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Hi Richard Tice, you never did make a statement about your friend Ian Cooper being kicked out of Reform UK for being a white supremacist. Maybe now’s the time to?
December 24, 2025 at 11:56 AM
Hi Richard Tice, you never did make a statement about your friend Ian Cooper being kicked out of Reform UK for being a white supremacist. Maybe now’s the time to?
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Reform UK Led Council Care Home Closures
Under threat:
Derbyshire: 8
Lancashire: 10
We need to talk about Reform UK Councils and their ability to provide care services.
#ReformDoesntCare
Under threat:
Derbyshire: 8
Lancashire: 10
We need to talk about Reform UK Councils and their ability to provide care services.
#ReformDoesntCare
December 24, 2025 at 11:57 AM
Reform UK Led Council Care Home Closures
Under threat:
Derbyshire: 8
Lancashire: 10
We need to talk about Reform UK Councils and their ability to provide care services.
#ReformDoesntCare
Under threat:
Derbyshire: 8
Lancashire: 10
We need to talk about Reform UK Councils and their ability to provide care services.
#ReformDoesntCare
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Remember Starmer's "urgent" review into foreign interference after Nathan Gill?
Well, there's already two ex-UK ambassadors working in Westminster on behalf of a pro-Russian foreign government whose de facto leader is under UK sanctions...
New on D4S: democracyforsale.substack.com/p/ex-uk-amba...
Well, there's already two ex-UK ambassadors working in Westminster on behalf of a pro-Russian foreign government whose de facto leader is under UK sanctions...
New on D4S: democracyforsale.substack.com/p/ex-uk-amba...
Ex-UK ambassadors are lobbyists for sanctioned pro-Russia genocide deniers
Labour MP calls for rules to be tightened after Democracy for Sale finds former diplomats paid to lobby for Republika Srpska
democracyforsale.substack.com
December 24, 2025 at 11:49 AM
Remember Starmer's "urgent" review into foreign interference after Nathan Gill?
Well, there's already two ex-UK ambassadors working in Westminster on behalf of a pro-Russian foreign government whose de facto leader is under UK sanctions...
New on D4S: democracyforsale.substack.com/p/ex-uk-amba...
Well, there's already two ex-UK ambassadors working in Westminster on behalf of a pro-Russian foreign government whose de facto leader is under UK sanctions...
New on D4S: democracyforsale.substack.com/p/ex-uk-amba...
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EU 'strongly condemns' US sanctions against five Europeans over digital regulation
EU 'strongly condemns' US sanctions against five Europeans over digital regulation
After the Trump administration sanctioned five European figures over the EU's digital regulations, which it dubbed 'censorship,' the EU, France and Germany have reacted by denouncing the move.
www.lemonde.fr
December 24, 2025 at 12:13 PM
EU 'strongly condemns' US sanctions against five Europeans over digital regulation
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McCarthyism is back in Trump's USA.
Laughable how Britain's self-styled free speech champions are silent. In reality they defend and promote only their own hate speech.
www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...
Laughable how Britain's self-styled free speech champions are silent. In reality they defend and promote only their own hate speech.
www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...
Two British anti-hate speech campaigners sanctioned by US state department – UK politics live
Imran Ahmed and Clare Melford among five Europeans hit with visa bans over claims they wish to ‘suppress American viewpoints they oppose’
www.theguardian.com
December 24, 2025 at 12:14 PM
McCarthyism is back in Trump's USA.
Laughable how Britain's self-styled free speech champions are silent. In reality they defend and promote only their own hate speech.
www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...
Laughable how Britain's self-styled free speech champions are silent. In reality they defend and promote only their own hate speech.
www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...
