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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 2d

Charlotte Church sang From the River to the Sea at a fundraising event for Palestinians and now all the usual people are screaming antisemitism and trying to cancel her.

RT if you stand with Charlotte Church and Palestine.

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Marina Purkiss @marina-purkiss.bsky.social · 2d

🚨 New Trawl drop 🚨

On today’s episode we discuss peace deal latest plus…

🇬🇧 Tory Conference - where spelling is optional

🔵 Badenoch wants UK ICE & Chris Philp auditions for The Office

🇺🇸 Meanwhile ICE zip-ties children in Chicago raids

🎧 Listen here:

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The Trawl

Politics Podcast · Updated weekly · The Trawl is the podcast that dives headfirst into the political chaos, media spin, and social media absurdity of the week - so you don’t have to. Hosted by broadc...

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Naomi Smith @pimlicat.bsky.social · 3d

I loved recording this episode. We covered so much, from Kemi’s speech to Macron’s fate, the rise of antisemitism to why it’s now “woke” to be happy.

Huge thanks to Olivier Morel and @samfr.bsky.social

Quiet Riot @quietriotpod.bsky.social · 3d

🆕 Anti-Woke Wake: It the Tory Party dead or just resting? ☠️

💥 Tory Conference debrief
💥 France latest political soap
💥 A deal on Gaza - but antisemitism on the rise

An amazing episode with special guest @samfr.bsky.social.

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Anti-Woke Wake: Is the Tory Party dead or just resting?

Podcast Episode · Quiet Riot · 09/10/2025 · 1h 13m

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Mags @magric94.bsky.social · 3d

Another wonderful episode- I get so much from listening to your podcasts. Thanks for all your efforts to inform us.

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Marina Purkiss @marina-purkiss.bsky.social · 3d

You don’t get to bankroll a genocide…

Embolden and cheer on the perpetrators

…and then call yourself a hero for pulling the plug.

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Supertanskiii @supertanskiiii.bsky.social · 4d

Throwing myself into researching Farage’s Russian links including Nathan Gill’s treachery, which the mainstream press is refusing to cover.

@bylinetimes.bsky.social is though.

The self proclaimed patriots are traitors. Obviously.

This is a must read 👇🏼

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‘Thick as Thieves’: Nathan Gill and Nigel Farage’s Putin Problem

Far from being distant from the Reform UK Leader, insiders told Byline Times that the former MEP convicted of bribery was one of Farage’s closest aides, while we reveal how Gill worked on the Kremlin’...

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Colin Dunn 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @indyposterboy.scot · 6d

The 'Scottish' media is, to a large extent, the campaigning arm of WM rule of Scotland. Between now & May 2026 it will spin every positive story about Scotland as a negative one, and where that's impossible, will not report positives at all. Try other sources.
indyposterboy.scot/the-real-news/

The Real News - Indy PosterBoy

Download this design as a printable PDF document, perfect for printing using your home inkjet or laser colour printer at A5, A4 or even as big as A3 size.

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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 6d

Leaving the ECHR would allow the State Pension, the Minimum Wage, Sick Pay, Maternity Pay, Paid Holiday and working hour limits to all be abolished.

They would make hundreds of billions from this.

That is what they want.

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Reform Party UK Exposed @reformexposed.bsky.social · 8d

Reform UK’s Nigel Farage with the Russian Ambassador (that he denied meeting), and with Oleg Voloshyn's wife Nadia Borodi, Voloshyn bribed Nathan Gill.

Farage is still silent.

It’s deafening.

#ReformRussianBribes

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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 8d

Our Weekend Wire sums up everything that happened this week - here’s what you might have missed.

Subscribe for free to get it every Saturday!

You can find the Weekend Wire here: https://bestforbritain.substack.com/

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Marina Purkiss @marina-purkiss.bsky.social · 9d

About time consequences were faced for the PPE scandal…

But why only Michelle Mone?

£15b worth of contracts were flagged with a corruption risk

So where’s the rest of them?

And what about the Tory ministers who greenlit that institutionally corrupt VIP lane?

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Mags @magric94.bsky.social · 13d

Oh She sounds nice - not 🤮

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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 14d

🇲🇩Tomorrow Moldova heads to the polls.

🇷🇺With rampant Russian interference the result could prove a defining moment for 2025.

