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If any doubt remained, it is time to put it to rest:
Trump is behaving in ways that consistently benefit Moscow.
The real question is why.
“Trump has walked into every trap.”
Trump is behaving in ways that consistently benefit Moscow.
The real question is why.
“Trump has walked into every trap.”
“the mind meld between businessman-turned-president Donald Trump and Russian propagandists may be the most successful covert influence effort since the Churchill government’s secret campaign to draw Franklin Roosevelt into World War II.”
tomorrowsaffairs.com/a-tempting-m...
tomorrowsaffairs.com/a-tempting-m...
A tempting mark—why is Trump behaving in ways that benefit Moscow?
Moscow appears to have used these vulnerabilities to influence Donald Trump, and, unfortunately, has done so with considerable success
tomorrowsaffairs.com
December 16, 2025 at 9:39 PM
If any doubt remained, it is time to put it to rest:
Trump is behaving in ways that consistently benefit Moscow.
The real question is why.
“Trump has walked into every trap.”
Trump is behaving in ways that consistently benefit Moscow.
The real question is why.
“Trump has walked into every trap.”
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Far right suffer losses in Dutch election, with country set for its youngest ever PM
news.sky.com/story/nether...
news.sky.com/story/nether...
Netherlands election: Geert Wilders' far-right party suffers blow as centrists lead in exit poll
Far right parties have been on the march in countries including France and Germany, but long-serving Dutch populist leader Geert Wilders has been dealt a blow in his country's latest general election.
news.sky.com
October 30, 2025 at 7:56 AM
Far right suffer losses in Dutch election, with country set for its youngest ever PM
news.sky.com/story/nether...
news.sky.com/story/nether...
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An extraordinary Telegraph article from 2014 that reminds us where Nigel Farage stood on Russia's invasion of Ukraine and Mr Putin 16 years ago.
September 30, 2025 at 6:37 AM
An extraordinary Telegraph article from 2014 that reminds us where Nigel Farage stood on Russia's invasion of Ukraine and Mr Putin 16 years ago.
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Reform would sell their Grandmas for £5 each if he’d buy them👇🏼🥴
Here is Nathan Gill in 2014 blaming the EU for Russia advancing on Ukraine
Nathan Gill pled guilty to accepting bribes from Russia to promote a pro Russia anti EU position
He started in UKIP, joined the Brexit Party, then Reform UK
Here's what he said at the European Parliament
Nathan Gill pled guilty to accepting bribes from Russia to promote a pro Russia anti EU position
He started in UKIP, joined the Brexit Party, then Reform UK
Here's what he said at the European Parliament
September 30, 2025 at 9:20 AM
Reform would sell their Grandmas for £5 each if he’d buy them👇🏼🥴
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Why the UK Now Needs a National Disinformation Agency www.rusi.org/explore-our-...
Why the UK Now Needs a National Disinformation Agency
We live in an age where information is a battlefield and our adversaries are already fighting on it. To defend the UK's 'cognitive resilience', we must replicate the institutional foresight that led t...
www.rusi.org
September 7, 2025 at 10:44 AM
Why the UK Now Needs a National Disinformation Agency www.rusi.org/explore-our-...
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The only country to have left the ECHR in this century is Russia... and they were expelled.
Is that really the example you want Britain to follow?
Is that really the example you want Britain to follow?
September 7, 2025 at 9:48 AM
The only country to have left the ECHR in this century is Russia... and they were expelled.
Is that really the example you want Britain to follow?
Is that really the example you want Britain to follow?
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Himalayan balsam causes a number of problems for our native flora; its height and density means it outcompetes native species for light, space and nutrients - but now a solution is showing promise in Yorkshire: a rust fungus could provide a way to curb the spread of this destructive weed.
Rust fungus targets invasive Himalayan balsam in Yorkshire
Rust fungus offers hope in Yorkshire’s battle against invasive Himalayan balsam, showing signs of self-sustaining, long-term control
yorkshirebylines.co.uk
September 7, 2025 at 2:35 PM
Himalayan balsam causes a number of problems for our native flora; its height and density means it outcompetes native species for light, space and nutrients - but now a solution is showing promise in Yorkshire: a rust fungus could provide a way to curb the spread of this destructive weed.
