@the-truth-seeker.bsky.social
Centre left politics. Want to rejoin EU. Would like honest politics and a decent welfare state. Fair tax burden on ALL who can afford it. Love the NHS.
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And why isn't this head line news
🔴 Exclusive: Nigel Farage’s £9m Donor Profits From Putin Propaganda Platform While Holding MoD Stake
Reform UK’s biggest donor is profiting from ties to a pro-Kremlin platform that hosts a Russian intelligence-backed influence operation.
@nafeez.bsky.social
bylinetimes.com/2025/12/16/n...
Reform UK’s biggest donor is profiting from ties to a pro-Kremlin platform that hosts a Russian intelligence-backed influence operation.
@nafeez.bsky.social
bylinetimes.com/2025/12/16/n...
Nigel Farage’s £9m Donor Profits From Putin Propaganda Platform While Holding MoD Stake
Reform UK's biggest donor is profiting from ties to a pro-Kremlin platform that hosts a Russian intelligence-backed influence operation
bylinetimes.com
December 16, 2025 at 5:19 PM
And why isn't this head line news
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I guarantee that most British people have no idea who Curtis Yarvin, or Peter Thiel are.
I also guarantee that the ‘Zone Fever’ stealthily eclipsing the UK (which is backed by the duopoly) is a critical component of Yarvin and Thiel’s plans to dismantle democracy in the US, and the UK.
I also guarantee that the ‘Zone Fever’ stealthily eclipsing the UK (which is backed by the duopoly) is a critical component of Yarvin and Thiel’s plans to dismantle democracy in the US, and the UK.
Tech fascists seek to dismantle the "Cathedral" of democracy.
Christian Nationalists want to conquer the "Seven Mountains" and impose theocracy.
The bridge between them? JD Vance
My talks with @matthewboedy.bsky.social and @kieraevebutler.bsky.social:
www.thenerdreich.com/jd-vances-th...
Christian Nationalists want to conquer the "Seven Mountains" and impose theocracy.
The bridge between them? JD Vance
My talks with @matthewboedy.bsky.social and @kieraevebutler.bsky.social:
www.thenerdreich.com/jd-vances-th...
JD Vance's Theo Bro Network: Silicon Valley Meets ‘God’
JD Vance links Silicon Valley extremists & Christian nationalists. From Curtis Yarvin to Seven Mountains—inside the authoritarian alliance.
www.thenerdreich.com
December 16, 2025 at 6:03 PM
I guarantee that most British people have no idea who Curtis Yarvin, or Peter Thiel are.
I also guarantee that the ‘Zone Fever’ stealthily eclipsing the UK (which is backed by the duopoly) is a critical component of Yarvin and Thiel’s plans to dismantle democracy in the US, and the UK.
I also guarantee that the ‘Zone Fever’ stealthily eclipsing the UK (which is backed by the duopoly) is a critical component of Yarvin and Thiel’s plans to dismantle democracy in the US, and the UK.
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Just pointing out that the UK has the highest pension and minimum wage we ever had. Also the highest level of regulatory protection.
Because it is rarely mentioned when everyone talks about how terrible everything is.
Because it is rarely mentioned when everyone talks about how terrible everything is.
December 16, 2025 at 8:44 AM
Just pointing out that the UK has the highest pension and minimum wage we ever had. Also the highest level of regulatory protection.
Because it is rarely mentioned when everyone talks about how terrible everything is.
Because it is rarely mentioned when everyone talks about how terrible everything is.
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A big thank you to Angela Rayner for her work on 2 bills which are going for Royal Assent (likely this week).
The Employment Rights Bill
The Planning and Infrastructure Bill
Both are flagship pieces of legislation from our Labour government.
She guided both through most stages in Parliament.
1/3
The Employment Rights Bill
The Planning and Infrastructure Bill
Both are flagship pieces of legislation from our Labour government.
She guided both through most stages in Parliament.
1/3
December 16, 2025 at 5:25 PM
A big thank you to Angela Rayner for her work on 2 bills which are going for Royal Assent (likely this week).
The Employment Rights Bill
The Planning and Infrastructure Bill
Both are flagship pieces of legislation from our Labour government.
She guided both through most stages in Parliament.
