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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 9h
Russia has been at war with Britain for years and the EU referendum was an open goal which they exploited. That doesn't mean that "Putin made Brexit happen" but his troll farms and media operations certainly played a part Brexiters may hate to hear it but to deny it is to deny a dangerous reality.
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Cold War Steve @coldwarsteve.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
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Russ Jones @russincheshire.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Trump has imposed sanctions on the International Criminal Court, and while his kids "negotiate" a Ukrainian peace deal, he's paying Putin to breach sanctions. Hegseth is live-streaming an execution by firing squad, and gave the UFC a binding contract to train the US military in hand to hand combat.
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StrictlyChristo 🇺🇦🌻 @strictlychristo.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Sir Ian McKellen orates 'The Stranger's Case' from 'Sir Thomas More' by Shakespeare about the Evil May Day xenophobic riot of 1517 in London. This passage was written 400 years ago, but times never change. Humanity refuses to change its unwarranted bias against 'others'.
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Sean Jones KC @seanjones.org · 03/10/2026
I am not very worried about about the Tory Tapestry’s misuse of “doth”. What worries me much more is this sequence of panels which seems to show a small boat full of brown-skinned people followed by a plague of rats running riot and then a lot of dead white people labelled tax payers.
Detail from Conservative Party mock Bayeux Tapestry showing 1. A boat full of brown skinned people. 2. Enormous rats chasing cats. 3. White-skinned “tax payers” dead in the streets.
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
ICE Has Been Dumping Protester Photos Into a Palantir Database DHS agents not only tracked and intimidated people observing ICE activity in Maine, but stored information about them in a Palantir-built database, newly unsealed court filings say.
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ICE Has Been Dumping Protester Photos Into a Palantir Database
DHS agents not only tracked and intimidated people observing ICE activity in Maine, but stored information about them in a Palantir-built database, newly unsealed court filings say.
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
A man builds an IED. He sets it off in a busy public street. Shrapnel flies about hitting cars, homes and a child's bedroom. It's a miracle nobody is injured. And Reform MP Sarah Pochin calls his imprisonment "disproportionate" and "two tier justice."
It does raise this point of two-tiered
justice..


Reform's Sarah Pochin believes the
sentence handed to the 64-year-old who
blew up a ULEZ camera was
disproportionate'.
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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
A country that will not fix its mistakes is a country that has given up on the future. And Brexit was, it’s now clear, a terrible, terrible mistake inews.co.uk/opinion/brex...
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Russ Jones @russincheshire.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
It is four years tomorrow since Liz Truss’s mini-budget. So drink heavily, move the cat out of kicking distance, and relive the experience. No paywall. But you're responsible for your own therapy sessions. russincheshire.substack.com/p/it-would-a...
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“It Would Almost Be Endearing if it Wasn’t So Completely and Utterly Fucking Mad”
It is four years since Liz Truss’s mini-budget. So drink heavily, move the cat out of kicking distance, and relive the experience in this excerpt from Four Chancellors and a Funeral.
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John Oxley @joxley.jmoxley.co.uk · 18/09/2026
What on earth is happening?
  This had become the new normal. RNLI crew members had been forced to take their permits off their cars after their tyres have been repeatedly slashed. Most of them have been pilloried at the school gates or turned away from local pubs. One man who worked in search and rescue had been beaten unconscious and hospitalised, recognised for TV interviews he had done.
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Time to deport all these fighting age men terrorising our patriotic lifeboat volunteers www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
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Lifeboat station in Portsmouth forced to temporarily shut after far-right action
RNLI facility had been targeted by activists trying to stop asylum seekers landing in boats from the Channel
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
As former Labour minister Tom Watson joins Palantir, please read this devastating exposé by @petergeoghegan.bsky.social & @lucasamin.bsky.social of how the company, with Peter Mandelson's help, wormed its way into the UK government to sell its dire & dangerous products. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
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Peter Geoghegan and Lucas Amin · ‘This looks absolutely rubbish’: Palantir and the NHS
A decade ago Palantir was largely unknown in the UK. It now holds public contracts worth hundreds of millions of pounds...
