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Paul Lewis @paullewismoney.bsky.social · 6h

The last thing people struggling with fuel bills need is a heat pump ‘that’s really expensive to run and makes your house colder’ says Dale Vince bit.ly/3KOez9W campaigning against £150 heat pump subsidies

Heat pump subsidies a ‘massive waste of money’, Labour donor warns

Ed Miliband’s proposals to give households with the green technology £150 off their energy bills are denounced by Dale Vince as ‘very middle class’

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Zack Labe @zacklabe.com · 1d

Record high temperatures are currently being set across the northernmost portions of the #Arctic. In fact, it is effectively ice-free on the Atlantic side of the Arctic all the way up to about 85°N latitude! This includes record low sea ice around Svalbard.

Graphic by zacklabe.com/arctic-tempe...

Line graph time series of 2025's daily 2-m temperature in the Arctic compared to each year from 1958 through 2024. There is a long-term warming trend for every day of the year. There is also large interannual variability and a clear seasonal cycle.

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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 9h

The thing I'm "stunned" about is why this isn't the biggest domestic news item on every flipping platform

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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Brian Moore @briantrumpet.bsky.social · 9h

Everything he's reported to have said in this BBC piece sounds like he's desperately trying to distance himself, knowing that the connection is real and toxic. If the press were investigating Farage with the same enthusiasm they went for Rayner, he'd be done for.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Nigel Farage 'stunned' ex-Wales Reform leader Nathan Gill took bribes

Nathan Gill has admitted taking money for pro-Russian statements as a European Parliament member.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 10h

Glad to see Nigel Farage has finally remembered Nathan Gill, former leader of Reform in Wales - found guilty of taking bribes from Russia.

Maybe he'll now remember how much he took from Putin's propaganda broadcaster Russia Today for all his TV appearances when he was a MEP?

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bluetsu.bsky.social @bluetsu.bsky.social · 14h

It’s fair to say this regime’s mandate is to kill us all…

🪱RFKJr: Eliminate healthcare

👺Satan Miller: Eliminate Antifa

🥴Noem: Eliminate Black & Brown people

🥃Kegseth: Eliminate women and trans people in the military

🤴🏼😵‍💫Trump: Pam, implement ALL elimination orders to save our reputation… NOW!

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Lena Sun @lenasun.bsky.social · 15h

Among other RIF notices at CDC:
—Center for Forecasting and Analytics;
—all of CDC Washington
—Office of Human Resources
—National Center for Injury Prevention and Control 3/4

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Lena Sun @lenasun.bsky.social · 15h

The CDC official who was leading the measles response and was RIFd has more than 28 yrs experience as the senior USG official leading outbreaks on Ebola, Marburg virus, and mpox. 2/4

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Lena Sun @lenasun.bsky.social · 15h

NEW: @CDCgov hit hard by massive firings that several staff describe to me as a “bloodbath.”
Among those RIFd:
—leadership of the center for immunization and respiratory diseases;
—leadership of global health center
—leadership of the measles outbreak response; 1/4

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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 14h

A man born in Pretoria, 1971, left for Canada in 1989, might want to wind his neck in (though apartheid South Africa was not necessarily too traumatic place for those who could benefit from apartheid if could manage to resist being too troubled by the racist principles of the state and society)

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Steve Griffiths 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @cymry.bsky.social · 12h

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Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 12h

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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Peter Walker @peterwalker99.bsky.social · 13h

I realise I slightly go on about this, but I'm not sure enough attention is paid to the fact that a fair proportion of comment articles in the modern Daily Telegraph are utterly unmoored from any sense of even tenuous reality.

Daniel Hannan

Britain has given so much to civilisation. Now the barbarians are inside

The poisonous ideas of Vladimir Lenin have infected our progressive elite

Contemplate those elderly buffoons in blue berets who hand out EU flags at the Last Night of the Proms. Do you suppose they have any real interest in rejoining the EU? Do they strike you as having looked into the budgetary, migratory and commercial implications? Of course not. They just loathe the people they imagine having voted Leave.

