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Jalata

@jalata.bsky.social

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European 🇪🇺 Life-long language learner, most recently 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 and 🇵🇹 Lover of literature. Deplore the divisions caused by Brexit and the whipping up of xenophobia.

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Jalata @jalata.bsky.social · 2h

Sundowner cruise on the Zambezi? 🇿🇼

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Byline Times @bylinetimes.bsky.social · 7h

“Here Farage is, in Gill’s office, with Voloshyn’s wife Nadia, on the day Gill makes an intervention on behalf of Medvedchuk’s channels, with an employee of one of those channels, whose husband started bribing Gill to make these statements 6 days earlier”

bylinetimes.com/2025/10/11/s...

'Stunned?' Farage's Admission He Knew Nathan Gill but Not His Kremlin Associates Does Not Stand Up to Scrutiny

Insiders have told Byline Times, it is 'inconceivable' the Reform Leader did not know about his close aide's pro Russian statements

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Jalata @jalata.bsky.social · 5h

For a start, Welsh ll and Russian ж are letters in their own right.

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Peter Jukes @peterjukes.bsky.social · 20h

Same day. Same plenary session. Same visit to Gill’s office. Same Farage, Same Gill, same wife of sanctioned pro Russian agent.

Six days after the first bribery charge

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John E Bartley, III K7AAY (D) @503bartley.bsky.social · 13h

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Peter Jukes @peterjukes.bsky.social · 1d

The picture of Farage with the T shirt from Gill’s briber’s wife, taken the day Gill appears her Pro Russian TV channel, is taken in Gill’s office

Peter Jukes @peterjukes.bsky.social · 1d

Farage on Gill and Pro Russian media bribes” I told him not to go. He defied me and went. I was completely unaware of any statements that he made."

Farage with pro Russian media (and wife of briber) on the day Gill made his statements in 2018

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Jalata @jalata.bsky.social · 22h

Woof

Plaid Cymru/Party of Wales emblem. Yellow flower on green background

Jalata @jalata.bsky.social · 1d

Ian Hislop has gone down a notch in my estimation because I thought he would have been more up on the facts, rather than crowing exultantly “Guess who? Euan Blair!”

Jalata @jalata.bsky.social · 1d

I had seen that claim refuted in social media before the programme aired so I was surprised when it was made on hignify and surprised at Ian Hislop, who one might have expected to be au fait.

Jalata @jalata.bsky.social · 1d

I’m also small and fine M&S do a good range of sizes, styles and lengths. I still can’t bring myself to try something called a “Mom jean” though!

Jalata @jalata.bsky.social · 1d

Similar timeframe I think. For me it was mostly a musical desert, with prog at one extreme and too many novelty hits at the other.

Jalata @jalata.bsky.social · 1d

One night the “regulars” were a little surprised to be joined by a whole crowd of people who had come up to view a meteor shower.

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

What the hell does Farage thinks he’s doing, going off to America *again* to maliciously slag off British teachers at some private Christian college, while offering to peddle their courses over here?
What a repulsive, grubby little traitor.

www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Nigel Farage accuses teachers of ‘poisoning our kids’ on race issues

Exclusive: Reform UK leader’s remarks at event for private US college criticised as ‘grossly irresponsible’ by NEU leader

www.theguardian.com

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Jalata @jalata.bsky.social · 1d

Has he been to Birdlip Hill in Gloucestershire? Apparently … 🤨

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Jalata @jalata.bsky.social · 1d

No idea what you mean 😮 We only go to Sussex to visit a very respectable elderly lady.

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Jalata @jalata.bsky.social · 1d

Tbf this is based on two visits about ten years apart.

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Jalata @jalata.bsky.social · 1d

Last time we got one pizza refunded with absolutely no argument as to its direness.

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Jalata @jalata.bsky.social · 1d

The worst is in Arundel. No contest,

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Jalata @jalata.bsky.social · 2d

Solidarity with my family member, who wears himself out in the service of this profession 👊

Jalata @jalata.bsky.social · 2d

“Prime minister Keir Starmer was expected to go to Cop30 … But the Guardian understands that some of his advisers want him to stay at home, fearing that the Reform Party will attack him for going.”

SERIOUSLY? 😳

Dr Paul Dorfman @drpauldorfman.bsky.social · 2d

UK’s intelligence chiefs: 'UK’s national security is under severe threat from the #climate crisis and the looming collapse of vital natural ecosystems, with food shortages and economic disaster potentially just years away.'
www.theguardian.com/environment/...

National security threatened by climate crisis, UK intelligence chiefs due to warn

Report by joint intelligence committee delayed, with concerns expressed that it may not be published

www.theguardian.com

Jalata @jalata.bsky.social · 2d

Funnily enough this was in an email from the National Trust today so they are also sitting in the fence 😂

Scones, one whole, one with jam on cream and one with cream on jam.

Jalata @jalata.bsky.social · 2d

Late seventies.

Jalata @jalata.bsky.social · 2d

Yes but it wasn’t always the same desk and you could start the paper as soon you found it. Once my desk was in an overflow room we weren’t told about so I and another girl were in a total panic. Penalty of having names near the end of the alphabet.

Jalata @jalata.bsky.social · 2d

The day my desk was in an overflow room they hadn’t mentioned is etched on my soul.

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Jalata @jalata.bsky.social · 2d

I didn’t really mind that. It befitted the gravity of the situation. But don’t start me on the horrors of undergoing a viva!