Phil
@waysider.bsky.social
Anti Tory, pro EU, Rejoin, pro minimum income. Spireite. Local History buff. Dog Lover. Love exploring Scotland.
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My colleagues & I have taken a huge gamble to set up @thenerve.news We’re trying to build a new independent publication from the ground up. Social media is our only distribution for now.
Sharing this article in your networks would make a huge difference. Thank you! 🙏🙏🙏
Sharing this article in your networks would make a huge difference. Thank you! 🙏🙏🙏
NEW: The British politician, his Russian intelligence handler & a Kremlin plot against the US & Ukraine.
My new piece about Nathan Gill and Nigel Farage for @thenerve_news in which we ask:
Why, even now, is no-one asking questions?
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My new piece about Nathan Gill and Nigel Farage for @thenerve_news in which we ask:
Why, even now, is no-one asking questions?
t.co/BUTtpK9C4S
October 13, 2025 at 9:21 AM
My colleagues & I have taken a huge gamble to set up @thenerve.news We’re trying to build a new independent publication from the ground up. Social media is our only distribution for now.
Sharing this article in your networks would make a huge difference. Thank you! 🙏🙏🙏
Sharing this article in your networks would make a huge difference. Thank you! 🙏🙏🙏
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“Let’s call it for what it is: bullshit. The truth is, politicians have talked about little else but immigration for decades and in the most dehumanising ways.
Polanski added: “Stop the boats’ is all we hear. Well, today I'm saying ‘stop the bullshit’.”
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...
Polanski added: “Stop the boats’ is all we hear. Well, today I'm saying ‘stop the bullshit’.”
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...
UK faces ‘battle for the soul’ of the country, says Starmer amid Reform threat
In a rallying cry to progressives around the world, the Prime Minister said allies must stop the ‘politics of predatory grievance’.
www.independent.co.uk
September 26, 2025 at 1:34 PM
“Let’s call it for what it is: bullshit. The truth is, politicians have talked about little else but immigration for decades and in the most dehumanising ways.
Polanski added: “Stop the boats’ is all we hear. Well, today I'm saying ‘stop the bullshit’.”
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...
Polanski added: “Stop the boats’ is all we hear. Well, today I'm saying ‘stop the bullshit’.”
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...
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"You can say what you like, I don’t care, because that’s what free speech is," Nigel Farage has just told the House Judiciary Committee, about three hours after his party banned me from covering its conference this weekend.
Nigel Farage is about to give evidence to the US Congress on threats to free speech in the UK.
So here's one for him: Reform UK has just banned me (and @thenewworldmag.bsky.social) from attending its party conference this weekend. www.thenewworld.co.uk/james-ball-w...
So here's one for him: Reform UK has just banned me (and @thenewworldmag.bsky.social) from attending its party conference this weekend. www.thenewworld.co.uk/james-ball-w...
Chicken Farage bans The New World
It claims to be the party of free speech, but this last-minute decision to stop me attending tells a very different story
www.thenewworld.co.uk
September 3, 2025 at 2:44 PM
"You can say what you like, I don’t care, because that’s what free speech is," Nigel Farage has just told the House Judiciary Committee, about three hours after his party banned me from covering its conference this weekend.
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I prosecute and defend the most serious sexual offences in our courts.
The overwhelming majority of offenders are British-born. Overwhelmingly the victim is someone known to them, either a partner or relative.
Anybody purporting to care about protecting women might start there.
The overwhelming majority of offenders are British-born. Overwhelmingly the victim is someone known to them, either a partner or relative.
Anybody purporting to care about protecting women might start there.
August 4, 2025 at 3:29 PM
I prosecute and defend the most serious sexual offences in our courts.
The overwhelming majority of offenders are British-born. Overwhelmingly the victim is someone known to them, either a partner or relative.
Anybody purporting to care about protecting women might start there.
The overwhelming majority of offenders are British-born. Overwhelmingly the victim is someone known to them, either a partner or relative.
Anybody purporting to care about protecting women might start there.
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NEW: Another 91 starving people executed whilst queueing at aid stations in Gaza.
80 years ago, they were offered showers and gassed. Today, they are offered food and shot.
80 years ago, they were offered showers and gassed. Today, they are offered food and shot.
At least 91 killed seeking aid in Gaza as US envoy Steve Witkoff visits Israel
Crowds of hungry people waiting for humanitarian aid at Zikim crossing shot at by Israeli soldiers
www.theguardian.com
July 31, 2025 at 5:32 PM
NEW: Another 91 starving people executed whilst queueing at aid stations in Gaza.
80 years ago, they were offered showers and gassed. Today, they are offered food and shot.
80 years ago, they were offered showers and gassed. Today, they are offered food and shot.
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Wishing this new ship good luck on its trip trying to get to #GAZA.
Starving & injured children left without food, water and medical help as Israel bombs people desperately queuing for aid.
