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Dave Edwards @dave280161.bsky.social · 12h

want to know more about FARAGE ??
bylinetimes.com/2025/10/11/s...

spraindsquirrel @spraindsquirrel.bsky.social · 16h

"I'm stunned that my close ally, who I had previously denied any connection to, took bribes from foreign nationals with whom I was closely acquainted to do things that I was doing too, coincidentally at about the same time."

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spraindsquirrel @spraindsquirrel.bsky.social · 16h

"I'm stunned that my close ally took bribes from foreign nationals with whom I was closely acquainted for doing things that I too was doing."

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spraindsquirrel @spraindsquirrel.bsky.social · 16h

"I'm stunned that my close ally took bribes for doing things I was doing too."

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spraindsquirrel @spraindsquirrel.bsky.social · 16h

You have to work hard to give Reform's denials even momentary credence.

Farage's latest sounds like he's protecting his comrades, confident in the knowledge that the press will protect him.

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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 1d

The thing I'm "stunned" about is why this isn't the biggest domestic news item on every flipping platform

bylinetimes.com/2025/10/11/s...

'Stunned?' Farage's Admission He Knew Nathan Gill but Not His Kremlin Associates Does Not Stand Up to Scrutiny

Insiders have told Byline Times it is 'inconceivable' the Reform Leader did not know about his close aide's pro Russian statements

bylinetimes.com

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Brian Moore @briantrumpet.bsky.social · 1d

Everything he's reported to have said in this BBC piece sounds like he's desperately trying to distance himself, knowing that the connection is real and toxic. If the press were investigating Farage with the same enthusiasm they went for Rayner, he'd be done for.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Nigel Farage 'stunned' ex-Wales Reform leader Nathan Gill took bribes

Nathan Gill has admitted taking money for pro-Russian statements as a European Parliament member.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Dr Space Junk (Alice Gorman) @drspacejunk.bsky.social · 2d

Do we really want 250,000 mirrored satellites in Low Earth Orbit? Hasn't the Starlink megaconstellation already done enough damage?
🧪 @mjibrown.bsky.social

A US startup plans to deliver ‘sunlight on demand’ after dark. Can it work – and would we want it to?

Satellites beaming sunlight down to Earth sound like science fiction – and they have astronomers very worried.

theconversation.com

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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 1d

This Is Fascism

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fesshole 🧻 @fesshole.bsky.social · 20h

I'm Head of Marketing in a ~£1b/year turnover company. One of the best things about reaching this height is you don't have to go to meetings anymore. You have an army of minions to send in your place. My diary looks busy, but it's pretty empty.

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spraindsquirrel @spraindsquirrel.bsky.social · 20h

I cannot believe that a Parliamentary inquiry would not find connections and payments directly to Farage and other Reform personnel that amount to criminal behaviour.

The circumstantial evidence is building.

Cornish Skipper #FBPE #RejoinEU 🇪🇺 〓〓 🔶🌹💚💙 @cornishskipper.bsky.social · 20h

'Stunned?' Farage's Admission He Knew Nathan Gill but Not His Kremlin Associates Does Not Stand Up to Scrutiny – “Sources identified the location as Nathan Gill’s Strasbourg office, & the diary schedule of ‘NG’ on the calendar behind him on the wall…” bylinetimes.com/2025/10/11/s...

'Stunned?' Farage's Admission He Knew Nathan Gill but Not His Kremlin Associates Does Not Stand Up to Scrutiny

Insiders have told Byline Times it is 'inconceivable' the Reform Leader did not know about his close aide's pro Russian statements

bylinetimes.com

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Cornish Skipper #FBPE #RejoinEU 🇪🇺 〓〓 🔶🌹💚💙 @cornishskipper.bsky.social · 20h

'Stunned?' Farage's Admission He Knew Nathan Gill but Not His Kremlin Associates Does Not Stand Up to Scrutiny – “Sources identified the location as Nathan Gill’s Strasbourg office, & the diary schedule of ‘NG’ on the calendar behind him on the wall…” bylinetimes.com/2025/10/11/s...

