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Sophie Plowden

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Author. Painter. Freakishly tall child prodigy.

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Jorge Liboreiro @jorgeliboreiro.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
🚨 Bombshell in Germany: Police have just arrested August Hanning, the former head of the BDN foreign intelligence agency, on suspicion of espionage against the state, disclosure of state secrets, attempted treason, and working as a secret service agent.
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Germany's ex-spy chief arrested for espionage
August Hanning served as the head of Germany's BND foreign intelligence agency from 1998 to 2005. According to German media, he is being investigated for allegedly passing on state secrets and working...
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Simon Marks @simonmarksfsn.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
American, 2026. www.yahoo.com/news/politic...
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Trump team is now looking to see if DOJ committed misconduct in investigating Richard Nixon’s Watergate
A burglary at the Watergate complex in June 1972 would ultimately lead to a corruption scandal in Washington and the resignation of President Richard Nixon
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Simon Marks @simonmarksfsn.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
🚨🚨🚨
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Simon Evans @drsimevans.carbonbrief.org · 30/09/2026
NEW ANALYSIS: Record wind and solar save UK from gas imports worth £5.9bn during Hormuz crisis 🌤️ wind/solar generation up 14% in 2026 to date 🏭 gas down ~10% 🚢 >100 LNG cargoes avoided
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
New Survation Westminster poll: LAB 29% (+2) RFM 23% (-1) CON 19% (-2) LD 9% (-2) GRN 9% (+2) SNP 3% (=) RB 2% (=) PC 1% (-1) OTH 4% (=)
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Anti-Reform @antireform.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
"Someone from Reform & their shrill harridan who live as tax free exiles in Dubai have been entertained by the wife of a former minister of state of a country hostile to the UK and he failed to declare it to Parliament he's elected to sit in? You couldn’t make this up" via We loathe Reform UK Ltd
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UK Politics News // Papernaut @ukpolitics.papernaut.co · 24/09/2026
THE GUARDIAN: Miliband meets Iran’s foreign minister as Tehran gives Washington 4 - 5 days to meet seven conditions or keep Hormuz closed, raising stakes for diplomacy, oil prices and regional war. - by Patrick Wintour
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Ed Miliband meets Iran’s foreign minister as Tehran gives US ultimatum on strait of Hormuz
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pmamtraveller.bsky.social @pmamtraveller.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Delacroix's palette
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Olga Lautman 🇺🇦 @olgalautman.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
This is so insane I cannot believe this is real. www.politico.com/news/2026/09...
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Who did this? 🤣🤣🤣🤣
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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 14/09/2026
Some details: Kremlev, the Russian who sponsored Don Jr's wedding, is a former member of the Night Wolves biker gang, went to China with Putin and is personally sanctioned by Ukraine for his role in abducting children www.propublica.org/article/dona...
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Donald Trump Jr.’s Wedding Bankrolled by Putin-Linked Russian Oligarch
The oligarch, Umar Kremlev, spent hundreds of thousands on expenses like renting out a private island. He appears to have met Trump Jr. only recently, but he attended the intimate wedding with a large...
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Olga Nesterova @onestpress.onestnetwork.com · 13/09/2026
“Russia's drone capabilities have improved so much that Iran asked Moscow this year for advanced Geran drones for use in its war with Israel and the U.S., according to officials cited by the Financial Times.” Against the US. Russian drones.
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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 10/09/2026
Can you spot the secret message? 👀
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Sophie Plowden @sophieplowden.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
www.theguardian.com/world/2026/s...
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Secret systems used by Israel in mass killings of Gaza civilians revealed in new film
Testimony from Israeli military insiders involved in surveillance and remote killings features in documentary produced by the Guardian
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Count Binface @countbinface.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
You might have to turn up for the results of this one, Nige.
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Alexander Brown @alexofbrown.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Full story as Labour select Camden Council leader Sagal Abdi-Wali to stand in Keir Starmer's old seat www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...
