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sianushka.bsky.social

@sianushka.bsky.social

This 👇

November 23, 2025 at 7:17 AM

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Best for Britain

@bestforbritain.org

“How many refugees have been granted asylum in the UK?”

Most people overestimate the number - by a lot. With far-right figures spreading misinformation, it’s hard for the public to know the truth.

Watch the video to see just how wide the gap is between perception and reality.

November 17, 2025 at 1:10 PM

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The i Paper

@theipaper.com

Amount lost to fraud and loan defaults would wipe out most of Rachel Reeves's deficit, new analysis shows

➡️ Read more: trib.al/Czkudlt

November 4, 2025 at 10:57 AM

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Otto English

@ottoenglish.bsky.social

The Andrew, formerly known as Prince, will only have his dogs, horses, domestic staff, the local gulf club, and the vast Sandringham estate to keep him company.

Pray for him.

www.telegraph.co.uk/royal-family...

What life will be like for Andrew as a commoner

Former Duke of York will only have his dogs, household staff and the whistling of the wind to keep him company

www.telegraph.co.uk

November 1, 2025 at 8:48 AM

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Mark Chadbourn

@chadbourn.bsky.social

80% of air traffic controllers absent at New York facilities.

The system is at breaking point.

The FAA
@FAANews• 42m
• • .
Nearly 13, 000 air traffic controllers have been working without pay for weeks, ensuring the safety of more than 50,000 daily operations across the national airspace system (NAS).
As we head into this weekend, a surge in callouts is straining staffing levels at multiple facilities, leading to widespread impacts across the NAS. Currently, half of our Core 30 facilities are experiencing staffing shortages, and nearly 80 percent of air traffic controllers are absent at New York-area facilities.
After 31 days without pay, air traffic controllers are under immense stress and fatigue.
The shutdown must end so that these controllers receive the pay they've earned and travelers can avoid further disruptions and delays.
As we continue to reiterate, we will never compromise on safety. When staffing shortages occur, the FAA will reduce the flow of air traffic to maintain safety. This may result in delays or cancellations.
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November 1, 2025 at 1:57 AM

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Mark Chadbourn

@chadbourn.bsky.social

Private Eye.

Minority representation on TV causes outrage
There has been widespread
way of life and their strange
support for prominent Reform MP
customs, but Reform MPs
Sarah Pochin after she complained about the over-representation of
comprise only 0.7 percent of the
minorities on television.
House of Commons. Yet Nigel Farage is on Question Time
Said one angry viewer, "She's more than Fiona Bruce.
right. Every time you turn on
"I'm not prejudiced. Some of
the telly there's another Reform
MP being interviewed by Laura
my best friends are swivel-eyed loons, but enough is enough.
Kuenssberg."
There are too many people with
She added, "I respect their angry red faces on television."

October 29, 2025 at 4:31 PM

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Cold War Steve

@coldwarsteve.bsky.social

October 26, 2025 at 9:49 AM

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James O’Brien

@mrjamesob.bsky.social

My apologies to Katie Lam, who should be front & centre here…

James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · Oct 26

Off the top of my head, there have been four egregious examples of weapons grade public racism in the last couple of weeks - Jenrick; the Express hack; Captain Concrete & the Reform woman. The way they are treated by employers, punters & wider media, will directly influence how much more we see.

October 26, 2025 at 8:31 AM

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Otto English

@ottoenglish.bsky.social

That's racism. Plain and simple.

No other word for it.

It's shocking beyond belief that this sort of thing is somehow acceptable.

Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · Oct 25

Reform UK MP Sarah Pochin, “It drives me mad seeing adverts full of black people, full of Asian people, full of anything other than white"

Followed by that time Sarah Pochin said, "My kids say: mum, you're such a moron" 👀

October 25, 2025 at 12:41 PM

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Otto English

@ottoenglish.bsky.social

It's that moment again for National Trust members to vote to keep the entryists out.

Quick and easy to vote and please do so by 31st of October

Quick Vote link keeps the AstroTurfers out.

Then share. Thank you.

