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Sam Bright

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Investigative journalist, author, and Yorkshireman. DeSmog’s UK deputy editor. writesbright.substack.com

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Sam Bright @writesbright.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Have been listening to some smart people over the past few days on how Labour can beat Reform. Here are a few things they said 👇🏻
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Lessons on how to beat Reform
🔴 Inside Labour conference...
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Sam Bright @writesbright.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Have been listening to some smart people over the past few days on how Labour can beat Reform. Here are a few things they said 👇🏻
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Lessons on how to beat Reform
🔴 Inside Labour conference...
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DeSmog @desmog.com · 29/09/2026
🔴 NEW - Tony Blair Institute Brings Gas-Guzzling Tech Giants to Labour Conference The think tank has received extensive funding from U.S. tech interests. 📝 @writesbright.bsky.social
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Tony Blair Institute Brings Gas-Guzzling Tech Giants to Labour Conference
LIVERPOOL – The think tank led by former Labour Prime Minister Tony Blair has hosted a number of events sponsored by Trump-donating tech firms at this year’s party conference. The Tony Blair Institute...
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Val Dobson @valdobson.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
The RNLI aren’t traitors; they’re heroes writesbright.substack.com/p/the-rnli-a...
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The RNLI aren’t traitors; they’re heroes
📝 A guest essay...
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Steve Whalley @whalleysteve.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
As the Tories recover a smidgen of lost ground, it's worth remembering where their interests lie.
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Kenny Stewart @kennystew.art · 24/09/2026
I know it’s a pretty tired and far from original point by now, but consider this versus someone holding up a Palestine Action sign and muse on which this government considers support for terrorism.
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Sam Bright @writesbright.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
🔴 What do Farage’s crypto billionaires want?
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What do Farage’s crypto billionaires want?
An industry with a lot on the line...
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Damian Hastie @damianhastie.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
I built OC Political to follow the money in British politics. Every donation since 2001, MPs' interests, ministerial meetings, lobbying, company records, even property. Joined up and searchable in one place. This week it became free. Register & dig in: www.openandcandid.com
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Open & Candid — Follow the money through Britain's public registers
OC Political is free for everyone. Donations, interests, contracts, companies and land, joined up and source-linked.
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DeSmog @desmog.com · 23/09/2026
🔴 NEW - UAE Influence on Reform Should be Investigated –Report The Gulf petrostate is forging alliances with radical right-wing parties across the world. 📝 @adambarnett.bsky.social
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UAE Influence on Reform Should be Investigated – Report
The ties between Nigel Farage’s Reform UK and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) have been described as “extensive and troubling” in a new report. The analysis by FairSquare, a non-profit which researches...
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Jim Hawkins @jimallthetime.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
What do Farage’s crypto billionaires want? An industry with a lot on the line via @writesbright.bsky.social writesbright.substack.com/p/what-do-fa...
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What do Farage’s crypto billionaires want?
An industry with a lot on the line...
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Sam Bright @writesbright.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
🔴 What do Farage’s crypto billionaires want?
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What do Farage’s crypto billionaires want?
An industry with a lot on the line...
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Sam Bright @writesbright.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Rupert Murdoch’s media empire paid £8,000+ for Kemi Badenoch to attend various meetings in Greece with company execs a few weeks ago
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Jonn Elledge @jonnelledge.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
a powerful case for appointing a secretary of state specialising in media and culture
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Josh Kaplan @josh-kaplan.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
NEW: Don Trump Jr’s luxurious wedding was secretly bankrolled by a Russian oligarch close to Putin. A saga involving private islands, the Olympics, and a Russian government-backed biker gang: 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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drawingtheline.bsky.social @drawingtheline.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
"It’s some feat to be out-manoeuvred by a party facing multiple parliamentary and police investigations, but Labour has somehow pulled it off." Embarrassing.
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Sam Bright @writesbright.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
We’re on the brink of becoming a crypto tyranny, and Labour has been asleep at the wheel
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Labour’s indecision has cost us all
Farage is trying to create an oligarchy...
