Sam Bright
@writesbright.bsky.social
Investigative journalist, author, and Yorkshireman. DeSmog’s UK deputy editor.
Jumping on the Prince Harry case to re-share this little-known story about the Daily Mail 👀
How the Daily Mail short-changed its own shareholders
A tale that hasn’t received enough air time...
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January 19, 2026 at 10:44 AM
Jumping on the Prince Harry case to re-share this little-known story about the Daily Mail 👀
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Former Tory MP Matthew Parris on Thursday: “If you were to remove ambition from the core of Robert Jenrick, he would collapse like a boneless chicken.”
😂
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January 17, 2026 at 3:08 PM
Former Tory MP Matthew Parris on Thursday: “If you were to remove ambition from the core of Robert Jenrick, he would collapse like a boneless chicken.”
😂
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😂
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🔴 Who Funds the Free Speech Union?
Toby Young’s outfit has gone to court to stop publication of a list of its donors
So we decided to take a dive into its funders
Watch video with me and @writesbright.bsky.social 😀
youtu.be/oP0OGYhYyaA?...
Toby Young’s outfit has gone to court to stop publication of a list of its donors
So we decided to take a dive into its funders
Watch video with me and @writesbright.bsky.social 😀
youtu.be/oP0OGYhYyaA?...
Who Really Funds the Free Speech Union?
YouTube video by Democracy for Sale
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January 18, 2026 at 11:31 AM
🔴 Who Funds the Free Speech Union?
Toby Young’s outfit has gone to court to stop publication of a list of its donors
So we decided to take a dive into its funders
Watch video with me and @writesbright.bsky.social 😀
youtu.be/oP0OGYhYyaA?...
Toby Young’s outfit has gone to court to stop publication of a list of its donors
So we decided to take a dive into its funders
Watch video with me and @writesbright.bsky.social 😀
youtu.be/oP0OGYhYyaA?...
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In an extremely crowded field, I reckon Robert Jenrick is one of the worst, most dislikable politicians in modern Britain.
Here’s why 👇🏻
Here’s why 👇🏻
Jenrick’s anti-personality politics
Bland but sinister.
writesbright.substack.com
January 17, 2026 at 10:42 AM
In an extremely crowded field, I reckon Robert Jenrick is one of the worst, most dislikable politicians in modern Britain.
Here’s why 👇🏻
Here’s why 👇🏻
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This is great stuff about Jenrick, who's typical of the worst of today's political opportunists – a man who believes absolutely nothing, and thinks nothing of pretending to believe the worst things possible, regardless of the cost to others.
In an extremely crowded field, I reckon Robert Jenrick is one of the worst, most dislikable politicians in modern Britain.
Here’s why 👇🏻
Here’s why 👇🏻
Jenrick’s anti-personality politics
Bland but sinister.
writesbright.substack.com
January 17, 2026 at 12:19 PM
This is great stuff about Jenrick, who's typical of the worst of today's political opportunists – a man who believes absolutely nothing, and thinks nothing of pretending to believe the worst things possible, regardless of the cost to others.
In an extremely crowded field, I reckon Robert Jenrick is one of the worst, most dislikable politicians in modern Britain.
Here’s why 👇🏻
Here’s why 👇🏻
Jenrick’s anti-personality politics
Bland but sinister.
writesbright.substack.com
January 17, 2026 at 10:42 AM
In an extremely crowded field, I reckon Robert Jenrick is one of the worst, most dislikable politicians in modern Britain.
Here’s why 👇🏻
Here’s why 👇🏻
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Money in politics matters because it buys power
Dark money matters even more, because it shapes political debate without public even knowing it is happening
Great to talk to @writesbright.bsky.social about who funds Free Speech Union
democracyforsale.substack.com/p/follow-the...
Dark money matters even more, because it shapes political debate without public even knowing it is happening
Great to talk to @writesbright.bsky.social about who funds Free Speech Union
democracyforsale.substack.com/p/follow-the...
Follow the money
Talking about dark money and hidden influence in British politics with Sam Bright
democracyforsale.substack.com
January 17, 2026 at 10:08 AM
Money in politics matters because it buys power
Dark money matters even more, because it shapes political debate without public even knowing it is happening
Great to talk to @writesbright.bsky.social about who funds Free Speech Union
democracyforsale.substack.com/p/follow-the...
Dark money matters even more, because it shapes political debate without public even knowing it is happening
Great to talk to @writesbright.bsky.social about who funds Free Speech Union
democracyforsale.substack.com/p/follow-the...