1/3
The Employment Rights Bill
The Planning and Infrastructure Bill
Both are flagship pieces of legislation from our Labour government.
She guided both through most stages in Parliament.
1/3
No adverts on the BBC!
A Labour Culture Secretary, Lisa Nandy, is promoting idea of advertising on the #BBC and/or a part subscription model for its future funding.
I despair.
How can the BBC's *unique* *precious* blend of universality, independence, freedom from commercial pressure and trust be maintained in this way?
I despair.
How can the BBC's *unique* *precious* blend of universality, independence, freedom from commercial pressure and trust be maintained in this way?
Britain’s Story: The Next Chapter - BBC Royal Charter Review, Green Paper and public consultation
www.gov.uk
December 16, 2025 at 4:27 PM
No adverts on the BBC!
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2 heroes half a world apart with this in common
👇🏼Ahmed Al-Ahmed disarmed a gunman killing Jews in Bondi, wounded in the process
Samir Zitouni👇🏼seriously wounded saving passengers on his train from a rampaging knifeman
Both Muslim Migrants acting selflessly to save others
#StopDemonisingMigrants
👇🏼Ahmed Al-Ahmed disarmed a gunman killing Jews in Bondi, wounded in the process
Samir Zitouni👇🏼seriously wounded saving passengers on his train from a rampaging knifeman
Both Muslim Migrants acting selflessly to save others
#StopDemonisingMigrants
December 14, 2025 at 6:16 PM
2 heroes half a world apart with this in common
👇🏼Ahmed Al-Ahmed disarmed a gunman killing Jews in Bondi, wounded in the process
Samir Zitouni👇🏼seriously wounded saving passengers on his train from a rampaging knifeman
Both Muslim Migrants acting selflessly to save others
#StopDemonisingMigrants
👇🏼Ahmed Al-Ahmed disarmed a gunman killing Jews in Bondi, wounded in the process
Samir Zitouni👇🏼seriously wounded saving passengers on his train from a rampaging knifeman
Both Muslim Migrants acting selflessly to save others
#StopDemonisingMigrants
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Just 217 to go now😮💙!
Parliament goes into recess in 6 days time. Before MPs break up for Christmas, we want to send all 650 MPs an incredibly important message. The NHS must be their top priority this winter🚨
I’ll count us down💙
Ad
shop.everydoctor.org.uk
Parliament goes into recess in 6 days time. Before MPs break up for Christmas, we want to send all 650 MPs an incredibly important message. The NHS must be their top priority this winter🚨
I’ll count us down💙
Ad
shop.everydoctor.org.uk
December 12, 2025 at 12:15 PM
Just 217 to go now😮💙!
Parliament goes into recess in 6 days time. Before MPs break up for Christmas, we want to send all 650 MPs an incredibly important message. The NHS must be their top priority this winter🚨
I’ll count us down💙
Ad
shop.everydoctor.org.uk
Parliament goes into recess in 6 days time. Before MPs break up for Christmas, we want to send all 650 MPs an incredibly important message. The NHS must be their top priority this winter🚨
I’ll count us down💙
Ad
shop.everydoctor.org.uk
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The US voted with Russia, China and N. Korea against most of the civilized world. This is where we are at.
December 12, 2025 at 1:19 AM
The US voted with Russia, China and N. Korea against most of the civilized world. This is where we are at.
Why can’t illegal dumping be banned immediately?
Sewage dumping near swimming spots in England getting worse.
Govt expects end to illegal dumping into waterways by mid-century.
Despite illegality corporate permits not cancelled, puny fines, execs not prosecuted, bills hiked, dividends paid, investment neglected.
archive.ph/qMctS
Govt expects end to illegal dumping into waterways by mid-century.
Despite illegality corporate permits not cancelled, puny fines, execs not prosecuted, bills hiked, dividends paid, investment neglected.
archive.ph/qMctS
Sewage spills near swimming spots still getting worse, report finds
Water companies have been ordered to end the release of untreated sewage into waterways by mid-century. Thursday’s report found progress to be well off course
www.thetimes.com
December 12, 2025 at 8:06 AM
Why can’t illegal dumping be banned immediately?
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Wonder if any heads will roll over this grim editorial blunder?
This is a really appalling editorial error on BBC Question Time
"Apparently one in three children don't speak English as a first language, why does this matter?"