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Sam Bright @writesbright.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
🔴 As I revealed, Christopher Harborne’s crypto investments are being boosted by the White House - which has introduced pro-crypto laws that Farage wants to replicate in the UK
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Tethered: How the White House is Helping Reform’s Finances
Nigel Farage’s Reform UK has stood to gain financially from the crypto connections linking it to Donald Trump’s administration, DeSmog can report. Trump’s Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick has been ac...
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Sam Bright @writesbright.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Not to be pedantic but Christopher Harborne has already given £25 million to Reform and Ben Delo £8 million. So the figure isn’t £72 million - it’s £105 million.
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Sam Bright @writesbright.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Had a rant.
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@stemwinder @stemwinder.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
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Sam Bright @writesbright.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
🔴 As I revealed, Christopher Harborne’s crypto investments are being boosted by the White House - which has introduced pro-crypto laws that Farage wants to replicate in the UK
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Tethered: How the White House is Helping Reform’s Finances
Nigel Farage’s Reform UK has stood to gain financially from the crypto connections linking it to Donald Trump’s administration, DeSmog can report. Trump’s Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick has been ac...
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Sam Bright @writesbright.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Labour should have acted quicker to stop this - and it may seriously regret not doing so
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TensegrityFan🐝🍯 @tensegrityfan.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
This continues to be a great write up on Ben Delo
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Taj Ali @tajali1.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Me and Aditya Chakrabortty in conversation on anti-racism and building working-class unity. Join us next week! Tickets here: www.waterstones.com/book/come-wh...
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Media Storm @mediastormpod.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
🌩️ NEW EPISODE 🌩️ 👉 Heatwaves & Net Zero: Who sets the climate agenda? How did long established climate science become a culture war? How does the news cycle run on fossil fuels? 🗣️ with @thediyora.bsky.social & @writesbright.bsky.social from @desmog.com
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Heatwaves and Net Zero: Who sets the climate agenda?
Media Storm · Episode
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Sam Bright @writesbright.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
🔴 NEW 🔴 Reform accepted £5 million from international investors in the second quarter of this year - putting further pressure on the party over its foreign donors. 📝 @desmog.com
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Reform Receives £5 Million from International Investors
Nigel Farage’s Reform UK received just shy of £5 million from 17 global financiers and businesspeople in the second quarter of this year, DeSmog can reveal. The party has been embroiled in scandal aft...
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Robert Saunders @robertsaunders.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
As their former Head of Policy put it, on the recent Channel 4 expose, "We just don't have British resident donors that would support us ... That's the grim reality".
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Mark🦢🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🌍 @mlz1962.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
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Sam Bright @writesbright.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
🔴 NEW 🔴 Reform accepted £5 million from international investors in the second quarter of this year - putting further pressure on the party over its foreign donors. 📝 @desmog.com
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Reform Receives £5 Million from International Investors
Nigel Farage’s Reform UK received just shy of £5 million from 17 global financiers and businesspeople in the second quarter of this year, DeSmog can reveal. The party has been embroiled in scandal aft...
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James Murray @james-bg.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Having reported on the climate crisis for 20 years I am here to inform you that warnings we've unleashed something with a >10% of destroying humanity will have less of an impact than you'd expect.
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Jim Hawkins @jimallthetime.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
The Reform leadership race has begun And it will take the party even further away from the country writesbright.substack.com/p/the-reform...
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The Reform leadership race has begun
And it will take the party even further away from the country...
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Sam Bright @writesbright.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
The Reform leadership race has begun. Thoughts on the shadow contest (the narcissism derby) between Jenrick and Yusuf
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The Reform leadership race has begun
And it will take the party even further away from the country...
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Sam Bright @writesbright.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
The Reform leadership race has begun. Thoughts on the shadow contest (the narcissism derby) between Jenrick and Yusuf
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The Reform leadership race has begun
And it will take the party even further away from the country...
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DeSmog @desmog.com · 07/09/2026
Nigel Farage Has Personally Accepted £675,000 from Foreign Sources 📝 Our investigation published in April...
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Nigel Farage Has Personally Accepted £675,000 from Foreign Sources
Reform UK leader Nigel Farage has accepted more than half a million pounds from foreign companies, governments, and donors while serving as an MP, DeSmog can reveal. Since July 2024, when he was elect...
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Sam Bright @writesbright.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Nigel Farage: the fall of a mob boss
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Nigel Farage: the fall of a mob boss
Why he’s imploding...
