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thattimwalker.bsky.social @thattimwalker.bsky.social · 1h

Perhaps Gove will make up the difference?
www.theguardian.com/news/ng-inte...

Will UK taxpayers get their £122m back from PPE Medpro?

The high court told the company linked to Michelle Mone to pay up over the supply of defective gowns, but there appears no clear route to reclaim the funds

www.theguardian.com

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thattimwalker.bsky.social @thattimwalker.bsky.social · 13h

Always a pair of greedy chancers.

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thattimwalker.bsky.social @thattimwalker.bsky.social · 13h

It’s @andyburnham.bsky.social or bust for this country. Let’s be clear Starmer is proving a better warm-up act for Farage than Biden ever was for Trump.

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thattimwalker.bsky.social @thattimwalker.bsky.social · 22h

Let’s have a serious and long overdue conversation about foreign interference in our country, then. China — and, for that matter, Israel’s — influence over our prime minister, for sure. But also let’s talk about Russia and the part it played in making Brexit happen.

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thattimwalker.bsky.social @thattimwalker.bsky.social · 22h

Is there a journalist out there who still understands what a story is? Woodward and Bernstein, if they were trying to make a living now in British journalism, would be long-term unemployed.

Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 1d

I called this out on #BBCQT last night and I'm calling it out again now.

He is gaslighting a nation.

The Guardian @theguardian.com · 1d

Farage insists ex-Reform UK Wales leader convicted of bribery is ‘bad apple’

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thattimwalker.bsky.social @thattimwalker.bsky.social · 23h

You know why I like this guy? No one owns him. That’s why his words resonate across all demographics. And he can attack rich men.

Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · Sep 4

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Is Zack Polanski the Left's answer to Nigel Farage?

YouTube video by Channel 4 News

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thattimwalker.bsky.social @thattimwalker.bsky.social · 23h

With Israel’s ownership of the Prime Minister — and now we have to factor in China’s, too — plus those who give him suits etc, I’d say the electorate now has at best a minority stake in him. Times tomorrow.

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thattimwalker.bsky.social @thattimwalker.bsky.social · 1d

You and I do 35 in 30 zone and it’s a fortune. Johnson wrecks the entire country, ransacks it for him and his mates, and it’s ’right you are, sir.’

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thattimwalker.bsky.social @thattimwalker.bsky.social · 1d

Take, take, take.

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thattimwalker.bsky.social @thattimwalker.bsky.social · 1d

Still he’s not aged at all in all that time or even changed his position.

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thattimwalker.bsky.social @thattimwalker.bsky.social · 1d

Aren’t we lucky in this country to have the wise counsel of such columnists?

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Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 6d

We can all agree that the attack on the Synagogue in Manchester was terrorism

So why is setting a Mosque alight just 'arson' and a 'hate crime' and also not terrorism?

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thattimwalker.bsky.social @thattimwalker.bsky.social · 7d

We’ve already moved on from Starmer, but we’re not sure where we’re moving on to.
thattimwalker.substack.com/p/starmer-do...

Starmer doesn't matter any more and nor does our old political system

Standing for nothing, annoying the left wing of his party as much as the right, Sir Keir Starmer's government has dashed our hopes and created a sense of hopelessness

thattimwalker.substack.com

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thattimwalker.bsky.social @thattimwalker.bsky.social · 9d

Radical thought: do some greedy, grasping members of the indigenous population actually deserve to live here?

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Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 10d

REVEALED: Donald Trump has picked Tony Blair for central role in Gaza ‘peace plan’…

…but in our inaugural investigation for @thenerve_news, we reveal extensive previously unreported links to Israeli defence, media & tech. 🧵
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www.thenerve.news/p/tony-blair...

'WHAT WILL JESUS SAY?' TONY BLAIR, BIG TECH AND THE ISRAEL CONNECTION

As Trump announces the former British PM as his choice to help govern Gaza, Carole Cadwalladr investigates the opaque workings of Blair's institute, its funding from friends of Israel – including bill...

www.thenerve.news

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thattimwalker.bsky.social @thattimwalker.bsky.social · 10d

You’d think so but both parties essentially using the Lords as a trash can when you see who they chuck in there.

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thattimwalker.bsky.social @thattimwalker.bsky.social · 10d

So much of what was said at Labour conference plagiarised. Among other examples, ‘plastic patriots’ first coined by Kevin Maguire and the lines about ‘the soul of Britain’ a lift from the final moments of the Radio 4 play #WhenMaggieMetLarry.
www.economist.com/britain/2025...

Sir Keir Starmer declares a battle for the soul of Britain

The Labour Party takes aim at Nigel Farage and Reform UK

www.economist.com

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thattimwalker.bsky.social @thattimwalker.bsky.social · 10d

Successive governments can’t keep saying Nyet to this.

Byline Times @bylinetimes.bsky.social · 10d

🔴Calls for New Inquiry Into Russian Interference After Reform’s Former Welsh Leader Pleads Guilty to Bribery

As the Kremlin steps up its political interference efforts in the West, is it time for a new Russia Report?

bylinetimes.com/2025/10/01/c...

Calls for New Inquiry Into Russian Interference After Reform’s Former Welsh Leader Pleads Guilty to Bribery

As the Kremlin steps up its political interference efforts in the West, is it time for a new Russia Report?

bylinetimes.com

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thattimwalker.bsky.social @thattimwalker.bsky.social · 10d

Still sits in the Lords, of course, along with Mandelson etc. You don’t have to be dodgy to sit in there these days, but it certainly helps.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cy...

Firm linked to Baroness Michelle Mone must pay £122m after breaching Covid PPE contract, judge rules

The government wins its case against PPE Medpro - part of a consortium led by Baroness Mone's husband - after it supplied non-compliant gowns in 2020.

www.bbc.co.uk

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thattimwalker.bsky.social @thattimwalker.bsky.social · 13d

That makes it worse - as with the rest of them, she knows how economically illiterate it is and now embraces it like her job depends on it.

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thattimwalker.bsky.social @thattimwalker.bsky.social · 14d

Blimey, dawning even on Reeves that Brexit might not have been such a great get-rich-quick scheme after all.

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Peter Jukes @peterjukes.bsky.social · 15d

After the former leader of Reform UK in Wales, Nathan Gill pleaded guilty to making favourable statements about Russia in exchange for money, worth reupping the FIVE QUESTIONS Nigel Farage is never asked about his fondness for Putin @bylinetimes.bsky.social

Byline Times @bylinetimes.bsky.social · 15d

The Five Questions Nigel Farage is Never Asked About Brexit, Trump and Russia – Byline Times bylinetimes.com/2024/06/19/t...