Liz Linnard
@lizlinnard.bsky.social
Labour, Geordie exile, X-exile - and so glad to be here.
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A quick reminder of who Nigel Farage was most concerned about when Putin's tanks first rolled into Ukraine
November 27, 2025 at 8:22 PM
A quick reminder of who Nigel Farage was most concerned about when Putin's tanks first rolled into Ukraine
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How is it that we already know so much about the guy who shot 2 national guardsmen this afternoon but we know pretty much nothing about the two guys who tried to assassinate the president months ago?
November 27, 2025 at 3:53 AM
How is it that we already know so much about the guy who shot 2 national guardsmen this afternoon but we know pretty much nothing about the two guys who tried to assassinate the president months ago?
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Nigel Farage never owns anything.
Including that house in Clacton 😉
Including that house in Clacton 😉
November 27, 2025 at 2:34 PM
Nigel Farage never owns anything.
Including that house in Clacton 😉
Including that house in Clacton 😉
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Never let it be said that the British press is out of touch
November 27, 2025 at 7:52 PM
Never let it be said that the British press is out of touch
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Nigel Farage uses his post-Budget press conference to say Enoch Powell was right.
Why are we not even surprised anymore?
Why are we not even surprised anymore?
November 27, 2025 at 2:20 PM
Nigel Farage uses his post-Budget press conference to say Enoch Powell was right.
Why are we not even surprised anymore?
Why are we not even surprised anymore?
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"Ordinarily he was insane, but he had lucid moments when he was merely stupid." .. (Heinrich Heine) (Cartoon Dave Granlund)
November 26, 2025 at 5:37 PM
"Ordinarily he was insane, but he had lucid moments when he was merely stupid." .. (Heinrich Heine) (Cartoon Dave Granlund)
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Alarms are going off in Reform UK HQ.
First their leader is embroiled in a racism row.
Secondly their member growth has stalled.
Thirdly they’ve polled lowest since April.
Now migration has fallen to its lowest levels since the pandemic.
First their leader is embroiled in a racism row.
Secondly their member growth has stalled.
Thirdly they’ve polled lowest since April.
Now migration has fallen to its lowest levels since the pandemic.
November 27, 2025 at 3:00 PM
Alarms are going off in Reform UK HQ.
First their leader is embroiled in a racism row.
Secondly their member growth has stalled.
Thirdly they’ve polled lowest since April.
Now migration has fallen to its lowest levels since the pandemic.
First their leader is embroiled in a racism row.
Secondly their member growth has stalled.
Thirdly they’ve polled lowest since April.
Now migration has fallen to its lowest levels since the pandemic.
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If you have any A4 envelopes lurking around you could attach this to, they will get charged a surcharge, so please don't do that 🤣
November 27, 2025 at 5:48 PM
If you have any A4 envelopes lurking around you could attach this to, they will get charged a surcharge, so please don't do that 🤣
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Reform Party Ltd telling porkies to their sheeples, again.
Spoke to the New York Times for their report: the British public think immigration is up. It's actually down, sharply
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/27/w...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/27/w...
The British Public Thinks Immigration Is Up. It’s Actually Down, Sharply.
www.nytimes.com
November 27, 2025 at 7:02 PM
Reform Party Ltd telling porkies to their sheeples, again.
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Bruna Caroline Ferreira, who was brought to the U.S. as a child and is the mother of Leavitt’s nephew, was arrested near Boston earlier this month and taken into ICE custody.
Woman With Ties To Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt’s Family In ICE Custody
Bruna Caroline Ferreira, who was brought to the U.S. as a child and is the mother of Leavitt’s nephew, was arrested near Boston earlier this month and taken into ICE custody.
www.forbes.com
November 26, 2025 at 12:45 PM
Bruna Caroline Ferreira, who was brought to the U.S. as a child and is the mother of Leavitt’s nephew, was arrested near Boston earlier this month and taken into ICE custody.
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If he had a modicum of self-knowledge, former Tory spin doctor Robbie Gibb would resign from the BBC board, writes @arusbridger.bsky.social.
The real threat to BBC impartiality
The BBC has suffered a week of mistakes, resignations and the threat of a $1bn lawsuit. But the biggest risks of bias are in the boardroom, not the ne...
www.prospectmagazine.co.uk
November 27, 2025 at 2:48 PM
If he had a modicum of self-knowledge, former Tory spin doctor Robbie Gibb would resign from the BBC board, writes @arusbridger.bsky.social.
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Resolution Foundation analysis of the Chancellor's Budget:
Typical families gain approximately £230 from energy bill support, fuel duty & rail fare measures.
