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Gary Godfrey

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Developer of Transparency First, The UK Parliament declarations of interest analysis tool. www.transparencyfirst.org

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Gary Godfrey @transparencyfirst.org · 30/09/2026
@news.sky.com you've just asked a question about means testing the state pension. It doesn't need to be, it's taxed, the more income somebody has in their retirement the more likely somebody is to have to pay it all back, without having the additional admin of means testing.
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Gary Godfrey @transparencyfirst.org · 03/08/2026
Transparency really should be first. It should be our decision and based on facts rather than tabloid style hysteria.
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Gary Godfrey @transparencyfirst.org · 03/08/2026
If only politics were as political as football, we might have had a response that boycotted and divested from all the MAGAlomaniacs that we have empowered over the last 70 years instead of sucking up to them.
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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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Gary Godfrey @transparencyfirst.org · 03/08/2026
Why has the horse got one of Infantino's pumps on?
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Gary Godfrey @transparencyfirst.org · 03/08/2026
Most of the time, I try to stay impartial.
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Nigel Farage just took a question from a 'journalist' at his press conference, who turned out to be his former chief adviser Raheem Kassam, who asks him why the media are being so unfair to him
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Gary Godfrey @transparencyfirst.org · 05/07/2026
I support Wikipedia, where information is still human-created, fact-checked, and 100% free. Join me! donate.wikimedia.org
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Make your donation now - Wikimedia Foundation
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Gary Godfrey @transparencyfirst.org · 22/06/2026
@news.sky.com I support any decision that keeps Palantir out of Britian. It's a question of sovereignty & morality. Fujitsu couldn't be trusted with the Post Office. Why trust a company whose CEO doesn't pretend to have a moral compass when a British citizen, Paula Venals, is unaccountable.
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Mojeek Search Engine @mojeek.com · 20/01/2026
Just say No
"just say no to google", next to mojeekbot in a coat
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Gary Godfrey @transparencyfirst.org · 03/05/2026
Wow, a UK based search engine with privacy at its core. www.mojeek.com/about/techno...
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Team, Technology and History - Mojeek
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We Own It @weownit.org.uk · 26/11/2025
"The cost of high energy bills must be tackled at source" Rachel Reeves says at #Budget2025 That means ENDING PRIVATISATION
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Gary Godfrey @transparencyfirst.org · 02/12/2025
I just keep getting, "We couldn’t verify that postcode. Please check and try again."
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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 05/09/2025
Since this is apparently a resigning matter, I’ll just leave this here… www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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Nigel Farage uses private company to pay less tax on GB News earnings
Exclusive: Reform leader’s use of personal services firm is a practice criticised across the political spectrum
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Russ Jones @russincheshire.bsky.social · 05/09/2025
Angela Rayner accidentally pays less tax than she should have, resigns, and the media gives her hell. Nigel Farage deliberately pays less tax than he should have, and the media gives him a free pass. That, right there, is the problem.
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Gary Godfrey @transparencyfirst.org · 31/07/2025
Dyson's worst invention?
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Gary Godfrey @transparencyfirst.org · 28/07/2025
The Sarah Champion quote in that article is from December 2022. www.parallelparliament.co.uk/mp/sarah-cha...
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Sarah Champion - All Online Safety Act 2023 Contributions
Sarah Champion contributions to the debate - [<Hansard_Headlines: Online Safety Bill>] debate
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Gary Godfrey @transparencyfirst.org · 28/07/2025
@garyseconomics.bsky.social Keep up the good work guys.
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Gary Godfrey @transparencyfirst.org · 28/07/2025
What I find disturbing is that they are allowed to use the term "Gaming", but I don't see the UK Parliament getting a grip of them while they have links into Parliament like this. www.transparencyfirst.org/entity_view/...
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Gary Godfrey @transparencyfirst.org · 28/07/2025
What I find disturbing is that they are allowed to use the term "Gaming", but I don't see the UK Parliament getting a grip of them while they have links into Parliament like this. www.transparencyfirst.org/entity_view/...
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Gary Godfrey @transparencyfirst.org · 16/07/2025
New feature on Transparency First! Registered users can now activate a weekly notification summarising all changes to politicians, e.g. Labour MPs standing against the party leader or Reform MPs embroiled in corruption allegations. www.transparencyfirst.org/site_news_ar...
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Gary Godfrey @transparencyfirst.org · 16/07/2025
Is an electrician turning off the leccy in your building tomorrow? Why not pop in to Jelly Liverpool and say hello? They have juice at The Science Park, both kinds.
