@ken-berry.bsky.social
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Farage hopes he can breeze into power without scrutiny. But his racism, corrupt donations, shady links to Russia and MAGA… make it harder for him to hide. And his tantrum reactions to being challenged reveal him for the nasty inadequate he really is.
#NeverPM
www.adambienkov.co.uk/p/the-wheels...
#NeverPM
www.adambienkov.co.uk/p/the-wheels...
The Wheels Are Falling off the Nigel Farage Project
The Reform leader's increasingly rattled public appearances betray a growing sense that the opportunity of a lifetime could be about to slip from his fingers
www.adambienkov.co.uk
December 6, 2025 at 1:13 PM
Farage hopes he can breeze into power without scrutiny. But his racism, corrupt donations, shady links to Russia and MAGA… make it harder for him to hide. And his tantrum reactions to being challenged reveal him for the nasty inadequate he really is.
#NeverPM
www.adambienkov.co.uk/p/the-wheels...
#NeverPM
www.adambienkov.co.uk/p/the-wheels...
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Summing up the UK govt's budget:
Inequalities, profiteering, regressive taxation and neutering of public investment do not provide firm foundations for the economy.
We need a Budget for the masses, not just for the super-rich, bond markets and corporations..
www.youtube.com/watch?v=JULf...
Inequalities, profiteering, regressive taxation and neutering of public investment do not provide firm foundations for the economy.
We need a Budget for the masses, not just for the super-rich, bond markets and corporations..
www.youtube.com/watch?v=JULf...
House of Lords Budget 4Dec2025
YouTube video by Prem Sikka
www.youtube.com
December 6, 2025 at 7:45 AM
Summing up the UK govt's budget:
Inequalities, profiteering, regressive taxation and neutering of public investment do not provide firm foundations for the economy.
We need a Budget for the masses, not just for the super-rich, bond markets and corporations..
www.youtube.com/watch?v=JULf...
Inequalities, profiteering, regressive taxation and neutering of public investment do not provide firm foundations for the economy.
We need a Budget for the masses, not just for the super-rich, bond markets and corporations..
www.youtube.com/watch?v=JULf...
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BP to scrap paid rest breaks and most bank holiday bonuses for forecourt staff.
Changes to employee benefits would cut take-home pay by at least 6.25%.
Would exec pay and dividends be cut? No chance.
Hard-won rights eroded as corporations rule without ever being elected.
Back to Victorian times.
Changes to employee benefits would cut take-home pay by at least 6.25%.
Would exec pay and dividends be cut? No chance.
Hard-won rights eroded as corporations rule without ever being elected.
Back to Victorian times.
BP to scrap paid rest breaks and most bank holiday bonuses for forecourt staff
Exclusive: Plans to offset increase in minimum ‘fair pay’ set by Living Wage Foundation will affect 5,400 employees
www.theguardian.com
December 5, 2025 at 5:23 PM
BP to scrap paid rest breaks and most bank holiday bonuses for forecourt staff.
Changes to employee benefits would cut take-home pay by at least 6.25%.
Would exec pay and dividends be cut? No chance.
Hard-won rights eroded as corporations rule without ever being elected.
Back to Victorian times.
Changes to employee benefits would cut take-home pay by at least 6.25%.
Would exec pay and dividends be cut? No chance.
Hard-won rights eroded as corporations rule without ever being elected.
Back to Victorian times.
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1. Some good news at last. This week’s column is about the amazing thing a couple of us stumbled into three years ago, which we’ve now developed into a global research programme. It doesn’t change everything, of course, but it could help change quite a lot. + 🧵 www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Over a pint in Oxford, we may have stumbled upon the holy grail of agriculture | George Monbiot
I knew that a revolution in our understanding of soil could change the world. Then came a eureka moment – and the birth of the Earth Rover Program, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
www.theguardian.com
December 5, 2025 at 6:55 AM
1. Some good news at last. This week’s column is about the amazing thing a couple of us stumbled into three years ago, which we’ve now developed into a global research programme. It doesn’t change everything, of course, but it could help change quite a lot. + 🧵 www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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There are thousands of trained doctors in the UK right now — unemployed. Not because they’re unnecessary, but because the government refuses to fund the NHS roles we desperately need.
