Owain Sutton
@owainsutton.bsky.social
Former Green Party councillor for Hale, on Trafford Council. My own views. He/him.
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Why the two-child limit has to go, in a chart.
November 25, 2025 at 4:28 PM
Why the two-child limit has to go, in a chart.
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Little reminder of Farage's pro Putin tendencies....
Hopefully some media outlets may take up @eddavey.libdems.org.uk 's suggestions to probe Mr Farage a bit more on this.
Is Farage saying he chose to support the wishes of a hostile foreign govt for free? 😲
#ReleaseTheRussiaReport
Hopefully some media outlets may take up @eddavey.libdems.org.uk 's suggestions to probe Mr Farage a bit more on this.
Is Farage saying he chose to support the wishes of a hostile foreign govt for free? 😲
#ReleaseTheRussiaReport
November 25, 2025 at 12:04 PM
Little reminder of Farage's pro Putin tendencies....
Hopefully some media outlets may take up @eddavey.libdems.org.uk 's suggestions to probe Mr Farage a bit more on this.
Is Farage saying he chose to support the wishes of a hostile foreign govt for free? 😲
#ReleaseTheRussiaReport
Hopefully some media outlets may take up @eddavey.libdems.org.uk 's suggestions to probe Mr Farage a bit more on this.
Is Farage saying he chose to support the wishes of a hostile foreign govt for free? 😲
#ReleaseTheRussiaReport
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YOU WILL STOP SPREADING THE ANNUAL GRANGE HILL REBOOT STORY!
November 25, 2025 at 6:59 PM
YOU WILL STOP SPREADING THE ANNUAL GRANGE HILL REBOOT STORY!
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ICE deported a woman who owned a home in the US for 30 years. A judge banned ICE from deporting her to Sierra Leone where she had been tortured, so it deported her to Ghana, which kidnapped her and sent her back Sierra Leone anyway. ICE is part of this illegal conspiracy.
November 25, 2025 at 4:40 PM
ICE deported a woman who owned a home in the US for 30 years. A judge banned ICE from deporting her to Sierra Leone where she had been tortured, so it deported her to Ghana, which kidnapped her and sent her back Sierra Leone anyway. ICE is part of this illegal conspiracy.
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Farage reckons he can just about avoid proof of direct racial abuse. It's not a high bar is it?
November 25, 2025 at 7:06 AM
Farage reckons he can just about avoid proof of direct racial abuse. It's not a high bar is it?
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If you receive legal threats from Nigel Farage for your reporting of Reform, please get in touch.
We have employed a defamation lawyer specifically for this purpose and would love to help (and we do so on non-commercial terms). www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
We have employed a defamation lawyer specifically for this purpose and would love to help (and we do so on non-commercial terms). www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Reform’s ‘Trumpian’ legal threats hint at more aggressive approach to media
Ultimatums sent to publications appear to intensify as Nigel Farage’s party rises in polls
www.theguardian.com
November 25, 2025 at 8:29 AM
If you receive legal threats from Nigel Farage for your reporting of Reform, please get in touch.
We have employed a defamation lawyer specifically for this purpose and would love to help (and we do so on non-commercial terms). www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
We have employed a defamation lawyer specifically for this purpose and would love to help (and we do so on non-commercial terms). www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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BBC Chair Samir Shah and Robbie Gibb asked to explain why they drew up a plan, as revealed by Byline Times, to win back the "trust" of Reform voters, but haven't made similar plans for voters of any other party.
Gibb says Reform voters least likely to trust the BBC bylinetimes.com/2025/06/09/b...
Gibb says Reform voters least likely to trust the BBC bylinetimes.com/2025/06/09/b...
BBC Bosses Draw Up Plans to Win Over Reform Voters by Changing News and Drama Output
The Director General Tim Davie and other executives discussed altering BBC “story selection” in order to secure the "trust" of supporters of Nigel Farage’s party
bylinetimes.com
November 24, 2025 at 6:26 PM
BBC Chair Samir Shah and Robbie Gibb asked to explain why they drew up a plan, as revealed by Byline Times, to win back the "trust" of Reform voters, but haven't made similar plans for voters of any other party.
Gibb says Reform voters least likely to trust the BBC bylinetimes.com/2025/06/09/b...
Gibb says Reform voters least likely to trust the BBC bylinetimes.com/2025/06/09/b...
