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Chris Grey @chrisgrey.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

A picture of post-Brexit Britain. New post on my Brexit & Brexitism Blog on a fortnight of ugly political scenes, why a government-led counter-narrative on asylum is needed, and why these domestic political events are a national security issue: chrisgreybrexitblog.blogspot.com/2026/09/a-pi...

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Parody Nigel Farage @parodypm.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Apologies - for a moment there I forgot that I'm not even an MP.

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Smike#FBPE @smike.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

So Trump is continuing his throwing toys out of the pram, I just watched a YouTube clip of the final Black Adder goes forth, how poignant and educational

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Mike Galsworthy @mikegalsworthy.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

As Britain swelters through another heatwave, few people will have heard that ministers have quietly dropped plans for solar carports. Cars cooler in summer. Shelter from the rain in winter. Clean electricity all year round. A missed opportunity?

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As Britain bakes, ministers quietly park plans for solar carports

Ministers have quietly shelved plans that could have transformed Britain's biggest car parks into shaded power stations

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 14/06/2026

Obama: "It's a reminder that on a lot of different foreign policy problems, the notion we can just bully our way or bomb our way to solution may sometimes seem appealing ... You'd think we would've learned that lesson by now, but it seems like every so often we have to learn that lesson again."

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Smike#FBPE @smike.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

After the dreadful racist riots in N Ireland BBC News at 6 is focused on an Asian groomer in Doncaster, & yet :

BBC News at 6 after reporting on NI racism attacks focused on an Asian individual in Doncaster grooming young girls, & yet ONS stats show that 85% of grooming perpetrators are white

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

Brexit bears huge responsibility for the far right strutting about our political stage today. It endorsed racism and ignorance as “legitimate concerns” and it promoted politicians who lied and dissembled because they couldn’t tell voters they’d betrayed them. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Brexit's other legacy, besides upending the old Labour-Tory duopoly, is not measurable in pounds or percentages but is just as real. It is visible in the coarsening and darkening of the national conversation, in the aggression and even hatred that, previously pushed to the margins, now loiter in the centre of the public square. This week the leader of the party that brought us Brexit warned of civil war.
It would be wrong to cast the referendum as the sole cause of this shift - Brexit was, in part, a symptom of the change - and we can all see the role social media and the likes of Elon Musk have played in degrading the discourse. But Brexit both accelerated and intensified that process.

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Nick Cohen @nickcohen.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

Elon Musk’s far-right army……and why it matters Piece from me on how the support of the world’s richest man for a racist British party reveals the threats to Western democracy

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Elon Musk’s far-right army…

…and why it matters

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Will Sebag-Montefiore @wsebag.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

My interview with Nigel Farage

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Smike#FBPE @smike.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

Latest excellent blog from @chrisgrey.bsky.social regarding the unrealistic expectations of the voting public : chrisgreybrexitblog.blogspot.com/2026/05/brit...

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Britain’s post-Brexit ungovernability

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Chris Grey @chrisgrey.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

A pregnant pause. New post on my Brexit & Brexitism Blog arguing that the combined effect of the May election results, the next UK-EU summit & the 10th anniversary of the referendum will be to initiate a renewed debate about Brexit: chrisgreybrexitblog.blogspot.com/2026/05/a-pr...

Image of the first few paragraphs of the latest blog post

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Smike#FBPE @smike.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

Loved this gig & love watching it thru YouTube, but I hate the in song ads, YouTube abuse content for profit, hate u bastards

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Chris Grey @chrisgrey.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

New times, same old arguments. New post on my Brexit & Brexitism blog discussing the latest developments in the rapidly changing international order and how post-Brexit Britain is stuck in delusions of greatness and cries of Brexit betrayal: chrisgreybrexitblog.blogspot.com/2026/04/new-...

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Qasim Rashid, Esq. @qasimrashid.com · 05/04/2026

Lebanon is 33% Christian. Israel is illegally invading Lebanon & bombing Christian villages. Moreover, Israel has warned Lebanese Christians & Druze to forbid any Muslim from hiding in their homes & Israeli troops are now hunting for Muslims hiding in attics of Christians. These Are War Crimes.

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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 05/04/2026

He is talking about creating a humanitarian disaster, a clear war crime

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 29/03/2026

How can the BBC justify how much coverage they give other marches which are significantly smaller in size? The bias is so obviously blatant. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/live...

