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Spotlight on Corruption @spotlightcorruption.org · 16d

💥 The independence of @electoralcommission.org.uk must be fully restored to safeguard the UK’s electoral integrity from a future authoritarian government, our new report warns. Covered exclusively by Rowena Mason in today’s @theguardian.com 👇

UK government urged to restore Electoral Commission’s independence to protect democracy

Oversight of watchdog could be abused by a future authoritarian government, report warns

www.theguardian.com

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Laurie Dunkin Wedd @ldw1.bsky.social · 15d

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

'You'll never need to work again': Criminals offer reporter money to hack BBC

Reporter Joe Tidy was offered money if he would help cyber criminals access BBC systems.

www.bbc.co.uk

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James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 15d

Extraordinary level of blatant lying on the Mail’s front page this morning.

Kevin Schofield @kevinschofied.bsky.social · 15d

No, Keir Starmer Didn't Say That People Who Are Worried About Immigration Are Racist

www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/no-kei...

No, Keir Starmer Didn't Say That People Who Are Worried About Immigration Are Racist

Nigel Farage resorts to misinformation following PM's attack on Reform plan to deport immigrants who have lived in UK for decades.

www.huffingtonpost.co.uk

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suesuzanne.bsky.social @suesuzanne.bsky.social · 23d

Hear, hear! Ever since Thatcher, politicians of all stripes have deliberately used this incredibly bogus metaphor - household debt is nothing like national debt. 'Maxxing out the national credit card' is an equally misleading phrase.

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Annette Dittert @annettedittert.bsky.social · Sep 14

Musk is inciting violence on London's streets.Tommy Robinson is financed by US tech bros. These are all very direct attempts to destabilise the British state.

Starmer needs to stand up to this. A government that doesn't defend its country's values against these blatant attacks is not doing its job.

Cat Neilan @catneilan.bsky.social · Sep 14

My colleague @thejohnsimpson.bsky.social has done a terrific deep dive into the financial links between US tech billionaires and Tommy Robinson

Well worth a read

observer.co.uk/news/nationa...

US cash turned Tommy Robinson into the poster boy of UK f...

Outside the Old Bailey in 2018, a reinvented Tommy Robinson flashed his perfect new teeth to 2,000 diehard supporters at a “free Tommy” rally on a stage ...

observer.co.uk

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Krassensteins @krassenstein.bsky.social · Sep 13

The Charlie Kirk assassination is that little dot on the map of gun deaths in 2025.

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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · Sep 14

This must be a watershed moment. The government's continued use of X is no longer simply negligent. It is an act of conscious assistance to violent extremism.

Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · Sep 13

The common sense meaning should make this Elon Musk's "rivers of blood" moment

Though I think he goes further than Enoch Powell in a couple of important ways

Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · Sep 13

Elon Musk spoke by video to Tommy Robinson's anti-immigrant rally in the UK today.

"You're in a fundamental situation here where, whether you choose violence or not, violence is coming to you," said Musk. "You either fight back or you die."

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James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · Sep 3

Yup.

Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · Sep 3

net immigration fell by more than half last year and the politics has gone in the complete opposite direction. It's not really about the numbers

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suesuzanne.bsky.social @suesuzanne.bsky.social · Aug 20

Excellent article @jamesbatty.bsky.social - perhaps you could put it on the One and All website, too?

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West Country Voices @westcountryvoices.bsky.social · Aug 19

It's always really good to be able to publish the stories of people paying it forward in this world. This is a profile of the One And All Aid charity, based in Penzance, Cornwall.
westcountryvoices.co.uk/one-and-all-...

One And All Aid: a Cornish charity punching above its weight

One And All Aid is a small charity based in Penzance, Cornwall, but one that punches above its weight. Its trustees, Shelley Meister and I set up the charity in 2018 after a few years spent collecting...

westcountryvoices.co.uk

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Scoops @scooptown.bsky.social · Aug 19

Facts dont care about your feelings.

DemCastDonGA @donshantajr.bsky.social · Aug 18

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · Aug 6

Looks like the additional sanctions on Russia he’s been threatening since January just got TACOed again.

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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · Aug 6

Article I Sections 9 & 10 of the U.S. Constitution—which limit presidential power over tariffs and protect habeas corpus—have disappeared from Congress’s website. They claim a coding error is to blame.