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Everything about this might be the saddest thing I’ve ever seen
November 24, 2025 at 1:07 PM
Everything about this might be the saddest thing I’ve ever seen
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Grok: 'I support Palestine Action'
November 24, 2025 at 6:17 PM
Grok: 'I support Palestine Action'
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Here’s a link to lee Harpin’s blog in which he describes Robbie Gibb’s alleged editorial role at the Jewish Chronicle leeharpin.substack.com/p/leaving-th...
Leaving the Jewish Chronicle
Since the change in ownership, the paper has read more like a propaganda sheet for Benjamin Netanyahu
leeharpin.substack.com
November 24, 2025 at 5:58 PM
Here’s a link to lee Harpin’s blog in which he describes Robbie Gibb’s alleged editorial role at the Jewish Chronicle leeharpin.substack.com/p/leaving-th...
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Harpin also records that Gibb interviewed him for deputy editor’s job. Gibb offered the job to Jake Wallis Simons instead leeharpin.substack.com/p/leaving-the-…
https://leeharpin.substack.com/p/leaving-the-…
November 24, 2025 at 5:56 PM
Harpin also records that Gibb interviewed him for deputy editor’s job. Gibb offered the job to Jake Wallis Simons instead leeharpin.substack.com/p/leaving-the-…
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Gibb; “ I had no editorial role whatsoever at the Jewish Chronicle”. Lee Harpin, reporter at the paper; “RG made a habit of calling into the office on print days to check up on what stories were topping the news list, and offering a view’”
November 24, 2025 at 5:55 PM
Gibb; “ I had no editorial role whatsoever at the Jewish Chronicle”. Lee Harpin, reporter at the paper; “RG made a habit of calling into the office on print days to check up on what stories were topping the news list, and offering a view’”
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Evil, inhumane stuff.
At least 160,000 people have been granted refugee status over the past five years. It now seems they are intended to be caught by the Government’s plans to make refugees wait up to 20 years for settlement - even for those just months away from ILR
www.thetimes.com/article/6f83...
www.thetimes.com/article/6f83...
November 24, 2025 at 6:17 PM
Evil, inhumane stuff.
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I'd like to see the response to this if the question added "if that that means universities have less money to spend on UK students".
With Rachel Reeves reportedly set to apply a new tax on tuition fees paid by overseas students, most Britons support such a move at the previously mooted level of 6%
Support: 57%
Oppose: 18%
yougov.co.uk/topics/socie...
Support: 57%
Oppose: 18%
yougov.co.uk/topics/socie...
November 24, 2025 at 4:41 PM
I'd like to see the response to this if the question added "if that that means universities have less money to spend on UK students".
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Not quite a Betteridge, but the answer to "Why is Robert F. Kennedy convinced he's right?" is that idiots are usually convinced they're right, and you just encourage them by sitting them down for hours of interviews and making him your magazine cover story
Over many interviews, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. told Michael Scherer about how he plans to remake America’s public-health system. Can he lead the scientific establishment he’s spent much of his life crusading against?
Read more in our new cover story:
Read more in our new cover story:
The Most Powerful Man in Science
Why is Robert F. Kennedy Jr. so convinced he’s right?
bit.ly
November 24, 2025 at 12:06 PM
Not quite a Betteridge, but the answer to "Why is Robert F. Kennedy convinced he's right?" is that idiots are usually convinced they're right, and you just encourage them by sitting them down for hours of interviews and making him your magazine cover story
Painfully bad AI slop.
The more you look, the more hilarious it becomes. The headless guitar...the weird blocks on the shelves...
The more you look, the more hilarious it becomes. The headless guitar...the weird blocks on the shelves...
November 24, 2025 at 6:13 PM
Painfully bad AI slop.
The more you look, the more hilarious it becomes. The headless guitar...the weird blocks on the shelves...
The more you look, the more hilarious it becomes. The headless guitar...the weird blocks on the shelves...
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Over at the Daily Telegraph, they're scratching their heads as to why the former mining and steel producinv city of Gliwice in Poland is now 45% more prosperous than Darlington... and why it has new shiny infrastructure... without mentioning EU funds for urban and regional development...
