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Reece Dinsdale @reecedinsdale.bsky.social · 8h

Goodnight screen goddess and style icon. 🙌
Diane Keaton - R.I.P.

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Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 11h

Nathan Gill who went from UKIP ⏩ Brexit Party ⏩ Reform UK has admitted to taking bribes to speak pro Russian and anti- EU statements?

Photo collage
➡️ Oleg Voloshyn and his wife Nadia Borodi
➡️ Nigel Farage with Nadia Borodi
➡️ Nathan Gill with Nadia Borodi
➡️ Nigel Farage with Nathan Gill

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The Canary @thecanaryuk.bsky.social · 18h

Farage seeks divine intervention against National Trust vegan tampons

Farage's latest dab on his culture wars bingo card does beg the question: how meaty do Reform want tampons to be?
www.thecanary.co/trending/202...

Farage seeks divine intervention against National Trust vegan tampons

Farage's latest dab on his culture wars bingo card does beg the question: how meaty does Reform want tampons to be?

www.thecanary.co

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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 13h

Did Farage ever sue the Mail on Sunday?

This threat was issued in June 2025, but I can find no further reference to events after that.

Zelenskyy: Farage is infected with the virus of putin

Farage on twitter threatening to sue the Mail on Sunday

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Candidfloss @candidfloss.bsky.social · 12h

FACO doesn’t have a great ring to it 🤣

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Reform Party UK Exposed @reformexposed.bsky.social · 22h

Eight Reform UK councils have indicated that they will raise council tax next year after struggling to find huge cuts in public spending.

That’s despite Reform UK flyers during the Local Elections criticising councils for doing just that.

Never trust a Reformer.

www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...

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Candidfloss @candidfloss.bsky.social · 17h

Do you ever think it could be old stock? that’s why I never buy that kinda stuff too early 🤷🏼‍♀️

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EuropeanPowell @europeanpowell.bsky.social · 21h

Teesside’s freeport, initiated in 2021 under Rishi Sunak, has cost £560 million far exceeding the standard £25 million allocation (22 times the standard £25m).
90% profits go to the private sector.
This clearly shows the UK model of State aid post-Brexit is utterly corrupt.

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ForthWrite2 @forthwrite2.bsky.social · 19h

'However, a source indicated that no further action would be taken against Johnson, who is no longer subject to the business appointment rules, for the breach.'

'Rules' eh? Those struggling further down the social pile tend to experience consequences 😠

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ian-urru.bsky.social @ian-urru.bsky.social · 20h

"breached rules". It's a funny way to say that he robbed people and won't suffer any consequences.

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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 20h

Former PM Boris Johnson breached rules designed to stop abuse of contacts made in public office.

Secretly lobbied the UAE for a billion-dollar private venture,
Used senior contacts in the Saudi govt to pitch for a consultancy firm.

Lust for private wealth is the main cause of UK decline.

Boris Johnson breached rules designed to stop abuse of contacts made in public office, watchdog finds

Johnson found to have breached rules after refusing to answer specific questions about allegations published by the Guardian

www.theguardian.com

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Cornish Skipper #FBPE #RejoinEU 🇪🇺 〓〓 🔶🌹💚💙 @cornishskipper.bsky.social · 20h

A fascist tapeworm & faux patriot who “loves giving interviews. But ask him about his connections to Russia & the consequences of #Brexit, he'll put a stop to the conversation.”
“Brexit was the best thing to happen for Russia...”
Where is the UK? 👇
www.zeit.de/politik/ausl...

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 20h

Ever since I finished Question Time, Reform have massively been on the attack.

Including a rant from Richard Tice entirely designed to distract from Reform and Russia.

Everyone should know about Nathan Gill, the bribes from Russia and the link to Reform.

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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 1d

More than half of world’s bird species in decline, as leaders meet on extinction crisis

Biodiversity losses are growing, the IUCN reports as summit opens, but green turtle’s recovery ‘reminds us conservation works’ More than half of all bird species are in decline, according to a new global assessment, with deforestation driving sharp falls in populations across the planet. On the eve of a key biodiversity summit in the UAE, scientists have issued a fresh warning about the health of bird populations, with 61% of assessed species now recording declines in their numbers. Continue reading...

www.theguardian.com

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IanPolitics #FBPE @ianpolitics.bsky.social · 1d

Why is Alex Phillips on #Newsnight

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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 1d

Kemi Badenoch, "I want to stop people with ADHD getting Motability cars."

Well you don't need to, because nobody gets a Motability Car for ADHD.

You need mobility issues, which some people with ADHD also have.

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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 2d

So refreshing to see someone challenge the smug, nasty Reform narrative

Anita R @venividiverily.bsky.social · 2d

I could watch Zack Polanski utterly wreck Zia Yusuf ALL DAY LONG.

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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 1d

Private Eye offers up an excellently scornful commentary on the relentless polling. It’s become ridiculous and has oversimplified our politics to dangerous levels of stupid and irresponsible.

SHOCK POLL:
NIGEL FARAGE WILL BE PM TOMORROW
IN an amazing poll conducted
by The Pointless Polling Company, it was revealed that voters' intentions
may well change over the next three and a half years and at present it's 100 percent impossible to guess what the next government might look like.
However, 99 percent of journalists
agree that it would be much more fun if we had an election tomorrow and everybody resigned and everything was chaos and Farage had a go at being PM, just for the hell of it, because it was so much fun when
Brexit happened and then the government kept falling every five minutes and we could write endless pieces about (cont. p94)

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Candidfloss @candidfloss.bsky.social · 1d

I think I’m allergic to R4, haven’t listened to it since I was a child. Dad listened to it all the time & it kind of turned me off. They sounded like the were broadcasting from an underground bunker (no, I’m
not that old!). I do miss Just A Minute though 😄

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Candidfloss @candidfloss.bsky.social · 1d

I was listening to her on LBC. She started to get a little tetchy when he asked her about something she didn’t like so the “Cadbury Caramel Bunny” voice isn’t a complete transformation 🤣🐰

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Candidfloss @candidfloss.bsky.social · 1d

I noticed that too! I thought I was listening to Emily Thornberry for a minute!

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League Against Cruel Sports @leagueacs.bsky.social · 2d

Right now, cub hunting is taking place - where young foxes are chased, terrorised & killed so hounds can be trained for the main hunting season.

The government is soon to be consulting on hunting laws. This is our chance to demand change. https://leagueacs.co.uk/2NjeK

#TimeForChange

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Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan @london.gov.uk · 2d

Thanks to London’s bold action, almost 10 million people are now breathing cleaner air.

That means fewer children will grow up with stunted lungs and fewer people will have to suffer from asthma, dementia and heart disease.

London hits clean air milestone 184 years early - ULEZ makes 'big difference'

A professor has branded the success a 'truly remarkable turnaround for the city's air quality'

www.mylondon.news

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