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Brian Moore @briantrumpet.bsky.social · 18h

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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Brexit Bin 🇪🇺 🇬🇧 🇩🇪 @brexitbin.bsky.social · 1d

Have you noticed?
Whenever the issue of rejoining either the Single Market, the Customs Union or the whole EU is mentioned, a number of supposedly "pro-EU" accounts immediately jump in as the first answers to tell people why it wouldn't be possible. They are never constructive, always destructive.

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BrexitPirates @brexitpirates.bsky.social · 19h

Brilliant 🤣

The Daily Show @thedailyshow.com · 2d

The following is REAL footage from Portland, 2025. Viewer discretion is advised.

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David Head @davidheadviews.bsky.social · 19h

Your preference. Not mine.

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Adam Parkhomenko @adamparkhomenko.bsky.social · 19h

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East Anglia Bylines @eastangliabylines.co.uk · 19h

Passengers in East Anglia will travel on a publicly owned railway from Sunday, as Greater Anglia transfers to government control.

East Anglia Bylines

Greater Anglia joins public ownership after record year of performance

Passengers in East Anglia will travel on a publicly owned railway from Sunday, as Greater Anglia transfers to government control

eastangliabylines.co.uk

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Stephen Kinsella @stephenstroud.bsky.social · 21h

No representation without taxation.

Dale Vince @dalevince.com · 1d

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.

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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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Tim Bale @timbale.bsky.social · 22h

Margaret Thatcher recognised the need to provide asylum for refugees, as well as the need to distinguish them from immigrants. No hope of that from her successors, of course.

Ian Gow MP (Thatcher's PPS) to Tony Marlow MP 23 August 1979:

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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 1d

Welcome to America, where peaceful protesters get tear-gassed and thrown to the ground like ragdolls.

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David Head @davidheadviews.bsky.social · 22h

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Richard Wilson @richardwilsoneu.bsky.social · 22h

This sums up where we are and why we fight. #standuptoracism

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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 23h

Make your plans for #NoKings. October 18th. Free speech is action. Please join in. You'll see me at one of the events.
www.nokings.org

No Kings

As the president escalates his authoritarian power grab, the NO KINGS non-violent movement continues to rise stronger. We are united once again to remind the world: America has No Kings and the power ...

www.nokings.org

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Reform Party UK Exposed @reformexposed.bsky.social · 1d

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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George Conway 👊🇺🇸🔥 @gtconway.bsky.social · 1d

Is it just me, or does it seem the press is actually and completely terrified to report about Donald Trump's physical and mental health the way it would have if anyone else were president?

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 1d

Limited liability is one of our weird silences. It's a massive free gift society makes to plutocrats, seldom remarked upon, let alone contested.
Shareholders should have to buy limited liability, like any other insurance. The insurers would then be liable. 🧵
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Will UK taxpayers get their £122m back from PPE Medpro?

The high court told the company linked to Michelle Mone to pay up over the supply of defective gowns, but there appears no clear route to reclaim the funds

www.theguardian.com

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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 23h

A 54 year old who calls himself "Kid" and who sports a stripper's hat and indoor shades....has no right to judge what is and is not "stupid."

Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 1d

Kid Rock: Do you know what is stupid… these chicks running around on campuses with blue hair, five nose rings.

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Helene von Bismarck @helenebismarck.bsky.social · 1d

I do, in fairness, think that we are at the beginning of a new time, and that liberal democracies and ageing societies across the Continent are struggling to adapt. But the point is Britain is very much part of that Story.One could even argue that they are ahead on a destructive European curve.

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Helene von Bismarck @helenebismarck.bsky.social · 1d

I adore London&fully agree on Dubai, but the author‘s criticism of Paris& Berlin is a joke. French political turmoil is bad is it? Have you watched UK news since 2014? German trains are slow? Thank God for the sound state of UK Infrastructure.
Love you 🇬🇧. But ditch the superiority complex. Please.

Janine Gibson @janinegibson.ft.com · 1d

You definitely shouldn't move to Dubai, writes V&A director Tristram Hunt on.ft.com/46MfW1t

Don’t move to Dubai — this is still the place to be

[FREE TO READ] Better to buy the dip and celebrate the UK as an enduring cultural behemoth

on.ft.com

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Nikkolas Smith @4nikkolas.bsky.social · 1d

after millions of views and shares of my Portland Frog art. (thank you all🙏🏾) I got requests to highlight priests, and chickens, and Chicagoans, and T-Rexes, and more… all of us who refuse to bend the knee. so this is for US.
𝚂𝚝𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚃𝚊𝚕𝚕.
𝚆𝚎 𝚆𝚒𝚕𝚕 𝚆𝚒𝚗.

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Davis Bickford @davis.social · 1d

Digital doodle of the three people in inflatable frog costumes in the quoted post. One has a sign saying, “frogs together strong”

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Krassensteins @krassenstein.bsky.social · 1d

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David Head @davidheadviews.bsky.social · 1d

World super power USA 2025.

Luca Migo ❌👑 @victinibcn.bsky.social · 1d

Consequence of the shutdown, many civil servants and military members are lining up at food banks because they have not been payed yet.

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David Head @davidheadviews.bsky.social · 1d

They should call them Trump Banks. Consolation for not getting the Nobel Peace Prize, maybe.

Luca Migo ❌👑 @victinibcn.bsky.social · 1d

Consequence of the shutdown, many civil servants and military members are lining up at food banks because they have not been payed yet.

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Brexit Bin 🇪🇺 🇬🇧 🇩🇪 @brexitbin.bsky.social · 1d

ps. That's why the Greens are doing so well at the moment. By categorically and passionately rejecting the anti-immigration sentiment at the heart of Brexit, they've been free to express a different, much more progressive narrative that's obviously resonating with large sections of the public.

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 1d

PORTLAND: “The frogs are multiplying”

(#NotAWarZone Noem Matter what Kristi says)

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