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Labour select Camden Council leader to stand in by-election for Starmer's seat
The contest poses a headache for the new PM Andy Burnham, who helped Labour defeat the Greens in both the Makerfield by-election and the Greater Manchester Mayoral race
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Robert Saunders @robertsaunders.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
90 years ago, Parliament responded to the rise of Oswald Mosley's Blackshirts by passing the Public Order Act, which banned political uniforms, private militias and the threat of force for political objects. The debates make very resonant reading today. Here's the Liberal Robert Bernays. (Short 🧵)
You cannot conduct a fair match when one side is playing with a ball and the other with bombs and, if democracy is to survive, it must be conducted according to definite and recognised rule. One of them is that no political party should resort to any weapon other than reason and argument. The introduction of private armies, as I see it, strikes at the root of democracy. I know it is contended that the Blackshirts are not armed and, therefore, are not an army, but I do not think that argument can be upheld. … Uniformed men in military formation suggest, and are meant to suggest, the idea of force. It is no argument to reply that at this or that demonstration no force is intended. It is an inescapable fact that a uniform in politics symbolises force, to be used either now or in the future.
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Libération @liberation.fr · 07/09/2026
Un passage du document, stipulant en anglais que la France va «accepter» sur son sol les migrants interceptés dans les eaux britanniques, ne figure pas dans la traduction française. ➡️ l.liberation.fr/1sJ
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Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Christopher Harborne - the Reform mega donor who gave Farage £5m - is suing ex-Reform deputy leader, Ben Habib. The particulars of claim have now been published. And we need to talk about them. 1/
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Palestinian children watch The Lion King in Gaza. Photo: Omar Ashtawy
Children watch the movie on a screen outside. In the background the ruins of Gaza
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Naomi Smith @pimlicat.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Cambridge to probe Orr www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...
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Cambridge University launches probe into James Orr after Reform donations sting
James Orr stepped down from Reform UK after claims he arranged to have polling paid for by an overseas company
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Olga Nesterova @onestpress.onestnetwork.com · 03/09/2026
My day has been made 🐱


Emmanuel Macron # @Emmanue...• 18h
• Translated from French
The Bayeux Tapestry in London.
A thousand years of history, on display at the
British Museum....
@ 72
1 432 6.2K il1 150K只企

Larry the Cat @@Number10cat • 16h
Must. Resist. Urge. To. Scratch.


Emmanuel Macron #@Emmanue...42m 9 .
Please. Resist. I count on you.
Enjoy the Tapestry and long live the Entente amicale!
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Helen Warrell @helenwarrell.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
James Orr: Reform’s head of policy, Cambridge theologian, architect of the new British right. Our profile for @ftweekend.com looks at his links to the Maga movement, Silicon Valley & European populists, and his life as a Cambridge lecturer with @ramshodgson.bsky.social www.ft.com/content/c2d0...
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James Orr and the gospel of the new British right
Reform’s policy head is a Cambridge theologian with an enviable contact book and a belief in ‘faith, family and flag’
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
New More in Common Westminster poll has Reform in third place. Farage *is not* going to be Prime Minister. 🌹 LAB 26% (-1) 🌳 CON 23% (+1) ⏩ REF 22% (-1) 🔶 LIB DEM 11% (+1) 🟢 GREEN 9% (-) ⚫ RES: 4% (-) 🟡 SNP 3% (+1)
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Robin Ince @robinince.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Did he then take it with him, download it to his system, and then have it shredded
British Museum held private viewing of Bayeux Tapestry
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Byline Times @bylinetimes.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
📌 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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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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Rebecca Thompson 🦋 @rebalynn.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Taormina Station, Sicily, Italy. 1928, architect Roberto Narducci
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William Shakespeare @shakespeare.lol · 25/08/2026
[Exit Queen.]
