Kevin Rye
@kevinrye.bsky.social
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Owner, Think Fan Engagement, Lecturer in football business & media at UCFB Wembley.
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Sir Michael Take CBE
about 7 hours ago
Jonathan Gullis has defected to Reform. What a coup for them! Jonathan will add: Hair Grunts An odour of hay An itchy hole Fungi Wrinkled shirts Porridge Jizz Conker hairs Squirrel food And damp patches wherever he sits. He truly will be a great asset. 🇬🇧
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LBC
about 6 hours ago
James O’Brien discovers that Reform’s Richard Tice and his new recruit, Jonathan Gullis, have history...
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Alex J-W
about 6 hours ago
Seriously how can anyone publish something like this on the bbc. When did it turn into opinion columns the absolute dirge of newspaper publishing
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The Green's ever reliable message of simply 'tax the rich'. Covers a multitude of sins, but they never have to account for having to implement the policy because they'll never win enough seats.
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Otto English
about 7 hours ago
Oh wow, that's awkward.
#Gullis
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Paul Bernal
about 6 hours ago
Hi. We’re Reform. We’ve got all the worst Tories you can imagine, and a bunch of our own candidates who are even worse.
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Zöe Franklin MP
about 1 hour ago
It’s a challenging time for our High Street shops and other local businesses, particularly after the budget. Buying local for our Christmas shopping this year is a great way to help and show our support. I want to hear your recommendations and over the coming weeks I’ll be sharing a few of my own.
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Ian King
32 minutes ago
We were unable to record last night but we're doing so tonight, so if you do have any questions, then chuck em here :-)
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Stephen Bush
about 6 hours ago
Think this is exactly right - political journalism that is completely abstracted from policy, which was not the norm before 2017, has become the default. Impossible to have a serious attempt to either shrink what the state does or widen the tax base (have to do at least one) on that basis.
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Adam Bienkov
about 7 hours ago
Jonathan Gullis defects to Reform saying his former party has "lost touch with the people it was meant to serve". He should know. When he was in Government he took a five-figure donation from JCB, then stayed silent when it axed hundreds of his constituents' jobs just two weeks later
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Conservatives Promote JCB's 'Revolutionary' Pothole Machine While Taking Millions of Pounds in Donations from the Company
Senior Conservatives have repeatedly promoted a pothole repair machine made by a company which has donated huge sums to the party and its MPs
https://bylinetimes.com/2024/06/08/conservative-party-jcb-pothole-pro-mark-harper-jonathan-gullis-millions-donations/
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Stephen Bush
about 8 hours ago
The correct argument from the right is surely not 'she lied in order to justify tax rises to pay for welfare spending (some of which they also supported)' it is 'there's at least £30bn of reckless assumptions here about how to secure the public finances':
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Suggestion Rachel Reeves exaggerated fiscal pressures is absurd
Chancellor was instead far too optimistic about public finances and government’s ability to secure cuts
https://www.ft.com/content/5698a738-9bf3-4132-8550-953c3f6b1a0c
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Through the Turnstile of Non-League Football
about 5 hours ago
I have been shortlisted as a finalist for 'Best Non League Editorial' by
@nlbible.bsky.social
which is incredible! I would love to go one step further and pick up the win 🙏 All votes can be cast here -
nonleaguebible.weebly.com/editorial.html
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Jim Waterson
about 4 hours ago
Zipcar is shutting down its UK operations, basically the only car club that worked in London. Massive kick to anyone who tries to live in capital without owning a car. Having been a customer for 17 years and used Zipvans to move house repeatedly, this is.... very bad! (Zipcar is owned by Avis)
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Sunder Katwala (sundersays)
about 22 hours ago
Lucy White's overt racism - she wants Nus Ghsni banned from the Commons (birthplace), and Rishi Sunak, Priti Patel & Shabana Mahmood banned from office - may have finally gone too far for TalkTV. The GB News response is disingenuous.
www.theguardian.com/media/2025/n...
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GB News urged to cut ties with contributor accused of racism
Rightwing activist claimed Commons deputy speaker Nusrat Ghani should be barred because she was born in Pakistan
https://www.theguardian.com/media/2025/nov/29/gb-news-urged-to-cut-ties-with-contributor-lucy-white-accused-of-racism
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Dr Stylite
about 2 hours ago
A very unfortunate outcome but on balance the right decision imv.