Chair says "have English as a second language"
Caption changes the meaning entirely
"Don't speak fluent English"
"Apparently one in three children don't speak English as a first language, why does this matter?"
Chair says "have English as a second language"
Caption changes the meaning entirely
"Don't speak fluent English"
December 12, 2025 at 7:50 AM
Wonder if any heads will roll over this grim editorial blunder?
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Losers Gullis and Ben Bradley, now possibly disgraced Scott Benton will join Reform. Farage admits his party lacks experience. But recruits the morons and the pisstakers to make up for that.
Reform: Loitering around the Tory bins seeing what bits of their stinking rubbish they can recycle.
Reform: Loitering around the Tory bins seeing what bits of their stinking rubbish they can recycle.
December 12, 2025 at 7:59 AM
Losers Gullis and Ben Bradley, now possibly disgraced Scott Benton will join Reform. Farage admits his party lacks experience. But recruits the morons and the pisstakers to make up for that.
Reform: Loitering around the Tory bins seeing what bits of their stinking rubbish they can recycle.
Reform: Loitering around the Tory bins seeing what bits of their stinking rubbish they can recycle.
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Trump must’ve seen this👇🏼causing his rant about what a terrible Mayor Sadiq Khan is.. he just can’t take that USA doesn’t feature 🤷🏼♂️
@london.gov.uk
@london.gov.uk
December 9, 2025 at 10:22 PM
Trump must’ve seen this👇🏼causing his rant about what a terrible Mayor Sadiq Khan is.. he just can’t take that USA doesn’t feature 🤷🏼♂️
@london.gov.uk
@london.gov.uk
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So today I found out that my TED talk ‘This is What a Digital Coup Looks Like’ was TED’s most watched talk of the year.
It’s sort of amazing & terrifying. Because this *is* what a digital coup looks like.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=TZOo...
It’s sort of amazing & terrifying. Because this *is* what a digital coup looks like.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=TZOo...
This Is What a Digital Coup Looks Like | Carole Cadwalladr | TED
YouTube video by TED
www.youtube.com
December 9, 2025 at 10:29 PM
So today I found out that my TED talk ‘This is What a Digital Coup Looks Like’ was TED’s most watched talk of the year.
It’s sort of amazing & terrifying. Because this *is* what a digital coup looks like.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=TZOo...
It’s sort of amazing & terrifying. Because this *is* what a digital coup looks like.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=TZOo...
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"AI is the asbestos in the walls of our technological society, stuffed there with wild abandon by a finance sector and tech monopolists run amok. We will be excavating it for a generation or more."
This piece on AI by Cory Doctorow is spectactular.
pluralistic.net/2025/12/05/p...
This piece on AI by Cory Doctorow is spectactular.
pluralistic.net/2025/12/05/p...
December 9, 2025 at 2:58 PM
"AI is the asbestos in the walls of our technological society, stuffed there with wild abandon by a finance sector and tech monopolists run amok. We will be excavating it for a generation or more."
This piece on AI by Cory Doctorow is spectactular.
pluralistic.net/2025/12/05/p...
This piece on AI by Cory Doctorow is spectactular.
pluralistic.net/2025/12/05/p...
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Great idea not to mention that the entire saving was made in the year ending March 2025, two months before Reform took over.
December 9, 2025 at 8:38 AM
Great idea not to mention that the entire saving was made in the year ending March 2025, two months before Reform took over.
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Jared Kushner's involvement was "not mentioned in Paramount's press release on Monday morning about its $108 billion bid, nor were participating sovereign wealth funds from Saudi Arabia, Abu Dhabi and Qatar."
fancy that
fancy that
Jared Kushner is part of Paramount's hostile bid for Warner Bros. Discovery
Paramount is telling WBD shareholders that it has a smoother path to regulatory approval than does Netflix.
www.axios.com
December 8, 2025 at 3:44 PM
Jared Kushner's involvement was "not mentioned in Paramount's press release on Monday morning about its $108 billion bid, nor were participating sovereign wealth funds from Saudi Arabia, Abu Dhabi and Qatar."
