Malcolm Barnard
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Dad, Grandad: Mostly bag carrier and chauffeur. Actor’s PA. Ex ex and ex X
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Former Dulwich pupil says Farage told him: ‘That’s the way back to Africa’
Exclusive: Yinka Bankole says he was compelled to speak out after Reform leader’s attempts to dismiss hurt of alleged targets
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December 5, 2025 at 5:36 PM
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Putin is a far more successful manipulator of Western psychology than he is a conqueror of Ukrainian defensive positions share.google/t4tDq7zXBj7o...
December 4, 2025 at 12:54 PM
Putin is a far more successful manipulator of Western psychology than he is a conqueror of Ukrainian defensive positions share.google/t4tDq7zXBj7o...
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Absolutely contemptible racism from the Reform UK leader of Staffordshire County Council - 'a man who is deeply bigoted and tapped into far-right media and terminology'
🚨NEW: In a recent interview, Reform UK’s Ian Cooper declared that he wanted to carry out his role as leader of Staffordshire County Council with “competence and professionalism” and “keep under the radar”.
Alas, that’s not what we found: hopenothate.org.uk/2025/12/03/r...
Alas, that’s not what we found: hopenothate.org.uk/2025/12/03/r...
Revealed: The Online Activity of Staffordshire Council Leader Ian Cooper – HOPE not hate
Reform UK’s Cllr Ian Cooper has posted dozens of racist and bigoted posts to YouTube and X/Twitter under his personal accounts. When it comes to...
hopenothate.org.uk
December 3, 2025 at 6:51 PM
Absolutely contemptible racism from the Reform UK leader of Staffordshire County Council - 'a man who is deeply bigoted and tapped into far-right media and terminology'
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GB News pays substantial damages to Islamic Relief over false terrorism claim pressgazette.co.uk/the-wire/new...
GB News pays substantial damages to Islamic Relief over false terrorism claim
GB News has paid "substantial" libel damages to a UK charity an interviewee falsely claimed had sent money to terrorist groups.
pressgazette.co.uk
December 3, 2025 at 6:27 PM
GB News pays substantial damages to Islamic Relief over false terrorism claim pressgazette.co.uk/the-wire/new...
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Reform should rapidly suspend Staffordshire Council leader Ian Coopet for this overt racism
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December 3, 2025 at 5:24 PM
Reform should rapidly suspend Staffordshire Council leader Ian Coopet for this overt racism
hopenothate.org.uk/2025/12/03/r...
hopenothate.org.uk/2025/12/03/r...
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Nigel Farage was a racist bully at school but Rachel Reeves won the wrong chess championship so who can say who is worse?
December 2, 2025 at 9:59 PM
Nigel Farage was a racist bully at school but Rachel Reeves won the wrong chess championship so who can say who is worse?
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What a Public Inquiry Into Russian Influence in British Politics Must Also Investigate: Boris Johnson and Alexander Lebedev
If you think the Nathan Gill conviction is bad, wait to you hear about another Leave campaigner and his connections to Putin's inner circle
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If you think the Nathan Gill conviction is bad, wait to you hear about another Leave campaigner and his connections to Putin's inner circle
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What a Public Inquiry Into Russian Influence in British Politics Must Also Investigate: Boris Johnson and Alexander Lebedev
If you think the Gill conviction is bad, linking the Reform UK Party leader's closest aide to the Kremlin, wait to you hear about another Leave campaigner and his connections to Putin's inner circle
open.substack.com
December 1, 2025 at 12:00 PM
What a Public Inquiry Into Russian Influence in British Politics Must Also Investigate: Boris Johnson and Alexander Lebedev
If you think the Nathan Gill conviction is bad, wait to you hear about another Leave campaigner and his connections to Putin's inner circle
open.substack.com/pub/pdjukes/...
If you think the Nathan Gill conviction is bad, wait to you hear about another Leave campaigner and his connections to Putin's inner circle
open.substack.com/pub/pdjukes/...
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“It is Russia who have been the perpetrator of this war. If we don’t act to stop them in Ukraine, we will fight them somewhere else.”
Edward Morello
Edward Morello
November 30, 2025 at 9:01 AM
“It is Russia who have been the perpetrator of this war. If we don’t act to stop them in Ukraine, we will fight them somewhere else.”
Edward Morello
Edward Morello
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'We have historically high welfare spending.' No we don't.
'We have a historically high proportion of working-age people not actually working.' No we don't.
'The number of Britons emigrating is skyrocketing.' No it isn't.
