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Sandy Laping @sandylaping.bsky.social · 05/09/2025
The pace and audacity are staggering.. and frankly sickening, but we won’t stop tracking their actions
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Prof Christina Pagel @chrischirp.bsky.social · 03/09/2025
🚨Challenge Trump and you’ll be punished. My new substack looks at how Trump’s weaponisation of government has rapidly escalated. Judges, journalists, officials, politicians, business leaders, celebrities - even whole cities - are all in his sights. christinapagel.substack.com/p/trumps-war...
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Adam Schwarz @adamjschwarz.bsky.social · 03/09/2025
Democrat @raskin.house.gov excoriates Nigel Farage for banning journalists from Reform UK events: "I'm asking you a direct question. Why do you ban journalists who oppose your views from coming to your events? Why did you tell local government not to do interviews with your local newspaper?"
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Prof Christina Pagel @chrischirp.bsky.social · 25/08/2025
🚨 After hitting 1000 authoritarian actions last week on the TrumpActionTracker, we are now at almost *1050*. No rest for the wicked it seems. www.trumpactiontracker.info?start=2025-0...
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Prof Christina Pagel @chrischirp.bsky.social · 25/08/2025
For anyone who hasn't had enough of me discussing the Trump regime, I had a great half hour chat with @goldkorn.bsky.social a week or two ago about how Trump is attacking science and academia in the US, and what individuals can do about it www.rhymingchaos.com/p/a-mathemat...
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A mathematician looks at Trump's authoritarian takeover
Why and how Trump is attacking the Smithsonian Institution, universities, science, and medical expertise—a conversation with Christina Pagel.
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Chris Downs @chris-downs.bsky.social · 24/08/2025
The Trump Tracker website is here: www.trumpactiontracker.info Interview with its creator @chrischirp.bsky.social here: shows.acast.com/behind-the-l...
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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 19/08/2025
⬇️ British services exports are thought to be around 4-5% lower than they would have otherwise been without Brexit. ❌ That equates to billions of pounds in lost revenue for British businesses every year. www.britishchambers.org.uk/news/202…
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The Reality of UK Services Trade Post-Brexit  - British Chambers of Commerce
The services sector represents 80% of UK output, but LSE research indicates a 16% drop in services exports to key EU markets affected by Brexit trade barriers.
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The Secret Barrister @barristersecret.bsky.social · 04/08/2025
I prosecute and defend the most serious sexual offences in our courts. The overwhelming majority of offenders are British-born. Overwhelmingly the victim is someone known to them, either a partner or relative. Anybody purporting to care about protecting women might start there.
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Protect the Wild @protectthewild.bsky.social · 30/07/2025
Hunts are playing the system, does this look like 'trail' hunting to you?
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Tom Schaller @schaller67.bsky.social · 28/07/2025
Cheated at everything his entire life.
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Prof Christina Pagel @chrischirp.bsky.social · 26/07/2025
This
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Worth Mention @worthmention.bsky.social · 25/07/2025
Thank you, @chrischirp.bsky.social, for launching this. Everyone: bookmark and share this.⬇️
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Prof Christina Pagel @chrischirp.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
Governments must bring whatever maximal pressure is available to them to end this starvation and dehumanisation. this must go far further than strongly worded statements or hand wringing. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...
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Protect the Wild @protectthewild.bsky.social · 14/07/2025
Hunts treat hounds badly too and they shoot them in the head when no longer deemed useful. Enough of this needless neglect.
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FactCheckNI @factcheckni.bsky.social · 09/07/2025
🔺In short, FactCheckNI has found that the vast majority of migrants to the UK are legal, and unauthorised migrants are barely entitled to anything at all.
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FactCheckNI @factcheckni.bsky.social · 09/07/2025
Who migrates to the UK and what are they entitled to? 🔺Immigration has been a recurring theme in UK, Irish and global politics over the last number of years. In some cases there have been protests, riots and attacks on people who are perceived not to be ‘local’.
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Protect the Wild @protectthewild.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
Raise your voice, you can help stop this today by sharing, commenting, and liking this post.
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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
How does anyone justify this? Seriously, how?