fancy that
fancy that
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“The voice of Zia Yusuf, was heard (on his fourth appearance this year) for roughly double the time afforded Zack Polanski…this clear political imbalance was partially contrived by host Fiona Bruce interrupting Polanski twice as often as Yusuf (and by encouraging audience members to do the same)”
The BBC is helping Reform UK push immigration to the top of the agenda
The BBC is helping Reform UK push immigration to the top of the agenda
THE BBC is not only excessively platforming Reform UK in news and current affairs programmes, especially for viewers in Scotland,
www.thenational.scot
December 9, 2025 at 10:45 AM
“The voice of Zia Yusuf, was heard (on his fourth appearance this year) for roughly double the time afforded Zack Polanski…this clear political imbalance was partially contrived by host Fiona Bruce interrupting Polanski twice as often as Yusuf (and by encouraging audience members to do the same)”
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Posted without any further comment - it says all that needs saying .......
December 6, 2025 at 4:41 PM
Posted without any further comment - it says all that needs saying .......
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Here I am with Reform councillor Andrew Harrison, who was one of a group of people fined over £1m for employing illegal workers. Like all good patriots, he hates immigrants, apart from the ones he can exploit for profit.
December 7, 2025 at 7:52 PM
Here I am with Reform councillor Andrew Harrison, who was one of a group of people fined over £1m for employing illegal workers. Like all good patriots, he hates immigrants, apart from the ones he can exploit for profit.
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Elon wants the European Union abolished because he doesn’t have more power than those nations when working together. Cooperation of smaller groups terrifies the wealthy because it shows just how greedy they are and how little they care about who they hurt to get more money/power.
Here is the whole Trump, Brexit, Russia story neatly summed up for you
The battle started about Ukraine, now it’s about big tech monopoly power
The battle started about Ukraine, now it’s about big tech monopoly power
December 6, 2025 at 10:15 PM
Elon wants the European Union abolished because he doesn’t have more power than those nations when working together. Cooperation of smaller groups terrifies the wealthy because it shows just how greedy they are and how little they care about who they hurt to get more money/power.
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At some point politicians and commentators in Europe might want to start defending our system as really not too bad and far better than any realistic alternative notwithstanding frustration that we aren't all richer.
Elon Musk and his Russian friends call for the abolishment of the EU
December 6, 2025 at 7:56 PM
At some point politicians and commentators in Europe might want to start defending our system as really not too bad and far better than any realistic alternative notwithstanding frustration that we aren't all richer.
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And nor should it. Farage is a dangerous racist and yet is being fast tracked into No.10 on a ruinous populist agenda, funded by shady right wing money and malign foreign interests.
People must know who and what they are voting for. That’s the very lowest bar in a democracy.
People must know who and what they are voting for. That’s the very lowest bar in a democracy.
December 5, 2025 at 9:01 AM
And nor should it. Farage is a dangerous racist and yet is being fast tracked into No.10 on a ruinous populist agenda, funded by shady right wing money and malign foreign interests.
People must know who and what they are voting for. That’s the very lowest bar in a democracy.
People must know who and what they are voting for. That’s the very lowest bar in a democracy.
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"I should just point out that this will be the 4th appearance since September for unelected gobshite Zia Yusuf"
December 4, 2025 at 9:32 PM
"I should just point out that this will be the 4th appearance since September for unelected gobshite Zia Yusuf"
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Last year Sky News was rending its garments over Starmer's free eyeglasses: WHAT INFLUENCE DID LORD ALLI BUY?
Now, RefUK get £9m from a crypto bro, they have not one word about the donor's interests; just BRAVO NIGEL, barely concealed glee, and "what a huge boost... money goes where momentum is". 🤡
Now, RefUK get £9m from a crypto bro, they have not one word about the donor's interests; just BRAVO NIGEL, barely concealed glee, and "what a huge boost... money goes where momentum is". 🤡
December 4, 2025 at 12:49 PM
Last year Sky News was rending its garments over Starmer's free eyeglasses: WHAT INFLUENCE DID LORD ALLI BUY?
Now, RefUK get £9m from a crypto bro, they have not one word about the donor's interests; just BRAVO NIGEL, barely concealed glee, and "what a huge boost... money goes where momentum is". 🤡
Now, RefUK get £9m from a crypto bro, they have not one word about the donor's interests; just BRAVO NIGEL, barely concealed glee, and "what a huge boost... money goes where momentum is". 🤡
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