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Anybody who had a vision to bring American levels of political, cultural and social polarisation to Britain - whether their motive was clicks or cash, ideology, boredom or anything else - would make it their top strategic priority to abolish the BBC, or to damage and diminish it at the very least
Quick thread on the BBC and the political and societal significance of recent developments:
One of the main reasons the UK has historically been so much less polarised than the US, is that Britain has a shared source of information, consumed and trusted by most people regardless of their politics.
One of the main reasons the UK has historically been so much less polarised than the US, is that Britain has a shared source of information, consumed and trusted by most people regardless of their politics.
November 10, 2025 at 8:41 PM
Anybody who had a vision to bring American levels of political, cultural and social polarisation to Britain - whether their motive was clicks or cash, ideology, boredom or anything else - would make it their top strategic priority to abolish the BBC, or to damage and diminish it at the very least
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YOUNG PEOPLE. LISTEN UP.
Today Nigel Farage said the government should cut the minimum wage for young people
...to “raise aspiration” and “boost business"
It's £10ph FFS!
Lower your pay so you’ll dream bigger
DO YOU SEE IT NOW?
Spread far & wide.
bylinetimes.com/2025/11/03/n...
Today Nigel Farage said the government should cut the minimum wage for young people
...to “raise aspiration” and “boost business"
It's £10ph FFS!
Lower your pay so you’ll dream bigger
DO YOU SEE IT NOW?
Spread far & wide.
bylinetimes.com/2025/11/03/n...
Nigel Farage Says Minimum Wage Should Be Cut for Young People
The Reform leader said cutting the minimum wage for young people would boost business, as he attacked plans to raise taxes on the wealthy
bylinetimes.com
November 3, 2025 at 2:03 PM
YOUNG PEOPLE. LISTEN UP.
Today Nigel Farage said the government should cut the minimum wage for young people
...to “raise aspiration” and “boost business"
It's £10ph FFS!
Lower your pay so you’ll dream bigger
DO YOU SEE IT NOW?
Spread far & wide.
bylinetimes.com/2025/11/03/n...
Today Nigel Farage said the government should cut the minimum wage for young people
...to “raise aspiration” and “boost business"
It's £10ph FFS!
Lower your pay so you’ll dream bigger
DO YOU SEE IT NOW?
Spread far & wide.
bylinetimes.com/2025/11/03/n...
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True Welsh poetry
October 25, 2025 at 4:08 PM
True Welsh poetry
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How is it taking them this long to work this out?
October 20, 2025 at 6:41 AM
How is it taking them this long to work this out?
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"We can’t say it strongly enough: for planning reform to succeed for both people and nature, this newt-bashing, snail-baiting, spider-hating scapegoating must stop."
@richardbenwell.bsky.social, chief exec @wclnews.bsky.social, outlines what's needed to create balance between nature and planning:
@richardbenwell.bsky.social, chief exec @wclnews.bsky.social, outlines what's needed to create balance between nature and planning:
Cross-government planning proposals threaten nature and must be fixed
This post is by Richard Benwell, chief executive of Wildlife and Countryside Link The planning system must be improved for nature. When development damages protected wildlife, developers shouldn’t …
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October 16, 2025 at 10:00 AM
"We can’t say it strongly enough: for planning reform to succeed for both people and nature, this newt-bashing, snail-baiting, spider-hating scapegoating must stop."
@richardbenwell.bsky.social, chief exec @wclnews.bsky.social, outlines what's needed to create balance between nature and planning:
@richardbenwell.bsky.social, chief exec @wclnews.bsky.social, outlines what's needed to create balance between nature and planning:
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“The UK has a system in which a TV channel can pay a political leader almost half a million pounds a year and give him an hour an evening to react to his rivals without breaking a single rule.”
You might think controlling GB News gives you huge influence over UK politics – especially on the right. But that's just the tip of the iceberg, as we reveal in this week's issue of @thenewworldmag.bsky.social
Full story: www.thenewworld.co.uk/james-ball-p...
Full story: www.thenewworld.co.uk/james-ball-p...
October 19, 2025 at 9:09 AM
“The UK has a system in which a TV channel can pay a political leader almost half a million pounds a year and give him an hour an evening to react to his rivals without breaking a single rule.”
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And THIS is the man the British government decided to honour with a second state visit? THIS is the man wined and dined at Windsor Castle, hosted by the Royal Family, lauded and feted at Chequers? The stench. The shame.
