Steve Darrell
@stevejdrl.bsky.social
Vegan, Welshman living in England, I read, play wargames and watch rugby. Remainer/Rejoiner.
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The government has launched an investigation into “countering foreign influence and interference in UK politics”.
Which is fantastic news but they need to crack on with it now.
www.thetimes.com/article/80cd...
Which is fantastic news but they need to crack on with it now.
www.thetimes.com/article/80cd...
Reform’s Russian bribe case prompts election interference inquiry
The PM has ordered an investigation into foreign influence in politics after the ex-leader of Reform in Wales was jailed for taking cash to parrot Kremlin lines
www.thetimes.com
December 16, 2025 at 4:57 PM
The government has launched an investigation into “countering foreign influence and interference in UK politics”.
Which is fantastic news but they need to crack on with it now.
www.thetimes.com/article/80cd...
Which is fantastic news but they need to crack on with it now.
www.thetimes.com/article/80cd...
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It is merely a vexatious claim.
The kind of cynical ploy used by rich and powerful people the world over to shut down any media that dares to expose them and hold them to account.
The kind of cynical ploy used by rich and powerful people the world over to shut down any media that dares to expose them and hold them to account.
www.theguardian.com/media/2025/d...
I think that there is no case to answer. No damage was done to the T.Ts reputation as he was elected POTUS within days afterwards. It was not broadcast in the states only in Britain The BBC were unbelievably stupid in broadcasting it. They apologized. Case closed
I think that there is no case to answer. No damage was done to the T.Ts reputation as he was elected POTUS within days afterwards. It was not broadcast in the states only in Britain The BBC were unbelievably stupid in broadcasting it. They apologized. Case closed
BBC vows to defend $10bn lawsuit from Donald Trump
US president alleges broadcaster ‘intentionally, maliciously, and deceptively’ edited his 6 January speech before march on Capitol
www.theguardian.com
December 16, 2025 at 11:19 AM
It is merely a vexatious claim.
The kind of cynical ploy used by rich and powerful people the world over to shut down any media that dares to expose them and hold them to account.
The kind of cynical ploy used by rich and powerful people the world over to shut down any media that dares to expose them and hold them to account.
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Farage received £25,972 for speaking as 'the man who delivered Brexit' at a Florida Republicans fundraiser dinner in March.
Reform UK is about bringing MAGA Trumpism to our country - politics that serves the super rich & sacrifices the rest.
@bylinetimes.bsky.social bylinetimes.com/2025/11/24/n...
Reform UK is about bringing MAGA Trumpism to our country - politics that serves the super rich & sacrifices the rest.
@bylinetimes.bsky.social bylinetimes.com/2025/11/24/n...
December 16, 2025 at 8:37 AM
Farage received £25,972 for speaking as 'the man who delivered Brexit' at a Florida Republicans fundraiser dinner in March.
Reform UK is about bringing MAGA Trumpism to our country - politics that serves the super rich & sacrifices the rest.
@bylinetimes.bsky.social bylinetimes.com/2025/11/24/n...
Reform UK is about bringing MAGA Trumpism to our country - politics that serves the super rich & sacrifices the rest.
@bylinetimes.bsky.social bylinetimes.com/2025/11/24/n...
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After the effort it took responding to that consultation, I hope the government will halt their plans. At the very least, it shouldn't be that people are required to individually opt out of having their work used to train AI. It should be voluntary opt in only.
🚨 The UK government just published a breakdown of the responses to its consultation on AI & copyright:
- 95% of respondents want AI companies to pay for their training data (made up of 88% saying strengthen copyright law, & 7% saying leave it as is)
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- 95% of respondents want AI companies to pay for their training data (made up of 88% saying strengthen copyright law, & 7% saying leave it as is)
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December 15, 2025 at 12:23 PM
After the effort it took responding to that consultation, I hope the government will halt their plans. At the very least, it shouldn't be that people are required to individually opt out of having their work used to train AI. It should be voluntary opt in only.
