Ugh. I really wish my stupid performance anxiety would just have a bloody day off so that I can actually enjoy a performance day. Doesn't matter how small the venue/audience (in fact, small is worse!), every bloody time (and I've tried/do All Of The Things, incl propranolol, and still... ridiculous)

🔴NEW🔴 Thread 🧵 @bylinetimes.bsky.social can now reveal that, during the crucial period when convicted Reform leader Nathan Gill was most active, working directly with Russian President Vladimir Putin’s most senior ally in Ukraine, he was also one of Nigel Farage’s closest confidantes 1/12

Douglas Barrowman and Michelle Mone's company, PPE Medpro, has just been ordered to refund the Government £122m from a PPE contract. There are two very odd things about PPE Medpro that may affect the odds of the Government ever getting that £122m... Thread:

If you read one thing today, read this www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Many trauma survivors have been derisively told we're "stubborn" & "difficult"-- as if that's not a reflection of the very qualities that enabled us to survive, not to mention that will powerfully support our recovery once we understand & accept & befriend & harness them.

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From the archives 🔎 How Malta's Assassination of Daphne Caruana Galizia Connects to an Organisation Close to Nigel Farage bylinetimes.com/2019/12/03/h...

This is Ruby. She likes to pet the other dogs at daycare. 14/10 extremely relatable (TT: alanahlorraine)

I’m sad to hear the news that the wonderful Jane Goodall is no longer in the world. Her work with chimpanzees at Gombe in Tanzania taught us to look at other apes - and ourselves - differently. I was privileged to meet her later in life and tell her what an inspiration she was to me.

Jane Goodall, ethologist and conservationist, has died. She was 91

This 1000% this week, apparently...

Dare we begin to have the tiniest inkling of the beginnings of a seed of hope, that KS is starting to think about getting a fucking grip, or..?

What's your sign?

This is Gus. His brother Walter is trying to teach him how to catch a treat. Sadly it may be a lost cause. Still 13/10 for both (IG: waltandgusthebernese)

There seems to be some *confusion* among Reform supporters over Nathan Gill being one of them “But, but, Reform didn’t exist when he took his Russian bribes” “But, but he was in UKIP” “But, but it has nothing to do with Farage, he barely knew the guy” So here’s a little history lesson 👍🏼🧵 1/14

Nathan Gill is no fringe politician. He was the leader of the Reform Party and before that UKIP in Wales. A Brexit Party MEP. A friend and ally of Nigel Farage, who in 2016 called him: "terrific," and "as honest as the day is long." This is a MASSIVE story www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Ok. They’ve pissed me off. I’m back to tell you 3 things about ID cards: 1. Migrants ALREADY HAVE biometric ID cards & govts have been trying to digitise them for years w repeated fuckups & failures causing complete chaos - they don’t work, you do not want that system for you.

"on a technicality" Not really. A failure to get necessary consents to a terror charge is not a slight error. They are safeguards when a person faces a serious charge. Prosecutors should take such safeguards seriously: this is terrorism law they are using. www.theguardian.com/music/2025/s...

🚨 These are not even the worst, but cant show ones reported to the police. The far right think they’re winning. They’re wrong! We are the firewall. Join my fight against the far right. ✊🏾 Are you with us, or with them? #ButlerBlocks

No mention of Nigel and no picture of the nephew so women can be on their guard if they see him. So weird. Imagine if it was a relative of Starmer's or an asylum seeker.

"Byline Times stress-tested Reform UK’s numbers against the OBR’s modelling... "We found that over five years, the economy would be about £49bn smaller, while the Home Office would face £7bn in direct costs for detention, flights and enforcement, according to analysis of OBR projections."

Nigel Farage claims his mass deportation plan would save the UK hundreds of billions of pounds over the coming decades. New analysis of official statistics, forecasts and Reform's own figures suggests it would actually *cost* the UK hundreds of billions over the same period

The even more unbelievable crime fact (which I learned relatively recently) is that burglary has fallen by more than 90% since the 1990s. Did anyone notice? Nope. Does anyone believe it? Nope. But is is true? It is!

For 56 minutes Sky News and BBC News interrupted everything else and carried a Reform UK feed live, uninterrupted, unchallenged. The stream spluttered, froze, pixelated - dozens of times - still they stuck with it. FOR ONE HOUR. This is an editorial choice. No other party gets this coverage. ~AA

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Where the separate divisions of ANTIFA landed on the beaches of Normandy on June 6, 1944:

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Rubio? Is this a fucking joke?

🚨EXCLUSIVE 🚨 The beginning of a new Byline Times Investigation - more very soon 🔴Peter Thiel’s Race Science Network Extends Its Reach Into Reform UK, Conservatives and Labour 🔴 bylinetimes.com/2025/09/18/p...

This story must be told , as the wider public don't know they are being groomed by Farage that billionaires in this country make us better off. The reality is different,they are destroying public services and hoovering up privatisation contracts. The rich are winning. UK is being asset stripped. 👇

This is Ralphie. He's trying to live up to his reputation as a retriever. Let him cook. 12/10 (TT: ralphiesgoldenlife)

FFS

The government doesn’t grasp the point of the Green Belt. It’s not just about pretty countryside – it’s about stopping towns & cities sprawling into one another. Without it, we lose communities and history, as well as nature itself. #GreenBelt #ProtectNature #Communities

not an exaggeration to say I am WEEPING with laughter at this reply from someone who hadn't seen that Robert Redford died today

Yet more compelling evidence to support @greenparty.org.uk policy that public services should be in public hands 👇

Most people vote for the party, not the individual. Therefore, most people should sign this petition. petition.parliament.uk/petitions/73...

imagine getting qt dunked by ed davey. unrecoverable. you’re furious and he is serenely going down a log flume in bognor regis.

I don’t think most people understand how the media works in the UK. This could be a long thread. 1/

Useful if you don't have a scoobies about grouper, and you think you probably should under the current circumstances...

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I was speaking with a table of white men in their 70s yesterday at a funeral. The nasty bigoted attitudes, opinions, their allegiance with and applause for the Yacky-Lemon coke fiend was pretty bloody shocking, tbh. Their opinion that Charlie Kirk was "a great bloke, fantastic". Bloody sickening...

I need you to understand what this country feels like right now for those of us who look different. I'm sitting here, trying to plan for Saturday, make sure I don't even need to go to the corner shop for milk, like it's Christmas Day or lockdown. Why? Because I live near where Yaxley-Lennon will 1/

This is how you protect your democracy. The US is a demonstration of what happens when you don't. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...

Probably the most important but neglected scandal about Mandelson. Epstein was close to Peter Thiel. Thiel had secret meetings with Cummings and Johnson before Palantir’s 100m contract Mandelson’s Global Counsel was pitching Thiel’s Palantir to Starmer. What a carousel of cronyism

NOTHING will prepare you for this 45-second story arc. From "I'm just doing this because I love the flag, it's totally grassroots, and I'm not part of anything political"... to who actually gave him the flags the night before. Anyone who believes it is an innocent movement needs to see this.