Ian Fraser
@ianfraser.bsky.social
Author and journalist. Latest edition of my book ‘Shredded: Inside RBS The Bank That Broke Britain’, about the pivotal role of what's now called NatWest in the global banking crash, was reissued in 2024. Recovering financial editor.
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Updated edition of my book ‘Shredded: Inside RBS The Bank That Broke Britain’—about why the world’s largest bank by assets collapsed in 2008 and took more than a decade to recover—available here:
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Revealed: how Nigel Farages’s deiregulatory agenda will wreck the countryside.
Reform UK’s plans to abolish critical nature laws would ease restrictions on development and intensive agriculture, opening the door to habitat destruction on an unpreceden scale.
Reform UK’s plans to abolish critical nature laws would ease restrictions on development and intensive agriculture, opening the door to habitat destruction on an unpreceden scale.
'Nigel Farage's Plan to Scrap Nature Protections Would Speed 'Demise' of UK Countryside'
Reform UK’s vow to scrap thousands of nature laws risks pushing Britain’s depleted countryside into irreversible decline, argues Stuart Spray
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November 25, 2025 at 5:57 PM
Revealed: how Nigel Farages’s deiregulatory agenda will wreck the countryside.
Reform UK’s plans to abolish critical nature laws would ease restrictions on development and intensive agriculture, opening the door to habitat destruction on an unpreceden scale.
Reform UK’s plans to abolish critical nature laws would ease restrictions on development and intensive agriculture, opening the door to habitat destruction on an unpreceden scale.
Gotta wonder how honest BBC non-executive director Robbie Gibb was being when he appeared before the culture, media and sport committee on Monday.
For contrast, let’s recall how he attacked a far more subtle BBC journalist, and eventually helped drive him out.
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BBC failed to defend me during Tory witch-hunt, says Lewis Goodall
Former Newsnight journalist says editors instead told him to ‘be careful’ when he was attacked by ex-No 10 aide on BBC board
www.theguardian.com
November 25, 2025 at 5:47 PM
Gotta wonder how honest BBC non-executive director Robbie Gibb was being when he appeared before the culture, media and sport committee on Monday.
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Another good conversation with Ian Collins.
The Chancellor can help build a better Britain by taxing us, the super-rich.
Member Stephen Kinsella explains how fairer taxes on people like us can raise vital revenue and tackle the UK’s growing wealth inequality, helping to create a stronger UK.
https://youtu.pulse.ly/8b7doqzyst
Member Stephen Kinsella explains how fairer taxes on people like us can raise vital revenue and tackle the UK’s growing wealth inequality, helping to create a stronger UK.
https://youtu.pulse.ly/8b7doqzyst
PMUK member Stephen Kinsella interview - Talk TV Nov 24
Stephen speaks to Ian Collins of Talk TV about our proposal for an annual wealth tax of 2% on assets over 10 million
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November 25, 2025 at 12:03 PM
Another good conversation with Ian Collins.
Absolutely pathetic that the BBC is censoring the Reith Lectures.
I wish I didn’t have to share this. But the BBC has decided to censor my first Reith Lecture.
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
November 25, 2025 at 5:19 PM
Absolutely pathetic that the BBC is censoring the Reith Lectures.
“This case matters because a message has to be sent that the US president cannot use the Justice Dept to target his political enemies... That’s fundamentally un-American and a threat to the rule of law ”
— ex FBI director James Corney after a judge tosses cases against him and Letitia James.
— ex FBI director James Corney after a judge tosses cases against him and Letitia James.
James Comey 'grateful' after criminal case against him thrown out by judge
YouTube video by Guardian News
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November 25, 2025 at 2:34 PM
“This case matters because a message has to be sent that the US president cannot use the Justice Dept to target his political enemies... That’s fundamentally un-American and a threat to the rule of law ”
— ex FBI director James Corney after a judge tosses cases against him and Letitia James.
— ex FBI director James Corney after a judge tosses cases against him and Letitia James.
Reform UK is increasingly using SLAPPs and other forms of legal intimidation to try and suppress negative coverage of party leader Nigel Farage and other Reform politicians.
Reform’s ‘Trumpian’ legal threats hint at more aggressive approach to media
Ultimatums sent to publications appear to intensify as Nigel Farage’s party rises in polls
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November 25, 2025 at 10:50 AM
Reform UK is increasingly using SLAPPs and other forms of legal intimidation to try and suppress negative coverage of party leader Nigel Farage and other Reform politicians.
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If you receive legal threats from Nigel Farage for your reporting of Reform, please get in touch.
We have employed a defamation lawyer specifically for this purpose and would love to help (and we do so on non-commercial terms). www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
We have employed a defamation lawyer specifically for this purpose and would love to help (and we do so on non-commercial terms). www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Reform’s ‘Trumpian’ legal threats hint at more aggressive approach to media
Ultimatums sent to publications appear to intensify as Nigel Farage’s party rises in polls
www.theguardian.com
November 25, 2025 at 8:29 AM
If you receive legal threats from Nigel Farage for your reporting of Reform, please get in touch.