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Sam Bright @writesbright.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Nigel Farage: the fall of a mob boss
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Nigel Farage: the fall of a mob boss
Why he’s imploding...
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HOPE not hate @hopenothate.org.uk · 05/09/2026
🚨 BREAKING: Patriot Platform, a new far right group launched by Tommy Robinson’s right hand man Daniel Thomas (AKA Danny Tommo) has blockaded the port and several roads in Dover. The masked men are from subgroups of PP, including Sussex, Essex, and South East Patriots Here’s all you need to know.
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Sam Bright @writesbright.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Reform’s response to the Channel 4 doc: “Reform UK has a robust vetting process for prospective donors approved by the Electoral Commission.” The Electoral Commission’s riposte: “The Electoral Commission has not approved the donor vetting process for Reform, or any other party.”
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Robert Hutton @roberthutton.co.uk · 04/09/2026
With all respect to the BBC, the reason this story "matters" is not about whether it distracts from Reform's conference. It "matters" because it is important our leaders are not conspiring to break the law.
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Rachel Steele @rachcsteele.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
The most shocking moment of Channel 4’s undercover Reform sting writesbright.substack.com/p/the-most-s...
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The most shocking moment of Channel 4’s undercover Reform sting
Watch this immediately!
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Irritated Llama @irritatedllama.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Absolutely bang to rights!
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Sam Bright @writesbright.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Incredible moment in the doc when Farage’s right-hand man Dan Jukes lists several foreign donors who’ve given money to the party via their kids. It’s not just one or two backers - it’s a huge conspiracy cooked up by the party to break the law. It’s bigger than we even thought
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Channel 4 News @channel4news.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Undercover footage verified by Channel 4 News reveals a secret plot by senior Reform UK figures to break the law on party donations. A leading legal expert is now calling for a criminal investigation. 🔗 Read the exclusive story on Substack:
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Exclusive: Nigel Farage filmed undercover celebrating secret new foreign donations
Undercover footage verified by Channel 4 News reveals a secret plot by senior Reform UK figures to break the law on party donations. A leading legal expert is now calling for a criminal investigation.
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Sam Bright @writesbright.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Farage told Congress last year that he never bans journalists from his events. He spoke at the behest of an anti-abortion group, the ADF. It's ironic, and pretty revolting, that Reform banned me from its conference after I reported that three anti-abortion groups are speaking at this year's event
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Farage lies to Congress
His jaunt to Washington didn’t go exactly as planned...
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Sam Bright @writesbright.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
🔴 NEW 🔴 Reform’s conference agenda is a toxic tapas of oil interests, anti-abortion groups and Big Tech lobbyists. 👇🏻👇🏻
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Oil Lobbyists, Anti-Abortion Groups, and Tech Giants Flock to Reform Conference
Corporate titans including Google, Meta, and TikTok will be appearing at Reform UK’s annual conference this week, rubbing shoulders with fossil fuel interests, far-right politicians, and Christian rig...
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Paul Edwards @therealpaule.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Sounds like a hoot
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Sam Bright @writesbright.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
🔴 NEW 🔴 Reform’s conference agenda is a toxic tapas of oil interests, anti-abortion groups and Big Tech lobbyists. 👇🏻👇🏻
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Oil Lobbyists, Anti-Abortion Groups, and Tech Giants Flock to Reform Conference
Corporate titans including Google, Meta, and TikTok will be appearing at Reform UK’s annual conference this week, rubbing shoulders with fossil fuel interests, far-right politicians, and Christian rig...
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Sam Bright @writesbright.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Quite blatant homophobia from one of Danny Kruger’s recent Substack essays: “a society that disregards family formation or disparages the normative concepts of family life - mother, father; husband, wife; boy, girl - is a society that will see families fall apart, and ultimately fall apart itself.”
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Ehijacked 📎 @ehijacked.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
“Harborne is woke – perhaps more woke than he realises – but the yoga and linen shirts mask his savage economic philosophies.” @writesbright.bsky.social writesbright.substack.com/p/christophe...
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Christopher Harborne is woke
So why does he finance Farage?
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Sam Bright @writesbright.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Christopher Harborne is woke.
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Christopher Harborne is woke
So why does he finance Farage?
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