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74 killed in Gaza as Israeli forces strike a cafe and fire on people seeking food
Witnesses and medics in Gaza say an Israeli airstrike on a seaside cafe has killed at least 30 people in Gaza City.
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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 01/07/2025
Nothing betrayed farmers more than Brexit. We need further and faster action. "Brexit is now a cross-party silence project — and it’s farming that pays the price."
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Opinion: Stop defending Brexit fantasy and start telling the truth - Farmers Weekly
In the years since Brexit, British agriculture has become caught in a peculiar double bind. We’re told to look forward, not back. To embrace change. To
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Alexis Conran @alexisconran.com · 24/06/2025
As Trump now seeks a new deal a reminder that the JCPOA was not perfect but it worked until he withdrew from it. We continue to be played by a charlatan.
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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 23/06/2025
"Billionaire Michael Bloomberg has told an audience in Dublin that Brexit was the single stupidest thing any country has ever done." ~AA www.rte.ie/news/busines...
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Brexit the 'stupidest thing any country has ever done'
Billionaire Michael Bloomberg has told an audience in Dublin that Brexit was the single stupidest thing any country has ever done, adding that "it's hard to believe how they did it."
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Lisa Fazio @lkfazio.bsky.social · 20/06/2025
Second win of the week! @lewan.bsky.social and a whole team of experts released the Anti-Autocracy Handbook: A Scholars' Guide to Navigating Democratic Backsliding. A useful read for all researchers with information about the common playbook of autocrats and ways to respond 5/ sks.to/autocracy
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The Anti-Autocracy Handbook: A Scholars' Guide to Navigating Democratic Backsliding
The Anti-Autocracy Handbook is a call to action, resilience, and collective defence of democracy, truth, and academic freedom in the face of mounting authoritarianism. It tries to provide guidance to ...
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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 20/06/2025
An important message on World Refugee Day... "Many overestimate the UK's refugee intake. The UK ranks fifth in Europe for asylum applications (8% of the EU+ and UK total) and 19th relative to population size (year ending June 2024)"
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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 11/06/2025
"We probably carry, on average, half to three-quarters of a million extra stock because of Brexit. That’s just a financial hit that we have had to take." ❌ Increased costs and added red tape...
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What I learnt … about managing the effects of Brexit
Andrew Lynas, boss of the Northern Ireland food firm Lynas Foodservice, says the upheaval forced them to find better suppliers
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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 10/06/2025
💰 Want to know what Brexit has cost you? 👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 Want to know how your family has been affected? 📊 Curious as to how your sector's future has been hit? Find out all below 👇 👇 👇
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The Cost of Brexit
Change Minds → Change Politics
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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 07/06/2025
Brilliant from @llinosmedi.bsky.social‬! We must end the demonisation of immigrants. Immigrant's bring vibrancy to our country, without them we would all be poorer. We must stand up to those who peddle populist immigration policies to drive class division and yet fly on private jets.
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Protect the Wild @protectthewild.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
When foxes escape — when they outsmart the hunt — they’re still not given a chance. This is the Avon Vale Hunt, digging up foxes and throwing them to hounds. They meet a horrific, brutal end. It’s not tradition. It’s sick. Expose it. End it today. protectthewild.org.uk/endhuntingnow/
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James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
The U.K. fishing industry - weaponised & then betrayed & then abandoned, by Johnson, Farage & the rest of them - is better off under Starmer’s deal than it was under Johnson’s. That’s not an opinion. It’s counting. Anyone claiming otherwise is a liar.
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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 19/05/2025
For anyone who prefers primary sources, here is the full documentation of the UK-EU Reset published so far. ~AA www.gov.uk/government/p...
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UK/EU Summit - Key documentation
Key documents regarding the United Kingdom and European Union's substantial package to take forward our future partnership
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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 18/05/2025
Robert Peston: "Look at that chart, our trade with India, £43bn, our trade with the US, £315bn, our trade with the EU, £813bn!" "At a time when people in Britain feel poor, why not be more ambitious?" @itvpeston.bsky.social on the potential gains from tomorrow's UK-EU Summit.
