@kayez.bsky.social
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At our event on the Future of Water leaders from publicly owned water systems across Europe spoke to us about their experiences in the transition from private to public, and the many forms that truly democratic participation in water ownership might take. 1/2
December 9, 2025 at 9:22 AM
At our event on the Future of Water leaders from publicly owned water systems across Europe spoke to us about their experiences in the transition from private to public, and the many forms that truly democratic participation in water ownership might take. 1/2
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How are people chosen for honours? How does the system work behind the scenes? Could it be improved?
In three hours, join Sue Owen, Peter Riddell and Dominic Grieve to discuss just this at our free, online event.
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In three hours, join Sue Owen, Peter Riddell and Dominic Grieve to discuss just this at our free, online event.
Sign up 👉 www.ucl.ac.uk/social-histo....
December 9, 2025 at 10:00 AM
How are people chosen for honours? How does the system work behind the scenes? Could it be improved?
In three hours, join Sue Owen, Peter Riddell and Dominic Grieve to discuss just this at our free, online event.
Sign up 👉 www.ucl.ac.uk/social-histo....
In three hours, join Sue Owen, Peter Riddell and Dominic Grieve to discuss just this at our free, online event.
Sign up 👉 www.ucl.ac.uk/social-histo....
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This story more than any other disgusts me.
Yinka was a little 9 year old boy
Farage was a swaggering bully aged 17
We all knew those bullies at school and in this case teenager Farage was a racist bully too
Yinka was a little 9 year old boy
Farage was a swaggering bully aged 17
We all knew those bullies at school and in this case teenager Farage was a racist bully too
Yinka Bankole was 12 when Farage spotted him in the playground:
“He towered over me. ‘Where are you from?’ he asked. Within seconds of offering my rather confused and sputtering answers, he had a clear response: ‘That’s the way back to Africa,’.”
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
“He towered over me. ‘Where are you from?’ he asked. Within seconds of offering my rather confused and sputtering answers, he had a clear response: ‘That’s the way back to Africa,’.”
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Former Dulwich pupil says Farage told him: ‘That’s the way back to Africa’
Exclusive: Yinka Bankole says he felt compelled to speak out after Reform leader’s attempts to ‘dismiss’ hurt of alleged targets
www.theguardian.com
December 7, 2025 at 8:00 PM
This story more than any other disgusts me.
Yinka was a little 9 year old boy
Farage was a swaggering bully aged 17
We all knew those bullies at school and in this case teenager Farage was a racist bully too
Yinka was a little 9 year old boy
Farage was a swaggering bully aged 17
We all knew those bullies at school and in this case teenager Farage was a racist bully too
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I'm old enough to remember when Gordon Brown was forced to apologise to a woman for calling her a bigot.
The very least we should expect is that Nigel Farage apologises for being one.
The very least we should expect is that Nigel Farage apologises for being one.
December 7, 2025 at 8:01 PM
I'm old enough to remember when Gordon Brown was forced to apologise to a woman for calling her a bigot.
The very least we should expect is that Nigel Farage apologises for being one.
The very least we should expect is that Nigel Farage apologises for being one.
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This will be remembered as the most pathetic moment in American history. What a needy fool.
December 7, 2025 at 1:09 AM
This will be remembered as the most pathetic moment in American history. What a needy fool.
