Michael Brandon
@michaeljbrandon.bsky.social
Writer. Inventor of the Tyne Bridge fancy hat.
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🔴Reform MPs Accused of Pandering to Putin After Skipping Russian Interference Debate
Nigel Farage’s party refused to attend the debate, called after more than 100,000 people signed a petition demanding a public inquiry into Russian interference in British politics
bylinetimes.com/2026/02/10/r...
Nigel Farage’s party refused to attend the debate, called after more than 100,000 people signed a petition demanding a public inquiry into Russian interference in British politics
bylinetimes.com/2026/02/10/r...
Reform MPs Accused of Pandering to Putin After Skipping Russian Interference Debate
Nigel Farage's party refused to attend the debate, called after more than 100,000 people signed a petition demanding a public inquiry into Russian interference in British politics
bylinetimes.com
February 10, 2026 at 4:19 PM
🔴Reform MPs Accused of Pandering to Putin After Skipping Russian Interference Debate
Nigel Farage’s party refused to attend the debate, called after more than 100,000 people signed a petition demanding a public inquiry into Russian interference in British politics
bylinetimes.com/2026/02/10/r...
Nigel Farage’s party refused to attend the debate, called after more than 100,000 people signed a petition demanding a public inquiry into Russian interference in British politics
bylinetimes.com/2026/02/10/r...
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Reform UK Treasurer kept contact with Epstein after sex conviction
The renewed scrutiny centres not simply on historical association, but on evidence suggesting that Candy had contacts connected to Jeffrey Epstein and his circle
searchlightmagazine.com/2026/02/refo...
The renewed scrutiny centres not simply on historical association, but on evidence suggesting that Candy had contacts connected to Jeffrey Epstein and his circle
searchlightmagazine.com/2026/02/refo...
Reform UK Treasurer kept contact with Epstein after sex conviction | Searchlight
Richard Tice welcomes Nick Candy to Reform UK The recent release of a further tranche of Epstein-related documents has once again dragged elite political an ...
searchlightmagazine.com
February 8, 2026 at 7:21 AM
Reform UK Treasurer kept contact with Epstein after sex conviction
The renewed scrutiny centres not simply on historical association, but on evidence suggesting that Candy had contacts connected to Jeffrey Epstein and his circle
searchlightmagazine.com/2026/02/refo...
The renewed scrutiny centres not simply on historical association, but on evidence suggesting that Candy had contacts connected to Jeffrey Epstein and his circle
searchlightmagazine.com/2026/02/refo...
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Keir Starmer is desperately trying to make this about the fact that Peter Mandelson lied to him, but we all know that it's not about that.
February 7, 2026 at 5:26 PM
Keir Starmer is desperately trying to make this about the fact that Peter Mandelson lied to him, but we all know that it's not about that.
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No joke: I got angry hate mail today for writing an obituary of a Black woman scientist—because the person felt she did didn’t deserve the recognition.
Which just makes me want to share it again: www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Which just makes me want to share it again: www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Gladys Mae West obituary: mathematician who pioneered GPS technology
She made key contributions to US cold-war science despite facing huge barriers as a Black woman.
www.nature.com
February 6, 2026 at 9:09 AM
No joke: I got angry hate mail today for writing an obituary of a Black woman scientist—because the person felt she did didn’t deserve the recognition.
Which just makes me want to share it again: www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Which just makes me want to share it again: www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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Senior state department official Sarah Rogers travelled to European cities in December and has spoken to key figures in Nigel Farage’s populist Reform UK party about deploying grants to spread ‘American values’. ft.trib.al/Kx8ta8a
February 6, 2026 at 2:41 AM
Senior state department official Sarah Rogers travelled to European cities in December and has spoken to key figures in Nigel Farage’s populist Reform UK party about deploying grants to spread ‘American values’. ft.trib.al/Kx8ta8a
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Sir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again.
#Pinks #ProudBlue
#Pinks #ProudBlue
February 5, 2026 at 11:50 AM
Sir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again.
#Pinks #ProudBlue
#Pinks #ProudBlue
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Reform UK treasurer Nick Candy named in dozens of Epstein files
Reform UK urged to explain why party treasurer named in dozens of Epstein files
REFORM UK are under pressure to explain why their treasurer appears numerous times in the Epstein files over more than a decade
www.thenational.scot
February 5, 2026 at 7:58 AM
Reform UK treasurer Nick Candy named in dozens of Epstein files
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Nigel Farage accused of planning to plunge half a million children into poverty with pubs pledge
www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...
www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...