Journey of merci.
The humanitarian activists risk attacks, arrest and deportation
Wishing this new ship good luck on its trip trying to get to #GAZA.
Starving & injured children left without food, water and medical help as Israel bombs people desperately queuing for aid.
Journey of merci.
The humanitarian activists risk attacks, arrest and deportation
New aid flotilla sets sail for Gaza
YouTube video by Middle East Eye
youtube.com
July 12, 2025 at 7:44 AM
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Wishing this new ship good luck on its trip trying to get to #GAZA.
Starving & injured children left without food, water and medical help as Israel bombs people desperately queuing for aid.
Journey of merci.
The humanitarian activists risk attacks, arrest and deportation
Wishing this new ship good luck on its trip trying to get to #GAZA.
Starving & injured children left without food, water and medical help as Israel bombs people desperately queuing for aid.
Journey of merci.
The humanitarian activists risk attacks, arrest and deportation
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This is how it works.
July 11, 2025 at 10:18 AM
This is how it works.
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A prime example of a self serving career politician. Not a public spirited thought in sight.
2024: Former Conservative Party Chairman Jake Berry criticises Nigel Farage, saying he was "irresponsible" for stoking division in society
2025: Jake Berry joins Nigel Farage
2025: Jake Berry joins Nigel Farage
July 10, 2025 at 8:51 AM
A prime example of a self serving career politician. Not a public spirited thought in sight.
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‘Party given endless airtime and never held to account influencing politics,’ says member of the media who gives that party endless airtime and never holds them to account
July 10, 2025 at 8:02 AM
‘Party given endless airtime and never held to account influencing politics,’ says member of the media who gives that party endless airtime and never holds them to account
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2024: Former Conservative Party Chairman Jake Berry criticises Nigel Farage, saying he was "irresponsible" for stoking division in society
2025: Jake Berry joins Nigel Farage
2025: Jake Berry joins Nigel Farage
July 9, 2025 at 8:59 PM
2024: Former Conservative Party Chairman Jake Berry criticises Nigel Farage, saying he was "irresponsible" for stoking division in society
2025: Jake Berry joins Nigel Farage
2025: Jake Berry joins Nigel Farage
#Durhamcountycouncil it appears your Deputy Leader has being lying about not holding surgeries- local police say they have NOT advised him to hold surgeries @darrengrimes.bsky.social
July 3, 2025 at 7:52 PM
#Durhamcountycouncil it appears your Deputy Leader has being lying about not holding surgeries- local police say they have NOT advised him to hold surgeries @darrengrimes.bsky.social
@durhamcouncil.bsky.social how long are you going to put up with the outpourings of your Deputy Leader?
July 2, 2025 at 4:27 PM
@durhamcouncil.bsky.social how long are you going to put up with the outpourings of your Deputy Leader?
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The revealing news priorities of the BBC on Israel-Palestine. The language of violence; and the actual state violence of the IDF.
June 30, 2025 at 7:09 PM
The revealing news priorities of the BBC on Israel-Palestine. The language of violence; and the actual state violence of the IDF.
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Thank God for Channel 4 reporting what needs to be reported not what Right Wing puppet masters want us to hear👇🏼👇🏼
Why aren’t BBC, ITV, Sky etc highlighting this rather than plastering Farage and Reform, Trump, Isreal as a victim etc over our screens❓
Because they’re Cheerleaders for the Right Wing🤷🏼♂️
Why aren’t BBC, ITV, Sky etc highlighting this rather than plastering Farage and Reform, Trump, Isreal as a victim etc over our screens❓
Because they’re Cheerleaders for the Right Wing🤷🏼♂️
Channel 4 to air BBC-commissioned documentary Gaza: Doctors Under Attack
BBC last week announced it had dropped the film over concerns it may create a ‘perception of partiality’
www.theguardian.com
June 29, 2025 at 1:07 PM
Thank God for Channel 4 reporting what needs to be reported not what Right Wing puppet masters want us to hear👇🏼👇🏼
Why aren’t BBC, ITV, Sky etc highlighting this rather than plastering Farage and Reform, Trump, Isreal as a victim etc over our screens❓
Because they’re Cheerleaders for the Right Wing🤷🏼♂️
Why aren’t BBC, ITV, Sky etc highlighting this rather than plastering Farage and Reform, Trump, Isreal as a victim etc over our screens❓
Because they’re Cheerleaders for the Right Wing🤷🏼♂️
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NIGEL Farage has denied that there is a genocide ongoing in Gaza and said he would not block any weapons exports to Israel if Reform UK came to power.
The IDF are now luring starving children out with food so they can shoot them and they’re still bombing Gaza. Farage says nothing about that.
The IDF are now luring starving children out with food so they can shoot them and they’re still bombing Gaza. Farage says nothing about that.