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October 25, 2025 at 10:11 AM

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Rob Delaney

@robdelaney.bsky.social

Exactly how billionaires are bad: inequality.org/article/ten-...

Ten Ways You Are Being Burned by Billionaires

Wealth concentration affects your life, whether you realize it or not.

inequality.org

October 16, 2025 at 11:40 AM

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Peter Jukes

@peterjukes.bsky.social

This goes even higher up. Forget Medvedchuk. Forget Medvedev

According to former Brexit Party MEP and defected Reform MP Rupert Lowe, the individuals at Gill's meetings claimed to be "close to Putin"

October 13, 2025 at 12:03 PM

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Sham Jaff

@shamjaff.bsky.social

It’s a "crisis" when immigrants "take jobs away", but "innovation" when machines do. Funny.

October 8, 2025 at 8:07 AM

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Birmingham Green Party

@brumgreens.bsky.social

You should be angry at private companies making massive profits from our taxes to house the most desperate people in appalling conditions... And NOT the people forced to live in them.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Asylum hotel provider makes £180m profit despite claims of inedible food and rationed loo paper

Asylum seekers and charities tell BBC of

www.bbc.co.uk

October 7, 2025 at 7:11 AM

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Peter Jukes

@peterjukes.bsky.social

🔴NEW🔴

Thread 🧵

@bylinetimes.bsky.social can now reveal that, during the crucial period when convicted Reform leader Nathan Gill was most active, working directly with Russian President Vladimir Putin’s most senior ally in Ukraine, he was also one of Nigel Farage’s closest confidantes 1/12

‘Thick as Thieves’: Nathan Gill and Nigel Farage’s Putin Problem

Far from being distant from the Reform UK Leader, insiders told Byline Times that the former MEP convicted of bribery was one of Farage’s closest aides, while we reveal how Gill worked on the Kremlin’...

bylinetimes.com

October 4, 2025 at 1:56 PM

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Otto English

@ottoenglish.bsky.social

An extraordinary Telegraph article from 2014 that reminds us where Nigel Farage stood on Russia's invasion of Ukraine and Mr Putin 16 years ago.

Jane @localnotail.bsky.social · Sep 29

archive.ph/eNVX4

Nigel Farage: Stop opposing Vladmir Putin in Ukraine and join forces to defeat Islamic terrorists
The Ukip leader says that West must stop poking the Russian leader with a stick and realise he is 'on our side' in the fight against terror
By Georgia Graham, Political Correspondent
11:26AM BST 16 Sep 2014

The West must stop opposing Vladimir Putin’s incursion into Ukraine and join forces with the Russian leader in the fight against Islamic extremists, Nigel Farage has said,
The Ukip leader said that Western countries must stop "playing war games in Ukraine and poking the “Russian bear with a stick” because Mr Putin is “on our side” in the war against Islamic extremism.
Mr Farage courted controversy earlier this year when he said that Mr Putin, the former KGB officer, is the statesman he most admires.
In a debate this morning at the European Parliament Mr Farage a sympathetic interpretation of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, he said European states had “directly encouraged” the uprising that “led in turn to Vladimir Putin reacting”.
Mr Putin has been blamed by the West for prolonging the bloodshed in Syria and propping up the regime by supplying arms including helicopter gunships to President Assad, and repeatedly blocking moves to censure or sanction him at the United Nations.

https://archive.ph/eNVX4

However Mr Farage suggested that these differences should be put aside with Russia and European nations “preparing a plan” to defeat to deal with “the real threat that faces us”.
He said: “Perhaps we better recognise that the West faces the biggest threat and crisis to our way of life we have seen for over 70 years. The recent beheadings of the British and American hostages graphically illustrates the problem and of course we have our own citizens from our won countries engaged in that struggle too.
“In the war against Islamic extremism, whatever we may think of him as a human being, he is actually on our side.
“I suggest we grow up, I suggest we recognise the real threat facing all of our countries, communities and societies, we stop playing war games in the Ukraine and we start to prepare a plan like Syria, like Iraq, like Kenya like Nigeria or Syria and help the deal with the real threat that faces us. Let’s not go on provoking Putin whether we like him or not.”
He added: "Amongst the long list of foreign policy failures and contradictions in the last few year, amongst them the bombing of Libya, the desire to arm the rebels in Syria, has been the unnecessary provocation of Vladimir Putin.
“This EU Empire, ever seeking to expand, stated its territorial claim on the Ukraine some years ago, just to make that worse of course some Nato members said they too would like the Ukraine to join Nato
“We directly encouraged the uprising in Ukraine that led to the toppling of the president Yanukovych and that led in turn of course to Vladimir Putin reacting. And the moral of the story is if you poke the Russian bear with stick...”

