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beardedgenius.bsky.social
I am speechless
November 28, 2025 at 1:47 PM
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carolecadwalla.bsky.social
Read this.

A scrappy indie outlet standing up to Farage’s bullyboy lawyers in a way that should shame better-funded outlets
November 28, 2025 at 12:49 PM
shakeystephens.bsky.social
Morning
potomato.bsky.social Tom @potomato.bsky.social · 11h
First time cooking my own Thanksgiving dinner, turned out great! Roasted chicken thighs, garlic butter green beans, mashed potatoes and gravy, and dinner rolls! Happy Thanksgiving!
November 28, 2025 at 7:37 AM
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adambienkov.bsky.social
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
shakeystephens.bsky.social
November 27, 2025 at 9:19 PM
shakeystephens.bsky.social
Introduce yourself with 5 acts you've seen

Underworld
Dreadzone
Stone Roses
Sugarbabes
Human League
northernmailman.bsky.social Nick J. Brown @northernmailman.bsky.social · 22h
Introduce yourself with 5 acts you've seen

The Fall
Iggy & The Stooges
Bob Dylan
Happy Mondays
Mulligan and O’Hare
blumphy.bsky.social Philip @blumphy.bsky.social · 23h
Introduce yourself with 5 acts you've seen

Pixies
The Lovely Eggs
The Smiths
TOT
Edward Barton
November 27, 2025 at 8:31 PM
shakeystephens.bsky.social
Fucking hell
November 27, 2025 at 8:18 PM
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allymcgovern.bsky.social
Having watch child poverty rise like a slow-motion car crash since the two-child limit was introduced, sat in meetings up and down the country, in foodbanks, in schools, to work out how to get child poverty down, the idea that this undoing this policy is 'PLP management' is a joke.
samfr.bsky.social Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 1d
It's such a bizarre framing. Labour MPs think taking 450k kids out of poverty is putting the country first! That's why they wanted it to happen! It's not because they personally benefit.
robertsaunders.bsky.social Robert Saunders @robertsaunders.bsky.social · 1d
Headline on The World at One just now:

"Sir Keir Starmer has denied putting the Labour Party before the country by ending the two-child benefit cap".

Can we please go back to reporting the actual news, not someone's partisan take on it?
November 27, 2025 at 6:32 PM
shakeystephens.bsky.social
But of course the majority of journalists don't care

Journalism in this country is the problem
jessicaelgot.bsky.social Jessica Elgot @jessicaelgot.bsky.social · 1d
Worth pointing out that this is a direct breach of the manifesto
jessicaelgot.bsky.social Jessica Elgot @jessicaelgot.bsky.social · 1d
NEW - the government poised to water down flagship workers rights bill, ditching day one rights to unfair dismissal but reducing qualifying period from two years to six months.

But in concession to unions, government will remove provisions for up to nine months probation.
November 27, 2025 at 7:05 PM
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jessicaelgot.bsky.social
Worth pointing out that this is a direct breach of the manifesto
jessicaelgot.bsky.social Jessica Elgot @jessicaelgot.bsky.social · 1d
NEW - the government poised to water down flagship workers rights bill, ditching day one rights to unfair dismissal but reducing qualifying period from two years to six months.

But in concession to unions, government will remove provisions for up to nine months probation.
November 27, 2025 at 5:23 PM
shakeystephens.bsky.social
It's possible and reasonable to ask for evidence and then change your mind once that evidence is provided
November 27, 2025 at 6:57 PM
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yakhunt.net
You know what I think about people in £2 million pound houses whining about lifting children out of poverty?

They're cunts.
November 27, 2025 at 6:54 PM
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amjadkhan.bsky.social
If you have used a racist term and need somone with backward views to defend you, Nigel Farage is your man.
snig.bsky.social Snigdha @snig.bsky.social · 1d
Nigel Farage asked about Reform MS Laura Anne Jones (who the Senedd Commissioner found had used a racist term in a staff WhatsApp chat in August 2023 while discussing TikTok writing: “No chinky spies for me.”)
"Well, she used a word that colloquially, probably was meant in a nice way 20 years ago."
November 27, 2025 at 11:25 AM
shakeystephens.bsky.social
Going back to twitter just for this shit
November 27, 2025 at 6:14 PM
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localnotail.bsky.social
May 2014, the Charles formerly known as Prince said privately that by invading Ukraine and occupying Crimea, Putin was doing "just about the same thing as Hitler"

