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Pen name of author and journalist Andrew Scott.

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Andrew John Scott is a British economist, currently Professor of Economics at London Business School, known for his work on longevity and macroeconomics. Previously he was a lecturer at Oxford University, a visiting professor at Harvard University and a researcher at the London School of Economics. .. more

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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · May 11

A mysterious box arrived at my house....

What COULD be in it?

1/2

Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 9h

I've just read a long, long statement... apparently "very few people knew" about Epstein conviction when Chomsky met Epstein in 2015... laughable

Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 9h

Badenoch!

Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 9h

Yes. Reform wanted her to be asked questions by the students. They don't understand what a debating society is

Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 9h

Expect to see a lot more sleeping peers in the coming days

Josiah Mortimer @josiahmortimer.bsky.social · 11h

Ex Tory MP John Redwood has been made a peer, as Lord Redwood on 31 January, and was formally introduced in the Lords on Tuesday

Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 9h

To be clear they approached the debating society.

Who does thar?

I'll tell you - people who are deliberately engineering controversy in the hope that it will get talked about on talk radio stations and GB News

Lisa Burton 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🇪🇺 @lisaburton.bsky.social · 1d

Reform UK approached Bangor University to ask whether Sarah Pochin (Reform MP) could come to debate. They said no, and this is the response they get

Reform would behave exactly as Donald Trump. Don't agree with them, and they will penalise, threaten, defund, and cancel you. They are proto fascists.

Reposted by Richard S.J. Tol, Andrew Scott

James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 10h

One of the maddest elements of Brexit - and there are *many* - is the rewards that continue to be lavished on the blithering idiots who sold it & continue to be proved wrong about everything every day…

Josiah Mortimer @josiahmortimer.bsky.social · 11h

Ex Tory MP John Redwood has been made a peer, as Lord Redwood on 31 January, and was formally introduced in the Lords on Tuesday

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Josiah Mortimer @josiahmortimer.bsky.social · 11h

Ex Tory MP John Redwood has been made a peer, as Lord Redwood on 31 January, and was formally introduced in the Lords on Tuesday

Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 19h

Reform by-election candidate Matt Goodwin, who has spent years talking about free speech and all that crap chickened out of a hustings today.

As you can see - ALL the other candidates turned up

Statement:

As you know, from my media contributions, I've never been one to shy
away from a free and fair debate,

However, I have serious concerns about the impartiality of the hustings
that have been organised for tonight.

Previous statements by the organising group give the clear impression
that a fair and level platform will not be provided for all candidates, so on
that basis I will not be attending.

I look forward to future opportunities to discuss the issues that matter
most to those in the local area and answer questions from local
residents in a genuinely neutral setting - including at the forthcoming
Manchester Evening News hustings and the BBC's by-election debate on
Monday.

I cannot wait for these debates.

Tonight, I shall be canvassing local people as I have been doing three
times a day every day since this campaign began.

I am very much looking forward to the forthcoming debates!

Vote Reform, Get Starmer Out.

Matt

4:53 PM . Feb 10, 2026 . 10.9K Views

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Peter Jukes @peterjukes.bsky.social · 19h

It’s a serious criminal offence to conspire to remove a UK Prime Minister

Meanwhile, let’s have a look at Steve Bannon’s well documented and ultimately successful attempts to remove Theresa May (with Epstein’s support) from 2018-19

bylinetimes.com/2025/11/19/d...

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Bill Madden @maddenifico.bsky.social · 20h

Trump is mentioned more in the Epstein files than Harry Potter is mentioned in Harry Potter.

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Lisa Burton 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🇪🇺 @lisaburton.bsky.social · 1d

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Gilly 📎 @gillmh.bsky.social · 1d

Sarah Pochin doesn't answer questions, she rants, throws insults and threatens to walk out if she doesn't get her own way. I'm guessing she already knew that she wouldn't be invited and will now use Bangor's refusal to play the victim and whinge about free speech being banned by lefty universities.

Reposted by Jonathan Portes, Andrew Scott, Colin Murray , and 3 more Jonathan Portes, Andrew Scott, Colin Murray, Peter Holmes, Laurent Pech, Federica Genovese

Steve Peers @stevepeers.bsky.social · 1d

The law on universities and free speech prevents speakers from being *disinvited after they have been invited*. It does not require universities to provide a platform to whoever demands one.

Let's not mince words: the threat to cut funding to every university who disagrees with them is fascist.

Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 1d

This is pretty menacing.

Sarah Pochin wrote to Bangor's university student run debating society requesting that she attend to "answer questions from students."

When they said "no" Reform rolled all it's tanks onto the lawns and said they'll cut funding to the entire university if they win.

Reform UK threatens
to cut funding for
Welsh university after
debating society bans
party from campus

want to go to Bangor University'
said nobody ever. Especially if Bangor
University is stripped of government
funding and student loan facilities by
@reformparty_uk Is that "in line with
your values,' poppets?

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John MacPherson @johnmacpherson.bsky.social · 1d

www.lbc.co.uk/article/fara...

Farage rejects Polanski's request for TV debate as Gorton by-election heats up | LBC

Matt Goodwin, of Reform UK, and Hannah Spencer, from the Green Party, are said to be the frontrunners

www.lbc.co.uk

Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 1d

In less surprising news Sarah Pochin clearly doesn't understand what a debating society is or how debates work.

The debating society received a request
from Reform MP Sarah Pochin MP to attend
Bangor University and answer questions
from students, which they refused "in line
with values".

Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 1d

Anyway I'll be writing to Reform later to demand that they let me speak at their conference on the main stage.

If they refuse me they'll be showing themselves to be enemies of free speech

Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 1d

I suspect Reform knew the response in advance

Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 1d

It's a university society and they're entitled to ask who they like. This is deliberate, planned provocation to grab news headlines.

Reposted by Steve Peers, Michael H. Whitworth, Paul Fisher , and 4 more Steve Peers, Michael H. Whitworth, Paul Fisher, Glen O’Hara, Vaughan S. Roberts, Sue Timmis, Christina Pagel

Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 1d

Who's they?

Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 1d

You can get cash in a bank using contactless if you have id apparently

Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 1d

Like you I assumed there'd be a masterplan.

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Paul Sandham - formerly known as ........ @paulsandham.bsky.social · 1d

Bangor University’s 2026/7 marketing campaign has been finalised. It might prove to be their best recruitment campaign ever.

A tweet from the effervescent turd licking hypocrite and click baiting moron - Isabel oakeshott - the kind of person who promotes racial and religious intolerance / white nationalism whilst evading tax in a sharia law enclave - one of whose leaders has been accused of sending child sex torture videos to Epstein - any way enough of these fanboy allegations (or are they facts?) - this is a screenshot of her tweet that simply says - ‘I want to go to Bangor university’ said nobody ever.

Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 1d

Remember pieces in the paper years ago predicting a cash free society and thinking "oh I don't like the sound of that." In fact pretty much every "oh I don't like the sound of that" from childhood that became a reality massively improved life

Whereas flying cars... where are they Tomorrow's World?