This a bigger threat than previous far-right movements because it uses the machinery of 'normal' politics and draws in support from huge numbers whose needs are not being met.
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This a bigger threat than previous far-right movements because it uses the machinery of 'normal' politics and draws in support from huge numbers whose needs are not being met.
The Newsome press office just posted this 😂 sound up
So many are...
Angela Rayner accidentally pays less tax than she should have, resigns, and the media gives her hell. Nigel Farage deliberately pays less tax than he should have, and the media gives him a free pass. That, right there, is the problem.
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Reform media ban in Nottinghamshire is a disturbing glimpse of a future with Farage in power www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...
Farage tells Reform conference: “We refuse to have our children’s minds poisoned with a twisted interpretation of history.” What I suspect he really means is that he wants children to get taught a bunch of self-affirming lies about the past aka fake history and that's really very dangerous indeed.
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Big Oil donates to his campaign...Trump hands out tax breaks and guts clean energy funding. Fraudsters donate to his Super PAC...Trump hands out pardons. Airlines donate to his inaugural fund...Trump cancels a rule requiring them to refund passengers. Everything is for sale.
@billherbert.bsky.social This just in from the #OctopusAndJellyfishCourant: This indivual reported at large in 'plush' Edinburgh neighbourhood. The species is deceptively cuddly, and public are warned to keep their distance.
" Many of Labour's "homes" will be fire-trap conversions that bypass every safety regulations. An investigation has exposed how the government's continued support for Permitted Development Rights is systematically creating substandard housing" Grenfell. europeanpowell.substack.com/p/labours-ho...
The Gaza Ministry of Health reports that during August alone, 185 people died of malnutrition, the highest monthly death toll recorded in the Gaza Strip in recent months.
Seen this morning. Scores of Palestinian students wait at an Israeli military checkpoint in their way to school east of occupied Jerusalem.
A grieving mother bids a heartbreaking farewell to her son, killed by Israeli fire while seeking aid for his family near Rafah, southern Gaza.
To speed things up, the Israelis also target children and snipers kill or injure them, boys often in the GENitals. Clever! Cannot the women of the world unite over this? Can't at least some Israeli women fight for the suffering women and babies of Gaza? No babies, no future, no Gaza, as planned.
Israelis may claim that shrapnel tearing through pregnant women is accidental. They give the game away, as baby formula is not permitted to be imported. Hence this is a slow but sure way of stopping the next generation to be born. The 'gen' bit of genocide. Known from the start.
"pregnant women arriving in their final month “look like walking skeletons” Another: "Her abdomen was bleeding after shrapnel tore through her body. We performed an emergency cesarean. The baby was delivered safely, unexpectedly both mother and child lived.” mondoweiss.net/2025/09/what...
Is the world actually going to sit back and allow this insanity? This is more than just genocide. It is the obliteration of the very memory of Palestine and Palestinian culture www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...
I know your heart's in the right place, but who gives a toss about world leaders' shame or stain? They had every opportunity to act, but preferred to appease the USA-Israeli genociders.
Israel didn't ignore, it rejected the Hamas deal in order to carry on the erasure of Gaza. So Hamas has given in even more (although possibly not stopping being an armed resistance) and sending it to Trump, which is a clever move. Place bets now... www.dropsitenews.com/p/hamas-trum...
"My Plea to Democrats: Stop Being Polite, Go Nuclear A former Republican strategist lays out what the Dems must do if they win back the House next year, including defunding the entire executive branch and nationalizing SpaceX." Need this doing in UK. zeteo.com/p/my-plea-to...
Much more than Shapiro's Mum. Brilliant, excoriating, actually exposes Zionism and Israel's own teetering on the brink of civil war. Worth two hours, but you don't have to watch the whole. bettbeat.substack.com/p/jewish-fil...
Company doing survey for Israel to perfect its propaganda re genocide is Stagwell. Its chairman gave $100K to AIPAC. Trump may give it a contract to find out what Americans think about vaccines. Rats are running scared. www.dropsitenews.com/p/leaked-isr...
Good Law Project: "An anti-abortion march taking place in London this week is being heavily influenced by US Christian right group Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF). Over half of the speakers in London's March for Life 2025 have direct links to ADF. ” us11.campaign-archive.com?e=f179a94c3f...
Trump wants his Gazan Riviera. He won't want a deal that leaves too many Palestinians in sight, just enough to serve the visitors. www.dropsitenews.com/p/israel-gaz...
A cross-party group of MPs & Lords set up by Tory adviser to defence secretary has shut down while under investigation The defence tech APPG offered companies “opportunities to network with MPs & policymakers,” at events that included Labour ministers
Over 100 spaces in Japan declare themselves Apartheid Free Zones.
