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Catalina Fernandes @catalinafernandes.bsky.social · 22m

❗️UK government allocates $9.33 million for pro-Israel 'anti-Semitism' training at universities

The British government is providing a £7 million ($9.33 million) funding package to a pro-Israel group to conduct 'anti-Semitism' training at universities.

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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 7h

No tax cuts, but just look at what you get instead from Reform… some lovely American christofascist authoritarianism.

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Lizzie Dearden @lizziedearden.bsky.social · 14h

If you wondered why Nigel Farage turned up in US Congress in September speaking about "freedom of speech", this story has the answer

His appearance was orchestrated by a powerful American anti-abortion group that is trying to increase its influence in the UK by influencing the free speech debate

Jane Bradley @bradleyjane.bsky.social · 18h

NEW: How a U.S. anti-abortion group has quietly positioned itself as a powerbroker between the Trump administration and Nigel Farage’s Reform UK.

Latest investigation w Elizabeth Dias.
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/13/w...

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James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 11h

Oh.

The Guardian @theguardian.com · 11h

Reform UK abandoning manifesto pledge of £90bn in tax cuts, deputy leader admits

Richard Tice says party will concentrate on cutting civil service and scrapping net zero once in government * UK politics live – latest updates Reform UK’s deputy leader has admitted the party cannot deliver the £90bn in tax cuts promised in its manifesto, saying it would concentrate on public spending cuts once in government. Richard Tice said key election pledges such as lifting the income tax threshold would be an “aspiration” and that once in government Reform would concentrate on cutting the civil service and scrapping net zero. Continue reading...

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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 9h

Claims he's just a regular journalist doing his journalising on behalf of the silent millions... checks out for me..

Tommy Robinson
stopped at border driving
Bentley with thousands in
cash'
Far-Right activist insulted police
officers after being arrested for
refusing to give them pin to his
phone, court hears

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Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 9h

BBC News reporting on Israel deliberating destroying Gaza infrastructure

Including a waste water treatment plant just before the ceasefire was announced, which legal experts say may be a war crime

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Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 8h

BBC News's John Simpson hitting the nail on the head:

"What this doesn't do in any way is sort out the Palestinian question"

"What it does is stop the agony that people in Gaza have been suffering for two years"

"But it doesn't create a future path for them"

"Maybe that can come"

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Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 7h

Kudos to ⁦‪@mehdirhasan‬⁩.

Not only did he invite me on his show in 2018 to talk about my investigation into Farage’s funders (no UK channel ever did).

But he also asked a former colleague of Nathan Gill’s in the EU parliament whether UKIP had ever taken Russian bribes 🔥

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ChristianG @mryeswecan.bsky.social · 7h

Let's keep talking about Farage and Reform, oh, and Russia.

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Gill Tate @gillyhx.bsky.social · 7h

30% of infections in South Asia and the Middle East are resistant to antibiotics.
"Antimicrobial resistance is outpacing advances in modern medicine, threatening the health of families worldwide,”
Terrifying reading 👇

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Spread of Drug-Resistant Superbugs Surging, WHO Warns

The World Health Organization sounded the alarm Monday over soaring numbers of drug-resistant bacterial infections, compromising the effectiveness of life-saving treatments and rendering minor injurie...

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The Green Party of England & Wales @greenparty.org.uk · 10h

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The Green Party of England & Wales @greenparty.org.uk · 10h

This weekend we reached 100,000 Green Party members - and we're not stopping there.

In fact... we've already passed 105,000 members.

Be part of the Green surge. Join the Green Party today ⤵️

REAL HOPE. REAL CHANGE.

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The Spectre Haunting Europe @frightfulhobgoblin.bsky.social · 10h

It's pretty bonkers that the British press would bring up Jeremy Corbyn appearing on Russia Today a couple of times in the early 2000s at every opportunity, yet the Welsh leader of Reform literally pled guilty to taking money directly from the Kremlin and... Farage gets to shrug it away.

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Arkenor @arkenor.bsky.social · 1d

We are going to overtake the Tories very soon.

