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Tim Bale @timbale.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

“We're not f****** stupid enough to p*** off the entire woke south or centrist south really of the country,” “You need to seem palatable to everyone...We just need to get f****** elected, that’s all that really matters. We won't necessarily say what we are doing, part of the point is to not [say].”

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Dan Neidle @danneidle.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

In May we said Nigel Farage probably didn't owe tax on his £5m gift. The Guardian now reports the gift followed talks where Farage said he'd need £5m to return to frontline politics. *If* that's right, we think there's a high risk of a £3m tax bill - payable by Reform.

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Neil @xmarksthedespot.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

As one of the lucky few that'll be able to vote in the Binface v Farage by-election, I must say it's rather sad that in the decades I've been able to cast my ballot, this is the most enfranchised I've ever felt!

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James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

Nigel Farage’s partner, a former waitress not known to have any private money, bought a £1 million house for cash shortly after he secretly received £5 million from a Thailand-based cryptocurrency billionaire - the same house that he claimed, months previously, that he was about to pay for himself.

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Josiah Mortimer @josiahmortimer.bsky.social · 16/04/2026

I hear neither Reform nor donor Delo want this news getting round. Via Private Eye

NUMBER CRUNCHING

**£7.4m** Fine Ben Delo agreed to pay in 2022 after pleading guilty in the US to anti-money-laundering failures at BitMEX, the crypto exchange he founded

**£4m** Donation Delo, since pardoned by Donald Trump, has made to Reform UK

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

The real story… under any other president this would be jail time…

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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 20/01/2026

So many British people are clearly unaware of the downside risks and consequences of the Greenland crisis, including, many people whose job it is to inform the country about it:

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Britain is underprepared for this crisis

Keir Starmer needs to make clear the stakes over Greenland

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Ed Davey @eddavey.libdems.org.uk · 05/01/2026

Why is Labour giving Trump a free pass to break international law? We know what happens when US Presidents launch illegal wars. It’s why the Liberal Democrats opposed the Iraq War and it’s why we condemn Trump’s law-breaking in Venezuela today.

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Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 13/10/2025

My colleagues & I have taken a huge gamble to set up @thenerve.news We’re trying to build a new independent publication from the ground up. Social media is our only distribution for now. Sharing this article in your networks would make a huge difference. Thank you! 🙏🙏🙏

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Private Eye Magazine @privateeyenews.bsky.social · 22/09/2025

Businessman Richard Allen exposed a Channel Islands export-import VAT scam used by major retailers, saving taxpayers billions. Despite his detailed evidence, HMRC suppressed it, letting the illegal tax evasion continue for six more years. 🧵1/3

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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 22/09/2025

For 56 minutes Sky News and BBC News interrupted everything else and carried a Reform UK feed live, uninterrupted, unchallenged. The stream spluttered, froze, pixelated - dozens of times - still they stuck with it. FOR ONE HOUR. This is an editorial choice. No other party gets this coverage. ~AA

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Ed Davey @eddavey.libdems.org.uk · 13/09/2025

Our democracy is too precious to be a plaything for foreign tech barons. Elon Musk doesn’t care about the British people or our rights. He only cares about himself and his ego.

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Mike Galsworthy @mikegalsworthy.bsky.social · 17/06/2025

Someone has changed his tune on peace. Not exactly a surprise. Netanyahu is allowing him no agency in this.

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Neil @xmarksthedespot.bsky.social · 17/06/2025

Just our German Spitz enjoying a head massage. #dogs #dogsofbluesky #germanspitz

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Hetan Shah @hetanshah.bsky.social · 11/06/2025

Read it and weep on.ft.com/3FGos7B

Who would bet against Trump in the battle for public opinion? Less than 200 days into his second term, he has trampled over more laws and ripped up more precedents than any leader in US history. He has enriched himself and his family with overseas crypto sales and golf resort deals, launched a war on leading universities and medical institutions, ignored serial court orders to give deportees legal rights, declared, paused and partially resumed economic war on the world, and targeted his enemies with investigations and stripped them of security protection. Trump's assault on democratic norms has been breathtaking in scale and speed. Yet his approval rating is still at 45 per cent.

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Timothy Burke @bubbaprog.xyz · 09/06/2025

Watch the slow motion: it appears to me that the officers discuss the photographer and reporter before the one on the end fires on them (it looks to me like he's aiming at the camera, not the reporter, but you decide)

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Marina Purkiss @marina-purkiss.bsky.social · 06/04/2025

I told you he was a clueless bullshitter… A man educated way beyond his intelligence.

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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

I find it remarkable that people believe this stuff. It's just royal PR. Or to give it the full title: Propaganda www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

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Neil @xmarksthedespot.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

I just told Speaker Hoyle to keep Trump out of Parliament - will you do the same? actionstorm.org/petitions/du... #DumpTrump

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Keep Trump out of Parliament

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Susie Dent @susiedentwords.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

Word of the day is ‘huff-snuff’ (16th century): a hectoring bully or braggart.

