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13sarahmurphy.bsky.social
This is Johnson talking about rejoining Erasmus. A programme he promised not to leave and then did so anyway. Slamming the door on opportunities for our young people. Now he talks of gunning down those who attempt to fix his ruinous mess. The man is an irredeemable wanker.
December 20, 2025 at 8:48 AM
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13sarahmurphy.bsky.social
The worst, most dishonest prime minister we’ve ever had, rocks back and forth in his Daily Mail cubbyhole spewing out idiotic bilge to kid himself that he and his disastrous Brexit weren’t an almighty national fuck-up.
A deeply pathetic threat from an abject failure of a man.
Daily Mail+ BORIS JOHNSON: If Labour MPs try to reverse Brexit they will be walking into a hail of machine gun fire - and if that's the fight they want, bring it on! But they should heed my warning before things get bloody...
December 20, 2025 at 8:34 AM
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13sarahmurphy.bsky.social
It’s exactly this kind of dismal, prejudiced bollox from the Daily Mail that’s got us into the ruinous Brexit mess we’re in. What a moronic response to us rejoining Erasmus and all the benefits that brings. If they’re really worried about cost, they should push to cancel Brexit altogether.
Daily Mail headline £6BN COST OF STARMER'S NEW BID TO SUCK UP TO BRUSSELS Independent headline 25 November 2025 Brexit costing UK up to £90bn in lost tax revenue a year, new analysis shows Exclusive: Britons also up to £3,700 worse off, leading to calls for the Labour government to improve relations with the EU
December 18, 2025 at 7:21 AM
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13sarahmurphy.bsky.social
Great to have such an enthusiastic support for rejoining Erasmus from the Vice Chancellor of Oxford University on #t4today
No stupid questions about whether this was anti-Brexit.
Just unequivocal celebration of the chance to broaden our horizons again. A step on the road back to sanity.
December 17, 2025 at 7:59 AM
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Salisbury poisoning report concludes Putin approved terror operation

From the new Private Eye, out now.
December 16, 2025 at 11:53 AM
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“Let's make Together for Palestine's record this year's Christmas No 1.” Musician and activist Brian Eno explains why one song in particular matters this Christmas.
December 16, 2025 at 5:26 PM
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"Do they really want the BBC brought down by a rich foreign billionaire who doesn't need the money?"