We have employed a defamation lawyer specifically for this purpose and would love to help (and we do so on non-commercial terms). www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
We have employed a defamation lawyer specifically for this purpose and would love to help (and we do so on non-commercial terms). www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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“I have never directly, really tried to go and hurt anybody.”
How Nigel Farage’s responses to allegations that he was a nasty racist as a schoolboy at Dulwich College have evolved over time.
Nigel Farage’s shifting answers on school-days racism claims – a timeline
Reform UK leader’s responses to allegations of racist and antisemitic behaviour at Dulwich college have varied over time
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November 25, 2025 at 7:05 AM
“I have never directly, really tried to go and hurt anybody.”
How Nigel Farage’s responses to allegations that he was a nasty racist as a schoolboy at Dulwich College have evolved over time.
Nigel Farage’s shifting answers on school-days racism claims – a timeline
Reform UK leader’s responses to allegations of racist and antisemitic behaviour at Dulwich college have varied over time
www.theguardian.com
November 24, 2025 at 11:36 PM
How Nigel Farage’s responses to allegations that he was a nasty racist as a schoolboy at Dulwich College have evolved over time.
I hadn’t realised that Lady Lancaster, aka culture media and sport committee chair Caroline Dinenage MP, once hosted a drinks reception in parliament for GB News.
November 24, 2025 at 5:13 PM
I hadn’t realised that Lady Lancaster, aka culture media and sport committee chair Caroline Dinenage MP, once hosted a drinks reception in parliament for GB News.
Norway’s lesson for Europe on wealth taxes: let some millionaires go. By Reuters’ @terjesolsvik.bsky.social and Francesco Canepa 🇳🇴
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November 24, 2025 at 4:32 PM
Norway’s lesson for Europe on wealth taxes: let some millionaires go. By Reuters’ @terjesolsvik.bsky.social and Francesco Canepa 🇳🇴
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HOUSE OF LORDS CORRUPTION: Two peers—Richard Dannatt, ex-head of the British army, and David Evans, Lord Evans of Watford—suspended from the House of Lords for breaking lobbying rules.
Two peers suspended from House of Lords for breaking lobbying rules
Lord Evans of Watford and Lord Dannatt were filmed breaking rules, in undercover footage recorded by Guardian
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November 24, 2025 at 4:13 PM
HOUSE OF LORDS CORRUPTION: Two peers—Richard Dannatt, ex-head of the British army, and David Evans, Lord Evans of Watford—suspended from the House of Lords for breaking lobbying rules.
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Still reeling from the Stanford report on Brexit. Reduced GDP by up to 8% and investment by as much as 18%. The UK Treasury would have £40 billion more each year if Britain had remained in the EU. Devastating self-immolation.
The Economic Impact of Brexit
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November 24, 2025 at 11:02 AM
Still reeling from the Stanford report on Brexit. Reduced GDP by up to 8% and investment by as much as 18%. The UK Treasury would have £40 billion more each year if Britain had remained in the EU. Devastating self-immolation.
The wall of this 500-year-old castle in Assynt was “ripped down” by visitors who used the stones to cross a large puddle. 😖
Ardvrek Castle wall 'ripped down' for use as stepping stones
Ardvrek Castle in Assynt is a 500-year-old former clan seat, and reputed to be haunted.
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November 24, 2025 at 11:11 AM
The wall of this 500-year-old castle in Assynt was “ripped down” by visitors who used the stones to cross a large puddle. 😖
In September 2021, S4 Capital — the digital advertising and marketing services company founded by Martin Sorrell in 2018 — had a market cap of £4.8bn and a share price of 870p.
Today its market value has fallen to £110m and the shares are trading at 16.45p
Today its market value has fallen to £110m and the shares are trading at 16.45p
Ad group S4 Capital cuts annual revenue outlook again, warns of profit miss reut.rs/49BTB8F
Ad group S4 Capital cuts annual revenue outlook again, warns of profit miss
Martin Sorrell's advertising group S4 Capital cut its annual revenue forecast for the fourth time this year and warned on its full-year profit on Monday, hurt by cautious spending by its clients and a slow ramp-up of new contracts and sales.
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November 24, 2025 at 10:37 AM
In September 2021, S4 Capital — the digital advertising and marketing services company founded by Martin Sorrell in 2018 — had a market cap of £4.8bn and a share price of 870p.
Today its market value has fallen to £110m and the shares are trading at 16.45p
Today its market value has fallen to £110m and the shares are trading at 16.45p
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I’m worried about Richard, the supposed Reform candidate in some council by election or other in Lincolnshire.
Look at the faraway look in his eyes.
The sadness.
The furrowed brow.
The dull listlessness…😔
Is he being held hostage against his will by Andrea Jenkyns?
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Look at the faraway look in his eyes.
The sadness.
The furrowed brow.
The dull listlessness…😔
Is he being held hostage against his will by Andrea Jenkyns?
