Max Colbert
@mc00.bsky.social
Freelance journo/researcher.
Bylines: Guardian, Mirror, Good Law Project, DeSmog, Byline Times, Democracy for Sale, Index On Censorship, The Nerve etc.
Cited: BBC, LBC, The Times, Searchlight etc.
[email protected]
Bylines: Guardian, Mirror, Good Law Project, DeSmog, Byline Times, Democracy for Sale, Index On Censorship, The Nerve etc.
Cited: BBC, LBC, The Times, Searchlight etc.
[email protected]
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Fact Check:
Nigel Farage claims the FT ignored the Mandelson-Epstein scandal
it was on the front page for SIX days
(long before he appears to have even noticed it)
Nigel Farage claims the FT ignored the Mandelson-Epstein scandal
it was on the front page for SIX days
(long before he appears to have even noticed it)
February 17, 2026 at 7:33 PM
Fact Check:
Nigel Farage claims the FT ignored the Mandelson-Epstein scandal
it was on the front page for SIX days
(long before he appears to have even noticed it)
Nigel Farage claims the FT ignored the Mandelson-Epstein scandal
it was on the front page for SIX days
(long before he appears to have even noticed it)
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Across many years as a parenting columnist, I've written about vaccine heistancy multiple times. Each time, I've tried to be sensitive and empathetic to these people but, if I'm honest, nothing has ever gotten closer to my true feelings about them than this meme from a decade ago.
February 17, 2026 at 4:23 PM
Across many years as a parenting columnist, I've written about vaccine heistancy multiple times. Each time, I've tried to be sensitive and empathetic to these people but, if I'm honest, nothing has ever gotten closer to my true feelings about them than this meme from a decade ago.
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Crucial article by @petergeoghegan.bsky.social on the dimensions of a major scandal. A public inquiry is essential.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
The Labour Together scandal goes right to the heart of No 10 – Starmer has nowhere to hide | Peter Geoghegan
He can sack who he wants to protect himself, but all roads currently lead back to the prime minister, says Peter Geoghegan of Democracy for Sale
www.theguardian.com
February 17, 2026 at 4:37 PM
Crucial article by @petergeoghegan.bsky.social on the dimensions of a major scandal. A public inquiry is essential.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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"We look after each other and we work hard."
Hannah Spencer providing the antidote to Reform's hate and division in the BBC Gorton and Denton by-election debate 💪
Hannah Spencer providing the antidote to Reform's hate and division in the BBC Gorton and Denton by-election debate 💪
February 17, 2026 at 3:03 PM
"We look after each other and we work hard."
Hannah Spencer providing the antidote to Reform's hate and division in the BBC Gorton and Denton by-election debate 💪
Hannah Spencer providing the antidote to Reform's hate and division in the BBC Gorton and Denton by-election debate 💪
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If there's one lesson from recent history it's that nothing bad ever happens after you're unreasonably rude to an FT journalist.
Nigel Farage lashes out at a FT journalist and refuses to answer the question.
Is this how Reform UK would ignore media questions if they got into government?
Is this how Reform UK would ignore media questions if they got into government?
February 17, 2026 at 2:53 PM
If there's one lesson from recent history it's that nothing bad ever happens after you're unreasonably rude to an FT journalist.
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A thing we've forgotten over the past 18 months but is becoming increasingly clear again: Nigel Farage is quite bad at politics
February 17, 2026 at 12:28 PM
A thing we've forgotten over the past 18 months but is becoming increasingly clear again: Nigel Farage is quite bad at politics
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Nigel Farage says the scale of deportations called for by Rupert Lowe goes "way beyond the point of decency, reasonableness and morality" - @peterwalker99.bsky.social reports
I do find it odd that no Conservative or Labour frontbencher seems to have said this about Lowe's rhetoric in the last year
I do find it odd that no Conservative or Labour frontbencher seems to have said this about Lowe's rhetoric in the last year
February 17, 2026 at 12:29 PM
Nigel Farage says the scale of deportations called for by Rupert Lowe goes "way beyond the point of decency, reasonableness and morality" - @peterwalker99.bsky.social reports
I do find it odd that no Conservative or Labour frontbencher seems to have said this about Lowe's rhetoric in the last year
I do find it odd that no Conservative or Labour frontbencher seems to have said this about Lowe's rhetoric in the last year
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I want my kids to grow up and chase a career that makes them feel fulfilled and energised. Where they can use their creativity and passion as a force for good - if they want to. These ghouls in Silicon Valley seem desperate to take these chances away and make us all drones.
February 17, 2026 at 1:06 PM
I want my kids to grow up and chase a career that makes them feel fulfilled and energised. Where they can use their creativity and passion as a force for good - if they want to. These ghouls in Silicon Valley seem desperate to take these chances away and make us all drones.
