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#nffc Nottingham Forest |Health Equity Economist | Fair Weather Cyclist | Urban Vineyard hāhi | Faith & Social Justice | Tangata Tiriti | Auckland, Aotearoa | Nicky's husband | Mark's dad
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Nigel Farage publicly promoted cryptocurrency Tether, and then received a massive donation from one of its major investors. The whole thing stinks.

That’s why @LisaSmartMP.bsky.social has written to the electoral commission calling for an urgent investigation. ⬇️
December 8, 2025 at 7:27 PM
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Reform UK councillor Andrew Harrison's business was fined £40,000 for hiring an "illegal immigrant."

Almost like these people are shameless, two faced hypocrites isn't it

www.bbc.com/news/article...
Seaham Reform councillor's firm fined over illegal worker
Durham councillor Andrew Harrison says the worker was legal and he is appealing against the fine.
www.bbc.com
December 8, 2025 at 9:23 PM
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Musk and Trump want a smaller state, for the same reason the Sopranos wanted a smaller police force.
Musk and Trump hate the EU for the same reasons Farage and Putin hate it. It stands for civil rights, the rule of law, and regulation of oligarchs
December 8, 2025 at 10:16 PM
Given Badenock admitted a criminal hacking offense of Harriet Harman in 2008, and is a dual citizen of UK and Nigeria...

Is she proposing to deport herself?

#ukpol #badenoch #Conservatives
December 9, 2025 at 12:08 AM
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Well, that's bye-bye to Sunak and Johnson then.
December 8, 2025 at 10:47 PM
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“In the past year, the largest donors to global health have reduced their spending by nearly 27%, and the report estimates that if such reductions continue or even expand to 30%, an additional 16 million more children (or more) will die of preventable causes by 2045.”
"For the first time in 25 years, child mortality rates for preventable diseases are projected to increase, after having declined for 25 years."

This is the legacy of aid cuts. ~AA

time.com/7338791/chil...
For the First Time This Century, Child Mortality Is Likely to Rise
The latest report from the Gates Foundation predicts an alarming trend for the health of children around the world.
time.com
December 8, 2025 at 1:59 PM
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There's something extra tragic about him putting it on himself
December 7, 2025 at 4:03 PM
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The Trump administration's worldview has always been aligned with Putin's, as was clear to anyone who paid any attention to the statements and actions of its most important members. But this isn't an alignment of equals - the White House is following the Kremlin's lead. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
New US security strategy aligns with Russia's vision, Moscow says
The Kremlin welcomes the starkly worded document, which does not cast Russia as a threat to the US.
www.bbc.co.uk
December 7, 2025 at 5:48 PM
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“Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day. But teach a man how to fish and Pete Hegseth will murder him.”
December 7, 2025 at 7:39 PM
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Church of England & other Christian denominations seek to "confront and resist the capture of Christian language and symbols by populist forces seeking to exploit the faith for their own political ends.”
December 7, 2025 at 7:39 PM
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A study on 1.7 million people in Hong Kong shows superior hybrid immunity to Covid in people who got vaccinated before infection vs. people who got infected first. "Our findings are a direct rebuttal to arguments for natural immunity," the authors write. doi.org/10.1016/j.va...
Redirecting
doi.org
December 6, 2025 at 5:02 PM
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Playing the "Good/bad migrant line helps spread further division and racism.

As @migrantvoice.bsky.social points out in this piece "People do not check what job someone has, or how they arrived, before attacking them".

Labour knows this and just carries on.

www.migrantvoice.org/home/editori...
December 7, 2025 at 8:37 AM
Compare and contrast:

Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, The wretched refuse of your teeming shore. Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me, I lift my lamp beside the golden door!"

Emma Lazarus. Inscribed on the statue of liberty.

#ukpol
This is so disgusting.
December 7, 2025 at 9:07 AM
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My dad abhors any negative comments about immigrants. Asked him recently why he’s so strong on it: ‘Because we’re always happy to take the rich and clever ones. Which means it’s not about disliking immigrants. It’s about disliking the poor and vulnerable. And that’s a bad human instinct.’
This is so disgusting.
December 7, 2025 at 8:31 AM
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These guys are willing to fix elections just because they don’t want to pay competition law fines.
Here is the whole Trump, Brexit, Russia story neatly summed up for you

The battle started about Ukraine, now it’s about big tech monopoly power
December 6, 2025 at 5:40 PM
I agree with Alastair that @therestpolitics.bsky.social should be more concerned that Farrage is a Russian asset but media cut through on his child food racist bullying even has cut through on the opposite side of the world.
December 6, 2025 at 11:48 PM
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The tech oligarchs are the most organised, determined anti democratic force we’ve seen this side of World War II

For way too long this has been ignored, elided and under estimated

What someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time
A Palantir billionaire just called for public hangings.

“It's time to bring back masculine leadership to protect our most vulnerable,” writes Joe Lonsdale.

This is where Silicon Valley authoritarianism is heading:

www.thenerdreich.com/joe-lonsdale...
Joe Lonsdale Calls For Public Hangings
Silicon Valley radicalization escalates
www.thenerdreich.com
December 6, 2025 at 10:03 PM
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Minneapolis stands up to ICE

Minneapolis police chief warns officers: Stop unlawful force by ICE or lose your job

Chief Brian O’Hara says he’ll fire city police officers if they don’t intervene when immigration agents use unlawful force.
www.ms.now/news/minneap...
Minneapolis police chief warns officers: Stop unlawful force by ICE or lose your job
Chief Brian O’Hara says he’ll fire city police officers if they don’t intervene when immigration agents use unlawful force.
www.ms.now
December 6, 2025 at 3:34 AM
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"When there’s no war, you aren’t committing war crimes when you kill people indiscriminately. You’re just a straight-up murderer."
A war criminal without a war
It's just murder.
www.publicnotice.co
December 5, 2025 at 9:57 PM
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The new Nottingham Forest stadium plan is very exciting, but the current ground is a wonderful place.

It's ancient, creaking and run down, but there's magic in its bones and football's soul seeps out of every corner. God I love it.
#NFFC
December 5, 2025 at 10:29 PM
Erica Stanford showing how far National has lost its way

"if schools wish to uphold the treaty as many have reconfirmed their position, then they are free to do so"

The state of that. Damning.

Optional upholding of our founding constitutional agreement. SMH.

#nzpol
December 6, 2025 at 3:00 AM
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It sure looks like Russian intelligence attempted to use military drones to assassinate the President of Ukraine inside an EU country.

Looking forward to more thoughts from Belgium on why freezing Russian assets is an escalatory move that might compromise the peace process.
December 5, 2025 at 9:22 AM
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Zia Yusuf - the unelected multimillionaire policy chief of Reform - makes his fourth Question Time appearance tonight.

The party has five MPs
December 4, 2025 at 9:37 PM
Great example of good journalism giving context

#ukpol #nzpol
As a journalist you’re always looking for ways to sum up the now, but the story is really often more incremental. This is from a Derbyshire county council paper. I was, inevitably, looking for “library to close” or “doge identified £Xm”, but the starting point is at least as important
December 5, 2025 at 5:12 AM
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The fact that a second strike like that in an armed conflict is definitely a war crime should not completely negate the fact that *there is no war* and ALL the strikes are cold-blooded murder. The whole chain of command are murderers.
December 5, 2025 at 1:20 AM