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The Bear @bearlypolitics.co.uk · 29/09/2026

Bearly Politics is 100% independent and reader-supported. If you value long-form political writing that isn’t dictated by editors, advertisers or whatever fresh hell the algorithm wants today, please consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. Sarcasm and weird turns of phrase included.

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Bearly Politics | The Bear | Substack

Welcome to Bearly Politics! I'm The Bear, your slightly exasperated guide to the strange world of modern politics. Here, I attempt to tackle the absurdities of power, with claws sharpened by satire an...

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The Bear @bearlypolitics.co.uk · 29/09/2026

Isab El-Oakeshott seems to have decided that digging is the correct way to go about it.

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James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Wake up people!

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Russ Jones @russincheshire.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

I am sick to the back teeth of being treated like a fool. I'm sick to the back teeth of spineless govts refusing to look at this issue, as if democracy is so precious nobody would even dream of destroying it. Look around. It's being torn apart right now. Tell your MP.

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The Bear @bearlypolitics.co.uk · 08/09/2026

Cash is particularly right now, however, a £10 donation should add to the many people who have in my below post confirmed that they’ve donated as well. Thank you to everyone who has done so - if there was ever a charity worth supporting, it’s the RNLI. 🐻

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James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Essential thread.

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The Bear @bearlypolitics.co.uk · 07/09/2026

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Bearly Politics | The Bear | Substack

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James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Political violence against women, endorsed & celebrated by elected MPs. In Britain. In 2026. podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/f...

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Farage’s supporters attacked a woman... and he laughed

Podcast Episode · James O'Brien Daily · 7 September · 1hr

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James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

It’s the glee that shames them. Whether driven by sadism, racism or both, the way so many people in the media revelled obscenely in the exposure of Jason Arday’s wrongdoing is hideous. It was utterly disproportionate & would have broken almost anyone. The guilty will, of course, learn nothing. 1/2

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James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

And now the investigation into the £5 million secretly-gifted by an ‘economic migrant’ recommences. If nothing else has been achieved with this daft by-election, the idea that Farage is some sort of master strategist has been put to bed. It’s easy to look good when you’re getting free passes galore.

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The Bear @bearlypolitics.co.uk · 14/08/2026

Hahahahahaha!

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The Bear @bearlypolitics.co.uk · 22/07/2026

This could very well be the most important story in politics for the last decade and a half. Please read and share this equally harrowing and illuminating account by @carolecadwalla.bsky.social of just how dark the money in politics pit really goes. Absolutely mind blowing.

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Farage, the money launderer and me: a decade of denial

The Reform leader’s relationship with the UK media has enabled him to operate with impunity for years. This past fortnight, that impunity finally appeared to be coming to an end. Carole Cadwalladr, wh...

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James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

Bloody hell.

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The Bear @bearlypolitics.co.uk · 11/07/2026

Reform UK and Ring Leader Nigel have many (oh so many) excuses, arguments and obfuscations that they’re all rolling out to somehow justify the utter farce they’ve launched straight into the body politic. They range from “it’s the establishment!” to “he isn’t really a politician!” Each one of (1)

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Faragian Farce Day 4: A Deep Dive Into The Nine Bins Of Reformati Arguments

The Farage/Reform response has become a panicked tour of grievance, victimhood, and procedural illiteracy, with one very large question still sitting slap bang in the middle of the room.

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James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

Wowsers. This is a must see.

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The Bear @bearlypolitics.co.uk · 09/07/2026

It is day three of the Faragian Farce in Clacton, and the clown car is filling up. Laurence Fox has now joined the race, which is bad news for Count Binface as it appears he has lost his position as the comedy candidate to a man with no bin and fewer jokes. 🐻

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Farage’s Farce, Day 3: The Clacton Clown Car Fills Up

Farage’s grand anti-scrutiny stunt now has Count Binface, Laurence Fox, far-right oddities and the potential to become the weirdest by-election in British history.