If we have the doctors, we can fund the doctors. So why won’t they?
youtu.be/jN42hYQsehU?...
If we have the doctors, we can fund the doctors. So why won’t they?
youtu.be/jN42hYQsehU?...
Why is our government choosing NHS cuts over patient care?
YouTube video by Richard J Murphy
youtu.be
December 5, 2025 at 7:07 AM
There are thousands of trained doctors in the UK right now — unemployed. Not because they’re unnecessary, but because the government refuses to fund the NHS roles we desperately need.
If we have the doctors, we can fund the doctors. So why won’t they?
youtu.be/jN42hYQsehU?...
If we have the doctors, we can fund the doctors. So why won’t they?
youtu.be/jN42hYQsehU?...
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Finally someone says it.
Daisy Cooper, "In 2017 there was not a single asylum seeker that arrived on a boat"
"Today we have 46,000 a year"
"And do you know why?"
"Brexit"
"Pushed through by Boris Johnson and championed by Nigel Farage"
*audience erupts in applause" #BBCQT
"Today we have 46,000 a year"
"And do you know why?"
"Brexit"
"Pushed through by Boris Johnson and championed by Nigel Farage"
*audience erupts in applause" #BBCQT
December 4, 2025 at 10:50 PM
Finally someone says it.
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Pause a moment, and read...
• Kathleen Jamie •
• Kathleen Jamie •
December 4, 2025 at 10:34 AM
Pause a moment, and read...
• Kathleen Jamie •
• Kathleen Jamie •
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Reform accepted £9 million from a former Boris Johnson backer & crypto-multimillionaire.
Today, Nigel Farage postures as a righteous defender of the same democracy he actively undermines.
Democracy should never be for sale. It's time for a cap on political donations.
Today, Nigel Farage postures as a righteous defender of the same democracy he actively undermines.
Democracy should never be for sale. It's time for a cap on political donations.
December 4, 2025 at 5:24 PM
Reform accepted £9 million from a former Boris Johnson backer & crypto-multimillionaire.
Today, Nigel Farage postures as a righteous defender of the same democracy he actively undermines.
Democracy should never be for sale. It's time for a cap on political donations.
Today, Nigel Farage postures as a righteous defender of the same democracy he actively undermines.
Democracy should never be for sale. It's time for a cap on political donations.
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So, Mr Farage is attacking multilingualism now.
If he weren't such an evil little creep I'd feel sorry for him. Imagine being so scared of everything that speaks of human potential and variety.
What a miserable gray cardboard soul the man must have.
If he weren't such an evil little creep I'd feel sorry for him. Imagine being so scared of everything that speaks of human potential and variety.
What a miserable gray cardboard soul the man must have.
December 4, 2025 at 8:04 AM
So, Mr Farage is attacking multilingualism now.
If he weren't such an evil little creep I'd feel sorry for him. Imagine being so scared of everything that speaks of human potential and variety.
What a miserable gray cardboard soul the man must have.
If he weren't such an evil little creep I'd feel sorry for him. Imagine being so scared of everything that speaks of human potential and variety.
What a miserable gray cardboard soul the man must have.
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hey you're right donald, it really is not even believable.
Trump, continued: "What the Somalian people have done to Minnesota is not even believable. It’s not even believable. And a lot of it starts with the governor. A lot of it starts with Barack HUSSEIN Obama, because that’s when people started coming in... They want to kiss our country good night."
December 3, 2025 at 9:50 PM
hey you're right donald, it really is not even believable.
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Madness
"We're only given a little spark of madness. You mustn't lose it"
- Robin Williams
-
#Twizel, #NewZealand.