🇪🇺Will the country slips towards Moscow or continues its path to Brussels?

https://www.thetimes.com/comment/the-times-view/article/russia-moldova-election-war-west-qqm0z9dkb

Russia sees Moldova as a decisive battle in its war on the West

The Kremlin is trying to sway a crucial election in the former Soviet state with bribery and intimidation. It must not be allowed to prevail

www.thetimes.com

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Mags @magric94.bsky.social · 14d

What the heck did he expect? 🤷🏻‍♀️

BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 14d

Prince Andrew is 'appalled' that his name continues to be linked to Jeffrey Epstein.

Go on, appall him.

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Naomi Smith @pimlicat.bsky.social · 15d

Voters think the country is headed in the wrong direction and most of them blame Brexit. Just LOOK at the voter breakdowns in our research.

People get it. Brexit made us poorer and the goons who sold it to us, chiefly Farage, need to held accountable.

www.bestforbritain.org/new_polling_...

Britain is off track and Brexit to blame, say Labour’s 2024 voters

A majority of people who voted Labour in July last year have said they think things in the UK are heading in the wrong direction - with almost two thirds pinning the blame on Brexit. Ahead of Labour’s...

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Alex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 15d

How is this not front page news?

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Reform UK's ex-Wales leader Nathan Gill admits pro-Russia bribery

Nathan Gill admits eight charges of bribery while being a Member of the European Parliament.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 14d

Reform… Brexit… UKIP… whatever they call themselves… but essentially - Farage’s outfit - is a traitorous piece of shit operation that routinely risks our national security and has already weakened us beyond all recognition from 10 years ago. Now leading in the polls. Putin is delighted.

Dominic Murphy, head of the Met's counter terrorism command, which led the investigation, said Gill was "taking payments to peddle narratives" that would have had the effect of being beneficial towards Russian interests.
He added: "This case goes to the heart of our democratic values and as we've shown here, we will not hesitate to investigate and disrupt anyone seeking to harm or undermine these values and our national security."

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Alex Panchenko @alexpanchenko2.bsky.social · 16d

In case you missed it, Russia's "courts" have been illegally "arresting" and "sentencing" foreigners in absentia for "crimes" they "committed" IN THEIR OWN COUNTRIES. Mostly Ukrainians so far, but Westerners too👇

If RU goes unpunished, it will begin "extraditing" the "convicted" to its GULAG 2.0.

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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 15d

ARE

YOU

PAYING

ATTENTION

YET?

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George Conway 👊🇺🇸🔥 @gtconway.bsky.social · 17d

Ha

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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 16d

David Howarth joins @pimlicat.bsky.social and @sturdyalex.bsky.social
on Quiet Riot to explain why Britain should be part of the EU’s Common Asylum and Migration Policy.

They also dive into the debate on ID cards - spoiler: they are irrelevant in reducing illegal immigration.

bit.ly/4mG4sRT

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Naomi Smith @pimlicat.bsky.social · 17d

Do NOT miss David’s explainer about why Digital ID cards won’t work 👇

Quiet Riot @quietriotpod.bsky.social · 17d

🪜 NEW QR: Waterslides and Escalators 🛝

Is Ed Davey the AntiTrump? We précis a lively LibDem Conference.

PLUS A crazy 48 hours for Trump, even by Trump standards.

With guest, law professor and former LibDem MP, David Howarth.

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Waterslides and Escalators: Don't let Trump's America become Farage's Britain

Podcast Episode · Quiet Riot · 25/09/2025 · 1h

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Naomi Smith @pimlicat.bsky.social · 17d

Brand new polling from us out now as part of our decoding populism work. With thanks to @liambyrnemp.bsky.social

Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 17d

How can potential Reform UK voters be won back?

YouGov, commissioned by B4B, asked 3,000 people planning or considering voting for Reform UK which criticisms of Farage and Reform UK would make them reconsider.

Here’s what we found out ⬇️

https://www.bestforbritain.org/farage_vulnerable_on_economy

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 17d

The richest man on earth owns X.

The second richest man on earth is about to be a major owner of TikTok.

The third richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp.

The fourth richest man owns The Washington Post.

See the problem here?

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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 17d

The Royal Parks has rejected Nigel Farage's claim that migrants are killing and eating swans from their grounds.

The RSPCA has also poured cold water on the claim, saying a video that has been circulating on social media was from 15 years ago

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Royal Parks responds to Farage's claim that swans are being eaten by eastern Europeans in the UK

The Reform leader had accused migrants living in the UK of taking both carp and swans - a protected species - from ponds in Britain's Royal Parks and killing them.

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