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Musk and Thiel are essentially mainstreaming racist narratives in a way we haven’t seen since Birth of a Nation and Gone With the Wind popularised and sentimentalised the Klu Klux Klan
February 17, 2026 at 11:13 AM
Musk and Thiel are essentially mainstreaming racist narratives in a way we haven’t seen since Birth of a Nation and Gone With the Wind popularised and sentimentalised the Klu Klux Klan
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The only question worth asking at these incredibly flash Reform press conferences that take place every week now, is who is paying for all of this and what do they want in return bsky.app/profile/pete...
I’m in Westminster where Nigel Farage is about to unveil his ‘shadow cabinet’ and the decor is slightly bonkers. Looks like he’s going to launch a Simon Cowell-era boyband instead.
February 17, 2026 at 10:39 AM
The only question worth asking at these incredibly flash Reform press conferences that take place every week now, is who is paying for all of this and what do they want in return bsky.app/profile/pete...
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If you loved the last conservative government this looks like the team for you
Reform’s new shadow cabinet team:
Leader: Nigel Farage
Chancellor: Robert Jenrick
Home: Zia Yusuf
Business, Trade & Energy: Richard Tice
Education & Skills: Suella Braverman
Chief Whip: Lee Anderson
Leader: Nigel Farage
Chancellor: Robert Jenrick
Home: Zia Yusuf
Business, Trade & Energy: Richard Tice
Education & Skills: Suella Braverman
Chief Whip: Lee Anderson
February 17, 2026 at 11:40 AM
If you loved the last conservative government this looks like the team for you
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Fine, I admit it, I was the one who made up Al Carns as a generic name to test how many people would support any Labour MP but Starmer, it's gotten out of hand and now I don't know how to stop people talking about him.
February 17, 2026 at 10:02 AM
Fine, I admit it, I was the one who made up Al Carns as a generic name to test how many people would support any Labour MP but Starmer, it's gotten out of hand and now I don't know how to stop people talking about him.
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Dungeons and Dragons turning your kids gay and satanic is a moral panic, because everyone knows it only turns them bisexual and wican.
A global child sex trafficking ring with dozens of victims and a huge paper trail is not.
A global child sex trafficking ring with dozens of victims and a huge paper trail is not.
Noah Rothman on the Epstein files: "It is a witch hunt. It‘s a moral panic."
February 17, 2026 at 11:06 AM
Dungeons and Dragons turning your kids gay and satanic is a moral panic, because everyone knows it only turns them bisexual and wican.
A global child sex trafficking ring with dozens of victims and a huge paper trail is not.
A global child sex trafficking ring with dozens of victims and a huge paper trail is not.
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Reform's polling is ~the lowest its been since last year's local elections
February 17, 2026 at 8:46 AM
Reform's polling is ~the lowest its been since last year's local elections
ADHD patients stripped of NHS prescriptions under crackdown
GP practices are increasingly withdrawing from shared-care agreements with patients diagnosed by private clinics
www.ft.com/content/5f56...
GP practices are increasingly withdrawing from shared-care agreements with patients diagnosed by private clinics
www.ft.com/content/5f56...
ADHD patients stripped of NHS prescriptions under crackdown
GP practices are increasingly withdrawing from shared-care agreements with patients diagnosed by private clinics
www.ft.com
February 17, 2026 at 8:09 AM
ADHD patients stripped of NHS prescriptions under crackdown
GP practices are increasingly withdrawing from shared-care agreements with patients diagnosed by private clinics
www.ft.com/content/5f56...
GP practices are increasingly withdrawing from shared-care agreements with patients diagnosed by private clinics
www.ft.com/content/5f56...
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People joke about how certain internet DMs the villain is always capitalism, but also if everyone's running characters that are plucky underdogs against the system it's kind of hard for the villain to not be capitalism.
February 15, 2026 at 12:41 PM
People joke about how certain internet DMs the villain is always capitalism, but also if everyone's running characters that are plucky underdogs against the system it's kind of hard for the villain to not be capitalism.
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REVEALED: Matt Goodwin, Reform UK’s candidate in the Gorton and Denton byelection, has been campaigning alongside racists and far-right activists in his bid to win the seat.
Read the full story:
hopenothate.org.uk/2026/02/16/m...
Read the full story:
hopenothate.org.uk/2026/02/16/m...
Meet the racists and far-right activists campaigning for Matt Goodwin in Gorton and Denton – HOPE not hate
On 26 February, a parliamentary by-election will be held in Gorton and Denton and Reform UK has put up the far-right provocateur Matt Goodwin as...
hopenothate.org.uk
February 16, 2026 at 2:04 PM
REVEALED: Matt Goodwin, Reform UK’s candidate in the Gorton and Denton byelection, has been campaigning alongside racists and far-right activists in his bid to win the seat.
Read the full story:
hopenothate.org.uk/2026/02/16/m...
