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Vongole
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British citizen. Europe is my natural home & Europeans my natural partners. 🇬🇧🇩🇰🇪🇺
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James Ball @jamesrball.com · 4d
You might think controlling GB News gives you huge influence over UK politics – especially on the right. But that's just the tip of the iceberg, as we reveal in this week's issue of @thenewworldmag.bsky.social

Full story: www.thenewworld.co.uk/james-ball-p...
A network/ownership diagram showing a range of organisations controlled by Paul Marshall or his associates, or which receive donations from them
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Dan Neidle @danneidle.bsky.social · 1d
What Carter-Ruck did was different: they actively helped criminals keep their fraud going.

This isn't like a criminal defence lawyer defending a bank robber in court. It's like a lawyer threatening witnesses with defamation claims if they report that a robbery is happening
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Dan Neidle @danneidle.bsky.social · 1d
NEW: Britain’s top libel firm, Carter-Ruck, acted for OneCoin - a $4bn crypto-fraud.

The firm threatened whistleblowers, journalists, regulators, and even the police.

Carter-Ruck's work helped the fraud continue as long as it did.

Was that a crime?
handwritten note from Carter-Ruck's file saying "They will bring in blockchain -> if no blockchain -> scam -> fraud -> criminal"
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Simon Usherwood @simonusherwood.bsky.social · 13d
This is the kind of thing that makes deepening relations with the EU more difficult for any govt: unease among MS that previous commitments aren't going to be upheld

www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...
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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 1d
Farage's proposals to deport up to 430k people previously granted ILR +told this was their permanent home was heavily criticised. (He exempts EU nationals with settled status, maybe due to legal protection under Treaty + risk to UK citizens. Lam's preference is to ignore that & try a harder line)
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THE NERVE @thenerve.news · 1d
Read the full report at thenerve.news: www.thenerve.news/p/nathan-gil...
The glamorous TV host, the web of influence and a mysterious trip to Moscow – inside the downfall of Reform’s disgraced MEP
Ahead of a critical Welsh byelection for Reform next week, part two of our investigation into Nathan Gill uncovers the web of Russian influence that encircled him – and asks why it took so long to cha...
www.thenerve.news
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 1d
Trump is Putin’s bitch.
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Vongole @grahampeake.bsky.social · 1d
www.theguardian.com/sport/2025/o...
Chess: Ukraine soldier grandmaster wins gold medal at European team championships
Igor Kovalenko, 36, the world No 48 with a Fide rating of 2669, has been a frontline soldier for three years and only began playing again a month ago
www.theguardian.com
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Leeds for Europe @leedseurope.bsky.social · 2d
Take back control they said…

“The UK’s borders chief was unable to answer when asked by MPs to name any way in which Brexit has helped “control our borders”.

Martin Hewitt, the new border security commander, said he did “not immediately” have an answer to the question.”
Borders chief can’t name a way Brexit has helped UK control its borders
The new border security commander, Martin Hewitt, said he did ‘not immediately’ have an answer
www.independent.co.uk
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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 1d
Well this is a proper head scratcher.
But yeah, fiddling around with tax and getting rid of consumer protections should sort it.
Wonder what those ‘former chancellors and prime ministers’ had to say about this shitshow. Any mention of Brexit at all??

(Times and Private Eye)
UK standards of living set to fall behind Max Kendix Political Correspondent Living standards in Britain will fall behind those of Lithuania in less than five years and Turkey's in less than 20 years, according to forecasts. The UK will fall from the 30th richest country this year to the 46th richest by 2050, according to research by the Centre for Economics and Business Research (Cebr). The Czech Republic will eclipse British GDP per capita in 2031, and Poland will do the same in 2034. The research was commissioned by the authors of a new book, Prosperity Through Growth, who interviewed former chancellors and former prime ministers to come up with policies to prevent the relative decline. Douglas McWilliams, the founder of Cebr, said: "With GDP per capita in the UK growing extremely sluggishly, we are likely to be overtaken by more dynamic economies unless we change policy." The book suggests merging national insurance and income taxes into one flat tax, cutting business regulation and refocusing public spending on infrastructure and defence. BREXIT NUMBER CRUNCHING 0.08% Expected growth by 2038 from 'Brexit win' of Trans-Pacific CPTPP trade deal 0.08% Expected growth by 2035 from Australia trade deal 0.07% Expected growth by 2035 from CEPA trade deal with Japan 0.03% Expected growth by 2035 from New Zealand trade deal -4% Long-term loss of growth caused by the Brexit that enabled these 'wins'
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 2d
Nigel Farage now says that any suggestion he's been soft on Putin is "just nonsense".

