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Robert Saunders @robertsaunders.bsky.social · 1d

Excellent letter from the Bishop of Birmingham to Robert Jenrick.

At a time when so many other voices have been silent, the bishops have been admirably outspoken against attempts to stir up division.

The churches do a lot of community cohesion work & do not want to see this trashed for party gain.

Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 1d

The Bishop of Birmingham has written to the Shadow Justice Secretary Robert Jenrick about his comments about Handsworth

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susiecholden.bsky.social @susiecholden.bsky.social · 1d

Visited Bradford last week for the first time and loved it. Staggering buildings and of course the most glorious Waterstones bookshop..

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Peter Jukes @peterjukes.bsky.social · 2d

Tax authorities examine finances of key Nigel Farage ally www.theguardian.com/business/202...

Tax authorities examine finances of key Nigel Farage ally

Exclusive: HMRC conducts scoping exercise into Reform UK backer ‘Posh George’ Cottrell’s income from business and wealth

www.theguardian.com

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Dan Neidle @danneidle.bsky.social · 6d

Douglas Barrowman and Michelle Mone's company, PPE Medpro, has just been ordered to refund the Government £122m from a PPE contract.

There are two very odd things about PPE Medpro that may affect the odds of the Government ever getting that £122m...

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Josiah Mortimer @josiah.writes.news · 7d

ICYMI: Anti-corruption campaigners and the Liberal Democrats are calling for fresh investigations into Russian interference in British politics, after Reform UK’s former leader in Wales admitted to taking bribes to make statements in favour of Russia. ✍🏼 @bylinetimes.bsky.social

Calls for New Inquiry Into Russian Interference After Reform’s Former Welsh Leader Pleads Guilty to Bribery

As the Kremlin steps up its political interference efforts in the West, is it time for a new Russia Report?

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Josiah Mortimer @josiah.writes.news · 8d

Some good news.

London is meeting legal limits for toxic NO2 pollution for the first time – almost 200 years earlier than predicted – following the Mayor’s "world leading air pollution policies," City Hall announces.

The Ultra Low Emissions Zone - and similar policies - really do work.

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Bylines Scotland @bylines.scot · 8d

Reform’s Russia connections may endanger our security – time for a public inquiry | Martin Roche

Nathan Gill’s treachery puts him in same league as the “Cambridge Five”

Reform’s Russia connections may endanger our security – time for a public inquiry

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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 8d

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.

Jane @localnotail.bsky.social · 9d

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Nigel Farage: Stop opposing Vladmir Putin in Ukraine and join forces to defeat Islamic terrorists
The Ukip leader says that West must stop poking the Russian leader with a stick and realise he is 'on our side' in the fight against terror
By Georgia Graham, Political Correspondent
11:26AM BST 16 Sep 2014

The West must stop opposing Vladimir Putin’s incursion into Ukraine and join forces with the Russian leader in the fight against Islamic extremists, Nigel Farage has said,
The Ukip leader said that Western countries must stop "playing war games in Ukraine and poking the “Russian bear with a stick” because Mr Putin is “on our side” in the war against Islamic extremism.
Mr Farage courted controversy earlier this year when he said that Mr Putin, the former KGB officer, is the statesman he most admires.
In a debate this morning at the European Parliament Mr Farage a sympathetic interpretation of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, he said European states had “directly encouraged” the uprising that “led in turn to Vladimir Putin reacting”.
Mr Putin has been blamed by the West for prolonging the bloodshed in Syria and propping up the regime by supplying arms including helicopter gunships to President Assad, and repeatedly blocking moves to censure or sanction him at the United Nations.

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However Mr Farage suggested that these differences should be put aside with Russia and European nations “preparing a plan” to defeat to deal with “the real threat that faces us”.
He said: “Perhaps we better recognise that the West faces the biggest threat and crisis to our way of life we have seen for over 70 years. The recent beheadings of the British and American hostages graphically illustrates the problem and of course we have our own citizens from our won countries engaged in that struggle too.
“In the war against Islamic extremism, whatever we may think of him as a human being, he is actually on our side.
“I suggest we grow up, I suggest we recognise the real threat facing all of our countries, communities and societies, we stop playing war games in the Ukraine and we start to prepare a plan like Syria, like Iraq, like Kenya like Nigeria or Syria and help the deal with the real threat that faces us. Let’s not go on provoking Putin whether we like him or not.”
He added: "Amongst the long list of foreign policy failures and contradictions in the last few year, amongst them the bombing of Libya, the desire to arm the rebels in Syria, has been the unnecessary provocation of Vladimir Putin.
“This EU Empire, ever seeking to expand, stated its territorial claim on the Ukraine some years ago, just to make that worse of course some Nato members said they too would like the Ukraine to join Nato
“We directly encouraged the uprising in Ukraine that led to the toppling of the president Yanukovych and that led in turn of course to Vladimir Putin reacting. And the moral of the story is if you poke the Russian bear with stick...”

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UNITED24 Media @united24media.com · 10d

⚡️Zelenskyy: Russia is using oil tankers, including its “shadow fleet,” to launch and control drones attacking European countries.

The president calls to shut the Baltic and other seas to Russian tankers.

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Simon Oldridge @sioldridge.bsky.social · 10d

On 27th Nov we have a shot at creating a positive societal tipping point towards genuine emergency action on the #climate #nature crisis—action which will make us better off.

Maximising MPs attendance is key. Please enter your postcode to see if your MP has confirmed yet.
www.nebriefing.org

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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 11d

Nathan Gill is no fringe politician.

He was the leader of the Reform Party and before that UKIP in Wales.

A Brexit Party MEP.

A friend and ally of Nigel Farage, who in 2016 called him:

"terrific," and "as honest as the day is long."

