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Alexander Clarkson @aphclarkson.bsky.social · 18h

Looking back there needs to be quite a searching discussion about when Goodwin's radicalisation spiral started and whether UK academic networks should have been firmer about his drift to the Far Right at an earlier juncture.

Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 22h

Matt Goodwin attributes a crime that he now knows appears to have been committed by people born in Britain in the early 1990s to "mass uncontrolled immigration"

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Ian Slater @iansslater.bsky.social · 20h

There are few things more disgusting than when the far-right’s morons weaponise violence and human tragedy to amplify racial hatred.

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Dave Shackson @djshackson.bsky.social · 1d

And of course, Farage was apparently doing it for free... hmm.

The Rejoin EU Party @therejoineuparty.com · 1d

🚨 Here’s what Farage Doesn’t Want You To See…👇 him and Nathan Gill saying the same statements about Russia 🇷🇺
#Brexit #putin

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Climatologist49 @climatologist49.bsky.social · 1d

October 2025 temperature departure from normal using Prism climate data. 🔥🔥🔥

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Fionna O’Leary @fascinatorfun.bsky.social · 1d

Appointments an ex Sun editor and you’ll get Sun-type standards.

I’d be thinking of jumping ship if I were a highly regarded journalist

Simon Nixon @nixonsimon.bsky.social · 1d

This spectacular @thetimes.com screw-up deserves much wider attention. It’s the second bullshit story that the “paper of record” has deleted in a week after Monday’s attempted hatchet job on @torstenbell.bsky.social. A sad descent for a once serious paper

The Guardian @theguardian.com · 2d

UK newspaper editor calls Bill de Blasio fake interview blunder ‘humiliating’

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Ian Slater @iansslater.bsky.social · 2d

Hitler’s thugs also claimed to be responding to the concerns of “ordinary people”. I’m reading Stefan Zweig’s memoir and it’s all horribly familiar.

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Sir Jack Caramac @jackcaramac.bsky.social · 2d

I never want to hear this man's name again, unless its being read out in court whilst he's being charged with treason.

Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 3d

Dominic Cummings pushed for Covid tech contracts to be handed to a company run by a Trump-supporting billionaire after holding a secret meeting with him alongside Boris Johnson.

Officials were lobbied to ignore official procedures and bypass ministers in order to get the contracts signed

Dominic Cummings Lobbied Officials to Hand 'Test and Trace' Contracts to Palantir After Secret Meeting With Peter Thiel

Exclusive: Boris Johnson's senior advisor pushed for Covid contracts to be handed to companies run by Trump-supporting tech billionaires Peter Thiel and Larry Ellison

bylinetimes.com

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Andy Brown @andybrown1951.bsky.social · 2d

The fascists got a real pounding in the recent Dutch election. So the BBC coverage has been thin. They gave wall to wall coverage of the rise of Wilders but seemed less keen on covering his decline.
www.politico.eu/article/dutc...

Dutch election 2025: The winners and losers

Liberal boss Rob Jetten had a big night, lefty leader Frans Timmermans had a disaster — and what about far-right figurehead Geert Wilders?

www.politico.eu

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AngryGeriatricGenx @angrygeriatricgenx.bsky.social · 3d

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AngryGeriatricGenx @angrygeriatricgenx.bsky.social · 4d

Fuck Reform

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David Hewson @davidhewson.com · 3d

Well done the Netherlands. They can be beaten

The Economist @economist.com · 4d

Rob Jetten beats out Geert Wilders

The Dutch choose optimism over anti-immigrant populism

Rob Jetten beats out Geert Wilders

econ.st

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StrictlyChristo 🇺🇦🌻🚫👑 @strictlychristo.bsky.social · 3d

How Nazi Race Science Conquered the WH, and is Coming for Your Democracy

One major ‘Dark Enlightenment’ influencer has stepped into the light, talking of the ‘negro problem’. Nafeez Ahmed explains how the SV broligarchy has resurrected Nazi-inspired eugenics ideology & is putting it into action.

How Nazi Race Science Conquered the White House, and is Coming for Your Democracy

One of the major ‘Dark Enlightenment’ influencers has stepped into the light, talking of the 'negro problem'. Nafeez Ahmed explains how the Silicon Valley broligarchy has resurrected Nazi-inspired eug...

bylinetimes.com

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Rob Jacobs @robjake.bsky.social · Sep 22

The Volksempfanger (people's radio) was introduced by Dr Goebbels in 1935. The Nazi Party provided every German household with a free radio so that propaganda could be beamed into every home. Now does Musk's ownership of X and Fox News' interest in Tik-Tok make sense?

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 5d

Trump Org’s income in the first half of 2024 was $51 million.

In the first half of 2025 it rose to $864 million.

