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Tristram Hicks

@warondirtymoney.bsky.social
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Author: The War on Dirty Money, The EU Financial investigation Handbook. Ex senior cop, crime scientist. open.substack.com/pub/tristramhicks…

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Andrew @openpolicy.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
UK police now arresting journalists covering protests against an Israeli drone manufacturing factory in the UK. Someone ask Ed Miliband how the defence of the UK’s human rights record will go, the next time they’re scrutinised in Geneva. pressgazette.co.uk/media_law/fi... #genocide
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At least five journalists arrested at Palestine Action protest
At least five journalists were briefly arrested while covering a pro-Palestine Action protest in Leicester on Thursday.
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Tristram Hicks @warondirtymoney.bsky.social · 18h
BBC analysis of the Green Party Conference 🧐🤣
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Tristram Hicks @warondirtymoney.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Maths test: When the Green Party increased their share of the vote in a by-election from 10% to 32% is it fairer to say that they ‘more than tripled their vote’ or ‘increased their vote share by 22 % points’? bbc.com/news/article...
bbc.com
Zack Polanski vows to stay as Green leader as he faces criticism after by-election defeat
Jewish Greens' leader has said Polanski should resign in the wake of a Zionism row and by-election defeat.
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Josiah Mortimer @josiahmortimer.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
🔴 Green Party Would Force Daily Mail Owner to Sell Up Papers Big changes to the party's media policy over the weekend bylinetimes.com/2026/10/08/g...
bylinetimes.com
Green Party Would Force Daily Mail Owner to Sell Up Papers
Zack Polanski's party also backs plans to force media companies to operate under a licence granted by a regulator
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Tristram Hicks @warondirtymoney.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
What a wonderful post. Natural beauty in British waters. Just look at these photos!
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Tristram Hicks @warondirtymoney.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
This is a sharp analysis of what happened.
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Tristram Hicks @warondirtymoney.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
The good old days. Green public transport for rural areas.
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Tristram Hicks @warondirtymoney.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
A moment of honesty from the Trump administration.
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
The RNLI rescued Luftwaffe pilots in WW2 because the organisation is there to 'save life at sea' - it's something to be immensely proud of. But as I've said many times before Farage and Co don't seem to have pride in Britain and its institutions beyond flags and crap Enoch Powell said 60 years ago.
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🇨🇵 Clare Price-Jones 🇪🇺 @clucksky.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
So basically, this is the BBC saying, yes Michael Gove lied & its OK for our journalists not to challenge lies.
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Chris Smith @ledredman.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Rejoining is inevitable. The only variable is how much more damage will be done to the UK by further delay. Many on the left and centre are already running scared of taking the fight to the fascists and would rather just give them an ongoing veto over our future prosperity.
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Tristram Hicks @warondirtymoney.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
A film about a train ride from Finland to Portugal, what a great idea!
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Tristram Hicks @warondirtymoney.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Switzerland’s love of referendums comes from formal education about them. Contrast this with the UK and its insane EU Referendum.
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Tristram Hicks @warondirtymoney.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
The replies to this post are a good discussion.
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Brexit Bin 🇪🇺 🇬🇧 🇩🇪 @brexitbin.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
In case you missed it ... Labour hasn't officially talked about the benefits of EU and Single Market membership for over 10 years now. So do they expect to just pop it into the next manifesto without a warm up? It isn't enough to just mention Brexit damage. You have to say what makes the EU great!
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Tristram Hicks @warondirtymoney.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
A Reform motion at a local council meeting was defeated, somehow this is national news for the BBC, as part of their relentless promotion of the party. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
bbc.co.uk
Reform small boat vote in Portsmouth branded 'political stunt'
The leader of Portsmouth City Council denies his party does not oppose small boat crossings.
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Tristram Hicks @warondirtymoney.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
What billionaires do with their time and your money.
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Tristram Hicks @warondirtymoney.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
The Chancellor should be drawing red lines - in circles around these ideas. The UK not short of money, it is short of imagination.
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Tristram Hicks @warondirtymoney.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
A moment to recall another mayor: “The beaches are safe, get back in the water!”
