@fizz56.bsky.social
Former SEND secondary school teacher. “Wobbling” Labour Party member.
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Farage says EU expansion etc "encircling" Russia.
The EU / NATO are at the western tip of Russia.
Russia extends 1000s miles with no western border.
China?
Mongolia?
In the north it is the arctic.
The west was never close to encircling Russia.
Farage is idiotic on geography.
The EU / NATO are at the western tip of Russia.
Russia extends 1000s miles with no western border.
China?
Mongolia?
In the north it is the arctic.
The west was never close to encircling Russia.
Farage is idiotic on geography.
November 22, 2025 at 9:10 PM
Farage says EU expansion etc "encircling" Russia.
The EU / NATO are at the western tip of Russia.
Russia extends 1000s miles with no western border.
China?
Mongolia?
In the north it is the arctic.
The west was never close to encircling Russia.
Farage is idiotic on geography.
The EU / NATO are at the western tip of Russia.
Russia extends 1000s miles with no western border.
China?
Mongolia?
In the north it is the arctic.
The west was never close to encircling Russia.
Farage is idiotic on geography.
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Huge amounts of the focus on misinformation/disinformation goes on the idea of things like “Russian bots” and “Russian influence ops”.
That’s the 1% bit of the iceberg. The 99% is people doing it to turn a profit, because it’s easy money. And the platforms largely ignore it because they get a cut.
That’s the 1% bit of the iceberg. The 99% is people doing it to turn a profit, because it’s easy money. And the platforms largely ignore it because they get a cut.
13k comments on one tweet is a massive payout. All of the tweets follow a certain formula, so the content is likely automated using AI technology (e.g., AI generated images and text). Basically running it as a money printing machine. But for those in the US, it translates to low simmering rage.
November 23, 2025 at 1:55 PM
Huge amounts of the focus on misinformation/disinformation goes on the idea of things like “Russian bots” and “Russian influence ops”.
That’s the 1% bit of the iceberg. The 99% is people doing it to turn a profit, because it’s easy money. And the platforms largely ignore it because they get a cut.
That’s the 1% bit of the iceberg. The 99% is people doing it to turn a profit, because it’s easy money. And the platforms largely ignore it because they get a cut.
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Please don't judge me just because I was friends with the traitor Nathan Gill. Instead you can judge me because I described a man charged with rape, human trafficking, controlling prostitution and actual bodily harm as "an important voice for young men".
November 23, 2025 at 11:25 AM
Please don't judge me just because I was friends with the traitor Nathan Gill. Instead you can judge me because I described a man charged with rape, human trafficking, controlling prostitution and actual bodily harm as "an important voice for young men".
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Worth the reading.
NEW There's no overstating how significant the Nathan Gill case is. On Friday, the close associate of Nigel Farage was jailed for over 10 years for taking bribes ultimately from a friend of Putin. It's a complex, detail-heavy story that raises questions about Farage’s claim Gill was ‘one bad apple’🧵
November 23, 2025 at 1:56 PM
Worth the reading.
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"Never forget that immigration wasn't even in the top 10 of the electorate's concerns in 2016".
observer.co.uk/news/busines...
observer.co.uk/news/busines...
‘Reset’ with the EU looks more like ‘upset’ as Brexit damage mounts | The Observer
observer.co.uk
November 23, 2025 at 7:31 AM
"Never forget that immigration wasn't even in the top 10 of the electorate's concerns in 2016".
observer.co.uk/news/busines...
observer.co.uk/news/busines...
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I am angry, that my grandchildren’s futures have been so terribly damaged, by something that I knew would be so damaging. Millions of us knew. Those that led the campaign of lies have faced no consequences. Farage struts about like peacock, when he and other politicians should be rotting in jail.
November 23, 2025 at 7:46 AM
I am angry, that my grandchildren’s futures have been so terribly damaged, by something that I knew would be so damaging. Millions of us knew. Those that led the campaign of lies have faced no consequences. Farage struts about like peacock, when he and other politicians should be rotting in jail.
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How is Trump’s threat to sue the BBC for up to $5 billion likely to play out?
Watch the full episode of Page 94, the Private Eye podcast, on YouTube.
Watch the full episode of Page 94, the Private Eye podcast, on YouTube.
November 23, 2025 at 2:05 PM
How is Trump’s threat to sue the BBC for up to $5 billion likely to play out?
Watch the full episode of Page 94, the Private Eye podcast, on YouTube.
Watch the full episode of Page 94, the Private Eye podcast, on YouTube.
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Who owns the £10 bn Royal Collection of art - 550 Leonardo drawings, Fabergé eggs, Monet paintings - and why is the inventory of it - showing which items are theirs personally and which are ours - kept secret? bit.ly/4prvApl
Who really owns the £10bn treasure in the Royal Collection?