https://archive.ph/eNVX4

September 30, 2025 at 6:37 AM

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Gary Stevenson

@garyseconomics.bsky.social

If the people of this country are divided on immigration they will lose the fight on wealth inequality.

September 17, 2025 at 5:01 PM

Simon Tutty

@billygiblets.bsky.social

Not going to share this either:

AFP News Agency @en.afp.com · Sep 17

Campaign group Led By Donkeys beams a video with images of US President Donald Trump and convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein onto a tower at Windsor Castle. Trump is due in Windsor outside London on 17 September

September 17, 2025 at 7:28 AM

Simon Tutty

@billygiblets.bsky.social

Deffo not sharing this:

Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · Sep 17

Appalled to see this image of Donald Trump and the convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein projected onto Windsor Castle.

Please... for the love of all that is good, do not share it on all your social media channels... because it simply wouldn't be done to remind the world of the association

September 17, 2025 at 7:26 AM

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Alex Andreou

@sturdyalex.bsky.social

UPEND THE ESTABLISHMENT, by voting for a party composed entirely of rejects from the oldest party in the country that was in power for 14 years. 😂

Reform UK increasingly look like the Tories just ran off stage, then ran back on wearing a comedy glasses-nose-moustache disguise.

Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · Sep 15

BREAKING: Tory MP Danny Kruger just defected to Reform. Big surprise, not. ~AA

September 15, 2025 at 10:21 AM

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Jon Vernon

@onlyindevon.co.uk

Need some help #Dartmoor and #Devon friends...

We're looking for a suitable venue for the forthcoming @dartmoorcollective.org Flow zine launch.

Ideally somewhere Dartmoor adjacent but easily accessible from Plymouth / Exeter capable of accommodating 30+ people.

Any ideas most welcome.

September 12, 2025 at 8:50 AM

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Farrukh

@implausibleblog.bsky.social

Marina Purkiss, "Nigel Farage cloaks himself in patriotism"

"Farage flew out to the United States, spoke to a US Committee, and he urged the US to put sanctions on the UK"

"Sanctions that would hurt British companies, British people, our back pockets"

"And Farage is your patriot?"

September 8, 2025 at 2:21 PM

Simon Tutty

@billygiblets.bsky.social

The Telegraph really is just a comic now.

Jane @localnotail.bsky.social · Sep 5

On the same day in the Telegraph:

The Telegraph

Rayner tax scandal - £40k tax dodge - Statement

Angela Rayner dodges £40,000 stamp duty

Deputy Prime Minister reduces tax bill for Hove flat by declaring it as her main residence

[Photo: Angela Rayner pictured at the weekend in Hove, where she has just bought a flat Credit: Dan Charity/The Sun on Sunday]

Robert Mendick Chief Reporter. Amy Gibbons Political Correspondent

29 August 2025 8:57am BST

The Telegraph

Money > Property > Second homes

How to avoid tax on your second home

From stamp duty to council tax, shield your wealth from Labour's tightening net

[Photo of houses around a bay - Areas such as Cornwall have added a premium to council tax bills for second homes Credit: iStockphoto]

Fran Ivens Senior Money Writer

29 August 2025 1:21pm BST

September 5, 2025 at 12:27 PM

Simon Tutty

@billygiblets.bsky.social

Well, well, well…

Jim Pickard @pickardje.bsky.social · Sep 5

“Farage claimed last year to have “bought a house” in his constituency but the property is actually owned in the name of his partner, meaning he legally avoided higher-rate stamp duty on the purchase of an additional home – given he already owns other properties”

www.theguardian.com/politics/202...