James F Ford
@jamiefford.bsky.social
Retired psychology & forensic psychology lecturer. Now writing crime fiction & making inane comments on politics. Latest 2025 books 'Broken' under pseudonym Tuppence Farthing & 'Blood On His Hands' by Jamie F Ford. Views my own.
Which is good, if there are jobs at the end.
Ministers promise 50,000 new apprenticeships in bid to tackle youth unemployment
Ministers promise 50,000 new apprenticeships in bid to tackle youth unemployment
Ministers promise 50,000 new apprenticeships in bid to tackle youth unemployment
www.independent.co.uk
December 7, 2025 at 11:33 PM
Which is good, if there are jobs at the end.
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Here I am with Reform councillor Andrew Harrison, who was one of a group of people fined over £1m for employing illegal workers. Like all good patriots, he hates immigrants, apart from the ones he can exploit for profit.
December 7, 2025 at 7:52 PM
Here I am with Reform councillor Andrew Harrison, who was one of a group of people fined over £1m for employing illegal workers. Like all good patriots, he hates immigrants, apart from the ones he can exploit for profit.
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BREAKING: Nigel Farage has been reported to police by a former member of his campaign team over claims of falsified election expenses. Given the serious nature of the allegations the Met’s specialist crime group will assess the documents that have been submitted.
December 7, 2025 at 8:19 PM
BREAKING: Nigel Farage has been reported to police by a former member of his campaign team over claims of falsified election expenses. Given the serious nature of the allegations the Met’s specialist crime group will assess the documents that have been submitted.
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Three more British MEPs in Nigel Farage’s bloc now alleged to have “followed the script” given to Nathan Gill by an alleged Russian asset, according to prosecutors.
At least eight UKIP and Brexit Party MPs were focus of efforts by Nathan Gill
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
At least eight UKIP and Brexit Party MPs were focus of efforts by Nathan Gill
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Three more Farage bloc MEPs alleged to have followed Russian asset’s script
At least eight MEPs elected for Ukip or Brexit party now known to have been focus of efforts by jailed Nathan Gill
www.theguardian.com
December 7, 2025 at 5:36 PM
Three more British MEPs in Nigel Farage’s bloc now alleged to have “followed the script” given to Nathan Gill by an alleged Russian asset, according to prosecutors.
At least eight UKIP and Brexit Party MPs were focus of efforts by Nathan Gill
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
At least eight UKIP and Brexit Party MPs were focus of efforts by Nathan Gill
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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This story more than any other disgusts me.
Yinka was a little 9 year old boy
Farage was a swaggering bully aged 17
We all knew those bullies at school and in this case teenager Farage was a racist bully too
Yinka was a little 9 year old boy
Farage was a swaggering bully aged 17
We all knew those bullies at school and in this case teenager Farage was a racist bully too
Yinka Bankole was 12 when Farage spotted him in the playground:
“He towered over me. ‘Where are you from?’ he asked. Within seconds of offering my rather confused and sputtering answers, he had a clear response: ‘That’s the way back to Africa,’.”
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
“He towered over me. ‘Where are you from?’ he asked. Within seconds of offering my rather confused and sputtering answers, he had a clear response: ‘That’s the way back to Africa,’.”
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Former Dulwich pupil says Farage told him: ‘That’s the way back to Africa’
Exclusive: Yinka Bankole says he felt compelled to speak out after Reform leader’s attempts to ‘dismiss’ hurt of alleged targets
www.theguardian.com
December 7, 2025 at 8:00 PM
This story more than any other disgusts me.
Yinka was a little 9 year old boy
Farage was a swaggering bully aged 17
We all knew those bullies at school and in this case teenager Farage was a racist bully too
Yinka was a little 9 year old boy
Farage was a swaggering bully aged 17
We all knew those bullies at school and in this case teenager Farage was a racist bully too
It's a sign of the depth of stupidity in Reform voters that they cannot understand why rich, often overseas, donors give vast sums to Farage's private company (which masquerades as a political party)
He is not, nor ever was, a man of the people. He is a grifter exploiting his privilege & his voters.
He is not, nor ever was, a man of the people. He is a grifter exploiting his privilege & his voters.
Reform’s record £9m crypto donation is just the latest offering from abroad
Two thirds of funds given to Nigel Farage’s party this parliament have come from donors with overseas interests
Two thirds of funds given to Nigel Farage’s party this parliament have come from donors with overseas interests
Reform’s record £9m crypto donation is just the latest offering from abroad | The Observer
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December 7, 2025 at 5:55 PM
It's a sign of the depth of stupidity in Reform voters that they cannot understand why rich, often overseas, donors give vast sums to Farage's private company (which masquerades as a political party)
He is not, nor ever was, a man of the people. He is a grifter exploiting his privilege & his voters.