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Tristram Hicks @warondirtymoney.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
The BBC used the same framing as this Telegraph front page. It’s not thugs and intimidation that closed the RNLI station and put lives at risk, they say it was ‘anti-migrant protests’. The government say they have ‘legitimate concerns’.
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Tristram Hicks @warondirtymoney.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
www.bbc.com/news/article... The BBC claims that anti-migrant protests closed an RNLI station. Surely it was threats and intimidation by thugs. I accuse the BBC of supporting thugs.
bbc.com
Portsmouth RNLI lifeboat station off service after anti-migrant protest
The RNLI says it hopes to have the lifeboat station operational again as soon as possible.
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Susan Park @susanpark60.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
We in other countries just don’t understand you couldn’t see what we saw.
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Sydney EV @sydneyev.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Seems many people need to know this… You CAN put solar farms on agricultural land AND still use it as agricultural land. Means farms scan now farm food AND energy. At the same time. Thank you for coming to my TED talk.
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Andy Brown @andybrown1951.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Help to buy schemes are actually a harmful waste of government money. They enable people to bid more for property and just put up market prices at massive expense. Try building council houses instead www.theguardian.com/money/2026/s...
theguardian.com
Help-to-buy scheme delivered ‘very high value for money,’ review finds
Exclusive: George Osborne’s programme to reduce costs for first-time buyers delivered £25bn in social value in UK last year
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Paul Blinkhorn @paulblinkhorn.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
You can't blame Ed Sheeran for caving in to American stadium owners I suppose. I mean, take these guys in the 60s, they refused to play to racially-segregated audiences in stadiums in the southern states of the USA and who remembers them now?
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The Beatles banned segregated audiences, contract shows
The Beatles refused to play to segregated audiences in the US, a contract for one of the group's concerts shows.
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Tristram Hicks @warondirtymoney.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Britain is discovering that outside the EU, it has to be more like America. A bleak Atlantic future beckons.
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Mr RobertBob @mrrobertbob.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Reform fought for Brexit. Brexit caused the small boats. Reform helped cause the small boats.
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Tristram Hicks @warondirtymoney.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Labour’s has a robust response to the £72m drowning British democracy. They’ve asked me for three quid. What should I do?
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Tristram Hicks @warondirtymoney.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
At last, a broad overview of domestic #corruption in the #UK. Professor Barrington turns over every stone and finds actual corruption or substantial risk. From politics to sport, from fruitless national public enquiries to local government. How far is the UK from the endgame of state capture?
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Tristram Hicks @warondirtymoney.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Tourist tax is normally a small flat rate (per head not a complicated % calculation). Tourist locations apply to charge it based on a commitment to invest in tourism attractions. It’s not an opportunity for ripping off tourists.
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The Green Party of England & Wales @greenparty.org.uk · 09/09/2026
On Emergency Services Day, the Green Party stands in solidarity with the incredible work of the RNLI. They are true patriots who selflessly risk their own lives to save others at sea.
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Jason Scott-Warren @jes1003.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Last chance to vote for a free press: petition.parliament.uk/petitions/76...
petition.parliament.uk
Petition: Ban foreign media ownership, enact a social media levy & new regulatory reform
Pass law to ban foreign & offshore ownership of UK media, enact a social-media levy to distribute media ownership across society & fund independent, local & cooperative-owned media. We believe democra...
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Josiah Mortimer @josiahmortimer.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Reform UK has been removed from the Alliance for Proportional Representation. It comes after a Q&A at conference where Reform MP Danny Kruger said: “On PR there is a significant danger [Lab.] will try to introduce it...Reform’s position is we support First Past the Post.” Reform's 2024 manifesto:
Proportional Representation Voting for the
House of Commons
Large numbers of voters have no representation
in parliament and new parties are shut out of the
political system. Voter turnout could be some 10%
higher with PR. A referendum is needed.
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Tristram Hicks @warondirtymoney.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
The actual news is in Private Eye again. As it has been for the the last forty years.
