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Andy Wood
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evanbernick.bsky.social
Keep repeating his name, especially because there’s a disinformation campaign afoot
adamjschwarz.bsky.social Adam Schwarz @adamjschwarz.bsky.social · 6h
Ahmed al Ahmed, a Lebanese Muslim who owns a Sydney fruit shop, risked his life to disarm one of the Bondi Beach shooters.

His courage gives me hope amidst the horror and darkness. Muslims and Jews are not enemies. Our futures, in the Middle East and beyond, are intrinsically bound.

A true hero.
December 14, 2025 at 5:53 PM
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Thanks to everyone (especially @adambarnett.bsky.social) for the suggestions. There were so many pro-Putin statements by Farage, we turned them into a Griftmas Advent Calendar bylinetimes.com/2025/12/10/n...
December 10, 2025 at 4:23 PM
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OMG! - Brave bystander disarms one of the two shooters at Bondi beach. This man and the woman behind him are heroes 👏

The attack on a Jewish festival 'Chanukah by the Sea' is absolutely disgusting

As democracies we stand up for the rights and safety of all people in our society
December 14, 2025 at 11:55 AM
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Russia destroyed 100% of Odesa’s energy infrastructure. All substations were destroyed by missiles and drones.

The city has been completely left without electricity, hot water, and heating for over one million people, including all critical infrastructure.
December 14, 2025 at 5:52 AM
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twmcltd.bsky.social
The President of Ukraine's team put together another Sunday video showing Russia's attempts at peace this week.

Attacks on civilian infrastructure in major cities, night after night with Zelenskyy pointing out "hundreds of families are still without electricity."
#StopRussia
December 14, 2025 at 8:39 AM
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goldbergradio.bsky.social
"He has unilaterally decided to reduce the three game ban to a one game ban, meddling with the disciplinary processes of the game without any let or hindrance..."