He is not, nor ever was, a man of the people. He is a grifter exploiting his privilege & his voters.
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Good piece by @writesbright.bsky.social on Reform’s finances. Populists talk repeatedly about “the people”, but it’s a few very wealthy people who really matter because they’re the ones who pay:
open.substack.com/pub/writesbr...
open.substack.com/pub/writesbr...
December 7, 2025 at 10:35 AM
Good piece by @writesbright.bsky.social on Reform’s finances. Populists talk repeatedly about “the people”, but it’s a few very wealthy people who really matter because they’re the ones who pay:
open.substack.com/pub/writesbr...
open.substack.com/pub/writesbr...
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Farage hopes he can breeze into power without scrutiny. But his racism, corrupt donations, shady links to Russia and MAGA… make it harder for him to hide. And his tantrum reactions to being challenged reveal him for the nasty inadequate he really is.
#NeverPM
www.adambienkov.co.uk/p/the-wheels...
#NeverPM
www.adambienkov.co.uk/p/the-wheels...
The Wheels Are Falling off the Nigel Farage Project
The Reform leader's increasingly rattled public appearances betray a growing sense that the opportunity of a lifetime could be about to slip from his fingers
www.adambienkov.co.uk
December 6, 2025 at 1:13 PM
Farage hopes he can breeze into power without scrutiny. But his racism, corrupt donations, shady links to Russia and MAGA… make it harder for him to hide. And his tantrum reactions to being challenged reveal him for the nasty inadequate he really is.
#NeverPM
www.adambienkov.co.uk/p/the-wheels...
#NeverPM
www.adambienkov.co.uk/p/the-wheels...
Then not rejoining is betraying the economic potential of our country.
Admitting that rejoining the customs union was not “currently” the Government’s official policy, Deputy Prime Minister Mr Lammy did concede that the growth potential of rejoining was “self-evident”
www.lbc.co.uk/article/lamm...
www.lbc.co.uk/article/lamm...
Lammy refuses to rule out Brexit reversal admitting rejoining EU would 'boost UK growth' | LBC
The Deputy PM joined the News Agents as he said that 'our future is inextricably linked to the European Union'
www.lbc.co.uk
December 5, 2025 at 4:46 PM
Then not rejoining is betraying the economic potential of our country.
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“Is the person who said these things a fit person to be our prime minister?"
Peter Ettedgui tells @mrjamesob.bsky.social why he ‘didn’t hesitate’ to go public with his accusations against his former classmate Nigel Farage.
Peter Ettedgui tells @mrjamesob.bsky.social why he ‘didn’t hesitate’ to go public with his accusations against his former classmate Nigel Farage.
December 5, 2025 at 2:34 PM
“Is the person who said these things a fit person to be our prime minister?"
Peter Ettedgui tells @mrjamesob.bsky.social why he ‘didn’t hesitate’ to go public with his accusations against his former classmate Nigel Farage.
Peter Ettedgui tells @mrjamesob.bsky.social why he ‘didn’t hesitate’ to go public with his accusations against his former classmate Nigel Farage.
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‘People are thanking me.”
Peter Ettedgui says he’s been ‘totally surprised’ by the reaction to him accusing Nigel Farage of racism in his schooldays.
Peter Ettedgui says he’s been ‘totally surprised’ by the reaction to him accusing Nigel Farage of racism in his schooldays.
December 5, 2025 at 2:51 PM
‘People are thanking me.”
Peter Ettedgui says he’s been ‘totally surprised’ by the reaction to him accusing Nigel Farage of racism in his schooldays.
Peter Ettedgui says he’s been ‘totally surprised’ by the reaction to him accusing Nigel Farage of racism in his schooldays.
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"He so exactly reminds me of the Farage that said those things back then."
Peter Ettedgui says he has to switch off the TV when the Reform leader is on because of how much it reminds him of his schooldays.
Peter Ettedgui says he has to switch off the TV when the Reform leader is on because of how much it reminds him of his schooldays.
December 5, 2025 at 2:56 PM
"He so exactly reminds me of the Farage that said those things back then."
Peter Ettedgui says he has to switch off the TV when the Reform leader is on because of how much it reminds him of his schooldays.
Peter Ettedgui says he has to switch off the TV when the Reform leader is on because of how much it reminds him of his schooldays.
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So he moans that immigrants don’t integrate or contribute yet he had a problem with the multiple Patels at his very expensive private school, whose parents clearly earned enough to contribute and just wanted their sons to integrate.
It’s simple: he doesn’t like brown people no matter what they do
It’s simple: he doesn’t like brown people no matter what they do
December 5, 2025 at 4:30 PM
So he moans that immigrants don’t integrate or contribute yet he had a problem with the multiple Patels at his very expensive private school, whose parents clearly earned enough to contribute and just wanted their sons to integrate.
