Kath Ross
@kathross.bsky.social
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Private hired guns
The secretive Institute of Economic Affairs (IEA) – the anti-state, anti-climate pressure group – received £640,000+ from fossil fuel companies & Rupert Murdoch’s media conglomerate between 1957 and 2005.
The aim is to subvert public choices for the benefit of paymasters.
The secretive Institute of Economic Affairs (IEA) – the anti-state, anti-climate pressure group – received £640,000+ from fossil fuel companies & Rupert Murdoch’s media conglomerate between 1957 and 2005.
The aim is to subvert public choices for the benefit of paymasters.
The Institute of Economic Affairs Banked £640,000 from Oil Giants and Murdoch
The Institute of Economic Affairs (IEA) – the anti-state, anti-climate pressure group – received more than £640,000 from fossil fuel companies and Rupert Murdoch’s media conglomerate between 1957 and ...
www.desmog.com
December 11, 2025 at 2:54 PM
Private hired guns
The secretive Institute of Economic Affairs (IEA) – the anti-state, anti-climate pressure group – received £640,000+ from fossil fuel companies & Rupert Murdoch’s media conglomerate between 1957 and 2005.
The aim is to subvert public choices for the benefit of paymasters.
The secretive Institute of Economic Affairs (IEA) – the anti-state, anti-climate pressure group – received £640,000+ from fossil fuel companies & Rupert Murdoch’s media conglomerate between 1957 and 2005.
The aim is to subvert public choices for the benefit of paymasters.
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🇭🇺 Presidential Hungary: How Orbán Seeks to Rule Indefinitely
‼️ While Ukraine is accused of “antidemocratic tendencies” because wartime conditions make elections impossible, Orbán is advancing steps toward authoritarian rule.
Read more ⤵️
theukrainianreview.info/presidential...
‼️ While Ukraine is accused of “antidemocratic tendencies” because wartime conditions make elections impossible, Orbán is advancing steps toward authoritarian rule.
Read more ⤵️
theukrainianreview.info/presidential...
Presidential Hungary: How Orbán Seeks to Rule Indefinitely
While Ukraine is accused of “antidemocratic tendencies” because wartime conditions make elections impossible, the closest European partner of the United Sta
theukrainianreview.info
December 11, 2025 at 7:40 PM
🇭🇺 Presidential Hungary: How Orbán Seeks to Rule Indefinitely
‼️ While Ukraine is accused of “antidemocratic tendencies” because wartime conditions make elections impossible, Orbán is advancing steps toward authoritarian rule.
Read more ⤵️
theukrainianreview.info/presidential...
‼️ While Ukraine is accused of “antidemocratic tendencies” because wartime conditions make elections impossible, Orbán is advancing steps toward authoritarian rule.
Read more ⤵️
theukrainianreview.info/presidential...
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Qualified majority voting looking like Quite A Good Thing.
🚨 Huge news: the European Union has indefinitely immobilised the Russian Central Bank assets using Article 122 and a qualified majority.
This protects the EU against undesirable vetoes (Hungary, Slovakia) and external pressure (US, Russia).
Full story.
This protects the EU against undesirable vetoes (Hungary, Slovakia) and external pressure (US, Russia).
Full story.
EU agrees to indefinitely immobilise €210 billion of Russian assets
The EU has decided to keep the assets of the Russian Central Bank immobilised for the foreseeable future. The ban, which is based on a provision for economic emergencies, pushes back against external ...
www.euronews.com
December 11, 2025 at 6:01 PM
Qualified majority voting looking like Quite A Good Thing.
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Honoured to host the parliamentary launch of @zoejardiniere.bsky.social’s report with @anothereurope.bsky.social and @fesonline.bsky.social pragmatic steps the government could take to fix our immigration system.
December 11, 2025 at 5:24 PM
Honoured to host the parliamentary launch of @zoejardiniere.bsky.social’s report with @anothereurope.bsky.social and @fesonline.bsky.social pragmatic steps the government could take to fix our immigration system.
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Watch this. Then remember that the president doesn’t care. He cares that his old ass gets richer in the hand full of years he may have left.
And his sick rich friends. The most corrupt evil man to ever serve as president is ignoring real evil
And his sick rich friends. The most corrupt evil man to ever serve as president is ignoring real evil
💔 A European Parliament interpreter could not hold back tears during the speech of 11-year-old Roman Oleksiv from Lviv.
The boy survived a missile strike on Vinnytsia on July 14, 2022, which killed his mother - it was the last time he saw her alive.