😱
November 24, 2025 at 8:50 AM
I’m worried about Richard, the supposed Reform candidate in some council by election or other in Lincolnshire.
Look at the faraway look in his eyes.
The sadness.
The furrowed brow.
The dull listlessness…😔
Is he being held hostage against his will by Andrea Jenkyns?
😱
Look at the faraway look in his eyes.
The sadness.
The furrowed brow.
The dull listlessness…😔
Is he being held hostage against his will by Andrea Jenkyns?
😱
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If I’m understanding this correctly, X is owned by a white nationalist who pays poor people of color in developing countries to pretend to be working class white Americans to scare other white Americans into being afraid poor people of color from developing countries are going to ruin America?
November 23, 2025 at 7:30 PM
If I’m understanding this correctly, X is owned by a white nationalist who pays poor people of color in developing countries to pretend to be working class white Americans to scare other white Americans into being afraid poor people of color from developing countries are going to ruin America?
In Post Mortem, the first forensic account of how the Post Office, the government and Fujitsu ruined the lives of thousands of innocent people, Private Eye's @rbrooks45.bsky.social explains how the scandal became a Ponzi scheme of injustice.
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November 23, 2025 at 12:42 PM
In Post Mortem, the first forensic account of how the Post Office, the government and Fujitsu ruined the lives of thousands of innocent people, Private Eye's @rbrooks45.bsky.social explains how the scandal became a Ponzi scheme of injustice.
www.channel4.com/news/new-boo...
www.channel4.com/news/new-boo...
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If only there were some clue from his subsequent political career
Twenty people allege he has a racist past. He denies it. Who’s telling the truth about Farage’s schooldays?
Reform UK’s leader refuses to answer questions about his abusive behaviour, claiming there’s ‘no evidence’. We talk to victims and witnesses
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November 23, 2025 at 9:55 AM
If only there were some clue from his subsequent political career
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Gwilym Prichard (Welsh, 1931 -2015). Above Rhostryfan (1982, oil on canvas).
November 21, 2025 at 11:08 PM
Gwilym Prichard (Welsh, 1931 -2015). Above Rhostryfan (1982, oil on canvas).
The @thenerve.news has put together a handy timeline presenting the facts of the Nathan Gill case in chronological order—including his interactions with handler Oleh Voloshyn, statements he made on the Kremlin’s behalf in exchange for euros, and his close relationship with party leader Nigel Farage.
NEW: If you have *any* interest in the Nathan Gill story, you need to look at this.
We’ve put all the dates into a timeline & it’s incredibly revealing.
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We’ve put all the dates into a timeline & it’s incredibly revealing.
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Reform UK and Russian bribes: a Nathan Gill timeline
As Reform’s former leader in Wales is sentenced to ten and a half years for taking bribes from a pro-Russian actor, here's a chronology of his actions and the wider context of Putin, Ukraine and Brexi...
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November 22, 2025 at 2:47 PM
The @thenerve.news has put together a handy timeline presenting the facts of the Nathan Gill case in chronological order—including his interactions with handler Oleh Voloshyn, statements he made on the Kremlin’s behalf in exchange for euros, and his close relationship with party leader Nigel Farage.
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Caving to Putin isn’t strength. It’s weakness. And it signals to every dictator watching that aggression pays.
November 20, 2025 at 8:55 PM
Caving to Putin isn’t strength. It’s weakness. And it signals to every dictator watching that aggression pays.
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Pink Floyd's ANOTHER BRICK IN THE WALL, PART 2 was 1979's Christmas number one, and still topped the charts in January, seeing in the new decade with its bleak, scary video. The teacher! The mincing machine! The hammers! Welcome to the 80s.
November 22, 2025 at 11:05 AM
Pink Floyd's ANOTHER BRICK IN THE WALL, PART 2 was 1979's Christmas number one, and still topped the charts in January, seeing in the new decade with its bleak, scary video. The teacher! The mincing machine! The hammers! Welcome to the 80s.
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Amidst the Putin-Witkoff nonsense on handing Ukraine to Moscow, clear reporting as always from @michaeldweiss.bsky.social
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“He Must Have Got This From K.”
How a Russian operative used the American media to force a risible “peace deal” into existence
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November 21, 2025 at 11:46 PM
Amidst the Putin-Witkoff nonsense on handing Ukraine to Moscow, clear reporting as always from @michaeldweiss.bsky.social
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Stench of corruption inside Reform UK. Strong report from C4 News' Jane Deith on the 10½-year sentence given to Nigel Farage's ex lieutenant Nathan Gill for making pro-Russia speeches in the European Parliament and on TV in exchange for £40,000 in bribes.
Wales Reform UK ex-leader jailed for taking Russian bribes
YouTube video by Channel 4 News
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November 21, 2025 at 11:28 PM
Stench of corruption inside Reform UK. Strong report from C4 News' Jane Deith on the 10½-year sentence given to Nigel Farage's ex lieutenant Nathan Gill for making pro-Russia speeches in the European Parliament and on TV in exchange for £40,000 in bribes.