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Judge Michael Luttig, perhaps the nation's most celebrated conservative judge, says that Trump is hellbent on ending democracy and democratic institutions in America, and he marshals the evidence. We ignore him at our own peril. www.huffpost.com/entry/j-mich...
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Conservative Legal Icon Warns Trump Will Soon 'Wage The Final Battle' Against Democracy
J. Michael Luttig warned of a “catastrophic end” to the president’s “war against American democracy” next January.
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Russ Jones @russincheshire.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
£72 million from 2 individuals - both of whom have faced questions about money laundering, both of whom live/d overseas to avoid tax - is not compatible with democracy. I don't care if it's Reform, Labour or whoever. We can't function like this. Not for long. So how do we fix it? My plan:
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Byline Times @bylinetimes.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
James Orr. Peter Thiel. Race science. Tech authoritarianism. We've spent years tracing the networks behind Britain’s ‘Dark Enlightenment’. Help us launch an urgent new investigative project to follow the money and map how it operates. #LightUpTheDark subscribe.bylinetimes.com/lightuptheda...
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#LightUpTheDark – Byline Times
Dark Enlightenment: The US Far-Right War on British Institutions Help Byline Times Fund aN URGENT New INVESTIGATIVE SERIES #LightUpTheDark What is the Dark Enlightenment? The extraordinary anti-DEI me...
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Natalie Bennett @nataliegreenpeer.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
#AntimicrobialResistance We can have #FactoryFarming or modern medicine. Not both. #AMR means must close "ecological ‘pathogen sponges’, absorbing and amplifying bacterial strains from multiple sources”. www.ft.com/content/eba1...
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The chicken farms that become ‘pathogen sponges’ for superbugs
Pakistan’s poultry houses provide protein for its population but they are also breeding grounds for antibiotic-resistant microbes
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Violent thugs
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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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Byline Times @bylinetimes.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Our 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.
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
As a very basic thing, we as citizens should not accept the presence of a private army of masked racist thugs on the streets of our towns... intimidating others and threatening to overthrow the state... There are some fairly obvious precedents for this stuff.
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Prof John O Brennan @jobmaynooth.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Brilliant piece (as ever) from Simon Tisdall, on the age of tyrants, and the extraordinary damage they are doing all over the world. Compelling reading for anybody interested in the disorder and chaos unleashed by a bunch of criminal old men. 👍👍👍 www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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The world is being driven to the brink by thugs and dictators, but there is a route to a brighter future | Simon Tisdall
It’s no surprise some analysts say we are already in the midst of the third world war, but ordinary people have more power than we think, says Guardian foreign affairs commentator Simon Tisdall
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Quiet Riot @quietriotpod.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
🔥 Sunday School: DAS SCHADENFREUDEFEST 🔥 We dissect a horrible few days for Farage, every aspect of his latest scandal, and every moment of his car crash conference. And laugh about it quite a lot. As is right and proper. 🍏 podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/q... 🎧 open.spotify.com/episode/7bMP...
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Sunday School: Das Schadenfreudefest
Podcast Episode · Quiet Riot · 6 September · 1hr 12min
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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Any politician calling to leave the ECHR is lying about what that will achieve. It won’t solve any problem or improve our lives It will make us worse off and remove our rights. Just like Brexit. The ECHR belongs to us all. It’s not theirs to take. Please sign www.europeanmovement.co.uk/echr-petition
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Act now to protect the UK's place in the ECHR
Sign the European Movement UK's petition now if you agree: Britain must remain in the ECHR
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Galen Stone @galenstone.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Oligarchs need to be taxed back to humility.
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Destruction of East India Company Gives US Lawmakers a Blueprint for Confronting Big Tech: Historian | Common Dreams
Historian warns of unchecked power in Big Tech firms, drawing parallels to British East India Company. US lawmakers urged to rein in tech giants.
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Adrian Littlejohn @yorksfella59.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Our climate is getting drier. And yet our water supplies are still controlled by private companies whose primary function is to make (huge) profits for shareholders - at whatever cost to our wellbeing... Bring our water back into public ownership! @greenparty.org.uk www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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The race to stop England running out of water
Who is to blame for the summer drought, and can England future-proof its water supplies?