It’s simple: he doesn’t like brown people no matter what they do
It’s simple: he doesn’t like brown people no matter what they do
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Our leader of Staffordshire County Council.
Reform UK’s Cllr Ian Cooper has posted dozens of racist and bigoted posts to YouTube and X/Twitter under his personal accounts.
@hopenothate.org.uk
hopenothate.org.uk/2025/12/03/r...
@hopenothate.org.uk
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Revealed: The Online Activity of Staffordshire Council Leader Ian Cooper – HOPE not hate
Reform UK’s Cllr Ian Cooper has posted dozens of racist and bigoted posts to YouTube and X/Twitter under his personal accounts. When it comes to...
hopenothate.org.uk
December 3, 2025 at 10:07 PM
Our leader of Staffordshire County Council.
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The Home Secretary’s sweeping new immigration plans have been praised by Tommy Robinson and Nigel Farage.
We can't accept a system that exposes people to hostility and hatred.
Please ask your MP to choose compassion, not cruelty and oppose these harsh proposals
scottishrefugeecounc...
We can't accept a system that exposes people to hostility and hatred.
Please ask your MP to choose compassion, not cruelty and oppose these harsh proposals
scottishrefugeecounc...
December 3, 2025 at 9:00 AM
The Home Secretary’s sweeping new immigration plans have been praised by Tommy Robinson and Nigel Farage.
We can't accept a system that exposes people to hostility and hatred.
Please ask your MP to choose compassion, not cruelty and oppose these harsh proposals
scottishrefugeecounc...
We can't accept a system that exposes people to hostility and hatred.
Please ask your MP to choose compassion, not cruelty and oppose these harsh proposals
scottishrefugeecounc...
Reform is rising?
Yes, but more like a dehydrated turd than a phoenix.
Contempt for the conmen, compassion for the uneducated conned, who believe Reform's hateful rhetoric. As if Farage, who wants to privatise the NHS, gave us Brexit and spouted racism even in his childhood, has any answers.
Yes, but more like a dehydrated turd than a phoenix.
Contempt for the conmen, compassion for the uneducated conned, who believe Reform's hateful rhetoric. As if Farage, who wants to privatise the NHS, gave us Brexit and spouted racism even in his childhood, has any answers.
He’s just downgraded it to 85, he says 85 is nearly 100.
December 3, 2025 at 1:10 PM
Reform is rising?
Yes, but more like a dehydrated turd than a phoenix.
Contempt for the conmen, compassion for the uneducated conned, who believe Reform's hateful rhetoric. As if Farage, who wants to privatise the NHS, gave us Brexit and spouted racism even in his childhood, has any answers.
Yes, but more like a dehydrated turd than a phoenix.
Contempt for the conmen, compassion for the uneducated conned, who believe Reform's hateful rhetoric. As if Farage, who wants to privatise the NHS, gave us Brexit and spouted racism even in his childhood, has any answers.
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I know people who voted to remain in the EU and are so frustrated by Brexit and the current government’s inaction that they have (incredibly) decided to vote for Reform because they think they are the only party that can change anything.
Crazy?
This is how populism works.
Crazy?
This is how populism works.
December 1, 2025 at 9:27 PM
I know people who voted to remain in the EU and are so frustrated by Brexit and the current government’s inaction that they have (incredibly) decided to vote for Reform because they think they are the only party that can change anything.
Crazy?
This is how populism works.
Crazy?
This is how populism works.
Well, if even The Telegraph has finally given its head a wobble & accepted Brexit is an unmitigated disaster, maybe even the government will properly address the elephant in the room.
Stop tinkering Starmer, get rejoin negotiations put on the table. Better to grovel to Brussels than Trump or Putin.
Stop tinkering Starmer, get rejoin negotiations put on the table. Better to grovel to Brussels than Trump or Putin.
The Telegraph denounces Brexit as ‘unmitigated economic disaster’
www.thelondoneconomic.com/politics/the...
www.thelondoneconomic.com/politics/the...
Told you so! The Telegraph denounces Brexit as 'unmitigated economic disaster'
We've now got The Telegraph joining the Brexit resistance, after the formerly pro-leave paper ripped into its 'near-disastrous' consequences.
www.thelondoneconomic.com
November 30, 2025 at 4:34 PM
Well, if even The Telegraph has finally given its head a wobble & accepted Brexit is an unmitigated disaster, maybe even the government will properly address the elephant in the room.
Stop tinkering Starmer, get rejoin negotiations put on the table. Better to grovel to Brussels than Trump or Putin.
Stop tinkering Starmer, get rejoin negotiations put on the table. Better to grovel to Brussels than Trump or Putin.
