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Jane
@janeynorth.bsky.social
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Londoner interested in politics and reproductive justice. Fan of #QuietRiot
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chrisrivers50.bsky.social
1. As Michael Crick has detailed in his Farage biography, One Party after Another, the stories about him cover his entire school career, through to his departure as a young adult of 18.
jneill.bsky.social James Neill - 🇺🇦💙 🇪🇺🇮🇪🇬🇧🔶 @jneill.bsky.social · 19h
From behind paywall:

I was at school with Nigel Farage, this is what I heard
Ever since Farage has been in the public eye I’ve been telling whoever would listen about his past

By David Edmonds
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December 13, 2025 at 1:28 PM
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robinince.bsky.social
Very sad that I felt I had no choice but to resign from The Infinite Monkey Cage - a victory for the transphobes and other bigots - I did it because so much of the media has chosen to believe the kind and empathetic people are a fiction - they are real and so often unrepresented.
This is the saddest day of my professional life. Today is not only the final recording of the latest series of The Infinite Monkey Cage, it is my last ever Monkey Cage. I never thought that I would have to leave the show. I always imagined going on until | dropped dead under the studio lights due to a brain aneurysm caused by my final attempt to understand notions of quantum gravity or the shock of being told about fly maggot infestations in the sacks of macaque monkeys. I resigned in September, after sixteen years of dedication to the show, A show that I named and helped develop over all those years. Unfortunately, my opinions outside the BBC have been considered problematic for sometime, whether it has been voicing support for the trans community, criticism of Donald Trump, numerous other outlandish opinions, including once gently criticising Stephen Fry. These things were considered to conflict with being a freelance BBC science presenter In a recent meeting where BBC Studio executives again voiced problems with me, I realised my choices. Obedience and being quieter to remain making Monkey Cage, or 'Resign and have the freedom to speak out against what I believe are injustices'. • I chose the latter. It broke my heart. I love this show and I love the audience, and it is because of the audience in particular, that this decision was so difficult to make. I kept thinking about all the extremist voices promoting hate and division. They are being given so many platforms, while voices that represent kindness, open mindedness, empathy seem to be scarcer and scarcer. I felt I couldn't pamper myself with the luxury of silence. One of my many privileges is that I am able to resign and I can speak out even if it is to the detriment of my career. I have thought a lot about my heroes, Sinead O Connor, James Baldwin, Audre Lorde, and so many more. I think of Sinead's words, "the job of an artist is to be themselves at any cost". James Baldwin said prejudice was really just a word for cowardice. Audre Lorde, viewing her life, wrote that her only regrets were her silences. I think of my father as I resign, he brought me up to believe in fairness , justice and kindness. Though my heart is broken, it is also full of fire. I apologise to our incredible listeners for my departure, your love of the show means a great deal. I am so sorry to let you down. I hope that you can understand my reasoning. I have to accept that I am not what the current BBC expects of their freelance presenters. Despite this I should add that I have always worked far more than my contracted hours to try and ensure the show was always the best it could be, as well as making myself accessible and responsive to the audience wherever and whenever I met them. Every night, we have recorded, I have been filled with determination to make the best show possible. This was not "just a job" I hope that with my departure I can be a better ally to the LGBTQ community, to the neurodivergent community, to activists fighting against those who aim to brutalise society, to those currently in prison on hunger strike, and to all those who fight for a more inclusive world. From many conversations, I know there are many Monkey Cage listeners who support these communities and activists too. The strawberry is dead. Long live the strawberry. B
December 13, 2025 at 12:02 AM
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bylinesnetwork.co.uk
Farage’s Reform UK attack on the young: austerity revisited

Nigel Farage, leader of Reform UK Ltd is taking aim at the young over the minimum wage, voting age and mental health support | Mark Cunliffe
@markcunliffe.bsky.social @centralbylines.co.uk
Farage’s Reform UK attack on the young: austerity revisited
Nigel Farage, leader of Reform UK Ltd is taking aim at the young over the minimum wage, voting age and mental health support
centralbylines.co.uk
December 12, 2025 at 6:24 PM
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goodlawproject.org
Ms Phillimore promised she would sue me for this tweet, and raised over £37,000 for that purpose, but more than three months on, I am still yet to receive a letter before action from her.

Obviously I stand by my tweet.
goodlawproject.org Jolyon Maugham KC @goodlawproject.org · Aug 29
A barrister, Sarah Phillimore, led a campaign of harassment of a trans woman so wicked that she sought to take her own life. Jk Rowling saw the threat of regulatory sanction for that misconduct and offered to pay her legal costs.

