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peterstefanovic.bsky.social
Russia killed opposition leader Alexei Navalny using toxin from dart frog, UK says

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Russia killed opposition leader Alexei Navalny using toxin from dart frog, UK says
There is no innocent explanation for the toxin being found in samples taken from Navalny's body, Foreign Office says.
www.bbc.co.uk
February 14, 2026 at 3:33 PM
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mikegalsworthy.bsky.social
😂
February 11, 2026 at 5:14 PM
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peterquinn.bsky.social
I lost count of just how many people Zoe took down in this one single video.
zoejardiniere.bsky.social Zoe Gardner @zoejardiniere.bsky.social · 3d
Oh look!

We’re talking about immigration again!

Instead of corruption money & pedos permeating our politics! 🤩 Brilliant! www.youtube.com/watch?v=OhZk...
Finally! A chance to talk about IMMIGRANTs & not corruption!
YouTube video by Zoe Gardner
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February 12, 2026 at 5:41 PM
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carolinelucas.bsky.social
Struggling to find the words to describe the utter reckless vandalism of this sickening move - deliberately making millions of people sicker & less secure in order to enrich billionaire polluters
Trump revokes landmark ruling that greenhouse gases endanger public health
The White House calls it the largest deregulation in US history, but environmentalists say it will prove costly for Americans.
www.bbc.co.uk
February 12, 2026 at 7:16 PM
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peterstefanovic.bsky.social
'I will lower student loan costs by cutting inflation,' Chancellor Rachel Reeves promises.

I’m not sure students will see it that way

www.itv.com/news/2026-02...
February 12, 2026 at 3:30 PM
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humanists.uk
Happy #DarwinDay, everyone!

Darwin Day, held on 12 February, marks the birthday of Charles Darwin and celebrates his groundbreaking contribution to science – especially his theory of evolution by natural selection, which transformed our understanding of life on Earth.

@humanismedu.bsky.social 🧵
February 12, 2026 at 11:51 AM
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peterstefanovic.bsky.social
Nigel Farage calls for an end to working from home as the Reform leader kisses goodbye to a generation of voters.

Just don’t vote Reform

www.thelondoneconomic.com/politics/nig...
Nigel Farage calls for an end to working from home
Nigel Farage has reignited the culture-war debate over remote working, calling for an end to working from home.
www.thelondoneconomic.com
February 11, 2026 at 7:54 AM
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cenricc.bsky.social
Bore Da Bawb - Good Morning All
Cwtiaid y Traeth ym Mae Caerdydd ger yr Eglwys Norwyaidd ar ddydd Gwener - roedd 'na tua dwsin ohonynt
Turnstones in Cardiff Bay near the Norwegian Church on Friday - about a dozen of them
#BirdsSeenIn2026
Cariad Mawr o Gymru!
❤️🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿
February 11, 2026 at 9:12 AM
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plaidcymru.bsky.social
A vote for Plaid Cymru in May is a vote for hope and new leadership that will always stand up for #Wales ✊🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿
February 10, 2026 at 7:01 AM
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13sarahmurphy.bsky.social
Multimillionaire Brexiter, Tim Martin, urges pubs to back Reform. Just like he urged the country to vote for Brexit. Too bad if it makes you poorer. Too bad for the children he’ll push back into poverty. Tim wants more money. And he couldn’t give a shit about the cost for everybody else.
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Wetherspoon boss urges pubs to back Reform By Henry Saker-Clark The founder of Wetherspoon has urged other pubs to back Reform UK. Sir Tim Martin, chairman of JD Wetherspoon, said Reform's plans to slash beer duty would help the sector move towards "tax parity with supermarkets". Nigel Farage's party announced a series of proposals to support pubs last week. They included pledges to cut VAT in the hospitality sector by 10 per cent, cut beer duty by the same fraction. Reform also said it would reverse the recent rise in employers' national insurance contributions (NICs) for the sector and gradually remove business rates for all pubs. The party has said it would fund this package with around 23on, which it plans to secure through reinstating the two-child benefit cap, except for families with two British-born parents. In a lengthy stock exchange filing yesterday, Martin (inset) told industry leaders "there's no question that this initiative would utterly transform the competitiveness of pubs" He said: "By eliminating the tax differential between supermarkets and the hospitality industry, and restoring margins to devastated businesses, these changes would enable pubs to regain some, or all, of their lost trade. "You would think that this offer from Reform would have been greeted by a crescendo of enthusiasm, ecstasy and support from the licensed trade and its supporters. "However, surpris-ingly, initial support has been underwhelming, at least from the great and the good in the hospitality industry" Last month, Labour announced additional business rates support for pubs. The announcement was a U-turn following complaints from pubs about rates changes in November's Budget.
February 10, 2026 at 7:29 AM
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peterstefanovic.bsky.social
Nigel Farage has just called for an end to working from home and the focus on work-life balance

They’ll be suggesting we send kids up chimneys next

Whatever you do JUST DON’T VOTE REFORM
peterstefanovic.bsky.social Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 6d
🚨Gorton and Denton by-election

Surely by now we can all see that Reform is a party that thrives on division, fuels anger, and uses the scapegoating of minorities to gain support.

We are so much better than that.

DON’T BE TAKEN IN BY THE DIVISIVE POLITICS OF REFORM

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🚨Gorton and Denton by-election - JUST DON’T VOTE REFORM
YouTube video by Peter Stefanovic
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February 10, 2026 at 7:58 AM
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channel4news.bsky.social
Explained: Why your student loan debt is growing

A row over the affordability of Plan 2 student loans has ramped up pressure on the government. Data Correspondent Ciaran Jenkins and Claire Wilde explain.

