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BREAKING: Nathan Gill is sentenced to 10 & a half years in prison after pleading guilty to eight charges of bribery from a Russian agent.

The "ultimate source" of the funds came from "a close friend of Vladimir Putin," said Mrs Justice Cheema-Grubb.
November 21, 2025 at 3:44 PM
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🔴Nathan Gill Sentenced: What He Was Really Doing for the Kremlin

Reform UK’s former leader in Wales was in the centre of Putin’s preparations to attack Ukraine, argues Sergei Cristo

bylinetimes.com/2025/11/21/n...
Nathan Gill Sentenced: What He Was Really Doing for the Kremlin
Reform UK's former leader in Wales was in the centre of Putin’s preparations to attack Ukraine, argues Sergei Cristo
bylinetimes.com
November 21, 2025 at 1:41 PM
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For those of you in the UK, especially if you are a UK citizen, can you please take part in the consultation on changes to Indefinite Leave to Remain (Settlement) that were just proposed by the UK government. We need as many people as possible to reject these proposals. www.gov.uk/government/c...
Earned settlement
The government is consulting on how the current settlement system should be reformed and how those reforms should be implemented.
www.gov.uk
November 21, 2025 at 11:13 AM
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Funding Reform UK will have the same outcome.
November 21, 2025 at 9:27 AM
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Shabana Mahmood is already the third British Asian woman to be a tough talking Home Secretary on asylum. But the fate of Priti Patel's very similar reforms cast doubt on how far these changes are the key to control in the Channel. My Eastern Eye column this week
www.easterneye.biz/shabana-mahm...
Shabana Mahmood’s hard line on asylum risks repeating Tory failures
Home Office’s statistical bulletin reported last month that the UK received the fifth largest number of asylum seekers in the year ending March 2025
www.easterneye.biz
November 19, 2025 at 10:20 PM
Funding Reform UK will have the same outcome.
November 21, 2025 at 9:27 AM
@GoldmanSachs Sachs and @TaxJusticeUK

Me: This is what the knuckle draggers are terrified of. Nothing more threatening to them than an educated immigrant. #wealthtax
November 21, 2025 at 9:23 AM
Trump's deployment of federal agents and the National Guard to crack down on crime in major urban centres and particularly those run by Democrats will most likely be high on the agenda in his meeting with Mamdani
November 21, 2025 at 8:30 AM
He is of course referring to 2018 killing of journalist Jamal Khashoggi, Saudi dissident & Washington Post columnist. Murdered inside Saudi consulate Istanbul. Turkish authorities and CIA concluded that Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman (MBS) approved the operation. Saudi govt denied this.
November 21, 2025 at 8:25 AM
Brian Eno making sense on wealth tax. #billionairebunker
Poor people are being abandoned by this country.

Brian Eno telling it straight
November 21, 2025 at 8:15 AM
Spain | wealth tax | billionaires
November 21, 2025 at 8:11 AM
A powerful meditation on resilience 🌱. Jorge Luis Borges.
November 21, 2025 at 7:56 AM
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“Nothing can make our life, or the lives of other people, more beautiful than perpetual kindness.”

Tolstoy, looking back on his long and imperfect life (which ended on this day in 1910), on kindness and the measure of love www.themarginalian.org/2019/07/21/l...
Leo Tolstoy on Kindness and the Measure of Love
“Nothing can make our life, or the lives of other people, more beautiful than perpetual kindness.”
www.themarginalian.org
November 20, 2025 at 4:28 PM
Italians ran out of morgue space while this babbling bufoon was on national TV with his best denial smirk on telling people it’s ok to shake hands. Monstrous.
Remembering the hit of fear as Italians I respect immensely told me in early March that "you must lock down ASAP". While the British government said these were "populist – non-science based – measures that aren't any use" and "they're who not to follow".
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
‘Too little, too late’: damning report condemns UK’s Covid response
Report on handling of pandemic contains stinging criticism of ‘toxic and chaotic’ culture inside Boris Johnson’s No 10
www.theguardian.com
November 20, 2025 at 4:35 PM
“What the newly released Epstein files do show is this: the European revolution Bannon boasted about, the one Farage helped to architect and front, was supported and shaped in important ways by Jeffrey Epstein.”
bylinetimes.com/2025/11/19/d...
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 19, 2025 at 9:55 PM
Just told the kids I wanna be buried in a giant mushroom. They look at me as though I’m tripping. 😵‍💫🍄🍄‍🟫🍄
November 18, 2025 at 9:21 PM
Peter Thiel has bailed on AI - sold his NVIDIA shares and now Sundar Pichai asked whether Google would be immune to the AI bubble, said it could weather that storm, but also warned:
"I think no company is going to be immune, including us.” Is the lever about to break?
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Google boss says trillion-dollar AI investment boom has 'elements of irrationality'
In an exclusive BBC interview, Sundar Pichai hailed artificial intelligence as an
www.bbc.co.uk
November 18, 2025 at 3:45 PM
“Start keeping a paper diary. Not necessarily because you’re documenting state secrets, but as a personal reality check, a record of what you actually saw, thought, and believed before the algorithms rewrote yesterday.“ stevenstrauss.substack.com/p/start-keep...
Start Keeping a Paper Diary
Why AI-mediated search and word processing make analog records matter.
stevenstrauss.substack.com
November 17, 2025 at 2:31 PM
12 jobs Farage -| BBC
November 17, 2025 at 7:13 AM
Long live The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows, coined words for feelings we can’t name: maru mori, heartbreaking simplicity in ordinary things; apolytus, realising you are changing as a person; Monachopsis, persistent feeling out of place; Heartspur, longing stirred by memory or imagined futures.
November 17, 2025 at 6:53 AM
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Mo Farah, trafficked to UK aged 9 in 1992. Teacher Alan Watkinson secures citizenship after 8 years here, 2000 (aged 17) so he could travel abroad as GB athlete

Under future rules

Renew status? 1995, 98 x6

Eligible settlement after 20 years (2012)

Citizenship 2013

news.sky.com/story/sir-mo...
Sir Mo Farah reveals 'the truth' about how he came to the UK
The Olympic star was warned speaking out could put his British citizenship at "real risk" - but it is understood the Home Office is taking no action against him.
news.sky.com
November 15, 2025 at 11:25 PM
Marcus Aurelius: 'It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live.'
November 15, 2025 at 4:30 PM
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🎥 Watch as Keir Starmer calls Nigel Farage 'utterly spineless' for refusing to condemn a Reform UK councillor who called children in care 'evil'.
November 12, 2025 at 1:15 PM