The world’s largest private art collection includes Da Vincis and a £1.5 billion diamond but its full contents and who benefits from them remains a mystery
bit.ly
November 23, 2025 at 2:02 PM
Who owns the £10 bn Royal Collection of art - 550 Leonardo drawings, Fabergé eggs, Monet paintings - and why is the inventory of it - showing which items are theirs personally and which are ours - kept secret? bit.ly/4prvApl
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In the same week the Covid Inquiry concluded that introducing lockdown a week earlier could have saved 23,000 lives and a former Reform politician was jailed for accepting Russian bribes, #bbclaurak hasn’t expended a single second talking about it
That is absolutely appalling
That is absolutely appalling
November 23, 2025 at 10:02 AM
In the same week the Covid Inquiry concluded that introducing lockdown a week earlier could have saved 23,000 lives and a former Reform politician was jailed for accepting Russian bribes, #bbclaurak hasn’t expended a single second talking about it
That is absolutely appalling
That is absolutely appalling
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I have the misfortune of living with a Reform led council here in Kent. They are completely out of their depth and spend most of the time fighting each other. They are draining reserve funds and will still have to up tax by 5%.
Hopefully their voters notice getting less for more money.
Hopefully their voters notice getting less for more money.
November 23, 2025 at 2:19 PM
I have the misfortune of living with a Reform led council here in Kent. They are completely out of their depth and spend most of the time fighting each other. They are draining reserve funds and will still have to up tax by 5%.
Hopefully their voters notice getting less for more money.
Hopefully their voters notice getting less for more money.
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Hope HMRC are investigating whether Gill evaded tax on the bribes he received.
(Bribes are absolutely taxable income, but people tend not to declare them to HMRC...)
(Bribes are absolutely taxable income, but people tend not to declare them to HMRC...)
November 22, 2025 at 2:59 PM
Hope HMRC are investigating whether Gill evaded tax on the bribes he received.
(Bribes are absolutely taxable income, but people tend not to declare them to HMRC...)
(Bribes are absolutely taxable income, but people tend not to declare them to HMRC...)
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This article is from 2019. I wonder whether Farage and Bannon are still in touch?
I find Bannon a revoltingly fascinating person. He doesn't appear to be influential within the MAGA movement any more, but is still honking. Just the chap to be a Farage confederate.
I find Bannon a revoltingly fascinating person. He doesn't appear to be influential within the MAGA movement any more, but is still honking. Just the chap to be a Farage confederate.
November 23, 2025 at 2:38 PM
This article is from 2019. I wonder whether Farage and Bannon are still in touch?
I find Bannon a revoltingly fascinating person. He doesn't appear to be influential within the MAGA movement any more, but is still honking. Just the chap to be a Farage confederate.
I find Bannon a revoltingly fascinating person. He doesn't appear to be influential within the MAGA movement any more, but is still honking. Just the chap to be a Farage confederate.
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Nigel Farage and an 'Extraordinary Lack of Curiosity' from UK Government and Intelligence Services Over Possible Russian Interference in Brexit – Byline Times bylinetimes.com/2024/06/11/n...
Nigel Farage and an 'Extraordinary Lack of Curiosity' from UK Government and Intelligence Services Over Possible Russian Interference in Brexit
"It did strike me as ridiculous that, given the overt nationalism of the Leave.EU campaign, it was involved in discussions with representatives of the Russian Government"
bylinetimes.com
November 22, 2025 at 9:25 AM
Nigel Farage and an 'Extraordinary Lack of Curiosity' from UK Government and Intelligence Services Over Possible Russian Interference in Brexit – Byline Times bylinetimes.com/2024/06/11/n...
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Dinner with Mr Brexit: Bannon’s European Revolution – Planned with Farage, Backed by Epstein – Byline Times
Dinner with Mr Brexit: Bannon’s European Revolution – Planned with Farage, Backed by Epstein
Nigel Farage was the figurehead and his partner Laure Ferrari started it. Steve Bannon and convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein were providing almost daily support
bylinetimes.com
November 20, 2025 at 9:04 AM
Dinner with Mr Brexit: Bannon’s European Revolution – Planned with Farage, Backed by Epstein – Byline Times
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Truly incredible event taking place on X as MAGA discovers many high profile pro-Trump accounts are actually foreigners performing as American conservatives
November 22, 2025 at 4:58 PM
Truly incredible event taking place on X as MAGA discovers many high profile pro-Trump accounts are actually foreigners performing as American conservatives
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This is bizarre. Like the editor of the guardian or mail or any other paper complaining repeatedly about the front page lead they decided to run with.
Very good example of what's wrong with broadcast news - they've given up deciding for themselves what is or isn't news and what the priorities are
Very good example of what's wrong with broadcast news - they've given up deciding for themselves what is or isn't news and what the priorities are
It’s a sign of how insane the news cycle is these days that this historic failure of government policy got just one day of news coverage this week.
Not saying that’s right or wrong, but it’s astonishing how quickly the agenda moves on these days.
Not saying that’s right or wrong, but it’s astonishing how quickly the agenda moves on these days.
BREAKING: UK’s response to Covid was “too little too late”. Acting faster could have saved 23,000 lives in England according to the public inquiry.
Boris Johnson presided over a “toxic, sexist, chaotic culture” in No10, where rule-breaking seriously undermined public confidence.
Boris Johnson presided over a “toxic, sexist, chaotic culture” in No10, where rule-breaking seriously undermined public confidence.
