@aledgruffydd.bsky.social
Historian, of sorts. 🏴 https://www.linkedin.com/in/aled-jones-8b329250
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Nigel Farage’s response to allegations of racist behaviour reveals more than we could have guessed—and why the Beeb needs to protect itself, writes @arusbridger.bsky.social.
Farage’s attack on the BBC tells us who he really is
His response to allegations of racist behaviour reveals more than we could have guessed—and why the Beeb needs to protect itself
www.prospectmagazine.co.uk
December 15, 2025 at 7:22 AM
Nigel Farage’s response to allegations of racist behaviour reveals more than we could have guessed—and why the Beeb needs to protect itself, writes @arusbridger.bsky.social.
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'The dictionary will not be huge because relatively few words survive, but experts from Aberystwyth University say they expect they will end up with more than 1,000 words.'
Linguists start compiling first ever complete dictionary of ancient Celtic
More than 1,000 words used as far back as 325BC to be collected for insight into past linguistic landscape
www.theguardian.com
December 8, 2025 at 7:39 AM
'The dictionary will not be huge because relatively few words survive, but experts from Aberystwyth University say they expect they will end up with more than 1,000 words.'
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Holy shit.
Reuters reporting that new admin instructions on visas are if you worked at a platform in trust & safety or content moderation or on fact checking or online safety at an platform you *and your loved ones* are ineligible for H-1B visa.
www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...
Reuters reporting that new admin instructions on visas are if you worked at a platform in trust & safety or content moderation or on fact checking or online safety at an platform you *and your loved ones* are ineligible for H-1B visa.
www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...
December 4, 2025 at 5:41 PM
Holy shit.
Reuters reporting that new admin instructions on visas are if you worked at a platform in trust & safety or content moderation or on fact checking or online safety at an platform you *and your loved ones* are ineligible for H-1B visa.
www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...
Reuters reporting that new admin instructions on visas are if you worked at a platform in trust & safety or content moderation or on fact checking or online safety at an platform you *and your loved ones* are ineligible for H-1B visa.
www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...
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Also the Romans literally had a welfare system that included cash transfers for poor children. (And subsidised grain for low income workers...).
There was no state. Who does she think crucified him, an anarchist collective?
November 28, 2025 at 11:23 AM
Also the Romans literally had a welfare system that included cash transfers for poor children. (And subsidised grain for low income workers...).
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There was no state. Who does she think crucified him, an anarchist collective?
November 28, 2025 at 11:22 AM
There was no state. Who does she think crucified him, an anarchist collective?
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“It seems free speech only exists for people who agree with them.” Reform UK's legal threats against Welsh news service @nation.cymru hints at the party taking a more aggressive approach to the #UK media. Read Daniel Boffey's analysis:
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Reform’s ‘Trumpian’ legal threats hint at more aggressive approach to media
Ultimatums sent to publications appear to intensify as Nigel Farage’s party rises in polls
www.theguardian.com
November 25, 2025 at 1:38 PM
“It seems free speech only exists for people who agree with them.” Reform UK's legal threats against Welsh news service @nation.cymru hints at the party taking a more aggressive approach to the #UK media. Read Daniel Boffey's analysis:
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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I read “It is hard to imagine that taking place in Britain” initially as “thank goodness”. Then I realised that Phillips *wants* this for Britain! He wants a Britain where visible minorities live in fear of abduction and deportation? WTAF?
Just a jaw-dropping paragraph in Trevor Phillips's column for The Times.
This is a policy that, by his own account, has left parents of a particular race too frightened to walk their children to school.
And that's the example he chooses of the "vigour" we "need".
www.thetimes.com/comment/colu...
This is a policy that, by his own account, has left parents of a particular race too frightened to walk their children to school.
And that's the example he chooses of the "vigour" we "need".
www.thetimes.com/comment/colu...
November 24, 2025 at 11:40 PM
I read “It is hard to imagine that taking place in Britain” initially as “thank goodness”. Then I realised that Phillips *wants* this for Britain! He wants a Britain where visible minorities live in fear of abduction and deportation? WTAF?
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X has changed their policy and now you can see where the accounts are based.
Here’s an “influencer from Texas”
Here’s an “influencer from Texas”
November 21, 2025 at 6:36 PM
X has changed their policy and now you can see where the accounts are based.
Here’s an “influencer from Texas”
Here’s an “influencer from Texas”
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Late to this, but if the Sunday Times is correct that Morgan McSweeney spent one and a half hours last week with Lord Glasman then he isn't fit to fill any senior position in government.
November 16, 2025 at 8:33 PM
Late to this, but if the Sunday Times is correct that Morgan McSweeney spent one and a half hours last week with Lord Glasman then he isn't fit to fill any senior position in government.
