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Chris Grey @chrisgrey.bsky.social · 2h

This deserves more attention than it has received.

Gove: "we were too anxious as a government to secure those deals in order to show that Brexit was working".

Exactly as so many of us warned at the time, and as the government denied at the time.
www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/country-and-...

Michael Gove admits that post-Brexit trade deals were bad for farmers

Michael Gove has admitted for the first time that the Australia and New Zealand trade deals negotiated by the former Tory government did not protect Britain’s farmers.

www.yorkshirepost.co.uk

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Peter Smith @redpeter99.bsky.social · 1h

At long last. A look at the details of Farage's fantasy economics.
An economically illiterate attempt to con the voters.

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Peter Jukes @peterjukes.bsky.social · 3h

So it now appears the woman Farage and Gill were so close to has a direct link not only to Putin’s “Man in Ukraine” Medvedchuk, but his predecessor as President, Medvedev

These are top Russian agents.

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lesleybruce @lesleybruce.bsky.social · 1h

Same. The sycophancy was unbearable.

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Peter Jukes @peterjukes.bsky.social · 3h

Top spies

Voloshin Sass arranged for AfD politicians to travel to "BRICS International Forum" and establishing contacts with Russian politicians under sanctions, including Dmitry Medvedev, Russia's former president and chairman of the United Russia party

regionalheute.de/krah-traf-vo...

Krah traf "Voice of Europe"-Strippenzieher in Russland

Der in Spionageskandale verstrickte AfD-Politiker Maximilian Krah hat Mitte November im russischen Sotschi mit Oleg Voloshin und Nadia Sass zentrale Strippenzieher aus dem Umfeld des Desinformationsne...

regionalheute.de

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Tricia Alderson 🇬🇧🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🇮🇪 @tricia-a.bsky.social · 5h

It was a real career boost for Rylan…

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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 5h

Appalling and sloppy... but EVEN more so when you consider the show's subject matter...

Alice Roberts @profaliceroberts.bsky.social · 11h

I’m sure they didn’t mean to eliminate the woman in this image.

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Gavin Esler @gavinesler.bsky.social · 1d

I agree is looks like a major shift - or to put it another way, at last a recognition of reality.

Roland Smith @rolandmcs.bsky.social · 2d

This strikes me as a pretty major Brexit shift from Starmer.

Perhaps the beginning of 'Brexit is sh1t and has caused real economic damage'.

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Gavin Esler @gavinesler.bsky.social · 1d

Worth thinking about …

Peter Jukes @peterjukes.bsky.social · 2d

Most people seem to have missed who retweeted this picture of Farage in Gill’s office a few days after Gill began receiving his first bribes from Oleh Voloshyn (Oleg Voloshin). None other than…

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Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 18h

Prince Andrew told Jeffrey Epstein ‘we’re in this together’ in 2011 email www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Prince Andrew told Jeffrey Epstein ‘we’re in this together’ in 2011 email

Royal sent email after Virginia Giuffre photo emerged but later claimed he had ceased contact with Epstein in 2010

www.theguardian.com

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David Henig @davidheniguk.bsky.social · 3h

UK, EU, even US all have pretty similar China policies in which the rhetoric of threat gives way to the reality of cooperation, because the largest trade partner of 100+ countries can't be ignored. But we don't want to talk about that too much...

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Joshua Reed Eakle 🗽 @joshuaeakle.com · 1d

In Chicago, four vehicles descended and eight ICE agents moved in to kidnap a child.

She screams, “I’m 15,” as ICE yanks her from the car and kneels on her neck.

This is not about immigration enforcement.

It's about terrorizing Americans.

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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 5h

'Nigel Farage could never be trusted to run Britain after getting Brexit so wrong'

www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...

'Farage could never be trusted to run Britain after getting Brexit so wrong'

No Brexit champion, particularly Nigel Farage, is worthy of high office after proving so conclusively wrong on such a seismic issue, says Mirror Associate Editor Kevin Maguire

www.mirror.co.uk

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George Conway 👊🇺🇸🔥 @gtconway.bsky.social · 8h

There is absolutely zero chance that a man who took $50,000 in cash in a paper bag from an FBI agent on camera would have been appointed to any position by any other president.