-
"Look with your eyes. See with your Soul."
(from the big storm of 11 May, 24)
#Aurora #Madness #Reflections #Landscape #Nightscape #Astro #EastCoastKin #BucketList #TravelTuesday
"We're only given a little spark of madness. You mustn't lose it"
- Robin Williams
-
#Twizel, #NewZealand.
-
"Look with your eyes. See with your Soul."
(from the big storm of 11 May, 24)
#Aurora #Madness #Reflections #Landscape #Nightscape #Astro #EastCoastKin #BucketList #TravelTuesday
December 2, 2025 at 2:02 PM
Madness
"We're only given a little spark of madness. You mustn't lose it"
- Robin Williams
-
#Twizel, #NewZealand.
-
"Look with your eyes. See with your Soul."
(from the big storm of 11 May, 24)
#Aurora #Madness #Reflections #Landscape #Nightscape #Astro #EastCoastKin #BucketList #TravelTuesday
"We're only given a little spark of madness. You mustn't lose it"
- Robin Williams
-
#Twizel, #NewZealand.
-
"Look with your eyes. See with your Soul."
(from the big storm of 11 May, 24)
#Aurora #Madness #Reflections #Landscape #Nightscape #Astro #EastCoastKin #BucketList #TravelTuesday
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I absolutely do not care about Rachel Reeves’s junior chess competition.
I absolutely do care about whether Farage is racist or not.
And, given the deranged but distinct possibility that he may become PM, we all should.
Ps… Narrator: there was no Damascene conversion.
inews.co.uk/opinion/expo...
I absolutely do care about whether Farage is racist or not.
And, given the deranged but distinct possibility that he may become PM, we all should.
Ps… Narrator: there was no Damascene conversion.
inews.co.uk/opinion/expo...
December 3, 2025 at 4:56 PM
I absolutely do not care about Rachel Reeves’s junior chess competition.
I absolutely do care about whether Farage is racist or not.
And, given the deranged but distinct possibility that he may become PM, we all should.
Ps… Narrator: there was no Damascene conversion.
inews.co.uk/opinion/expo...
I absolutely do care about whether Farage is racist or not.
And, given the deranged but distinct possibility that he may become PM, we all should.
Ps… Narrator: there was no Damascene conversion.
inews.co.uk/opinion/expo...
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“This incredibly vibrant, busy and restless world is actually a façade for the most asleep society we have ever experienced. The more this metaverse dresses itself up in a kaleidoscopic festival of colours, the more the lights of human consciousness fade”
From my book BEYOND THE PETRI DISH
From my book BEYOND THE PETRI DISH
December 3, 2025 at 6:26 PM
“This incredibly vibrant, busy and restless world is actually a façade for the most asleep society we have ever experienced. The more this metaverse dresses itself up in a kaleidoscopic festival of colours, the more the lights of human consciousness fade”
From my book BEYOND THE PETRI DISH
From my book BEYOND THE PETRI DISH
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🚨Some personal news.
I'm thrilled to announce that I've just filed my first copy for The New Yorker.
A profile of Jonathan Gullis.
"You get the sense that offstage, Jonathan Gullis struggles with being Jonathan Gullis."
open.substack.com/pub/mrhenrym...
I'm thrilled to announce that I've just filed my first copy for The New Yorker.
A profile of Jonathan Gullis.
"You get the sense that offstage, Jonathan Gullis struggles with being Jonathan Gullis."
open.substack.com/pub/mrhenrym...
Jonathan Gullis, The Seagull's Lament
A New Yorker Profile
open.substack.com
December 2, 2025 at 11:01 AM
🚨Some personal news.
I'm thrilled to announce that I've just filed my first copy for The New Yorker.
A profile of Jonathan Gullis.
"You get the sense that offstage, Jonathan Gullis struggles with being Jonathan Gullis."
open.substack.com/pub/mrhenrym...
