Matthew Fletcher
@overdu.bsky.social
Lincolnshire, Central Asia, Russia, farming, carbon, metals & mining
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"Switzerland’s military has terminated its contract with Palantir… following a security audit… concluded that U.S. intelligence agencies could potentially access sensitive Swiss defense data… significant reputational warning for the data analytics firm"
www.newscase.com/palantirs-sw...
#R4Today
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#R4Today
Palantir's Swiss Exit Highlights Global Data Sovereignty Challenge | NewsCase
Switzerland's military has terminated its contract with Palantir Technologies Inc. following a security audit. The review concluded that U.S. intelligence ag
www.newscase.com
February 11, 2026 at 7:05 AM
"Switzerland’s military has terminated its contract with Palantir… following a security audit… concluded that U.S. intelligence agencies could potentially access sensitive Swiss defense data… significant reputational warning for the data analytics firm"
www.newscase.com/palantirs-sw...
#R4Today
www.newscase.com/palantirs-sw...
#R4Today
Are the BBC being muzzled by Trump's action - their criticism of Starmer for sending a paedo tolerant ambassador to serve another guilty of compliance seems excessive, or is this a dry run for a Farage investigation?
February 6, 2026 at 6:22 PM
Are the BBC being muzzled by Trump's action - their criticism of Starmer for sending a paedo tolerant ambassador to serve another guilty of compliance seems excessive, or is this a dry run for a Farage investigation?
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🌱Great to hear two of our major reports spotlighted by James Rebanks @herdyshepherd.bsky.social on BBC Sounds: Radical with Amol Rajan.
👉Full episode: www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
Read the reports:
➡️'Farming for Change' ffcc.co.uk/publications...
➡️‘Paying the Price’ ffcc.co.uk/publications...
👉Full episode: www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
Read the reports:
➡️'Farming for Change' ffcc.co.uk/publications...
➡️‘Paying the Price’ ffcc.co.uk/publications...
November 21, 2025 at 4:52 PM
🌱Great to hear two of our major reports spotlighted by James Rebanks @herdyshepherd.bsky.social on BBC Sounds: Radical with Amol Rajan.
👉Full episode: www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
Read the reports:
➡️'Farming for Change' ffcc.co.uk/publications...
➡️‘Paying the Price’ ffcc.co.uk/publications...
👉Full episode: www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
Read the reports:
➡️'Farming for Change' ffcc.co.uk/publications...
➡️‘Paying the Price’ ffcc.co.uk/publications...
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The right wants to talk about fraud? Somali fraud? Okay, give me 60 seconds.
January 7, 2026 at 1:41 AM
The right wants to talk about fraud? Somali fraud? Okay, give me 60 seconds.
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Woman arrested live on air by Donald Trump's thugs just because she says she doesn't want her tax dollars used to commit war crimes in Venezuela.
This is far worse repression than they have in Venezuela.
This is far worse repression than they have in Venezuela.
January 5, 2026 at 11:49 PM
Woman arrested live on air by Donald Trump's thugs just because she says she doesn't want her tax dollars used to commit war crimes in Venezuela.
This is far worse repression than they have in Venezuela.
This is far worse repression than they have in Venezuela.
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Also, can European government social media PR PLEASE LEAVE X.
Will X being the platform for AI csam finally be the thing that gets people who should have quit it 2 years to leave. At a certain point (now), if you are a public figure hanging on there, you’re endorsing all of this.
January 2, 2026 at 3:34 AM
Also, can European government social media PR PLEASE LEAVE X.
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Corruption so pungent, it wafts right off the page:
Lobbyists who do pardon deals “say their going rate is $1 million. Pardon-seekers have offered some lobbyists close to the president success fees of as much as $6 million if they can close the deal.”
Gift link www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
Lobbyists who do pardon deals “say their going rate is $1 million. Pardon-seekers have offered some lobbyists close to the president success fees of as much as $6 million if they can close the deal.”
Gift link www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
Inside the New Fast Track to a Presidential Pardon
Even some of the president’s closest advisers have been surprised by a number of the recent series of pardons.
www.wsj.com
December 27, 2025 at 8:39 PM
Corruption so pungent, it wafts right off the page:
Lobbyists who do pardon deals “say their going rate is $1 million. Pardon-seekers have offered some lobbyists close to the president success fees of as much as $6 million if they can close the deal.”