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Gary Godfrey @transparencyfirst.org · 05/07/2025
I'm roaming down to Liverpool Library for Makefest. It's all about land at Ignite today.. igniteliverpool.com/2025/06/igni...
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Ignite Futures – Who owns the land? | Ignite Liverpool
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Good Law Project @goodlawproject.org · 05/07/2025
Over 7,000 people have asked Google and Apple to stop putting profit before children's safety. Will you join them? goodlawproject.org/petition/tim...
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It’s time for app stores to ban fake age ratings
Google and Apple must stop making cash out of conning kids and their parents through fake app store age ratings. Join our fight!
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DoESLiverpool @doesliverpool.com · 05/07/2025
We're at Liverpool Central Library today (Saturday 5th July 9am - 5pm), as part of Liverpool MakeFest. Come and have a chat. And don't miss Mike G's newly finished, completely hand latch-hooked, Very Large Rug (3.12m x 4.05m) on the first floor! #LpoolMakeFest #Makers
A huge latch-hooked rug featuring a nighttime view of Liverpool Waterfront with fireworks
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Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
🧵 Just finished reading Upgrading Democracy by @pollycurtis.bsky.social at @demos-uk.bsky.social . It’s a sharp, hopeful intervention in the face of democratic breakdown, and it aligns in profound ways with the epistemic collapse I’ve been tracking in my own work. demos.co.uk/wp-content/u...
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Alex Parsons @alexparsons.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
New blog post on recent news in MP register of interests land www.mysociety.org/2025/07/02/w...
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WhoFundsThem Update: July 2025
Recently declared freebies, cash for questions paper trails, paid membership of APPGs, and how we can help the public set the rules of the game.
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Gary Godfrey @transparencyfirst.org · 26/06/2025
Makers, get down to MakeFest and party.
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Gary Godfrey @transparencyfirst.org · 20/06/2025
We have just implemented some long overdue filtering options on Transparency First. Read about them and sign-up here... www.transparencyfirst.org/site_news_ar...
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Django @djangoproject.com · 20/06/2025
🤫 new stickers in the works for our Django Software Foundation donors www.djangoproject.com/fundraising/ Come get them at #EuroPython / #DjangoConAfrica / #DjangoConUS!
Sticker design, I donate heart djangoSticker design, powered by django
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Gary Godfrey @transparencyfirst.org · 18/06/2025
Bored of sitting in the house working on your own? Get to Jelly Liverpool tomorrow, 19th June, at The Liverpool Science Park. It's by "Paddy's Wigwam" (I'm Scouse, of Catholic heritage, and a friend of The First Nations) for some IRL social networking in the sunshine. Jelly, it's good for you.
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Neil Morrin @defnetmedia.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
Call for Speakers: Who Owns the Land? 5th July We’re inviting speakers to contribute to an event exploring the history and future of land ownership in the UK — a subject that touches on everything from power and privilege to housing, environment, and justice igniteliverpool.com/2025/06/igni...
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Ignite Futures – Who owns the land? | Ignite Liverpool
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Django Girls+ @djangogirls.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
Free training course! 📣 Learn about the 3 STEP approach for #STEM educators working to promote social justice and equity, developed by UCL experts @makingspaces.bsky.social‬ Join us and help more underserved communities access #STEM. Email claire@djangogirls.org to apply
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DoESLiverpool @doesliverpool.com · 31/05/2025
Our next🔧Hack the Space day🪛and Community meeting is this Sunday 1st June. Please come along for either or both if you can! Space hacking from 10am & community meeting from 1-3pm. Join the meeting remotely via this link: ca.meet.coop/b/adr-ctr-trg Agenda and minutes here: github.com/DoESLiverpoo...
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Gary Godfrey @transparencyfirst.org · 31/05/2025
Lord Hart has declarations on the system from his time as an MP, log in to see the details.
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Gary Godfrey @transparencyfirst.org · 31/05/2025
This week we have 2 new member of the Lords; Lord Hart of Tenby, formerly Simon Hart of Carmarthen West and South Pembrokeshire. www.transparencyfirst.org/politician_v... -and- Baroness Shawcross–Wolfson, or Eleanor Shawcross (former advisor to Rishi Sunak.) www.transparencyfirst.org/politician_v...
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Gary Godfrey @transparencyfirst.org · 29/05/2025
Doing today at DoES with Jelly Liverpool coworking group. Fifth Thursday in May, it's Jelly does #DoubleDoES.