That's where she now is.
December 5, 2025 at 7:28 PM
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gwynoro.bsky.social
Take a read of this - you are being warned about Farage and ReformUK.
www.threads.com/@susan.saund...
Susan Saunders (@susan.saunders.545) on Threads
Daniel Lismore: I want to say something many will hate but it needs to be said. I have met Nigel Farage. I do not know him well but I know the world he moves in. We move in similar circles sometimes....
www.threads.com
December 12, 2025 at 2:41 PM
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mydeathmydecision.bsky.social
Members of the House of Lords should withdraw their cruel, wrecking or unworkable amendments.
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
‘Cruel’ amendments being used to thwart assisted dying bill, says lead MP
Kim Leadbeater warns 1,150 Lords amendments are ‘unnecessary’ and designed to run down the clock
www.theguardian.com
December 12, 2025 at 11:04 AM
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tyron.bsky.social
Not a Question Time poster, but god this is good. About time a Labour politician actually calls Reform - and the odious swarm of Tories leaping onto their ship - exactly what it is. x.com/AnasSarwar/s...
x.com
December 11, 2025 at 11:39 PM
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sturdyalex.bsky.social
If you're wondering why what you see of Badenoch just does not tally with the reviews she is getting, let me explain: Having observed first-choice Farage bump under a ceiling for six months, then drop on aggregate 4% in November, political hacks are frantically trying to inflate "Kemi" like a blimp.
December 12, 2025 at 12:02 AM
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barryhow2c.bsky.social
A teaser before the final results come in:

LIB DEMS GAIN from Conservatives
💪💪💪

In East Devon, Seaton ward.

Lib Dem Steve Hunt is elected!
#LibDems
🔶🔶🔶🔶🔶
December 12, 2025 at 12:08 AM
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searchlightmag.bsky.social
Council offices were smashed up when anti-immigration protestors disrupted a meeting of Swaleside Borough Council yesterday as it debated joining the District of Sanctuary scheme.

Read more here: searchlightmagazine.com/2025/12/coun...
Council offices smashed up during 'sanctuary' debate | Searchlight
Demonstrators in the public gallery during the debate Council offices were vandalised and seriously damaged when anti-immigration protestors disrupted a mee ...
searchlightmagazine.com
December 11, 2025 at 2:45 PM
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@mrjamesob.bsky.social
December 11, 2025 at 11:29 PM
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swalegreenparty.bsky.social
A statement on the events of last night's Swale Borough Council meeting.
We condemn the abuse and intimidation of councillors at last night's Swale Borough Council meeting Swale Green Party Yesterday was a very sad day for both local democracy and the rule of law in Kent, one that will disappoint and shock all decent law-abiding citizens. Swale Green Party utterly condemns the verbal abuse, intimidation and assault displayed at last night’s Swale Borough Council meeting, disrupting the public debate and preventing the discussion of a motion to make Swale a Borough of Sanctuary. Mr Hilden arrived, with megaphone in hand, showing that there was a clear intent to disrupt the meeting. He was accompanied by several individuals, including some wearing balaclavas, clearly not wanting to be identified or publicly named and shamed for what was about to happen next. With minds already set against the motion, this group barely waited for Cllr Hannah Perkin to finish her opening statement before hurling spittle, slurs and foul abuse at the councillors, forcing an adjournment of the meeting. Swale Green Party would like to extend our sympathy, along with our steadfast support and appreciation to the public representatives in all parties who were subject to such shameful abuse in the course of carrying out their responsibilities as our elected councillors. We must be clear that this shocking behaviour is not democracy in action. It is intimidation designed to erode trust in decision-making in the public realm. It will cause decision-makers to abandon ambition for the community and instead pander to an aggressive minority. We urge all public representatives to stay the course. Our public life will be significantly poorer if our representatives are unable to safely explore ideas proposed for the good of the community. Swale Green Party and our councillors support Swale in any aim or project which helps create a welcoming and inclusive community, where everyone is enabled to contribute, and we applaud and praise Hannah Perkin’s proposal of this motion and Alastair Gould as seconder. Be assured that the silent majority of all decent and law-abiding Swale citizens stand with you both. We must never tolerate violence, assault, and intimidation by observers of any public debate, and we should work together with the Police and all other elected officials to call out and hold fully accountable all those who try to subvert such democratic processes. As a strong and united signal that local democracy is still alive and well in Kent, at their next meeting the Swale councillors should issue a cross-party public statement that clearly and unequivocally condemns the actions of that small minority disrupting the meeting yesterday.
December 11, 2025 at 5:53 PM
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kevinmckenna.co.uk
This morning in the House of Commons, I raised the assault on Swale Borough Council that took place last night. The Speaker responded firmly: ‘Attacks on our democracy are unacceptable'.
December 11, 2025 at 5:28 PM
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jdportes.bsky.social
Migration Advisory Committee report on fiscal impact of main work migration routes.

