Diane Raynor
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Interested in lots of things but here for the politics.
This is what Nigel farage wants to bring to the UK. Be afraid.
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Declassified UK
about 3 hours ago
Nelson Mandela died 12 years ago. In 1995 the UK government rejected his personal appeal to impose oil sanctions on Nigeria after its military regime executed nine environmental activists — as it wanted to protect oil company Shell’s commercial interests.
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Britain rebuffed Nelson Mandela’s appeal for oil sanctions against Nigeria after it executed environmentalists
The British government rejected Nelson Mandela’s personal appeal to impose oil sanctions on Nigeria after its military regime executed nine environmental activists in 1995 as it wanted to protect oil ...
https://www.declassifieduk.org/revealed-britain-rebuffed-nelson-mandelas-appeal-for-oil-sanctions-against-nigeria-after-it-executed-environmentalists/
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Never forget
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about 9 hours ago
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What an incredibly nasty hateful person Farage was is and will be.
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LBC Watch
1 day ago
Who Nick Ferrari is calling antisemitic: - Ireland, Spain Who Nick Ferrari is NOT calling antisemitic: - Nigel Farage
@lbc.co.uk
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Alan Rusbridger
about 10 hours ago
“Je suis Bernard Manning,” claims Nigel Farage. And so he is. But not quite in the way he meant.
www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/politics/uki...
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Farage’s attack on the BBC tells us who he really is
His response to allegations of racist behaviour reveals more than we could have guessed—and why the Beeb needs to protect itself
https://www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/politics/ukip/nigel-farage/71748/farages-attack-on-bbc-tells-us-who-he-really-is
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about 16 hours ago
There is sooo much wrong with the UK's media and politics.
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Jordan Sorcery
about 11 hours ago
First of many such incidents, I expect. Another ‘win’ for those ‘useful’ Gen AI tools.
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Trains cancelled over fake bridge collapse image - BBC News
Rail services were cancelled after a 'hoax' picture of a damaged bridge appeared on social media
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cwygqqll9k2o.amp
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I’ll never forget the look of hatred Nigel Farage had for me at school, simply for existing
The Reform UK leader doubts people can recall their abuse from years ago. I’ve never forgotten his – it felt malicious
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2025/dec/05/ill-never-forget-the-look-of-hatred-nigel-farage-had-for-me-at-school-simply-because-of-how-i-looked
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Russ Jones
2 days ago
Rather than apologising for his antisemitism, Farage demands the BBC apologise for the antisemitism of Alf Garnett, a fictional character created to satirise antisemitism, who was portrayed by a Jewish man.
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Adam Bienkov
about 24 hours ago
"'Where are you from?’ he asked. Within seconds of offering my rather confused and sputtering answers, he had a clear response: ‘That’s the way back to Africa,’ with an accompanying hand gesture pointing towards a place far away."
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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Former Dulwich pupil says Farage told him: ‘That’s the way back to Africa’
Exclusive: Yinka Bankole says he felt compelled to speak out after Reform leader’s attempts to ‘dismiss’ hurt of alleged targets
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2025/dec/05/nigel-farage-former-dulwich-college-pupil-alleges-said-thats-the-way-back-to-africa
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Prem Sikka
2 days ago
Failures at South East Water owned water treatment centre led to tens of thousands of people in Tunbridge Wells being cut off from the supply. In 2024, regulator warned SEW over bacteria and pesticide contamination risks ... nothing happened. Does any regulator serve the people?
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Water plant that caused Tunbridge Wells supply failure was given risk notice in 2024
Watchdog investigating South East Water contamination issue had previously warned of potential health danger
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/dec/04/south-east-water-plant-tunbridge-wells-supply-failure-risk-notice
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Cholmondley Warner 🇪🇺🔶
1 day ago
Yep, “Mass deportations” according to vile Yusef last night - said in response to a second gen immigrant (born here) teacher saying he was being made to feel unwelcome in the uk and wondering when it would be his turn to be kicked out. What a vile bunch Reform are.
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Coming to the UK soon courtesy of Nigel Farage and his mates in Russia
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Zack Polanski
2 days ago
Very telling tonight on Question Time how much the Labour minister absolutely did not want me to talk. Every time I even began a sentence he started to try and distract me. It's not going to work on anyone.
Join.greenparty.org.uk
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Pippa Crerar
2 days ago
Friday’s
@theguardian.com
front page: Farage hits out as fresh claims of ‘vindictive’ teenage racism emerge
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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Zack Polanski
2 days ago
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.
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Well done ireland
www.rte.ie/entertainmen...
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RTÉ to boycott Eurovision Song Contest over Israel
Ireland will not participate in next year's Eurovision Song Contest, and it will not be broadcast on RTÉ, after organiser the European Broadcasting Union confirmed today that Israel will be allowed to...
https://www.rte.ie/entertainment/2025/1204/1547300-rte-to-boycott-eurovision-song-contest-over-israel/
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Zack Polanski
2 days ago
Wow. From sceptic to member! The Guardian spent an evening with me at Kings College and interviewed the people who came to the Q&A. Here's what they found 👇🏼
www.theguardian.com/news/audio/2...