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Olga Nesterova @onestpress.onestnetwork.com · 24/08/2026
Putin signed a decree to “seize the businesses and full assets of businesses of those that fail to protect themselves from Ukrainian drone and missile attacks”.
DECREE
OF THE PRESIDENT OF THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION
On measures to ensure the security of critical infrastructure facilities of the Russian Federation
In connection with the increase during the period of the special military operation of threats to the security of critical infrastructure facilities of the Russian Federation and in accordance with the Federal Constitutional Law of January 30, 2002 No. 1-FKZ. "On Martial Law", federal laws of May 31, 1996 No. 61-FZ "On Defense" and of December 28, 2010 No. 390-FZ
"On Security", I decree:
1. To establish that in the event of failure or untimely adoption by the owner of measures to ensure the security of critical infrastructure facilities of the Russian Federation (hereinafter referred to as critical infrastructure facilities), or violation by the owner of the requirements for ensuring their security provided for by normative legal acts of the Russian Federation and decisions of authorities authorized in the field of ensuring the security of critical infrastructure facilities, or creation by the owner of a threat to the security of critical infrastructure facilities, or normal functioning of such facilities (including in the event of identification of the ineffectiveness of measures implemented directly to prevent the threat of an attack using unmanned aerial vehicles), or failure to restore or untimely restoration by the owner of the normal functioning of such facilities, temporary management of the operation of such facilities may be introduced by decision of the Government of the Russian Federation, adopted on the basis of a directive from the President of the Russian Federation.
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KimBo @zapperfan7.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
A rooftop wind turbine that could change the way we think about home energy Imagine generating electricity from the wind without needing a massive tower, a huge plot of land, or a traditional wind farm. The technology shown here is designed to bring small-scale wind generation directly onto rooftops
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Byline Times @bylinetimes.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
🟡 MAGAZINE The Race Science Network that Penetrated Cambridge University and Targeted Jason Arday By @nafeez.bsky.social Read below. ↓
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The Race Science Network that Penetrated Cambridge University and Targeted Jason Arday – Byline Times Digital / Print Edition
The media’s disproportionate coverage of the academic’s life was fuelled by the campaign of an established far-right network. Nafeez Ahmed reports
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Byline Times @bylinetimes.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
🔴 The Peter Thiel-Linked Race Science Network that Penetrated Cambridge University and Targeted Jason Arday The academic's coordinated targeting by an explicitly anti-black race science network did not come out of nowhere, reports @nafeez.bsky.social
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The Peter Thiel-Linked Race Science Network that Penetrated Cambridge University and Targeted Jason Arday
The media's coverage of the academic's life was fuelled by the campaign of an established far-right network
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Byline Times @bylinetimes.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
🔴 NEW Andy Burnham’s Government Sues Conservative-Linked VIP Lane PPE Firm for £90 Million By Russell Scott Read below. ↓
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Andy Burnham’s Government Sues Conservative-Linked VIP Lane PPE Firm for £90 Million
Documents obtained by Byline Times reveal how a Conservative MP whose office is housed in a building owned by the firm, lobbied officials to push through the deal
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ContempraInn 🌹 @contemprainn.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
POV: You started a towel war with the housekeeper at your hotel [📹evinmaz]
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Anti-Reform @antireform.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
"t’s almost like everything we warned you about Reform was true… 😬 Behind the matey schtick, Nigel will sell Clacton down the river in a heartbeat. He’s not your friend" via Reform Are Not Your Friends
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Max Colbert @mc00.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
🔴NEW: Reform UK Paid £440,000 to Firms Linked to Party Insiders Exclusive: Electoral Commission filings reveal payments to companies run by Reform activists, donors and a former party chairman Me and @josiahmortimer.bsky.social, for @bylinetimes.bsky.social: bylinetimes.com/2026/08/14/r...