📩 Read the full newsletter:
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Explained: Why your student loan debt is growing
A row over the affordability of controversial Plan 2 student loans, affecting 4 million graduates, has ramped up pressure on the government. Data Correspondent Ciaran Jenkins and Claire Wilde explain.
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February 9, 2026 at 5:16 PM
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peterstefanovic.bsky.social
🚨Student loan repayments scandal

Chancellor Rachel Reeves has said the student loans system is "fair & reasonable" following criticism of last year's decision to freeze repayment thresholds for some borrowers.

BBC Dan Whitworth looks at the growing debate over student loan repayments scandal
February 9, 2026 at 9:08 AM
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What links Jeffrey Epstein and Keir Starmer’s government? A thick seam of contempt | Nesrine Malik
What links Jeffrey Epstein and Keir Starmer’s government? A thick seam of contempt | Nesrine Malik
We’re often told the PM is a ‘decent’ man. But in appointing Peter Mandelson he chose political convenience over doing right by trafficked women and girls, says Guardian columnist Nesrine Malik
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February 9, 2026 at 7:00 AM
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cardiffrivers.bsky.social
15 volunteers cleared scrub by a linear pond in Grangemoor Park yesterday
Opening it up will let in more light and hopefully encourage dragon & damsel flies
We collected 10 bags of litter too
Thanks to all who came along in very wet & muddy conditions.
More photos at www.flickr.com/.../card.../...
February 8, 2026 at 11:08 AM
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bestforbritain.org
💷 Student loan repayments are crippling the financial future of a huge portion of the population.

🎓 We must support cash-strapped universities and produce a fair system for students.
Bad and getting worse: for students like me, the loan system is the disaster that never ends | Rohan Sathyamoorthy
The current situation in England and Wales is akin to generational warfare – Martin Lewis is right when he takes ministe
www.theguardian.com
February 7, 2026 at 7:26 PM
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lewisgoodall.com
The system we have now quite literally embeds the income and wealth inequalities HE is supposed to alleviate. It is outrageous and incredible that a progressive govt could describe it in any way as “fair.” Too many senior politicians today think we have Plan 1 loans. They just don’t understand it.
February 7, 2026 at 4:07 PM
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lewisgoodall.com
Three years ago we made an early News Agents on the student loan scandal and the sky high marginal tax rates it creates. Three years on, govts since have made it all worse still. We’ve made a special follow up, centred on our listeners own experiences.

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How the government became a student loan shark
Podcast Episode · The News Agents · 06/02/2026 · 50m
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February 7, 2026 at 3:58 PM
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peterstefanovic.bsky.social
🚨BREAKING: Parliament is going to debate the petition – BY-ELECTIONS TO BE CALLED AUTOMATICALLY WHEN MP’S DEFECT TO ANOTHER PARTY on 16 March 2026!

Contact/Tag your MP now and ask them to attend the debate and speak out in support
February 7, 2026 at 9:45 AM
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13sarahmurphy.bsky.social
It is genuinely insane/deeply disingenuous to be calling for the PM’s resignation while red-carpeting Farage into No10. If you’re serious about calling out abuses of power and the undermining of democracy through political corruption, you investigate and expose all of this 👇 too.
'Brexit is Just the Beginning' Of course it wasn't just Trump who was mentioned in the Epstein files but Farage too, whose name crops up no fewer than 21 times. Although there is no suggestion of a direct relationship between the Reform leader and Epstein, he is clearly a figure of significant interest both to the late paedophile and those around them. As Byline Times' Executive Editor Peter Jukes set out brilliantly this week, Farage was viewed by Epstein and his friend Steve Bannon as a pivotal figure in their 'movement' to destabilise Europe. As he reports: "Across the recently released messages and emails, [Epstein] treats Britain's vote to leave the European Union in June 2016 as both a political realignment and a trading opportunity - something to be shorted financially and leveraged geopolitically. As he writes to Peter Thiel about the chaos caused by the referendum, 'Brexit is just the beginning.'" Interestingly Bannon also told Epstein that he was planning to meet Farage as part of his bid to topple Theresa May, in order to secure the Europe destabilising Brexit both men were so keen to secure.
February 7, 2026 at 10:41 AM
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carolecadwalla.bsky.social
NEW: Trump's coup is almost complete. And the attack on the press is a central piece of it. Bezos's gutting of the Washington Post cannot be allowed to be just another blip in the news cycle.

We are all going to have to fight for a free and independent press.
open.substack.com/pub/broligar...
Fight!
Fuck Bezos. The Washington Post can and must rise again.
open.substack.com
February 6, 2026 at 11:17 AM
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peterstefanovic.bsky.social
This absolutely shocking scandal has got to end
February 6, 2026 at 2:12 PM
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peterstefanovic.bsky.social
Damning from Journalist Oli Dugmore on #bbcquestiontime

“Not only did the people at the top of the Labour party know about this… they didn’t think that that was disqualifying, they thought ‘actually, this is our guy’”

says Mandelson’s appointment was “extraordinary” given links to Jeffrey Epstein
February 5, 2026 at 11:15 PM
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peterstefanovic.bsky.social
🚨 “This isn’t North Korea we’re talking about - this is state sponsored torture in THIS country - happening right now”

If you are not yet familiar with the shocking #IPPscandal watch this update

youtu.be/yo27emO72g8?...
‘STATE SPONSORED TORTURE’ - the UK’s shocking IPP Scandal
YouTube video by Peter Stefanovic
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February 5, 2026 at 10:40 AM
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peterstefanovic.bsky.social
“The combined tuition fees of the entire Question Time panel would not cover my cost for 1 year of uni. Is that fair?”
Oli Dugmore

It’s absolutely NOT fair. This outrageous scandal must end
February 6, 2026 at 7:34 AM