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Zack Polanski on the Green party boom – podcast
Three months into his leadership the Green party membership is surging. Randeep Ramesh explains why
https://www.theguardian.com/news/audio/2025/dec/04/zack-polanski-on-the-green-party-boom-podcast?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other
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Reuters
2 days ago
US halted plans to sanction Chinese spy agency to maintain trade truce, FT says
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US halted plans to sanction Chinese spy agency to maintain trade truce, FT says
The United States has halted plans to impose sanctions on China's ministry of state security over a massive cyber spying campaign to avoid derailing a trade truce struck by both countries this year, the Financial Times said on Wednesday.
https://reut.rs/48vOwwu
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Peter Geoghegan
3 days ago
🔴 BREAKING: Our fake Chinese AI investor bought access to 10+ Labour MPs and minister Brand new investigation by Democracy for Sale and Led By Donkeys.
democracyforsale.substack.com/p/breaking-o...
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BREAKING: Our fake Chinese AI investor bought access into heart of Labour government
Ex-Tory MP facilitated meetings with 10+ Labour MPs and met ministers in “cash-for-access operation”
https://democracyforsale.substack.com/p/breaking-our-fake-chinese-ai-investor
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RTÉ News
2 days ago
Israel's participation in the Eurovision Song Contest will be debated at a two-day meeting of member broadcasters in Geneva starting today
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Eurovision debate on Israel's participation to begin
Israel's participation in the Eurovision Song Contest will be debated at a two-day meeting of member broadcasters in Geneva starting today.
https://www.rte.ie/entertainment/2025/1204/1547195-eurovision-debate-on-israels-participation-to-begin/
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Josiah Mortimer
3 days ago
Former Tory MP Ben Howlett "bought a 50% stake in the influential PoliticsUK Twitter/X account for just £100, from a young Tory parliamentary staffer. As part of our investigation, we paid for two pro-China posts on PoliticsUK" They were published and only deleted after Howlett was told of the sting
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BREAKING: Our fake Chinese AI investor bought access into heart of Labour government
Ex-Tory MP facilitated meetings with 10+ Labour MPs and met ministers in “cash-for-access operation”
https://open.substack.com/pub/democracyforsale/p/breaking-our-fake-chinese-ai-investor?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=1iqf2
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The whole world is laughing at Amerikkka
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Carole Cadwalladr
4 days ago
I’m so happy to see this. The lack of journalistic solidarity & collective action over the killing of journalists in Gaza has been distressing. Will
@nujofficial.bsky.social
step up & follow this lead?
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Adam Schwarz
4 days ago
RFK Jr: "Two weeks ago we ended, under your leadership, a twenty year war on women". Three out of five men in this shot have been accused of sexual misconduct, harassment or abusive behaviour towards women. A fourth signed into law a near-total abortion ban in his state as governor.
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Watching trump on bbc news now. "They took a little bit of drugs and they died, they were very shocked"
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Byline Times
4 days ago
🔴 Boris Johnson and Alexander Lebedev Must Be Investigated in a New Public Inquiry into Russian Influence If you think the Gill conviction is bad, wait till you hear about another Leave campaigner and his connections to Putin’s inner circle…
bylinetimes.com/2025/12/02/b...
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Boris Johnson and Alexander Lebedev Must Be Investigated in a New Public Inquiry into Russian Influence
If you think the Gill conviction is bad, linking the Reform UK Party leader's closest aide to the Kremlin, wait till you hear about another Leave campaigner and his connections to Putin's inner circle
https://bylinetimes.com/2025/12/02/boris-johnson-and-alexander-lebedev-must-be-investigated-in-a-new-public-inquiry-into-russian-influence/
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Lewis Goodall
4 days ago
Right
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Paul Murphy
5 days ago
I know how
#R4Today
team love to bash along with the same story day after day after dull day … long after the country seems ready to move on So here it is …
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Attorney general urges Nigel Farage to apologise over alleged racism and antisemitism
Exclusive: Richard Hermer, a senior Jewish minister, says Reform leader ‘clearly deeply hurt’ many people with his alleged behaviour
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2025/dec/01/attorney-general-urges-nigel-farage-to-apologise-to-classmates-over-alleged-racism-and-antisemitism?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
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Adam Richardson of reform using Trump like scare tactics to prevent news organisations publishing the truth about Reform people. Imagine what they'd do if they got into power
www.thenerve.news/p/reform-nat...