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Dmitry Grozoubinski @explaintrade.com · 18/05/2025
Brexit was a referendum on whether the UK should leave the European Union. The UK has left the European Union. Referendum fulfilled. If the people bleating about "Brexit Betrayal" wanted the Referendum to enshrine their pet policy preferences, they should have included them in the question.
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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 17/05/2025
An important sense-check on migration from @financialtimes.com Ignore the convulsing commentators of the Mail & Telegraph. The UK is about average in the OECD and in line with its peer countries when it comes to the proportion of foreign-born people living in the country.
Graph showing foreign-born populations of OECD countries 2023 or latest available data
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Protect the Wild @protectthewild.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
🚨 Three hounds from the Croome & West Warwickshire Hunt were killed by a train after trespassing on railway tracks. Witnesses say the hounds were chasing a fox across roads & private gardens. Check out our database that logs such incidents 👇 hunthavoc.info
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Robert Hutton @roberthutton.co.uk · 20/04/2025
When there's only one Easter card left at Hallmark.
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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 14/04/2025
NEW: Fifteen charged with betting offences, (remember #gamblegate?) including Rishi Sunak's former aide, a former Tory MP, and several Conservative candidates in the last election. ~AA www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Ex-MP Craig Williams charged with betting offences
The investigation was launched last year following bets placed on the timing of the 2024 general election.
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smjohns.bsky.social @smjohns.bsky.social · 13/04/2025
2024 - '25 Season Dogs Report www.actionagainstfoxhunting.org/wp-content/u...
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Henry Morris @mrhenrymorris.substack.com · 09/04/2025
THEY DO NOT WANT YOU TO SEE THIS! LEAKED - GAMEKEEPER TRAINING VIDEO Explaining the wholescale extermination of wildlife - aka vermin - on driven grouse moors. You can sign the petition to ban DGS here: petition.parliament.uk/petitions/70...
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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 30/03/2025
Not normally staid historians share this alarm.
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‘It reminds you of a fascist state’: Smithsonian Institution braces for Trump rewrite of US history
Normally staid historians sound alarm at authoritarian grasping for control of the premier US museum complex
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Prof Christina Pagel @chrischirp.bsky.social · 30/03/2025
A.must read
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Prof Christina Pagel @chrischirp.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
Don't forget.
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Dr Jackie Turvey Tait @jaxtait.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
By fostering diverse, inclusive, and equitable research environments, science can produce more innovative solutions, improve societal outcomes, increase trust in science, and address the most pressing global challenges. Now is the time to #StandUpForScience
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Prof Christina Pagel @chrischirp.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
My latest post is now out. I show how Trump's attacks on science and universities are neither random nor new - they fit very precisely into the authoritarian playbook. This means we can guess what might come next and prepare - and we must! christinapagel.substack.com/p/censor-pur...
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Censor, purge, defund: how Trump following the authoritarian playbook on science and universities
I have mapped 35 of the Trump administration's attacks on science and universities to the authoritarian playbook - and consider what it means for attacks still to come
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Roland Smith @rolandmcs.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
'This is a government of the radicalised online right' - exhibit 3,094.
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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 17/02/2025
If you're wondering what the government - restricted by its own red lines - can do about the handbrake Brexit has put on our economy, our latest research suggests one answer. Deep alignment with the EU could give UK GDP a boost of up to 2.2%. Full report 👇 12/12 www.bestforbritain.org/growth_report
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Report: Quantifying the opportunities for economic growth
Best for Britain asked Frontier Economics to independently model the economic effects of alignment rules and standards for goods and services between the UK and the EU within the UK Government’s negot...
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David Henig @davidheniguk.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
Would have been an unthinkable column from @gideonrachman.bsky.social a month ago. www.ft.com/content/11f1...
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Will Jennings📉🗳️ @drjennings.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
Good morning, America!
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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 05/02/2025
Did you see the BBC's shocking Countryfile report on how post-Brexit food and plant checks at our border are driving up prices for everyday Brits? 👇
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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 31/01/2025
And this is the man that a quarter of voters are considering as a reasonable option. If the can do this sort of damage from the sidelines, what might he do with actual power? ~AA
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