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Tristram Hicks @warondirtymoney.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
The successful intimidation of a County Police Force to conduct the illegal closures of public roads should be attracting more concern from the authorities.
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Mark Shepstone @mrshepstone.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Why haven’t they been arrested yet?
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Tristram Hicks @warondirtymoney.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Latest news | Kent Police 300 men in balaclavas and black clothing, brought to Dover in rental vans. They successfully blocked the port. No arrests, no information on the Kent Police website.
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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Labour stands up for corporations and big money. I'm running to stand up for people and our communities. www.camdennewjournal.co.uk/article/excl...
camdennewjournal.co.uk
Exclusive: Green Party leader Zack Polanski tells CNJ he WILL go for Holborn and St Pancras
Green leader lays out hopes for by-election
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Tristram Hicks @warondirtymoney.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
I just supported Wikipedia. I kept telling myself I would and that I should, but then I kept being distracted. Do you feel the same? Maybe now is the moment, click below! Wikipedia 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
Donate to the Wikimedia Foundation, the nonprofit that hosts Wikipedia and other crucial free knowledge projects. Each year, the generosity of the 2% of readers who donate allows us to expand the reac...
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Tristram Hicks @warondirtymoney.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Legacy media up to no good in the #UK
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Tristram Hicks @warondirtymoney.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
This looks like policing for profit in rip-off Britain, with absent regulators, as usual. www.warringtonguardian.co.uk/news/2627015...
warringtonguardian.co.uk
Councillor calls on those handed Warburton Toll Bridge fines to contact regulators
A COUNCILLOR has called for people handed fines for crossing Warburton Toll Bridge to contact regulators.
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Josiah Mortimer @josiahmortimer.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Andy Burnham's diagnosis of what has gone wrong in Britain: "From the 1980s, this country took a series of wrong turns. "Political power was centralised, economic power privatised. The country deindustrialised. Austerity followed, hollowing out councils... "And then Brexit compounded the damage."
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Rachel Rees @rachel-rees.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
As honoured as I am to see that The Times has picked up my Chagos article practically *word for word*, including my hard-gotten quotes, I’d prefer some credit — or for everyone to read my original FT piece! free link to read the evidently enviable article below (cheaper than a Times sub!) 🌴
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Ian H 💚🇬🇧🏳️‍🌈🇪🇺 @muchechops.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
more staff worked for each UK utility prior to privatisation & we saw better service, better maintenance, better coordination, better roads post-works making-good. staff were also in Unions, PAYE & Nat Ins. were handled. it was all so much more ... adult, coordinated, grownup, sensible... now...
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Tristram Hicks @warondirtymoney.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Interesting. What would an Accredited Financial Investigator make of this?
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Tristram Hicks @warondirtymoney.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Carnet to speak to European Parliament, stealing a march on the UK.
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Tristram Hicks @warondirtymoney.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Since 18 August in the afternoons I checked the UK news tab headlines of bbc.news.co.uk for mentions of political party policies. Conservative 0 Green 0 Labour 0 LibDem 0 Reform 5 separate stories Scots, Welsh, Irish parties 0 According to Auntie, only Reform have any policies.
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Tristram Hicks @warondirtymoney.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Friday’s review of UK news headlines on BBC News.co.uk Revealed no mention of any UK political parties. I’m checking every afternoon.
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Home - News UK
Our world-class content provides a responsible and brand-safe context for our commercial partners to reach millions of engaged and inspired consumers in highly targeted and impactful ways.
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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Labour’s ludicrous ban has made Britain a laughing stock around the world. To everyone that is apart from Donald Trump. www.politico.com/news/2026/08...
politico.com
Trump to declare Palestine Action a global terror group
The UK group would face the same sanctions as Hamas and Islamic State in a move that would see supporters banned from US.
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Tristram Hicks @warondirtymoney.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
A thoughtful piece about the Ardlay media scandal. The role of Cambridge University and the mainstream media’s monetisation of abuse especially interesting. broligarchy.substack.com/p/a-digital-...
broligarchy.substack.com
A Digital Lynching
A practical guide for individuals and organisations when the mobs gather
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