Public support for the BBC has been waning, but could Donald Trump’s $10bn lawsuit now turn the tide?
December 16, 2025 at 6:57 PM
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I gave up my Observer subscription when the Guardian sold it to Tortoise and immediately sacked @carolecadwalla.bsky.social . I still take the Saturday Guardian, but found this really difficult to read in the Eye.
December 14, 2025 at 2:26 PM
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Hannukah should be a time of joy and happiness – where light triumphs over darkness. After today’s tragic events, we send wishes for a peaceful Hannukah to all those who celebrate around the world.
December 14, 2025 at 5:00 PM
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Incredibly brave. Imagine the faceless bores the BBC will have making their programmes if they continue down this path.
robinince.bsky.social Robin Ince @robinince.bsky.social · 11d
Very sad that I felt I had no choice but to resign from The Infinite Monkey Cage - a victory for the transphobes and other bigots - I did it because so much of the media has chosen to believe the kind and empathetic people are a fiction - they are real and so often unrepresented.
This is the saddest day of my professional life. Today is not only the final recording of the latest series of The Infinite Monkey Cage, it is my last ever Monkey Cage. I never thought that I would have to leave the show. I always imagined going on until | dropped dead under the studio lights due to a brain aneurysm caused by my final attempt to understand notions of quantum gravity or the shock of being told about fly maggot infestations in the sacks of macaque monkeys. I resigned in September, after sixteen years of dedication to the show, A show that I named and helped develop over all those years. Unfortunately, my opinions outside the BBC have been considered problematic for sometime, whether it has been voicing support for the trans community, criticism of Donald Trump, numerous other outlandish opinions, including once gently criticising Stephen Fry. These things were considered to conflict with being a freelance BBC science presenter In a recent meeting where BBC Studio executives again voiced problems with me, I realised my choices. Obedience and being quieter to remain making Monkey Cage, or 'Resign and have the freedom to speak out against what I believe are injustices'. • I chose the latter. It broke my heart. I love this show and I love the audience, and it is because of the audience in particular, that this decision was so difficult to make. I kept thinking about all the extremist voices promoting hate and division. They are being given so many platforms, while voices that represent kindness, open mindedness, empathy seem to be scarcer and scarcer. I felt I couldn't pamper myself with the luxury of silence. One of my many privileges is that I am able to resign and I can speak out even if it is to the detriment of my career. I have thought a lot about my heroes, Sinead O Connor, James Baldwin, Audre Lorde, and so many more. I think of Sinead's words, "the job of an artist is to be themselves at any cost". James Baldwin said prejudice was really just a word for cowardice. Audre Lorde, viewing her life, wrote that her only regrets were her silences. I think of my father as I resign, he brought me up to believe in fairness , justice and kindness. Though my heart is broken, it is also full of fire. I apologise to our incredible listeners for my departure, your love of the show means a great deal. I am so sorry to let you down. I hope that you can understand my reasoning. I have to accept that I am not what the current BBC expects of their freelance presenters. Despite this I should add that I have always worked far more than my contracted hours to try and ensure the show was always the best it could be, as well as making myself accessible and responsive to the audience wherever and whenever I met them. Every night, we have recorded, I have been filled with determination to make the best show possible. This was not "just a job" I hope that with my departure I can be a better ally to the LGBTQ community, to the neurodivergent community, to activists fighting against those who aim to brutalise society, to those currently in prison on hunger strike, and to all those who fight for a more inclusive world. From many conversations, I know there are many Monkey Cage listeners who support these communities and activists too. The strawberry is dead. Long live the strawberry. B
December 13, 2025 at 7:28 AM
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The Nerve Weekend dish - chef turned food writer Ben Lippett shared his updated take on a classic shellfish soup!
December 12, 2025 at 6:28 PM
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@thenerve.news 14k+ followers from a standing start.
Yay you 🤜💥🤛 🎉
December 11, 2025 at 7:46 PM
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Alcohol and cigarettes both pay 80% tax because of the harm they do.

Gambling should be the same.
December 11, 2025 at 5:36 PM
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All in one day:

Immigration Minister lied about me with a slur.

Wes Streeting then tried a different attack.

And the Evening Standard write yet another attack piece because I dare to say we need to tax the rich.

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On Zack Polanskis magic money tree economic gravity simply doesn't exist.
December 5, 2025 at 10:19 PM
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Somewhere in that process, you understand how all the worst events in human history took place. When I visited Auschwitz many years ago, someone in our group said that this is what happens when extremism flourishes. Our tour guide replied: “This place is not explained by extremism. It is explained by conformity.” That has stayed in my mind this year: as I have watched people turn a blind eye when they see a colleague subjected to racist abuse, people who chose to accept division and hatred rather than challenge it, who say they are ‘just asking questions’ but only ever ask one type of question. As I watch officials in a centre-left government choose to actively promote a website run by a man who encourages racial violence on the streets of the country they govern and whose security they are responsible for.
December 5, 2025 at 2:43 PM
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December 2, 2025 at 1:49 PM
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Just over six hours to go on our alt. Black Friday sale... Big Biz has enough of your money.... support independent journalism instead!

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November 30, 2025 at 4:27 PM
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👋 Stewart Lee fans. The Nerve is hosting a special members' event -an evening with Stewart and our co-founder Carole Cadwalladr - in London on Dec 10. Booking open to all member tiers. Sign up here: thenerve.news/membership Our alt Black Friday sale is on until 11pm tonight! bsky.app/profile/then...
November 30, 2025 at 4:34 PM
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You would think the alleged indiscretions of the schoolboy Nigel Farage would have drawn outrage from a just, impartial British media. Strangely, it seems they have not.

This week’s column by Stewart Lee

www.thenerve.news/p/stewart-le...
Had youthful Farage's youthful alleged racism story concerned a leftist figure, it would not have been disappeared. Stewart lee on the UK mainstream media
November 30, 2025 at 11:37 AM
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13sarahmurphy.bsky.social
Glorious, cathartic, taking no shit at all, Stewart Lee.

Brexit: “like someone stepping round a massive pile of dogshit on the living room carpet. Every day. For nine years.”