Me & Charlie Methevn talk #infantino and #Ronaldo #WorldCup2026

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Infantino's Trump Peace Award; Tony Bloom; Mo Salah
Podcast Episode · Where's The Money Gone? · 08/12/2025 · 32m
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December 14, 2025 at 8:51 AM
andyatnanyuki.bsky.social
Nothing like a bit of seasonal trolling of the Christo-fascists 🎄
markpackuk.bsky.social Mark Pack @markpackuk.bsky.social · 11h
Sssh, don't tell the other MPs. Ed Davey wins the Christmas card stakes this year.
An angel says to three wise men - yes, it's a stunt but it has got a really important message behind it.
December 14, 2025 at 9:56 AM
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markpackuk.bsky.social
Sssh, don't tell the other MPs. Ed Davey wins the Christmas card stakes this year.
An angel says to three wise men - yes, it's a stunt but it has got a really important message behind it.
December 14, 2025 at 8:54 AM
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rolandmcs.bsky.social
Latest in a thread of posts about Farage's past...
snig.bsky.social Snigdha @snig.bsky.social · 12h
While in the 6th form, Nigel Farage would smoke on the "Belsen Bus", when a black person appeared on screen, would loudly exclaim, "Are you English?", repeated chants of the National Front: "The National Front is the white man's front", and "There ain't no black in the union jack".
THE OBSERVER Saturday, 13 December 2025 On Dulwich school trips, Nigel Farage and the other smokers took the 'Belsen Bus' The Reform leader was performatively racist at Dulwich College, recalls a contemporary who claims to have heard him sing a song celebrating the Holocaust Graham Noble In the 1970s and 1980s, many boys passed through Dulwich College in south London fairly anonymously. Outside their own Graham Noble In the 1970s and 1980s, many boys passed through Dulwich College in south London fairly anonymously. Outside their own classes and circles of close friends, only the particularly brilliant, sporty or musical were well known, but, from an early age, Nigel Farage bucked this trend. Everyone had heard of Nigel. He was a scruffy non-academic with a minor talent for cricket, but he had one quality that set him apart: a gift for getting into trouble, and he clearly relished the notoriety that it brought him. His attention-seeking continued into the sixth form, between September 1980 and July 1982, which is when I got to know him well. We did exactly the same A-levels - history, geography and economics and were in the same tutor group: our tutor was the former English Test cricketer John Dewes. By this time, Nigel had transformed himself into something of a dandy. His obsessively maintained mirror-shine shoes, rolled umbrella, smart blazer and military strut set him apart from the rest of us. In most schools, a model railway society would not have attracted the attention of such an image-conscious student, but Nigel was a regular attendee. Every lunchtime he would descend into the basement of the Barry Buildings, past the model trains, and creep into a network of pitch-black tunnels, where he and a few others would sit and smoke. Nigel had little time for academic work and was utterly dismissive of university education. His imagined future lay in the stock exchange, which he referred to, for a reason I did not follow, as the "cancer exchange". He looked forward to a lifetime of making easy money, drinking and smoking. Nigel Farage in his cadet uniform It's hard to judge how far Nigel's racism was part of this pose, or whether it represented his real views. Much of what he said was clearly performative. Whenever a black person appeared on a video shown to our geography class, he would loudly exclaim, "Are you English?" He enjoyed repeating the racist chants of the National Front: "The National Front is the white man's front", and "There ain't no black in the union jack". I heard him sing the "gas 'em all" song on more than one occasion, which celebrates the Holocaust and suggests other racial groups that might also be gassed. On an A-level field trip to Exeter, geography students occupied two minibuses, one for smokers and the other for non-smokers. Smoking was clearly against the school rules but, outside term time, it was deemed OK for some reason. Farage was part of the smokers' bus, of course, and I remember hearing him joke about being in a gas chamber. I saw the words "Belsen Bus" written with a finger on the grimy bus window, in joking reference to the concentration camp where tens of thousands of Nazi victims were killed. Poisoned gas was never used there but the meaning of the comment was clear enough. Although I never saw who wrote the words, many of us at the time had our suspicions. In a statement to The Observer, Farage said he did not recall writing those words on the window or seeing the words. I was never a direct target of Nigel's invective and, much of the time, I wasn't aware that individuals were being victimised at all. Despite the forebodings expressed by an English teacher, Chloe Deakin, Nigel was made a prefect in his final year and he evidently used this position of authority to direct his attention to younger pupils with an African, Asian or Jewish background. The stories, published in the Guardian, of the racially motivated bullying of boys seven or eight years younger than himself are appalling. The Reform party has dismissed stories such as mine a…
December 14, 2025 at 8:44 AM
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BBC coverage of Nigel Farage and Reform UK under scrutiny on latest Newswatch. From midnight Fri on link/Sat 745am on BBC1 Breakfast www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
BBC News - Newswatch, 13/12/2025
Your views on the coverage of events by BBC News.
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December 12, 2025 at 3:55 PM
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nixonsimon.bsky.social
Amazing, the @dailymail.co.uk manages to publish an entire lengthy feature bewailing (!!!!) the exodus of Poles from Britain without once mentioning Brexit. Apparently this outcome (which is surely exactly what they campaigned for in 2016) is all the fault of Keir Starmer.

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The great exodus: How Poles are ditching UK for their booming homeland
New statistics reveal that while 7,000 Poles arrived in the year ending last June, 25,000 returned home: a net outflow of 18,000. The UK's total Polish population has shrunk to 750,000.
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December 13, 2025 at 9:26 AM
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adambienkov.bsky.social
It continues to tell you everything you need to know about British politics and media that the only person who has ever had to apologise for Nigel Farage's long history of inflammatory and racist comments, is a journalist who accurately reported them as such
December 13, 2025 at 9:43 AM
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December 12, 2025 at 10:20 PM
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Today’s news makes it clear: Putin is escalating, not seeking peace.

My 5-minute film shows how Brexit was a major strategic win for him.

𝗣𝘂𝘁𝗶𝗻 𝗱𝗼𝗲𝘀𝗻’𝘁 𝘄𝗮𝗻𝘁 𝗽𝗲𝗮𝗰𝗲. 𝗛𝗲 𝘄𝗮𝗻𝘁𝘀 𝗘𝘂𝗿𝗼𝗽𝗲.

