talks, but without quotes for a mere twenty-hour session. The talks which led to the Good Friday Agreement took nearly two years, with a longer process of engagement before then.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
Time to reup this again for the “peace talks.”
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
No principles, no morality, no information, no expertise, just endlessly appeasing Trump, Putin, Netanyahu and assorted billionaires and foreign oligarchs or chasing the next headline, until suddenly colliding with reality. Bang, oof. www.independent.co.uk/bulletin/new...
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Farage U-turns again on Iran war as Reform’s policy descends into ‘chaos’
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Kori Schake 🎃 @kschake.bsky.social · 08/03/2026
“It is becoming increasingly hard to avoid the conclusion that the Trump administration has embarked on this operation without a plan, and is making it up as it goes along, as if they killed enough of the right people and destroyed enough Iranian assets everything would fall into place.”
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
Cartoon by @deadder.bsky.social.
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 01/03/2026
“This goes far beyond who gets to control Harry Potter and Superman. It has serious and far-reaching repercussions for the US — and for the rest of the world.”
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Trump Steals The Media
The MAGA takeover accelerates
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Arthur Snell @snellarthur.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
Damn right
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Daily Herald #FBPE #NAFO 🇬🇧🇺🇦🇬🇱 @dailyherald.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
Nigel Farage is hellbent on stuffing his party with more and more failed Tories. You couldn’t trust them then, and you can’t trust them now. t.co/b8BMExlNm2
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https://www.politicshome.com/news/article/tory-councillors-say-they-are-being-offered-jobs-seats-to-join-reform
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Sam @samamc.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
I am looking forward to Farage absolutely condemning Trump for his remarks about NATO/British troops. I'm sure he'll speak out any moment now... #farage #nato #trump
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Financial Times @financialtimes.com · 23/01/2026
Nigel Farage attended Davos on a pass sponsored by the family office of Iranian billionaire Sasan Ghandehari, which told the World Economic Forum that the Reform UK leader had advised the company since 2018. ft.trib.al/V138xDu
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Peter Smith @redpeter99.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
Farage has shown his true colours this week. Given a choice between acting in the national interest or being a Trump lackey, he chose the latter.
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Phillips OBrien @phillipspobrien.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
When Trump lied and slandered European troops by saying that they avoided the front lines in Afghanistan, it was no mistake. It was a deliberate attempt to run down NATO in American eyes, to try and condition the American people to accept the end of the alliance.
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Cold War Steve @coldwarsteve.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
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Phillips OBrien @phillipspobrien.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
If you don't admit that the Trumpian Board of Peace is likely a vehicle to corruptly funnel funds between dictators, authoritarians and their wannabes, you are wilfully refusing to understand the era we are living through. Its all about who controls the money and where it goes.
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POLITICO Europe @politico.eu · 23/01/2026
A study on the artificial intelligence chatbot Grok embedded on X estimates it created 3 million sexualized images in 11 days in January, including 23,000 of children.
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Grok could have produced 3 million sexual deepfakes in 11 days, says estimate
European regulators have yet to decide how to handle the explosion of nonconsensual deepfakes on the platform.
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Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
Carole Cadwalladr, "He's not that cuddle cosy golf club English pub figure" "He is in a relationship with the US far right and with the European pro-Kremlin far right" "What happened in Brexit, we saw that money that force that influence, those networks coming together"
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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
I genuinely think boycotting the World Cup is some of the strongest leverage the Europeans have.
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Sam @samamc.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
This cause is close to my heart - please sign: you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/bo...
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Boycott Trump's World Cup: Sign the petition to move the games now!
Trump’s threats mean the USA shouldn't host. Let's ask the FA to move the games to Canada & Mexico.
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The Associated Press @apnews.com · 23/01/2026
A German soccer federation executive committee member says it's time to consider a World Cup boycott because of the actions of U.S. President Donald Trump.
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German soccer federation official wants World Cup boycott considered because of Trump
A German soccer federation executive committee member says it’s time to consider a World Cup boycott because of the actions of U.S. President Donald Trump.
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Roland Smith @rolandmcs.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
In case you missed it: My suggestion that Farage was whispering to Trump behind the scenes while Trump was going after Greenland has been essentially confirmed. As @jamesdaustin.bsky.social notes: Working against your country's interest with a semi-hostile state - there's a word for that.
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James Ball @jamesrball.com · 15/01/2026
The Reform pitch is increasingly “the last government was terrible, so we’ve hired everyone who was in it”.
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Will Jennings📉🗳️ @drjennings.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
The owner of X is celebrating the surge in traffic that has coincided with its industrial scale production of CSAM. He is acting with impunity because governments across the world are allowing him to do so.
