Ben Stewart
@benstewart999.bsky.social
Also over at LedByDonkeys.org
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🚨 The DOJ appears to have redacted Donald Trump’s name from the allegations made in this exhibit in the Epstein files.
Trump’s name was in the original release. Now, it’s blacked out.
See for yourself.
Trump’s name was in the original release. Now, it’s blacked out.
See for yourself.
December 21, 2025 at 4:56 AM
🚨 The DOJ appears to have redacted Donald Trump’s name from the allegations made in this exhibit in the Epstein files.
Trump’s name was in the original release. Now, it’s blacked out.
See for yourself.
Trump’s name was in the original release. Now, it’s blacked out.
See for yourself.
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Just got back from buying Hanukkah doughnuts to read about the Bondi Beach attacks. Numbing.
December 14, 2025 at 12:35 PM
Just got back from buying Hanukkah doughnuts to read about the Bondi Beach attacks. Numbing.
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My kids woke up so excited this morning for the first night of Hannukah and now yet again we have a festival where I’m very conflicted about whether it’s safe to take them to synagogue to celebrate. Communities shouldn’t have to live like this.
December 14, 2025 at 12:50 PM
My kids woke up so excited this morning for the first night of Hannukah and now yet again we have a festival where I’m very conflicted about whether it’s safe to take them to synagogue to celebrate. Communities shouldn’t have to live like this.
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Neil is a big believer in free markets where reducing trade barriers & red tape improves prosperity.
But here he is saying that *raising* trade barriers & red tape has no effect.
So why believe in free markets if there's no difference with constrained markets?
The libertarian Brexiter's paradox.
But here he is saying that *raising* trade barriers & red tape has no effect.
So why believe in free markets if there's no difference with constrained markets?
The libertarian Brexiter's paradox.
December 12, 2025 at 8:35 PM
Neil is a big believer in free markets where reducing trade barriers & red tape improves prosperity.
But here he is saying that *raising* trade barriers & red tape has no effect.
So why believe in free markets if there's no difference with constrained markets?
The libertarian Brexiter's paradox.
But here he is saying that *raising* trade barriers & red tape has no effect.
So why believe in free markets if there's no difference with constrained markets?
The libertarian Brexiter's paradox.
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OMG we only went and bloody won!! 🎉🎉
In barely two years Democracy for Sale has gone from nothing to winning a British journalism award
Am absolutely blown away!! Thanks to everyone who reads D4S and supports us. Couldn’t do it without you all 😊
In barely two years Democracy for Sale has gone from nothing to winning a British journalism award
Am absolutely blown away!! Thanks to everyone who reads D4S and supports us. Couldn’t do it without you all 😊
Congrats to Specialist Journalism winners @petergeoghegan.bsky.social Jenna Corderoy and Lucas Amin of Democracy for Sale #BJA2025
December 11, 2025 at 9:58 PM
OMG we only went and bloody won!! 🎉🎉
In barely two years Democracy for Sale has gone from nothing to winning a British journalism award
Am absolutely blown away!! Thanks to everyone who reads D4S and supports us. Couldn’t do it without you all 😊
In barely two years Democracy for Sale has gone from nothing to winning a British journalism award
Am absolutely blown away!! Thanks to everyone who reads D4S and supports us. Couldn’t do it without you all 😊
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Now 20k views on our video and counting
WOW c 10k people have now watched Democracy for Sale's video about our new undercover investigation, with Led By Donkeys.
An ex-Tory MP introduced our fake Chinese AI investor into MPs and ministers - and all for just £5k! 😱
Watch the video here:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=HKof...
An ex-Tory MP introduced our fake Chinese AI investor into MPs and ministers - and all for just £5k! 😱
Watch the video here:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=HKof...
