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Support for Reform UK increasing among British Indians, poll shows

Philip Challinor @pchallinor.bsky.social · 7h

Idiots www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Exclusive: Survey finds 13% of British Indians back Nigel Farage’s party compared with only 4% at last election

Tory MP reports ‘AI-generated deepfake’ video announcing his defection to Reform UK

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Philip Challinor @pchallinor.bsky.social · 1d

Someone has used AI to fake a Tory MP, thereby perverting it from its true and noble purpose of depriving little people of their livelihoods www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Mid Norfolk MP George Freeman calls spread of AI-generated misinformation a ‘dangerous development’

Dead of Night Directors ~ Alberto Cavalcanti, Charles Crichton Basil Dearden, Robert Hamer Writers ~ John Baines, Angus MacPhail, T....

Philip Challinor @pchallinor.bsky.social · 1d

Venerable and variable, still very watchable and in places authentically scary: the @buck-theorem.bsky.social review of Dead of Night bucktheorem.blogspot.com/2025/10/dead...

Dead of Night

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‘Suck it up’: leaked video exposes bitter infighting at Reform UK’s flagship Kent council

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Plashing Vole @plashingvole.bsky.social · 1d

This is nothing compared to the fist fight my local Conservative council group got into during a meeting on the premises some years ago. Oddly enough, when it came to the police investigation’ none of the party of law and order had seen a thing!

Philip Challinor @pchallinor.bsky.social · 1d

When I joined Nigel's happy band of thugs and bullies, I certainly did not expect them to thug and bully little old me www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Exclusive: Footage reveals Kent leader berating councillors amid rows over budgets and bullying claims

‘Suck it up’: leaked video exposes bitter infighting at Reform UK’s flagship Kent council

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Philip Challinor @pchallinor.bsky.social · 1d

Includes this long and interesting piece on Pynchon's latest newleftreview.org/sidecar/post...

Philip Challinor @pchallinor.bsky.social · 1d

When I joined Nigel's happy band of thugs and bullies, I certainly did not expect them to thug and bully little old me www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Exclusive: Footage reveals Kent leader berating councillors amid rows over budgets and bullying claims

The Curmudgeon: Let Us Swipe Your Life

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Philip Challinor @pchallinor.bsky.social · 1d

Team Starmer is offering military veterans the chance to be test animals for the BlairCard™ digital panopticon and pleb incentiviser thecurmudgeonly.blogspot.com/2025/10/let-...

The Curmudgeon: Brothers in Christ

Philip Challinor @pchallinor.bsky.social · 2d

With galumphing British tact, the House of Windsor has chosen the week in which Virginia Giuffre's memoir was released to announce that the House of Windsor remains by no means averse to hobnobbing with squillionaire sex abuse rings thecurmudgeonly.blogspot.com/2025/10/brot...

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Chris Grey @chrisgrey.bsky.social · 2d

Brexit eruptions. New post on my Brexit & Brexitism Blog looking at Tory madness, Labour’s ‘blame Farage’ strategy, the Brexit impasse and a suggestion of a way forward, and the latest ‘reset’ news. Bonus feature: a feeble new Brexit metaphor: chrisgreybrexitblog.blogspot.com/2025/10/brex...

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Philip Challinor @pchallinor.bsky.social · 2d

AI: Brussels is not in Flanders except in the trivial sense of its being located there

China threatens UK with ‘consequences’ over delayed London mega embassy

Philip Challinor @pchallinor.bsky.social · 2d

The yin of failing to get our paperwork right in the spy trial is balanced by the yang of failing to get our paperwork right in the embassy project www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

Diplomatic tensions escalate amid rows over planning hold-ups and collapse of spying trial

King Charles to be first reigning English monarch in 500 years to pray publicly with pope

Philip Challinor @pchallinor.bsky.social · 2d

House of Windsor continues its close and friendly association with wealthy sex abuse rings www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Monarch will join Pope Leo XIV at an ecumenical service in Sistine Chapel during visit to the Vatican next month

London developers to be allowed to reduce percentage of affordable homes

Philip Challinor @pchallinor.bsky.social · 2d

Labour is the party of working people who don't need affordable housing www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

Housing secretary and capital’s mayor draw up plans to boost housebuilding, but homelessness charities protest

Actor who played senior police officers on TV and delighted critics with his Falstaff for the English Shakespeare Company

Philip Challinor @pchallinor.bsky.social · 2d

He was a terrific Pontius Pilate in Incident in Judaea, a fine adaptation of the story embedded in Bulgakov's Master and Margarita www.theguardian.com/stage/2025/o...

John Woodvine obituary

Launch of veteran card will be used to test UK government’s digital ID scheme

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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 2d

I appreciate there are conspiratorial theories here, but look: what if it’s just the rat in the cage continuing to dejectedly push the button that used to deliver a little belt of cocaine, and no longer does

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Philip Challinor @pchallinor.bsky.social · 2d

If they can be duped into risking their lives for the likes of Tony Blair, they can be duped into anything www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Ministers hope scheme for 1.8 million people will show how technology works and ease privacy and security concerns

The Curmudgeon: Fashionably Late

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Philip Challinor @pchallinor.bsky.social · 2d

Residents of the northern wastes who can no longer expect a modernised rail system may rejoice that the real people have a brand new clock thecurmudgeonly.blogspot.com/2025/10/fash...

Faulty engineering led to deadly Titan sub implosion, US investigators rule

Philip Challinor @pchallinor.bsky.social · 3d

Corporate buccaneers defying Health and Safety red tape is all very well until some rich people get killed www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

NTSB report finds OceanGate company did not adequately test submersible before 2023 voyage to wreck of Titanic