With very big negative influences in the world, please reflect on smaller ones we could change.
Our lives were so much simpler & less frustrating before, click & collect, self-service tills, home delivery, takeaway delivery, social media & multichannel TV. We were thinner & could talk to each other.
Our lives were so much simpler & less frustrating before, click & collect, self-service tills, home delivery, takeaway delivery, social media & multichannel TV. We were thinner & could talk to each other.
November 30, 2025 at 9:28 AM
With very big negative influences in the world, please reflect on smaller ones we could change.
Our lives were so much simpler & less frustrating before, click & collect, self-service tills, home delivery, takeaway delivery, social media & multichannel TV. We were thinner & could talk to each other.
Our lives were so much simpler & less frustrating before, click & collect, self-service tills, home delivery, takeaway delivery, social media & multichannel TV. We were thinner & could talk to each other.
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A report by the Covid inquiry into political decision-making during the pandemic proves that the “horrific” and disproportionate death toll among disabled people was not inevitable but the result of treating them as an “afterthought”, say campaigners.
www.disabilitynewsservice.com/inquiry-repo...
www.disabilitynewsservice.com/inquiry-repo...
Inquiry report shows ‘horrific’ Covid death toll among disabled people was not inevitable, say DPOs
A report by the Covid inquiry into political decision-making during the pandemic proves that the “horrific” and disproportionate death toll among disabled people was not inevitable but the result o…
www.disabilitynewsservice.com
November 29, 2025 at 9:00 AM
A report by the Covid inquiry into political decision-making during the pandemic proves that the “horrific” and disproportionate death toll among disabled people was not inevitable but the result of treating them as an “afterthought”, say campaigners.
www.disabilitynewsservice.com/inquiry-repo...
www.disabilitynewsservice.com/inquiry-repo...
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Hard-hitting truth-telling from UCL Prof Anthony Costello….
“The Covid Public Inquiry is a devastating critique of medical advisers, civil servants and politicians who led the UK to the worst public health disaster in a century. More than 230,000 deaths.”
www.bylinesupplement.com/p/230000-dea...
“The Covid Public Inquiry is a devastating critique of medical advisers, civil servants and politicians who led the UK to the worst public health disaster in a century. More than 230,000 deaths.”
www.bylinesupplement.com/p/230000-dea...
230,000 Deaths and the ‘Calculated Silence’ of the Medical Establishment About the COVID Inquiry
The Covid Inquiry Report is a devastating critique of the medical establishment which led the UK to the worst public health disaster in a century, argues Anthony Costello
www.bylinesupplement.com
November 29, 2025 at 9:58 AM
Hard-hitting truth-telling from UCL Prof Anthony Costello….
“The Covid Public Inquiry is a devastating critique of medical advisers, civil servants and politicians who led the UK to the worst public health disaster in a century. More than 230,000 deaths.”
www.bylinesupplement.com/p/230000-dea...
“The Covid Public Inquiry is a devastating critique of medical advisers, civil servants and politicians who led the UK to the worst public health disaster in a century. More than 230,000 deaths.”
www.bylinesupplement.com/p/230000-dea...
Labour will gain not one vote from the racist right with their hardline posturing, but lose many from the centre and left.
Asylum seekers are NOT illegal migrants.
Where has British fairness disappeared to?
Asylum seekers are NOT illegal migrants.
Where has British fairness disappeared to?
November 29, 2025 at 11:27 AM
Labour will gain not one vote from the racist right with their hardline posturing, but lose many from the centre and left.
Asylum seekers are NOT illegal migrants.
Where has British fairness disappeared to?
Asylum seekers are NOT illegal migrants.
Where has British fairness disappeared to?
Most regions including Christianity, have kindness and charity at their core. Badenoch doesn't represent the views of true Christians.
Why do the right-wing here and in the USA spout their perverse interpretation of the teachings of Christ, while ignoring the true messages of Christianity.
Why do the right-wing here and in the USA spout their perverse interpretation of the teachings of Christ, while ignoring the true messages of Christianity.
November 28, 2025 at 5:31 PM
Most regions including Christianity, have kindness and charity at their core. Badenoch doesn't represent the views of true Christians.
Why do the right-wing here and in the USA spout their perverse interpretation of the teachings of Christ, while ignoring the true messages of Christianity.
Why do the right-wing here and in the USA spout their perverse interpretation of the teachings of Christ, while ignoring the true messages of Christianity.
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As right wing rags attack the chancellor for her Budget, they can't ignore the disastrous impact Brexit has had on our economy.
November 28, 2025 at 5:22 PM
As right wing rags attack the chancellor for her Budget, they can't ignore the disastrous impact Brexit has had on our economy.