'Stunned?' Farage's Admission He Knew Nathan Gill but Not His Kremlin Associates Does Not Stand Up to Scrutiny

Insiders have told Byline Times it is 'inconceivable' the Reform Leader did not know about his close aide's pro Russian statements

bylinetimes.com

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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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Nick Reeves #FBPE #NAFO @nickreeves.bsky.social · 1d

Richard Tice - "Please welcome to the stage... Nathan Gill"

So much for Tice's claim to have never met Nathan Gill.

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Nick Reeves #FBPE #NAFO @nickreeves.bsky.social · 1d

The Reform UK slogan of 'Family, Community, Country' is very similar to the French Vichy regime's slogan 'Work, Family, Country'

The Vichy regime collaborated in many of the worst crimes of Nazi Germany, including deporting Jews to the death camps.

Farage is no fool. He will know this similarity.

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spraindsquirrel @spraindsquirrel.bsky.social · 1d

Stunned?

What, because he did it all for free?!

Nigel Farage 'stunned' ex-Wales Reform leader Nathan Gill took bribes

Nathan Gill has admitted taking money for pro-Russian statements as a European Parliament member.

www.bbc.com

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Gavin Esler @gavinesler.bsky.social · 1d

I agree is looks like a major shift - or to put it another way, at last a recognition of reality.

Roland Smith @rolandmcs.bsky.social · 2d

This strikes me as a pretty major Brexit shift from Starmer.

Perhaps the beginning of 'Brexit is sh1t and has caused real economic damage'.

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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 8d

When injustice becomes law, resistance becomes duty.

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Sara Partridge, Ph.D. @sarapartridge.bsky.social · 1d

There are reports that the *entire* office of special education at the US Dept of Education has been cut. These hardworking folks ensure kids with disabilities get equal access to a quality education.

America’s children deserve better than this.

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Natalie Bennett @nataliegreenpeer.bsky.social · 1d

A profound rethinking of the history of #biodiversity.

"In new view, plants did not colonize a barren wasteland, but rather world prepared for them over eons by the ancient and persistent activity of the fungal kingdom."

scitechdaily.com/earth-was-a-...

Earth Was a Fungal World Before Plants Existed

Fungi arose long before plants, shaping Earth with early soils and nutrient cycles. Their hidden legacy shows they may have prepared the world for life to flourish on land.

scitechdaily.com

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Andrew Weinstein @andrewjweinstein.com · 1d

It's wild that we've reached a point where the President openly admits to firing people for political reasons, and his OMB director tweets about it like it's a victory. This is page one of the authoritarian playbook, happening in plain sight.

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TheRoadie. @roadie63.bsky.social · 2d

I just watched the video of the Portland Cop threatening to arrest an ICE agent if they drive their truck through a crowd. Now I see this where the General of the Oregon National Guard says if they get called up they will protect the protesters. People are fed up.
www.oregonlive.com/politics/202...

Oregon general’s testimony that National Guard troops ‘will be protecting any protesters’ gains traction online

Brigadier General Alan R. Gronewold made the comments to state lawmakers Sept. 30, and they drew notice on social media this week.

www.oregonlive.com

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spraindsquirrel @spraindsquirrel.bsky.social · 1d

There were yeses from the audience.

If there was a single BBC employee voice amongst them (let alone leading them), that's... deeply unethical.

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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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Byline Times @bylinetimes.bsky.social · 1d

“Here Farage is, in Gill’s office, with Voloshyn’s wife Nadia, on the day Gill makes an intervention on behalf of Medvedchuk’s channels, with an employee of one of those channels, whose husband started bribing Gill to make these statements 6 days earlier”

bylinetimes.com/2025/10/11/s...

'Stunned?' Farage's Admission He Knew Nathan Gill but Not His Kremlin Associates Does Not Stand Up to Scrutiny

Insiders have told Byline Times, it is 'inconceivable' the Reform Leader did not know about his close aide's pro Russian statements

bylinetimes.com

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