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I'm not trying to be a dick but if this sentence (I guess it's a sentence) was filed by a first-year student journalist you'd have serious words with them. Literally nothing here works. It's catastrophic prose
January 16, 2026 at 6:19 PM
I'm not trying to be a dick but if this sentence (I guess it's a sentence) was filed by a first-year student journalist you'd have serious words with them. Literally nothing here works. It's catastrophic prose
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If you asked ChatGPT to write this it would tell you to fuck off
January 15, 2026 at 9:27 PM
If you asked ChatGPT to write this it would tell you to fuck off
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It’d be nice to have a BBC political editor who was more focused on informing the public than on writing theatre reviews of Westminster
January 15, 2026 at 8:39 PM
It’d be nice to have a BBC political editor who was more focused on informing the public than on writing theatre reviews of Westminster
This is truly awful prose
January 15, 2026 at 8:29 PM
This is truly awful prose
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For all of Farage’s bombast and bravado, Reform is basically just a retirement home for disgraced Tories - and the media should be reporting it as such
Farage’s Tory recycling scheme
And why it will surely backfire...
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December 20, 2025 at 11:16 AM
For all of Farage’s bombast and bravado, Reform is basically just a retirement home for disgraced Tories - and the media should be reporting it as such
Badenoch says that she was “presented with clear, irrefutable evidence” that Jenrick was going to defect.
Although in her world that could easily mean she saw a garbled conspiracy tweet from a pro-Reform Twitter bot
Although in her world that could easily mean she saw a garbled conspiracy tweet from a pro-Reform Twitter bot
January 15, 2026 at 11:31 AM
Badenoch says that she was “presented with clear, irrefutable evidence” that Jenrick was going to defect.
Although in her world that could easily mean she saw a garbled conspiracy tweet from a pro-Reform Twitter bot
Although in her world that could easily mean she saw a garbled conspiracy tweet from a pro-Reform Twitter bot
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Musk now whinging that Starmer hasn’t posted on his sewer for a few days. No longer defending free speech, but wants forced speech
January 13, 2026 at 7:36 PM
Musk now whinging that Starmer hasn’t posted on his sewer for a few days. No longer defending free speech, but wants forced speech
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Minister of State Alex Norris tells the BBC he won't personally come off X because it's important for communicating with voters.
None of his tweets for the last month has more than 1000 views.
None of his tweets for the last month has more than 1000 views.
January 13, 2026 at 7:47 AM
Minister of State Alex Norris tells the BBC he won't personally come off X because it's important for communicating with voters.
None of his tweets for the last month has more than 1000 views.
None of his tweets for the last month has more than 1000 views.
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Farage’s political “revolution” seems to be almost entirely staffed by former Tories who are the cause of the problems he’s now trying to fix
Farage’s Tory recycling scheme
And why it will surely backfire...
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January 12, 2026 at 12:24 PM
Farage’s political “revolution” seems to be almost entirely staffed by former Tories who are the cause of the problems he’s now trying to fix
Farage’s political “revolution” seems to be almost entirely staffed by former Tories who are the cause of the problems he’s now trying to fix
Farage’s Tory recycling scheme
And why it will surely backfire...
writesbright.substack.com
January 12, 2026 at 12:24 PM
Farage’s political “revolution” seems to be almost entirely staffed by former Tories who are the cause of the problems he’s now trying to fix
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Highly recommend this - this was my first read of this year and there was a lot of muttering and furious nodding from this northerner.
If you want to read a critique of London that isn’t based on mad right-wing myths, check out Fortress London.
The audio book is only £4.99 for the rest of Jan!
The audio book is only £4.99 for the rest of Jan!
Fortress London: Why we need to save the country from its capital: Why we need to save the country from its capital
Fortress London: Why we need to save the country from its capital: Why we need to save the country from its capital (Audio Download): Sam Bright, HarperNorth: Amazon.co.uk: Books
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January 12, 2026 at 10:21 AM
Highly recommend this - this was my first read of this year and there was a lot of muttering and furious nodding from this northerner.
If you want to read a critique of London that isn’t based on mad right-wing myths, check out Fortress London.
The audio book is only £4.99 for the rest of Jan!
The audio book is only £4.99 for the rest of Jan!
