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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 19h

New post just out:

The relationship between Russia and the European radical right goes well beyond Reform's Nathan Gill being bribed.

In this post I trace the history back to the 1990s and look at the threat it poses now.

(£/free trial)

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Russia and the rise of the radical right

Marine Le Pen meets with Putin before the 2017 French Presidential election (Photo credit Mikhail Klimentyev/AFP via Getty Images)

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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 1d

A 15 year old boy with autism went missing earlier this week

He was selling fruit with his family in Springbranch when he disappeared

They filed a missing person’s report & begged the public to help find him

Turns out he was in a Houston ICE detention facility

They kidnapped a disabled child!

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Sarah O’Connell @sarahoconnellshow.com · 11h

M&S are selling a Christmas turkey for £150. Does it come with a free night in a hotel and theatre tickets?

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Grace Hurford PhD @ghurford.bsky.social · 11h

Can swap walnuts for pecans too

Nigella Lawson @nigella.bsky.social · 17h

There are few things more comforting than a crumble — just as well, then, that #RecipeOfTheDay is this apple and walnut number! www.nigella.com/recipes/appl...

Apple and Walnut Crumble

In How to Eat, I suggested this as a recipe for two. Yes, my portions are always generous, but the thing is, on certain days, we just ate this, the two of us, for supper in its entirety. Or almost: I ...

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Grace Hurford PhD @ghurford.bsky.social · 11h

Trump really would have gone to prison if he hadn’t become president 2

garci32 @garci32.bsky.social · 14h

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 14h

Epstein files giving House Republicans over two months paid vacation and counting.

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Grace Hurford PhD @ghurford.bsky.social · 12h

Stunning autumn 🍂 day above the clouds #LakeDistrict

A silhouette of 2 people against the Helvellyn range with blue sky above and cloud below

Deep valley fog in Newlands with Skiddaw and Blencathra poking out into blue skies - taken from Dale Head

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Oliver Markus Malloy @malloy.rocks · 1d

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@DrJoePajak CSci CChem FRSC @drjoepajak.bsky.social · 1d

Healthwatch Canada: 'Starting Tuesday, October 14, 2025, masks will be mandatory in all Health Prince Edward Island (P.E.I.) facilities due to rising respiratory illness rates across the Island'. @canadahealthwatch.ca
👉 'To protect both patients and healthcare workers.'
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

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Drew Harwell @drewharwell.com · 1d

Military families on day 9 of the shutdown lining up at the food bank

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Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 1d

Nathan Gill who went from UKIP ⏩ Brexit Party ⏩ Reform UK has admitted to taking bribes to speak pro Russian and anti- EU statements?

Photo collage
➡️ Oleg Voloshyn and his wife Nadia Borodi
➡️ Nigel Farage with Nadia Borodi
➡️ Nathan Gill with Nadia Borodi
➡️ Nigel Farage with Nathan Gill

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Fionna O’Leary @fascinatorfun.bsky.social · 1d

We waste so much time wanging on about immigration being something that must be stopped, when the reality is we need it.

What if we spent the same amount of effort actually working out what we can do to encourage integration.

Treating them like enemies isn’t it
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

‘It’s a question of humanity’: how a small Spanish town made headlines over its immigration stance

Mayor explains why Villamalea unanimously backed call to regularise undocumented migrants – across party lines

www.theguardian.com

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Mueller, She Wrote @muellershewrote.com · 1d

NEW: So it IS a second home and not an investment property. Motion to dismiss for abuse of the grand jury process in 3...2...
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/u...

In the Eye of a Political Storm, a Tiny Yellow House in Norfolk, Va.