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The Bear @bearlypolitics.co.uk · 08/07/2026

Just another little point here about just how dodgy Farage has now become. It’s been reported that he and Reform UK have offered to pay the costs (~£200k, or around 4% of his “lotto win”), since they had almighty fannywobbles about the Makerfield election very recently. This is, to any (1)

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The Bear @bearlypolitics.co.uk · 07/07/2026

Farage’s press conference was pure DARVO. Deny wrongdoing. Attack the process. Reverse himself into the victim. Ignore all the rage though, because the question remains: What was the money for?

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Nigel Farage And The Five Million Pound Victim Complex

The man of the people, backed by crypto wealth and aristocratic fixers, would very much like you to look somewhere else.

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The Bear @bearlypolitics.co.uk · 05/07/2026

I’m beginning to think that someone within Reform UK wants Farage out - and I have my suspicion of exactly who that is. Rats in sacks. Things really are getting very interesting now.

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Revealed: Nigel Farage secretly funded by convicted criminal

The Reform UK leader did not declare benefits including staff, security and housing by crypto-gambler George Cottrell, our investigation reveals

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The Bear @bearlypolitics.co.uk · 28/06/2026

Nigel Farage’s Reform UK has a massive problem with women, and @carolvorders.bsky.social helped expose exactly how deep it runs. No wonder they’re furious - she made them look small, cowardly and contemptuous.

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Sunday Long Read: Carol Vorderman Made Reform Look Small

One by-election exposed a wider pattern: contempt dressed as banter, grievance dressed as common sense, and "protection" offered without rights.

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The Bear @bearlypolitics.co.uk · 24/06/2026

I have never experienced a publication fighting THIS hard against reality. The sneering, patronising bullshit that they choose to publish should embarrass them - the problem being, after so many years of sliding down into tabloid status, they have zero shame left. None.

Ysenda Maxtone Graham
Heatwave hysterics wouldn't have lasted a day in 1976
Fifty years ago, children cycled across dried-up river beds and sweltered in classrooms without water bottles or parental panic

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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

“Your wages will rise... weekly food shops will get cheaper… You and your family will benefit from a resurgent economy... Politicians both local and national will become more accountable..." A quick reminder of how Brexit was sold to us ten years ago today

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Alex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

I cannot adequately express just how much I despise Kemi Badenoch. I know politicians who fail to read a room and get their tone wrong. I have never come across one with such an unerring ability to adopt the least appropriate stance on every single occasion. She is a twitter troll made flesh. #PMQs

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James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

Doing this would be an excellent way to mark the 10th anniversary...

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The Bear @bearlypolitics.co.uk · 23/06/2026

It’s far too hot, far too early, and it’s only getting worse. Thankfully, Jerry on Twitter is on hand to explain that 1976 was hotter, his nan wore a bikini for three months straight, he inhaled fifteen ice lollies and everything was fine. Jerry is, unfortunately, also talking out of his bum.

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“Remember ’76?” Isn’t a Climate Argument

Britain is boiling, but some people still think a hot summer in 1976 disproves climate change. It doesn’t.

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The Bear @bearlypolitics.co.uk · 22/06/2026

We have now gone from six prime ministers in ten years to seven - so roughly a new one every 18 months. This cycle won’t stop until we actually fix the fundamental issues that have been plaguing this country since at least the 1980s.

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Trish #AbolishTheMonarchy #FreePalestine @tr1shw.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

I hope Andy Burnham reads this and takes note. This is exactly where we are and why and if he doesn’t do something about it that is sustainable and makes ordinary people’s lives better we society in the UK is heading for disaster. It’s already on the cusp.

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Daily Herald #FBPE #NAFO 🇬🇧🇺🇦🇬🇱 @dailyherald.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

Says the most professional of professional politicians. Leader of not 1, not 2 but 3 political parities and before that he was a Tory. Stood 8 times for parliament and served 5 terms in the European Parliament. Farage is the establishment. Never let him tell you otherwise.