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Reform UK’s barrister tried to scare us. Our advice to other news sites: don’t play the bully’s game
My news organisation, Nation.Cymru, was threatened with legal action over a story involving Nigel Farage’s party in the Senedd. Instead of hiring our own lawyer, we simply told them to go away, writes...
https://www.thenerve.news/p/reform-nation-cymru-adam-richardson-farage-wales-lawyer
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Amy Lawrence
7 days ago
Just reposting this as my teenage son does his last preparation this weekend for his big Movember run for mens mental health charities. Even the tiniest support means so much to him (and me). My love to anyone going through it. X
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Bbc sky sun itv gb news all ask the same Westminster bubble question. The Guardian & the mirror focus on the real things we the people want to know.
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Reuters
5 days ago
LIVE: UK's Starmer delivers speech in London
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LIVE: UK's Starmer delivers speech in London
YouTube video by Reuters
https://youtube.com/live/5UsBxfjBqZ4
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Michael
5 days ago
A Mirror probe shows that Nigel Farage has made £140,000 from the Cameo messaging platform - but spoken in Parliament just 22 times and mentioning his Clacton constituents on just three occasions.
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Ryder
5 days ago
Farage rarely turned up to vote when he was an MEP. But, he did turn up to vote against the EU’s anti-Russia interference motion. He said it was a “hoax”. He voted against strengthening Europe’s defences against foreign interference. Why?
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H I Sutton
6 days ago
Russian linked shadow fleet tanker Mersin (IMO 9428683) currently sinking off West Africa. Fog of war, but seems it was attacked, probably by a USV, in past few days. Third picture unladen for reference so you can see how low in the water it now is
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Reuters
5 days ago
Swiss billionaire calls for higher tax on rich
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Swiss billionaire calls for higher tax on rich
A prominent Swiss billionaire has called for higher taxation of the rich as his country overwhelmingly rejected a proposal to introduce a 50% tax on inherited fortunes of 50 million Swiss francs ($62 million) and above.
https://reut.rs/4iufnOb
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Peter Walker
5 days ago
I'm at a Kemi Badenoch event where *yet again* the Guardian has not got a question. Aside from broadcasters it was Mail, Sun and FT (the latter presumably only because we're at an accountancy body in the City). I've probably been to seven or eight such events with no question.
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They'll come, they'll come
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The Green Party of England & Wales
9 days ago
Hope is here. Help us beat Reform in May. Donate today ⤵️
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Richard Burgon MP
5 days ago
Billionaire wealth keeps piling up. Everyone else is left with less and less. With this mountain of pasta, I show why we need to tax the Billionaires.
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Prospect Magazine
5 days ago
The BBC was founded to stop British media becoming a demagogic shouting match like it had in America. It was only a matter of time before a US demagogue bit back, writes
@philtinline.bsky.social.
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Trump, the BBC and the lessons of an antisemitic priest
American media have cultivated conspiracy and resentment, setting the stage for the president’s fight with the BBC
https://www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/media/71613/trump-the-bbc-and-the-lessons-of-an-antisemitic-priest
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sianushka.bsky.social
5 days ago
Really sad and important read
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/d...
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‘I have been defeated’: hundreds of Palestinians face eviction from East Jerusalem
Residents in Batn al-Hawa have all but given up hope and blame the Gaza war which, they say, has created ‘an atmosphere of hate’ towards them
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/dec/01/i-have-been-defeated-hundreds-of-palestinians-face-eviction-from-east-jerusalem?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
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I'm no fan of this lying back stabbing government but I completely agree that this is a ridiculous line to take by the bbc ch4 and sky.
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Tulip Siddiq sentenced to jail along with her sister while her aunt was sentenced to death. They don't need about in Bangladesh.
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Lyndsey
7 days ago
Please sign and share if you can. Dr Abu Safiya is a hero. He sacrificed everything to save lives in Gaza – and now Israel is holding him, and reportedly torturing him, without charges. Doctors around the world are rising to free him and other Gaza medics.
secure.avaaz.org/campaign/en/...
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Free Dr Abu Safiya
Israel has Gaza’s top paediatrician and around 90 other Palestinian medics in military prisons. Join the global call for their freedom!
https://secure.avaaz.org/campaign/en/free_dr_abu_safyia_loc_b/?copy&utm_source=copy&utm_medium=social_share&utm_campaign=56251&share_location=post_action
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Dame Knitting Cat
7 days ago
Oh dear. He’s woken up and smelt the sulphur.
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The Guardian
8 days ago
UK immigration status fears prompt carer to cancel benefits she is entitled to
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UK immigration status fears prompt carer to cancel benefits she is entitled to
Woman cancels all benefits including disability living allowance for daughter after policy change announcement A low-paid carer from Ghana has cancelled all the benefits she is legally entitled to, including the disability allowance one of her children receives, owing to fears about her immigration status after the policy changes announced by the home secretary. The radical changes to legal migration announced by Shabana Mahmood on 20 November will penalise those who are living and working legally in the UK, but who claim benefits. Continue reading...
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/nov/29/immigration-status-fears-carer-cancel-disability-living-allowance-benefit?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=bluesky&CMP=bsky_gu
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