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Gary Godfrey @transparencyfirst.org · 23/05/2025
The Lords' declaration feed is back this weekend. www.transparencyfirst.org/site_news_ar... Subscribers to any Lords' members will see lots of changes in their subscription report tomorrow. This is due to the removal of three categories of declaration in the V14 House of Lords Code of Conduct.
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Peter Geoghegan @petergeoghegan.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
Westminster's business appointments watchdog Acoba has *no power* to sanction forward ministers who break its rules. Even Acoba's former chair has described it as "toothless". So where is the ethics and integrity commission that Keir Starmer promised? democracyforsale.substack.com/p/conservati...
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Conservative defence minister joins Peter Thiel’s Palantir
Calls for action as trio of ex-defence ministers take up lucrative private sector jobs, including with US spy tech firm that’s helping Trump deport migrants
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Gary Godfrey @transparencyfirst.org · 06/05/2025
Looking for inspiration as a sole trader, independent small business, or just want to get creative? Come to Jelly Liverpool this Thursday 8th May, at @doesliverpool.com We're well-connected, enthusiastic, tech-savvy and have very strong coffee. ☕️ www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/free-cowor...
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Free Coworking and Business Networking at Does Liverpool
So what is Jelly about?  For those who work independently or remotely, Jelly is an environment where they can broaden your network
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Gary Godfrey @transparencyfirst.org · 02/05/2025
We're making adjustments at Transparency First to cope with the Code of Conduct changes in the House of Lords. First phase; switch off the old code and reprocess the data we captured before the changes filtered into their API. For more details... www.transparencyfirst.org/site_news_ar...
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Gary Godfrey @transparencyfirst.org · 01/05/2025
Can't stand the heat? Join us for a chilled coworking day at Jelly Liverpool. We're at the Novotel today.
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Gary Godfrey @transparencyfirst.org · 01/05/2025
"It is clear that Westminster has narrow and ineffective lobbying regulations, making it the international outlier. This regime undermines trust in our political system and leaves it open to scandal." Read the full report here...
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The National @scotnational.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
NEW: Peers are set to be given a new secrecy right in their register of interests, following a review of the House of Lords code of conduct.
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House of Lords to be given new secrecy right in code of conduct shake up
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Rachel Coldicutt @rachelcoldicutt.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
Are you a UK-based technologist interested in joining a body that acts in solidarity against the excesses of extractive platform capitalism? Fill out this survey, and help design the Society for Hopeful Technologists www.careful.industries/blog/2025-4-...
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Survey: Society for Hopeful Technologists — Careful Industries
Are you a UK-based technologist interested in joining a body that acts in solidarity against the excesses of extractive platform capitalism? Complete this survey to help shape the Society for Hopef...
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Gary Godfrey @transparencyfirst.org · 21/04/2025
Whether or not the items declared previously under the missing categories are included or not in the 14th Edition of the Code of Conduct, this change makes analysis of House of Lords members declarations harder.
Directorships old category 1	removed
Renumeration Employment etc.	old category 2	new category 1
People with significant control of a company	old category 3	removed
Shareholdings	old category 4	new category 2
Land and Property	old category 5	new category 3
Sponsorship	old category 6	new category 4
Overseas Visits	old category 7	new category 5
Gifts, benefits and hospitality	old category 8	new category 6
Miscellaneous financial interests	old category 9	new category 7
Non-financial interests	category 10	removed
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Gary Godfrey @transparencyfirst.org · 21/04/2025
I've not had that much time to look at this yet but I've finally found evidence that the Code of Conduct for the House of Lords has just changed. Now to do the analysis on the changes and update Transparency First's API. www.parliament.uk/business/lor...
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House of Lords Code of Conduct: previous versions
The Code of Conduct provides members of the House of Lords with guidance on the standards of conduct expected of them in performing their parliamentary duties
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Freedom House @freedomhouse.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
📣 NEW: #FreedomInTheWorld 2025 is now LIVE! freedomhouse.org/report/freed... Violence and repression around elections, ongoing armed conflicts, and the spread of authoritarian practices contributed to the 19th consecutive year of global freedom in decline. (1/🧵)
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Gary Godfrey @transparencyfirst.org · 17/04/2025
A form from 2023 includes a separate category for Directorships and today's guidance, which has mergered directorships under employment, which was distinct.
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Gary Godfrey @transparencyfirst.org · 17/04/2025
Looking at this undated article, it's not just the API category ID that has changed. it's also the House of Lords declaration category definitions that have changed. Does anybody know how to get updates from the Parliament Software Engineering team? Apart from softwareengineering@parliament.uk
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Guide to the House of Lords Code of Conduct
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