Michael Walker
@moggaxix-121046.bsky.social
People watcher, cloud watcher, HIGNIFY watcher
The big "I" is inequality not immigration
Yorkshire man living in Lancashire
The big "I" is inequality not immigration
Yorkshire man living in Lancashire
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Laurence Fox’s Reclaim Party founded with over £1 million from Jeremy Hosking, same donor who gave £1.7m to Farage’s Brexit Party. Hosking previously donated £570,000 to Conservative Party before a split. Follow the money: A network of wealthy backers funding increasingly extreme political rhetoric.
December 21, 2025 at 9:47 PM
Laurence Fox’s Reclaim Party founded with over £1 million from Jeremy Hosking, same donor who gave £1.7m to Farage’s Brexit Party. Hosking previously donated £570,000 to Conservative Party before a split. Follow the money: A network of wealthy backers funding increasingly extreme political rhetoric.
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The UK Government is unlikely to see most of the £148m it is owed by a faulty PPE supplier linked to Baroness Michelle Mone after the company was wound up.
Who saw that coming?
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Who saw that coming?
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Michelle Mone-linked PPE firm liquidated and unlikely to repay £148m
The firm led by Baroness Mone's husband Douglas Barrowman breached a contract to supply surgical gowns during the Covid pandemic.
www.bbc.co.uk
December 21, 2025 at 1:07 PM
The UK Government is unlikely to see most of the £148m it is owed by a faulty PPE supplier linked to Baroness Michelle Mone after the company was wound up.
Who saw that coming?
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Who saw that coming?
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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The Universal Church of the Kingdom of God (UCKG) conducts conversion therapy - don't give to them.
You might also want to question Labour's links them in South London
www.the-londoner.co.uk/london-cult-...
You might also want to question Labour's links them in South London
www.the-londoner.co.uk/london-cult-...
December 21, 2025 at 11:31 AM
The Universal Church of the Kingdom of God (UCKG) conducts conversion therapy - don't give to them.
You might also want to question Labour's links them in South London
www.the-londoner.co.uk/london-cult-...
You might also want to question Labour's links them in South London
www.the-londoner.co.uk/london-cult-...
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Many have had a #Brexit rethink - coming to terms with #BrexitReality & backing better #EuropeanUnion links. But not all. Here, Chair @leedsblue67.bsky.social responds to a @yorkshirepost.co.uk reader stuck in 2016.
He's not alone. We've still got #Farage "whipping up division & racial hatred"!
He's not alone. We've still got #Farage "whipping up division & racial hatred"!
December 19, 2025 at 1:18 PM
Many have had a #Brexit rethink - coming to terms with #BrexitReality & backing better #EuropeanUnion links. But not all. Here, Chair @leedsblue67.bsky.social responds to a @yorkshirepost.co.uk reader stuck in 2016.
He's not alone. We've still got #Farage "whipping up division & racial hatred"!
He's not alone. We've still got #Farage "whipping up division & racial hatred"!
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"In other news that made no headlines" ...
via Jean Doherty
via Jean Doherty
December 19, 2025 at 7:08 AM
"In other news that made no headlines" ...
via Jean Doherty
via Jean Doherty
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Is this the most nakedly corrupt and self enriching administration in the history of the USA?
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Why did Donald Trump Jr turn up in a tiny British enclave looking for money?
Meetings in Gibraltar are the latest twist in worldwide campaign that is enriching the US president’s family
www.theguardian.com
December 19, 2025 at 11:02 AM
Is this the most nakedly corrupt and self enriching administration in the history of the USA?
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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Deform UK-run Derbyshire County Council have engaged PricewaterhouseCooper (PwC) to find "savings".
Savings WILL be required. PwC usually charges around £5m for this sort of service.
The savings are likely to target local services.
Savings WILL be required. PwC usually charges around £5m for this sort of service.
The savings are likely to target local services.
December 18, 2025 at 5:39 PM
Deform UK-run Derbyshire County Council have engaged PricewaterhouseCooper (PwC) to find "savings".
Savings WILL be required. PwC usually charges around £5m for this sort of service.
The savings are likely to target local services.
Savings WILL be required. PwC usually charges around £5m for this sort of service.
The savings are likely to target local services.
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Michelle Mone-linked PPE Medpro wound up after order to repay £148m for faulty goods.
Company has £600,000 assets. Govt is unsecured creditor, won't recover anything.
Hard to trace money in offshore bank accounts.
Govt could sue directors for fraud, will take years, what will it recover?
Company has £600,000 assets. Govt is unsecured creditor, won't recover anything.
Hard to trace money in offshore bank accounts.
Govt could sue directors for fraud, will take years, what will it recover?
Michelle Mone-linked PPE Medpro wound up after being ordered to repay £148m
In a ruling, Insolvency and Companies Court Judge Sebastian Prentis placed the company into liquidation
www.independent.co.uk
December 19, 2025 at 7:23 AM
Michelle Mone-linked PPE Medpro wound up after order to repay £148m for faulty goods.