Fortress London: Why we need to save the country from its capital: Why we need to save the country from its capital
Fortress London: Why we need to save the country from its capital: Why we need to save the country from its capital (Audio Download): Sam Bright, HarperNorth: Amazon.co.uk: Books
www.amazon.co.uk
January 12, 2026 at 10:19 AM
If you want to read a critique of London that isn’t based on mad right-wing myths, check out Fortress London.
The audio book is only £4.99 for the rest of Jan!
The audio book is only £4.99 for the rest of Jan!
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Badenoch is fascinating. So busy fighting culture wars online that she considers the very real potential for the break-up of the military alliance on which the UK relies for security to be a fringe issue.
Kemi Badenoch describes Greenland as a “second-order issue” in BBC interview.
The US threatening to annex a Nato territory is anything but that.
The US threatening to annex a Nato territory is anything but that.
January 11, 2026 at 9:19 AM
Badenoch is fascinating. So busy fighting culture wars online that she considers the very real potential for the break-up of the military alliance on which the UK relies for security to be a fringe issue.
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🔴 ICE thugs are coming to Britain
Farage and Badenoch want to bring masked-up deportation squads to the streets of Britain - and the rabid far-right is calling for them to go even further
Farage and Badenoch want to bring masked-up deportation squads to the streets of Britain - and the rabid far-right is calling for them to go even further
ICE thugs are coming to Britain
Apologies for my lack of optimism...
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January 10, 2026 at 10:35 AM
🔴 ICE thugs are coming to Britain
Farage and Badenoch want to bring masked-up deportation squads to the streets of Britain - and the rabid far-right is calling for them to go even further
Farage and Badenoch want to bring masked-up deportation squads to the streets of Britain - and the rabid far-right is calling for them to go even further
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@WritesBright.bsky.social
is spot on.
Terrifyingly so.
The likes of Farage & Badenoch are so enraptured by Trump that their sense of originality has apparently been entirely erased. They now take their lead from the White House, and they follow its edicts rigidly.
open.substack.com/pub/writesbr...
is spot on.
Terrifyingly so.
The likes of Farage & Badenoch are so enraptured by Trump that their sense of originality has apparently been entirely erased. They now take their lead from the White House, and they follow its edicts rigidly.
open.substack.com/pub/writesbr...
ICE thugs are coming to Britain
Apologies for my lack of optimism...
open.substack.com
January 10, 2026 at 1:09 PM
@WritesBright.bsky.social
is spot on.
Terrifyingly so.
The likes of Farage & Badenoch are so enraptured by Trump that their sense of originality has apparently been entirely erased. They now take their lead from the White House, and they follow its edicts rigidly.
open.substack.com/pub/writesbr...
is spot on.
Terrifyingly so.
The likes of Farage & Badenoch are so enraptured by Trump that their sense of originality has apparently been entirely erased. They now take their lead from the White House, and they follow its edicts rigidly.
open.substack.com/pub/writesbr...
🔴 ICE thugs are coming to Britain
Farage and Badenoch want to bring masked-up deportation squads to the streets of Britain - and the rabid far-right is calling for them to go even further
Farage and Badenoch want to bring masked-up deportation squads to the streets of Britain - and the rabid far-right is calling for them to go even further
ICE thugs are coming to Britain
Apologies for my lack of optimism...
writesbright.substack.com
January 10, 2026 at 10:35 AM
🔴 ICE thugs are coming to Britain
Farage and Badenoch want to bring masked-up deportation squads to the streets of Britain - and the rabid far-right is calling for them to go even further
Farage and Badenoch want to bring masked-up deportation squads to the streets of Britain - and the rabid far-right is calling for them to go even further
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Some important new government policy that Native Americans might be interested in:
Trump talks about Denmark and Greenland just now: "The fact that they landed a boat there 500 years ago doesn't mean that they own the land."
January 9, 2026 at 10:02 PM
Some important new government policy that Native Americans might be interested in:
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In case you've seen the story about “grok now only generates images for paid users”, it's untrue. Apparently everyone just reported it because… it was what grok told them 🤦🏼
www.theverge.com/news/859309/...
www.theverge.com/news/859309/...
No, Grok hasn’t paywalled its deepfake image feature
X’s sexual deepfake machine is still running, despite Grok saying otherwise.
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January 9, 2026 at 3:56 PM
In case you've seen the story about “grok now only generates images for paid users”, it's untrue. Apparently everyone just reported it because… it was what grok told them 🤦🏼
www.theverge.com/news/859309/...
www.theverge.com/news/859309/...