Gift link www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
Lobbyists who do pardon deals “say their going rate is $1 million. Pardon-seekers have offered some lobbyists close to the president success fees of as much as $6 million if they can close the deal.”
Gift link www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
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Farage has been dismissing evidence of Russian ties to the Salisbury Novichok attack since 2018 🧐
December 4, 2025 at 7:52 PM
Farage has been dismissing evidence of Russian ties to the Salisbury Novichok attack since 2018 🧐
If it's good enough for @nfucanada.bsky.social & @nfudc.bsky.social why aren't #NFU_England&Wales and #NFU_Scotland on @bsky.app?
@tom-clarke.bsky.social @abireader.bsky.social
@tom-clarke.bsky.social @abireader.bsky.social
November 8, 2025 at 10:43 AM
If it's good enough for @nfucanada.bsky.social & @nfudc.bsky.social why aren't #NFU_England&Wales and #NFU_Scotland on @bsky.app?
@tom-clarke.bsky.social @abireader.bsky.social
@tom-clarke.bsky.social @abireader.bsky.social
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🔴NEW🔴
Thread 🧵
@bylinetimes.bsky.social can now reveal that, during the crucial period when convicted Reform leader Nathan Gill was most active, working directly with Russian President Vladimir Putin’s most senior ally in Ukraine, he was also one of Nigel Farage’s closest confidantes 1/12
Thread 🧵
@bylinetimes.bsky.social can now reveal that, during the crucial period when convicted Reform leader Nathan Gill was most active, working directly with Russian President Vladimir Putin’s most senior ally in Ukraine, he was also one of Nigel Farage’s closest confidantes 1/12
‘Thick as Thieves’: Nathan Gill and Nigel Farage’s Putin Problem
Far from being distant from the Reform UK Leader, insiders told Byline Times that the former MEP convicted of bribery was one of Farage’s closest aides, while we reveal how Gill worked on the Kremlin’...
bylinetimes.com
October 4, 2025 at 1:56 PM
🔴NEW🔴
Thread 🧵
@bylinetimes.bsky.social can now reveal that, during the crucial period when convicted Reform leader Nathan Gill was most active, working directly with Russian President Vladimir Putin’s most senior ally in Ukraine, he was also one of Nigel Farage’s closest confidantes 1/12
Thread 🧵
@bylinetimes.bsky.social can now reveal that, during the crucial period when convicted Reform leader Nathan Gill was most active, working directly with Russian President Vladimir Putin’s most senior ally in Ukraine, he was also one of Nigel Farage’s closest confidantes 1/12
Will be interesting to see the #Reform led Lincolnshire County Council approach to this... Let's hope they don't put the C*NT into Canute...
www.lincolnshireworld.com/news/environ...
www.lincolnshireworld.com/news/environ...
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September 29, 2025 at 2:15 PM
Will be interesting to see the #Reform led Lincolnshire County Council approach to this... Let's hope they don't put the C*NT into Canute...
www.lincolnshireworld.com/news/environ...
www.lincolnshireworld.com/news/environ...
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Inside the everyday Facebook networks where far-right ideas grow
Inside the everyday Facebook networks where far-right ideas grow
The Guardian spent a year studying an online community trading in anti-immigration sentiment and misinformation. Experts say such spaces can play a role in radicalisation
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Far-right Facebook groups are engine of radicalisation in UK, data investigation suggests
Far-right ideas are gaining ground. They are thriving in online worlds which are not easily visible to large swathes of the public but which spread misinformation that has real-world consequences.
Take last year. In the summer of 2024, riots broke out across parts of the UK, fuelled by misinformation that spread on social media. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
September 28, 2025 at 7:20 AM
Inside the everyday Facebook networks where far-right ideas grow
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Nigel Farage & Alex Phillips have been awfully quiet about Nathan Gill pleading guilty to eight counts of bribery relating to pro-Russia statements made in European parliament and articles.
Just wanted to refresh their memories about how they were all a team through that period.
Just wanted to refresh their memories about how they were all a team through that period.
September 27, 2025 at 8:14 AM
Nigel Farage & Alex Phillips have been awfully quiet about Nathan Gill pleading guilty to eight counts of bribery relating to pro-Russia statements made in European parliament and articles.