Key table: they estimate 2022/23 cohort (those arriving in 2022/23) will over lifetimes pay about £47 billion more in taxes than they "cost" in public spending.

assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/693810...
December 11, 2025 at 1:38 PM
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richardcorbett.bsky.social
UK set to turn back clock on Brexit and rejoin the EU Erasmus student exchange programme
December 10, 2025 at 11:39 PM
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rand0lf-rand0lf.bsky.social
www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news...
Keir Starmer blasted Reform for putting a white supremacist in charge of the council. In Staffordshire, Reform's leader has been exposed as a white supremacist. It's not a coincidence, Mr Speaker, because chaos and division is the member for Clacton's life work. YES!
Police called as council meeting descends into chaos after Reform UK race row
The first full Staffordshire County Council meeting since the resignation of leader Ian Cooper, following a racism row and his expulsion from Reform UK, was suspended as police were called
www.mirror.co.uk
December 11, 2025 at 2:13 PM
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anneliesemidgleymp.bsky.social
Unelected Tory Lords are still trying to block the Employment Rights Bill and voting against it in the Lords.

Enough is enough.

Unelected Lords shouldn’t be preventing the elected MPs in House of Commons from getting this Bill done and delivering for workers.
labourunionsuk.bsky.social Labour Unions @labourunionsuk.bsky.social · 2d
Tory Hereditary Peers turned out en masse to vote down a Manifesto commitment to strengthen workplace rights.
33 voted in a division lost by 24.

Time for the unelected Lords to get out of the way and pass the Employment Rights Bill #stoptheblock 🛑

www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Keir Starmer appoints 25 Labour peers to strengthen support in House of Lords
Labour says appointments needed to balance upper house, and chooses former advisers to No 10 and the chancellor
www.theguardian.com
December 11, 2025 at 2:33 PM
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ottoenglish.bsky.social
Farage says, "I didn't wear them (masks) last time, and I won't wear them this time" and dismisses mask mandates as "rubbish".

Here's Farage in 2020.

Man's a dangerous idiot.
Nigel Farage warns British last to the party in coronavirus advice to wear facemasks Nigel Farage believes wearing face masks to stop coronavirus spread "a price worth paying"
December 11, 2025 at 12:25 PM
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Farage takes £1m full page ads out in National Newspapers to counter Nathan Gill story…
December 11, 2025 at 12:08 PM
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somersetchris.bsky.social
@mrjamesob.bsky.social You can see Farage's face standing out like a sore thumb. A very good read, especially about his ties
December 11, 2025 at 9:00 AM
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my2centsay.bsky.social
MIFEPRISTONE?

Nigeria needs a pill.
Why is this being kept from them?
Do they have a @JoshHawley.com too?

Unsafe abortion equals a coat hanger abortion.
MEN DONT SEEM TO CARE WHEN WOMEN DIE FROM LACK OF HEALTHCARE.
December 10, 2025 at 11:24 AM
janeynorth.bsky.social
Reform launch Christian fellowship . It’s president Tim, wants abortion banned in the UK
December 10, 2025 at 12:15 PM
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globalabortionnews.bsky.social
The U.S. is mirroring a pattern that has happened in authoritarian regimes around the world. When a government erects barriers to reproductive care, it doesn’t just cause death and suffering for women and their families. Such policies are often a first step in the gradual decline of democracies.
Opinion | Banning Abortion a Hallmark of Authoritarian Regimes
Seda Saluk writes about how U.S. policy on abortion rights has started to mirror patterns seen in authoritarian regimes around the world.
www.mississippifreepress.org
December 8, 2025 at 9:41 PM
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msichoicesuk.bsky.social
What do you receive in the post when having an at-home abortion?📦

Let's look inside the at-home abortion pack including abortion pills, a post-abortion pregnancy test and information booklet.

More info: www.msichoices.org.uk/abortion/med...

#abortion #abortionpills #athomeabortion
December 9, 2025 at 9:56 AM
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bobsmyusername.bsky.social
Who has made this 🤣
Buster from the tv show ‘Arrested Development’ holding an arm full of plushies while he looks at his mother Lucille, saying, “these are my awards, mother, from FIFA.“
December 7, 2025 at 1:49 PM