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Reece Dinsdale @reecedinsdale.bsky.social · 13h

Like I never met John Thaw. 👀

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Paul Singh @paulsingh.bsky.social · 18h

Nice of U.K. media to finally realise that there’s a link between Moscow & the European far right.

If you followed my on the bad place you’d know I had a pinned thread highlighting these links stretching back to 2014.

But well done peeps. You got there in the end.

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Marlowe_UK @irishdreamer.bsky.social · 17h

The media are desperate for it to go away

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jbl23.bsky.social @jbl23.bsky.social · 10h

It is a great deal of Farage fault, it was his Brexit his lies, his racist agenda, Johnson was just a puppet in the middle of a coup and clearly wanted power by any means necessary and any agenda, as the Tory party does any thing for power, even makes trump a benign disease,
As they are malignant

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Callum Parrish @callumparrish.bsky.social · 10h

If a Labour leader had been accepting bribes from Russia, it would been on the front pages of every paper for weeks (and quite rightly so).

And yet apparently the BBC won't let us talk about Nathan Gill and Reform. It should be headline news everywhere.

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Leeds for Europe @leedseurope.bsky.social · 19h

Did the Russians pay Farage to say this…just asking questions…

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Charlotte Clymer @charlotteclymer.bsky.social · 12h

Hey @jaketapper.bsky.social, I'm no expert on cognitive illnesses, but it feels a bit detached from reality for a sitting POTUS to forget that he was in power during an attack on the U.S. Capitol, doesn't it? Do you know anyone in journalism with experience covering dementia-like symptoms?

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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 12h

Sen. Mark Kelly: "The president has previously said...that government shutdowns are on the president and all you need to do is get everyone in a room and have a serious conversation. And they're refusing to do that. They are holding people's healthcare hostage."

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Reform Party UK Exposed @reformexposed.bsky.social · 12h

Is Nigel Farage Moscow’s Man?

youtube.com/watch?v=CVti...

Is Nigel Farage Moscow’s Man?

YouTube video by Political X

youtube.com

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The Flexible Chef 🇪🇺 @theflexiblechef.bsky.social · 18h

£900k property, gin debts, and a tax trail that stinks of spin 🐾 Issy & Poppy sniff it all out - Strasbourg politics like you’ve never seen. 🐾 🥐
tinyurl.com/yjbc9kad

Cosmic greyhound detectives, one juggling a croissant, overlooking Nigel Farage.

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Paul Singh @paulsingh.bsky.social · 12h

Scotland has the highest public spending per head in the Union.

To call that “crumbs from the table” sums up Scottish nationalism perfectly - grievance based politics

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hajoty30.bsky.social @hajoty30.bsky.social · 1d

WAR-TORN PORTLAND CELEBRATES THE INFLATABLES.

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Canadian Resistance 🇨🇦 @cdnresistance.bsky.social · 12h

Remember when news articles were not opinion pieces?

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 14h

This sadly demented man doesn't realize *he* was president on Jan 6, 2021. Get him in an assisted living facility ASAP.

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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 23h

Chicago journalist Debbie Brockman, who was thrown to the ground & handcuffed by ICE, has been released without charges

DHS said she assaulted an officer, but eye witnesses claim she didn’t

The lack of charges makes it clear that ICE is lying to try and cover up the fact that they attack the press

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Ben Coates @bencoates1.bsky.social · 14h

Anti immigration protest in Amsterdam

A truly devastating zoom out by the camera here.
We are the Netherlands! - all fifty of us!

Sebastiaan Barel @sebastiaanbarel.bsky.social · 16h

“Wij zijn Nederland, wij zijn Nederland!” #Museumplein #Amsterdam

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Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 16h

NEW: The British politician, his Russian intelligence handler & a Kremlin plot against the US & Ukraine.

My new piece about Nathan Gill and Nigel Farage for @thenerve_news in which we ask:

Why, even now, is no-one asking questions?

t.co/BUTtpK9C4S

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Nick Reeves #FBPE #NAFO @nickreeves.bsky.social · 1d

Farage has given up the pretence that he barely knew Nathan Gill. He can't do otherwise, given the flood of evidence to the contrary.

Here is Gill saying he's just come from having lunch with Farage on the day that Farage resigned as UKIP leader 4 July 2016?

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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 19h

“I’m old enough to remember when mainstream British politicians, who should know better, stirred up racial hatred as a path to power. You’re old enough to remember too because it was last Tuesday. And it was Robert Jenrick”

Cathartic anger at flag-flying racism.

www.thenerve.news/p/stewart-le...

Stewart Lee: The thugs have taken my flag. So I’ve taken theirs

What do you do with a lot of cheap banners hanging from motorway bridges once you’ve torn them down?

www.thenerve.news

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mja66 @mja66.bsky.social · 18h

I'm old enough to remember the National Front and I honestly see no difference between the divisive rhetoric being spouted by the likes of Jenrick and the NF propaganda of the late 70s and early 80s.

Any One Nation Tories still left in the party should be ashamed of their own silence.

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Ann Pettifor @annpettifor.bsky.social · 19h

"the gruesome Badenoch-Jenrick double act, and the Putin-friendly chums of the oil lobby in Nigel Farage and Reform is where right wing politics is right now: as a naked and open defence of class relations and oligarchical interests.”

averypublicsociologist.blogspot.com/p/about.html

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Brian Moore @briantrumpet.bsky.social · 1d

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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Lawrence Freedman @ldfreedman.bsky.social · 18h

With Farage’s former colleague Nathan Gill guilty of taking money from Russia to promote its propaganda Sam looks at the wider connections between the radical right and Russia. (£/free trial), samf.substack.com/p/russia-and...

Russia and the rise of the radical right

Marine Le Pen meets with Putin before the 2017 French Presidential election (Photo credit Mikhail Klimentyev/AFP via Getty Images)

samf.substack.com

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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 1d

Fat Satan got his COVID booster shot yesterday. If he doesn’t listen to his Trumpshit-crazy HHS Secretary, why should we?

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KimBo @zapperfan7.bsky.social · 20h

Viviane: 10yr Keir

Farage failed on Brexit.

Farage failed 8 times to become an MP

Farage has failed on Local Councils

Farage has failed to tell us who bought his house.

Farage has failed to distance himself from Nathan Gill

Farage will fail to become PM

Farage is a failure

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