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Mrs Bilbo Baggins
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Mum and GP amongst other things.Remainer (Rejoiner now) because nothing else makes sense. 🇪🇺💙🇺🇦🇵🇸.
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Previously on Bylines Scotland...
Wanted: a prime minister who can stand up to the far right
Whatever his other attributes, Keir Starmer is not the right man to take the fight to Nigel Farage's far right
bylines.scot
November 26, 2025 at 8:53 AM
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🚨The Petition calling for a public inquiry into Russian influence on UK politics & democracy has now rocketed past 55,000 signatures! Let’s get it to 100,000. If a petition is what it’s going to take let’s get this done!

petition.parliament.uk/petitions/74...
November 26, 2025 at 8:41 AM
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The EU’s highest court rebukes Poland - ruled that same-sex marriages must be respected throughout the bloc

The court said this did not require member states to allow marriage between people of the same sex in their national laws.

But they are not allowed to discriminate against same-sex couples
EU court rules entire bloc must respect same-sex marriages in rebuke to Poland
Couple who married in Germany had their right to a ‘normal family life’ impeded, court of justice finds
www.theguardian.com
November 26, 2025 at 10:47 AM
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Пожалуйста, не подписывайте эту петицию.
🔥 Highly recommended that you all sign and share.

Link to the petition—> petition.parliament.uk/petitions/74...
November 26, 2025 at 9:49 AM
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We are moving inexorably to the end point of electoral chaos - five parties all tied on 19% in the polls, election to be decided by blindfolded chimps chucking coloured darts at a constituency map
Westminster Voting Intention:

RFM: 25% (-2)
LAB: 19% (=)
CON: 18% (+1)
GRN: 16% (-1)
LDM: 15% (+2)
SNP: 3% (=)

Via @yougov.co.uk, 23-24 Nov.
Changes w/ 16-17 Nov.
November 25, 2025 at 11:14 AM
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Not only did Brexit not provide any extra money for the NHS - as liar-in-chief Boris Johnson promised - but Brexit is impoverishing the UK each year by an amount of money not far off the annual NHS budget.

Thanks Farage.
November 26, 2025 at 10:48 AM
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Staggering. One of the most deceitful shysters around.
I’m a past winner of the Orwell Prize & won partly because I exposed Vote Leave’s unlawful activities.

Michael Gove was its co-convener & refused to answer a single q. He’s now a judge of the prize & our world is truly one that Orwell would recognise

bylinetimes.com/2025/11/25/m...
Michael Gove Made Orwell Prize Judge Despite Record of Attacking Journalists and Dodging Scrutiny
Critics say "Orwell would have enjoyed the irony" of the former Conservative minister's appointment
bylinetimes.com
November 25, 2025 at 6:14 PM
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I’m a past winner of the Orwell Prize & won partly because I exposed Vote Leave’s unlawful activities.

Michael Gove was its co-convener & refused to answer a single q. He’s now a judge of the prize & our world is truly one that Orwell would recognise

bylinetimes.com/2025/11/25/m...
Michael Gove Made Orwell Prize Judge Despite Record of Attacking Journalists and Dodging Scrutiny
Critics say "Orwell would have enjoyed the irony" of the former Conservative minister's appointment
bylinetimes.com
November 25, 2025 at 5:53 PM
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🚨WOW! The Petition calling for a public inquiry into Russian influence on UK politics & democracy has now rocketed past 47,000 signatures! Let’s get it to 50,000 tonight. If a petition is what it’s going to take let’s get this done!

petition.parliament.uk/petitions/74...
November 25, 2025 at 7:51 PM
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Bossy headline from The Times letting Farage insist his “Hitler was right” racism was just ‘banter’.
If that were true, his politics now would be different and he’d apologise. He’s defensive because this is what he is and always has been and he’s angry with us for knowing that and for minding.
November 25, 2025 at 7:53 AM
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Every day the #BBC uncritically platform dark money funded right-wing voices. Examples include the Institute of Economic Affairs, the Taxpayers' Alliance & the ridiculous right-wing contrarians Spiked. Time to call time on media representation without knowing who pays the bills.
November 25, 2025 at 8:52 PM
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When I hear Farage talking about rounding up and deporting hundreds of thousands of human beings, and threatening those with leave to remain or settled status, I cannot help but think of the schoolboy sidling up to me and telling me that “Hitler was right”