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Interesting to see so many great British patriots right now begging an American president to bankrupt one of Britain’s last remaining truly national institutions.
November 15, 2025 at 4:14 PM
Interesting to see so many great British patriots right now begging an American president to bankrupt one of Britain’s last remaining truly national institutions.
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I'm not sure if others have noticed this, but interesting that one of the Prescott criticisms of the BBC is based on those of the 'History Reclaimed' group, which is also associated with the 'Restore Trust' group's attacks on & so far unsuccessful attempts to take control of the National Trust. 1/3
November 11, 2025 at 3:19 PM
I'm not sure if others have noticed this, but interesting that one of the Prescott criticisms of the BBC is based on those of the 'History Reclaimed' group, which is also associated with the 'Restore Trust' group's attacks on & so far unsuccessful attempts to take control of the National Trust. 1/3
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Nigel Farage, who has so far registered a total of £280,500 for four hours a month as a "brand ambassador" for a company selling gold bars, thinks a £10 an hour minimum wage for young people is too high bylinetimes.com/2025/11/03/n...
Nigel Farage Says Minimum Wage Should Be Cut for Young People
The Reform leader said cutting the minimum wage for young people would boost business, as he attacked plans to raise taxes on the wealthy
bylinetimes.com
November 3, 2025 at 1:05 PM
Nigel Farage, who has so far registered a total of £280,500 for four hours a month as a "brand ambassador" for a company selling gold bars, thinks a £10 an hour minimum wage for young people is too high bylinetimes.com/2025/11/03/n...
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Another great clunking debunking by Emma Monk. Do follow her!
November 3, 2025 at 4:32 PM
Another great clunking debunking by Emma Monk. Do follow her!
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Why not toss them a few bucks?
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November 1, 2025 at 10:20 PM
If you use Wikipedia, you might have noticed that it isn't cluttered with annoying ads. They depend entirely on donations to remain free & independent.
Why not toss them a few bucks?
donate.wikimedia.org/w/index.php
Why not toss them a few bucks?
donate.wikimedia.org/w/index.php
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Superb reporting by @peterjukes.bsky.social in @bylinetimes.bsky.social on Farage, Putin & Nathan Gill.
The sort of reporting you’d want the BBC to do and should really be career-ending for Farage if @teamlabouruk.bsky.social or the Tories knew what they were doing!
bylinetimes.com/2025/10/04/t...
The sort of reporting you’d want the BBC to do and should really be career-ending for Farage if @teamlabouruk.bsky.social or the Tories knew what they were doing!
bylinetimes.com/2025/10/04/t...
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October 25, 2025 at 1:10 PM
Superb reporting by @peterjukes.bsky.social in @bylinetimes.bsky.social on Farage, Putin & Nathan Gill.
The sort of reporting you’d want the BBC to do and should really be career-ending for Farage if @teamlabouruk.bsky.social or the Tories knew what they were doing!
bylinetimes.com/2025/10/04/t...
The sort of reporting you’d want the BBC to do and should really be career-ending for Farage if @teamlabouruk.bsky.social or the Tories knew what they were doing!
bylinetimes.com/2025/10/04/t...
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So, another week when we'll continue to ignore the increasingly obvious issue of political radicalisation via social media? And indeed the tied issue of the large tech companies who promote this, and the tech bros who see this as some sort of move to a utopian paradise governed by them?
October 20, 2025 at 6:32 AM
So, another week when we'll continue to ignore the increasingly obvious issue of political radicalisation via social media? And indeed the tied issue of the large tech companies who promote this, and the tech bros who see this as some sort of move to a utopian paradise governed by them?
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'An archive is the raw material of history... Furthermore, if that archive is the archive of the BBC – the British Broadcasting Corporation, paid for by you and me over the last century – it belongs to us. It is our history.' @ericawgnr.bsky.social on BBC restricting access to its written archives.
Historians dismayed by ‘scandal’ of BBC cutting access to...
Critics say new limit to trove of information sounds knell for independent research
observer.co.uk
October 19, 2025 at 8:26 AM
'An archive is the raw material of history... Furthermore, if that archive is the archive of the BBC – the British Broadcasting Corporation, paid for by you and me over the last century – it belongs to us. It is our history.' @ericawgnr.bsky.social on BBC restricting access to its written archives.
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I am outraged that apparently jews are not welcome at football matches in Tel Aviv (am I doing this right?)
news.sky.com/story/tel-av...
news.sky.com/story/tel-av...
Tel Aviv football derby cancelled as 'violent riots' see nine arrested
Police said dozens of smoke grenades and pyrotechnic devices were thrown, injuring 12 civilians and three police officers.
news.sky.com
October 19, 2025 at 9:08 PM
I am outraged that apparently jews are not welcome at football matches in Tel Aviv (am I doing this right?)
news.sky.com/story/tel-av...
news.sky.com/story/tel-av...