If only all our media could be as ruthlessly challenging as this.
www.thenerve.news/p/stewart-le...
But, on budget day, a major moment in the unravelling of Farage's myth was overshadowed by the Office of Budget Responsibility's ludicrous early leaking of their budgetary analysis. You have one job! Nonetheless, Labour strategists finally decided that telling the truth about Farage's Brexit - namely that it has blown a £90bn-a-year hole in the country's public finances - might get more votes than just ignoring it, like someone stepping round a massive pile of dogshit on the living room carpet. Every day. For nine years. Deborah Ross; and Farage's pointed refusal to investigate the influence of Putin, the politician he maintains he most admires, over Reform - "I'm not a police force, I haven't got the resources" - has passed largely without comment. (Farage has earned over {1m from second jobs, including his tacitly legal GB News infotainment show, since the last election, £200,000 of it from his bespoke Cameo video messages. There's loads of investigators at the Nerve happy to investigate Reform's Russia links for a fraction of the money Farage gets paid to wish happy birthday to morons, so let's make a deal.) Is this the best you people can do? It shouldn't be just a drunk comedian and a load of clever women who got laid off at the Observer asking these questions.
November 30, 2025 at 11:04 AM
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Paul Doyle who injured more than 100 people in Liverpool has pleaded Guilty to 9 charges of Causing Grievous Bodily Harm and 17 charges of Attempting to Cause Grievous Bodily Harm.

He is a MAGA and Andrew Tate supporter.

Why do we never hear about the dangers of the Far Right?
November 29, 2025 at 10:03 PM
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1 Nurse: It’s become a real problem in this area 2 Nurse: We’ve seen the whole community lost to addiction 3 Show a building sign posted: Westminster ‘X’ Addiction Clinic With various Westminster people or looking at their phones outside it Nurse: Ministers, Spads, Researchers… 4 Nurse: Most mornings we’ll get a call about someone acting strangely [Nurse on phone taking a call] Ok - we’ll be right over 5 Nurse: We just have a gentle chat [Nurses approach a minister –Robert Jenrick? - standing in the Palace of Westminster Minister: I understand your concerns… 6 Nurse: Are you OK love? Minister: Yes I’m just hearing legitimate concerns from real voters 7 Nurse: That’s a robot, a Nazi and a poorly-disguised Russian [Show that the people he is talking to are precisely these characters] Nurse 2: Give us your phone, love 8 Nurse: At the clinic we put them in a Grass-Touching Pod, with a real voter to talk to [We see them back at the clinic, holding the minister's head and pushing him into a glass isolation booth with a grass floor. And it is a baffled looking woman, on a chair, ready to talk to him.] 9 Minister: YOU MUST BE WORRIED ABOUT THE COMING CIVIL WAR [woman looks baffled] 10 woman: I just want a bus service Minister: LOOK AT MY FLAG [produces a St George's flag] [ends]
October 19, 2025 at 3:07 PM
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13sarahmurphy.bsky.social
Why wouldn’t you want to know? What have you got to fear? Losing your precious Brexit? Being revealed as a traitor and a liar?
Surely, anyone decent and honest who genuinely cares about our country and our democracy has nothing to lose from this. So, sign up.
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November 28, 2025 at 8:11 PM
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13sarahmurphy.bsky.social
You just cannot take the iPaper seriously when it wheels out Kwasi ‘mini budget’ Kwarteng to comment on the budget.
We don’t *ever* want to hear from this arrogant clown again.
“No prudence”
FML.
PERSONAL FINANCE No prudence: it just got harder to retire if you're in your forties or fifties Kwasi Kwarteng The inside story of the mini-budget disaster Photo of Kwarteng and Truss Faisal Islam > Economics editor @faisalislam › 25 September 2023 The term "mini budget" will be forever toxic in British politics. So disastrous was then-Chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng's September 2022 statement - which included £45bn of unfunded tax cuts - that its long shadow still stretches over our economics and politics.
November 27, 2025 at 8:05 AM
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barristersecret.bsky.social
Just the good, friendly, morale-boosting kind of racism.
pippacrerar.bsky.social Pippa Crerar @pippacrerar.bsky.social · 29d
“I would never ever do it in a hurtful or insulting way”

Nigel Farage responds to allegations of racist behaviour from when he was a teenager at school

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November 24, 2025 at 7:19 PM