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I’ll just note that the US didn’t do this to China, which outright bans US social media websites
US bars former EU commissioner Breton and others over tech rules ft.trib.al/TgoG45B
US bars former EU commissioner Breton and others over tech rules
France hits out at visa sanctions as Washington targets what it calls the ‘global censorship-industrial complex’
ft.trib.al
December 24, 2025 at 11:12 AM
I’ll just note that the US didn’t do this to China, which outright bans US social media websites
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NEW: last night, the US govt launched an assault on the ‘global censorship industrial complex’, aka European tech researchers/campaigners.
It’s a deeply chilling move & speaks as to why we need international solidarity more than ever.
open.substack.com/pub/broligar...
It’s a deeply chilling move & speaks as to why we need international solidarity more than ever.
open.substack.com/pub/broligar...
A message to America: we are not your enemy
Last night, the US launched an all-out assault on the "global censorship industrial complex", I respond with some deep breaths, solidarity and a vibey video (it's all I have)
open.substack.com
December 24, 2025 at 11:52 AM
NEW: last night, the US govt launched an assault on the ‘global censorship industrial complex’, aka European tech researchers/campaigners.
It’s a deeply chilling move & speaks as to why we need international solidarity more than ever.
open.substack.com/pub/broligar...
It’s a deeply chilling move & speaks as to why we need international solidarity more than ever.
open.substack.com/pub/broligar...
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The polls and his admirers scream that he’s likely to get into Number 10. Absolute bollocks. At least half the country hate his guts and where they’ve got power their record is abominable. Racism, chaos and incompetence and there’s more to come.
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/d...
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/d...
Tuesday briefing: What would a Reform-led country look like?
In today’s newsletter: Local government may offer some answers – after winning 677 council seats, Reform’s triumph quickly gave way to reports of chaos, infighting, and scandal
www.theguardian.com
December 24, 2025 at 12:25 PM
The polls and his admirers scream that he’s likely to get into Number 10. Absolute bollocks. At least half the country hate his guts and where they’ve got power their record is abominable. Racism, chaos and incompetence and there’s more to come.
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/d...
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/d...
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We reported on how US Christian Right cash has started pouring into the UK.
This story prompted a major @nytimes.com investigation into the ties between Reform and the US Christian Right 💥
democracyforsale.substack.com/p/us-antiabo...
This story prompted a major @nytimes.com investigation into the ties between Reform and the US Christian Right 💥
democracyforsale.substack.com/p/us-antiabo...
US anti‑abortion cash floods UK free speech frontlines
Democracy for Sale investigation finds US anti‑abortion lawyer funding Toby Young’s Free Speech Union, while Alliance Defending Freedom’s UK spending soars.
democracyforsale.substack.com
December 24, 2025 at 11:49 AM
We reported on how US Christian Right cash has started pouring into the UK.
This story prompted a major @nytimes.com investigation into the ties between Reform and the US Christian Right 💥
democracyforsale.substack.com/p/us-antiabo...
This story prompted a major @nytimes.com investigation into the ties between Reform and the US Christian Right 💥
democracyforsale.substack.com/p/us-antiabo...
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If betting shops are the ‘heart of the community’, it sounds like letting people gamble alone at home on their phones is encouraging loneliness and should be banned then.
And they say satire's dead. 😂
"Far from the outdated stereotypes, today’s bookmakers are lively community hubs. During the festive season especially, betting shops take on a special atmosphere filled with excitement, companionship and familiar routine that many people look forward to each year."
"Far from the outdated stereotypes, today’s bookmakers are lively community hubs. During the festive season especially, betting shops take on a special atmosphere filled with excitement, companionship and familiar routine that many people look forward to each year."
Betting shops are keeping community spirit alive this Christmas
Walk into a betting shop this Christmas and you will find something Britain is in danger of losing. Laughter, conversation, familiar faces and a re...
www.politicshome.com
December 24, 2025 at 10:33 AM
If betting shops are the ‘heart of the community’, it sounds like letting people gamble alone at home on their phones is encouraging loneliness and should be banned then.
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Thatcher sold off what already belonged to us, from council houses to utilities, transport to health care.