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As it seems abundantly clear the last govt discovered some pretty unpleasant truths about 🇷🇺 interference, then buried the report, you’d think a Labour govt would be rushing to expose & deal with the problem.
An easy win, surely?
I’m not just deeply disappointed by this govt, I’m genuinely mystified.
An easy win, surely?
I’m not just deeply disappointed by this govt, I’m genuinely mystified.
December 15, 2025 at 9:19 AM
As it seems abundantly clear the last govt discovered some pretty unpleasant truths about 🇷🇺 interference, then buried the report, you’d think a Labour govt would be rushing to expose & deal with the problem.
An easy win, surely?
I’m not just deeply disappointed by this govt, I’m genuinely mystified.
An easy win, surely?
I’m not just deeply disappointed by this govt, I’m genuinely mystified.
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It’s Second Sunday of the month. Shortly, just off Trafalgar Square, I’ll be running Captain Dan’s laundry for homeless and/or destitute asylum seekers, refugees, and migrants. I’ll probably annoy all the right people
December 14, 2025 at 10:59 AM
It’s Second Sunday of the month. Shortly, just off Trafalgar Square, I’ll be running Captain Dan’s laundry for homeless and/or destitute asylum seekers, refugees, and migrants. I’ll probably annoy all the right people
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Tommy Robinson’s Unite The Kingdom Carol service.
Please all join in:
🎵”Silent night! Holy night!
All is racist, all is white
Round yon Arian mother and child
Holy Tommy, so tender, sieg heiled!
Grift in hypocritical peace!
Grift in hypocritical peace!”🎵
Merry Christmas!😔🎄
Please all join in:
🎵”Silent night! Holy night!
All is racist, all is white
Round yon Arian mother and child
Holy Tommy, so tender, sieg heiled!
Grift in hypocritical peace!
Grift in hypocritical peace!”🎵
Merry Christmas!😔🎄
December 14, 2025 at 1:30 PM
Tommy Robinson’s Unite The Kingdom Carol service.
Please all join in:
🎵”Silent night! Holy night!
All is racist, all is white
Round yon Arian mother and child
Holy Tommy, so tender, sieg heiled!
Grift in hypocritical peace!
Grift in hypocritical peace!”🎵
Merry Christmas!😔🎄
Please all join in:
🎵”Silent night! Holy night!
All is racist, all is white
Round yon Arian mother and child
Holy Tommy, so tender, sieg heiled!
Grift in hypocritical peace!
Grift in hypocritical peace!”🎵
Merry Christmas!😔🎄
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I do think that if the main public health message from the authorities to the population is get the flu vaccine then the flu vaccine should be free and readily available for all. That’s not the case at the moment.
December 14, 2025 at 12:01 PM
I do think that if the main public health message from the authorities to the population is get the flu vaccine then the flu vaccine should be free and readily available for all. That’s not the case at the moment.
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Zoe Weissman survived the Parkland shooting. Now she’s at Brown, and it happened again.
“Honestly, I'm really angry that this is happening to me all over again, and I'm just in shock.”
We’re failing our kids. A gun-sick nation. 🇺🇸 www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...
“Honestly, I'm really angry that this is happening to me all over again, and I'm just in shock.”
We’re failing our kids. A gun-sick nation. 🇺🇸 www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...
December 14, 2025 at 3:35 AM
Zoe Weissman survived the Parkland shooting. Now she’s at Brown, and it happened again.
“Honestly, I'm really angry that this is happening to me all over again, and I'm just in shock.”
We’re failing our kids. A gun-sick nation. 🇺🇸 www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...
“Honestly, I'm really angry that this is happening to me all over again, and I'm just in shock.”
We’re failing our kids. A gun-sick nation. 🇺🇸 www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...