Scrapping two-child benefit limit helps over half a million families by an average of £5,000.
The Budget is progressive overall, RF finds.
Typical families gain approximately £230 from energy bill support, fuel duty & rail fare measures.
Scrapping two-child benefit limit helps over half a million families by an average of £5,000.
The Budget is progressive overall, RF finds.
November 27, 2025 at 10:35 AM
Resolution Foundation analysis of the Chancellor's Budget:
Typical families gain approximately £230 from energy bill support, fuel duty & rail fare measures.
Scrapping two-child benefit limit helps over half a million families by an average of £5,000.
The Budget is progressive overall, RF finds.
Typical families gain approximately £230 from energy bill support, fuel duty & rail fare measures.
Scrapping two-child benefit limit helps over half a million families by an average of £5,000.
The Budget is progressive overall, RF finds.
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I’m not taking financial advice from the people who proclaimed Liz Truss’s budget as a triumph
November 27, 2025 at 3:12 PM
I’m not taking financial advice from the people who proclaimed Liz Truss’s budget as a triumph
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On the subject of the papers' attitude to tax, and why it's a problem (at least if we think democracy is still worth the bother):
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Since Labour won power, an insidious little phrase has been popping up constantly in the media: "tax raid".
So I looked into this for @thenewworldmag.bsky.social
And it turns out it once meant something completely different.
www.thenewworld.co.uk/phil-tinline...
So I looked into this for @thenewworldmag.bsky.social
And it turns out it once meant something completely different.
www.thenewworld.co.uk/phil-tinline...
Why the right wing media keeps screaming ‘tax raid’
This isn’t journalism, it’s propaganda that reframes tax policy as assault and a democratically elected Labour government as thieves
www.thenewworld.co.uk
November 27, 2025 at 7:43 AM
On the subject of the papers' attitude to tax, and why it's a problem (at least if we think democracy is still worth the bother):
bsky.app/profile/phil...
bsky.app/profile/phil...
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"Reform angry that issue regularly used to stir up anger is under threat of being resolved."
November 27, 2025 at 2:10 PM
"Reform angry that issue regularly used to stir up anger is under threat of being resolved."
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BBC staff have now been banned from repeating the description of Donald Trump excised from Rutger’s Reith lecture. Makes his warning here all the more chilling.
youtu.be/9UlYdocG5Bs
youtu.be/9UlYdocG5Bs
'What are they afraid of?' Historian's lecture cut by BBC
YouTube video by LBC
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November 27, 2025 at 3:43 PM
BBC staff have now been banned from repeating the description of Donald Trump excised from Rutger’s Reith lecture. Makes his warning here all the more chilling.
youtu.be/9UlYdocG5Bs
youtu.be/9UlYdocG5Bs
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Never forget who Nigel Farage is.
November 27, 2025 at 10:24 AM
Never forget who Nigel Farage is.
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Dear @bbcnewsnight.bsky.social can you please tell your colleagues on World at One how to report news properly @vicderbyshire.bsky.social
November 27, 2025 at 2:02 PM
Dear @bbcnewsnight.bsky.social can you please tell your colleagues on World at One how to report news properly @vicderbyshire.bsky.social
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Robbie Gibb is fighting back.
His "chosen one," Farage has been mired in racism, and dodgy Russian links, whilst Reform" company" run councils have been exposed as incompetent and cluelessness.
He, himself, has been questioned (not keenly though), by a parliamentary committee. Time to double down..
His "chosen one," Farage has been mired in racism, and dodgy Russian links, whilst Reform" company" run councils have been exposed as incompetent and cluelessness.
He, himself, has been questioned (not keenly though), by a parliamentary committee. Time to double down..
November 27, 2025 at 2:09 PM
Robbie Gibb is fighting back.
His "chosen one," Farage has been mired in racism, and dodgy Russian links, whilst Reform" company" run councils have been exposed as incompetent and cluelessness.
He, himself, has been questioned (not keenly though), by a parliamentary committee. Time to double down..
His "chosen one," Farage has been mired in racism, and dodgy Russian links, whilst Reform" company" run councils have been exposed as incompetent and cluelessness.
He, himself, has been questioned (not keenly though), by a parliamentary committee. Time to double down..
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This budget has really exposed how unreasonably partisan 80% of our media is today. It was a splendid budget in so many ways but nobody is saying so. It’s shitty
November 27, 2025 at 1:50 PM
This budget has really exposed how unreasonably partisan 80% of our media is today. It was a splendid budget in so many ways but nobody is saying so. It’s shitty