Some people made a lot of money; a few people felt better off for a short time. But now we are all immeasurably poorer apart from a very few who are massively wealthy, often living abroad.
Some people made a lot of money; a few people felt better off for a short time. But now we are all immeasurably poorer apart from a very few who are massively wealthy, often living abroad.
December 23, 2025 at 8:43 AM
Thatcher sold off what already belonged to us, from council houses to utilities, transport to health care.
Some people made a lot of money; a few people felt better off for a short time. But now we are all immeasurably poorer apart from a very few who are massively wealthy, often living abroad.
Some people made a lot of money; a few people felt better off for a short time. But now we are all immeasurably poorer apart from a very few who are massively wealthy, often living abroad.
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There's a word for selling political influence for cash... (sadly Reform aren't the first to do so)
Via Private Eye
Via Private Eye
December 21, 2025 at 9:18 PM
There's a word for selling political influence for cash... (sadly Reform aren't the first to do so)
Via Private Eye
Via Private Eye
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“So what? Nigel likes…
Private jets
Private boxes at Ascot
Champagne at Lords
Fox Hunting
Hare coursing
Promoting bullion
Still man of the people…”
Reform UK supporters are deluded.
Private jets
Private boxes at Ascot
Champagne at Lords
Fox Hunting
Hare coursing
Promoting bullion
Still man of the people…”
Reform UK supporters are deluded.
December 22, 2025 at 11:39 AM
“So what? Nigel likes…
Private jets
Private boxes at Ascot
Champagne at Lords
Fox Hunting
Hare coursing
Promoting bullion
Still man of the people…”
Reform UK supporters are deluded.
Private jets
Private boxes at Ascot
Champagne at Lords
Fox Hunting
Hare coursing
Promoting bullion
Still man of the people…”
Reform UK supporters are deluded.
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"Given Trump’s erratic behaviour... the time is rapidly approaching when Britain will have to choose. Forget 'Bridge Across The Atlantic' fantasies: on trade, on defence, and in terms of our identity, we are Europeans." ~AA
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Finally, Labour is finding its nerve and getting Britain’s bad Brexit deal undone | Polly Toynbee
Rejoining Erasmus should just be a first step – as the economic evidence piles up, the need for closer ties with Europe could not be clearer, says Guardian columnist Polly Toynbee
www.theguardian.com
December 22, 2025 at 12:41 PM
"Given Trump’s erratic behaviour... the time is rapidly approaching when Britain will have to choose. Forget 'Bridge Across The Atlantic' fantasies: on trade, on defence, and in terms of our identity, we are Europeans." ~AA
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Always amazed that some Telegraph writers spend their time educating us on damaging antisemitic tropes, while some (occasionally, even the same writers) obsessively accuse anyone who disagrees with them on anything of doing so because a secret global cabal headed by George Soros paid us. Like, WTAF?
December 22, 2025 at 1:01 PM
Always amazed that some Telegraph writers spend their time educating us on damaging antisemitic tropes, while some (occasionally, even the same writers) obsessively accuse anyone who disagrees with them on anything of doing so because a secret global cabal headed by George Soros paid us. Like, WTAF?
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"Boys aren't getting advice on sex from Andrew Tate, they're getting it from a thing that doesn't exist."
Jess Phillips on the influence of the likes of Tate and Bonnie Blue – and why there may be an even bigger threat to young men online...
Jess Phillips on the influence of the likes of Tate and Bonnie Blue – and why there may be an even bigger threat to young men online...
December 22, 2025 at 10:55 AM
👏👏
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Happy Winter Solstice, one and all - and welcome back, Light ✨
And thank you @cstrawbridgeart.bsky.social for allowing me to share your magical Winter Fox and Solstice Blessings painting!
#wintersolstice
And thank you @cstrawbridgeart.bsky.social for allowing me to share your magical Winter Fox and Solstice Blessings painting!