I'm thrilled to announce that I've just filed my first copy for The New Yorker.
A profile of Jonathan Gullis.
"You get the sense that offstage, Jonathan Gullis struggles with being Jonathan Gullis."
open.substack.com/pub/mrhenrym...
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It's all bad but hadn't seen the bit where Farage says:
"The European Union is the prototype for the New World Order."
That is a seriously, deeply problematic term that taps into Illuminati and antisemitic conspiracy theories.
How the fuck did this man direct the course of our politics?
"The European Union is the prototype for the New World Order."
That is a seriously, deeply problematic term that taps into Illuminati and antisemitic conspiracy theories.
How the fuck did this man direct the course of our politics?
We kept the receipts. These comments, taken together, paint a picture of the man he is today.
December 3, 2025 at 8:01 AM
It's all bad but hadn't seen the bit where Farage says:
"The European Union is the prototype for the New World Order."
That is a seriously, deeply problematic term that taps into Illuminati and antisemitic conspiracy theories.
How the fuck did this man direct the course of our politics?
"The European Union is the prototype for the New World Order."
That is a seriously, deeply problematic term that taps into Illuminati and antisemitic conspiracy theories.
How the fuck did this man direct the course of our politics?
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It’s frustrating to watch interviews like the one between the @thedailyshow.com’s Jon Stewart & @elizkolbert.bsky.social tonight, suggesting we don’t know the solutions to the #ClimateCrisis, & better solutions aren’t “politically viable.” WE KNOW THE SOLUTIONS, AND ONLY CORRUPTION MAKES THEM HARD.
December 2, 2025 at 5:46 AM
It’s frustrating to watch interviews like the one between the @thedailyshow.com’s Jon Stewart & @elizkolbert.bsky.social tonight, suggesting we don’t know the solutions to the #ClimateCrisis, & better solutions aren’t “politically viable.” WE KNOW THE SOLUTIONS, AND ONLY CORRUPTION MAKES THEM HARD.
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Labour’s Employment Rights Bill - a rare effort to address inequality of power.
“A large majority of voters backing Nigel Farage also want stronger working rights. Yet he and his MPs voted against every item in the bill.”
But of course they did.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
“A large majority of voters backing Nigel Farage also want stronger working rights. Yet he and his MPs voted against every item in the bill.”
But of course they did.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
It’s under fire from left and right – but Labour’s workers' rights bill is a huge achievement | Polly Toynbee
It makes no sense for union leaders to cry betrayal when it will be their members who benefit from these sorely needed reforms, says Guardian columnist Polly Toynbee
www.theguardian.com
December 2, 2025 at 7:23 AM
Labour’s Employment Rights Bill - a rare effort to address inequality of power.
“A large majority of voters backing Nigel Farage also want stronger working rights. Yet he and his MPs voted against every item in the bill.”
But of course they did.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
“A large majority of voters backing Nigel Farage also want stronger working rights. Yet he and his MPs voted against every item in the bill.”
But of course they did.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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A reminder that one of Wes Streeting's junior ministers is talking enthusiastically about 'cashing in' on NHS data (www.ft.com/content/0531...).
December 1, 2025 at 10:20 AM
A reminder that one of Wes Streeting's junior ministers is talking enthusiastically about 'cashing in' on NHS data (www.ft.com/content/0531...).
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FIFTY BILLION LITRES OF EFFLUENT!
Discharged, not into the sea (which would be bad enough), but into a LAKE!
Fueling the growth of toxic algae, and starving aquatic life of oxygen.
United Utilities is a greedy, disgusting and irresponsible company.
#NationaliseWaterNow
share.google/dLv28GvLTHwK...
Discharged, not into the sea (which would be bad enough), but into a LAKE!
Fueling the growth of toxic algae, and starving aquatic life of oxygen.
United Utilities is a greedy, disgusting and irresponsible company.
#NationaliseWaterNow
share.google/dLv28GvLTHwK...