Just wanted to refresh their memories about how they were all a team through that period.
Just wanted to refresh their memories about how they were all a team through that period.
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Reform UK’s ex-leader in Wales Nathan Gill pleads guilty to bribery charges
Reform UK’s ex-leader in Wales Nathan Gill pleads guilty to bribery charges
Gill admits to eight charges while an elected member of the European parliament
Nathan Gill, a former leader of Reform UK in Wales, has pleaded guilty at the Old Bailey to eight bribery charges while an elected member of the European parliament.
More details soon … Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
September 26, 2025 at 12:11 PM
Reform UK’s ex-leader in Wales Nathan Gill pleads guilty to bribery charges
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The Reform right like the MAGA right are completely fact averse and know that they can bullshit their way to power because their followers simply don't care about truth.
That's the threat this country faces, and it strikes me that our media are ill equipped to tackle it and failing us all.
That's the threat this country faces, and it strikes me that our media are ill equipped to tackle it and failing us all.
September 22, 2025 at 8:13 AM
The Reform right like the MAGA right are completely fact averse and know that they can bullshit their way to power because their followers simply don't care about truth.
That's the threat this country faces, and it strikes me that our media are ill equipped to tackle it and failing us all.
That's the threat this country faces, and it strikes me that our media are ill equipped to tackle it and failing us all.
Interested to understand if this deal gets reviewed by the Competition and Markets Authority. For a govt that has pledged to help farming profitability, this can't help farmers?
www.independent.co.uk/news/busines...
#MinetteBatters #SteveReed #NFU
www.independent.co.uk/news/busines...
#MinetteBatters #SteveReed #NFU
Two of the UK’s biggest bakeries to combine to make bread giant
The move follows a strategic review of the Allied Bakeries business
www.independent.co.uk
August 17, 2025 at 8:09 AM
Interested to understand if this deal gets reviewed by the Competition and Markets Authority. For a govt that has pledged to help farming profitability, this can't help farmers?
www.independent.co.uk/news/busines...
#MinetteBatters #SteveReed #NFU
www.independent.co.uk/news/busines...
#MinetteBatters #SteveReed #NFU
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There's a basic lie in the Government's position on water companies - and unless it confronts it the problem won't get fixed. 🧵
June 3, 2025 at 6:31 AM
There's a basic lie in the Government's position on water companies - and unless it confronts it the problem won't get fixed. 🧵
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Somebody Should Do Something About All The Problems
Somebody Should Do Something About All The Problems
Why isn’t anyone doing anything about all the problems? We’re living in a time with super computers and underwater sea stations and million-dollar laboratories. And still, everyday when I watch the TV...
theonion.com
May 28, 2025 at 9:59 PM
Somebody Should Do Something About All The Problems
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“Low-income households in Britain are now 27 per cent poorer than their equivalents in France and a staggering 60 per cent poorer than those in Ireland.” 🔥 www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2025...
If there’s so much buyer’s remorse about Brexit, why is Nigel Farage the rising figure in UK politics?
Ten years on, an angry tribe sees itself as more English than British - and Ireland must stay alert to the dangers
www.irishtimes.com
May 27, 2025 at 6:48 AM
“Low-income households in Britain are now 27 per cent poorer than their equivalents in France and a staggering 60 per cent poorer than those in Ireland.” 🔥 www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2025...
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Is your Memorial Day barbecue more expensive this year?
Maybe because just 4 firms control 85% of the beef market, 66% of the pork market, and 54% of the poultry market.
Minimal competition means maximized price gouging. https://youtu.be/NuvKoe9Ilvo?si=KoAExA3HWCDTN8L3
Maybe because just 4 firms control 85% of the beef market, 66% of the pork market, and 54% of the poultry market.
Minimal competition means maximized price gouging. https://youtu.be/NuvKoe9Ilvo?si=KoAExA3HWCDTN8L3
How Farmers Are Getting Shafted By Monopolies | Robert Reich
Just 4 firms control 85% of the beef market, 66% of the pork market, and 54% of the poultry market. The result? -Lower p
youtu.be
May 26, 2025 at 12:01 AM
Is your Memorial Day barbecue more expensive this year?