#wintersolstice
December 21, 2025 at 8:32 AM
Happy Winter Solstice, one and all - and welcome back, Light ✨
And thank you @cstrawbridgeart.bsky.social for allowing me to share your magical Winter Fox and Solstice Blessings painting!
#wintersolstice
And thank you @cstrawbridgeart.bsky.social for allowing me to share your magical Winter Fox and Solstice Blessings painting!
#wintersolstice
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What sits behind ALL this is the inescapable fact that a huge chunk of the lobby has been out to get this gov't from Day 1, not because of anything it did (this is no defence of a gov't that is doing lots wrong and deserves criticism), but because ONLY THEIR CHAPS have a right to be in office. Ever.
December 20, 2025 at 1:59 PM
What sits behind ALL this is the inescapable fact that a huge chunk of the lobby has been out to get this gov't from Day 1, not because of anything it did (this is no defence of a gov't that is doing lots wrong and deserves criticism), but because ONLY THEIR CHAPS have a right to be in office. Ever.
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Here's Farage parroting Russian propaganda lies that could have come straight out of Lavrov's mouth.
Are we really to believe that Nathan Gill, who spouted the same lies, is the only Russian asset in Reform UK?
Are we really to believe that Nathan Gill, who spouted the same lies, is the only Russian asset in Reform UK?
December 19, 2025 at 9:00 PM
Here's Farage parroting Russian propaganda lies that could have come straight out of Lavrov's mouth.
Are we really to believe that Nathan Gill, who spouted the same lies, is the only Russian asset in Reform UK?
Are we really to believe that Nathan Gill, who spouted the same lies, is the only Russian asset in Reform UK?
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Entertaining as this spat is, it contains not-a-flicker of recognition as to WHY this might be happening.
For 16 months, a tax-exile-oligarch-owned, mostly right-wing press, has abused the privilege of these exclusive private sessions, to misrepresent the gov't on every issue. This is the FO stage.
For 16 months, a tax-exile-oligarch-owned, mostly right-wing press, has abused the privilege of these exclusive private sessions, to misrepresent the gov't on every issue. This is the FO stage.
Broadcaster backs televised briefings shocker
See the Government followed @lewisgoodall.com advice.. 👍🏻
December 20, 2025 at 1:59 PM
Entertaining as this spat is, it contains not-a-flicker of recognition as to WHY this might be happening.
For 16 months, a tax-exile-oligarch-owned, mostly right-wing press, has abused the privilege of these exclusive private sessions, to misrepresent the gov't on every issue. This is the FO stage.
For 16 months, a tax-exile-oligarch-owned, mostly right-wing press, has abused the privilege of these exclusive private sessions, to misrepresent the gov't on every issue. This is the FO stage.
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I know it. You know it. Robert knows it. Lewis knows it. Everyone knows it, but it is almost never verbalised. Actively working to see what pathetic angle you can use to bring down the Chancellor, by investigating her teen Chess tournament record, is NOT journalism. It is borderline psychosis.
December 20, 2025 at 1:59 PM
I know it. You know it. Robert knows it. Lewis knows it. Everyone knows it, but it is almost never verbalised. Actively working to see what pathetic angle you can use to bring down the Chancellor, by investigating her teen Chess tournament record, is NOT journalism. It is borderline psychosis.
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The Women and Equalities Secretary, Bridget Phillipson is blocking the publication of new Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) guidance on women-only spaces after branding the proposals 'trans-exclusive'.
www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...
www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...
Bridget Phillipson BLOCKS new ECHR guidance on women-only spaces
The Women and Equalities Secretary has refused to sign off the draft guidance more than three months after receiving it.
www.dailymail.co.uk
December 19, 2025 at 10:50 AM
The Women and Equalities Secretary, Bridget Phillipson is blocking the publication of new Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) guidance on women-only spaces after branding the proposals 'trans-exclusive'.
www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...
www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...
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