The Reform Party now takes cryptocurrency donations. Ireland banned them. The UK welcomes them. And Farage calls it freedom. It’s not. It’s money without accountability – and that’s a threat to democracy, argues Prof Richard Murphy.

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No doubt this de-banking will also be splashed across the front pages of every single newspaper in the country and lead BBC bulletins for weeks on end too? www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

It's not been easy keeping this quiet. I'm so glad we no longer have to. It’s been a delight to work with colleagues and partners at Arnolfini, RWA + Spike Island to get British Art Show 10 to Bristol.

This is good for #Bristol and the city's #arts + #culture.

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Sub tweeting par excellence 👌🏼

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

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People who exclaimed 'no kings' were labeled terrorists in 1775 too.🤷‍♂️

Poor Tommy Robinson. What possible reason could the border police have had for stopping a known criminal who is being investigated by HMRC from taking £13,000 in cash abroad while driving a Bentley that wasn’t his and refusing to answer their questions? It’s an outrage!

A brilliantly observed piece from FT 👇🏽

That New York Times story lots of people are sharing today about Farage's ties to US anti-abortion groups was first reported by @mc00.bsky.social on Byline Times a year ago bylinetimes.com/2024/11/29/n...

“With your patient and rigorous work, you can act as a barrier against those who, through the ancient art of lying, seek to create divisions in order to rule by dividing,” he said. “You can be a bulwark of civility against the quicksand of approximation and post-truth...”

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“More than half of the work done by women in the period between the 16th and 18th centuries took place outside of the home, and around half of all housework and three-quarters of care work was conducted professionally for other households” [England]

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The 400 richest Americans are now worth a record $6.6 trillion.

The entire bottom 50% of America is worth just $4.2 trillion.

Read that back.

When 400 people control more wealth than half a country’s population, we have a very serious problem.

'Of the 202 Nobel laureates in physics, chemistry and medicine this century, less than 70% hail from the country in which they were awarded their prize. The remaining 63 laureates left their country of birth before winning a Nobel prize, sometimes crossing international borders more than once'.

Adelita Grijalva won her election 19 days ago and she still hasn’t been sworn in.

The government has been shut down for 12 days with no end in sight.

They can stall as long as they want but the Epstein files ain’t going away.

Whaaaa?

Oh my. The number of times I've had similar. It's up there with "... you're alright, it's the others ...".

Sorry you've had so much hassle today. Sending good vibes ✨️

For more on Nadia Sass/Borodi's role at the heart of a pan-European Russian influence machine, read more here

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Most people seem to have missed who retweeted this picture of Farage in Gill’s office a few days after Gill began receiving his first bribes from Oleh Voloshyn (Oleg Voloshin). None other than…

But what about all the waste they told us about? What about all the savings DOGE was going to find? What about the promises to cut council tax?
It's almost as if they were just making shit up to fool people, like they did with Brexit.

What a surprise. Bank the money/pay dividends or invest? Investment in renewable loses out every time.

A study in @nature.com shows the world’s biggest oil & gas companies contribute less than 1.5% to renewable energy capacity — despite claiming for years to be leading the energy transition.
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Bravo! And we saw Reform's Zia Yusuf floundering as a result of being taken on.

That's the way Labour could respond too, instead of craven appeasement.

Kudos to Lib Dems too for their response to Reform.

Feels like it's the major parties who are failing voters.

This is very much worth reading by @andrewduffeu.bsky.social . It is not 2016 anymore. The world has changed and so has the EU. Which means that Britain AND EU member States should review their experience of Brexit. verfassungsblog.de/the-case-for...

Yevgenia Berkovich’s poems provided oxygen for those who were gasping for words after Vladimir Putin’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine. 1843 reports how her art struck a nerve with Putin