October 19, 2025 at 4:36 PM
And THIS is the man the British government decided to honour with a second state visit? THIS is the man wined and dined at Windsor Castle, hosted by the Royal Family, lauded and feted at Chequers? The stench. The shame.
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NEW: Police knew a Kremlin spy ring recruited former leader of Reform Wales at least 3 years ago.
So why was Nathan Gill not charged till Feb this year?
Pls read part 2 of @thenerve.news special investigation into Nathan Gill. And please share!
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So why was Nathan Gill not charged till Feb this year?
Pls read part 2 of @thenerve.news special investigation into Nathan Gill. And please share!
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October 18, 2025 at 8:53 AM
NEW: Police knew a Kremlin spy ring recruited former leader of Reform Wales at least 3 years ago.
So why was Nathan Gill not charged till Feb this year?
Pls read part 2 of @thenerve.news special investigation into Nathan Gill. And please share!
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So why was Nathan Gill not charged till Feb this year?
Pls read part 2 of @thenerve.news special investigation into Nathan Gill. And please share!
1/
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This deserves more attention than it has received.
Gove: "we were too anxious as a government to secure those deals in order to show that Brexit was working".
Exactly as so many of us warned at the time, and as the government denied at the time.
www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/country-and-...
Gove: "we were too anxious as a government to secure those deals in order to show that Brexit was working".
Exactly as so many of us warned at the time, and as the government denied at the time.
www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/country-and-...
Michael Gove admits that post-Brexit trade deals were bad for farmers
Michael Gove has admitted for the first time that the Australia and New Zealand trade deals negotiated by the former Tory government did not protect Britain’s farmers.
www.yorkshirepost.co.uk
October 13, 2025 at 9:48 AM
This deserves more attention than it has received.
Gove: "we were too anxious as a government to secure those deals in order to show that Brexit was working".
Exactly as so many of us warned at the time, and as the government denied at the time.
www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/country-and-...
Gove: "we were too anxious as a government to secure those deals in order to show that Brexit was working".
Exactly as so many of us warned at the time, and as the government denied at the time.
www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/country-and-...
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This is a lie.
There are many criticisms you might sensibly and truthfully make of the Sentencing Council and the Sentencing Guidelines. I’ve been making them for years.
But this is an outright lie. Pure fabrication. A fraud on the public.
There are many criticisms you might sensibly and truthfully make of the Sentencing Council and the Sentencing Guidelines. I’ve been making them for years.
But this is an outright lie. Pure fabrication. A fraud on the public.
October 7, 2025 at 8:03 AM
This is a lie.
There are many criticisms you might sensibly and truthfully make of the Sentencing Council and the Sentencing Guidelines. I’ve been making them for years.
But this is an outright lie. Pure fabrication. A fraud on the public.
There are many criticisms you might sensibly and truthfully make of the Sentencing Council and the Sentencing Guidelines. I’ve been making them for years.
But this is an outright lie. Pure fabrication. A fraud on the public.
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Dear media and OMG, lawmakers: Stop using ‘illegal immigrant.’
It’s inaccurate, dehumanizing, and lazy.
People aren’t illegal.
Crossing a border without papers doesn’t erase your humanity.
Let’s call them what they are: undocumented immigrants.
Language shapes perception.
Let’s get it right!
It’s inaccurate, dehumanizing, and lazy.
People aren’t illegal.
Crossing a border without papers doesn’t erase your humanity.
Let’s call them what they are: undocumented immigrants.
Language shapes perception.
Let’s get it right!
October 7, 2025 at 2:23 PM
Dear media and OMG, lawmakers: Stop using ‘illegal immigrant.’
It’s inaccurate, dehumanizing, and lazy.
People aren’t illegal.
Crossing a border without papers doesn’t erase your humanity.
Let’s call them what they are: undocumented immigrants.
Language shapes perception.
Let’s get it right!
It’s inaccurate, dehumanizing, and lazy.
People aren’t illegal.
Crossing a border without papers doesn’t erase your humanity.
Let’s call them what they are: undocumented immigrants.
Language shapes perception.
Let’s get it right!
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Just by way of an aside - and with no obvious connection - Farage took up his line that the West "provoked" Putin's full invasion of Ukraine a few weeks after this tweet in June 2024, and for the first time since the 2022 Russian Military's 'special operation'
October 4, 2025 at 3:58 PM
Just by way of an aside - and with no obvious connection - Farage took up his line that the West "provoked" Putin's full invasion of Ukraine a few weeks after this tweet in June 2024, and for the first time since the 2022 Russian Military's 'special operation'
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🔴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
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@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
🔴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
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
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Just fuck off with this. How about start the conversation by highlighting how much immigrants contribute to the UK - not least by propping up the NHS and social care system!
