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Dave Vetter @davidrvetter.bsky.social · 9h

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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James Murray @james-bg.bsky.social · 1d

It is utterly surreal this is not being treated as a bigger story.

Tom Hunter @onelifestand87.bsky.social · 2d

It is embarassing not to see the BBC pulling up Reform leaders claiming that Nathan Gill was just some fan who got photos taken with Farage - he was an MEP for them & their leader in Wales while taking cash from Russia to act against the UK! Literally the very basics of your job to point this out

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David Gooda @davidgooda.bsky.social · 1d

Because they wouldn’t have us, because they can’t trust us. We gave up a golden ticket for a used fag packet. Not complicated.

Anand Menon @anandmenon.bsky.social · 1d

If they do this, they’ll need a convincing answer to the obvious question some will ask: ‘why don’t we rejoin?’ Keir Starmer’s plan to blame Nigel Farage for budget tax rises

www.thetimes.com/article/8875...

Keir Starmer’s plan to blame Nigel Farage for budget tax rises

With Reform UK threatening the end of two-party politics, both Labour and the Tories are fighting to stay relevant as conference season comes to an end

www.thetimes.com

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David Gooda @davidgooda.bsky.social · 1d

Really compassionate, thoughtful, challenging essay.

Ben Newmark @bennewmark.bsky.social · 2d

New post.
Has additional become the point?
bennewmark.wordpress.com/2025/10/10/h...

Has additional become the point?

Saying the SEND system is in crisis is no great reveal; it is proving ruinously expensive while failing to deliver either improved experiences or outcomes. One consequence of its long-term failure …

bennewmark.wordpress.com

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Lewis Goodall @lewisgoodall.com · 2d

I do wonder if Labour might look at the sorts of people dominating the discourse and dominating the content wars and maybe, just maybe, rethink the sorts of grey figures they routinely put up for interviews, instructed at that to be as cautious as possible. Things have changed. Their comms hasn’t.

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Dan Snow @thehistoryguy.bsky.social · 4d

It’s not a necessary evil, to be tolerated or have to live with. It’s absolutely extraordinarily brilliant. It offers a glimpse of a future where we all stop killing people with marginally different complexions or national identities
It’s a triumph of enlightened education over dark primordial urges

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James Murray @james-bg.bsky.social · 3d

That England has had its three worst harvests on record inside the past five years really should be being treated as a much bigger cause for concern than is currently the case. www.businessgreen.com/news/4520171...

'This is what farming with climate change looks like': England endures second worst harvest on record

New analysis confirms three of the five worst harvests on record have occurred in the past five years on the back of extreme heat, drought, and rainfall

www.businessgreen.com

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Rafael Behr @rafaelbehr.bsky.social · 4d

Badenoch’s only achievement is to have shrunk the Tories to a low-wattage Faragist think tank and warehouse storing future parliamentary candidates for Reform www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Badenoch’s ‘thoughtful Conservatism’ turns out to be just the slower road to Faragism | Rafael Behr

The Tory leader’s intellectual meanderings have shrunk her party into little more than a holding pen for future Reform party candidates, says Guardian columnist Rafael Behr

www.theguardian.com

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Ben Fenton @benfenton.bsky.social · 3d

If a news organisation is making -200% margin after five years, it is not a commercial operation and should be assumed to have a different purpose.

Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 3d

The channel lost £33 million to communicate its content to a large audience
www.business-live.co.uk/enterprise/g...

GB News suffers huge loss despite doubling revenue and growing audience

The TV channel, whose well-known presenters include Reform UK leader Nigel Farage, fell to a pre-tax loss of £33.4m in the year to 31 May, 2024

www.business-live.co.uk

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Sathnam Sanghera @sathnam.bsky.social · 3d

The massive downsides of low immigration. Soon this could ve everyone's problem.

Japan has an ‘enshortification’ problem - on.ft.com/46Z0yhg via @FT

Japan has an ‘enshortification’ problem

An ageing workforce is affecting all sorts of professions

on.ft.com

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Nicolai von Ondarza @nvondarza.bsky.social · 3d

Next up, celebrating Franco's victory against antifa in Spain and declaring the White Rose a terrorist organisation.

Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 3d

From Donald Trump's Roundtable on Antifa just now —
"Antifa has been around in various iterations for almost 100 years in some instances, going back to the Weimar Republic in Germany."
— special guest Jack Posobiec

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Roland Smith @rolandmcs.bsky.social · 3d

Post of the day.

Trump hasn't yet worked out that anti-fascist forces turn up throughout history whenever there's a fascist around.

Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 3d

Big presence on the beaches of Normandy in 1944 too.

Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 3d

From Donald Trump's Roundtable on Antifa just now —
"Antifa has been around in various iterations for almost 100 years in some instances, going back to the Weimar Republic in Germany."
— special guest Jack Posobiec

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Mark O’Neill 🐻 @radiobeartime.com · 4d

If the government really wants to scrap degrees which deliver no value to the UK and indeed have led to £ billions in damage to the economy and culture of the UK then it just needs to scrap the Oxford PPE degree and arrest everyone who has taken it.

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John Simpson @johnsimpsonnews.bsky.social · 3d

On tonight’s Unspun World on BBC Two I talk to the great Steve Rosenberg about what it’s really like to be the BBC Russia editor — how do ordinary Russians react to him? Is he in danger? What’s going to happen there? Unmissable!

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David Gooda @davidgooda.bsky.social · 3d

I’m deep into Wimsey, so to speak. Sweet reason’s balm.

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Toby Earle 🇺🇦 @tobyontv.bsky.social · 4d

if you’ve ever watched the apprentice, that’s the world without arts or humanities degrees

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David Gooda @davidgooda.bsky.social · 3d

Been staring most of us in the face for years. People just do not think to the end of the question.

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

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David Higham @oldtrotter.bsky.social · 4d

See the "modern industrial policy" is going well. Protecting steel and undermining universities is an interesting take on comparative advantage.

Industry minister Chris McDonald, who worked in the steel industry on Teesside before entering Parliament, said: "We will always defend our critical steel industry, which is why we are pushing the European Commission for urgent clarification of the impact of this move on the UK.

Starmer told reporters the aim of the trip was not to recruit students but for universities to expand their overseas offerings - for students to study while staying in India.

The visit to India comes months after Starmer

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Omar Khan @omaromalleykhan.bsky.social · 4d

I know statistics are poorly understood and are misused. But facts matter

Between the 1991, 2001, 2011 and 2021 Census *every* ethnic group in the UK has become *less* geographically segregated and *all* groups, majority and minorities, are more likely to interact with people not like them

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David Gooda @davidgooda.bsky.social · 4d

I feel this EVERY DAY. We used to be a post-Enlightenment, literate society: what the hell has happened?

Rachel Coldicutt @rachelcoldicutt.bsky.social · 4d

Does everything just have to be *completely weird* all of the time now? I can't be bothered to see what stupid thing Jenrick's said (he is clearly a bigoted idiot), but really - where are the grown-ups? Where are the people who mouth "inside voice" from across the room to stop ppl saying things?

David Gooda @davidgooda.bsky.social · 4d

Isn’t it pure Debord? Or have I misunderstood the Spectacle?

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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 4d

The people running Reform and the pure essence of entitlement that's been mildly inconvienced by a welfare state and not enough forelock tugging.

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Anthony Painter @anthonypainter.bsky.social · 4d

I think I finally know who Theresa May was describing when she talked about the "anywheres". And they are all in on the Reform Party.

Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 4d

Party donor Nick Candy says "I cherish the values we grew up with here in the West. But today you are more likely to find the values we grew up with in Dubai and Abu Dhabi.’

Via Sam Leith in the Spectator
www.spectator.co.uk/article/the-...

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David Gooda @davidgooda.bsky.social · 4d

He has standards? Tell me more. I’m intrigued.

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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 4d

All these people really want is to pay no taxes and be treated with floor scraping deference. Everything else is just bullshit in pursuit of that goal.

Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 4d

Party donor Nick Candy says "I cherish the values we grew up with here in the West. But today you are more likely to find the values we grew up with in Dubai and Abu Dhabi.’

Via Sam Leith in the Spectator
www.spectator.co.uk/article/the-...

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