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Left: Luke Johnson, Chairman of Gail's Bakery, who was pro-Brexit, criticises Labour for not understanding the private sector and how wealth is created
Right: The thing he voted for, Brexit, costs the UK £90 billion in lost tax revenue every year #BBCQT
Right: The thing he voted for, Brexit, costs the UK £90 billion in lost tax revenue every year #BBCQT
November 27, 2025 at 11:43 PM
Left: Luke Johnson, Chairman of Gail's Bakery, who was pro-Brexit, criticises Labour for not understanding the private sector and how wealth is created
Right: The thing he voted for, Brexit, costs the UK £90 billion in lost tax revenue every year #BBCQT
Right: The thing he voted for, Brexit, costs the UK £90 billion in lost tax revenue every year #BBCQT
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Nus Ghani MP - the Deputy Speaker - moved to the UK as a small child. She has been elected by the voters in Wealden in 2015, 2017, 2019 and 2024
More outright racism from the regular GB News & Talk TV contributor Lucy White - who previously called (on GB News) for all Muslims to leave Britain
More outright racism from the regular GB News & Talk TV contributor Lucy White - who previously called (on GB News) for all Muslims to leave Britain
November 26, 2025 at 9:54 PM
Nus Ghani MP - the Deputy Speaker - moved to the UK as a small child. She has been elected by the voters in Wealden in 2015, 2017, 2019 and 2024
More outright racism from the regular GB News & Talk TV contributor Lucy White - who previously called (on GB News) for all Muslims to leave Britain
More outright racism from the regular GB News & Talk TV contributor Lucy White - who previously called (on GB News) for all Muslims to leave Britain
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Daily Mirror: Farage told me 'Hitler was right' #TomorrowsPapersToday
November 18, 2025 at 10:34 PM
Daily Mirror: Farage told me 'Hitler was right' #TomorrowsPapersToday
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![Andy Field, 61, an NHS doctor who said he
knew Farage well because they took the
same train to school, has similarly clear
memories.
"When I became a prefect, he [Farage] said,
Tll show you how to do it,' claimed Field,.
"He took me for a walk up to the lower
school playground, where all the children
from about nine years old to 12 would be.
And he singled out, completely at random, a
kid of Asian extraction, and just put him in
detention for no reason whatsoever. I was
flabbergasted, absolutely stunned. I was just
disgusted, really. No rhyme or reason, just
purely based on the colour of his skin.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:5mqpgxjffcckasqv7h6g7itu/bafkreifwa2hlzevsllsekm44ne6yprkgrfhwryxxclupy3cz2qqj42sxma@jpeg)
November 18, 2025 at 3:30 PM
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Meanwhile, in Reform's Lancashire CC, the councillor in charge of care homes, owns a private care home, and is closing council care homes. 👀
A resident’s son, a Reform party member, said any move would “kill” his mother. ~AA
#NeverThoughtTheLeopards
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
A resident’s son, a Reform party member, said any move would “kill” his mother. ~AA
#NeverThoughtTheLeopards
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Lancashire’s Reform-run council plans to close care homes and day centres
Questions about potential conflict of interest as council’s cabinet member for social care owns private care company
www.theguardian.com
November 10, 2025 at 10:08 AM
Meanwhile, in Reform's Lancashire CC, the councillor in charge of care homes, owns a private care home, and is closing council care homes. 👀
A resident’s son, a Reform party member, said any move would “kill” his mother. ~AA
#NeverThoughtTheLeopards
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
A resident’s son, a Reform party member, said any move would “kill” his mother. ~AA
#NeverThoughtTheLeopards
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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Eek. The Fire Brigades Union has slammed the record of Reform’s ‘flagship council’ as it emerged that Kent and Medway Fire Authority is in disarray following the removal of five councillors, including its chair and vice chair.
5 of the 9 Reform cllrs suspended since May sat on the fire authority...
5 of the 9 Reform cllrs suspended since May sat on the fire authority...
November 10, 2025 at 10:10 AM
Eek. The Fire Brigades Union has slammed the record of Reform’s ‘flagship council’ as it emerged that Kent and Medway Fire Authority is in disarray following the removal of five councillors, including its chair and vice chair.
5 of the 9 Reform cllrs suspended since May sat on the fire authority...
5 of the 9 Reform cllrs suspended since May sat on the fire authority...
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Incredible that Robbie Gibb - most influential person on BBC board by many accounts and from journalists I speak in BBC - was involved in setting up GB News.
