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Brian Coventry

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Views are mine. Reposts don’t imply agreement. I believe democracy’s broken. ByLine Times supporter. Open Water Swimmer. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇦🇺

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Brian Coventry @briancoventry.bsky.social · Nov 24

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European Movement UK @europeanmovement.co.uk · 10h

Today, the Chancellor named Brexit as one of the main reasons for expected tax rises and lower productivity.

Wasn't Brexit supposed to put £350 million a week into the economy? 🤔 One of just many lies it seems...

“A rushed and ill-conceived Brexit that brought further disruption, as businesses trying to trade were faced with extra costs and extra paperwork. All this meant that when the pandemic arrived our country was under-prepared, our public services weakened and our economy fragile. And we finished the pandemic with higher death rates and higher debt than our peers” Rachel Reeves MP, Chancellor

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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 1d

Musk's Grok was asked to verify if a tweet featuring a graphic image of the attack on the LNER train was real.

I'm not sharing the whole image but here is part of it and the text.

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Several innocent people were stabbed
by unknown attackers on a moving train
in Cambridgeshire, UK

Police arrested two suspects at the
scene.
The sad reality is, Britain is now less safe
than many places people call
"dangerous."

Today, London feels more like Kabul than Uk

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D.A.B⚡️ @dab23.bsky.social · 3d

#20SongsByYear
#MusicChallenge
#MusicSky

1979

The Knack - My Sharona

The Knack - My Sharona

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D.A.B⚡️ @dab23.bsky.social · 9d

🎶🎶…Thunder, thunder, thunder, thunder
Thunder, thunder, thunder, thunder
Thunder, thunder…🎶🎶

#Rock #HeavyMetal #AcDc

AC/DC - Thunderstruck (Live At River Plate, December 2009)

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Bluesky @bsky.app · 4d

4️⃣0️⃣

40,000,013
users on Bluesky
80.00003% of 50,000,000 user goal (currently estimated in ~522.3 days)

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Brian Coventry @briancoventry.bsky.social · 3d

Brian Coventry @briancoventry.bsky.social · 4d

Paris II

Brian Coventry @briancoventry.bsky.social · 4d

Agree

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Rohan Connolly @rohanconnolly65.bsky.social · 4d

PS (to last post) ... And the INXS self-titled debut, of course. Gave this album an absolute thrashing in 1981 when I was 16 and in Year 11. Still like it!

INXS - On A Bus

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Brian Coventry @briancoventry.bsky.social · 5d

Paris today.

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Byline Times @bylinetimes.bsky.social · Sep 29

As the media provides the Reform Leader with a prominent platform once more during this general election campaign, Peter Jukes considers all the concerning lines of enquiry that journalists never confront him with

The Five Questions Nigel Farage is Never Asked About Brexit, Trump and Russia

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Brian Coventry @briancoventry.bsky.social · 6d

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Brian Coventry @briancoventry.bsky.social · 7d

Thoughts ?

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Led By Donkeys @ledbydonkeys.org · 8d

Farage: epic grifter

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Alex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 8d

Everything about his body language whenever a question is asked about the Russian bribes speaks of panic. Farage is vulnerable on this.

Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 8d

Farage is asked about another two of his MEPs, who made the same pro-Russia statements that Nathan Gill has now pled guilty to being bribed to make.

"Opinions are opinions."

Farage's defence seems to be that they arrived at those views independently and it has nowt to do with him.

Hmm. 🤔 ~AA

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Steve Hunt 🔶🇪🇺 @deepfriedsteve.bsky.social · 9d

Superb piece by @jamesbloodworth.bsky.social in this month's @bylinetimes.bsky.social mag: "Britain's Media Has Let Nigel Farage Reshape Political Journalism - Why?" This article alone was worth my annual sub to one of the very few news outlets still doing proper journalism

Snippet of Byline Times, November 2025, pointing out how the British mainstream media has created a "perfect circle of self-perpetuating hype" around Nigel Farage, i.e. how his prominence in MSM feeds his popularity which in turn justifies further coverage, and so on. Author proposes that this is a predictable consequence of an industry that has restructured itself around virality.

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Brian Coventry @briancoventry.bsky.social · 10d

Zia Yusuf might have something to say to this moron

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Peter Jukes @peterjukes.bsky.social · 11d

Good point from @adambienkov.bsky.social - if the massed ranks of the right wing press with BBC boosting, plus the vast amount of money (and foreign social media bots) couldn’t get Reform over the line, what will?

Byline Times @bylinetimes.bsky.social · 11d

🔴The Reform Backlash: Caerphilly By-Election Result Shows Nigel Farage’s Party Is Much Weaker Than It Looks

Despite widespread media predictions of a Reform victory on Thursday, Farage’s defeat shows his party continues to be overestimated, argues @adambienkov.bsky.social

The Reform Backlash: Caerphilly By-Election Result Shows Nigel Farage’s Party Is Much Weaker Than It Looks

Despite widespread media predictions of a Reform victory on Thursday, Farage's defeat shows his party continues to be overestimated, argues Adam Bienkov

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Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 13d

Ed Davey, "I know members opposite are relieved, they're finally allowed to say the Conservative's Brexit deal is a disaster"

"Will the Prime Minister act now to repair the Brexit damage by negotiating a new UK-EU Customs Union to boost Britain's trade and grow our economy?"

Keir Starmer, "No"

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Brian Coventry @briancoventry.bsky.social · 13d

Beggars belief why Starmer doesn't have guts to do this. Decent prosecutor in opposition, grand plans thats fizzled out once in government. Could solved the financial mess. But no, limps from one circumstance to the next with ineffective outcomes. @niadh127.bsky.social - Reckon you might agree

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Peter Jukes @peterjukes.bsky.social · 13d

As his landmark Brexit has proved, Farage is a fraud.

Nothing else has worked – so Starmer and Reeves are finally telling the truth about Brexit | Rafael Behr

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Nothing else has worked – so Starmer and Reeves are finally telling the truth about Brexit | Rafael Behr

It is the right way to go, but taking the long way round to such an obvious point has cost Labour precious time and credibility, says Guardian columnist Rafael Behr

www.theguardian.com

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Financial Times @financialtimes.com · 13d

BDO chief pledges fight over ‘falsehoods’ on First Brands work on.ft.com/47m0S9V

BDO chief pledges fight over ‘falsehoods’ on First Brands work

Firm leader says auditor may face years of scrutiny and will take ‘decisive action to protect our reputation’

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James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 15d

Ah! Good morning, reality. And welcome. We’ve been expecting you…

FT graph showing massive UK public support for the opinion that it was wrong to vote to leave the EU.

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newsbeep.bsky.social @newsbeep.bsky.social · 16d

Mollie O’Callaghan 200m freestyle short course world record, swimming World Cup, time, latest news, video

https://www.newsbeep.com/195022/

Australian Mollie O’Callaghan clocked a short course world record of 1min 49.77sec to win the 200m freestyle at…

Mollie O’Callaghan 200m freestyle short course world record, swimming World Cup, time, latest news, video - News Beep

Australian Mollie O’Callaghan clocked a short course world record of 1min 49.77sec to win the 200m freestyle at the swimming World Cup stop in Westmont,

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