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“Mr Farage you lied about buying a house in Clacton! You lied about the authorities stopping you holding surgeries because of a risk to your life! You lie!
Your policies are pure fantasy you talk down the UK, and seldom show up in Parliament!”
Are things you’ll never hear from Kuenssberg or Mason
Your policies are pure fantasy you talk down the UK, and seldom show up in Parliament!”
Are things you’ll never hear from Kuenssberg or Mason
September 7, 2025 at 2:20 PM
“Mr Farage you lied about buying a house in Clacton! You lied about the authorities stopping you holding surgeries because of a risk to your life! You lie!
Your policies are pure fantasy you talk down the UK, and seldom show up in Parliament!”
Are things you’ll never hear from Kuenssberg or Mason
Your policies are pure fantasy you talk down the UK, and seldom show up in Parliament!”
Are things you’ll never hear from Kuenssberg or Mason
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Hands up anyone.. who made a mistake that they brought a house when they didn’t❓
No one… OK let’s try something else..
Who claimed authorities told them not to do a key part of their job (hold surgeries as an MP) for safety reasons then admit it’s BS❓
Or used a tax haven to dodge tax❓
#Farage🤥
No one… OK let’s try something else..
Who claimed authorities told them not to do a key part of their job (hold surgeries as an MP) for safety reasons then admit it’s BS❓
Or used a tax haven to dodge tax❓
#Farage🤥
Nigel Farage admits he made a mistake over house ownership after a week that proves how much details matter
There is no suggestion that the Reform UK leader did anything wrong, but he admits he misspoke last year when he said he bought a house in his Clacton constituency, when it was purchased by his partne...
news.sky.com
September 7, 2025 at 9:33 AM
Hands up anyone.. who made a mistake that they brought a house when they didn’t❓
No one… OK let’s try something else..
Who claimed authorities told them not to do a key part of their job (hold surgeries as an MP) for safety reasons then admit it’s BS❓
Or used a tax haven to dodge tax❓
#Farage🤥
No one… OK let’s try something else..
Who claimed authorities told them not to do a key part of their job (hold surgeries as an MP) for safety reasons then admit it’s BS❓
Or used a tax haven to dodge tax❓
#Farage🤥
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Reform members and speakers gave Lucy Connolly a standing ovation at their conference.. imagine what they’d have done if Hitler had been alive..
The much misunderstood Nazi who was a ahead of his time and would’ve been a political prisoner if only he’d lived.. is probs how they’d describe him❗️🥴
The much misunderstood Nazi who was a ahead of his time and would’ve been a political prisoner if only he’d lived.. is probs how they’d describe him❗️🥴
Lucy Connolly was convicted of inciting racial hatred, and her tweet was part of the tinder that lit violence, intimidation, looting, and thuggery across England last year.
The fact Reform conference gave her a standing ovation says everything about that movement.
bylinetimes.com/2025/08/27/l...
The fact Reform conference gave her a standing ovation says everything about that movement.
bylinetimes.com/2025/08/27/l...
The Martyrdom of Saint Lucy
The right is desperately seeking to make a martyr out of Lucy Connolly in order to distract from the real victims of the hate she helped to spread, argues Otto English
bylinetimes.com
September 7, 2025 at 2:28 PM
Reform members and speakers gave Lucy Connolly a standing ovation at their conference.. imagine what they’d have done if Hitler had been alive..
The much misunderstood Nazi who was a ahead of his time and would’ve been a political prisoner if only he’d lived.. is probs how they’d describe him❗️🥴
The much misunderstood Nazi who was a ahead of his time and would’ve been a political prisoner if only he’d lived.. is probs how they’d describe him❗️🥴
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4. Failing to clear out the Tories’ highly political appointments to the BBC. They should be replaced immediately with independent people. Until that happens, it will remain a public relations outfit for the hard right and far right.
September 7, 2025 at 4:49 PM
4. Failing to clear out the Tories’ highly political appointments to the BBC. They should be replaced immediately with independent people. Until that happens, it will remain a public relations outfit for the hard right and far right.