November 24, 2025 at 7:53 AM
Over at the Daily Telegraph, they're scratching their heads as to why the former mining and steel producinv city of Gliwice in Poland is now 45% more prosperous than Darlington... and why it has new shiny infrastructure... without mentioning EU funds for urban and regional development...
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OUP defines rage bait as “online content deliberately designed to elicit anger or outrage, typically posted in order to increase traffic to or engagement with a particular web page or social media account”.
November 24, 2025 at 10:42 AM
OUP defines rage bait as “online content deliberately designed to elicit anger or outrage, typically posted in order to increase traffic to or engagement with a particular web page or social media account”.
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'urged to explain'?? Should be 'called out', 'criticised' or even 'causes outrage'.
The explanation is quite simple - he's a bigoted antisemite who thinks nothing of voicing these once-unconscionable views to whip up support, knowing he won't get any pushback from the 'establishment' 🤷🏻♀️
The explanation is quite simple - he's a bigoted antisemite who thinks nothing of voicing these once-unconscionable views to whip up support, knowing he won't get any pushback from the 'establishment' 🤷🏻♀️
Farage urged to explain conspiracy theories linked to antisemitism he voiced in US media
Farage urged to explain conspiracy theories linked to antisemitism he voiced in US media
Exclusive: The Reform UK leader discussed far-right talking points in web TV and radio appearances between 2009 and 2018
Nigel Farage is facing calls to explain why he repeatedly aired tropes and conspiracy theories associated with antisemitism during interviews, after claims the Reform UK leader used racist language in his teens.
In appearances on US TV shows and podcasts earlier in his political career, Farage discussed supposed plots by bankers to create a global government, citing Goldman Sachs, the Bilderberg group and the financier George Soros as threats to democracy. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
November 24, 2025 at 7:33 AM
'urged to explain'?? Should be 'called out', 'criticised' or even 'causes outrage'.
The explanation is quite simple - he's a bigoted antisemite who thinks nothing of voicing these once-unconscionable views to whip up support, knowing he won't get any pushback from the 'establishment' 🤷🏻♀️
The explanation is quite simple - he's a bigoted antisemite who thinks nothing of voicing these once-unconscionable views to whip up support, knowing he won't get any pushback from the 'establishment' 🤷🏻♀️
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This bus-and-cycle expressway runs directly from Nijmegen station to the university and hospital in the south of the city. People on bikes and buses get there fast without delays, while motor traffic has to take the longer route.
Priorities matter. This is what it looks like when a city means it.
Priorities matter. This is what it looks like when a city means it.
November 23, 2025 at 7:06 PM
This bus-and-cycle expressway runs directly from Nijmegen station to the university and hospital in the south of the city. People on bikes and buses get there fast without delays, while motor traffic has to take the longer route.
Priorities matter. This is what it looks like when a city means it.
Priorities matter. This is what it looks like when a city means it.
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Everything wrong with political journalism in one graf. This is not a policy proposal that exists but that doesn’t matter, what matters is that someone “won” by asking it bsky.app/profile/larr...
What a strange framing and characterization. How does one describe his blatantly dishonest, racist question about taxes as “press[ing] the Mayor-elect on his policy proposals”? In what way does this lying troll emerge as a “winner“?
November 24, 2025 at 11:54 AM
Everything wrong with political journalism in one graf. This is not a policy proposal that exists but that doesn’t matter, what matters is that someone “won” by asking it bsky.app/profile/larr...
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Ryanair is absolutely disgusting www.theguardian.com/money/2025/n...
Ryanair expects me to take the financial hit for helping others
As a doctor I stepped in to tend to an elderly passenger … but it won’t waive £100 transfer fee to rebook
www.theguardian.com
November 24, 2025 at 8:14 AM
Ryanair is absolutely disgusting www.theguardian.com/money/2025/n...
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Even Hilary Cass - who disgracefully called parents terrified that their trans kids would take their own lives if they were denied healthcare "shroud wavers" - didn't go so far as to call for a ban on puberty blockers.
Nothing Wes Streeting says turns out to be true.
Nothing Wes Streeting says turns out to be true.
November 24, 2025 at 7:24 AM
Even Hilary Cass - who disgracefully called parents terrified that their trans kids would take their own lives if they were denied healthcare "shroud wavers" - didn't go so far as to call for a ban on puberty blockers.
Nothing Wes Streeting says turns out to be true.
Nothing Wes Streeting says turns out to be true.