November 23, 2025 at 12:26 PM
This is bizarre. Like the editor of the guardian or mail or any other paper complaining repeatedly about the front page lead they decided to run with.
Very good example of what's wrong with broadcast news - they've given up deciding for themselves what is or isn't news and what the priorities are
Very good example of what's wrong with broadcast news - they've given up deciding for themselves what is or isn't news and what the priorities are
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I’d have thought nothing cuts more against our precious British values than selling out your country for Russian bribes…
And yet Reform, the right‑wing press, and all those self‑styled guardians of these values have nothing to say
…funny that.
And yet Reform, the right‑wing press, and all those self‑styled guardians of these values have nothing to say
…funny that.
November 23, 2025 at 12:00 PM
I’d have thought nothing cuts more against our precious British values than selling out your country for Russian bribes…
And yet Reform, the right‑wing press, and all those self‑styled guardians of these values have nothing to say
…funny that.
And yet Reform, the right‑wing press, and all those self‑styled guardians of these values have nothing to say
…funny that.
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Another day another racist outburst, another Reform politician. Add that to the former leader in Wales getting 10 years for being a Russian agent - cash for speeches - and I wonder what the R stands for in Reform - Racist, Russian agitator.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
November 23, 2025 at 3:00 PM
Another day another racist outburst, another Reform politician. Add that to the former leader in Wales getting 10 years for being a Russian agent - cash for speeches - and I wonder what the R stands for in Reform - Racist, Russian agitator.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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45 years ago I made a pitch for the Director-General job. Didn’t get it – mind you, I was only 13. But I did get a reply from Ian Trethowan, who was DG at the time. All these years later I’m proud to work for the BBC.
November 23, 2025 at 12:08 PM
45 years ago I made a pitch for the Director-General job. Didn’t get it – mind you, I was only 13. But I did get a reply from Ian Trethowan, who was DG at the time. All these years later I’m proud to work for the BBC.
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And in Southport, @jamielopez.bsky.social reports on a scrap company which has been ordered to close its operations had breached its legal requirements for a decade and failed to engage with regulators
Decade-long failures at scrapyard at risk of causing pollution
Company was previously prosecuted after employee was trapped and broke an arm
southport.thelead.uk
November 23, 2025 at 3:05 PM
And in Southport, @jamielopez.bsky.social reports on a scrap company which has been ordered to close its operations had breached its legal requirements for a decade and failed to engage with regulators
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Semi-relatedly, it's not unconnected that the public find the media condescending and elitist when some of the outlets that are most supposed to be explaining this to them treat basic details as "nerd stuff" they'd, by implication, be too thick to understand.
November 23, 2025 at 1:42 PM
Semi-relatedly, it's not unconnected that the public find the media condescending and elitist when some of the outlets that are most supposed to be explaining this to them treat basic details as "nerd stuff" they'd, by implication, be too thick to understand.
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“there isn’t the money to do everything that we wanted” – Lord Hendy, 16 July
They're junking investment (and growth!) for a single-year headline announcement. Imagine if this government believed in the future
They're junking investment (and growth!) for a single-year headline announcement. Imagine if this government believed in the future
Midland Main Line electrification pause down to lack of funds and bi-mode trains, Hendy says | New Civil Engineer
The MML runs from St. Pancras to Sheffield, servicing many cities in the Midlands. Its electrification has been ongoing for some years, having started at
www.newcivilengineer.com
November 23, 2025 at 12:54 PM
“there isn’t the money to do everything that we wanted” – Lord Hendy, 16 July
They're junking investment (and growth!) for a single-year headline announcement. Imagine if this government believed in the future
They're junking investment (and growth!) for a single-year headline announcement. Imagine if this government believed in the future
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AT LAST! This is moving!
2nd most popular petition atm.
Should reach 10,000 signatures today.
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/74...
2nd most popular petition atm.
Should reach 10,000 signatures today.
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/74...
Petition: Call a public inquiry into Russian influence on UK politics & democracy
We are concerned about reported efforts from Russia to influence democracy in the US, UK, Europe and elsewhere. We believe we must establish the depth and breadth of possible Russian influence campaig...
petition.parliament.uk
November 23, 2025 at 3:07 PM
AT LAST! This is moving!
2nd most popular petition atm.
Should reach 10,000 signatures today.
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/74...
2nd most popular petition atm.
Should reach 10,000 signatures today.
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/74...
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This seems to be rattling along, at long last
If you haven’t already, please sign and share
If you haven’t already, please sign and share
AT LAST! This is moving!
2nd most popular petition atm.
Should reach 10,000 signatures today.
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/74...
2nd most popular petition atm.
Should reach 10,000 signatures today.
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/74...
Petition: Call a public inquiry into Russian influence on UK politics & democracy
We are concerned about reported efforts from Russia to influence democracy in the US, UK, Europe and elsewhere. We believe we must establish the depth and breadth of possible Russian influence campaig...
petition.parliament.uk
November 23, 2025 at 3:15 PM
This seems to be rattling along, at long last
If you haven’t already, please sign and share
If you haven’t already, please sign and share