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The BBC does such important journalism internationally. Why can't it match that quality with its domestic offering?
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about 7 hours ago
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Marika Mikiashvili 🇬🇪🇺🇦🇪🇺
about 8 hours ago
“When Water Burns - The Fight for Georgia” - a one-hour BBC documentary on the November-December 2024 episode of
#GeorgiaProtests
and the use of WW1 toxic compounds by the Georgian Dream is now available.
m.youtube.com/watch?v=z4-k...
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James O’Brien
1 day ago
If you look at the ridiculous case studies they dredged up & the desperate attempts to hang Reeves for ‘lying’ about the rationale behind a policy she *did not introduce*, you might work out why right-wing media is straining *not* to talk about the finer detail of her (unremarkable) budget.
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Parody Nigel Farage
1 day ago
Hilarious video by a South African knobhead desperately willing a pleasant London street to be a war zone. Nearest he gets to danger is a woman telling him to stop talking nonsense.
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Adam Bienkov
about 21 hours ago
For context the 'Middle England' referred to here is the 0.5% of households living in homes worth more than £2 million
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James Ball
about 10 hours ago
Honestly the completely weird Budget coverage is mostly a sign of how pretty much any attack can stick when you’re unpopular enough. Of course Rachel Reeves didn’t brief the full Cabinet on Budget details weeks in advance! No chancellor ever does! It would immediately leak!
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Glen O'Hara
about 10 hours ago
What we're seeing is exactly what we saw in the late 1940s, the late 1960s and the mid- to late 1970s: a concerted and hysterical campaign to delegitimise a Labour government, and indeed the very idea of Labour governments at all.
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There's a certain irony in listening to an old couple bemoan people's use of headphones in public as anti-social, when ten mins later the woman of the couple is watching a video with the sound on.
about 7 hours ago
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Robert Saunders
about 7 hours ago
Precisely. We have an ageing society, a productivity problem & a crisis in local govt. The costs of defence & climate change are all growing, & we have a US president addicted to tariffs, who may be about to start a war in Venezuela. The budget was *not pessimistic enough* about the public finances
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Jonn Elledge
about 7 hours ago
I feel like we're moving closer to the inevitable day when Liz Truss announces she's defected to Reform, and Reform frantically spins that she absolutely has not
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Martin Wheatley
about 8 hours ago
"It is my job, after a careful examination of the facts, to call it..." No it is not, Chris Mason! It is your job to report the facts and points of view on a hotly contested issue and leave me and other audience to make up their own minds!
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Chris Mason: Why, in my judgement, Reeves was misleading on one specific point
The Chancellor chose not to share some information on tax receipts in an unusual press conference, given before the Budget.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cewjkv8jylko
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Marika Mikiashvili 🇬🇪🇺🇦🇪🇺
about 8 hours ago
“Georgia's authorities used a World War One-era chemical weapon to quell anti-government protesters last year, evidence gathered by the BBC suggests.” 1/3
www.bbc.com/news/article...
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Will Davies
about 12 hours ago
Chris Mason sounds utterly absurd, trying to turn the screws on Rachel Reeves while acknowledging that she has done nothing that one wouldn't expect a politician to do.
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Mark Copelovitch
2 days ago
Look around. The case for more, not less, liberal arts education - actual, real education in reading, writing, thinking, arguing, analyzing, & synthesizing by doing the actual hard work for which there is no substitute - is stronger than it’s ever been at any point in human history.
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Dr Stylite
about 11 hours ago
Very fair summary.
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Jim Waterson
about 11 hours ago
Don’t say this lightly but Birmingham Mail’s gaming of its position on Apple News/Google to farm clicks makes it one of the most effective spreaders of false information in the country. Could list a dozen way more egregious examples of fake ragebait it’s pumped out recently.
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Torsten Bell
1 day ago
Rightly lots of debates about growth this weekend - rightly because it was low productivity growth that saw wages entirely flatline during the 2010s.