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Don’t believe Nigel Farage’s denials. He targeted me for being Jewish – and it hurt | Peter Ettedgui
Now that my former classmate has finally spoken about the allegations of his behaviour at school, I feel compelled to address his points directly, says Peter Ettedgui, a film director and producer
www.theguardian.com
November 25, 2025 at 8:34 PM
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The BBC's has responded in The Guardian that this was a routine editorial decision, but also that it was made on legal advice. Those two explanations don’t fit together. /1
I wish I didn’t have to share this. But the BBC has decided to censor my first Reith Lecture.

They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
November 25, 2025 at 2:40 PM
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BREAKING: This is huge news, the EU's equivalent of the 🇺🇸Supreme Court's 2015 Obergefell v. Hodges ruling.

🇪🇺Court of Justice just ruled all 🇪🇺countries must recognise same-sex marriages granted in other member states.

This effectively legalises gay marriage across 🇪🇺
www.reuters.com
November 25, 2025 at 10:10 AM
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The anti-British anti-woke mob have got the BBC where they wanted it - afraid of offending right wing extremists, Trump, et al www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Historian Rutger Bregman criticises BBC for removing Donald Trump line from Radio 4's Reith Lecture
Rutger Bregman says he is
www.bbc.co.uk
November 25, 2025 at 9:00 PM
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It never stops.
The grubby donations. The profiteering. The lobbying. The lies.
“In 2019-20, as the UK was leaving the EU, Harborne gave £10m to Nigel Farage’s Brexit party, since renamed Reform UK.”
They make damn sure they get what they want.
We get screwed.

www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Cryptocurrency backed by Farage donor is used for Russian war effort, investigators say
Tether tokens found to facilitate scheme that enables sanctions evasion and launders money for the Kremlin
www.theguardian.com
November 21, 2025 at 7:43 AM
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If Jimmy Savile was alive today:
September 20, 2025 at 6:34 PM
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Also even if privately those people conceded that what Labour was proposing was enough, they'd just outbid them anyway and manufacture further grievances that more extreme measures were required to redress.
VERY funny that Labour are being pointlessly cruel and haemorrhaging support from their base and yet none of what they're offering is ever going to be enough for the people whose approval they're seeking, WHO could have predicted it
November 20, 2025 at 3:54 PM
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VERY funny that Labour are being pointlessly cruel and haemorrhaging support from their base and yet none of what they're offering is ever going to be enough for the people whose approval they're seeking, WHO could have predicted it
November 20, 2025 at 3:20 PM
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Scientists at the CDC were left reeling after discovering that the agency had quietly rewritten long-standing vaccine language to fuel a debunked autism claim.
Scientists Freak Out as RFK Jr.’s CDC Makes Jaw-Dropping Vaccine U-Turn
Experts at the CDC were blindsided by an update to the language linking vaccinations to autism.
trib.al
November 20, 2025 at 12:24 PM
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The real BBC bias story, narrated by Anna Ford
November 19, 2025 at 12:12 PM
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It is well worth reading Lord Hannay’s well crafted - though short - speech on the occasion of his 90th birtday. Poignant and personal he shares some of his fascinating experiences,
finishing up on a positive note. www.eiag.org.uk/david-hannay...
David Hannay’s personal remarks at a dinner in Brussels celebrating his 90th birthday
I remain convinced that European integration remains in Britain’s interest. The EU is here to stay – and to prosper and to grow.
www.eiag.org.uk
November 12, 2025 at 2:27 PM
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Scotland's international work strengthens our global reputation. Engaging with our international partners has been integral to record export sales, inward investment and tourism growth. Read more in the International Strategy Annual Report 2024-25. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🌍
www.gov.scot/news/interna...
November 12, 2025 at 1:11 PM