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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

We’ll use Brexit freedom to slash red tape on banks, vows Bailey Rules drawn up to prevent another global financial crisis may not be applied to smaller lenders What could possibly go wrong.. www.telegraph.co.uk/business/202...

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We’ll use Brexit freedom to slash red tape on banks, vows Bailey

Rules drawn up to prevent another global financial crisis may not be applied to smaller lenders

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News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

Historians will write books about this dark period in US democracy. This will be the cover photo. It was taken inside the FBI Academy in Quantico, Virginia on Wednesday. (📸 Anonymous source, printed in The Washington Post)

A man is seen painting grey paint to cover up a mural with the words "FAIRNESS, LEADERSHIP, INTEGRITY, COMPASSION and DIVERSITY" in large multicoloured print.

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Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

Lord Sugar, "The biggest disaster in my lifetime was us leaving the European Union" "If I was Prime Minister, I would be coming along on my bended knees asking to be let back in" "How do we get out of it? Get back in the EU"

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Jonathan Pie @jonathanpienews.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

Here’s the problem: Trump got in and he is currently doing everything he promised he would do, whether you think it’s good or bad. Meanwhile over here, Labour have reneged on so many of their promises so far I’ve lost count. The Left seriously needs to get its shit together.

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Mike Galsworthy @mikegalsworthy.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

Happy 5th anniversary of Brexit! What a farce.

Table of trade deal impacts, showing Brexit impact hugely outweighing all the trade deals the UK has done since.

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Neil @xmarksthedespot.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

So Reeves has said "that spades could be in the ground at Heathrow by the end of this parliament." I wonder when we're gonna get spades in the ground of some brave new ideas, instead of this tired merry-go-round of resuscitated infrastructure projects.

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Neil @xmarksthedespot.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

Years of corporate greed and criminality have led to problems, which we're now paying for. Instead of renationalising and cancelling all debts we've got our begging bowl out to the same miscreants wanting more of their money "invested" in our country. www.theguardian.com/business/202...

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Water bills in England and Wales to rise by £123 on average this year

Largest price hike since privatisation is even more than the £86 predicted by Ofwat as companies add inflation on top

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Neil @xmarksthedespot.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

Another day, another plan. We've heard overstated nonsense like this for the last 14 years. Labour are now carrying the "Northern Powerhouse" torch. I don't know how a government that claims to have no money can have so many grand sounding ambitions. www.theguardian.com/business/202...

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Reeves plans to create ‘Silicon Valley’ between Oxford and Cambridge

Chancellor to announce plans to improve infrastructure in region to put it at forefront of science and tech advances

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

A leaked government report reveals yet another attack on the right to protest; yet more plans to "monitor and disrupt" protests (as if the spycops scandal never happened); yet another conflation of protest with extremism and terrorism. We've expelled one draconian government and elected another.

In a recommendation that will concern activists, the report calls for the creation of a “dedicated national investigations capability” to “coordinate and take on protest and low-level extremism operations and investigations” and a digital “national centre of excellence for the monitoring and disruption of protest”.

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Neil @xmarksthedespot.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

This is not the right government for this country. Not because it's Labour, but because it's going out of its way to avoid doing the right thing.

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Neil @xmarksthedespot.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

Good lord, another four years of this utter drivel.... "Why are we helping Liz Cheney? I mean, Liz Cheney is a disaster. She’s a crying lunatic and crying, crying. Adam Kinzinger, he’s a super crime."

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Neil @xmarksthedespot.bsky.social · 19/01/2025

I'm not sure if I was Jamie Oliver I'd want to be the other headline on this front page.

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Neil @xmarksthedespot.bsky.social · 19/01/2025

I think this is where some of my deep scepticism of government messaging comes from. They can always find hundreds of millions for pointless follies, but for schools, hospitals, wages, pensions, democracy and so much more, there's never any cash. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...

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Revealed: Conservatives spent £134m on never-used IT systems for failed Rwanda scheme

Home Office official says data protection laws caused the cost of its forced removal programme to increase

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Neil @xmarksthedespot.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

Another unforced error and again a complete lack of foresight from Labour. It sounds like Tulip Siddiq didn't just have some skeletons in her closet, the closet was made of skeletons, it had skeleton handles, was shaped like a skeleton and the doors were locked with a skeleton key.

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Neil @xmarksthedespot.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

Musk owning US TikTok, what a great idea. At least we know after that deal some of the young impressionable minds of the west will be in safe hands.

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Neil @xmarksthedespot.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

I refused to believe it, but Labour really does appear to be morphing into the Tories. Here they are wanting to give away something that's ours to our corporate lords and saviours, so they can no doubt turn it into vast profits.... paid for by us. www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

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Ministers mull allowing private firms to make profit from NHS data in AI push

Anonymised data could help develop treatments, drugs and diagnostic tools but potential misuse worries experts

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