Nigel Farage accused of planning to plunge half a million children into poverty
The Reform UK leader announced a £3 billion support package for pubs, but is funded by restoring the two-child benefit cap, which is expected to lift 450,000 children out of poverty
www.mirror.co.uk
February 4, 2026 at 5:34 AM
Nigel Farage accused of planning to plunge half a million children into poverty with pubs pledge
www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...
www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...
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Never forget this photo.
This was the DOGE team in Reform UK’s flagship Kent Council stating they were shaking up local politics.
It was a key local election promise, criticising local government waste.
They found nothing.
Same old Reform, always lying.
This was the DOGE team in Reform UK’s flagship Kent Council stating they were shaking up local politics.
It was a key local election promise, criticising local government waste.
They found nothing.
Same old Reform, always lying.
February 4, 2026 at 5:23 AM
Never forget this photo.
This was the DOGE team in Reform UK’s flagship Kent Council stating they were shaking up local politics.
It was a key local election promise, criticising local government waste.
They found nothing.
Same old Reform, always lying.
This was the DOGE team in Reform UK’s flagship Kent Council stating they were shaking up local politics.
It was a key local election promise, criticising local government waste.
They found nothing.
Same old Reform, always lying.
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Farage
Is
In
The
Epstein
Files
Just saying
Is
In
The
Epstein
Files
Just saying
February 3, 2026 at 6:30 AM
Farage
Is
In
The
Epstein
Files
Just saying
Is
In
The
Epstein
Files
Just saying
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I mean... this is REALLY not ok
February 2, 2026 at 9:06 AM
I mean... this is REALLY not ok
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🔴 Tommy Robinson and the London News Website Linked to a Putin-Backed Propaganda Network
Far-right activist Stephen Yaxley-Lennon was appointed as an ambassador to an unregistered charity connected to a Russian 'black PR' operation, Matt Bernardini reports
Far-right activist Stephen Yaxley-Lennon was appointed as an ambassador to an unregistered charity connected to a Russian 'black PR' operation, Matt Bernardini reports
Tommy Robinson and the London News Website Linked to a Putin-Backed Propaganda Network
Far-right activist Stephen Yaxley-Lennon was appointed as an ambassador to an unregistered charity connected to a Russian 'black PR' operation
bylinetimes.com
February 2, 2026 at 2:27 PM
🔴 Tommy Robinson and the London News Website Linked to a Putin-Backed Propaganda Network
Far-right activist Stephen Yaxley-Lennon was appointed as an ambassador to an unregistered charity connected to a Russian 'black PR' operation, Matt Bernardini reports
Far-right activist Stephen Yaxley-Lennon was appointed as an ambassador to an unregistered charity connected to a Russian 'black PR' operation, Matt Bernardini reports
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The man behind donations of £200,000 to Reform is a church warden from Potters Bar, who just happens to work for a billionaire from Kazakhstan. But it's definitely not money laundering or interference in UK politics by a foreign national.
February 2, 2026 at 8:20 AM
The man behind donations of £200,000 to Reform is a church warden from Potters Bar, who just happens to work for a billionaire from Kazakhstan. But it's definitely not money laundering or interference in UK politics by a foreign national.
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Yesterday, five-year-old Liam and his dad Adrian were released from Dilley detention center. I picked them up last night and escorted them back to Minnesota this morning.
Liam is now home. With his hat and his backpack.
Liam is now home. With his hat and his backpack.
February 1, 2026 at 3:49 PM
Yesterday, five-year-old Liam and his dad Adrian were released from Dilley detention center. I picked them up last night and escorted them back to Minnesota this morning.
Liam is now home. With his hat and his backpack.
Liam is now home. With his hat and his backpack.
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Left - Green candidate 💚
Hannah Spencer, working class plumber and greater Manchester through and through.
(Far) Right - Reform UK candidate 🟣
Racist anti-academic from St Albans.
Your choice Gorton & Denton
Hannah Spencer, working class plumber and greater Manchester through and through.
(Far) Right - Reform UK candidate 🟣
Racist anti-academic from St Albans.
Your choice Gorton & Denton
January 30, 2026 at 9:48 AM
Left - Green candidate 💚
Hannah Spencer, working class plumber and greater Manchester through and through.
(Far) Right - Reform UK candidate 🟣
Racist anti-academic from St Albans.
Your choice Gorton & Denton
Hannah Spencer, working class plumber and greater Manchester through and through.