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Professor Christopher Painter
about 10 hours ago
Farage would take it one step further, creating a Putinesque or Trumpite oligarchy.
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Professor Christopher Painter
about 10 hours ago
An underlying trend since the 1980s has been a transfer of wealth from labour to capital. Badenoch would resume that process, reversing gains about to be enacted on UK worker rights and further slashing social safety nets. Hence, she is primarily an advocate for powerful vested intetests.
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Ian King
about 10 hours ago
This weekend's match, featuring a fox, the trains doing trains things, and eventually the best match I've seen so far this season.
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Ian King
about 10 hours ago
We didn't get the chance to record the podcast last night because things got in the way, but we'll be on it this evening and it'll be with you in the morning.
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Mike Galsworthy
1 day ago
“Over nine months, Sky News’ Data and Forensics team investigated whether X’s algorithms amplify right-wing and extreme content. Their findings were clear: Elon Musk’s X is boosting right-wing and extreme content, as well as politicians Musk favours.”
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The X Effect and the dangers of social media bias
Sky News' investigation The X Effect has exposed a right-wing bias in X's algorithm, which boosts extreme content over left-wing voices
https://centralbylines.co.uk/business/technology/the-x-effect-and-the-dangers-of-social-media-bias/
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If this is really a BBC journalist we really do have a problem.
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Timothy Snyder
2 days ago
Genocide just as Lemkin defined it.
euromaidanpress.com/2025/11/27/r...
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Putin signs decree formalizing Russification of occupied Ukraine through 2036 - Euromaidan Press
Putin signs decree formalizing Russification of occupied Ukraine through 2036, setting 95% "Russian identity" targets for four oblasts.
https://euromaidanpress.com/2025/11/27/russification-of-occupied-ukraine-putin-decree-2036/
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It's interesting reading all the wailing and gnashing about Spurs. At Wimbledon when I was on the board of the owners, we had to go through a lot more than just mid-table meh and the odd crap result before things turned around under the new manager. We dropped as low as third bottom of League Two.
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Julia Davis
2 days ago
"Gentry Beach, a college friend of Donald Trump Jr. and campaign donor to his father, has been in talks to acquire a stake in a Russian Arctic gas project if it is released from sanctions.”
www.wsj.com/world/russia...
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Ian Dunt
1 day ago
When I was young, the Independent was the best designed newspaper on the stands. This is what it looks like now: a par of text sandwiched between two ads, an auto-play video and a pointless and intrusive swipe function. It's as if it hates the work of its own writers.
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Debbie Kennedy
2 days ago
They've completely forgotten or ignored this
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Christian W
2 days ago
Proper town, proper weather. Välkommen till Luton!
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Sam Freedman
1 day ago
It's completely ridiculous. Pre-budget everyone thought the headroom gap was £20-30bn including policy changes (e.g. on welfare). It was in fact £16bn. It's hardly a massive difference.
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The very reason that scumbag Osborne introduced it in the first place is below. He didn't give two shits that it forced kids into poverty. All he cared about was winning elections. He's one of the people who helped create the modern mess we now live in.
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AFC Wimbledon
2 days ago
REPORT: Wimbledon came away with a point in a frantic 3-3 draw with Huddersfield Town 🗞️
#AFCW
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www.afcwimbledon.co.uk/news/2025/no...
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Matt Ford
2 days ago
“STOP POPULISM" Leverkusen-Dortmund also kicks off in silence as protests continue ahead of next week’s Interior Minister Conference (IMK) and the restrictive stadium security measures due to be discussed.
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Dan Kaszeta FRHistS
2 days ago
Muscular Christianity. “Wear some headphones, kid. And put your shoes back on”
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Adam Bienkov
2 days ago
The sheer scale of media outrage this week about plans to lift hundreds of thousands children out of poverty, by taxing millionaire homeowners, tells you everything you need to know about the real priorities of the British press
www.adambienkov.co.uk/p/the-real-b...
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The Real 'Benefits Street' Protecting Britain's Wealthiest
The sheer scale of outrage about plans to lift children out of poverty, by taxing millionaire homeowners, tells you everything you need to know about the priorities of the British press
https://www.adambienkov.co.uk/p/the-real-benefits-street-protecting
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