The boy survived a missile strike on Vinnytsia on July 14, 2022, which killed his mother - it was the last time he saw her alive.
December 11, 2025 at 2:24 PM
Watch this. Then remember that the president doesn’t care. He cares that his old ass gets richer in the hand full of years he may have left.
And his sick rich friends. The most corrupt evil man to ever serve as president is ignoring real evil
And his sick rich friends. The most corrupt evil man to ever serve as president is ignoring real evil
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Another COVID fraudster held to account for fraudulently obtaining an £80k bounce back loan!
The funds were spent on a share dealing platforms instead of supporting his business through the pandemic.
He is jailed for 2 years & 4 months and disqualified as a company director for 8yrs.
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The funds were spent on a share dealing platforms instead of supporting his business through the pandemic.
He is jailed for 2 years & 4 months and disqualified as a company director for 8yrs.
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Derby fraudster jailed after using Covid loan funds on share dealing platforms
Jail for Bounce Back Loan fraudster
www.gov.uk
December 11, 2025 at 12:47 PM
Another COVID fraudster held to account for fraudulently obtaining an £80k bounce back loan!
The funds were spent on a share dealing platforms instead of supporting his business through the pandemic.
He is jailed for 2 years & 4 months and disqualified as a company director for 8yrs.
1/2
The funds were spent on a share dealing platforms instead of supporting his business through the pandemic.
He is jailed for 2 years & 4 months and disqualified as a company director for 8yrs.
1/2
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All antitrans campaigners are bigots. They swim in a sea of online bigotry in which trans people are routinely treated as less than human. They rejoice in having found a group to victimise that they have so easily stripped of all dignity. They laugh about it between themselves. Publicly. Online.
December 11, 2025 at 11:11 AM
All antitrans campaigners are bigots. They swim in a sea of online bigotry in which trans people are routinely treated as less than human. They rejoice in having found a group to victimise that they have so easily stripped of all dignity. They laugh about it between themselves. Publicly. Online.
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Hungary's Viktor Orbán is looking for ways to keep power if he loses next year’s election, Bloomberg reports.
He is considering shifting into the presidency and turning the largely ceremonial office into Hungary’s dominant political post, an idea he raised after meeting Trump.
He is considering shifting into the presidency and turning the largely ceremonial office into Hungary’s dominant political post, an idea he raised after meeting Trump.
December 11, 2025 at 11:23 AM
Hungary's Viktor Orbán is looking for ways to keep power if he loses next year’s election, Bloomberg reports.
He is considering shifting into the presidency and turning the largely ceremonial office into Hungary’s dominant political post, an idea he raised after meeting Trump.
He is considering shifting into the presidency and turning the largely ceremonial office into Hungary’s dominant political post, an idea he raised after meeting Trump.
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Mike Johnson views his primary role as Speaker to prevent as many votes as possible on things that would easily pass because a bipartisan majority favors them. That is exactly what he has done his entire tenure. He blocks things majorities want and keeps the House out of session for long stretches.
December 11, 2025 at 11:24 AM
Mike Johnson views his primary role as Speaker to prevent as many votes as possible on things that would easily pass because a bipartisan majority favors them. That is exactly what he has done his entire tenure. He blocks things majorities want and keeps the House out of session for long stretches.
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“If you were a member of the public, you would think that grooming gangs is the biggest threat to children in our country,” says the director of Britain's Child Sexual Exploitation Taskforce
“But in the overall statistics, that represents just over 0.5% of offending”
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/10/w...
“But in the overall statistics, that represents just over 0.5% of offending”
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/10/w...
Britain Releases New Data on ‘Grooming Gangs’ and Child Sexual Abuse
www.nytimes.com
December 11, 2025 at 10:57 AM
“If you were a member of the public, you would think that grooming gangs is the biggest threat to children in our country,” says the director of Britain's Child Sexual Exploitation Taskforce
“But in the overall statistics, that represents just over 0.5% of offending”
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/10/w...
“But in the overall statistics, that represents just over 0.5% of offending”
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/10/w...
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This is how it works: Murdoch funds the 'research', then 'reports' it, and then the Beeb feels obliged to broadcast it in the interests of 'balance'.
🔴 REVEALED 🔴
The Institute of Economic Affairs – the anti-state, anti-climate pressure group that "incubated" Liz Truss – was bankrolled by oil giants and Rupert Murdoch’s media empire.
📝 Exclusive findings from @desmog.com 👇
The Institute of Economic Affairs – the anti-state, anti-climate pressure group that "incubated" Liz Truss – was bankrolled by oil giants and Rupert Murdoch’s media empire.
