Simon James
@jim1132.bsky.social
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Happily re-learning the value of expertise, courtesy, and humour after the barking years.
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jim1132.bsky.social
Matthew Wright on Sunday had Telegraph columnist, friend of Cummings and Brexit loon Liam Halligan on arguing the same, though he conspicuously had nothing positive to say about Brexit.
jim1132.bsky.social
In an alternate Universe, the 24 hour BBC No-News channel is wall-to-wall disastrous Reform coverage.
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polprofsteve2024.bsky.social
I am completely dumbfounded by Labour’s reluctance to take on these people and to apply legal restraints to foreign interference in our politics and while I’m at it do something about GBNews! Does anybody have any sensible explanation for this reluctance?
sathnam.bsky.social
Taking on Elon Musk should be an open goal in British politics.
ianfraser.bsky.social
Stephen Yaxley-Lennon, aka ”Tommy Robinson,” says Tesla CEO Elon Musk is paying his legal bills.
jim1132.bsky.social
Chris Bryant was really hot on the original Russia Report as an opposition backbencher. As soon as in government, however, he referenced parliamentary rules stopping a report commissioned by a previous government from being fully released, and that was that.
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profjacob.bsky.social
🚨🚨"If the Tory party wants to be once more in the 21st century the party it was in the 20th — a natural home for successful people — it must again become a place in which pro-Europeans are not only welcome but can hold high office. " @stephenkb.bsky.social on #brexit & the Tory party:
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rpsagainsttrump.bsky.social
Chris Christie: “Thie is no longer, the Department of Justice, is no longer the premier prosecuting office in America. What it is now is a capo regime who goes out and executes hits when directed by the Don to do so. That’s what it is.”
jim1132.bsky.social
Traded in his chainsaw for a begging bowl - not that we'd know from the BBC's non-existent coverage.
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carolecadwalla.bsky.social
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 🔥
jim1132.bsky.social
Next up: the Trojan War.
jim1132.bsky.social
He'd have got away, too, if his feet could've reached the pedals
jim1132.bsky.social
Theresa May sacking her should've ended her career, and for doing roughly the same thing she's now complaining about.
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billkristolbulwark.bsky.social
"No Kings is happening, and this is how Republicans are talking about it.

Accusations like 'terrorist wing,' 'pro-Hamas,' and 'Antifa' aren’t just insults. They’re phrases that unlock, in the view of the administration, a permission structure for state violence."

www.thebulwark.com/p/trump-guil...
Trump’s Guilt-By-Association Law Enforcement
The groundwork has been laid to go after innocent people, opposition groups, and even No Kings protesters.
www.thebulwark.com
jim1132.bsky.social
Everyone working at Fox News being paid by the Murdoch crime family to support the MAGA dictatorship is, of course, perfectly ok.
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bestforbritain.org
Rupert Lowe on Nathan Gill, former Reform leader in Wales, who has pleaded guilty to taking bribes from pro-Russian proxies:

"I had absolutely no idea. I was new to the European Parliament, Nathan had been there for years alongside Farage - they were very close."

Shots fired. ~AA

Rupert Lowe MP
@RupertLowe10
I have received A LOT of questions about Nathan Gill, having sat as a Brexit Party MEP alongside him in Brussels and Strasbourg. He was also the Reform leader in Wales. For those who don’t know, he has pleaded guilty to taking pro-Russian bribes over a number of months.

Obviously, I had absolutely no idea. I was new to the European Parliament, Nathan had been there for years alongside Farage - they were very close. He was the head of the delegation of our MEPs, so with the whip ran the day-to-day affairs of our grouping and organised activity in Brussels/Strasbourg. He was one of just two MEPs from the previous term Farage allowed to stand again.

He seemed particularly interested in Russian/Ukrainian developments which I found peculiar. There was one event, right at the beginning of our term, which he asked me and other MEPs to attend. Due to his position in the grouping, I agreed. It had a very pro-Russian slant, with individuals who claimed to be close to Putin there. For obvious reasons, I did not attend another such event.

I thought his obsession with that part of the world was strange, but given his years in the Parliament and position in the party, I didn’t think there was more to it. Other MEPs also found it unusual, but we just got on with job.

So to journalists asking, there is my response.

It is disgraceful behaviour, treasonous behaviour.

I am ashamed to have ever sat alongside him.
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zoegrunewald.bsky.social
"Until now, public knowledge about the relationship between Reform U.K. and the A.D.F. was limited to a single quote Mr. Farage gave to the group, which they pushed out in a press statement. But the A.D.F. has quietly been courting the party since at least 2024."

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/13/w...
They Helped Topple Roe v. Wade. Now Their Sights Are Set on Britain.
www.nytimes.com
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imincorrigible.bsky.social
As I've mentioned many times already, the far right has been using so-called suppression of free speech to reopen long settled moral questions.

The first and most obvious is that racism is bad.

Reversing abortion rights is the precursor to making misogyny great again.
henrymance.ft.com
The right-wing campaign group that helped topple Roe v Wade in the US is now working to roll back abortion laws in the UK, with the help of Nigel Farage.

Its first step? Trying to create a debate around "free speech"
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/13/w...
jim1132.bsky.social
The Collosus of Chodes
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chrisgrey.bsky.social
This deserves more attention than it has received.

Gove: "we were too anxious as a government to secure those deals in order to show that Brexit was working".

Exactly as so many of us warned at the time, and as the government denied at the time.
www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/country-and-...
Michael Gove admits that post-Brexit trade deals were bad for farmers
Michael Gove has admitted for the first time that the Australia and New Zealand trade deals negotiated by the former Tory government did not protect Britain’s farmers.
www.yorkshirepost.co.uk
jim1132.bsky.social
The BBC did similar with Savile and associates for decades, except there wasn't the publicly-available evidence to keep him off Top of the Pops (or BBCQT in Farage's case).
jim1132.bsky.social
It was bending the knee for 14 years, but since July 2024 it's quite clearly been putting the knee in.
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peterjukes.bsky.social
So it now appears the woman Farage and Gill were so close to has a direct link not only to Putin’s “Man in Ukraine” Medvedchuk, but his predecessor as President, Medvedev

These are top Russian agents.
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alexvont.bsky.social
I bang on about this a lot: I think the combination of a global pandemic, underregulated internet/SM, collapse/corruption of trustworthy media, plus now unregulated genAI, is a wildly toxic environment for radicalisation & mental health. We see the results of that in our politics & lives every day
jamesdaustin.bsky.social
Everyone knows at least one person (normally, but not exclusively, a guy) whose gone properly mental due to net rabbit holes.

We see public figures regularly go mad and destroy themselves.

And we have, at a policy level, just decided to put our fingers in our ears and go nahnahnah
alastairmeeks.bsky.social
Last night I heard of another friend of a friend who has been lost to a rabbit hole of online propaganda. We need to start treating this as a serious public health concern.