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Byline Times @bylinetimes.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
📌 ICYMI — Reform’s £645,000 ‘Ghost’ Pollster — @josiahmortimer.bsky.social Exclusive: Payments to a business with no public footprint and a string of missing invoices are raising fresh questions about Reform UK's campaign spending
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Reform's £645,000 'Ghost' Pollster
Exclusive: Payments to a business with no public footprint and a string of missing invoices are raising fresh questions about Reform UK's campaign spending
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Natalie Bennett @nataliegreenpeer.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
On this #PoisonedPlanet we need water companies acting for the public good, not private profit. The case for bringing them back into public control has never been stronger. The #Privatisation disaster has to end #PFAS #PublicHealth
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‘Forever chemicals’ surge during pilot of Thames Water plan to combat drought
Exclusive: utility company wants to draw off tens of millions of litres of water a day from Thames and replace it with treated effluent
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James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Follow the money!
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Joel @itsjoels.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
This is the letter kids got at the end of Dolly’s Imagination Library. I defy you to read this and not cry.
Sorry, I can’t type that.
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Guardian US @us.theguardian.com · 24/08/2026
"ICE tactics, already sadistic, are looking increasingly like torture," writes @judith-levine.bsky.social. "The slim avenues to legal recourse and the refusal of transparency or accountability by the perpetrators of de jure and de facto torture are driving detainees to desperate measures..."
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ICE’s tactics look increasingly like torture | Judith Levine
Plans for gloves that can deliver electric shocks underline the homeland security department’s sadistic practices
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
England water industry was privatized for £7.6bn in 1989. Since then They have extracted £88.4bn in dividends Dumped tons of sewage in rivers Lost 1 trillion litres of water a year to leaks Built no new reservoirs They are teetering on the edge of bankruptcy but claim to be worth £144bn. Rogues.
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The case for nationalisation of water companies
England’s privatised water companies are leaders of predatory practices. In 1989, the industry was privatised for £7.6bn and had no debts. It joined Chile and a few US states&...
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Emma Monk @monkemma.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
This is not misinformation. That's what I normally cover - something out of context, an opinion quoted as fact, or a deliberate misinterpretation... This is none of those. This is full-on disinformation. Because that is NOT from the Express. It is entirely fake😱 🧵 1/10
Lembit Opik tweet:

Burnham's big migration plan: take 4,000 stranded migrants from Ceuta, bring them to the UK and put them up in luxury hotels. Americans look at Europe in despair. 

Express Headline: Burnham's migrant, Campbell, 1,000 stranded in Ceuta to be brought to UK. The Prime Minister proposes flying thousands of stranded migrants from Spanish enclave to Britain and housing them in London hotels. 

Monk Debunked stamp on top of both
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Dr Charlie Gardner @charliejgardner.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
These trees have survived everything nature could throw at them, for hundreds of years But they can't survive the hellish new conditions created by oil companies
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England’s ancient oak trees dying in extreme hot and dry weather
Woodland Trust says trees struggling in drought stress, with older ‘survivors’ disproportionately affected
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Saganism @sagan.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
41 years ago, Carl Sagan gave a clear and elegant explanation of the science behind global warming.
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opendemocracy.net @opendemocracy.net · 15/08/2026
New investigation into Scientologist and QAnon enthusiast John Mappin raises fresh questions about Farage's allies www.opendemocracy.net/nigel-farage-…
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Nigel Farage denies link to crypto conspiracist John Mappin
New investigation into Scientologist and QAnon enthusiast John Mappin raises fresh questions about Farage's allies
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
The day's essential read from NYT: Saher Alghorra, a Gazan photographer, has been documenting the war for The New York Times and this year received a Pulitzer Prize for his work. Today, he writes about what it’s like living in Gaza now.
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Still Waiting for Peace in Gaza
A photojournalist with The New York Times details the displacement and danger, in words and images, that have come to define his home.
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Sanho Tree @sanho.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
“"Our works show that prolonged day-and-night heat above 41 to 45C directly attack their cells…Their immune system suffers because such heat levels damage their white blood cells and other cells because of stress, they [the cells] struggle to repair themselves and end up destroying themselves."
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Cat Neilan @catneilan.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
New: A business that made a six-figure donation to Reform UK received interest-free loans of £67m from unnamed “related companies” in the months before, raising questions about the possible origin of the funds. observer.co.uk/news/politic...