Windermere hit by 50bn-litre deluge from sewage plants | The Observer
share.google
December 1, 2025 at 3:47 PM
FIFTY BILLION LITRES OF EFFLUENT!
Discharged, not into the sea (which would be bad enough), but into a LAKE!
Fueling the growth of toxic algae, and starving aquatic life of oxygen.
United Utilities is a greedy, disgusting and irresponsible company.
#NationaliseWaterNow
share.google/dLv28GvLTHwK...
Discharged, not into the sea (which would be bad enough), but into a LAKE!
Fueling the growth of toxic algae, and starving aquatic life of oxygen.
United Utilities is a greedy, disgusting and irresponsible company.
#NationaliseWaterNow
share.google/dLv28GvLTHwK...
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Refuk’s Coburn, who was UKIP’s leader in Scotland, appeared in WhatsApp messages to traitor Nathan Gill. CPS evidence shows repeated references to a “David” and a payment of $6,500 to an MEP called “D”. In April 2019, Voloshyn wrote to Gill: “I’m seeing D in the morning. How much was for him?”
November 30, 2025 at 8:26 AM
Refuk’s Coburn, who was UKIP’s leader in Scotland, appeared in WhatsApp messages to traitor Nathan Gill. CPS evidence shows repeated references to a “David” and a payment of $6,500 to an MEP called “D”. In April 2019, Voloshyn wrote to Gill: “I’m seeing D in the morning. How much was for him?”
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“This corrosive system has cleverly convinced us all that we can’t live without it, when in fact we will die precisely because of it”
November 29, 2025 at 7:44 PM
“This corrosive system has cleverly convinced us all that we can’t live without it, when in fact we will die precisely because of it”
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Minister defends 'pragmatic' U-turn on workers' rights.
It was a manifesto pledge
Why no 'pragmatic' U-turn' on nationalising water, energy, rail rolling stock companies and freight; ending privatisation of the NHS and social care; taxing the super rich?
It was a manifesto pledge
Why no 'pragmatic' U-turn' on nationalising water, energy, rail rolling stock companies and freight; ending privatisation of the NHS and social care; taxing the super rich?
Minister defends 'pragmatic' U-turn on workers' rights
Bridget Phillipson told the BBC the climbdown would enable wider benefits to be delivered quickly.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 29, 2025 at 7:11 AM
Minister defends 'pragmatic' U-turn on workers' rights.
It was a manifesto pledge
Why no 'pragmatic' U-turn' on nationalising water, energy, rail rolling stock companies and freight; ending privatisation of the NHS and social care; taxing the super rich?
It was a manifesto pledge
Why no 'pragmatic' U-turn' on nationalising water, energy, rail rolling stock companies and freight; ending privatisation of the NHS and social care; taxing the super rich?
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The point of Student Debt isn't that you ever pay it back.
It's that you never pay it back.
Then almost everyone is stuck in debt, which is all paid to the richest, which is all imaginary and interest anyway so it doesn't matter about the debt that isn't paid back.
It's that you never pay it back.
Then almost everyone is stuck in debt, which is all paid to the richest, which is all imaginary and interest anyway so it doesn't matter about the debt that isn't paid back.
November 28, 2025 at 10:11 PM
The point of Student Debt isn't that you ever pay it back.
It's that you never pay it back.
Then almost everyone is stuck in debt, which is all paid to the richest, which is all imaginary and interest anyway so it doesn't matter about the debt that isn't paid back.
It's that you never pay it back.
Then almost everyone is stuck in debt, which is all paid to the richest, which is all imaginary and interest anyway so it doesn't matter about the debt that isn't paid back.
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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.
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/74...
Surely, anyone decent and honest who genuinely cares about our country and our democracy has nothing to lose from this. So, sign up.
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 28, 2025 at 8:11 PM
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.
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/74...
Surely, anyone decent and honest who genuinely cares about our country and our democracy has nothing to lose from this. So, sign up.
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/74...