tonybanks87.bsky.social
@tonybanks87.bsky.social
Sports journalist, author.
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So the Daily Mail owner's wife has just given £50,000 to Nigel Farage's Reform UK
December 4, 2025 at 9:30 AM
Farage seems to have dropped the swan issue. Not mentioned it lately I thought it was important to him?
December 3, 2025 at 10:06 PM
It’s funny how the Daily Mail don’t seem at all interested in anti-semitism in Reform. They were greatly exercised about the issue in Labour. Day after day of it. Now? Zilch. Wonder why?
December 3, 2025 at 10:05 PM
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You would think the alleged indiscretions of the schoolboy Nigel Farage would have drawn outrage from a just, impartial British media. Strangely, it seems they have not.

This week’s column by Stewart Lee

www.thenerve.news/p/stewart-le...
November 30, 2025 at 11:37 AM
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Radio 6 is a tribute to all that is best at the BBC. It is inform, educate and entertain in musical form: Utter loveliness. And then they periodically allow the news department to mutilate it with these context-free anti-asylum bulletins, reminding you of all that's worst about the BBC.
Radcliffe and Maconie on BBC 6 music is one of my favourite things

Having it interrupted by breathless news bulletin telling me ‘government has banned taxis for asylum seekers’ *really isn’t*

New lines like ‘Home Office spent £1k over weekend on taxis’ would struggle to make a local newspaper
November 29, 2025 at 9:01 AM
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Ryanair axes loyalty scheme after passengers took too many cheap flights on.ft.com/4rtoTVF
Ryanair axes loyalty scheme after passengers took too many cheap flights
Marketing boss says Prime generated €6mn in fare discounts, costing the airline ‘more money than it generates’
on.ft.com
November 29, 2025 at 8:19 AM
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🚨The Petition calling for a public inquiry into Russian influence on UK politics & democracy is now within touching distance of 80,000 signatures!

LET’S KEEP GOING!

If a petition is what it’s going to take let’s get this done!

petition.parliament.uk/petitions/74...
November 28, 2025 at 8:34 AM
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A 23-year-old bin man with terminal cancer was escorted to his wedding by a procession of rubbish trucks.
Dad, 23, with terminal cancer in tears as bin trucks escort him to his wedding
www.mirror.co.uk
November 28, 2025 at 8:34 AM
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Reminder that In the 1990s Farage sought the backing of the disgraced former Conservative MP and notorious racist Enoch Powell and twice asked him to stand as a candidate for UKIP.

www.theguardian.com/politics/201...
Nigel Farage asked former Conservative MP Enoch Powell to back Ukip
Despite his ‘rivers of blood’ speech, the Ukip leader has said the central thrust of Powell’s immigration arguments hold true
www.theguardian.com
November 24, 2025 at 10:59 PM
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Laura Kuenssberg has just managed to host an hour long political programme, without a single mention of one of the main parties being implicated in a Russian bribery scandal

How is that even fucking possible?

#bbclaurak
#bbcbreakfast
November 23, 2025 at 10:00 AM
Not a word in the Mail on Sunday on Nathan Gill of Reform being convicted of taking Russian bribes. Covid inquiry findings relegated to one page - page 17.
November 23, 2025 at 9:08 AM
Surely a purchase of the Telegraph by the Mail should be blocked on media plurality grounds?
November 23, 2025 at 9:04 AM
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October 5, 2025 at 9:06 AM
I wonder if anyone in our national press will ever write that Reform have had a nightmare week?
November 21, 2025 at 6:24 PM
Seems pretty evident that there should be prosecutions now. Misconduct in public office. #CovidEnquiry.
November 21, 2025 at 8:57 AM
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BREAKING: UK’s response to Covid was “too little too late”. Acting faster could have saved 23,000 lives in England according to the public inquiry.

Boris Johnson presided over a “toxic, sexist, chaotic culture” in No10, where rule-breaking seriously undermined public confidence.
November 20, 2025 at 4:07 PM
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Covid response of ‘toxic and chaotic’ UK government was ‘too little, too late’, inquiry finds on.ft.com/4o8E7g3
Covid response of ‘toxic and chaotic’ UK government was ‘too little, too late’, inquiry finds
Report criticises culture in Downing Street during Boris Johnson’s tenure
on.ft.com
November 20, 2025 at 4:08 PM
I don’t actually care that much about immigration. But people keep telling me I do.
November 19, 2025 at 8:05 AM
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November 18, 2025 at 12:52 PM
I mean, I know a lot of people have to make a living out of instantly commenting on life, but there is a case for the old ‘wait and see’ tactic, isn’t there?
November 18, 2025 at 8:43 AM
These days, I am a big fan of a bit of peace and quiet.
November 18, 2025 at 8:40 AM
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The screening study will target hidden exposure to lead in children and lays the groundwork for nationwide testing. The initiative follows a two-year FT investigation that revealed millions of Britons may be unknowingly exposed to the toxic metal. on.ft.com/47K8Ivp
November 17, 2025 at 6:30 AM