Sections of the U.S. Constitution Missing from Government Website

Articles I, Sections 9 and 10 are inaccessible on Congress-run portal, raising concerns over transparency and public access.

meidasnews.com

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Get Out The Mid Term Vote @gotmtv.bsky.social · Aug 6

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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.bsky.social · Aug 6

The main thing you need to know about the "Russia hoax"? It's not a hoax
from @dgraham.bsky.social www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...

What, Exactly, Is the ‘Russia Hoax’?

To start with, it’s not a hoax.

www.theatlantic.com

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James Leakyboots Batty @jamesbatty.bsky.social · Aug 6

I asked a group of students how many asylum seekers were admitted to the UK in 2024. Most estimates were over a million. Real number is about 40,000. People like Farage talk about "invasion;" as in my house was invaded when my niece came for tea and brought her husband too.

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Joe Pierre, MD @psychunseen.bsky.social · Aug 2

How can one look at this and not conclude it’s genocide?

www.washingtonpost.com/world/intera...

Rare aerial imagery shows displacement and destruction in Gaza

Airdrop flights offered a vantage over the closed-off Gaza Strip.

www.washingtonpost.com

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Dave Andress @davidandress.bsky.social · Jul 20

Reminder that, even as we were rolling out the vaccines after a heroic international effort, A THOUSAND PEOPLE A DAY were dying of Covid in the UK, and only renewed lockdown stopped it being more. Without vaccines, that was our long-term reality.

Chris Grey @chrisgrey.bsky.social · Jul 20

Amongst Farage's other idiocies in his clip, it seems that despite 'growing up with vaccines' he doesn't understand the concept of a 'booster'. The prospect of this malevolent dullard getting anywhere close(r) to power is becoming more and more alarming.

Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · Jul 19

Nigel Farage demonstrates he doesn't understand how the covid vaccines work

"They basically lied to us.. Having the jab did not stop you from passing on covid.. Did not stop you from catching covid again"

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Paul Lewis @paullewismoney.bsky.social · Aug 1

UK’s ally and £16 billion trading partner Saudi Arabia has executed a journalist for doing his job, reports @RSF_inter

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Claire Berlinski @claireberlinski.bsky.social · Jul 29

Tulsi's Q Drop
open.substack.com/pub/clairebe...

Tulsi's Q Drop

The Creation of the Russia Hoax-Hoax

open.substack.com

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George Conway 🇺🇸🚫👑🐸 @gtconway.bsky.social · Jul 29

@anneapplebaum.bsky.social:

“The West doesn’t understand the extremism of Putinism…that (its) goals involve the destruction of the transatlantic alliance & maybe of the EU…The path to peace is through convincing Putin that he won’t win the war, that it’s hopeless.”

(ht: @berlinbridge.bsky.social)

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George Conway 🇺🇸🚫👑🐸 @gtconway.bsky.social · Jul 31

There’s nothing really “ideological” about either Donald Trump or Jair Bolsonaro. Their commonality is their corruption and criminality.

The Economist @economist.com · Jul 31

He is sanctioning judges linked to the prosecution of Jair Bolsonaro, his ideological ally

Donald Trump’s unprecedented attack on Brazil’s judiciary

He is sanctioning judges linked to the prosecution of Jair Bolsonaro, his ideological ally

www.economist.com

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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · Jul 31

Just another day where the Director of National Intelligence opines that I must be guilty of something for not posting on X.

This is not normal. This is what it looks like when the Trump administration is targeting their political opponents.

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Jon Owen @anotherjon.bsky.social · Jul 31

The government still hasn't reviewed its use of X, and refuses to explore communicating through less problematic platforms, like Bluesky

✍️ - @josiah.writes.news for @bylinetimes.bsky.social

bylinetimes.com/2025/07/31/k...

Keir Starmer's Government Still Hasn't Reviewed Use of Musk's X Despite Platform 'Amplifying Hate Speech and Misinformation'

Downing Street continues to refuse to explore communicating through alternative platforms, like Bluesky, despite the role of X in last summer's violent disorder

bylinetimes.com

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Martin Robbins @mjrobbins.com · Jul 29

My latest, exploring with numbers how the millennial household budget is basically incomprehensible to retired boomers.

WASPInomics and the magic avocado tree

Why boomers struggle to make sense of the millennial world.

open.substack.com

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