We went undercover to buy access to MPs
YouTube video by Democracy for Sale
www.youtube.com
December 9, 2025 at 8:09 AM
Now 20k views on our video and counting
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In which the columnist's "I reckon" collides with the reporter's actual facts
On a purely factual point, Trevor Phillips’s column in the Times misrepresents our reporting in casting doubts on claims that there were more boys called Patel than Smith at Dulwich in 1980 (we did not report 1976 as the year it occurred). 1980 roll shows 13 Patels and 12 Smiths.
December 8, 2025 at 9:48 AM
In which the columnist's "I reckon" collides with the reporter's actual facts
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I'll never tire of reposting this headline
November 28, 2025 at 5:19 PM
I'll never tire of reposting this headline
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If you want British Jews who are pro-Palestine and anti-Occupation, Naamod is right there
I know a lot of fellow Jews personally who set up and/or organise with Naamod and they are very much part of the community and are very much not extremists
naamod.org.uk
@naamoduk.bsky.social
I know a lot of fellow Jews personally who set up and/or organise with Naamod and they are very much part of the community and are very much not extremists
naamod.org.uk
@naamoduk.bsky.social
September 29, 2025 at 12:41 PM
If you want British Jews who are pro-Palestine and anti-Occupation, Naamod is right there
I know a lot of fellow Jews personally who set up and/or organise with Naamod and they are very much part of the community and are very much not extremists
naamod.org.uk
@naamoduk.bsky.social
I know a lot of fellow Jews personally who set up and/or organise with Naamod and they are very much part of the community and are very much not extremists
naamod.org.uk
@naamoduk.bsky.social
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In absolutely horrible news I learned this morning that Hany was killed in an air strike- he was driving people from the North to the South when it happened. This is one of the last messages he sent me 💔
He leaves behind 8 kids, he was only 48 and he was very kind.
He leaves behind 8 kids, he was only 48 and he was very kind.
September 23, 2025 at 4:04 PM
In absolutely horrible news I learned this morning that Hany was killed in an air strike- he was driving people from the North to the South when it happened. This is one of the last messages he sent me 💔
He leaves behind 8 kids, he was only 48 and he was very kind.
He leaves behind 8 kids, he was only 48 and he was very kind.
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The attack on Charlie Kirk is disgusting, vile, and reprehensible.
In the United States of America, we must reject political violence in EVERY form.
In the United States of America, we must reject political violence in EVERY form.
September 10, 2025 at 7:16 PM
The attack on Charlie Kirk is disgusting, vile, and reprehensible.
In the United States of America, we must reject political violence in EVERY form.
In the United States of America, we must reject political violence in EVERY form.
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if you want to observe LIz Truss being intellectually owned, this is worth your time via @tobyn.bsky.social
www.ft.com/content/30e5...
www.ft.com/content/30e5...
Liz explains the coup
An Odd Lot
www.ft.com
September 1, 2025 at 2:10 PM
if you want to observe LIz Truss being intellectually owned, this is worth your time via @tobyn.bsky.social
www.ft.com/content/30e5...
www.ft.com/content/30e5...
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The Hamas attack on October 7 was a horrendous crime against humanity. But the only relationship between it and the even greater crimes against humanity being perpetrated in Gaza today is that it is being used as an excuse for what certain Israeli ministers and generals have long wanted to do.
August 2, 2025 at 9:33 AM
The Hamas attack on October 7 was a horrendous crime against humanity. But the only relationship between it and the even greater crimes against humanity being perpetrated in Gaza today is that it is being used as an excuse for what certain Israeli ministers and generals have long wanted to do.
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Not for the first time I am begging angry people to put the phone down, walk through actual streets, go to actual pubs, stand on the touch line at local sports clubs, browse Saturday markets, chat with ramblers on footpaths and rediscover beauty & contentedness.
Lionel Shriver tells those of us who live here what our country looks like if you leave it + rely on the media ecosystem of the very online right as a proxy for reality
July 24, 2025 at 12:47 PM
Not for the first time I am begging angry people to put the phone down, walk through actual streets, go to actual pubs, stand on the touch line at local sports clubs, browse Saturday markets, chat with ramblers on footpaths and rediscover beauty & contentedness.
