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thattimwalker.bsky.social @thattimwalker.bsky.social · 43m

Aren’t we lucky in this country to have the wise counsel of such columnists?

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Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 4d

We can all agree that the attack on the Synagogue in Manchester was terrorism

So why is setting a Mosque alight just 'arson' and a 'hate crime' and also not terrorism?

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thattimwalker.bsky.social @thattimwalker.bsky.social · 5d

We’ve already moved on from Starmer, but we’re not sure where we’re moving on to.
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Starmer doesn't matter any more and nor does our old political system

Standing for nothing, annoying the left wing of his party as much as the right, Sir Keir Starmer's government has dashed our hopes and created a sense of hopelessness

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thattimwalker.bsky.social @thattimwalker.bsky.social · 8d

Radical thought: do some greedy, grasping members of the indigenous population actually deserve to live here?

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Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 8d

REVEALED: Donald Trump has picked Tony Blair for central role in Gaza ‘peace plan’…

…but in our inaugural investigation for @thenerve_news, we reveal extensive previously unreported links to Israeli defence, media & tech. 🧵
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'WHAT WILL JESUS SAY?' TONY BLAIR, BIG TECH AND THE ISRAEL CONNECTION

As Trump announces the former British PM as his choice to help govern Gaza, Carole Cadwalladr investigates the opaque workings of Blair's institute, its funding from friends of Israel – including bill...

www.thenerve.news

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thattimwalker.bsky.social @thattimwalker.bsky.social · 8d

You’d think so but both parties essentially using the Lords as a trash can when you see who they chuck in there.

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thattimwalker.bsky.social @thattimwalker.bsky.social · 8d

So much of what was said at Labour conference plagiarised. Among other examples, ‘plastic patriots’ first coined by Kevin Maguire and the lines about ‘the soul of Britain’ a lift from the final moments of the Radio 4 play #WhenMaggieMetLarry.
www.economist.com/britain/2025...

Sir Keir Starmer declares a battle for the soul of Britain

The Labour Party takes aim at Nigel Farage and Reform UK

www.economist.com

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thattimwalker.bsky.social @thattimwalker.bsky.social · 8d

Successive governments can’t keep saying Nyet to this.

Byline Times @bylinetimes.bsky.social · 9d

🔴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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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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thattimwalker.bsky.social @thattimwalker.bsky.social · 8d

Still sits in the Lords, of course, along with Mandelson etc. You don’t have to be dodgy to sit in there these days, but it certainly helps.
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Firm linked to Baroness Michelle Mone must pay £122m after breaching Covid PPE contract, judge rules

The government wins its case against PPE Medpro - part of a consortium led by Baroness Mone's husband - after it supplied non-compliant gowns in 2020.

www.bbc.co.uk

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thattimwalker.bsky.social @thattimwalker.bsky.social · 11d

That makes it worse - as with the rest of them, she knows how economically illiterate it is and now embraces it like her job depends on it.

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thattimwalker.bsky.social @thattimwalker.bsky.social · 13d

Blimey, dawning even on Reeves that Brexit might not have been such a great get-rich-quick scheme after all.

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Peter Jukes @peterjukes.bsky.social · 13d

After the former leader of Reform UK in Wales, Nathan Gill pleaded guilty to making favourable statements about Russia in exchange for money, worth reupping the FIVE QUESTIONS Nigel Farage is never asked about his fondness for Putin @bylinetimes.bsky.social

Byline Times @bylinetimes.bsky.social · 13d

The Five Questions Nigel Farage is Never Asked About Brexit, Trump and Russia – Byline Times bylinetimes.com/2024/06/19/t...

The Five Questions Nigel Farage is Never Asked About Brexit, Trump and Russia

As the media provides the Reform Leader with a prominent platform, Peter Jukes considers all the concerning lines of enquiry that journalists never confront him with

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thattimwalker.bsky.social @thattimwalker.bsky.social · 13d

👽 A visitor from outer space might be forgiven for thinking this is a planet dominated by sleaze balls.
news.sky.com/story/elon-m...

Elon Musk and Prince Andrew named in latest Epstein files release

The Duke of York is named as a passenger on the sex offender's private jet in documents released by Democrats on the House Oversight Committee in the US.

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thattimwalker.bsky.social @thattimwalker.bsky.social · 13d

Decent fella. Of how many politicians around these days will we be able to say that when they die?
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Menzies Campbell, former Liberal Democrat leader, dies at 84

Campbell was North East Fife MP for nearly three decades and was made a peer, and once held UK 100m record

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thattimwalker.bsky.social @thattimwalker.bsky.social · 20d

What’s the alternative?

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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 21d

Peter Mandelson should be banned from returning to the House of Lords, as he would "damage" the upper chamber's reputation, Harriet Harman has warned
news.sky.com/story/ban-ma...

Ban Mandelson from returning to parliament, says Labour peer

Speaking on a special Electoral Dysfunction x Trump100 podcast, Harriet Harman said the former minister and UK-US ambassador would "damage" the reputation of the House of Lords should he return.

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thattimwalker.bsky.social @thattimwalker.bsky.social · 21d

This insults all Londoners whose opinion of Trump was expressed eloquently enough by the decision not to allow him anywhere near them.

Catio Miles @catiomiles.bsky.social · 21d

Chris Farage Mason is a propagandist.

Always following Trump, but never reporting on what Sadiq said in the wake of the visit.

What Sadiq said was an important story the pro Farage BBC decided to ignore.

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

Trump says he didn't want London Mayor Sadiq Khan at state banquet

The mayor of London did not seek or expect an invite to the state banquet, the BBC understands.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Led By Donkeys @ledbydonkeys.org · Jul 22

🚨 A genocide is happening, but the Labour government is supplying weapons, intelligence and diplomatic cover to the perpetrator. Protesting this is not terrorism.

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thattimwalker.bsky.social @thattimwalker.bsky.social · 21d

Yesterday’s press conference was pitiful. Good for Beth Rigby for at least trying. More professional and courageous than any of the men.

Led By Donkeys @ledbydonkeys.org · 21d

Windsor Castle Tuesday night. Four of us arrested for 'malicious communications'. Now released.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=K8V4...

Hey Donald, welcome to Windsor Castle

YouTube video by Led By Donkeys

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thattimwalker.bsky.social @thattimwalker.bsky.social · 22d

A lot started to go wrong when we ceased to a very large extent to have journalists on TV talking to real people about real life - their lived experiences - but plumped instead for journalists talking to journalists about what their media organisations perceive to be real life.

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thattimwalker.bsky.social @thattimwalker.bsky.social · 22d

‘Security concerns’ the BBC’s euphemism for ‘this is a president so intensely loathed by the British public he has to be kept well away from them.’

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thattimwalker.bsky.social @thattimwalker.bsky.social · 22d

Speaking truth to tower.

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thattimwalker.bsky.social @thattimwalker.bsky.social · 23d

Freedom of expression.

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thattimwalker.bsky.social @thattimwalker.bsky.social · 25d

Consistent messaging would come with a moral compass.

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thattimwalker.bsky.social @thattimwalker.bsky.social · 25d

And isn’t it telling only one person is in jail in relation to Epstein whose job was to satisfy the lust of powerful men — and that’s a woman.