(Far) Right - Reform UK candidate 🟣
Racist anti-academic from St Albans.
Your choice Gorton & Denton
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Keir Starmer 2020 (when running for leadership):
"The selections for Labour candidates needs to be more democratic & we should end NEC impositions of candidates. Local Party members should select their candidates for every election"
The Tweet is still up, and searchable on x
(Yes he’s still on X)
"The selections for Labour candidates needs to be more democratic & we should end NEC impositions of candidates. Local Party members should select their candidates for every election"
The Tweet is still up, and searchable on x
(Yes he’s still on X)
January 29, 2026 at 7:10 PM
Keir Starmer 2020 (when running for leadership):
"The selections for Labour candidates needs to be more democratic & we should end NEC impositions of candidates. Local Party members should select their candidates for every election"
The Tweet is still up, and searchable on x
(Yes he’s still on X)
"The selections for Labour candidates needs to be more democratic & we should end NEC impositions of candidates. Local Party members should select their candidates for every election"
The Tweet is still up, and searchable on x
(Yes he’s still on X)
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Blimey, Aldous Huxley was prescient. Though even he could hardly have forseen the technology now at the disposal of the "mind-manipulators".
Thanks @anotherangryvoice.bsky.social for the quote, which is from Brave New World Revisited (1958).
Thanks @anotherangryvoice.bsky.social for the quote, which is from Brave New World Revisited (1958).
January 29, 2026 at 12:28 AM
Blimey, Aldous Huxley was prescient. Though even he could hardly have forseen the technology now at the disposal of the "mind-manipulators".
Thanks @anotherangryvoice.bsky.social for the quote, which is from Brave New World Revisited (1958).
Thanks @anotherangryvoice.bsky.social for the quote, which is from Brave New World Revisited (1958).
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A straight out lie from Danny Kruger MP at Reform's event today.
He said that asylum seekers go straight to the top of the council housing list.
In fact they are *banned by law* from accessing council housing.
Further details on Shelter's website here: england.shelter.org.uk/professional...
He said that asylum seekers go straight to the top of the council housing list.
In fact they are *banned by law* from accessing council housing.
Further details on Shelter's website here: england.shelter.org.uk/professional...
January 26, 2026 at 4:40 PM
A straight out lie from Danny Kruger MP at Reform's event today.
He said that asylum seekers go straight to the top of the council housing list.
In fact they are *banned by law* from accessing council housing.
Further details on Shelter's website here: england.shelter.org.uk/professional...
He said that asylum seekers go straight to the top of the council housing list.
In fact they are *banned by law* from accessing council housing.
Further details on Shelter's website here: england.shelter.org.uk/professional...
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Am beyond furious at the BBC bothsiding the latest murder on American streets. There isn't a "war of words" or "finger pointing". Watch the fxxxing videos. One side is fxxxing lying. This is shameful
January 25, 2026 at 9:38 AM
Am beyond furious at the BBC bothsiding the latest murder on American streets. There isn't a "war of words" or "finger pointing". Watch the fxxxing videos. One side is fxxxing lying. This is shameful
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Farage has been touring Davos all week pledging to “fight the globalists” - all funded by a $10 billion trust run on behalf of an Iranian billionaire.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Nigel Farage’s trip to Davos hosted and paid for by family trust of billionaire
Trust says Reform UK leader was invited to WEF event by London-based venture capitalist as an honorary adviser
www.theguardian.com
January 23, 2026 at 10:24 PM
Farage has been touring Davos all week pledging to “fight the globalists” - all funded by a $10 billion trust run on behalf of an Iranian billionaire.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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#OtD 22 Jan 1894 African-American coal miner, communist, WWI veteran, and Spanish Civil War volunteer with the @LincolnBrigade, Claude Pringle, was born in Holston, Virginia stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/1250...
January 22, 2026 at 2:40 PM
#OtD 22 Jan 1894 African-American coal miner, communist, WWI veteran, and Spanish Civil War volunteer with the @LincolnBrigade, Claude Pringle, was born in Holston, Virginia stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/1250...
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Whatever Farage says, remember this tweet
January 20, 2026 at 12:49 PM
Whatever Farage says, remember this tweet
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'Why would they only share the first frame? Here’s the whole version.'
via Pepel Klaasa
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via Pepel Klaasa
x.com/i/status/201...
January 21, 2026 at 12:09 AM
'Why would they only share the first frame? Here’s the whole version.'
via Pepel Klaasa
x.com/i/status/201...
via Pepel Klaasa
x.com/i/status/201...