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I think it’s worth noting this piece generated the most unsubscribes I’ve seen in a while, and the newsletter version had the lowest open rate in many months. These horrors persist in part because too many people go to great pains to avoid them.
July 24, 2025 at 2:32 AM
I think it’s worth noting this piece generated the most unsubscribes I’ve seen in a while, and the newsletter version had the lowest open rate in many months. These horrors persist in part because too many people go to great pains to avoid them.
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Good piece from the editor-in-chief of @businessgreen.bsky.social.
It's odd how little environmental policy (whether good or bad) has featured in assessments of Labour's first year.
If we're serious about making climate a major issue, we can't then ignore it when assessing the government's record.
It's odd how little environmental policy (whether good or bad) has featured in assessments of Labour's first year.
If we're serious about making climate a major issue, we can't then ignore it when assessing the government's record.
It's been far from perfect, but the government's green efforts really have been one of the main bright spots in an otherwise pretty torrid first year for Labour. In fact, they've probable been better and more consequential than you think. www.businessgreen.com/news-analysi...
How climate action provided one of the few bright spots for Labour's first year in office
The consensus is the Labour government has had a disappointing year, but when it comes to the green economy real progress has been made
www.businessgreen.com
July 4, 2025 at 6:51 PM
Good piece from the editor-in-chief of @businessgreen.bsky.social.
It's odd how little environmental policy (whether good or bad) has featured in assessments of Labour's first year.
If we're serious about making climate a major issue, we can't then ignore it when assessing the government's record.
It's odd how little environmental policy (whether good or bad) has featured in assessments of Labour's first year.
If we're serious about making climate a major issue, we can't then ignore it when assessing the government's record.
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500 killed trying to get aid. The system is set up to make that a likely outcome.
More than 130 charities & NGOs are calling for Israeli/US-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation to be shut down
Over 500 Palestinians have been killed while trying to get food since the GHF started operating in May, following Israel's 3 month blockade of Gaza
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Over 500 Palestinians have been killed while trying to get food since the GHF started operating in May, following Israel's 3 month blockade of Gaza
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Israeli, US-backed Gaza aid group must end, say 130 charities
The call from some of the world's top aid organisations and charities comes after reports of soldiers killing hundreds of of Palestinians at aid sites.
www.bbc.co.uk
July 1, 2025 at 12:38 PM
500 killed trying to get aid. The system is set up to make that a likely outcome.
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Every day a new atrocity in #Gaza. And still the UK supplies lethal weaponry to the Israeli government. There is a term for this: complicity in genocide.
June 1, 2025 at 4:17 PM
Every day a new atrocity in #Gaza. And still the UK supplies lethal weaponry to the Israeli government. There is a term for this: complicity in genocide.
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From fierce critic of Putin to aligning herself with his principle patsy. What a long strange trip it has been.
Liz Truss to CPAC in Budapest today: "It used to be the case that people would flee Eastern Europe to Britain for freedom. Now it's the other way."
May 31, 2025 at 7:38 PM
From fierce critic of Putin to aligning herself with his principle patsy. What a long strange trip it has been.
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Not sure that is its most significant (or most brutal) flaw.
May 22, 2025 at 1:23 PM
Not sure that is its most significant (or most brutal) flaw.
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The decline of UK political discourse in a nutshell.
I’m old fashioned enough to think the BBC should be leading on what the deal is and what it means. Rather than the political claims from both sides.
May 19, 2025 at 4:32 PM
The decline of UK political discourse in a nutshell.
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bravo for the Mail which gets that this isn’t left v right, it’s an existential moment for all true western values
March 2, 2025 at 2:11 AM
bravo for the Mail which gets that this isn’t left v right, it’s an existential moment for all true western values