Oh look, Robert Jenrick is talking absolute nonsense about migration again Here's what he doesn't want you to know: Migration is good for this country - the real problem is that his govt destroyed our public services Time to break up the Home Office and fund our communities
Israel kills 69 Palestinians in 24 hours, says health ministry - https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/israel-kills-69-palestinians-24-hours-says-health-ministry
"His aim is to hold our leaders accountable for their war crimes and stop Palestinians from dying. I don't have the words to express how despicable this is. The "Gaza Tribunal" has brought the very worst people together, like the surgeons who flew to Gaza..." www.normalisland.co.uk/p/jeremy-cor...
"If Starmer was serious about peace, he would cut off Israel from all trade, stop sending arms and RAF intelligence providers. His refusal to stand up against the holocaust of our time is a stain on this country that we will never be able to wash away." www.councilestatemedia.uk/p/the-israel...
"This isn’t something you ever need to be in a defensive posture about. This is the easiest, most straightforward moral issue of the 21st century. If you oppose this genocide, you are right, and anyone who disagrees with you is wrong. It really is that simple." www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/opposing-a...
"Israel has been clear and explicit about the fact that its onslaught in Gaza will not end until Trump’s plan for the ethnic cleansing of the Gaza Strip is completed. Hamas could release all the hostages today and this ethnic cleansing agenda would carry on." www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/if-israel-...
"Britain's corporate and political establishment isn't just tolerating Nigel Farage's ascent, they're actively facilitating it. Hundreds of major corporations and establishment institutions quietly made the pilgrimage to meet with Farage and his team." europeanpowell.substack.com/p/the-corpor...
Farrah and Muhanad have a lot of integrity and upon finding out that a scammer was trying to trick other Gazans by saying he promoted their campaign (when he didn’t) they decided to change the URL so he couldn’t do that- so this is their new link to their fundraiser now.
This isn't about "underperformance" or embedding a "high-performance culture". It's about avoiding severance pay and creating a climate of fear; a big stick with which to beat the workers. Bastards.
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On the same day in the Telegraph:
![The Telegraph Rayner tax scandal - £40k tax dodge - Statement Angela Rayner dodges £40,000 stamp duty Deputy Prime Minister reduces tax bill for Hove flat by declaring it as her main residence [Photo: Angela Rayner pictured at the weekend in Hove, where she has just bought a flat Credit: Dan Charity/The Sun on Sunday] Robert Mendick Chief Reporter. Amy Gibbons Political Correspondent 29 August 2025 8:57am BST](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:2kf2qj56o2vq7jfaq4x4ogp6/bafkreihe5mm7nwmwvzhtgadmsafyvsaxhrufuai2d2j2rju5zt6g2lytea@jpeg "Click to view full size")
![The Telegraph Money > Property > Second homes How to avoid tax on your second home From stamp duty to council tax, shield your wealth from Labour's tightening net [Photo of houses around a bay - Areas such as Cornwall have added a premium to council tax bills for second homes Credit: iStockphoto] Fran Ivens Senior Money Writer 29 August 2025 1:21pm BST](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:2kf2qj56o2vq7jfaq4x4ogp6/bafkreieuwgc2vsmyfcctmf4cnpcqckij2pqdk2gmzajpnihrsqyqmzyr5e@jpeg "Click to view full size")
Reform is doomed.
A 12 year old, I kid you not. This is the sort of deluded rubbish you get when you’re in a cult.
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Why does it take James Raskin, a US politician, to call out Farage as a liar? A tilt towards the truth, to searching and pertinent questions in British media could bury Reform. But no, Farage is on question time cada 2 por 3, as we say. It’s almost as if they want Reform to win.
And there's a boycott on account of Palestine.
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It’s really that simple.
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WARREN: Did you tell the head of the CDC that if she refused to sign off on your changes to the childhood vaccine schedule, that she had to resign? RFK Jr: No. I told her she had to resign because I asked her 'are you a trustworthy person?" and she said no WARREN: This is not what she has said
If we really want to “make America healthy again,” we’d have Medicare for All.
First Bernie Sanders. Then the CDC directors. Now, more than 1,000 current and former HHS staffers are demanding he step down.
wapo.st/42dksTQ Why can’t people mind their own business and leave a women’s health decisions to them.
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The people Starmer’s immigration policies are designed to delight. And the Greens are coming… tinyurl.com/4rrn2mkx
The Mail is going to go full Farage. The Telegraph already has, to the absolute horror of the proper journalists still on the paper. Tony Gallagher at The Times is, as ever, waiting for Rupert Murdoch’s instructions. Their only alternative is to own the stupidity of backing Johnson, Brexit & Truss.
Digital ID cards; plunging birth rates; Badenoch’s Stanford claim & Rayner’s stamp duty shame. tinyurl.com/4rrn2mkx
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He’s always so shit in the face of decent questioning. Absolutely amazing how rarely it happens.
Nigel Farage is claiming to Congress that the UK gov deliberately withheld details of the Southport attacker from the public. This is dangerous and it’s false. The attacker was under 18, and so a court had to give express permission to release his name in exceptional circumstances, which it did.
Farage is a rat scurrying into darkness. Oh, wait ....