'We have a historically high proportion of working-age people not actually working.' No we don't.
'The number of Britons emigrating is skyrocketing.' No it isn't.
November 29, 2025 at 5:08 PM
'We have historically high welfare spending.' No we don't.
'We have a historically high proportion of working-age people not actually working.' No we don't.
'The number of Britons emigrating is skyrocketing.' No it isn't.
'We have a historically high proportion of working-age people not actually working.' No we don't.
'The number of Britons emigrating is skyrocketing.' No it isn't.
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‘Speaking outside his chateau in France, former Brexit Party and UKIP MEP Coburn answered "no" when a BBC journalist asked him whether he had ever been paid to give a speech to promote pro-Russian campaigners.’
Great work from @BBCWales. Keep going
Great work from @BBCWales. Keep going
November 28, 2025 at 6:28 AM
‘Speaking outside his chateau in France, former Brexit Party and UKIP MEP Coburn answered "no" when a BBC journalist asked him whether he had ever been paid to give a speech to promote pro-Russian campaigners.’
Great work from @BBCWales. Keep going
Great work from @BBCWales. Keep going
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If Rachel Reeves gets challenged about this bullseye on Farage being a Russian asset, she should simply reply that it was not meant in a hurtful way.
"We are freezing known Russian assets" says Rachel Reeves
"But let me be clear, I don't actually mean the member for Clacton"
"But let me be clear, I don't actually mean the member for Clacton"
November 26, 2025 at 3:11 PM
If Rachel Reeves gets challenged about this bullseye on Farage being a Russian asset, she should simply reply that it was not meant in a hurtful way.
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The antisemitism allegations against Farage should alarm the entire British electorate - but most of all Jews.
British Jews should reject Farage's phony support. We should not permit the far-right to exploit us as pawns to attack fellow ethnic and religious minorities.
Good to discuss on i24 News.
British Jews should reject Farage's phony support. We should not permit the far-right to exploit us as pawns to attack fellow ethnic and religious minorities.
Good to discuss on i24 News.
November 26, 2025 at 9:42 PM
The antisemitism allegations against Farage should alarm the entire British electorate - but most of all Jews.
British Jews should reject Farage's phony support. We should not permit the far-right to exploit us as pawns to attack fellow ethnic and religious minorities.
Good to discuss on i24 News.
British Jews should reject Farage's phony support. We should not permit the far-right to exploit us as pawns to attack fellow ethnic and religious minorities.
Good to discuss on i24 News.
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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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"El Fasher’s youngest are paying the highest price. Children carrying other children to safety."
Read Tom Fletcher's Darfur diary: https://bit.ly/3JYiWPU
Read Tom Fletcher's Darfur diary: https://bit.ly/3JYiWPU
Darfur diary: the road to El Fasher | The Observer
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November 25, 2025 at 5:48 PM
"El Fasher’s youngest are paying the highest price. Children carrying other children to safety."
Read Tom Fletcher's Darfur diary: https://bit.ly/3JYiWPU
Read Tom Fletcher's Darfur diary: https://bit.ly/3JYiWPU
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A new Danish study, covering over 1 million children born between 1997 and 2018, was published in 2025 and its findings are decisive.
The study “confirms that routine childhood vaccines do not cause autism spectrum disorder.”
These findings counters the misinformation that continues to circulate.👇
The study “confirms that routine childhood vaccines do not cause autism spectrum disorder.”
These findings counters the misinformation that continues to circulate.👇
Large Danish Study: No link between vaccines and autism or 49 other health conditions
A new Danish study finds no association between aluminum in childhood vaccines and 50 different health conditions, including autism, asthma, and autoimmune diseases. The findings reaffirm the safety o...
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November 24, 2025 at 1:50 AM
A new Danish study, covering over 1 million children born between 1997 and 2018, was published in 2025 and its findings are decisive.
The study “confirms that routine childhood vaccines do not cause autism spectrum disorder.”
These findings counters the misinformation that continues to circulate.👇
The study “confirms that routine childhood vaccines do not cause autism spectrum disorder.”