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@DrJoePajak CSci CChem FRSC @drjoepajak.bsky.social · 1d

'Joking memes make light of the uncomfortable reality: everyone's got a little of that post-COVID brain damage these days.' @juliadoubleday.bsky.social
Uncomfortable truths...
More than uncomfortable for the growing numbers infected with the virus. #LongerCOVID
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When Will the Lion Concern Himself

Joking memes make light of the uncomfortable reality: everyone's got a little of that post-COVID brain damage these days

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EuropeanPowell @europeanpowell.bsky.social · 1d

Teesside’s freeport, initiated in 2021 under Rishi Sunak, has cost £560 million far exceeding the standard £25 million allocation (22 times the standard £25m).
90% profits go to the private sector.
This clearly shows the UK model of State aid post-Brexit is utterly corrupt.

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Grace Hurford PhD @ghurford.bsky.social · 1d

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Nigella Lawson @nigella.bsky.social · 1d

#RecipeOfTheDay is a one-pan affair of bolstering cosiness: Sage & Onion Chicken and Sausages, which is just crying out to be served with a creamy potato gratin or pile of buttery mash. You know it makes sense! www.nigella.com/recipes/one-...

One Pan Sage and Onion Chicken and Sausage

I took it into my head one day that I wanted to marinate and cook some chicken with the flavours of a traditional sage-and-onion stuffing. So onion, mustard, sage and lemon infuse the jointed bird, an...

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Byline Times @bylinetimes.bsky.social · 1d

“Here Farage is, in Gill’s office, with Voloshyn’s wife Nadia, on the day Gill makes an intervention on behalf of Medvedchuk’s channels, with an employee of one of those channels, whose husband started bribing Gill to make these statements 6 days earlier”

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'Stunned?' Farage's Admission He Knew Nathan Gill but Not His Kremlin Associates Does Not Stand Up to Scrutiny

Insiders have told Byline Times, it is 'inconceivable' the Reform Leader did not know about his close aide's pro Russian statements

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Data Report @datareport.bsky.social · 2d

Strictly Come Dancing chaos as cast struck by illness with pro 'totally deteriorating'.
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Strictly chaos as cast struck by illness with pro 'totally deteriorating'

Vicky Pattison, who is teamed up with pro Kai Widdrington on this year's show, has said a bug is sweeping through the Strictly Come Dancing camp

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Jason Hazeley @jasonhazeley.bsky.social · 1d

It’s dispiriting that this is what getting a COVID vaccination now looks like to this chronic asthmatic.

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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 1d

Former PM Boris Johnson breached rules designed to stop abuse of contacts made in public office.

Secretly lobbied the UAE for a billion-dollar private venture,
Used senior contacts in the Saudi govt to pitch for a consultancy firm.

Lust for private wealth is the main cause of UK decline.

Boris Johnson breached rules designed to stop abuse of contacts made in public office, watchdog finds

Johnson found to have breached rules after refusing to answer specific questions about allegations published by the Guardian

www.theguardian.com

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Jon Rauch @jonrauch.bsky.social · 2d

"I’ve never seen an arraignment hearing quite like this one. ... Today the Eastern District of Virginia is already on to Letitia James for a crime she also didn’t commit." www.lawfaremedia.org/projects-ser...

The Situation: Three Thoughts on the Comey Arraignment

I’ve never seen an arraignment hearing quite like this one.

www.lawfaremedia.org

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PersisterhoodHQ (we/us) @persisterhoodhq.bsky.social · 1d

Proud Boys in Scotland - the kiltmaker discontinued this pattern

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 2d

What he not saying is that his friends and cronies invested a fortune in Argentina since their guy Milei won, they stand to lose a big chunk of those fortunes the way things are going, and Argentina’s elections are in two weeks and we are tampering in them to bail Milei out.

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Grace Hurford PhD @ghurford.bsky.social · 1d

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Nora Reed (they/them ze/hir) @nora.zone · 2d

cry havoc and let slip the frogs of war

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 1d

Let's make hope normal again.

Join.greenparty.org.uk

The Green Party of England & Wales @greenparty.org.uk · 2d

“Britain is a nation of neighbours, not strangers — and it’s time we built a politics of hope that reflects that.”

Zack Polanski with a message of unity and hope having been out door knocking Handsworth today.

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