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Is he going to ignore the rules on election spending? 🤨
Farage going all out for the locals this May… spending millions to con voters into believing he’ll fix what he made sure he broke. Pleased that his base likes his racism. Strutting around in his brexity soiled pants like the big I am.
Please let’s bin him off now.
www.thetimes.com/article/04be...
Please let’s bin him off now.
www.thetimes.com/article/04be...
January 1, 2026 at 8:33 PM
Is he going to ignore the rules on election spending? 🤨
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UK PM Keir Starmer to woo voters & MPs with plan to cut cost of living.
Can't be done without curbing profiteering, increasing real wages, democratizing the workplace, equitable distribution of income/wealth.
Start by ending privatisation of water/energy.
Can't be done without curbing profiteering, increasing real wages, democratizing the workplace, equitable distribution of income/wealth.
Start by ending privatisation of water/energy.
Keir Starmer to woo voters and MPs with new year plan to cut cost of living
PM to highlight energy bill and interest rate cuts, plus end to two-child benefit cap, and to invite his MPs to Chequers
www.theguardian.com
January 1, 2026 at 8:32 AM
UK PM Keir Starmer to woo voters & MPs with plan to cut cost of living.
Can't be done without curbing profiteering, increasing real wages, democratizing the workplace, equitable distribution of income/wealth.
Start by ending privatisation of water/energy.
Can't be done without curbing profiteering, increasing real wages, democratizing the workplace, equitable distribution of income/wealth.
Start by ending privatisation of water/energy.
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🚨 “Can I tell you how many times in the last 45 years the European Court of Human Rights has ruled against the UK when it comes to deporting people from this country - only 13 times - in 45 years”
Please remember this in 2026 when Nigel Farage tells you we must leave the ECHR to control our borders
Please remember this in 2026 when Nigel Farage tells you we must leave the ECHR to control our borders
Human rights are universal - politicians may not always find them politically convenient but it shouldn’t fall to any government to say who those rights should & should not apply to. Because none of us then has rights, just privileges that can be taken away by those in power
youtu.be/bl0Lm7v_T18?...
youtu.be/bl0Lm7v_T18?...
The government won’t achieve ‘decency’ over ‘division’ by trying to be Reform Lite
YouTube video by Peter Stefanovic
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December 31, 2025 at 5:52 PM
🚨 “Can I tell you how many times in the last 45 years the European Court of Human Rights has ruled against the UK when it comes to deporting people from this country - only 13 times - in 45 years”
Please remember this in 2026 when Nigel Farage tells you we must leave the ECHR to control our borders
Please remember this in 2026 when Nigel Farage tells you we must leave the ECHR to control our borders
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Normally not in the keeping of a Christmas/New Year spirit to wish misfortune on anyone but I hope 2026 brings the complete downfall of Trump in the USA and Farage in the UK, and their departure in disgrace followed in both cases by a re-awakening of humanity towards all.
December 31, 2025 at 4:30 PM
Normally not in the keeping of a Christmas/New Year spirit to wish misfortune on anyone but I hope 2026 brings the complete downfall of Trump in the USA and Farage in the UK, and their departure in disgrace followed in both cases by a re-awakening of humanity towards all.
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Mayor of London Sadiq Khan slams President Trump
BBC News, "Trump described you as a disgusting mayor"
Sadiq Khan, "Londoners know that when people try to talk down our city, it's because they're jealous"
BBC News, "Trump described you as a disgusting mayor"
Sadiq Khan, "Londoners know that when people try to talk down our city, it's because they're jealous"
December 31, 2025 at 8:55 PM
Mayor of London Sadiq Khan slams President Trump
BBC News, "Trump described you as a disgusting mayor"
Sadiq Khan, "Londoners know that when people try to talk down our city, it's because they're jealous"
BBC News, "Trump described you as a disgusting mayor"
Sadiq Khan, "Londoners know that when people try to talk down our city, it's because they're jealous"
I'm with you on the flags Bear. I got into quite a heated debate on our local Facebook group. Quite the pile-on but now I know who the racists are in my village and who painted the roundabout. 🤨 I crossed them off my Christmas card list. 😂
Which political event from 2025* left your flabbers the most gasted?
Mine definitely has to be the inexplicable rise of the flag shatters and DOGE failing on both sides of the Atlantic.
*Submissions from the UK, the peri-apocalyptic nightmare that is the US and other locales more than welcome.
Mine definitely has to be the inexplicable rise of the flag shatters and DOGE failing on both sides of the Atlantic.
*Submissions from the UK, the peri-apocalyptic nightmare that is the US and other locales more than welcome.