Read the full story:
hopenothate.org.uk/2026/02/16/m...
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So Matthew Goodwin is Reform's candidate for the Gorton and Denton by-election. I wrote this last year about how there is nothing he won’t say if he thinks it will get him more views and paying Substack subscribers. He’s an opportunist extremist. hopenothate.org.uk/state-of-hat...
State of HATE 2025: The Opportunist Extremist: The Strange Radicalisation of Matthew Goodwin
Once a respected academic studying the far right, Matthew Goodwin has become one of its most influential figures. Now a GB News pundit and Reform UK fanboy, he’s traded scholarship for reactionary gri...
hopenothate.org.uk
January 28, 2026 at 1:30 PM
So Matthew Goodwin is Reform's candidate for the Gorton and Denton by-election. I wrote this last year about how there is nothing he won’t say if he thinks it will get him more views and paying Substack subscribers. He’s an opportunist extremist. hopenothate.org.uk/state-of-hat...
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BREAKING: Reform UK's candidate in the upcoming byelection Matt Goodwin says he wants his “country back”.
But he's got close ties to the influence op I exposed last week. As a visiting fellow at MCC in Hungary he'll have received a salary of up to €10,000 a month. goodlawproject.org/orbans-pay-c...
But he's got close ties to the influence op I exposed last week. As a visiting fellow at MCC in Hungary he'll have received a salary of up to €10,000 a month. goodlawproject.org/orbans-pay-c...
Orbán’s pay checks: Reform candidate fuelled by profits from Russian oil
The Reform candidate at this month’s byelection claims he wants to put Britain first, but is he still on the payroll of Viktor Orbán’s far-right propaganda unit?
goodlawproject.org
February 16, 2026 at 5:46 PM
BREAKING: Reform UK's candidate in the upcoming byelection Matt Goodwin says he wants his “country back”.
But he's got close ties to the influence op I exposed last week. As a visiting fellow at MCC in Hungary he'll have received a salary of up to €10,000 a month. goodlawproject.org/orbans-pay-c...
But he's got close ties to the influence op I exposed last week. As a visiting fellow at MCC in Hungary he'll have received a salary of up to €10,000 a month. goodlawproject.org/orbans-pay-c...
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Blimey. Looks like Matt Goodwin, who seems to think the Handmaid's Tale is an instruction manual, is in the pay of an Orban think tank, funded by Russian oil money.
Orbán’s pay cheques: Reform candidate fuelled by profits from Russian oil
The Reform candidate at this month’s byelection claims he wants to put Britain first, but is he still on the payroll of Viktor Orbán’s far-right propaganda unit?
goodlaw.social
February 16, 2026 at 5:45 PM
Blimey. Looks like Matt Goodwin, who seems to think the Handmaid's Tale is an instruction manual, is in the pay of an Orban think tank, funded by Russian oil money.
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The UK far-right are rounding behind a new party set up by Rupert Lowe
UK far-right rejoice at new party hoping to challenge Reform UK
www.thenational.scot
February 16, 2026 at 3:21 PM
The UK far-right are rounding behind a new party set up by Rupert Lowe
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The number of women driven to suicide by domestic abusers is being under-reported, and their cases overlooked by police described by experts as a “national scandal”
“A woman in an abusive relationship is now more likely to take her own life than be killed by a partner.”
“A woman in an abusive relationship is now more likely to take her own life than be killed by a partner.”
Revealed: The true toll of female suicides in UK with domestic abuse at their core
Exclusive: Research suggests official statistics could track as few as 6.5% of the true number of cases
www.theguardian.com
February 16, 2026 at 9:51 AM
The number of women driven to suicide by domestic abusers is being under-reported, and their cases overlooked by police described by experts as a “national scandal”
“A woman in an abusive relationship is now more likely to take her own life than be killed by a partner.”
“A woman in an abusive relationship is now more likely to take her own life than be killed by a partner.”
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Ukrainian civilian casualties surged by 26% in 2025, say researchers
the Guardian reports on AOAV data that indicates increased Russian military targeting of cities and infrastructure
www.theguardian.com/world/2026/f...
the Guardian reports on AOAV data that indicates increased Russian military targeting of cities and infrastructure
www.theguardian.com/world/2026/f...
Ukrainian civilian casualties surged by 26% in 2025, say researchers
Exclusive: Figures said to reflect increased Russian military targeting of cities and infrastructure
www.theguardian.com
February 16, 2026 at 9:02 AM
Ukrainian civilian casualties surged by 26% in 2025, say researchers
the Guardian reports on AOAV data that indicates increased Russian military targeting of cities and infrastructure
www.theguardian.com/world/2026/f...
the Guardian reports on AOAV data that indicates increased Russian military targeting of cities and infrastructure
www.theguardian.com/world/2026/f...