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 10h

Translation: they gave him a plane and filled his family’s pockets

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Guy Shrubsole @guyshrubsole.bsky.social · 4h

Good news! ‘The majority of Great Britain’s major rail operators are now in public ownership’

9 out of 16 train operating companies have now been nationalised - the remaining 7 are to be nationalised by Labour’s deadline of end 2027

www.theguardian.com/business/ng-...

Most of Great Britain’s major rail operators are back in public hands – is it working?

Explore the Guardian’s tracker to see which operators are nationalised and if services are improving under public ownership

www.theguardian.com

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Peter Jukes @peterjukes.bsky.social · 1d

For more on Nadia Sass/Borodi's role at the heart of a pan-European Russian influence machine, read more here

desk-russie.eu/2024/09/08/n...

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Dmitry Grozoubinski @explaintrade.com · 1d

This is an exact encapsulation of why I moved to Bluesky.

No amount of handwringing in the Atlantic about how I owe some eternal Promethean suffering to the discourse is going to make me stay on a site I hate, that stopped doing anything for me professionally years ago.

Well – no. Bluesky may or may not be, as one centre-right friend who felt unwelcome put it, “self-righteous island”. But the idea that’s why we went is nonsense. That I’ve largely stopped posting on a site that’s done more to shape my career and social circle than the rest of the internet combined is less about avoiding rival opinions (I love arguing with people who are wrong!) than with the fact the site simply became unusable. It stopped generating the things (good jokes, interesting debate, clicks) I wanted; it became extremely good at generating the things (racists, pornbots, racist pornbots) I did not.

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Rachel Maddow @maddow.msnbc.com · 18h

“With your patient and rigorous work, you can act as a barrier against those who, through the ancient art of lying, seek to create divisions in order to rule by dividing,” he said. “You can be a bulwark of civility against the quicksand of approximation and post-truth...”

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Pope urges news agencies to stand as bulwark against lies, manipulation and post-truths

Pope Leo XIV has encouraged international news agencies to stand firm as a bulwark against the “ancient art of lying” and manipulation.

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Lewis Baston @lewisbaston.bsky.social · 1d

Sam’s article has a lot of information I previously did not know about the two-way relationship between Russian political actors and the European far right, dating back to when the far right seemed like a faint cloud on a distant horizon.

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Parody Keir Starmer @parodypm.bsky.social · 1d

You wouldn't believe the number of morons on Twitter pretending that a temporary exhibition of vinyl stickers at Canterbury Cathedral is permanent graffiti, just so they can feel outraged. Then JD Vance joins in, because clearly this is an international crisis.

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Will Jennings 🗳️ @drjennings.bsky.social · 15h

Anyone writing about the influence of these thinkers really needs to provide detail on what they have actually written. Most of it is incoherent, lacking any substance and often downright weird.

Huw C. Davies @huwcdavies.bsky.social · 16h

Reading Thiel, Yarvin, Peterson et al. makes you realise what passes for intellectual iconoclasm these days is all absolute bollocks. Why anyone gives any of these people the time of day let alone credibility is baffling.

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Ellie Mae O'Hagan @elliemaeohagan.bsky.social · 3d

The Director of E3G's UK Programme (and my boss) @edmatthew.bsky.social has unpacked why the Conservatives' announcement that they would scrap the Climate Change Act is an act of national sabotage:
www.e3g.org/news/pledge-...

Pledge to axe UK Climate Change Act backfires

The attempts to turn the British public against climate action does not only make no scientific or economic sense, it makes no political sense.

www.e3g.org

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Ellie Mae O'Hagan @elliemaeohagan.bsky.social · 3d

guys we need food to live

ECIU @eciu.net · 3d

England sees second worst harvest on record, analysis shows

England has seen its second worst harvest on record, according to an analysis of Government figures, after the country’s hottest spring and summer on record as well as the driest spring in more than 100 years.
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Dave Vetter @davidrvetter.bsky.social · 1d

Every day is a good day to point out that 92% of Reform's donations were found to come from figures and groups linked to the fossil fuel industry. @desmog.com

Nigel Farage’s Reform Party Has Accepted £2.3 Million from Fossil Fuel Interests, Climate Deniers, and Polluters Since 2019 Election

Reform UK has received more than £2.3 million from oil and gas interests, highly polluting industries, and climate science deniers since December 2019, amounting to 92 percent of the party’s donations...

www.desmog.com

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