GB News of course has breached Ofcom rules on *multiple* occasions - no sign of resignations though
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
GB News of course has breached Ofcom rules on *multiple* occasions - no sign of resignations though
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
‘Enforced veganism’: Ofcom lets GB News flout accuracy rules, say climate campaigners
Exclusive: Regulator has received 1,221 complaints about UK broadcasters since 2020 but found no breaches of its code
www.theguardian.com
November 10, 2025 at 8:25 AM
Incredible that Robbie Gibb - most influential person on BBC board by many accounts and from journalists I speak in BBC - was involved in setting up GB News.
GB News of course has breached Ofcom rules on *multiple* occasions - no sign of resignations though
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
GB News of course has breached Ofcom rules on *multiple* occasions - no sign of resignations though
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Lady in scarf, "We are the only country in the G7, apart from Italy, that doesn't charge an exit tax" #BBCQT
"The CEO of Revolut bank - net worth £11 billion- who has decided to take his money to the UAE"
"He's not taxed on the money he's made, but a cleaner is taxed on her minimum wage"
"The CEO of Revolut bank - net worth £11 billion- who has decided to take his money to the UAE"
"He's not taxed on the money he's made, but a cleaner is taxed on her minimum wage"
October 31, 2025 at 10:52 AM
Lady in scarf, "We are the only country in the G7, apart from Italy, that doesn't charge an exit tax" #BBCQT
"The CEO of Revolut bank - net worth £11 billion- who has decided to take his money to the UAE"
"He's not taxed on the money he's made, but a cleaner is taxed on her minimum wage"
"The CEO of Revolut bank - net worth £11 billion- who has decided to take his money to the UAE"
"He's not taxed on the money he's made, but a cleaner is taxed on her minimum wage"
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Sharon Graham, UNITE, "If you've got a £1,700 bill, £500 of that is profit.. They've made £30 billion in a single year.. It's obscene"
Meanwhile Labour go after the poor, the disabled, the elderly, instead of windfall taxing energy companies. Disgraceful
Meanwhile Labour go after the poor, the disabled, the elderly, instead of windfall taxing energy companies. Disgraceful
October 31, 2025 at 6:30 PM
Sharon Graham, UNITE, "If you've got a £1,700 bill, £500 of that is profit.. They've made £30 billion in a single year.. It's obscene"
Meanwhile Labour go after the poor, the disabled, the elderly, instead of windfall taxing energy companies. Disgraceful
Meanwhile Labour go after the poor, the disabled, the elderly, instead of windfall taxing energy companies. Disgraceful
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The buses bill also became law this week, allowing councils in England to finally take control of local services used by millions of people.
Almost nothing from No 10 or Govt Comms as a whole. It's beyond woeful.
Meanwhile Reform are holding multiple press conferences a week.
Almost nothing from No 10 or Govt Comms as a whole. It's beyond woeful.
Meanwhile Reform are holding multiple press conferences a week.
Great read from @iandunt.bsky.social on whether Starmer should stay or go, including the mystery of how, if you’re launching a popular climate, energy, and growth strategy, why wouldn’t you stage a press conference on it?
iandunt.substack.com/p/a-world-wi...
iandunt.substack.com/p/a-world-wi...
October 31, 2025 at 5:18 PM
The buses bill also became law this week, allowing councils in England to finally take control of local services used by millions of people.
Almost nothing from No 10 or Govt Comms as a whole. It's beyond woeful.
Meanwhile Reform are holding multiple press conferences a week.
Almost nothing from No 10 or Govt Comms as a whole. It's beyond woeful.
Meanwhile Reform are holding multiple press conferences a week.
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Thorough piece on Farage’s close colleague and friend Nathan Gill and the Kremlin cash he took
www.theguardian.com/news/ng-inte...
www.theguardian.com/news/ng-inte...
Reform UK, the Russian spy and rolls of Kremlin cash: the inside story of Nathan Gill
How did a former Mormon bishop end up pleading guilty to taking bribes to make statements in favour of Russia in the European parliament?
www.theguardian.com
November 1, 2025 at 8:31 AM
Thorough piece on Farage’s close colleague and friend Nathan Gill and the Kremlin cash he took
www.theguardian.com/news/ng-inte...
www.theguardian.com/news/ng-inte...