Green party reaches 100,000 members for first time after Polanski becomes leader

Green party in England and Wales has had near-50% rise in membership since since Zack Polanski took over last month

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[The Great War & Modern Memory] @ps9714.bsky.social · 1d

#Britain will provide a $27 million aid package to deliver water, sanitation and hygiene services in Gaza, Keir Starmer said, as he arrived in Egypt for a world leaders' summit.

Britain said the funding would be delivered through UNICEF, the World Food Programme and the Norwegian Refugee Council.

UK pledges $27 million in latest aid package for Gaza

Britain will provide a 20 million pound ($27 million) aid package to deliver water, sanitation and hygiene services in Gaza, Prime Minister Keir Starmer said on Sunday, as he arrived in Egypt for a world leaders' summit on ending the conflict.

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robfollis.bsky.social @robfollis.bsky.social · 23h

The BBC is bent on destroying the UK as we know it Farage is a Putin asset substack.com/@martindavie...

Martin Davies (@martindavies631844)

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Gill Tate @gillyhx.bsky.social · 22h

I despised the woman, but she must be spinning in her grave at what Cameron and his successors have done to the tory party. Hardly anything to celebrate.

Gill Tate @gillyhx.bsky.social · 22h

Tories seem to have forgotten who first did business with China and which party has wrecked the economy through Brexit and mismanagement to the point where the UK is so dependent on foreign investment.
Still, Starmer has made a massive mistake here.

Gill Tate @gillyhx.bsky.social · 22h

If true, this is a massive mistake by Starmer.
But the tories have no right to criticise. It was Cameron and Osborne who courted China in the first place. It was tory policies that indebted us to China and tories wrecking of the economy that has put the UK in need of further foreign investment.

us-news.bsky.social @us-news.bsky.social · 23h

Britain at risk of falling into Chinese debt trap

https://www.europesays.com/us/298685/

Sir Keir Starmer has been warned that Britain is at risk of falling into a Chinese debt trap…#us #news #usnews

Britain at risk of falling into Chinese debt trap - United States

Sir Keir Starmer has been warned that Britain is at risk of falling into a Chinese debt trap because of its dependence on borrowing from Beijing.

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DrHello @drhellodarkness.bsky.social · 22h

You ask, what is our policy?

To wage war against a monstrous tyranny, never surpassed in the dark, lamentable catalogue of human crime.

That is our policy.

May 13, 1940.
First Speech as Prime Minister to House of Commons
-Winston Churchill

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moyragrant.bsky.social @moyragrant.bsky.social · 22h

These facts should be broadcast far and wide. Why is the UK government not doing more to highlight the benefits of immigration and the lies of the racists?

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John Wilks @johngwilks.bsky.social · 1d

The UK needs to wake up to Farage's connections to Russia.
broligarchy.substack.com/p/we-need-to...

We need to talk about Russia

So, yes, that means we also need to talk about Nigel Farage

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Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 1d

NEW: The British politician, his Russian intelligence handler & a Kremlin plot against the US & Ukraine.

My new piece about Nathan Gill and Nigel Farage for @thenerve_news in which we ask:

Why, even now, is no-one asking questions?

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tastewart 🦋 @tastewart.bsky.social · 1d

This is something else…no matter your party affiliation, there is no disputing this!

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Mark Beeney🗿 @markbeeney.bsky.social · 1d

A syndicate of Spivs, Chancers & Charlatans
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Mark Beeney🗿 @markbeeney.bsky.social · 13d

1/Criminals, Charlatan’s, & Spivs🤬🤬

"There are bad eggs in our party, there are bad eggs in every party and when we find them we weed them out.” Nathan Gill 2014

“most people in the senior leadership team”of Reform had never heard of him Zia Yusuf 2025🤡
🤬🤬

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UKIP criticism is 'media witch-hunt,' Nathan Gill says

Nathan Gill, UKIP's European candidate in Wales, claims there is a

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Sally 🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦 @newsupdates.bsky.social · 13d

Be clear

Farage/Reform want to remove rights for women

1. Its manifesto states ‘to repeal the equalities act’

2. Remove us from the european convention on human rights which protects women

3. Remove us from the UN charter for human rights which protects women.

NO WOMAN should support them‼️

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