This is a MASSIVE story

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Reform UK's ex-Wales leader Nathan Gill admits pro-Russia bribery

Nathan Gill admits eight charges of bribery while being a Member of the European Parliament.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Doug Parr @dougparr.bsky.social · 14d

Planetary Boundaries are being breached, as humanity lives beyond Earth's ability to cope

We're already exceeding Climate Change, Land System Change, Freshwater Use, Novel Entities (chemicals, plastics) & others

To that list we can now add Ocean Acidification

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

World’s oceans fail key health check as acidity crosses critical threshold for marine life

Scientists call for renewed global effort to curb fossil fuels as seven of nine planetary boundaries now transgressed

www.theguardian.com

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Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan @london.gov.uk · 16d

Thousands of Londoners have indefinite leave to remain.

They have legal rights and are our friends, neighbours and colleagues, contributing hugely to our city.

Threatening to deport people living and working here legally is unacceptable.

Farage vows to scrap indefinite leave to remain, placing thousands at risk of deportation

Reform UK plans to force non-citizens to apply for visas with high salary thresholds and no access to NHS services

www.theguardian.com

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Josiah Mortimer @josiah.writes.news · 22d

The biggest, most-polluting models should be hit with an extra levy in the budget, bringing us into line with other European countries, campaigners say
www.thetimes.com/uk/environme...

Britain is ‘tax haven for road-damaging SUVs’

The biggest, most-polluting models should be hit with an extra levy in the budget, bringing us into line with other European countries, campaigners say

www.thetimes.com

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Laura Phillips @lauraphillips.bsky.social · 24d

Absolutely unbearable report by BBC’s Yogital Limaye and team from #Afghanistan after #USAID is cut and mothers and babies die and suffer.

BBC investigates Afghan maternal deaths after US aid cuts

The BBC hears devastating accounts of Afghan mothers and babies dying after US-backed clinics shut.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Alex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 24d

Getting lost in statistics about numbers and semantics about ideology misses real issue: This is no "grassroots" movement. It is externally funded and organised. Its network ALL have X blue ticks and Musk beamed in to incite violence. Stop the dark money and astroturfing. The rest will soon wither.

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Laura Phillips @lauraphillips.bsky.social · 25d

BBC’s Gaza Correspondent Rushdi Abualouf: “Every tower that falls in Gaza takes a piece of my heart, Well a thousand hearts can’t carry such pain… Gaza isn’t just a city we lived in, it lives in us,my life, my home, all are memories buried under rubble.”

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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 27d

Perhaps someone can explain this to me because I thought the government was concerned with growth on.ft.com/4gkup84

UK study visa applications drop as immigration changes hit universities

Fees from international students are vital in offsetting long-term funding squeeze

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Laura Phillips @lauraphillips.bsky.social · 27d

Violent crime plunges 13% in London as homicide rate less than Paris and Berlin

Despite there being ‘tens of thousands of fewer victims,’ Mayor of London Sadiq Khan acknowledged that ‘one death and one crime will always be too many’

www.standard.co.uk

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Patrick Dunleavy @patrickdunleavy.bsky.social · 29d

EXCL: A trove of leaked data from Boris Johnson’s private office reveals how the former PM has been profiting from contacts and influence he gained in office in a possible breach of ethics and lobbying rules. All the details here 👇🏼 www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Revealed: how Boris Johnson traded PM contacts for global business deals

Exclusive: Leak exposes how former leader has used publicly subsidised office to manage commercial interests

www.theguardian.com

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Laura Phillips @lauraphillips.bsky.social · Sep 7

It’s happened to #BBC. Already the cuts to #BBCWorldService eg BBC Arabic in Lebanon, have allowed the Russians’ Sputnik to take over its frequencies. Liberal democracies are shrinking themselves through Conservative politicians’ hostility to public service broadcasting,+liberal weakness+inaction.

Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.bsky.social · Sep 7

"Everywhere American voices disappear, other powers will fill the gap."
On the destruction of America's foreign broadcasters, and the dismantling of organizations that identify and monitor Russian, Chinese and Iranian propaganda

www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

America Surrenders in the Global Information Wars

The U.S. is reorienting its foreign policy to protect governments that manipulate and suppress information.

www.theatlantic.com

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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · Sep 8

Dirty air kills. Millions of people at risk of strokes and heart attacks in this country and still there are those who want us to live with it or make it worse.

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Millions of Britons face higher risk of heart failure due to dirty air, study suggests

Exclusive: stroke risk is 7% higher and heart failure risk increases by 27% in areas with worst level of pollution, research shows

www.theguardian.com

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The Kyiv Independent @kyivindependent.com · Sep 1

⚡️ Russian map behind top general hints at ambitions to seize Odesa, Kharkiv.

While Moscow has publicly insisted on full control of Donetsk, Luhansk, Kherson, and Zaporizhzhia oblasts, the map indicated possible plans extending to Odesa and Kharkiv.

Russian map behind top general hints at ambitions to seize Odesa, Kharkiv

While Moscow has publicly insisted on full control of Donetsk, Luhansk, Kherson, and Zaporizhzhia oblasts, the map indicated possible plans extending to Odesa and Kharkiv, neither of which had been in...

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Bylines Network @bylinesnetwork.co.uk · Aug 18

A foreign coal firm is suing UK taxpayers in a secretive ‘corporate court’ – with a Tory MP as their lawyer. All to overturn a climate ruling that stopped a Cumbria coal mine. This is democracy & climate action held to ransom

Tommy Green writing for DeSmog

Read here ⤵️

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UK Government to be sued in ‘secret corporate court’ by coal firm represented by Tory MP

Former attorney general Geoffrey Cox is leading the case brought by a coal firm that could cost the taxpayer billions

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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.bsky.social · Aug 18

From Russia Today's Telegram channel, this morning

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