Here's a quick reminder of what he's said in the past
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sianushka.bsky.social @sianushka.bsky.social · 2d
The week we saw an explosive & important report from the @nytimes.com on the US anti-abortion movement's aims for the UK, I spoke to @mediastormpod.bsky.social about my long-term research into the anti-abortion movement, its funding, networks & ideology
open.spotify.com/episode/4sB4...
What does anti-abortion and white supremacy have in common?
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CalMatters @calmatters.org · 3d
Breaking: Starting next year, Californians with diabetes will be able to purchase state-branded insulin at steeply reduced prices, Gov. Newsom announced today. Long-acting insulin pens will be available at pharmacies for $11 per pen beginning Jan. 1. https://cal.news/3W7SDZW
California Gov. Gavin Newsom announces a partnership with Civica Rx to provide insulin to Californians for $30 for 10 milliliters, which he said was as little as one-tenth of the current cost. Photo by Ringo Chiu, Sipa USA via Reuters Hed: Newsom unveils $11 state insulin for Californians: ‘We took matters into our own hands’
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FactPost @factpostnews.bsky.social · 3d
Gov. Newsom has announced California will be the first state to sell insulin through a state-backed program.

It will cost just $11.
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 3d
Newsom: This president appears unhinged… seems listless… he seems, dare I say, in decline—cognitively, and… physically. These are just the rantings of someone who needs an intervention, needs some help, needs to be stabilized.
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Chris Giles @chrisgiles.ft.com · 4d
There is no need for a moral panic about the UK's welfare system.

Far from perfect but recent discourse is nuts

Spending is controlled, not spiralling

Worklessness is near record lows

My column www.ft.com/content/ee67...
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Vongole @grahampeake.bsky.social · 3d
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Digital ID: Danes and Estonians find it ‘pretty uncontroversial’
Citizens have enrolled with little opposition, albeit with some concerns over security and privacy, as UK plans system
www.theguardian.com
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Andrew Cutting @andrewcutting.coe.int · 5d
The European Convention on Human Rights is being misrepresented in the UK, says former Supreme Court President Lady Hale👇

🔗 www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home... via @the-independent.com

“It seems so short-sighted. I’m sorry, I’m really, really worried about it.”

#ECHR #OurRightsAndFreedoms
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Peter Jukes @peterjukes.bsky.social · 4d
Revealed: Leave.EU campaign met Russian officials as many as 11 times around Brexit

www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2018...
Revealed: Leave.EU campaign met Russian officials as many as 11 times
Founder Arron Banks was offered lucrative deals in talks with the ambassador
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George Conway 🇺🇸🚫👑🐸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 4d
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UK Politics @politicsintheuk.bsky.social · 6d
Labour’s Dan Jarvis wiped the floor with Badenoch. #ukpolitics
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Peter Jukes @peterjukes.bsky.social · 4d
The new edition of @bylinetimes.bsky.social goes to the printers tomorrow.

And we go where others fear to tread…

Subscribe by tonight and you’ll get it delivered to your door

subscribe.bylinetimes.com/editions/
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Philip Stephens @philipstephens.bsky.social · 6d
Lyse Doucet and Jeremy Bowen fine reporting from Middle East reminder of BBC journalism as it used to be…deeply informed, sober and balanced …sad to say marks out shallow sensationalism of BBC’s reporting of Westminster politics ….
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Reform Party UK Exposed @reformexposed.bsky.social · 6d
Go on then Nigel Farage, keep telling us you know nothing about Russian influence…

The Farage staffer, the Russian embassy and a smear campaign against a Kremlin critic

www.theguardian.com/politics/201...
The Farage staffer, the Russian embassy and a smear campaign against a Kremlin critic
Worker for Farage’s group in EU parliament was ‘frequent visitor to embassy’ and accused of role in propaganda stunt
www.theguardian.com
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Gabriel Milland @gabrielmilland.bsky.social · 5d
When you ride in a Tesla, you ride with Yaxley-Lennon.
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