📝 Exclusive findings from @desmog.com 👇
The Institute of Economic Affairs Banked £640,000 from Oil Giants and Murdoch
The Institute of Economic Affairs (IEA) – the anti-state, anti-climate pressure group – received more than £640,000 from fossil fuel companies and Rupert Murdoch’s media conglomerate between 1957 and ...
www.desmog.com
December 11, 2025 at 11:21 AM
This is how it works: Murdoch funds the 'research', then 'reports' it, and then the Beeb feels obliged to broadcast it in the interests of 'balance'.
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"Trump threatens new International Court sanctions unless the court pledges not to prosecute him.
"This is how you know Trump knows he's committing War Crimes..." ~ Brian Krassenstein
"This is how you know Trump knows he's committing War Crimes..." ~ Brian Krassenstein
December 10, 2025 at 7:50 PM
"Trump threatens new International Court sanctions unless the court pledges not to prosecute him.
"This is how you know Trump knows he's committing War Crimes..." ~ Brian Krassenstein
"This is how you know Trump knows he's committing War Crimes..." ~ Brian Krassenstein
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Self-declared Free Speech Capital of the World Deeply Concerned about European Censorship proposes pre-screening tweets for wrongthink as part of the ESTA application process.
Cool. Cool cool cool.
Cool. Cool cool cool.
December 10, 2025 at 10:58 AM
Self-declared Free Speech Capital of the World Deeply Concerned about European Censorship proposes pre-screening tweets for wrongthink as part of the ESTA application process.
Cool. Cool cool cool.
Cool. Cool cool cool.
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🔴If Nigel Farage’s Racism Is Forgotten It Will Give Him Permission for Far Worse
When someone tells you who they are, over and over again, it is wise to listen, argues @labourlewis.bsky.social
bylinetimes.com/2025/12/10/n...
When someone tells you who they are, over and over again, it is wise to listen, argues @labourlewis.bsky.social
bylinetimes.com/2025/12/10/n...
'If Nigel Farage's Racism Is Forgotten It Will Give Him Permission for Far Worse'
When someone tells you who they are, over and over again, it is wise to listen, argues Clive Lewis MP
bylinetimes.com
December 10, 2025 at 10:10 AM
🔴If Nigel Farage’s Racism Is Forgotten It Will Give Him Permission for Far Worse
When someone tells you who they are, over and over again, it is wise to listen, argues @labourlewis.bsky.social
bylinetimes.com/2025/12/10/n...
When someone tells you who they are, over and over again, it is wise to listen, argues @labourlewis.bsky.social
bylinetimes.com/2025/12/10/n...
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So we've gone from "he never said anything Nazi" to "well he might have said something Nazi but not in a hurtful way" to "well okay he probably did say something Nazi in a hurtful way, but didn't we all?"
December 9, 2025 at 11:49 PM
So we've gone from "he never said anything Nazi" to "well he might have said something Nazi but not in a hurtful way" to "well okay he probably did say something Nazi in a hurtful way, but didn't we all?"
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I assume Sunak doesn’t criticise the NHS for awarding a £1.2billion contract to his father-in-law’s firm Infosys last month.
A firm his wife earns £m’s from
My new book: ‘VIP Lane’ deals with the former PM’s lack of transparency & Infosys.
Viplanebook.com @bylinetimes.bsky.social
A firm his wife earns £m’s from
My new book: ‘VIP Lane’ deals with the former PM’s lack of transparency & Infosys.
Viplanebook.com @bylinetimes.bsky.social
December 7, 2025 at 10:07 PM
I assume Sunak doesn’t criticise the NHS for awarding a £1.2billion contract to his father-in-law’s firm Infosys last month.
A firm his wife earns £m’s from
My new book: ‘VIP Lane’ deals with the former PM’s lack of transparency & Infosys.
Viplanebook.com @bylinetimes.bsky.social
A firm his wife earns £m’s from
My new book: ‘VIP Lane’ deals with the former PM’s lack of transparency & Infosys.
Viplanebook.com @bylinetimes.bsky.social
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There are some spectacularly misguided "assumptions" in the Home Office's impact assessment on its changes to immigration rules. More than that though, it confirms not only will these changes cost the country billions, they are also discriminatory. 1/
assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/6937e6...
assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/6937e6...