A massive percentage came from foreigners.

It should be the biggest scandal in the history of American politics.

But few even care. www.reuters.com/investigatio...

Inside the Trump family’s global crypto cash machine

The U.S. president’s family raked in more than $800 million from sales of crypto assets in the first half of 2025 alone, a Reuters examination found, on top of potentially billions more in unrealized “on paper” gains. Much of that cash came from foreign sources as Donald Trump's sons touted their business on an international investor roadshow.

www.reuters.com

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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 3d

Kemi Badenoch is absolutely right about this.

At the time she hacked Harriet Harman's emails it was an offence carrying a prison sentence of up to five years

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Ian Slater @iansslater.bsky.social · 3d

Mike Johnson is seriously evil.

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 4d

Never in the history of the US has any president openly and repeatedly called for the investigation, arrest & prosecution of his political opponents. While many continue to shrug these things off and normalize them, I will never stop pointing out that this is what autocrats do.

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Dawn B @dawnbritten.bsky.social · 3d

Xx

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Gaby Hinsliff @gabyhinsliff.bsky.social · 14d

& it’s the speed really that’s shocking. The speed with which someone can go from fairly conventional rightwing Tory (I don’t think Lam talked like this when she worked for Boris?) to somewhere right of where Farage was then. Frogs not even getting slowly boiled these days.

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Gaby Hinsliff @gabyhinsliff.bsky.social · 14d

V late to this (it’s a weekend, family stuff, etc) but..I agree with Ben. Both Katie Lam’s interview about deporting people with legal status (and the way STimes treated it) & the Christian Calgie business are disturbing egs of forgetting that ‘normal on X these days’ is very much not normal

Ben Ansell @benansell.bsky.social · 14d

Apropos of nothing, I really do think UK journalists and politicians need some reminding that mass deportation of LEGAL immigrants, particularly those with permanent status, is far more extreme than even Trump's America and would basically place Britain completely on its own among democracies.

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Ally The Ever Hopefull 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🇮🇪 🇪🇺 @agulland.bsky.social · 3d

Biased Broadcasting Corporation up to its usual tricks.

The National @scotnational.bsky.social · 3d

BBC Question Time has come under fire after describing a Reform UK campaigner on its panel as an 'academic' – while labelling a left-wing academic an 'activist'

'Blatant bias': BBC under fire over double standards for Question Time panel

www.thenational.scot

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William Duguid @williamduguid1.bsky.social · 3d

'Elon Musk has transformed one of the world’s largest social media sites and source of news into an attack platform to assist a hostile foreign power during the biggest and bloodiest war in Europe since World War Two.'
@peterjukes.bsky.social, via @bylinetimes.bsky.social

X - Marks the Spot: Russia’s Second Front

Peter Jukes looks at the mounting evidence that Elon Musk is using his social media platform as a vector to attack Ukraine and support Putin’s murderous invasion

bylinetimes.com

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Hardeep Matharu @hardeepmatharu.bsky.social · 16d

Given how much the China spy case has dominated headlines, it really does beg the question: why is our political-media class so uninterested in Nathan Gill, his Russian bribes, his once close associate Nigel Farage, and Reform UK?

Our new Byline Times edition investigates what the media won't 👇

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MaryamB (She/Her) #FBPE #BanX #DemocracyDiedInDarkness 6Nov24🖤 @maryamb.bsky.social · 7d

Musk has turned X into a platform supporting the far right agenda & a megaphone for their parties. AfD boosted, Reform celebrated, democracy attacked & liberal voices are silenced.
If we are still active on X, whose power are we growing? What future will we be scrolling into?
#DefendDemocracy

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Ian Slater @iansslater.bsky.social · 9d

In a world of Dorries, be like Mariella

Bremain in Spain @bremaininspain.com · 9d

Former Tory cabinet minister Nadine Dorries who has since defected to Reform UK, was laughed at on BBC Question Time as she tried to explain how Reform would tackle high levels of immigration.
leftfootforward.org/2025/10/nadi...

Nadine Dorries mocked on BBC Question Time as she struggles to explain Reform immigration plan

Glad to see the Question Time audience not take Dorries that seriously.

leftfootforward.org

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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 11d

Lots of US companies have done lots of dreadful things to Americans. But the symbolism of paying to destroy the White House is hard to top.

Aozora @aozorasf.bsky.social · 13d

This is who is paying for the destruction of the White House East Wing, per @wsj.com

Altria Group Inc.
Amazon
Apple Inc.
Booz Allen Hamilton Holding Corp.
Caterpillar Inc.
Coinbase Global
Comcast Corp.
Hard Rock International
Google
HP Inc.
Lockheed Martin Corp.
Meta Platforms Inc.
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