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Jessica Kant @jessdkant.bsky.social · 5h

It’s actually incredible that as a society we never managed to find the political will to force elected officials to tell the truth on TV.

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Dale Ryder @kryton3298.bsky.social · 1d

www.newsday.com/news/nation/...

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Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 14h

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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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 1d

It’s the Feds making Portland look like a war zone— not the protesters.

And honestly, these protesters are brilliant. They’re flipping the whole authoritarian cosplay on its ass!

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Colin Boden @colinbags.bsky.social · 16h

Priti Patel on LK talking about the hate that took place on the Palestinian march in London yesterday.This is a downright lie.This is the first protest I have attended. People from all walks of life. No hate, aggression or thuggery. People just appalled by the genocide & longing for a ceasefire

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T-Rexit @t-rexit.bsky.social · 16h

Meanwhile….

I RECENTLY fell over whilst wearing a loose-fitting dressing gown, and an aubergine somehow became lodged in my bottom. On my medical notes, the A&E nurse recorded it as a "foreign object inserted in the rectum". I was incensed, as it was a British-grown aubergine, and I am a member of the Reform Party for God's sake! I put my foot through her clipboard and sent Keir Starmer the bill.
Terry Farricker, Blackpool

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Dave Vetter @davidrvetter.bsky.social · 17h

Every day is a good day to point out that 92% of Reform's donations were found to come from figures and groups linked to the fossil fuel industry. @desmog.com

Nigel Farage’s Reform Party Has Accepted £2.3 Million from Fossil Fuel Interests, Climate Deniers, and Polluters Since 2019 Election

Reform UK has received more than £2.3 million from oil and gas interests, highly polluting industries, and climate science deniers since December 2019, amounting to 92 percent of the party’s donations...

www.desmog.com

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Andrea Junker @strandjunker.com · 2d

Both Donald Trump and his Slovene-born escort spent years calling for Obama’s birth certificate. I am calling for Melania Trump’s legal immigration papers: How did she get an “Einstein” visa for extraordinary abilities despite her blatant lie under oath about her college degrees?

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Jane @localnotail.bsky.social · 1d

Nigel Farage was regularly being paid by Putin's public TV propaganda arm Russia Today (RT) in the years before Brexit, while he was failing to represent UK interests as an MEP.

At least 17 appearances from December 2010 - March 2014

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Nigel Farage's relationship with Russian media comes under scrutiny
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The Ukip leader's Euroscepticism makes him a shoo-in at the Russian state broadcaster that is often called Putin's mouthpiece
Patrick Wintour and Rowena Mason
Mon 31 Mar 2014 21.37 BST
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Nigel Farage's near monthly appearances on state-owned Russia Today have come under scrutiny after his expression of admiration for Vladimir Putin this week.

In one of his 17 appearances on the channel seen by the Guardian and transmitted since December 2010, he claims Europe is governed not by elected democracies but instead "by the worst people we have seen in Europe since 1945".

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2014/mar/31/nigel-farage-relationship-russian-media-scrutiny

The Ukip leader has appeared so frequently that he is cited in literature for the TV station Russia Today as one of their special and "endlessly quotable" British guests. "He has been known far longer to the RT audience than most of the British electorate," Russia Today claims.

The Ukip leader did not issue a word of criticism of Russian democracy in any of the Russia Today interviews viewed by the Guardian. Last August he told the channel that British intervention in Libya and Syria would go ahead regardless of any vote in the UN, and said he was still not sure President Bashar al-Assad had used chemical weapons.

Farage's relationship with Russia has been under the spotlight since his comments last week on Ukraine. In a TV debate with Nick Clegg (pictured above) he said Russia had been provoked and that the EU had blood on its hands for trying to force Ukraine to choose between itself and Russia.

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LaindonFeminist: 10 Year Keir @viviane49.bsky.social · 19h

Our media:

Tony Blair met with Epstein 6 years before he was known to be a pedophile. Full coverage.

Nathan Gill admits to 8 counts of treason last week. Silence.