Company has £600,000 assets. Govt is unsecured creditor, won't recover anything.
Hard to trace money in offshore bank accounts.
Govt could sue directors for fraud, will take years, what will it recover?
Company has £600,000 assets. Govt is unsecured creditor, won't recover anything.
Hard to trace money in offshore bank accounts.
Govt could sue directors for fraud, will take years, what will it recover?
Reposted by Michael Walker
Adelaide Springett was so ashamed of her tattered boots, she took them off for this 1901 photograph.
She was 8 years old and recorded as lodging with her mother at the Salvation Army Shelter in Hanbury St.
She was 8 years old and recorded as lodging with her mother at the Salvation Army Shelter in Hanbury St.
December 19, 2025 at 12:56 AM
Adelaide Springett was so ashamed of her tattered boots, she took them off for this 1901 photograph.
She was 8 years old and recorded as lodging with her mother at the Salvation Army Shelter in Hanbury St.
She was 8 years old and recorded as lodging with her mother at the Salvation Army Shelter in Hanbury St.
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The Great Insect crisis:
you are not imagining it, the world’s insects are rapidly vanishing
a reflection on ecological unraveling, climate disruption and the possibility of rebuilding a world where life can breathe again
theearthly.substack.com
December 16, 2025 at 8:30 PM
The Great Insect crisis:
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Michelle Obama always keeps it real. That’s why we love her.
This is how a decent and good person speaks about other decent and good people who died from a tragic murder.
This is how a decent and good person speaks about other decent and good people who died from a tragic murder.
December 16, 2025 at 1:53 PM
Michelle Obama always keeps it real. That’s why we love her.
This is how a decent and good person speaks about other decent and good people who died from a tragic murder.
This is how a decent and good person speaks about other decent and good people who died from a tragic murder.
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Foreign influence on UK politics - let's think about US cash, as well as Russian and Chinese
December 16, 2025 at 2:19 PM
Foreign influence on UK politics - let's think about US cash, as well as Russian and Chinese
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Hedge funds pile into commodities in search of fresh source of returns.
Translation: Expect more speculation. Households/Business will pay more for essentials.
Hedge funds are part of shadow banking, highly leveraged and unregulated.
archive.ph/x9QFw
Translation: Expect more speculation. Households/Business will pay more for essentials.
Hedge funds are part of shadow banking, highly leveraged and unregulated.
archive.ph/x9QFw
Hedge funds pile into commodities in search of fresh source of returns
Funds such as Balyasny, Jain Global and Qube are expanding operations to allow them to trade underlying markets
www.ft.com
December 16, 2025 at 8:04 AM
Hedge funds pile into commodities in search of fresh source of returns.
Translation: Expect more speculation. Households/Business will pay more for essentials.
Hedge funds are part of shadow banking, highly leveraged and unregulated.
archive.ph/x9QFw
Translation: Expect more speculation. Households/Business will pay more for essentials.
Hedge funds are part of shadow banking, highly leveraged and unregulated.
archive.ph/x9QFw
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Reform UK Councils
Council Tax increases
Durham: 4.9%
Worcestershire: 5-10%
Warwickshire: ~5%
Leicestershire: 3% TBC
Kent: 5%
Lincolnshire: 2.9-4.9%
Staffordshire: ~5%
West Northamptonshire: 5%
Derbyshire: 4.99%
North Northamptonshire: 4.99%
Nottinghamshire: 4.84%
Lancashire: assumed 5%
Council Tax increases
Durham: 4.9%
Worcestershire: 5-10%
Warwickshire: ~5%
Leicestershire: 3% TBC
Kent: 5%
Lincolnshire: 2.9-4.9%
Staffordshire: ~5%
West Northamptonshire: 5%
Derbyshire: 4.99%
North Northamptonshire: 4.99%
Nottinghamshire: 4.84%
Lancashire: assumed 5%
December 16, 2025 at 6:22 AM
Reform UK Councils
Council Tax increases
Durham: 4.9%
Worcestershire: 5-10%
Warwickshire: ~5%
Leicestershire: 3% TBC
Kent: 5%
Lincolnshire: 2.9-4.9%
Staffordshire: ~5%
West Northamptonshire: 5%
Derbyshire: 4.99%
North Northamptonshire: 4.99%
Nottinghamshire: 4.84%
Lancashire: assumed 5%
Council Tax increases
Durham: 4.9%
Worcestershire: 5-10%
Warwickshire: ~5%
Leicestershire: 3% TBC
Kent: 5%
Lincolnshire: 2.9-4.9%
Staffordshire: ~5%
West Northamptonshire: 5%
Derbyshire: 4.99%
North Northamptonshire: 4.99%
Nottinghamshire: 4.84%
Lancashire: assumed 5%
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MINNEAPOLIS: “We kept yelling ‘she’s pregnant! She’s pregnant!’ — they put their knees in her… the handcuffed woman was dragged on the ground…”
Lawless.
Lawless.
December 16, 2025 at 3:29 AM
MINNEAPOLIS: “We kept yelling ‘she’s pregnant! She’s pregnant!’ — they put their knees in her… the handcuffed woman was dragged on the ground…”
Lawless.