Trailer: youtu.be/gi2Z2P8R1Os
Putin doesn't want peace. He wants Europe.
YouTube video by Jon Danzig
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December 3, 2025 at 1:50 PM
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Trump’s National Security Strategy is deeply alarming.

Not only does it push for closer ties with Russia, it also threatens the UK and the EU by opening the door to US foreign interference in Europe.

Putin has welcomed this strategy. The Prime Minister must condemn it.
New US security strategy aligns with Russia's vision, Moscow says
The Kremlin welcomes the starkly worded document, which does not cast Russia as a threat to the US.
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December 12, 2025 at 12:07 PM
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strandjunker.com
The fact that far too many people cannot recognize fascism unless it looks exactly like Nazi Germany is very dangerous.
December 11, 2025 at 8:25 PM
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I'm almost certain there was a platform beneath all those olde skyscraper people btw.
December 12, 2025 at 4:19 PM
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thorbenson.bsky.social
I guess it's fitting that it's a reimagined, worse version of someone else's artwork
Time person of the year cover for 2025
December 12, 2025 at 4:00 AM
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anderspucknielsen.dk
Looking forward to Putin's trip to this place next week to show how much he means it.
glushko.bsky.social Denys from Kharkiv @glushko.bsky.social · 2d
Kremlin dictator Putin on Dec. 2: Russia is ready to ensure the safety of foreign journalists and show them around all neighborhoods in Kupiansk.

Ukraine's President Zelenskyy on Dec. 12:
December 12, 2025 at 1:08 PM
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"It's an unprecedented declaration of interference in European politics."

@nafeez.bsky.social on new #USA National Security Strategy

@goldbergradio.bsky.social @bylinetimes.bsky.social

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The U.S.
Podcast Episode · Byline Podcast · 08/12/2025 · 31m
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December 12, 2025 at 1:32 PM
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Exclusive: Reform overtook the Tories as the most referenced opposition party on both the BBC and ITV.

“Reform UK was the dominant party in more than twice as many stories as the Conservatives and just under four times more stories than the Liberal Democrats."

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Exclusive: Reform overtakes the Conservatives in media mentions
New research from Cardiff University finds Reform is now treated as the opposition party on mainstream news shows
www.newstatesman.com
December 12, 2025 at 1:42 PM
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Fort William & Ardnamurchan (West Lothian) Council By-Election Result [1st Prefs]:

🔶 LDM: 40.4% (-18.5)
🎗️ SNP: 29.1% (+3.5)
➡️ RFM: 9.6% (New)
🌍 GRN: 9.4% (+3.4)
🌳 CON: 7.6% (+3.2)
🌹 LAB: 3.8% (-0.7)
🙋 Ind: 13.2% (+1.3)

No LBT (-0.6) as previous.

Lib Dem 'Gain' from SNP - Stage 5.
Changes w/ 2024.
December 12, 2025 at 12:32 PM
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twmcltd.bsky.social
I hope Aleksandr Sokurov, one of Russia's most lauded film-makers, stays away from open windows.

The 74 year old launched a scathing attack on Putin & the system he has built, saying it's worse than in the days of the USSR (full video 5 mins, on my X acc)

Putin promised to look again at the ban.
December 12, 2025 at 1:39 PM
andyatnanyuki.bsky.social
Will the U.K. and EU impose reciprocal rules for US visitors? That’s how it works isn’t it?
@meidastouch.com
anneapplebaum.bsky.social Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.bsky.social · 2d
It's not just social media. Looks like visitors to the US from Europe and other countries that are part of the visa waiver program will have to submit an enormous amount of data about themselves and their families, including DNA, if proposed new rules are accepted
December 12, 2025 at 2:45 PM
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andyatnanyuki.bsky.social
Doubts have already been expressed by senior UK Intelligence personnel about the wisdom of sharing information with US agencies
youranoncentral.bsky.social Anonymous @youranoncentral.bsky.social · 3d
Danish intelligence has declared the United States, alongside Russia and China, as a threat to national security for Denmark and Europe. It warns that the US may use military force against its own partners and allies.
Greenland, Danish naval boat
December 12, 2025 at 12:00 PM