2025: The Year We Got Used To It
A final long read for 2025, charting how we got used to cruelty, incompetence and farce - and how 2026 will need us all to be much noisier.
open.substack.com
December 31, 2025 at 10:03 PM
I'm with you on the flags Bear. I got into quite a heated debate on our local Facebook group. Quite the pile-on but now I know who the racists are in my village and who painted the roundabout. 🤨 I crossed them off my Christmas card list. 😂
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My heart bleeds.
Also, he does realise there are alternatives to his children inheriting the business - like him retiring and passing it on, right?
Almost as though this is a confected drama to get himself in the news again.
Also, he does realise there are alternatives to his children inheriting the business - like him retiring and passing it on, right?
Almost as though this is a confected drama to get himself in the news again.
December 28, 2025 at 8:42 AM
My heart bleeds.
Also, he does realise there are alternatives to his children inheriting the business - like him retiring and passing it on, right?
Almost as though this is a confected drama to get himself in the news again.
Also, he does realise there are alternatives to his children inheriting the business - like him retiring and passing it on, right?
Almost as though this is a confected drama to get himself in the news again.
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Ruled by a minority.
December 28, 2025 at 8:53 AM
Ruled by a minority.
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This message hits hard.
December 27, 2025 at 8:38 PM
This message hits hard.
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As the rest of the world leaves the U.S. behind.
December 27, 2025 at 7:05 PM
As the rest of the world leaves the U.S. behind.
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Happy Chrimbo Eve Everyone!
Gay Christmas, On-Call Rotas, and Other Festive Traditions
A Christmas Eve note, with thanks and minimal Brussel sprouts.
www.bearlypolitics.co.uk
December 24, 2025 at 9:20 AM
Happy Chrimbo Eve Everyone!
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It IS our war. We made a deal with Ukraine that if they gave up their nukes, we’d protect them from Russia.
Rubio on Russia-Ukraine: "It's not our war. It's a war on another continent."
December 19, 2025 at 6:05 PM
It IS our war. We made a deal with Ukraine that if they gave up their nukes, we’d protect them from Russia.
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The British government is hoping a change in German law will help stop small boat crossings to the UK.
The measures to criminalise facilitation of migrant smuggling towards the UK, agreed more than a year ago, have now been passed by German legislators.
news.sky.com/story/uk-hop...
The measures to criminalise facilitation of migrant smuggling towards the UK, agreed more than a year ago, have now been passed by German legislators.
news.sky.com/story/uk-hop...
UK hopes new German law will cut migrant small boats
Ministers say the new measures will stop people-smuggling gangs storing small boats or engines in Germany before using them in Channel crossings.
news.sky.com
December 19, 2025 at 5:16 PM
The British government is hoping a change in German law will help stop small boat crossings to the UK.
The measures to criminalise facilitation of migrant smuggling towards the UK, agreed more than a year ago, have now been passed by German legislators.
news.sky.com/story/uk-hop...
The measures to criminalise facilitation of migrant smuggling towards the UK, agreed more than a year ago, have now been passed by German legislators.
news.sky.com/story/uk-hop...
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Still laughing about the fact that dude slapped his name on a memorial building, like he absolutely cannot wait for his own death
December 19, 2025 at 8:23 PM
Still laughing about the fact that dude slapped his name on a memorial building, like he absolutely cannot wait for his own death
Isn't a Memorial usually named for someone who is deceased? This is weird.
December 19, 2025 at 10:04 PM
Isn't a Memorial usually named for someone who is deceased? This is weird.
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Even by my low expectations for Kemi Badenoch ‘violence against women and girls is something done by immigrants and nobody else’ has shocked me.
Dog-whistle and factually incorrect. Ladies, raise your hand if you were sexually assaulted by a boy at school? I’d wager this or a family member is most women’s first experience of sexual violence
December 18, 2025 at 4:19 PM
Even by my low expectations for Kemi Badenoch ‘violence against women and girls is something done by immigrants and nobody else’ has shocked me.
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The idea of “imported” violence against women and girls is a deeply comforting fiction - one that allows people to avoid looking at where it actually happens: within our homes and behind closed doors.
The Violence Isn’t Imported. It’s Domestic.
Kemi Badenoch’s attempt to blame violence against women on migrants doesn’t just collapse under scrutiny - it actively distracts us from where the harm really happens, and who is actually responsible.
www.bearlypolitics.co.uk
December 19, 2025 at 12:01 PM
The idea of “imported” violence against women and girls is a deeply comforting fiction - one that allows people to avoid looking at where it actually happens: within our homes and behind closed doors.