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"A future president, even dumber than you, will allow Qatar, the country that harbored Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the architect of the plane attacks in NY, PA, and DC today, and whose royal family will help him escape capture by the US, to build a military base on US soil to train Qataris to fly jets."
October 11, 2025 at 7:55 PM
"A future president, even dumber than you, will allow Qatar, the country that harbored Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the architect of the plane attacks in NY, PA, and DC today, and whose royal family will help him escape capture by the US, to build a military base on US soil to train Qataris to fly jets."
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No one is giving a malignant narcissist a peace prize.
They are chaos creators and destroyers.
Any social benefit they perform is serendipitous in their singular, self-serving, deceptive, narcissistic and psychopathic pursuit of omnipotent power and control.
They are chaos creators and destroyers.
Any social benefit they perform is serendipitous in their singular, self-serving, deceptive, narcissistic and psychopathic pursuit of omnipotent power and control.
October 10, 2025 at 7:13 PM
No one is giving a malignant narcissist a peace prize.
They are chaos creators and destroyers.
Any social benefit they perform is serendipitous in their singular, self-serving, deceptive, narcissistic and psychopathic pursuit of omnipotent power and control.
They are chaos creators and destroyers.
Any social benefit they perform is serendipitous in their singular, self-serving, deceptive, narcissistic and psychopathic pursuit of omnipotent power and control.
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Robert Jenrick and his wiggy puppet
October 7, 2025 at 6:31 PM
Robert Jenrick and his wiggy puppet
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I know statistics are poorly understood and are misused. But facts matter
Between the 1991, 2001, 2011 and 2021 Census *every* ethnic group in the UK has become *less* geographically segregated and *all* groups, majority and minorities, are more likely to interact with people not like them
Between the 1991, 2001, 2011 and 2021 Census *every* ethnic group in the UK has become *less* geographically segregated and *all* groups, majority and minorities, are more likely to interact with people not like them
October 7, 2025 at 6:24 PM
I know statistics are poorly understood and are misused. But facts matter
Between the 1991, 2001, 2011 and 2021 Census *every* ethnic group in the UK has become *less* geographically segregated and *all* groups, majority and minorities, are more likely to interact with people not like them
Between the 1991, 2001, 2011 and 2021 Census *every* ethnic group in the UK has become *less* geographically segregated and *all* groups, majority and minorities, are more likely to interact with people not like them
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Victoria Derbyshire, "You described Reform UK as the right wing fascists of 1930s, why?"
Lord Heseltine, "Because that's what they are"
Lord Heseltine, "Because that's what they are"
October 7, 2025 at 9:08 PM
Victoria Derbyshire, "You described Reform UK as the right wing fascists of 1930s, why?"
Lord Heseltine, "Because that's what they are"
Lord Heseltine, "Because that's what they are"
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Lord Heseltine, "I wouldn't touch Nigel Farage"
"I hear of talk about a pact with Reform UK"
"We can see Reform UK, all over Europe. Le Penn in France. AfD in Germany. Same equivalent in Italy, Spain"
"It's all the same stuff"
"I hear of talk about a pact with Reform UK"
"We can see Reform UK, all over Europe. Le Penn in France. AfD in Germany. Same equivalent in Italy, Spain"
"It's all the same stuff"
October 7, 2025 at 7:44 PM
Lord Heseltine, "I wouldn't touch Nigel Farage"
"I hear of talk about a pact with Reform UK"
"We can see Reform UK, all over Europe. Le Penn in France. AfD in Germany. Same equivalent in Italy, Spain"
"It's all the same stuff"
"I hear of talk about a pact with Reform UK"
"We can see Reform UK, all over Europe. Le Penn in France. AfD in Germany. Same equivalent in Italy, Spain"
"It's all the same stuff"