Also - forced volunteering is not volunteering, it's unpaid labour.
Also - forced volunteering is not volunteering, it's unpaid labour.
September 29, 2025 at 9:09 AM
Just fuck off with this. How about start the conversation by highlighting how much immigrants contribute to the UK - not least by propping up the NHS and social care system!
Also - forced volunteering is not volunteering, it's unpaid labour.
Also - forced volunteering is not volunteering, it's unpaid labour.
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What has Yvette Cooper’s proscription of Palestine Action done to this country?
Beyond absurd. It’s extreme authoritarianism. These police should be arresting rapists & crooks, not neglecting those duties to spend time arresting citizens standing against genocide.
It undermines police and the law.
Beyond absurd. It’s extreme authoritarianism. These police should be arresting rapists & crooks, not neglecting those duties to spend time arresting citizens standing against genocide.
It undermines police and the law.
September 29, 2025 at 6:22 AM
What has Yvette Cooper’s proscription of Palestine Action done to this country?
Beyond absurd. It’s extreme authoritarianism. These police should be arresting rapists & crooks, not neglecting those duties to spend time arresting citizens standing against genocide.
It undermines police and the law.
Beyond absurd. It’s extreme authoritarianism. These police should be arresting rapists & crooks, not neglecting those duties to spend time arresting citizens standing against genocide.
It undermines police and the law.
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The PNG Courier overseas edition on mini-roundabouts
(And Yvette Cooper's bunting)
open.substack.com/pub/mrhenrym...
(And Yvette Cooper's bunting)
open.substack.com/pub/mrhenrym...
The PNG Courier overseas edition on mini-roundabouts
And Yvette Cooper's bunting
open.substack.com
September 4, 2025 at 7:30 AM
The PNG Courier overseas edition on mini-roundabouts
(And Yvette Cooper's bunting)
open.substack.com/pub/mrhenrym...
(And Yvette Cooper's bunting)
open.substack.com/pub/mrhenrym...
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When centrists adopt far-right rhetoric, they don’t make themselves stronger. They make themselves look inauthentic, legitimise the far right, and shift the political debate onto terrain defined by their opponents.
www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...
www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...
Cooper suggests asylum seekers could be moved into warehouses instead of hotels – UK politics live
Home secretary says government aims to ‘shrink the whole asylum system’ and is looking at ‘military and industrial sites’
www.theguardian.com
September 2, 2025 at 9:58 AM
When centrists adopt far-right rhetoric, they don’t make themselves stronger. They make themselves look inauthentic, legitimise the far right, and shift the political debate onto terrain defined by their opponents.
www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...
www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...
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Yvette, I'm confused.
September 1, 2025 at 7:30 AM
Yvette, I'm confused.
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If correctly written:
"Ministers are to announce a tightening of migration rules as the government hands over the political agenda to Nigel Farage"
Both immoral and politically inept. Well done Yvette Cooper.
"Ministers are to announce a tightening of migration rules as the government hands over the political agenda to Nigel Farage"
Both immoral and politically inept. Well done Yvette Cooper.
September 1, 2025 at 6:10 AM
If correctly written:
"Ministers are to announce a tightening of migration rules as the government hands over the political agenda to Nigel Farage"
Both immoral and politically inept. Well done Yvette Cooper.
"Ministers are to announce a tightening of migration rules as the government hands over the political agenda to Nigel Farage"
Both immoral and politically inept. Well done Yvette Cooper.
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EXCLUSIVE - ASK NIGEL is back!
This week an anonymous Prime Minister asks, 'How can I stop fixating so much on foreigners?'
open.substack.com/pub/mrhenrym...
This week an anonymous Prime Minister asks, 'How can I stop fixating so much on foreigners?'
open.substack.com/pub/mrhenrym...
Ask Nigel
An anonymous Prime Minister asks 'how can I stop fixating so much on foreigners?'
open.substack.com
August 31, 2025 at 6:49 AM
EXCLUSIVE - ASK NIGEL is back!
This week an anonymous Prime Minister asks, 'How can I stop fixating so much on foreigners?'
open.substack.com/pub/mrhenrym...
This week an anonymous Prime Minister asks, 'How can I stop fixating so much on foreigners?'
open.substack.com/pub/mrhenrym...