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Dr Seán DOOLAN 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🇮🇪
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Climate, Sustainability. Ex-DFID, RCCClimate, BirdLife, Earthwatch Europe, WildCRU University of Oxford

Photo is of my two daughters' shadows above Loch Leven, a shallow lake seriously affected by climate change
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I read “It is hard to imagine that taking place in Britain” initially as “thank goodness”. Then I realised that Phillips *wants* this for Britain! He wants a Britain where visible minorities live in fear of abduction and deportation? WTAF?
Just a jaw-dropping paragraph in Trevor Phillips's column for The Times.

This is a policy that, by his own account, has left parents of a particular race too frightened to walk their children to school.

And that's the example he chooses of the "vigour" we "need".
www.thetimes.com/comment/colu...
November 24, 2025 at 11:40 PM
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The latest pathetic attempt by Reform UK supporters to distance themselves from Nathan Gill and #ReformRussianBribes is to say ‘Reform UK didn’t exist when he took the bribes’.

UKIP > Independent > Brexit Party > Reform UK

That’s the path Gill and Farage took TOGETHER.
November 23, 2025 at 7:47 PM
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Possibly the stupidest idea I've heard in the last few months, which is saying something. Shows utter ignorance around practicalities regardless of the ethics/desirability.
Trevor Phillips proposes banning "remittances" (ie: imposing currency/exchange controls on international cash transfers by foreign nationals from Britain). He says this would disincentivise immigration, in a Times piece saying the Home Secretary needs to go [much] further

archive.ph/RlXPj
November 24, 2025 at 10:50 PM
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Breaking: Viola Ford Fletcher, the oldest living survivor of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre, has died. She was 111 years old
Viola Ford Fletcher, the oldest living survivor of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre, has died
Viola Ford Fletcher, the oldest living survivor of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre, has died. She was 111 years old.
www.whatimreading.net
November 24, 2025 at 8:45 PM
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Michael Prescott: “I’m a centrist dad”
“Do you think the BBC is institutionally biased?” Michael Prescott, author of the Telegraph dossier: “I don’t”
November 24, 2025 at 3:52 PM
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I'm sorry, I didn't get much past "startup" before I started screaming.
A 25-person startup is developing technology to block the sun and turn down the planet’s thermostat.

The stakes are huge — and the company and its critics say regulations need to catch up.

Read more: politi.co/4iaojIc
November 24, 2025 at 4:03 PM
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This is a lesson on how not to ask questions
Don’t ask him if he said racist things

Say “ This is just one example of what fellow school pupils say you said (to a Jewish pupil) : “Hitler was right” “Gas them” making hissing noises

Did you say that?
Did you make hissing noises?
“I would never ever do it in a hurtful or insulting way”

Nigel Farage responds to allegations of racist behaviour from when he was a teenager at school

@itvnewspolitics.bsky.social
November 24, 2025 at 7:33 PM
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Really looks like the United States is about to launch a regime change war against Venezuela with:

-No casus belli
-No authorization from Congress
-No allies or international support
-No plan for a post-Maduro Venezuela
-No preparation for any sort of stabilization or containment of the fallout
November 24, 2025 at 3:29 PM
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Marjorie Taylor Greene's resigning in time to get a pension is a lesson to everyone.

Most Americans don't get *any* pension anymore, but Congress gave itself a pension after only five years of work.

Our "representatives" aren't working for us, they are [barely] working for themselves.
November 24, 2025 at 2:16 PM
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Still reeling from the Stanford report on Brexit. Reduced GDP by up to 8% and investment by as much as 18%. The UK Treasury would have £40 billion more each year if Britain had remained in the EU. Devastating self-immolation.
The Economic Impact of Brexit
Other
siepr.stanford.edu
November 24, 2025 at 11:02 AM
Nathan Gill's price at UKIP, then Reform Wales, was only £40k.

As @petergeoghegan.bsky.social noted in his book 'Democracy for Sale: Dark Money and Dirty Politics', UK politicians can be bought remarkably cheaply.
Someone very close to Putin once explained to me that Putin thinks that all Westerners can be bought. We have no values; only a price. Dmitriev's prominent role in drafting the latest "peace plan" underscores that Putin assessment. I hope Putin is wrong. I fear for some, he might be right.
November 24, 2025 at 8:24 PM
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Finland uses “Russia-gauge” rails. They are going to move to European compatible rail gauge for their own resilience.

