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Brian Moore @briantrumpet.bsky.social · 6h

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.

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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.

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 7h

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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Alexander Clarkson @aphclarkson.bsky.social · 8h

If this was happening in any other country you'd have journalists and analysts discussing risks of state failure

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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 11h

The message from Robert Jenrick has been clear. If you’re a far-right thug threatening migrants, refugees, or Muslims, then your rights to protest are to be protected at all costs. If you’re not then they won’t
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The Descent of Robert Jenrick

The Shadow Justice Secretary's transformation from a 'Generic' moderate Conservative to the Great Hope of the far-right should alarm us all

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Andy Neather @hernehillandy.bsky.social · 10h

You… you don’t mean he’s just a cowardly, bullshitting bully, surely?

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Tanita Tikaram @tanitatikaram.bsky.social · 10h

A UK presenter shouldn’t crow about an audience’s ignorance of Nathan Gill who took bribes from Kremlin agents & was a close ally of Farage . It shows they have failed to do their job . What next , telling us that Watergate was one of the lowest points in investigative journalism 🥺 ?

Joy @joybe.bsky.social · 1d

The Nathan Gill scandal should be huge news so why has the British media been mainly silent about it? (I think we know 🤔)
Here's Fiona Bruce shutting down any mention & acting like the audience aren't interested.
#bbqt

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Jim Waterson @jim.londoncentric.media · 19h

You might have heard of 'dark kitchens' when a row of sheds in a car park churn out food for Deliveroo. They're unpopular and low margin. So the next big thing in London food is 'host kitchens' where local pubs, restaurants and kebab shops cook for big brands. www.londoncentric.media/p/host-kitch...

Why your next upmarket Deliveroo might be made by your local kebab shop

"On one hand, it’s a lifeline... But on the other hand, it’s a harbinger of doom.”

www.londoncentric.media

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Andy Neather @hernehillandy.bsky.social · 1d

New by me in The Drinks Business today: how Simpson’s Wine Estate are leading the way in English still #wine www.thedrinksbusiness.com/2025/10/simp...

Simpson's to dedicate 60% of its grapes towards English still wines

Kent producer Simpson's says the warmer weather this year has led to "riper and fuller flavours" that lend themselves especially well to producing still wines, writes Andrew Neather.

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Roland Smith @rolandmcs.bsky.social · 1d

It's worth adding that Hamit Coskun is an asylum seeker - what Jenrick would call 'an illegal immigrant' - and one who has self-evidently 'got into trouble with the law in our country'.

But to Jenrick, Coskun is clearly the right sort of 'illegal immigrant' in the right sort of trouble.

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Andy Neather @hernehillandy.bsky.social · 1d

Hmm… I was in press room in Blackpool for the Standard, writing our main final edition leader as he spoke. I checked in by phone with our v Tory ed when he finished speaking, said it was going to be highly critical. She was outraged by IDS’s feebleness and told me to make the leader even tougher!

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🇬🇧 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🇺🇦 @touchtoomuch.bsky.social · 2d

Chris Mason is essentially the political equivalent of a gossip columnist or football commentator. There’s no substantive analysis or insight, it’s all predicated upon who’s up and who’s down. Utterly vacuous, shallow guff.

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Andy Neather @hernehillandy.bsky.social · 2d

IDS in 2003? The Quiet Man speech was surely one of the most universally derided leaders’ speeches ever!

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Will Jennings 🗳️ @drjennings.bsky.social · 2d

If somebody told you that a worm had eaten part of RFJ Jr's brain, you absolutely would believe them.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

RFK Jr: "Somebody showed me a TikTok video of a pregnant woman at 8 months pregnant -- she's an associate professor at the Columbia Medical School -- and she is saying 'F Trump' and gobbling Tylenol with her baby in her placenta. The level of Trump Derangement Syndrome is now a pathology."

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London Review of Books @lrb.co.uk · 2d

‘Should Argentina fail, Uruguay would suffer the equivalent of a hurricane, presenting the coalition government with a serious challenge.’

