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kennyc17.bsky.social @kennyc17.bsky.social · 1d

Well deserved 🥂🥳

Hardeep Matharu @hardeepmatharu.bsky.social · 1d

I edited my first newspaper when I was 26 in 2014. 11 years on, a lovely surprise to be nominated for the 2025 Editors' Editor Award by The British Society of Magazine Editors for my work at Byline Times. A testament to the entire brilliant team @bylinetimes.bsky.social

www.bsme.com/editors-edit...

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Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 2d

I’m so happy to see this.

@johnsweeneyroar.bsky.social is one of our own. Like @thenerve.news he’s an old Observer hand. Later at BBC he did everything, but in 2018, he found himself blocked from one particular subject…Russia & Brexit.

Please give him a hand…Sweeney’s coming home 👏👏👏

THE NERVE @thenerve.news · 2d

Sorcery in Caerphilly:
@johnsweeneyroar.bsky.social visits the Welsh valleys on the trail of a Russian spy, his wife, a Reform politician taking bribes, party leader Nigel Farage and a vanishing by-election candidate.
Here's a sneak peak of John’s film - coming tomorrow only in the Nerve

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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 3d

The Conservative immigration proposals cannot be allowed to stand without a profound and widespread statement of moral condemnation inews.co.uk/opinion/tori...

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Josiah Mortimer @josiah.writes.news · 3d

"The idea of deporting people with settled status from Britain is disgusting, and anyone proposing it should be immediately drummed out of polite society. Breaking promises made in good faith to our friends and neighbours is racist, extremist and immoral."
open.substack.com/pub/jonn/p/i...

It’s racist, it’s extremist and it’s immoral

The right is still calling for deportations, and the government is still being cowardly about it. Also: London’s first green belt; some notes on a shark; and some news, on my next book.

open.substack.com

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Dan Neidle @danneidle.bsky.social · 6d

Amazing story in The Times. Reform UK failed to pay VAT to HMRC on its sales (tickets, merchandise). About £400k in all.

Not tax avoidance. Not tax evasion. They just didn't realise when you sell stuff you have to charge VAT.

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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 7d

Christ alive. If we, as a nation, can’t do better than this nasty, stale-breathed, stale-minded, racist misogynist prick, then what the hell are we doing? Leading in the polls??
FFS. Sort yourself out, UK.

Photo of Farage being interviewed by Mishal Husain.

Because he feels uncomfortable about his position on Putin, he replies to her…

‘Listen love, you’re trying ever so hard….’

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Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 7d

Hey @zackpolanski.bsky.social I hear you are talking to Laura Kuenssberg tomorrow morning?

Can you ask her why this story is being exposed by a 3-week-old-old outlet @thenerve.news & not the BBC?? 🤔

Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 8d

NEW: Police knew a Kremlin spy ring recruited former leader of Reform Wales at least 3 years ago.

So why was Nathan Gill not charged till Feb this year?

Pls read part 2 of @thenerve.news special investigation into Nathan Gill. And please share!
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Central Bylines @centralbylines.co.uk · 8d

Whilst the immediate future looks bleak, have the kids got this?

Meme showing 18-24 year old voting intentions with Greens on 30%, Labour on 23%, Lib Dem 20%, Conservatives on 11% and Reform on just 8%

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Paul Bernaaaarrrrgggghhhhl @paulbernal.bsky.social · 9d

This is why the Greens are rising in the polls, and why Labour have fallen so far. Labour’s ’natural supporters’ aren’t anti-immigrant. They’re not xenophobic. Labour’s leadership are alienating them, and now they have somewhere to go.

Well said.

Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 9d

British.

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Sue Wilson MBE @suewilson91.bsky.social · 9d

We're all descended from immigrants. Our culture, our society, our Britishness, even our food is all thanks to our diversity, our differing backgrounds & roots.
And it's to be celebrated.

Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 9d

British.

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David Henig @davidheniguk.bsky.social · 9d

This is great. I hope the inclusivesness remains broad, and is economic as well as social, for the UK needs voices for openness.

Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 9d

British.

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 9d

British.

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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 10d

They lie about the ECHR.
Just like they lied about Brexit. Claiming if we just got rid of that ‘European’ thing, we’d be free, we’d have control, all our problems solved…
It’s NOT TRUE.
We’d inflict more chaos on ourselves and torch our own human rights framework for NOTHING.
For liars.
Again.

Andrew Cutting @andrewcutting.coe.int · 11d

The European Convention on Human Rights is being misrepresented in the UK, says former Supreme Court President Lady Hale👇

🔗 www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home... via @the-independent.com

“It seems so short-sighted. I’m sorry, I’m really, really worried about it.”