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Reform given six-figure donation by firm that received £6...
Nigel Farage’s party is facing questions about the lack of transparency over £100,000 in funds donated by a management consultancy
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Quiet Riot @quietriotpod.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
🆕 B-SIDE: Farage Unmasked Investigative journalist @josiahmortimer.bsky.social guides us through the current catalogue of RefUK difficulties and what’s coming down the pipeline. And some of this stuff left us speechless. 🎧 open.spotify.com/episode/4WM5... 🍏 podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/q...
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B-SIDE: Farage Unmasked
Podcast Episode · Quiet Riot · 24 July · 49min
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The Wolfpack @wolfpack11720.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
"The price of apathy towards public affairs is to be ruled by evil men." ~ Plato
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
Almost £10 billion of the £15 billion that Boris Johnson's Government spent on PPE during the pandemic was wasted, the Covid Inquiry has concluded. The Inquiry found money was wasted on a "vast" scale, with companies with "connections to government" given first preference for contracts
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Johnson government wasted ‘vast’ sums on PPE, Covid inquiry finds
Chair criticises use of ‘VIP lane’ to prioritise PPE contracts for companies with Tory connections in damning report
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
Trump using taxpayer funds to promote pro-MAGA political groups across Europe. www.ft.com/content/e2ad...
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Lizzie Dearden @lizziedearden.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
Russia is inflaming the debate on immigration in Britain as part of “increasing ambitions to disrupt our way of life”, counter-terror police and experts say It has directly and indirectly paid right-wing influencers to spread messages that align with its political goals inews.co.uk/news/putin-i...
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How Putin is inflaming immigration tensions to spark disorder in Britain
Counter-terror leaders reveal the tactics Russia is using to sow division in the UK
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Jon Burke🌍 @jonburkeuk.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
The next generation of iron-air batteries can do *at least* 6,000 cycles - equivalent to more than 16 years of daily operation - with zero storage capacity loss. This will destroy the fossil fuel industry. That’s why the campaign to ‘kill net zero’ has dramatically ramped up.
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Jon Burke🌍 @jonburkeuk.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
‘…we need to achieve a minimum of 40% street tree canopy cover, and preferably more, before we start to really feel the benefits of nature’s most advanced air-conditioning technology.’ Me, for Big Issue, on tackling urban #heatwaves…👇 www.bigissue.com/opinion/heat...
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
If you’re not alarmed you’re not paying attention. www.propublica.org/article/fede...
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Natalie Bennett @nataliegreenpeer.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
#PlasticWaste and #PlasticPollution There is no escape on this #PoisonedPlanet phys.org/news/2026-07...
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Nanoplastics found in Antarctic soils for first time, suggesting long-range atmospheric transport
Microplastic contamination has been a much-discussed topic over the last several years, but contamination from even smaller plastic particles represents another pressing issue. Nanoplastics—defined as...
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
The National Crime Agency have been "unable to identify the original source" of a £1m donation to a Reform fundraising vehicle. The NCA is now "seeking help from a foreign partner" in order to identify it www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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Millions of pounds and many, many questions: the untold story of why Reform figures face NCA scrutiny
Exclusive: The details behind the financial transactions that bankers have flagged up to the National Crime Agency
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Quiet Riot @quietriotpod.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
📣 OUR FIRST EVER LIVE SHOW 📣 We are excited to join up with @lincolnproject.us and @bylinesnetwork.co.uk @bylinetimes.bsky.social in a special show at Leicester Sq Theatre on 30 July to discuss how we beat authoritarians on both sides of the Atlantic www.leicestersquaretheatre.com/show/the-aut...
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The Authoritarian Playbook: What Britain Can Learn From America - Leicester Square Theatre
With the Lincoln Project, Quiet Riot & Byline Times.  MAGA: overbearing, overreaching, and over here. The authoritarian playbook is no longer just an American story. Trumpism, populism, media capture,...
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James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
It’s obvious when you spot it. inews.co.uk/opinion/fara...
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Farage and Trump have a vicious trick to deceive voters – and it’s working
James O'Brien: The Right is waging a war on education and it's making the working class vote against their own interest
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