These findings counters the misinformation that continues to circulate.👇
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The Covid inquiry’s findings are shocking but unsurprising now, so the main thing it left me thinking is that without a vaccine we wd’ve been utterly screwed. & if you worked round the clock to make a thing that saved millions of lives globally, to see that legacy trashed by anti-vaxxers…
November 20, 2025 at 5:50 PM
The Covid inquiry’s findings are shocking but unsurprising now, so the main thing it left me thinking is that without a vaccine we wd’ve been utterly screwed. & if you worked round the clock to make a thing that saved millions of lives globally, to see that legacy trashed by anti-vaxxers…
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The real BBC bias story, narrated by Anna Ford
November 19, 2025 at 12:12 PM
The real BBC bias story, narrated by Anna Ford
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What security concerns. Russia illegally invaded a sovereign nation, it occupied parts of a sovereign nation. Tankies scream NATO but conveniently ignore how Ukraine was not in NATO and not likely to be. There are no security concerns, just Russian imperialist aggression.
3/ Dmitriev says that the plan will "address the Ukraine conflict, but also how to restore US-Russia ties [and] address Russia's security concerns."
November 19, 2025 at 8:52 AM
What security concerns. Russia illegally invaded a sovereign nation, it occupied parts of a sovereign nation. Tankies scream NATO but conveniently ignore how Ukraine was not in NATO and not likely to be. There are no security concerns, just Russian imperialist aggression.
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21st Nov (This Friday) ⬇️
This month Nathan Gill will be sentenced at the Old Bailey after pleading guilty to taking bribes to make statements in favour of Russia during his tenure as a member of the European parliament. This fascinating article discusses his close relationship to Farage. 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 17, 2025 at 5:27 PM
21st Nov (This Friday) ⬇️
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There were 93 homicides in London last year: population 9 million
In New York - population 8.5 million - there were
391.
London's homicide figure is 6 times lower than LA, 9 times lower than Miami, 17 times lower than Chicago.
And it's falling year on year despite the population increasing
In New York - population 8.5 million - there were
391.
London's homicide figure is 6 times lower than LA, 9 times lower than Miami, 17 times lower than Chicago.
And it's falling year on year despite the population increasing
November 16, 2025 at 5:28 PM
There were 93 homicides in London last year: population 9 million
In New York - population 8.5 million - there were
391.
London's homicide figure is 6 times lower than LA, 9 times lower than Miami, 17 times lower than Chicago.
And it's falling year on year despite the population increasing
In New York - population 8.5 million - there were
391.
London's homicide figure is 6 times lower than LA, 9 times lower than Miami, 17 times lower than Chicago.
And it's falling year on year despite the population increasing
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Honestly, I did NOT have "punching the air and going HELL YES to Chris Patten" on my bingo card today. But what he says is SO rarely said and needed saying SO badly!
"How shall we treat Mr Farage's concerns? Shall we hail Brexit a tremendous success? Something that has cost the country billions?"
"How shall we treat Mr Farage's concerns? Shall we hail Brexit a tremendous success? Something that has cost the country billions?"
SUPERB and angrily unvarnished response, by former BBC chairman, Lord Patten.
"I don't think that we should allow ourselves to be bullied into thinking that the BBC is only any good, if it reflects the prejudice of the last person who shouted at it." ~AA
"I don't think that we should allow ourselves to be bullied into thinking that the BBC is only any good, if it reflects the prejudice of the last person who shouted at it." ~AA
November 10, 2025 at 6:47 PM
Honestly, I did NOT have "punching the air and going HELL YES to Chris Patten" on my bingo card today. But what he says is SO rarely said and needed saying SO badly!
"How shall we treat Mr Farage's concerns? Shall we hail Brexit a tremendous success? Something that has cost the country billions?"
"How shall we treat Mr Farage's concerns? Shall we hail Brexit a tremendous success? Something that has cost the country billions?"
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He also lobbies for U.S. Big Tech companies that have donated millions to Trump
'BBC Bias' Memo Was Authored by Lobbyist Tied to Pro-Trump Tech Giants
The leaked memo that fuelled Trump’s attack on the BBC was written by a lobbyist at a firm paid by US tech giants tied to the President
bylinetimes.com
November 11, 2025 at 2:40 PM
He also lobbies for U.S. Big Tech companies that have donated millions to Trump
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Such a brilliant, insightful and ultimately moving interview with Zelenskyy by @lukeharding1968.bsky.social
Stop what you are doing and read it.
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
Stop what you are doing and read it.
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
Volodymyr Zelenskyy: why should I be afraid of Donald Trump?
Exclusive: Ukraine’s leader dismisses reports his last Washington meeting was volatile, and praises King Charles for helping build ties with US president
www.theguardian.com
November 9, 2025 at 6:09 PM
Such a brilliant, insightful and ultimately moving interview with Zelenskyy by @lukeharding1968.bsky.social
Stop what you are doing and read it.
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
Stop what you are doing and read it.
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...