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Where will they get money for private house repairs with reduced access to the Chancellor of the Exchequer and Treasury? 😮

www.ft.com/content/d5ef...
Rees-Mogg wife’s ancestral home benefits from £7.6m state rescue
Stern critic of chancellor welcomes Wentworth Woodhouse ‘gimmick’
www.ft.com
December 28, 2025 at 11:30 AM
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Nigel Farage used an LBC appearance in September to accuse the Bank of England of being “dinosaurs” for seeking to place restrictions on the use of Stablecoins by crypto firms like Tether.

He did not declare that Reform had just received a £9 million donation from one of its biggest investors
Crypto Investor Donates £9 Million to Reform UK After Nigel Farage Plugs His Company and Tells Industry 'I Am Your Champion'
The Reform leader recently used media interviews to back Christopher Harborne's company while promising to cut taxes and regulations on crypto firms
bylinetimes.com
December 4, 2025 at 10:25 AM
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2 in 3 of Nigel Farage’s current and former partners do not speak English as their first language.
December 3, 2025 at 11:03 PM
Love Lidl !
November 24, 2025 at 8:52 PM
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Recent trip to Boscawen-ûn, that quartz stone was more glittery and gorgeous than ever. Whatever the weather, it picks up the light. #StandingStoneSunday
November 23, 2025 at 8:29 AM
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Yeah. Release a dud, and when everyone says it's fake, say "told you it was all a Dem fabrication..."
Don’t forget this.
By the way, are we really assuming that if Trump DOES release the Epstein list, that it would actually be the REAL list?
November 17, 2025 at 5:01 AM
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Presumably the Daily Telegraph and GB News will go big on this story?*

Deeply embarrassing: Michael Prescott himself doctored a Trump quote in his anti-BBC report against...doctoring a Trump quote.

*waits until end of time
www.thenewworld.co.uk/james-ball-e...
EXCLUSIVE: Michael Prescott himself doctored Trump quote in his anti-BBC report
A report alleging Panorama broadcast misleading Trump quotes contains misleading quotes itself
www.thenewworld.co.uk
November 13, 2025 at 5:13 PM
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More of my mum’s art
November 5, 2025 at 12:43 PM
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I have two - TWO - of these gorgeous original A4 meadow hare linoprints by my mum, Jo, to give away to a couple of lucky people here on Bluesky today.

Rules are simple: to be in with a chance to win, you just have to repost this piece I wrote about Jo and her art: www.tom-cox.com/the-magic-ro...
November 5, 2025 at 12:39 PM
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My thoughts and prayers to all the racists trying to hold on to their bigotry in the face of inconvenient facts.
November 4, 2025 at 11:31 AM
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When we cross into a stone circle, we not only journey into the Long Neolithic, we walk into ritual, into a continuing sense of sacred. We mustn't look at it as a completed story. It is ongoing. Our being there only adds a new chapter to it. – Dr. K. Brophy #StandingStoneSunday
November 2, 2025 at 2:40 PM
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Look, at least he’s not one of the rich elites. Just a workin‘ bloke, doin’ his best to get by.
Nigel Farage currently railing against Parliament being full of "professional politicians".

He founded UKIP in 1993 and was first elected as an MEP in 1999, twenty-six years ago. Less than 5% of current MPs (31 to be precise) have a longer career in politics than Farage. ~AA
November 3, 2025 at 11:49 AM
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Great investigation of the Nazis, racists and criminals mobilising the flag-on-lamp-posts movement. This is the kind of journalism that the national media could and should have conducted:

manchestermill.co.uk/the-men-who-...
November 2, 2025 at 7:45 AM
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But Gove said all contracts were handled by civil servants. Surely you're not telling us he lied?
Michael Gove personally intervened to ensure that a Conservative donor's firm was awarded a multimillion pound covid contract.

Private correspondence reveals that Ciga Healthcare’s Brexit-supporting owner had pushed Gove to “take control” of the process.

The contract was awarded just days later
Michael Gove Lobbied Government Officials to Hand Conservative Donor Multimillion Pound Covid Contract
Private correspondence seen by Byline Times reveals that Ciga Healthcare's Brexit-supporting owner had pushed Gove to "take control" of the process
bylinetimes.com
October 23, 2025 at 10:05 AM
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Goodnight from Pris Hasard, sharpening her spindle wood stakes just in case certain corpses wake. Goodnight from the Honeybone Allotments, where a pile of autumn leaves, moss and twigs has decided to animate itself as it doesn’t fancy being burnt at the weekend. Goodnight from Hookland.
October 28, 2025 at 11:11 PM
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The reform party nativity scene.

No unmarried mothers. No Middle Eastern people. No refugees. No people seeking emergency accommodation.

And not a wise fvcking man in sight…
October 26, 2025 at 4:17 PM
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Braverman deleted this tweet which made me wonder who that previous prisoner was. His name was Junead Ahmed. He was a conman mistakenly released in 2023. She was Home Secretary at the time. Oh.
news.sky.com/story/migran...
October 26, 2025 at 9:46 PM
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Goodnight from Becky Haywood, praying to her posters of David Bowie to let her transcend suburbia. Goodnight from Coreham Castle Musuem, where all the gallow poppets hanging in their glass display cabinet have simultaneously begun to spasm and sway. Goodnight from Hookland.
October 24, 2025 at 9:09 PM
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Nelson's Victory crew included a Brazilian and a Russian, 2 Indians, 2 Swiss, 2 Portuguese, 3 Danes and 3 Norwegian sailors. There were 3 Germans, 4 Italians, 6 Swedes, 7 Dutchmen, 9 West Indians and an African, as well as 21 Americans, 63 Irish, 64 Scots, 441 English.... oh, and 3 French men, too.
October 22, 2025 at 8:01 AM
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I would be *thrilled* to get one of these weird beauties.
To celebrate the rerelease of my short story collection Help The Witch via @swiftpress.bsky.social I’m giving away TWO signed copies each with a beautiful original linoprints by my mum, from the book (now v rare & worth £40).

To enter you just need to repost this and pop a reply below.
October 20, 2025 at 5:49 PM
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But keeps the title Prince and will still live on the Royal Estate at Windsor.

Oh the punishment!

Pure spin from Buckingham Palace
October 18, 2025 at 6:28 AM
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October 9, 2025 at 4:45 PM
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👇👇👇
October 8, 2025 at 7:01 PM
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We have built a society in which people of different skin tones, religious backgrounds & cultures get along, share power, work alongside each other, procreate with each other, recognise the each other’s humanity and democratic rights. It is a STUNNING ACHIEVEMENT OF WORLD HISTORIC PROPORTIONS.
I know statistics are poorly understood and are misused. But facts matter

Between the 1991, 2001, 2011 and 2021 Census *every* ethnic group in the UK has become *less* geographically segregated and *all* groups, majority and minorities, are more likely to interact with people not like them
October 8, 2025 at 10:08 AM
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Banned by Reform Party, Conservative Party, sanctioned by the Russian Government six times - what is @bylinetimes.bsky.social doing right?
October 8, 2025 at 11:32 AM