This is what we should be thinking about for moving to open social away from American platforms: it should come with significant spending commitments & is absolutely necessary.
Finland announces migration of its rail network to international gauge
The Finnish government announces the migration of its rail network from Russian gauge (1,524 mm) to international gauge (1,435 mm) from 2032. The change aims to improve military mobility and regional ...
www.trenvista.net
November 23, 2025 at 4:57 PM
Can't be said often enough.

Nathan Gill was jailed for 10.5 years for about £40k in Russian bribes via a Ukrainian oligarch, politician and media mogul whose daughter has Putin as literal godfather.

Imagine how much Farage has accrued through various opaque channels.
Friday: former Reform leader in Wales is jailed for accepting bribes to spout pro-Russia propaganda.

Sunday:
November 24, 2025 at 8:20 PM
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The only reason Gill stopped being the Reform UK leader in Wales was because he failed to win a seat in the 2021 Senedd election.

Zia Yusuf keeps trying to make this sound like this is ancient history, and Reform washed their hands of him, but nothing is further from the truth.
November 24, 2025 at 9:55 AM
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The UK is a strongly pro-choice country with 86% of Britons wanting abortion to be legal in all or most cases. But the US anti-choice movement has been investing heavily into campaigns in Britain, and Nigel Farage’s Reform UK party seems to be support the interference.
The worrying rise of US anti-abortion rhetoric is in full force - how deep is Reform UK's involvement?
Money is pouring into anti-abortion campaigns in Britain, and it seems Nigel Farage’s party isn’t pushing back…
www.cosmopolitan.com
November 23, 2025 at 3:11 AM
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Criminal charges against both James Comey and Letitia James have been dismissed by the presiding federal judges.
November 24, 2025 at 5:49 PM
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This is one of the big accounts boosting Tommy Robinson, Farage and Reform and ‘English Patriots’.

It’s Russian.
November 24, 2025 at 8:14 PM
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Finally some actual consequences!

Great work @direthoughts.com and @robevansgdn.bsky.social
NEW: Lord Dannatt and Lord David Evans of Watford face suspension of 4mo/5mo respectively from the House of Lords after a parliamentary watchdog ruled they had broken lobbying rules. Reports from the conduct committee follows Guardian investigations into the peers.

w/ @robevansgdn.bsky.social
Two peers suspended from House of Lords for breaking lobbying rules
Lord Dannatt and Lord Evans of Watford were filmed breaking rules in undercover footage recorded by Guardian
www.theguardian.com
November 24, 2025 at 12:44 PM
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📉Humanitarian funding is falling far behind.

Compared to this time last year, we are billions short of what’s needed to:

🔴 Treat mothers
🔴 Nourish children
🔴 Deliver safe water to families

This is a dangerous trend we cannot afford to ignore. #InvestInHumanity
November 23, 2025 at 6:22 PM
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Since the implementation of the ceasefire in Lebanon, the IDF has murdered 338 men, women and children They have wounded hundreds more.
November 23, 2025 at 4:40 PM
Comey's closing words on the vindictive orange attack on him being dismissed, charges "based on malevolence and incompetence".

Praises those career staffers in Justice who defended their integrity at the cost of their jobs, and stands up for the role of the "independent Federal judiciary".
New today November 24 in response to news about his case
November 24, 2025 at 8:03 PM
At least the orange bites the dust on occasion. I only wish it were more often.
BREAKING: Comey case dismissed without prejudice. Halligan invalidly appointed, judge rules. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
November 24, 2025 at 7:54 PM
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It really is so absurd to claim "I get small business because I worked in a MacDonalds once and what business needs is another massive costly upheaval in four years, just as they have absorbed the last change." Even before you add the fact that she is unlikely to be Tory leader by next summer.
Badenoch's arrogantly delivered, noxiously apocalyptic assault on employment rights aside, it's quite something to claim that only you understand business, then ask business, instead of adjusting to a new law, to plan on the remotest chance that you will become PM and undo it all in four years.🤣 ~AA
November 24, 2025 at 12:38 PM
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Polls suggest that Nigel Farage is heading for 10 Downing Street on a vote share of just 30%. It beggars belief that Labour is still committed to an outdated, undemocratic voting system that would see the hard right stroll into government on a minority of the vote.
November 21, 2025 at 4:36 PM
Now serving 10 1/2 years, for taking bribes from a Ukrainian political-media proxy for Putin, to spout pro-Kremlin lines.

"... his newly created media and parliamentary channels of discourse were pumping out Kremlin narratives around the clock."

Describes Medvedchuk but could also describe Farage.
🚨The Video Farage & Tice don’t want you to see… with their friend & Russian 🇷🇺 Spy Nathan Gill is…
November 22, 2025 at 11:33 AM