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This, this, this. If journalists don’t scrutinize this and explain it properly now then they have failed on their duty and will bear a share of the blame if such policies are enacted (most of the public oppose them and don’t I think realise what is being proposed yet).
Apropos of nothing, I really do think UK journalists and politicians need some reminding that mass deportation of LEGAL immigrants, particularly those with permanent status, is far more extreme than even Trump's America and would basically place Britain completely on its own among democracies.
October 19, 2025 at 12:25 PM
This, this, this. If journalists don’t scrutinize this and explain it properly now then they have failed on their duty and will bear a share of the blame if such policies are enacted (most of the public oppose them and don’t I think realise what is being proposed yet).
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This is beautiful @zackpolanski.bsky.social
October 17, 2025 at 8:16 AM
This is beautiful @zackpolanski.bsky.social
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Same day. Same plenary session. Same visit to Gill’s office. Same Farage, Same Gill, same wife of sanctioned pro Russian agent.
Six days after the first bribery charge
Six days after the first bribery charge
October 10, 2025 at 9:15 PM
Same day. Same plenary session. Same visit to Gill’s office. Same Farage, Same Gill, same wife of sanctioned pro Russian agent.
Six days after the first bribery charge
Six days after the first bribery charge
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This matters.
Same day. Same plenary session. Same visit to Gill’s office. Same Farage, Same Gill, same wife of sanctioned pro Russian agent.
Six days after the first bribery charge
Six days after the first bribery charge
October 10, 2025 at 9:35 PM
This matters.
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Important to remember it is possible to mobilise coalitions against the radical/far right.
The AfD qualified for three mayoral run-offs in cities in North Rhine-Westphalia today, and lost all by big margins. The lesson is not that we have overdone the AfD's rise, but that we do perhaps sometimes underestimate the counter-mobilisation effects - including in east Germany, incidentally.
September 28, 2025 at 7:38 PM
Important to remember it is possible to mobilise coalitions against the radical/far right.
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This thread shows why I privately wonder if we should even dignify Farage’s latest vehicle with the name 'Reform UK'.
It's the Nigel Farage party – a continuation of the Nigel Farage party that has existed for two decades.
It's him, his lackeys, his policies.
And when he goes, it goes.
It's the Nigel Farage party – a continuation of the Nigel Farage party that has existed for two decades.
It's him, his lackeys, his policies.
And when he goes, it goes.
There seems to be some *confusion*
among Reform supporters over Nathan Gill being one of them
“But, but, Reform didn’t exist when he took his Russian bribes”
“But, but he was in UKIP”
“But, but it has nothing to do with Farage, he barely knew the guy”
So here’s a little history lesson 👍🏼🧵
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among Reform supporters over Nathan Gill being one of them
“But, but, Reform didn’t exist when he took his Russian bribes”
“But, but he was in UKIP”
“But, but it has nothing to do with Farage, he barely knew the guy”
So here’s a little history lesson 👍🏼🧵
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September 27, 2025 at 4:22 PM
This thread shows why I privately wonder if we should even dignify Farage’s latest vehicle with the name 'Reform UK'.
It's the Nigel Farage party – a continuation of the Nigel Farage party that has existed for two decades.
It's him, his lackeys, his policies.
And when he goes, it goes.
It's the Nigel Farage party – a continuation of the Nigel Farage party that has existed for two decades.
It's him, his lackeys, his policies.
And when he goes, it goes.
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So he keeps moving harder & increasingly quickly eg '24 rejected mass deportation of 'illegals' but now it's policy, & 2 weeks later it's retrospective changes to ILR. Doesn't care it's based on false figures/ impractical, so long as it's discussed (cf £350M for NHS) -> drags whole 'debate'. 1/2
What Farage calls 'the Boriswave' & depicts as a 'betrayal' of leave voters was actually the implementation of what he used to say was what he wanted: for HMG to decide immigration numbers for itself via an 'Aussie-style points system': www.independent.co.uk/voices/boris...
Will the ‘Boriswave’ sweep Farage to No 10?
By laying the blame for Britain’s immigration woes squarely on ex-PM Boris Johnson, the Reform leader is eliminating a rival and bolstering his own rise, writes Sean O’Grady
www.independent.co.uk
September 23, 2025 at 4:36 PM
So he keeps moving harder & increasingly quickly eg '24 rejected mass deportation of 'illegals' but now it's policy, & 2 weeks later it's retrospective changes to ILR. Doesn't care it's based on false figures/ impractical, so long as it's discussed (cf £350M for NHS) -> drags whole 'debate'. 1/2