Forrest Hylton on the blog: www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/oc...

Forrest Hylton | Across the Rio de la Plata

At sunset on a clear day you can see thirty miles across the Rio de la Plata from Colonia de Sacramento to the...

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Andy Neather @hernehillandy.bsky.social · 2d

News from me in Drinks Retailing
News on a key sustainability issue: It’s time to switch from glass bottles for mass-market #wines drinksretailingnews.co.uk/opinion-its-...

Opinion: It’s time to switch from glass bottles - Drinks Retailing

Glass still dominates UK wine shelves, yet bottles account for around 40% of wine’s carbon footprint. With alternative formats gaining momentum, Andy Neather asks whether it’s time for the trade to br...

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Joe Uchill @joeuchill.bsky.social · 2d

For the record…

Truth social TOS says dms are not encrypted.

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Andy Neather @hernehillandy.bsky.social · 2d

Astonishing piece about #Putin’s huge vanity #wine project, Krinitsa, just down the road from his vast and staggeringly vulgar Black Sea palace, Gelendzhik. The fruits of kleptocracy in a mafia state, on a grand scale theins.ru/en/inv/28560...

War and wine: While Russia bleeds money and battles drones, Putin's wine business is booming

The Krinitsa winery, just down the road from Putin's Gelendzhik palace, is estimated to be worth over 27 billion rubles ($330 million), making it Russia's most valuable winemaking operation. Plans are...

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Jonny Morris @jonnymorris.bsky.social · 2d

Is this real or am I in a coma?

Young Conservative with a Doctor Who question mark pullover.

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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 2d

The National Union of Journalists condemns the Conservative Party's decision to ban myself and David Hencke from their conference as a threat to media freedom which "undermines the Conservative Party leader’s repeated pledge to fight for free speech"
bylinetimes.com/2025/10/08/c...

Conservatives Accused of ‘Trumpian’ Tactics After Barring Second Byline Times Journalist From Conference

The National Union of Journalists described the bans as a threat to media freedom which "undermines the Conservative Party leader’s repeated pledge to fight for free speech"

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Andy Neather @hernehillandy.bsky.social · 3d

My blog is out: The fight to take the chemicals out of Champagne: #Champagne remains one of French #wine's heaviest pesticide users. But organic producers have a different vision. Plus: my top @thewinesociety.bsky.social recommendations
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The fight to take the chemicals out of Champagne

Champagne remains one of French wine's heaviest pesticide users. But organic producers have a different vision. Plus: my top Wine Society recommendations

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Will Jennings 🗳️ @drjennings.bsky.social · 3d

You'd think there would be more interest from the US media that Trump is simply delusional - at best being fed complete fabrications by his team, at worst in serious cognitive decline and unable to recognise reality.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 3d

Trump: "I don't know what could be worse than Portland. You don't even have stores anymore. They don't even put glass up. They put plywood on their windows."

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Helene von Bismarck @helenebismarck.bsky.social · 3d

Don‘t threaten us with a good time.

The Verge @theverge.com · May 26

Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry

Paul McCartne, Elton John and others signed an open letter.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 3d

Pritzker: "He wants to militarize major cities because he wants us to get used to the idea of troops on the streets. I believe he's gonna post people outside of polling places and if he needs to in order to control those elections, he'll assume control of the ballot boxes & count the votes himself"

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kate conger @kateconger.com · 3d

Jonathan Rinderknecht, a white man, was charged with starting the Palisades Fire. But on X, the company's news summary tab shows a photo of a black man.

Screenshot depicting posts on X, one showing the suspect accused of starting the Palisades Fire, a white man. The X news tab reports on the suspect's arrest, but shows a photo of a black man instead.

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Andy Neather @hernehillandy.bsky.social · 3d

From the @lrb.co.uk blog: the long history of Britain’s connivance in dispossessing and evicting the Palestinians from their land www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/oc...

Anne Irfan | Balfour to Blair

By endorsing the Trump plan, Keir Starmer continues the long-standing British position of denying the Palestinian people...

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