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3. Refusing to introduce Proportional Representation. Under our First Past The Post system, a party with a minority of the vote can achieve a huge majority (as Starmer did with 34%). There is no way Farage could become Prime Minister under a PR system. Only under FPTP.
September 7, 2025 at 4:49 PM
3. Refusing to introduce Proportional Representation. Under our First Past The Post system, a party with a minority of the vote can achieve a huge majority (as Starmer did with 34%). There is no way Farage could become Prime Minister under a PR system. Only under FPTP.
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If Farage wins the next election, it will be down to one person. His name is Keir Starmer.
This thread explains why.
1. Destroying faith in democracy. The UK decisively voted out the Tories, only for Starmer to give us a Continuity Tory government, shamefully beholden to economic power.
🧵
This thread explains why.
1. Destroying faith in democracy. The UK decisively voted out the Tories, only for Starmer to give us a Continuity Tory government, shamefully beholden to economic power.
🧵
September 7, 2025 at 4:46 PM
If Farage wins the next election, it will be down to one person. His name is Keir Starmer.
This thread explains why.
1. Destroying faith in democracy. The UK decisively voted out the Tories, only for Starmer to give us a Continuity Tory government, shamefully beholden to economic power.
🧵
This thread explains why.
1. Destroying faith in democracy. The UK decisively voted out the Tories, only for Starmer to give us a Continuity Tory government, shamefully beholden to economic power.
🧵
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Sacked, Expelled, or in the Dock: All the Reform UK Councillors Nigel Farage Has Lost in Just Four Months
Party faces questions over candidate screening after string of resignations, expulsions and criminal investigations
Party faces questions over candidate screening after string of resignations, expulsions and criminal investigations
Sacked, Expelled, or in the Dock: All the Reform UK Councillors Nigel Farage Has Lost in Just Four Months
Party faces questions over candidate screening after string of resignations, expulsions and criminal investigations
bylinetimes.com
September 3, 2025 at 1:54 PM
Sacked, Expelled, or in the Dock: All the Reform UK Councillors Nigel Farage Has Lost in Just Four Months
Party faces questions over candidate screening after string of resignations, expulsions and criminal investigations
Party faces questions over candidate screening after string of resignations, expulsions and criminal investigations
Well done sir.
This is awesome.
This is how it’s done, No Bull 💩, No drama and No Grandstanding!
July 22, 2025 at 7:05 PM
Well done sir.
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Mike Johnson has cancelled votes in the House, and Congress will not be back until September. All to avoid a vote on the Epstein files and hide Trump's involvement with Jeffrey Epstein.
July 22, 2025 at 6:53 PM
Mike Johnson has cancelled votes in the House, and Congress will not be back until September. All to avoid a vote on the Epstein files and hide Trump's involvement with Jeffrey Epstein.
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🔴NEW: ‘Grassroots’ Pressure Group Opposing Equality Act Is Bankrolled by Tufton Street-Linked Funder
The group has received funds from the CPS-linked 'Institute for Policy Research', which acts as an anonymous funding vehicle for think tanks
Me / @josiah.writes.news
bylinetimes.com/2025/07/17/g...
The group has received funds from the CPS-linked 'Institute for Policy Research', which acts as an anonymous funding vehicle for think tanks
Me / @josiah.writes.news
bylinetimes.com/2025/07/17/g...
'Grassroots' Pressure Group Opposing Equality Act Is Bankrolled by Tufton Street-Linked Funder
EXCLUSIVE: Supposedly independent campaign group Don't Divide Us, is funded by body that has anonymously funnelled millions to right-wing groups
bylinetimes.com
July 17, 2025 at 4:21 PM
🔴NEW: ‘Grassroots’ Pressure Group Opposing Equality Act Is Bankrolled by Tufton Street-Linked Funder
The group has received funds from the CPS-linked 'Institute for Policy Research', which acts as an anonymous funding vehicle for think tanks
Me / @josiah.writes.news
bylinetimes.com/2025/07/17/g...
The group has received funds from the CPS-linked 'Institute for Policy Research', which acts as an anonymous funding vehicle for think tanks
Me / @josiah.writes.news
bylinetimes.com/2025/07/17/g...