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Can't wait for Robin Ince to get as many column inches in the national press over his actual establishment silencing due to his stance on lgbt+ rights as phobes get over their former friends not wanting to hang out so much any more
December 13, 2025 at 11:23 AM
Can't wait for Robin Ince to get as many column inches in the national press over his actual establishment silencing due to his stance on lgbt+ rights as phobes get over their former friends not wanting to hang out so much any more
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'Complete nonsense.'
Met Police Chief Sir Mark Rowley rubbishes Donald Trump's claims about violence in London under Sadiq Khan.
Met Police Chief Sir Mark Rowley rubbishes Donald Trump's claims about violence in London under Sadiq Khan.
December 12, 2025 at 9:29 AM
'Complete nonsense.'
Met Police Chief Sir Mark Rowley rubbishes Donald Trump's claims about violence in London under Sadiq Khan.
Met Police Chief Sir Mark Rowley rubbishes Donald Trump's claims about violence in London under Sadiq Khan.
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For every person wanting to release the Epstein files, remember there are victims of the Tate brothers. And THEY are still alive and creating MORE victims!
December 12, 2025 at 1:55 AM
For every person wanting to release the Epstein files, remember there are victims of the Tate brothers. And THEY are still alive and creating MORE victims!
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apparently there's 'falling growth' in the 'scientific research' sector, and yes, that is what will happen if you slash jobs in universities
UK economy unexpectedly contracts by 0.1% in October
Growth has slowed throughout the year
www.ft.com
December 12, 2025 at 7:58 AM
apparently there's 'falling growth' in the 'scientific research' sector, and yes, that is what will happen if you slash jobs in universities
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This is probably the clearest indication yet that the administration understands what they’re doing in the Caribbean is illegal.
They’re now threatening the ICC with sanctions if they investigate Trump and his team.
They’re now threatening the ICC with sanctions if they investigate Trump and his team.
The U.S. is not a member of the ICC, but the court can still prosecute individuals for actions carried out on the territory of ICC member nations.
Exclusive: US threatens new ICC sanctions unless court pledges not to prosecute Trump
President Donald Trump's administration wants the International Criminal Court to amend its founding document to ensure it does not investigate the Republican president and his top officials, a Trump ...
www.reuters.com
December 11, 2025 at 1:19 PM
This is probably the clearest indication yet that the administration understands what they’re doing in the Caribbean is illegal.
They’re now threatening the ICC with sanctions if they investigate Trump and his team.
They’re now threatening the ICC with sanctions if they investigate Trump and his team.
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Migration Advisory Committee report on fiscal impact of main work migration routes.
Key table: they estimate 2022/23 cohort (those arriving in 2022/23) will over lifetimes pay about £47 billion more in taxes than they "cost" in public spending.
assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/693810...
Key table: they estimate 2022/23 cohort (those arriving in 2022/23) will over lifetimes pay about £47 billion more in taxes than they "cost" in public spending.
assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/693810...
December 11, 2025 at 1:38 PM
Migration Advisory Committee report on fiscal impact of main work migration routes.
Key table: they estimate 2022/23 cohort (those arriving in 2022/23) will over lifetimes pay about £47 billion more in taxes than they "cost" in public spending.
assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/693810...
Key table: they estimate 2022/23 cohort (those arriving in 2022/23) will over lifetimes pay about £47 billion more in taxes than they "cost" in public spending.
assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/693810...
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NEW
Extremism, conformity, and the problem of law
How the law can (attempt to) regulate extremism, but it can really do nothing about conformism.
By me
emptycity.substack.com/p/extremism-...
Extremism, conformity, and the problem of law
How the law can (attempt to) regulate extremism, but it can really do nothing about conformism.
By me
emptycity.substack.com/p/extremism-...
Extremism, conformity, and the problem of law
How the law can (attempt to) regulate extremism, but it can really do nothing about conformism.
emptycity.substack.com
December 9, 2025 at 9:51 AM
NEW
Extremism, conformity, and the problem of law
How the law can (attempt to) regulate extremism, but it can really do nothing about conformism.