Maybe because just 4 firms control 85% of the beef market, 66% of the pork market, and 54% of the poultry market.
Minimal competition means maximized price gouging. https://youtu.be/NuvKoe9Ilvo?si=KoAExA3HWCDTN8L3
Maybe because just 4 firms control 85% of the beef market, 66% of the pork market, and 54% of the poultry market.
Minimal competition means maximized price gouging. https://youtu.be/NuvKoe9Ilvo?si=KoAExA3HWCDTN8L3
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This Archie Bland piece is such a thing. Beautifully written, heartfelt, triumphant. He's on Bluesky but not active. He should know this is a lovely masterpiece.
www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...
www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...
The boy who came back: the near-death, and changed life, of my son Max
It was, we were told, a case of sudden infant death syndrome interrupted. What followed would transform my understanding of parenting, disability and the breadth of what makes a meaningful life
www.theguardian.com
May 24, 2025 at 7:25 AM
This Archie Bland piece is such a thing. Beautifully written, heartfelt, triumphant. He's on Bluesky but not active. He should know this is a lovely masterpiece.
www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...
www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...
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We're seeing it again: FPTP makes a mockery of democracy.
🚨Turning elections into a lottery
🚨Giving 100% of the power to parties with 25% of the vote
🚨Making us vote for the "lesser evil"
🚨Silencing millions of voices
Sign the petition to scrap it:
🚨Turning elections into a lottery
🚨Giving 100% of the power to parties with 25% of the vote
🚨Making us vote for the "lesser evil"
🚨Silencing millions of voices
Sign the petition to scrap it:
📢 No More First Past the Post Elections!
Thursday’s election results confirm what so many of us already know: the current voting system is broken.
With 5 parties polling strongly, First Past the Post is delivering chaos and turning election...
actionnetwork.org
May 2, 2025 at 12:54 PM
We're seeing it again: FPTP makes a mockery of democracy.
🚨Turning elections into a lottery
🚨Giving 100% of the power to parties with 25% of the vote
🚨Making us vote for the "lesser evil"
🚨Silencing millions of voices
Sign the petition to scrap it:
🚨Turning elections into a lottery
🚨Giving 100% of the power to parties with 25% of the vote
🚨Making us vote for the "lesser evil"
🚨Silencing millions of voices
Sign the petition to scrap it:
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The new Mayor of Cambridgeshire and Peterborough won 28% of the vote, on 33% turnout.
There was no option to pick a second preference.
Like in the West of England, the winning candidate was elected by less than 10% of the electorate.
This is not sustainable. FPTP must go.
There was no option to pick a second preference.
Like in the West of England, the winning candidate was elected by less than 10% of the electorate.
This is not sustainable. FPTP must go.
May 2, 2025 at 5:01 PM
The new Mayor of Cambridgeshire and Peterborough won 28% of the vote, on 33% turnout.
There was no option to pick a second preference.
Like in the West of England, the winning candidate was elected by less than 10% of the electorate.
This is not sustainable. FPTP must go.
There was no option to pick a second preference.
Like in the West of England, the winning candidate was elected by less than 10% of the electorate.
This is not sustainable. FPTP must go.
@i-communities.bsky.social enjoyed listening to Kirsten S-W on #BBCRadio4, are there any UK based #intentionalcommunities that have achieved 'Registered Provider' status? #HomesEngland
May 3, 2025 at 7:54 AM
@i-communities.bsky.social enjoyed listening to Kirsten S-W on #BBCRadio4, are there any UK based #intentionalcommunities that have achieved 'Registered Provider' status? #HomesEngland
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"The Agriculture Department will not require poultry companies to limit salmonella bacteria in their products, halting a Biden Administration effort to prevent food poisoning from contaminated meat."
www.seattletimes.com/business/usd...
www.seattletimes.com/business/usd...
USDA withdraws a plan to limit salmonella levels in raw poultry
The Agriculture Department says it is withdrawing a plan to limit salmonella bacteria in poultry products.
www.seattletimes.com
April 25, 2025 at 1:32 AM
"The Agriculture Department will not require poultry companies to limit salmonella bacteria in their products, halting a Biden Administration effort to prevent food poisoning from contaminated meat."
www.seattletimes.com/business/usd...
www.seattletimes.com/business/usd...