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Simon F
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I kept the faith & I kept voting Not for the iron fist but for the helping hand For theirs is a land with a wall around it & mine is a faith in my fellow man.
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Just when I thought I couldn't admire the man more...

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December 13, 2025 at 6:58 PM
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How the BBC & ITV give disproportionate coverage to Farage & Reform: hard evidence from a serious study. BBC & ITV now give Reform more coverage than the Conservatives, more than the Lib Dems & nine times the Greens. Superb research from Stephen Cushion.
www.enhancingimpartiality.com/blog/broadca...
December 13, 2025 at 7:08 PM
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Robin Ince reveals to last night’s audience at a recording of Infinite Monkey Cage that the BBC has forced him to resign over his support of trans people
December 13, 2025 at 11:02 AM
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2016 Daily Mail: We want foreigners out! We don’t care if it makes us poorer. Brexit means Brexit!

2025 Daily Mail: Foreigners are leaving Starmer’s Britain because this country is poor and shit!

This country would be so much better off without this hypocritical, incendiary, irresponsible rag.
December 13, 2025 at 10:28 AM
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Aztec Camera performing Walk Out to Winter live on Switch in 1983
December 9, 2025 at 8:20 AM
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Teenage Fanclub performing Everything Flows. Watch the full song plus interview, which I taped off Snub TV in January 1991, here youtu.be/V3ltg4AwD7g
December 10, 2025 at 8:23 AM
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Just so we're clear, one incident of alleged anti-semitism by a musician = a major national scandal that should be roundly condemned.

Multiple incidents of alleged anti-semitism from the man leading the race to run the country = a load of nothing that should be completely ignored
December 13, 2025 at 9:23 AM
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The "Institute of Economic Affairs" banked £640,000 in past donations from oil giants BP and Shell, and from Rupert Murdoch

- investigation by @desmog.com reveals how IEA has campaigned against climate action after taking cash from fossil fuel firms

#climatecrisis
www.desmog.com/2025/12/10/t...
The Institute of Economic Affairs Banked £640,000 from Oil Giants and Murdoch
The Institute of Economic Affairs (IEA) – the anti-state, anti-climate pressure group – received more than £640,000 from fossil fuel companies and Rupert Murdoch’s media conglomerate between 1957 and ...
www.desmog.com
December 12, 2025 at 12:01 PM
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Well, she's certainly on brand 🙄
Lauren Boebert In Hot Water After She's Busted Spending Campaign Funds On Kid Rock Concert Tickets
www.comicsands.com
December 12, 2025 at 5:48 PM
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Make America Healthy Again. Really?

Double ACA premiums. Kick 15 million off health care. Undermine lifesaving vaccines and spark disease outbreaks.

The Trump administration is endangering the health of the American people.
The measles outbreak in South Carolina is “accelerating” with no end in sight following Thanksgiving and other large gatherings, state health officials say.
South Carolina measles outbreak is 'accelerating,' driving hundreds into quarantine
Some students who remain unvaccinated are now in a second 21-day quarantine since the beginning of the school year.
nbcnews.to
December 11, 2025 at 6:13 PM
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We’re being poisoned by Big Food and our governments are allowing it, cowed by the lobbyists and fears of right wing accusations of ‘Nanny State ism’. Our government’s are fundamentally failing in their first duty - to protect us all.

buff.ly/lo4NkVk.
December 11, 2025 at 1:08 PM
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So Nigel Farage, who claims to be standing up for ordinary working people, has taken hundreds of thousands of pounds so far this year for a handful of hours as a "brand ambassador" for a gold bullion company, while facilitating a £9m donation from a crypto millionaire
bylinetimes.com/2025/12/11/n...
Nigel Farage Accepts Another £135,000 From Gold Bullion Firm for Just 12 Hours Work
The Reform UK leader has pocketed £415,500 so far this year to act as the company's “Brand Ambassador”
bylinetimes.com
December 11, 2025 at 10:10 AM
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It's hugely underrated how much Blair - and New Labour more broadly - changed over time. Early New Labour was much more interesting, more intellectually curious, less technocratic and more open to influences from the left than it later became - and certainly than its later epigones.
December 11, 2025 at 12:30 PM
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This is the same group that seems to have an open invitation to appear on every single BBC political programme going, without ever declaring their funding
🔴 REVEALED 🔴

The Institute of Economic Affairs – the anti-state, anti-climate pressure group that "incubated" Liz Truss – was bankrolled by oil giants and Rupert Murdoch’s media empire.

📝 Exclusive findings from @desmog.com 👇
The Institute of Economic Affairs Banked £640,000 from Oil Giants and Murdoch
The Institute of Economic Affairs (IEA) – the anti-state, anti-climate pressure group – received more than £640,000 from fossil fuel companies and Rupert Murdoch’s media conglomerate between 1957 and ...
www.desmog.com
December 11, 2025 at 10:42 AM
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Today I'll be mostly listening to Scottish Pop. This playlist includes Orange Juice, Camera Obscura, Pastels, Scars, Aztec Camera, Skids, Fire Engines, Teenage Fanclub, Friends Again, Beta Band, Belle & Sebastian, Altered Images, Paul Quinn, Associates and many more
open.spotify.com/playlist/09L...
Scottish Pop
open.spotify.com
December 10, 2025 at 8:31 AM
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“It is now beyond doubt, however; that this assisted by the White House in its efforts to destroy Ukraine and that the United States has declared war on Europe under its appalling president”… and who does the US support in Europe? The AFD in Germany and Reform UK here.
Such grim betrayal.

(iPaper)
December 8, 2025 at 7:49 AM
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Brexit was in Russia's interests. Not Britain's.
December 7, 2025 at 1:55 PM
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Farage's protégés, colleagues & close friends.
Not sure shouting "Bernard Manning" like a closing time drunk will help much here.
Three more British MEPs in Nigel Farage’s bloc now alleged to have “followed the script” given to Nathan Gill by an alleged Russian asset, according to prosecutors.

At least eight UKIP and Brexit Party MPs were focus of efforts by Nathan Gill

www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Three more Farage bloc MEPs alleged to have followed Russian asset’s script
At least eight MEPs elected for Ukip or Brexit party now known to have been focus of efforts by jailed Nathan Gill
www.theguardian.com
December 7, 2025 at 9:14 PM
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I live in Wales and today received my Join Us letter from Reform UK, complete with SAE which I posted back to them, immediately, empty. If every other person in Wales did this, Reform would spend over £1.5 million on postage. Not sorry. Join me Cymru.
December 6, 2025 at 7:20 PM
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Ah yes, a Stephen Miller essay that rends its hair-shirt about supposed "civilizational collapse" in Europe while openly cheering on the largest land invasion of Europe since World War II, totally makes sense and is definitely not the product of a creepy goblinesque weirdo jerking off to Mein Kampf
Trump warns of European ‘civilizational erasure’ in realigned national security strategy
The National Security Strategy, which each administration must publish, also said the U.S. should focus on the Western Hemisphere and consider the Middle East a place for investment.
www.washingtonpost.com
December 6, 2025 at 6:13 AM
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Polish Foreign Minister replies to Musk: 🇵🇱
December 6, 2025 at 7:52 PM
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excited to award my kids the Burger King Peace Prize this weekend
December 5, 2025 at 6:14 PM
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Well well. FIFA have just trashed their peace prize at the first hurdle
December 5, 2025 at 6:16 PM