June 29, 2025 at 7:54 AM
NIGEL Farage has denied that there is a genocide ongoing in Gaza and said he would not block any weapons exports to Israel if Reform UK came to power.
The IDF are now luring starving children out with food so they can shoot them and they’re still bombing Gaza. Farage says nothing about that.
The IDF are now luring starving children out with food so they can shoot them and they’re still bombing Gaza. Farage says nothing about that.
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“If you become disabled before next April, you'll get £13.85 a day to pay for someone to help. If you become disabled on May 1, you'll get £7.14 a day. What was insufficient will become farcical”
@fleetstreetfox.bsky.social
www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...
@fleetstreetfox.bsky.social
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'Why the PIP cuts will push disabled people OUT of work'
Disabled benefit is being cut to "encourage" the sick into work, says Fleet Street Fox. It will have the opposite effect
www.mirror.co.uk
June 16, 2025 at 2:52 PM
“If you become disabled before next April, you'll get £13.85 a day to pay for someone to help. If you become disabled on May 1, you'll get £7.14 a day. What was insufficient will become farcical”
@fleetstreetfox.bsky.social
www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...
@fleetstreetfox.bsky.social
www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...
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A video circulating on social media claims to show an Iranian drone attack on Israel.
But this video is from 2022 and shows a drone attack in Kyiv, Ukraine.
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But this video is from 2022 and shows a drone attack in Kyiv, Ukraine.
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Old video of Kyiv drone attack shared as recent footage of Israel-Iran conflict – Full Fact
The video has been horizontally flipped.
fullfact.org
June 16, 2025 at 4:11 PM
A video circulating on social media claims to show an Iranian drone attack on Israel.
But this video is from 2022 and shows a drone attack in Kyiv, Ukraine.
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But this video is from 2022 and shows a drone attack in Kyiv, Ukraine.
buff.ly/NMAipBX
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After the election counts finished and the camera crews headed home, Reform UK councillors – over 800 of them now, running 12 councils – had to grapple with a new question: ‘What are we going to do now?’
Now that question is starting to be answered...
bylinetimes.com/2025/06/16/r...
Now that question is starting to be answered...
bylinetimes.com/2025/06/16/r...
Resignations, Cancelled Meetings and Culture Wars: How Reform UK Councils Are Descending Into Chaos
Nigel Farage's band of newly-elected councillors are already starting to struggle, reports Josiah Mortimer
bylinetimes.com
June 16, 2025 at 2:50 PM
After the election counts finished and the camera crews headed home, Reform UK councillors – over 800 of them now, running 12 councils – had to grapple with a new question: ‘What are we going to do now?’
Now that question is starting to be answered...
bylinetimes.com/2025/06/16/r...
Now that question is starting to be answered...
bylinetimes.com/2025/06/16/r...
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I've been digging into what the new Reform UK councils have been up to. Thanks to everyone who's been sending in tips.
Nigel Farage’s band of newly-elected councillors are already starting to struggle:
bylinetimes.com/2025/06/16/r...
Nigel Farage’s band of newly-elected councillors are already starting to struggle:
bylinetimes.com/2025/06/16/r...
Resignations, Cancelled Meetings and Culture Wars: How Reform UK Councils Are Descending Into Chaos
Nigel Farage's band of newly-elected councillors are already starting to struggle, reports Josiah Mortimer
bylinetimes.com
June 16, 2025 at 2:49 PM
I've been digging into what the new Reform UK councils have been up to. Thanks to everyone who's been sending in tips.
Nigel Farage’s band of newly-elected councillors are already starting to struggle:
bylinetimes.com/2025/06/16/r...
Nigel Farage’s band of newly-elected councillors are already starting to struggle:
bylinetimes.com/2025/06/16/r...
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A widely shared video claims to show a large number of asylum seekers on a Dover beach.
But the footage isn’t from Dover. It appears to have been filmed on a popular beach in Goa, India.
But the footage isn’t from Dover. It appears to have been filmed on a popular beach in Goa, India.
Viral video does not show migrants at the beach in Dover – Full Fact
A widely shared clip which contains a voiceover of someone claiming people on a beach are asylum seekers at Dover is misleading.
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June 14, 2025 at 9:00 AM
A widely shared video claims to show a large number of asylum seekers on a Dover beach.
But the footage isn’t from Dover. It appears to have been filmed on a popular beach in Goa, India.
But the footage isn’t from Dover. It appears to have been filmed on a popular beach in Goa, India.
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The Gibraltar First Minister correcting the Brexit zealots (liars) at the Telegraph.
June 13, 2025 at 8:51 AM
The Gibraltar First Minister correcting the Brexit zealots (liars) at the Telegraph.
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Who’s funding Reform – and why?
Who’s funding Reform – and why?
Nigel Farage says his party is a break from the political establishment. That claim doesn’t match up with its donors
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June 12, 2025 at 11:19 AM
Who’s funding Reform – and why?