I will be interested to see what becomes of this.
More than 80 MPs and Lords from nine political parties have called on the British Government to impose "comprehensive sanctions" on Israel over its "repeated violations of international law"
84 parliamentarians have written to Foreign Sec David Lammy, organised by MPs Richard Burgon & Imran Hussain
84 parliamentarians have written to Foreign Sec David Lammy, organised by MPs Richard Burgon & Imran Hussain
July 17, 2025 at 7:17 PM
I will be interested to see what becomes of this.
I would have preferred to have heard the testimony of Zuckerberg & Thiel etc, in court.
I expect @carolecadwalla.bsky.social would too.
I expect @carolecadwalla.bsky.social would too.
France 24: Zuckerberg settles $8 billion lawsuit over Cambridge Analytica scandal, avoids testifying
www.france24.com/en/americas/...
www.france24.com/en/americas/...
Zuckerberg settles $8 billion lawsuit over Cambridge Analytica scandal, avoids testifying
Mark Zuckerberg and current and former Meta executives agreed on Thursday to settle a $8 billion shareholder lawsuit alleging the company’s directors failed to prevent billions of dollars in fines and...
www.france24.com
July 17, 2025 at 6:56 PM
I would have preferred to have heard the testimony of Zuckerberg & Thiel etc, in court.
I expect @carolecadwalla.bsky.social would too.
I expect @carolecadwalla.bsky.social would too.
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BREAKING: ICE officials will gain access to personally identifiable information for all Medicaid enrollees, according to an agreement obtained by the AP.
Trump administration hands over nation's Medicaid enrollee data, including addresses, to ICE
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials will gain access to personally identifiable information for all of the nation’s 79 million Medicaid enrollees.
bit.ly
July 17, 2025 at 4:21 PM
BREAKING: ICE officials will gain access to personally identifiable information for all Medicaid enrollees, according to an agreement obtained by the AP.
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another chunk from today's post, on Marjorie Spork Toes Greene — and EVERY House Republican — demanding the Epstein Files be released, and then voting to block the Epstein Files from being released.
link is here: bit.ly/44Mm7Aj
(and as always, there's a longer excerpt in the alt text)
link is here: bit.ly/44Mm7Aj
(and as always, there's a longer excerpt in the alt text)
July 16, 2025 at 4:52 PM
another chunk from today's post, on Marjorie Spork Toes Greene — and EVERY House Republican — demanding the Epstein Files be released, and then voting to block the Epstein Files from being released.
link is here: bit.ly/44Mm7Aj
(and as always, there's a longer excerpt in the alt text)
link is here: bit.ly/44Mm7Aj
(and as always, there's a longer excerpt in the alt text)
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Powerful in depth piece from Jeremy Bowen
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Israel is accused of the gravest war crimes in Gaza
Distinguished lawyers, senior humanitarians and diplomats tell Jeremy Bowen why they are increasingly concerned about the catastrophe inside Gaza.
www.bbc.co.uk
June 8, 2025 at 7:17 PM
Powerful in depth piece from Jeremy Bowen
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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"Many US farmers routinely add hormones to the feed of cows […]"
"[…] Britain and the EU have banned the import of hormone-treated US beef since 1989. Growth promoters of concern include oestradiol 17ß, testosterone, zeranol, trenbolone acetate and melengestrol acetate."
"[…] Britain and the EU have banned the import of hormone-treated US beef since 1989. Growth promoters of concern include oestradiol 17ß, testosterone, zeranol, trenbolone acetate and melengestrol acetate."
June 8, 2025 at 7:19 PM
"Many US farmers routinely add hormones to the feed of cows […]"
"[…] Britain and the EU have banned the import of hormone-treated US beef since 1989. Growth promoters of concern include oestradiol 17ß, testosterone, zeranol, trenbolone acetate and melengestrol acetate."
"[…] Britain and the EU have banned the import of hormone-treated US beef since 1989. Growth promoters of concern include oestradiol 17ß, testosterone, zeranol, trenbolone acetate and melengestrol acetate."