By me
emptycity.substack.com/p/extremism-...
Extremism, conformity, and the problem of law
How the law can (attempt to) regulate extremism, but it can really do nothing about conformism.
By me
emptycity.substack.com/p/extremism-...
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Even as a Tory I must admit Reform MPs are devoted to serving their constituencies. For example Lee Anderson selling his ‘funny’ 30p football shirts in Ashdown & Nigel Farage’s outstanding work in Clacton.
Oh & here is Richard Tice working hard in his constituency of Skegness.
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Oh & here is Richard Tice working hard in his constituency of Skegness.
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December 9, 2025 at 10:02 AM
Even as a Tory I must admit Reform MPs are devoted to serving their constituencies. For example Lee Anderson selling his ‘funny’ 30p football shirts in Ashdown & Nigel Farage’s outstanding work in Clacton.
Oh & here is Richard Tice working hard in his constituency of Skegness.
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Oh & here is Richard Tice working hard in his constituency of Skegness.
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"The Belgians have been getting pressure from the U.S. to not release the Russian Central Bank assets for Ukraine, because the Trump administration wants all that money to go back to Russia, while taking their cut – which is just jaw dropping."
December 9, 2025 at 6:28 AM
"The Belgians have been getting pressure from the U.S. to not release the Russian Central Bank assets for Ukraine, because the Trump administration wants all that money to go back to Russia, while taking their cut – which is just jaw dropping."
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If governments are involved in covering up
the knowledge of aliens then they are doing
a much better job of it than they seem to do
at anything else.
— Stephen Hawking
the knowledge of aliens then they are doing
a much better job of it than they seem to do
at anything else.
— Stephen Hawking
December 8, 2025 at 5:27 PM
If governments are involved in covering up
the knowledge of aliens then they are doing
a much better job of it than they seem to do
at anything else.
— Stephen Hawking
the knowledge of aliens then they are doing
a much better job of it than they seem to do
at anything else.
— Stephen Hawking
It's important to understand this about the US health service, especially when Farage (or indeed Streeting) talk about future health service provision in the UK.
Such an important point in @gingerthompson.bsky.social’s Sick in a Hospital Town Part 1 story: projects.propublica.org/albany-georg...
December 8, 2025 at 3:44 PM
It's important to understand this about the US health service, especially when Farage (or indeed Streeting) talk about future health service provision in the UK.
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Donald Trump is a Kremlin stooge who wants to sell out Ukraine and the rest of Europe to Putin. We can't let that happen.
Starmer should seize frozen Russian assets in this country - today - and convince Merz and Macron to do the same.
Starmer should seize frozen Russian assets in this country - today - and convince Merz and Macron to do the same.
December 8, 2025 at 9:30 AM
Donald Trump is a Kremlin stooge who wants to sell out Ukraine and the rest of Europe to Putin. We can't let that happen.
Starmer should seize frozen Russian assets in this country - today - and convince Merz and Macron to do the same.
Starmer should seize frozen Russian assets in this country - today - and convince Merz and Macron to do the same.
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To all UK and European friends - this post must be shared to all you know - Lots of people STILL support Trump/Farage etc but they need to be in no doubt about what they are supporting. Europe and the UK MUST come together and anyone who opposes it - be it on their head if the unthinkable happens.
December 7, 2025 at 8:58 AM
To all UK and European friends - this post must be shared to all you know - Lots of people STILL support Trump/Farage etc but they need to be in no doubt about what they are supporting. Europe and the UK MUST come together and anyone who opposes it - be it on their head if the unthinkable happens.
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Nigel Farage doesn't seem to mind foreigners when they're funding his fraudulent political parties...
Or buying him a house.
Or buying him a house.
December 5, 2025 at 11:34 AM
Nigel Farage doesn't seem to mind foreigners when they're funding his fraudulent political parties...
Or buying him a house.
Or buying him a house.