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‘The tide is turning’, Green party leader tells crowd at march against far right – as it happened

Organisers claim half a million people are marching through central London, protesting against the rise of the far right

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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 14/03/2026

It’s crystal clear now that Trump has lost control of this war. He badly misjudged Iran’s ability to retaliate. The region is on fire. 1/ I’m going to explain to you in this🧵what I’ve learned - in part from closed door briefings - about the four biggest current crises.

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Smike#FBPE @smike.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

@chrisgrey.bsky.social once again perfectly summarises the tangled mess of Brexit Britain at this point in time (6 March 2026) chrisgreybrexitblog.blogspot.com/2026/03/real...

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Real war and culture war

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THE NERVE @thenerve.news · 11/03/2026

Seven in 10 Britons are sceptical about UK involvement in Iran, but their newspapers have other ideas. Some of us recall the last time Fleet Street was so disastrously in favour of war, writes former Observer home affairs editor @martinbright.bsky.social www.thenerve.news/p/iraq-war-o...

The public remembers Iraq. Why doesn't the press? By Martin Bright. Pictured: newspaper splashes about Iraq: Evening Standard: 45 Minutes From Attack, The Mail: Now Blair Delivers a Stinging Blow to PM Over War

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Laura Phillips @lauraphillips.bsky.social · 08/03/2026

4. That means that the Iranians read Trump differently than the Western media does. They don't think he's after regime change or democracy. They think he's after oil.

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Lydia Polgreen @polgreen.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

I wrote about Trump's fantasy of omnipotence and invulnerability crashing against the material reality of a interdependent world. This insane, heedless war will ruin us all. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/06/o...

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Opinion | Trump’s Fantasy Is Crashing Down

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Smike#FBPE @smike.bsky.social · 27/02/2026

Gorton & Denton… thank you for your sanity in blocking the fascists 🙏

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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 23/02/2026

These people are poison. They will unleash racist thugs on the streets of this country and call it security. They will subjugate us to the US and call it patriotism. They must be stopped. There is no more important task in politics.

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Smike#FBPE @smike.bsky.social · 07/02/2026

Turned the heating down 👍

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Smike#FBPE @smike.bsky.social · 06/02/2026

Bezos fired 300 Washington Post Journalists, yet another example of Billionaires destroying democracy to control the message, credit to the wonderful Carole Cadwalladr : broligarchy.substack.com/p/fight?utm_...

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Fight!

Fuck Bezos. The Washington Post can and must rise again.

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Smike#FBPE @smike.bsky.social · 01/02/2026

This is Russian control, Trump is complicit by not standing up for democracy

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Smike#FBPE @smike.bsky.social · 01/02/2026

Why aren’t these Russian monsters being condemned by Trump? Rhetorical question btw

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M Meerkat @kackbro.bsky.social · 01/02/2026

NO LIES 👇 DETECTED.......

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Smike#FBPE @smike.bsky.social · 23/01/2026

1/2 Taking time out from all the upheaval caused by the thin skinned narcissistic mafia don, I am watching Beth Gibbons at Rock Werchter 2025, excellent gig that I have posted before. I keep going back to the same gigs to avoid the YouTube ad frenzy, this seems to have crept under the radar.

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Tim Bale @timbale.bsky.social · 23/01/2026

@bjennings90.bsky.social is on fire - again. (www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...)

Cartoon of Trump welcoming cartoon and film villains to his Board of Peace

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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

🚨NOW OVER 96,000 SIGNATURES! The Petition for by-elections to be called automatically when MPs defect to another party is getting so close to the 100,000 needed. KEEP GOING! petition.parliament.uk/petitions/73...

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Jacob Öberg @profjacob.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

“Donald Trump murdered it.” Europe’s collective realization is likely to be in evidence at the summit ― not merely in potential decisions to prepare for retaliatory trade measures against the U.S., should Trump reverse course again and push ahead with his claims on Greenland. /7

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Randi Mayem Singer @rmayemsinger.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

You need to listen to this whole thing.

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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 20/01/2026

This hasn’t aged well..

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 18/01/2026

A real shame if this photo went viral again today.

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Kev🇬🇧🍺 @splootman.bsky.social · 17/01/2026

Straight talking from Starmer. We stand with Greenland and Denmark so Donald Trump can go fuck his own face!

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Ursula von der Leyen @vonderleyen.ec.europa.eu · 17/01/2026

Territorial integrity and sovereignty are fundamental principles of international law. They are essential for Europe and for the international community as a whole.

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