Lawless.
Reposted by Michael Walker
Reposted by Michael Walker
YouTube channels spreading fake, anti-Labour videos have amassed more than a billion views this year, as opportunists attempt to use AI-generated content to profit from political division in the UK
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
YouTube channels spreading fake, anti-Labour videos viewed 1.2bn times in 2025
Exclusive: More than 150 anonymous channels using cheap AI tools to spread false stories about Keir Starmer, study finds
www.theguardian.com
December 14, 2025 at 12:30 PM
YouTube channels spreading fake, anti-Labour videos have amassed more than a billion views this year, as opportunists attempt to use AI-generated content to profit from political division in the UK
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
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14 December 1911 | Czech Jewish woman Gertruda Weissová was born.
She was deported to #Auschwitz from #Theresienstadt ghetto on 23 January 1943. She did not survive.
She was deported to #Auschwitz from #Theresienstadt ghetto on 23 January 1943. She did not survive.
December 14, 2025 at 12:00 PM
14 December 1911 | Czech Jewish woman Gertruda Weissová was born.
She was deported to #Auschwitz from #Theresienstadt ghetto on 23 January 1943. She did not survive.
She was deported to #Auschwitz from #Theresienstadt ghetto on 23 January 1943. She did not survive.
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Private equity firms preying on vets practices.
6 firms control 60% of UK practices. Same firms control pet food, insurance.
Wages down, fees up. Pet owners skipping meals to cover costs, hand pets to rescue organisations or euthanising them.
Change law. Only qualified vets to own vet practices.
6 firms control 60% of UK practices. Same firms control pet food, insurance.
Wages down, fees up. Pet owners skipping meals to cover costs, hand pets to rescue organisations or euthanising them.
Change law. Only qualified vets to own vet practices.
‘Fat cats’ preying on veterinary practices
Senedd hears private equity firms have been accused of collaring the market in a corporate 'feeding frenzy' that has seen local, independent vets…
www.southwalesargus.co.uk
December 14, 2025 at 8:52 AM
Private equity firms preying on vets practices.
6 firms control 60% of UK practices. Same firms control pet food, insurance.
Wages down, fees up. Pet owners skipping meals to cover costs, hand pets to rescue organisations or euthanising them.
Change law. Only qualified vets to own vet practices.
6 firms control 60% of UK practices. Same firms control pet food, insurance.
Wages down, fees up. Pet owners skipping meals to cover costs, hand pets to rescue organisations or euthanising them.
Change law. Only qualified vets to own vet practices.
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In late 2020 a Chinese man called Guan Heng travelled to Xinjiang with our BuzzFeed map of detention facilities to provide ground truth for our work - he provided the first corroborating evidence for many sites.
He escaped to the US - then ICE detained him.
www.wsj.com/world/china/...
He escaped to the US - then ICE detained him.
www.wsj.com/world/china/...
ICE Holding Chinese Man Who Documented Uyghur Camps
Heng Guan is awaiting an immigration hearing on Monday that could lead to his removal from the U.S. and ultimately land him back in China, according to his lawyer and a New York-based activist group.
www.wsj.com
December 13, 2025 at 3:17 PM
In late 2020 a Chinese man called Guan Heng travelled to Xinjiang with our BuzzFeed map of detention facilities to provide ground truth for our work - he provided the first corroborating evidence for many sites.
He escaped to the US - then ICE detained him.
www.wsj.com/world/china/...
He escaped to the US - then ICE detained him.
www.wsj.com/world/china/...
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Lawless, criminal behavior
December 13, 2025 at 7:39 AM
Lawless, criminal behavior
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The Trump regime is pushing for Austria, Hungary, Poland, and Italy to leave European Union, this is the latest ploy by MAGA to weaken support for Ukraine and help Russia. Trump's inner circle is hoping to plunder Ukraine's territories and dissolve the EU for financial gain.
December 11, 2025 at 9:25 PM
The Trump regime is pushing for Austria, Hungary, Poland, and Italy to leave European Union, this is the latest ploy by MAGA to weaken support for Ukraine and help Russia. Trump's inner circle is hoping to plunder Ukraine's territories and dissolve the EU for financial gain.
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Yes, yes I know I keep banging on about my fucking book! However, if you want one repost this and I’ll do a random winner pick thing by the end of the week because I’m great like that. ♥️📚
#amindofmyown
#amindofmyown
October 7, 2025 at 4:07 PM
Yes, yes I know I keep banging on about my fucking book! However, if you want one repost this and I’ll do a random winner pick thing by the end of the week because I’m great like that. ♥️📚
#amindofmyown
#amindofmyown
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“Nigel, for your tireless work as a Kremlin rat, I grant you the Order of Useful Idiocy, First Class. Now arise… and betray Britain even more.”
December 11, 2025 at 4:13 PM
“Nigel, for your tireless work as a Kremlin rat, I grant you the Order of Useful Idiocy, First Class. Now arise… and betray Britain even more.”