#ECHR #OurRightsAndFreedoms

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Mike Galsworthy @mikegalsworthy.bsky.social · 10d

Dear all -

I’d be very grateful if you could do this and share it.

I know many of you are Bylines readers… and this is s big community build. So please take a little time - and get some big love from all of us at Bylines Network.

THANK YOU!!!

Bylines Network @bylinesnetwork.co.uk · 10d

Bylines Network Reader Survey 2025

10 minutes to shape the future of citizen journalism bit.ly/BylinesNetworkSurvey

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Brendan May @brendanmay.bsky.social · 11d

If you are watching the Reform Party controlled Councils with their endless mishaps, resignations, fallouts, scandals, mismanagement and sheer comedic idiocy, but still thinking of making these clowns a national government, representing the UK on the global stage, you are literally insane.

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HOPE not hate @hopenothate.org.uk · 12d

Reform UK's deputy leader has broken parliamentary rules by failing to register hospitality. So what's the story with Richard Tice, the French villa and the ex-Kremlin minister?

hopenothate.org.uk/2025/10/13/r...

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Peter Jukes @peterjukes.bsky.social · 13d

This goes even higher up. Forget Medvedchuk. Forget Medvedev

According to former Brexit Party MEP and defected Reform MP Rupert Lowe, the individuals at Gill's meetings claimed to be "close to Putin"

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Reform Party UK Exposed @reformexposed.bsky.social · 13d

The contact of Reform UK's Russian puppet Nathan Gill is linked to efforts to destabilise the US and Ukraine. Why is no one asking more questions?

www.thenerve.news/p/reform-uk-...

The contact of Reform UK’s Russian puppet Nathan Gill is linked to efforts to destabilise the US and Ukraine. Why, even now, is no one asking questions?

Gill, former leader in Wales of Nigel Farage's party, admits taking bribes to help Putin. And his Russian connection - the Ukrainian politician Oleh Voloshyn - in turn has links to a key figure wante...

www.thenerve.news

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Sue Wilson MBE @suewilson91.bsky.social · 13d

Farage "cannot be trusted when empty promises are paid for by people he dupes".
www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...

'Farage could never be trusted to run Britain after getting Brexit so wrong'

No Brexit champion, particularly Nigel Farage, is worthy of high office after proving so conclusively wrong on such a seismic issue, says Mirror Associate Editor Kevin Maguire

www.mirror.co.uk

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Louis 〓〓 @louishenwood.bsky.social · 13d

Letter sent to Nigel Farage by Patrick Sargent
Former Reform UK regional Chairman

He is surprised to find out that the limited company he joined:

• Has no democratic structure
• Is not a meritocracy
• Is a Farage vanity project
• Has no policies
• Is not a professional outfit

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 14d

Maybe there's something in this Nigel Farage and Nathan Gill Russian bribes story....

Lots of stories about Nathan Gill and Russian bribes.

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Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 14d

NEW: The British politician, his Russian intelligence handler & a Kremlin plot against the US & Ukraine.

My new piece about Nathan Gill and Nigel Farage for @thenerve_news in which we ask:

Why, even now, is no-one asking questions?

t.co/BUTtpK9C4S

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Tom Scott @tom--scott.bsky.social · 14d

Farage's mate Nathan Gill & his Putin-linked handlers were part of a much bigger network – one responsible for subverting and destabilising democracies on two continents.

@carolecadwalla.bsky.social reports for the excellent new @thenerve.news.
www.thenerve.news/p/reform-uk-...

The contact of Reform UK’s Russian puppet Nathan Gill is linked to efforts to destabilise the US and Ukraine. Why, even now, is no one asking questions?

Gill, former leader in Wales of Nigel Farage's party, admits taking bribes to help Putin. And his Russian connection - the Ukrainian politician Oleh Voloshyn - in turn has links to a key figure wante...

www.thenerve.news

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Reform Party UK Exposed @reformexposed.bsky.social · 15d

Seems @Nigel_Farage is trying damage limitation on the Reform Russian Bribes scandal.

He’s known Nathan Gill for 20 years, and claims he knew nothing.

No one believes you, Nigel.

Keep the story moving. Questions must be answered.

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Tom Scott @tom--scott.bsky.social · 14d

Faragitty, Faragitty, there’s no one like Faragitty,

There never was a prat of such deceitfulness & suavity.

He always has an alibi, & one or two to spare:

At whatever time the deed took place—FARAGITTY WASN’T THERE!

#Farage #NathanGill #Bribery

Peter Jukes @peterjukes.bsky.social · 15d

Farage on Gill and Pro Russian media bribes” I told him not to go. He defied me and went. I was completely unaware of any statements that he made."

Farage with pro Russian media (and wife of briber) on the day Gill made his statements in 2018

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