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Reform UK Paid £440,000 to Firms Linked to Party Insiders
Exclusive: Electoral Commission filings reveal payments to companies run by Reform activists, donors and a former party chairman
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Simon Marks @simonmarksfsn.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Sailors aboard the USS Abraham Lincoln are trying to jump overboard, so despondent are they about conditions onboard. Mine for @theipaper.com 📰: inews.co.uk/news/world/t...
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Trump is abandoning his navy. Sailors are paying a brutal price
The US President's war is stretching his Navy – and the cracks are showing
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Anne @anneb.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
Looking in the card section and this font seems a bit off.
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john.in.chicago @john-in-chicago.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
I remember watching this when it aired live in September, 1976, the Muppet Show's first season. I didn't know who Rita Moreno was, only that she was amazing. She won a Primetime Emmy for Outstanding Individual Performance in a Variety or Music Program. Happy Sunday Funday! 🥵
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Josiah Mortimer @josiahmortimer.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
Reform spent £4,376,601 on campaigning last year, essentially flat on the general election year - but £8,944,096 on unexplained "office costs". No breakdown anywhere. Much smaller parties than Reform give detailed breakdowns of what went into those figures.
Office costs 2025 8,944,096 and 2024: 2,601,650
Campaign cost 2025 4,376,601 and 2024: 4,248,408
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Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
It's real alright www.flightaware.com/live/flight/...
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Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
NEW: The Abramovich connection. How convicted money launderer George Cottrell - & close aide to Nigel Farage - ‘signed documents’ for one of Putin’s closest allies. My latest for @thenerve.news 1/ www.thenerve.news/p/george-cot...
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Farage, George Cottrell and Putin’s friend Abramovich
Source reveals convicted money launderer and Reform leader’s close ally worked as a young man for the now-sanctioned oligarch after becoming friends with his son. Report by Carole Cadwalladr
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Lisa O’Carroll @lisaocarroll.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
Exclusive: Some EU citizens in the UK have been contacted by the Home Office to say they were granted settlement status after Brexit "in error". If you know anyone this happened to contact me on lisa.ocarroll@theguardian.com www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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EU citizens in UK get letters telling them post-Brexit residency rights were given ‘in error’
After years of building lives in UK, potentially thousands of EU citizens could be told they have no right to remain
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Laura Phillips @lauraphillips.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
@gabrielpogrund.bsky.social: ‘EXCLUSIVE Nigel Farage struck secret deal for return as Reform leader months before election — challenging claim he wasn't involved in politics so didn't need to report gifts. In May 24 he showed deal to treasurer, who tonight acknowledged its existence’
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Nigel Farage struck Reform comeback deal long before election
Supervised by the convicted fraudster George Cottrell, the agreement undermines Farage’s claim about when he decided to return to politics
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THE NERVE @thenerve.news · 01/08/2026
Farage, George Cottrell and Putin’s friend Abramovich: source reveals the convicted money launderer and Reform leader’s close ally worked for the now-sanctioned oligarch Report by @carolecadwalla.bsky.social www.thenerve.news/p/george-cot...
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Count Binface @countbinface.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
✅ Touring Clacton ✅ Visiting local businesses ✅ Listening to constituents’ concerns ✅ Hi-vis vest Make your Vote Count! #VoteBinface #Clacton
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Peter Walker @peterwalker99.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
I realise this is Restore Britain etc etc, but it's nonetheless pretty shocking.
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Dr Nafeez Ahmed @nafeez.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
EXCLUSIVE: Last week, @bylinetimes.bsky.social revealed the George Cottrell identity fraud at Reform UK's heart. Today, we expose how that same fraud links Cottrell and Reform to sanctioned Russian oligarchs and individuals tied to Russian state-linked enterprises bylinetimes.com/2026/07/27/h...
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How George Cottrell’s Reform UK Network in Montenegro Is Tied to Sanctioned Russian Oligarchs
Nigel Farage's criminal funder runs a Montenegro company whose corporate advisors work for a Belgrade Russian-arms dealer and individuals tied to Russian state-linked enterprises
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