Listen to Sir Lenny Henry, who thinks that, as well as handing over squillions to the West Indies and Africa, we should pay black people in this country. So much for the notion of equality before the law.

I could go on. The museums rushing to give away legally purchased collections to people who have never owned them, and who will very probably sell them on to private collectors. The diplomats longing to surrender British territories in defiance of the wishes of their peoples. The universities eviscerating the Western canon in the name of decolonising the curriculum.

“Colonialism-and-slavery” is proffered as a binomial phrase, like “law-and-order” or “gin-and-tonic”. Few kids in our schools are given the slightest notion that the first, at least in Africa, was driven by the desire to extirpate the second. Even fewer are taught that African kings fought to defend the institution.

The Benin Bronzes, which our cultural leaders are so keen to give away, were seized to defray the costs of an 1897 expedition against a state that buried slaves alive. The British Museum, which owns most of them, dares not mention it. Instead it says the carvings were acquired during the “expansion of colonial power”

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Peter Jukes @peterjukes.bsky.social · 18h

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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Dr Emma Salisbury @salisbot.bsky.social · 18h

A fun (?) naval history fact for your weekend:

During the Battle of the Nile, French Admiral Dupetit-Thouars lost one arm, then the other, then a leg to cannon fire.

He ordered his men to prop him up in a barrel on the deck so he could keep commanding his ship until he died.

two knights are standing in the woods and one of them is saying i 've had worse .

ALT: two knights are standing in the woods and one of them is saying i 've had worse .

media.tenor.com

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Dale Vince @dalevince.com · 19h

Why does this tax exile 'foreigner' think our government should discuss policy with him? He should feck off back to Monaco. Made his choice based on his own interest, to avoid tax. Anything he has to say will be only in his own interests, again.

buff.ly/6XvNGfT

Miliband refused to discuss North Sea with me, says Ratcliffe

Ineos owner urges policymakers to reform net zero taxes or risk ‘irreversible decline’

www.telegraph.co.uk

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Dan Neidle @danneidle.bsky.social · 19h

Nik Storonsky, the founder of Revolut, has left the UK and become tax resident in Dubai - escaping more than £3bn of UK tax.

Could we have stopped him leaving? Either with the carrot of a more competitive tax system, or the stick of an exit tax?

Some thoughts:

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John Sipher @johnsipher.bsky.social · 1d

Now do this with Putin!

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Phillips OBrien @phillipspobrien.bsky.social · 1d

But people are honestly saying Trump will give Ukraine tomahawk missiles to attack Russia…sure he will.

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 1d

Trump got a Covid vaccine today.

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Phillips OBrien @phillipspobrien.bsky.social · 20h

Well, guess what? Yesterday Putin batted his eyelashes at Trump (and Melania) and the first couple were grateful for the love and attention. People need to accept the reality that Trump will always crave Putin's affections and cares not a whit for Ukraine. open.substack.com/pub/phillips...

Putin Flutters His Eyelashes and Trump Swoons (Melania Too)

A Catechism To Understand The Reality Of Trump, Russia and Ukraine

open.substack.com

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Dylan, stinky hare @dylanbunbun.bsky.social · 21h

Tice has connections to Russian oligarchs as well as Nathan Gill who spread pro-Russian propaganda in the UK.

What a weirdo.

Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 21h

Greens growing. Reform ratttled.

PS - I changed my name back to my family's original Jewish name because I'm proud of being Jewish. If Tice think that makes me a weirdo, I think that makes him an antisemite.

Join.greenparty.org.uk

Tice "green party leader Zack Polanski is a weirdo. Changed his name, claimed hypnosis could increase women's breast size, thinks me should compete in women's sport, thinks women can have a penis. Other than that he's fine. Vote Green. Get weirdo."

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Phillips OBrien @phillipspobrien.bsky.social · 1d

There is perverse thinking, and a step below that is thinking that a president that is illegally sending US military units into US cities should be awarded the Nobel Peace prize.

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Cold War Steve @coldwarsteve.bsky.social · 6d

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 21h

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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