"So, the very same day free speech champion Nigel Farage denied banning critical journalists from his events, his team did exactly that. "In theory, this could be more than just painfully ironic for Farage. Evidence sessions to Congressional committees are given under oath…"
This neatly outlines some of the various and seemingly many ways #NigelFarage is a traitor. bsky.app/profile/poli...
I've often thought Trump's US is a real threat to our sovereignty that the Brexit ultras barely acknowledge. Policies on everything from action against Israel to, most recently, cutting carbon emissions from shipping are being met with a threat of tariffs from Washington...
Trumps US and the Brexit Ultras are on the same team, both a threat to our democracy.
Farage has been saying for years that laws passed by a UK parliament should be supreme and not subject to scrutiny by foreign parliaments or courts. Yet there he was yesterday in a foreign parliament saying foreign lawmakers should threaten the UK over a law passed by the UK parliament.
I saw a neat explanation of why importuning a foreign power to interfere in domestic politics crossed the threshold for treason on here last night. But I can't find it now! Help appreciated.
🚨 SCOOP: Reform donor in breach of company law Nigel Farage’s party has taken £50,000 from a company run by property tycoon Robert Tchenguiz — despite the firm failing to file its accounts on time, a criminal offence under the Companies Act. democracyforsale.substack.com/p/new-reform...
Sadly Gavin Williamson is still a thing and is now sitting on the board of Rupert Lowe's group supporting the mass deportation of legal citizens.
It seems unlikely that the richest men in the world are so worried about footing the bill for decent regulation of the online space that they’ve signed up pliant politicians to invent a non-existent ‘free speech crisis’. Until you remember just how greedy you have to be to become that rich…
Every single time I go to look at Twitter there's about 20 notifications and it's mostly Tommy Robinson. I don't follow him, I don't follow any of his admirers, and yet that's who it wants me to see. Astonishing that the UK government's position on this platform remains "it's fine"
Worth reading The Times' editorial on Powell from 1968. Contrast it with last week, when it pointed out that Farage's deportation proposals would "undoubtedly find favour" and other parties "better come up with something radical." A truly contemptible descent for a once-great newspaper.
This guy is fucking nuts. I feel so sorry for the parents of school-age children in Florida.
Angela Rayner’s stamp duty & what happens when Nigel Farage isn’t permitted to bullshit his way through an interview. tinyurl.com/4rrn2mkx
I look forward to Nadine Dorries squaring her frequent & frenzied attempts to get me fired for telling the truth about her absurdity & awfulness with her new party’s commitment to ‘free speech’.
WARNER: Do you accept the fact that 1 million Americans died from covid? RFK Jr: I don't know how many died W: You're the secretary of health and human services. You don't have any idea how many Americans died from covid? RFK Jr: I don't think anybody knows that W: How can you be that ignorant?
And with this news, unbelievably, the average IQ of Reform politicians has plummeted www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Warnock to RFK jr: "For the first time, we are seeing deaths of children from measles. We haven't seen that in two decades. We're seeing that under your watch. You are a hazard to the health of the American people."
A different 'goldeneye' for you, and a haiku, @craftygreenpoet.bsky.social
The brokenness of our country is represented by the most notorious pedophile of the 21st century.
It's very touching.
Happy publication day to the lovely Damian Barr! Can't wait to discuss "The Two Roberts" with him in Nottingham's "secret library" in a couple of weeks.
Bookmarked. www.theguardian.com/money/2025/s...
Unfortunately in the UK, our media is intent on covering this all up, including the BBC. They're as corrupted as he is.
Thanks for all your good work Congress. This is what it was boiled down to on the BBC website. Nothing else. www.bbc.com/news/videos/...
Hey guys, I found Captain Douchebag! He as really paid good money to have that chromed out?!
TANK vs TESLA "We've crushed fascism before and we'll crush it again" - WW2 veteran Ken, 98, in the tank
Reposting
Land of the free?! Nah, this is some authoritarian, dictator shit. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Milkshook.
Who could have guessed that the coward, Farage, would flee from a hearing that made him look small, bigoted and pathetic.
US Congress doing more to hold the little sh*t to account than 15 years of the UK media. Thank you.
Farage is a Nazi symp. He and his Brexit boys have thoroughly rat-fucked Britain and now want to follow Trump/Hitler's example and ethnically cleanse Britain.
Any reasonable level of scrutiny and probing sees him collapse. Sadly, in UK he constantly gets nodding dogs and client media.
Please excuse Nigels ungentlemanly behaviour, he's unaccustomed to answering straightforward questions as he doesn't get asked them by the British media. Also he had to dash orft old boy as he had promised to suck Donald Trumps balls at 11am & last time he was late Pete Hesgeth had taken his slot.
I'm not a visual type, but it seems to me that the video of him smirking in terror as he tries to escape further straightforward questions ought to be electoral gold dust for anyone who'd like to see an end to Farage's political ambitions
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