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Maria Shriver, niece of JFK:
He was a man interested in the arts, culture, education, language, history... It is beyond comprehension that the president has sought to rename this great memorial.
C’mon my fellow Americans! Wake up! This is not dignified. This is not funny... It’s downright weird.
He was a man interested in the arts, culture, education, language, history... It is beyond comprehension that the president has sought to rename this great memorial.
C’mon my fellow Americans! Wake up! This is not dignified. This is not funny... It’s downright weird.
December 18, 2025 at 9:59 PM
Maria Shriver, niece of JFK:
He was a man interested in the arts, culture, education, language, history... It is beyond comprehension that the president has sought to rename this great memorial.
C’mon my fellow Americans! Wake up! This is not dignified. This is not funny... It’s downright weird.
He was a man interested in the arts, culture, education, language, history... It is beyond comprehension that the president has sought to rename this great memorial.
C’mon my fellow Americans! Wake up! This is not dignified. This is not funny... It’s downright weird.
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Curse of Private Equity
Throw the parcel at the door' - Evri couriers cutting corners to earn a decent wage.
Evri couriers are self-employed, company dodges employer NIC.
Couriers paid by the parcel, must meet targets or earn less than the minimum wage.
Throw the parcel at the door' - Evri couriers cutting corners to earn a decent wage.
Evri couriers are self-employed, company dodges employer NIC.
Couriers paid by the parcel, must meet targets or earn less than the minimum wage.
'Throw the parcel at the door' - Evri couriers cutting corners to earn a decent wage
BBC Panorama investigates the delivery firm - a market leader with the worst reputation for non-deliveries.
www.bbc.co.uk
December 15, 2025 at 12:03 PM
Curse of Private Equity
Throw the parcel at the door' - Evri couriers cutting corners to earn a decent wage.
Evri couriers are self-employed, company dodges employer NIC.
Couriers paid by the parcel, must meet targets or earn less than the minimum wage.
Throw the parcel at the door' - Evri couriers cutting corners to earn a decent wage.
Evri couriers are self-employed, company dodges employer NIC.
Couriers paid by the parcel, must meet targets or earn less than the minimum wage.
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As part of a Dink myself, I can honestly say I have not once worried about the inheritance tax that may need to be paid when my partner and I one day topple off this mortal coil.
Whoever ends up being the beneficiary of our estate is getting money they did not work for, and they should be taxed.
Whoever ends up being the beneficiary of our estate is getting money they did not work for, and they should be taxed.
December 15, 2025 at 7:42 AM
As part of a Dink myself, I can honestly say I have not once worried about the inheritance tax that may need to be paid when my partner and I one day topple off this mortal coil.
Whoever ends up being the beneficiary of our estate is getting money they did not work for, and they should be taxed.
Whoever ends up being the beneficiary of our estate is getting money they did not work for, and they should be taxed.
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Oligarchy (noun):
A government of and by a few at the top, who exercise power for their own benefit. Their power and wealth increase as they make laws that favor themselves, manipulate financial markets, and create monopolies that put more wealth into their pockets.
A government of and by a few at the top, who exercise power for their own benefit. Their power and wealth increase as they make laws that favor themselves, manipulate financial markets, and create monopolies that put more wealth into their pockets.
December 13, 2025 at 7:00 PM
Oligarchy (noun):
A government of and by a few at the top, who exercise power for their own benefit. Their power and wealth increase as they make laws that favor themselves, manipulate financial markets, and create monopolies that put more wealth into their pockets.
A government of and by a few at the top, who exercise power for their own benefit. Their power and wealth increase as they make laws that favor themselves, manipulate financial markets, and create monopolies that put more wealth into their pockets.
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The Great 75 Brexit Benefit Debunk has begun. Three responses have been published so far, and more will follow next week.
To everyone who has given their support so far, thank you so much.
This is a helluva long road ahead, and I appreciate every encouraging message, comment and piece of advice.
To everyone who has given their support so far, thank you so much.
This is a helluva long road ahead, and I appreciate every encouraging message, comment and piece of advice.
The 75 Brexit Benefits: A Reckoning Begins
Why I’m taking on a think tank, a pseudonym, and an entire decade of political myth-making - one “benefit” at a time.
open.substack.com
December 12, 2025 at 5:25 PM
The Great 75 Brexit Benefit Debunk has begun. Three responses have been published so far, and more will follow next week.
To everyone who has given their support so far, thank you so much.
This is a helluva long road ahead, and I appreciate every encouraging message, comment and piece of advice.
To everyone who has given their support so far, thank you so much.
This is a helluva long road ahead, and I appreciate every encouraging message, comment and piece of advice.