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Chris and his farmily of forever friends @caenhillcc.bsky.social · 17h

Greetings and good morning it’s the Sunday farm rush hour with Letty-Lou, Mo, George & Kate

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 1d

Glad to see Nigel Farage has finally remembered Nathan Gill, former leader of Reform in Wales - found guilty of taking bribes from Russia.

Maybe he'll now remember how much he took from Putin's propaganda broadcaster Russia Today for all his TV appearances when he was a MEP?

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Sally Luxmoore @sallyl.bsky.social · 12d

We have a Farage problem. That's it.

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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 1d

This Is Fascism

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Tanita Tikaram @tanitatikaram.bsky.social · 1d

A UK presenter shouldn’t crow about an audience’s ignorance of Nathan Gill who took bribes from Kremlin agents & was a close ally of Farage . It shows they have failed to do their job . What next , telling us that Watergate was one of the lowest points in investigative journalism 🥺 ?

Joy @joybe.bsky.social · 2d

The Nathan Gill scandal should be huge news so why has the British media been mainly silent about it? (I think we know 🤔)
Here's Fiona Bruce shutting down any mention & acting like the audience aren't interested.
#bbqt

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Mike @mikethewander1.bsky.social · 18h

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The Bar Council @thebarcouncil.bsky.social · 18h

The Bars, Faculty and Law Societies in the UK have come together and accused politicians of "irresponsible and dangerous" language that is putting lawyers at risk.
www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...

Lawyers warn of death threats after Reform and Tories' 'two-tier' claims

In an unprecedented intervention, six legal bodies, representing 250,000 lawyers, expressed “grave concern” over the language being used toward legal professionals

www.mirror.co.uk

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 1d

Nice recap

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🦋B🦋 @basilgirl1.bsky.social · 1d

Please @thegodpodcast.com
Stop taking the good ones .

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Chris Taylor 🇨🇦📸♉️🏳️‍🌈🌎 @chwita.bsky.social · 1d

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Frank @nickabbott.bsky.social · 1d

So sad.

Jane Goodall.
Jilly Cooper
Diane Keaton

All in one week.

God, now balance the books:
Trump
Putin
Netanyahu

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Frank @nickabbott.bsky.social · 1d

🤦‍♂️ 100% how did these wankers become so prominent in our political lives?

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Frank @nickabbott.bsky.social · 1d

Jenrick is a school bully. Always inadequate, regressive, destructive. He doesn’t know how to create and build. He’s a pathetic, an ego inflated parasite on right wing politics; nothing original, just rage and extremism for a headline.

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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 1d

Jenrick would make a pact with fascist thug Yaxley-Lennon if it got him into power. He’s a moral abyss. And the harm he does by pushing our political debate further and further to the ugliest, darkest corner of the far right is forever unforgivable.

However, if the polls do tighten and the chances of an outright Reform victory recede, then it is very possible that we could see some form of new alliance between a
Jenrick-led Conservatives and a Reform-led Farage. After all, if Jenrick is willing to get into bed with the likes of Elon Musk and
"Inevitable West" then a coalition with Farage is not going to trouble him too badly.
However, even if Jenrick does fade into obscurity, his current rise is still a highly alarming moment in our politics.
After decades in which the mainstream right of British politics has sought to maintain a cordon sanitaire between themselves and the far-right, that barrier now appears to have been irretrievably broken.
The result is that formerly moderate politicians like Jenrick, whose nickname in the party used to be "Robert Generic" due to his middle-of-the-road views, now sees a lurch to the far-right as being the only viable way for him to gain power.
Indeed far from being a disqualifier for high office, it now appears that sharing the extreme views and associations of the far-
right has become an actual requirement for advancement on the right of British politics.

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Richard R (He/Him) @rruk01.bsky.social · 1d

Sad to hear another great actress has left us - RIP Diane Keaton

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2025/oct/11/diane-keaton-oscar-winning-star-of-annie-hall-and-the-godfather-dies-aged-79

Diane Keaton, Oscar-winning star of Annie Hall and The Godfather, dies aged 79

The legendary actor best known for her many collaborations with Woody Allen, as well as films including Reds, The First Wives Club and Book Club, has died

www.theguardian.com

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