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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

Reform stamping their little authoritarian feet demanding a general election is farcical. They’re either unelected themselves or they’ve become a recycling bin for Tory MPs who thought they’d do better with a turquoise rosette, but refused to give their constituents the same choice. Sod off.

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James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

Excellent.

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James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

If he doesn’t win something soon, I wonder whether Nigel Farage will retire to spend more time with other people’s money.

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James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

Memo to pretty much (but obviously not quite) everybody in the media…

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James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

The next PM could - and in my view should - properly stick it to Trump (as Meloni has just done); announce a plan to undo Brexit; put immigration to bed for at least one electoral cycle; take their government off Twitter; unequivocally condemn Netanyahu & resurrect Leveson 2… A boy can dream.

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James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

And here it is. For all the whining about condescension & belittling the poorly educated, nobody - and I mean nobody - holds Nigel Farage’s base in more profound contempt than Nigel Farage.

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James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

Sweet summer child that I am, I couldn't quite believe the way that Johnson heaped honours on the idiot architects of the whole thing even as the inevitable reality emerged. Oh and the fact that Farage has waltzed away entirely unscathed...

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James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

How utterly broken a system must be for the Keir Starmer ‘rent boy’ conspiracy theory to gain traction. This stuff doesn’t happen by accident. podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/j...

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Starmer's arsonist "rent boys": The conspiracy

Podcast Episode · James O'Brien Daily · 16 June · 1hr 2min

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Reform Party UK Exposed @reformexposed.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

Recommend following this account, it’s been doing relentless work uncovering Reform and Nigel Farage finances.

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Toby Earle 🇺🇦 @tobyontv.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

World’s richest Nazi now even richer

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The Bear @bearlypolitics.co.uk · 12/06/2026

If you’re still angry and filled with “pure cold rage” about immigration when looking at the current immigration trends, then it really does seem that it was just bog standard racism all along, doesn’t it?

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James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

Please sign & share.

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James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

So this came true within hours of me writing it. Feeling a bit sick tbh.

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James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

Do we know how many hours passed between Kemi Badenoch saying that everyone must be treated the same by the police and calling for more black boys to be stopped and searched?

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Neil Mackay @neilmackay.bsky.social · 07/06/2026

This is why the mainstream media is in such trouble all over the western world. This hypocrisy, deception and manipulation is repeated across the press and broadcasters in Europe and America - yet we ask why nobody trusts us anymore. To fix democracy we must fix the media. It’s a simple truth.

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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

Fascinating and fantastic piece by @samfr.bsky.social on how Reform and much of the right are occupying more and more extreme positions on who is British as immigration falls:

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Race to the bottom

Falling immigration is pushing the right to further extremes - will it work?

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The Bear @bearlypolitics.co.uk · 07/06/2026

The irony about the Faragian-Fannywobble below? EDI* done well includes young white men from disadvantaged socioeconomic backgrounds - almost as though Farage doesn’t fully understand what EDI is about, isn’t it? *not DEI, that’s an Americanisation which I get very annoyed by.

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Young white men are inherently disadvantaged in modern Britain.
The National Audit Office, a taxpayer-funded organisation, effectively excluded white middle-class men from applying to their summer internship programme. Only Reform is brave enough to call it what it is: blatant anti-white discrimination.
Not only is anti-white discrimination permitted, but it is funded by your tax money. Internships by the intelligence services and Transport for London have run internships with similarly racist requirements. DEl is rampant in the public sector, discouraging talented young white men from even attempting to start a career there.
These practices are blatantly racist and anti-merit. The success story of Britain was built on merit. We became prosperous because we elevated talented people who went above what was expected of them. When we discriminate against these people because of race or gender, we become totally dysfunctional.
Only Reform will root out all DEl practices from our public sector and return competence to our institutions.

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James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 07/06/2026

A significant part of the unfolding tragedy lies in how utterly unsurprising this is. Humanity has seen - and done - it all many times before…

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James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 07/06/2026

Mad - and maddening - how rare these voices are.

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