December 9, 2025 at 5:12 PM
There are some spectacularly misguided "assumptions" in the Home Office's impact assessment on its changes to immigration rules. More than that though, it confirms not only will these changes cost the country billions, they are also discriminatory. 1/
assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/6937e6...
assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/6937e6...
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Jared Kushner's involvement was "not mentioned in Paramount's press release on Monday morning about its $108 billion bid, nor were participating sovereign wealth funds from Saudi Arabia, Abu Dhabi and Qatar."
fancy that
fancy that
Jared Kushner is part of Paramount's hostile bid for Warner Bros. Discovery
Paramount is telling WBD shareholders that it has a smoother path to regulatory approval than does Netflix.
www.axios.com
December 8, 2025 at 3:44 PM
Jared Kushner's involvement was "not mentioned in Paramount's press release on Monday morning about its $108 billion bid, nor were participating sovereign wealth funds from Saudi Arabia, Abu Dhabi and Qatar."
fancy that
fancy that
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President Trump — who campaigned against America’s worsening drug crisis — has pardoned or granted clemency to at least 10 people for drug-related crimes since the beginning of his second term, according to a Post analysis.
Trump pardons major drug traffickers despite his anti-drug rhetoric
The president has granted clemency to about 100 people accused of drug-related crimes during his two terms in office, a Post analysis shows.
wapo.st
December 8, 2025 at 6:00 PM
President Trump — who campaigned against America’s worsening drug crisis — has pardoned or granted clemency to at least 10 people for drug-related crimes since the beginning of his second term, according to a Post analysis.
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I’d say an excellent example that Farage’s racism didn’t end at school is he went to a dinner last year where they sang “we’re all racists now” and laughed at Hitler Jokes..
Enough said 🤷🏼♂️
Enough said 🤷🏼♂️
December 7, 2025 at 11:36 AM
I’d say an excellent example that Farage’s racism didn’t end at school is he went to a dinner last year where they sang “we’re all racists now” and laughed at Hitler Jokes..
Enough said 🤷🏼♂️
Enough said 🤷🏼♂️
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❗️Putin's spokesman Peskov highly praised the recent changes to the US National Security Strategy, stating that they also align with some Russian views.
December 7, 2025 at 2:21 PM
❗️Putin's spokesman Peskov highly praised the recent changes to the US National Security Strategy, stating that they also align with some Russian views.
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Nigel Farage won't apologise for his history of racism because "if he apologised, he would be turning to his own support base and saying, ‘You’re all guilty too,'" a Reform source tells the Times.
So essentially he was a racist and he believes his supporters are racists too
So essentially he was a racist and he believes his supporters are racists too
December 7, 2025 at 11:05 AM
Nigel Farage won't apologise for his history of racism because "if he apologised, he would be turning to his own support base and saying, ‘You’re all guilty too,'" a Reform source tells the Times.
So essentially he was a racist and he believes his supporters are racists too
So essentially he was a racist and he believes his supporters are racists too
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On why Farage doesn’t apologise for his schoolboy racism:
“if he apologised, he would be turning to his own support base and saying, ‘You’re all guilty too.’ ”
Exactly.
He is racist. So are his voters. He can’t be pissing them off by saying sorry.
#NeverPM
www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...
“if he apologised, he would be turning to his own support base and saying, ‘You’re all guilty too.’ ”
Exactly.
He is racist. So are his voters. He can’t be pissing them off by saying sorry.
#NeverPM
www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...
December 7, 2025 at 9:24 AM
On why Farage doesn’t apologise for his schoolboy racism:
“if he apologised, he would be turning to his own support base and saying, ‘You’re all guilty too.’ ”
Exactly.
He is racist. So are his voters. He can’t be pissing them off by saying sorry.
#NeverPM
www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...
“if he apologised, he would be turning to his own support base and saying, ‘You’re all guilty too.’ ”
Exactly.
He is racist. So are his voters. He can’t be pissing them off by saying sorry.
#NeverPM
www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...
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As @jim.londoncentric.media points out PolitlcsUK (yes, with an 'l') doesn't mention that it's run by an ex Tory MP turned lobbyist and Tory shadow minister Andrew Rosindell’s office manager.
But it does run interviews with Rosindell (and many others.)
But it does run interviews with Rosindell (and many others.)
December 6, 2025 at 12:09 PM
As @jim.londoncentric.media points out PolitlcsUK (yes, with an 'l') doesn't mention that it's run by an ex Tory MP turned lobbyist and Tory shadow minister Andrew Rosindell’s office manager.
But it does run interviews with Rosindell (and many others.)
But it does run interviews with Rosindell (and many others.)