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Joe Walsh @walshfreedom.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
To all our European allies, let me say this for the umpteenth time: As long as Trump is in the White House, the United States is not your ally nor your friend. As long as Trump is our president, America is not to be trusted. I know that’s tough to accept, but you must accept it.
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ian bremmer @ianbremmer.com · 05/01/2026
the number one risk this year is the us political revolution. trump is systematically dismantling checks on his power and weaponizing government against his enemies. (as he and his supporters believe they have weaponized it against him)
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Risk #1: US political revolution | Ian Bremmer on 2026's Top Risks
YouTube video by GZERO Media
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capitolhunters @capitolhunters.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
The cynics think today's attack on Venezuela is staged and transactional. Maduro is allied with Putin, but in 2019 Putin offered Trump a swap: Russia cedes Venezuela and gets Ukraine. (See Fiona Hill's testimony in Trump's first impeachment trial, h/t @davetroy.com). Even Maduro may be in on it. 2/
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Zoë Grünewald @zoegrunewald.bsky.social · 03/11/2025
Farage, who was paid £189,000 in January to promote gold bullion in his spare time, is currently wanging on about how out of touch the Labour frontbench is. Ok
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Dr Robert Bohan @robertbohan.bsky.social · 27/09/2025
Quelle surprise, as they say in Clacton. Far right politico, & mate of Farage, was committing treason IMHO by taking money from Putin. Funny how the EU can show direct pipelines from the Kremlin to far right extremists in Britain & UK. Yet no media outrage…
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Reform UK's ex-Wales leader Nathan Gill admits pro-Russia bribery
Nathan Gill admits eight charges of bribery while being a Member of the European Parliament.
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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 14/09/2025
Encountering the fascists outside Waterloo iandunt.substack.com/p/encounteri...
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Dean Craddock @dean5150.bsky.social · 13/09/2025
Have I got this right? UK patriots, who hate foreigners interfering, have invited a South African, who now lives in the US, to talk about Britain? Elon Musk calls for change of UK Government at Tommy Robinson rally | The Standard share.google/wzqirq5ez6WF...
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Elon Musk calls for change of UK Government at Tommy Robinson rally
Elon Musk spoke at the rally via video link.
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Joe Walsh @walshfreedom.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
You can abhor Charlie Kirk & his beliefs and unequivocally condemn murder. You can do both. It shouldn’t be hard. It’s what grown up, civilized, tolerant people do.
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Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
The murder of Charlie Kirk was criminal, wrong, and should be condemned. And Charlie Kirk was a horrible, hateful man who spent his life radicalizing young people to embrace their worst demons by targeting women, people of color, immigrants, and the marginalized. I refuse to sanitize him.
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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
Kirk was a racist who thought black people shouldn’t be pilots. He thought women should be subservient to men. He hated MLK and the Civil Rights Act. He didn’t care about political violence against Paul Pelosi and Democrats. All his own words. You can deplore the shooting without honoring the man.
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The New Statesman @newstatesman1913.bsky.social · 16/08/2025
"JD Vance is the most underestimated man in Washington." What JD Vance was really doing in Britain this week, by Freddie Hayward.
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What JD Vance was really doing in Britain this week
The vice-president has become the prince of the new reactionary right.
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Brian Klaas @brianklaas.bsky.social · 16/08/2025
As someone who co-wrote "How to Rig an Election" with @fromagehomme.bsky.social, let me just say how insane it is that the US president is peddling talking points on "honest elections" from a dictator who routinely rigs votes, sometimes by hunting down and murdering his political opponents.
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The New Statesman @newstatesman1913.bsky.social · 16/08/2025
Beyond handing Putin a diplomatic victory, it is unclear what, if anything, Trump's summit achieved. No wonder the Russian president wants to do it again. The great big anticlimax in Alaska:
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The great big anticlimax in Alaska
Beyond handing Putin a diplomatic victory, it is unclear what, if anything, Trump's summit achieved. No wonder the Russian president wants to do it again.
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Dignity in Dying @dignityindying.org.uk · 14/05/2025
Help us spread the message: With just 48 hours until the next assisted dying debate, it's crucial to flood social media with support for law change. MPs must hear our call: When we cannot stay, let us choose how we go. One click can make a difference. Tag your MP in the comments. #LetUsChoose
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Sam @samamc.bsky.social · 03/05/2025
Help to ban donkey skin shipments now! action.eko.org/a/airlines-b...
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Airlines: ban donkey skin shipments now
Major airlines are flying crates of bloody donkey skins around the globe, fueling the brutal ejiao industry. This is the shadowy nature of the donkey skin trade—a multi-layered operation linked to org
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Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
Fox's Charles Gasparino: Let’s be clear what happened, who capitulated here and why... It is the White House who capitulated, based on everything I hear and all of my sources. The reason why is because of the bond market and what happened last night. Scott Bessent knows this better than anybody.
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