Nigel Farage was outraged by this statement, saying it wasn't fair on the Russian President

huffingtonpost.co.uk/2014/05/21/u...
composite image of two Huffpost headlines, one above the other NEWS CRIMEA UK NEWS PRINCE CHARLES Prince Charles Compares Vladimir Putin's Actions To Adolf Hitler POLITICS RUSSIA UKIP UK NEWS Prince Charles Wrong To Criticise Vladimir Putin, Says Nigel Farage s/s from link Nigel Farage: "Prince Charles has made those comments. I know some people feel that way about Putin. I think there’s a difference and the difference, I think, is that right from the very start Hitler was expansionist and we haven’t seen much evidence of that until now from Putin and arguably what’s happened in the Ukraine is because he’s been poked with a stick by the rest of the world." Farage was widely criticised in March after he said the Russian president was the world leader he most admired. He told GQ Magazine that he was a fan of Putin as "an operator" if not as a human being. "The way he played the whole Syria thing. Brilliant. Not that I approve of him politically," he said.
March 1, 2025 at 7:00 PM
shakeystephens.bsky.social
Going to be absolute carnage
November 27, 2025 at 5:02 PM
shakeystephens.bsky.social
Fuck all of them

When that's done fuck them some more
November 27, 2025 at 4:41 PM
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paulbernal.bsky.social
Immigration is finally becoming a real problem, after being a phantom menace for decades.

It’s a problem because we have too little immigration now, and it’s going to get worse.
sundersays.bsky.social Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 1d
New net migration figures at 930am.

Net migration fell half a million to 344,000 in 2024 from 848k in 2023

56% of people think it went up last year
17% think stayed the same
14% think it went down

2025 figure to be lower again
16% expect that
38% think it will be up
31% about the same
November 27, 2025 at 11:41 AM
shakeystephens.bsky.social
For 10 years I used my season ticket for about half the games, nobody was bothered then
November 27, 2025 at 11:05 AM
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mrjamesob.bsky.social
November 27, 2025 at 9:07 AM
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sarahowen.org.uk
I know who Nus Ghani MP is - not because we always agree - but because she’s been serving her constituency (as well as lewks) since 2015.

Who the hell is Lucy White?!

Ah, a quick google search reveals her as a rentagob for GB ‘news.’

I know which one is qualified to chair the budget debate.
November 26, 2025 at 10:31 PM
shakeystephens.bsky.social
No i don't want to read your political sketch or substack
November 26, 2025 at 7:57 PM
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mobymooby.bsky.social
Alleged use of the N-word here is from 1997 when Farage would have been 33 years old and at a time when there was no doubt that terms like this were highly racist.

I don’t think the ‘banter’ excuse would hold up here either.
snig.bsky.social Snigdha @snig.bsky.social · Oct 1
May 2014, The Guardian reports that UKIP founder Alan Sked was told by Nigel Farage not to worry about the "N vote" and that the "n*g-nogs" will never vote for UKIP.
www.theguardian.com/politics/201...
But those changes alone don't make 2014 Ukip racist, do they? "The de facto leader of Ukip since 1999 has been a racist political failure," Sked counters. He means, of course, Nigel Farage. But even if Farage's recent statements about not wanting to live next door to Romanians suggest he is xenophobic, is there any proof he was racist when he and Sked worked together in the mid-1990s? Sked laughs at the question and recalls an incident from 1997 when the two men were arguing over the kind of candidates that Ukip should have standing at the looming general election. "He wanted ex-National Front candidates to run and I said, 'I'm not sure about that,' and he said, 'There's no need to worry about the nigger vote. The nig-nogs will never vote for us."
November 26, 2025 at 7:31 PM
shakeystephens.bsky.social
Glad to see the BBC are talking to the worst hit www.bbc.com/news/article...
'We make £100,000. The cut to cash Isa limit is a big blow'
BBC News hears from people with a range of incomes about what they think of the Budget.
www.bbc.com
November 26, 2025 at 7:28 PM
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snig.bsky.social
Nigel Farage has been a lifelong racist. He's been a racist since his school days. David Lammy was forced to apologise for saying Farage flirted with the Hitler Youth - but what do you call it when someone sings Hitler Youth songs? Read Chloe Deakin's letter on Farage's fascism and racism at school.
From Chloe Denkin 01-734 1717 and 1778 E3 ALBANY PICCADILLY WIV ORH 4th June 1981 Dear Master, I am happy to say that I am not acquainted with N. P. Farage, of ASRY happy, because judging from hereporis i haveter ceived he is not someone with whom I would wish to be acquainted; and becaure I am, therefore, able to write on the ground of no personal prejedice, but on that conceraing p. inciple. You will recati that at the recent, and longthy, moeting about the selection of prefects, the nomads by a hegy that Sara was "a fascist, but that was no reason why ho would not make a good prefect" invoked considerable reaction from members of the Common Room. Another collesgue, who teaches the boy, des-cribed his publicly professed racist and neo-fascist views; and he citod a particular inciler in which Farage was so offensive to a boy in his set, that he had to be removed from the lesson. This mastor stated his view that that behaviour was precisely why the boy should not he made a prefect. Yet another colleague deseribed how, at a CCE camp organized by the College, Farage and others had marched through a quiet Sussex village very late at night shout-in Hitler-you songs; and when it was suggested by a master thie boys who expressed such views "don't really mean them", the College Chaplain himself commented that, on the contrary, in his experience views of that kind expressed by boys of that age are onted, and are mennt, At the end of that meeting I had not a scintilla of doubt that after the facts disclosed to you, Farage's nomination would no longer be considered. Nor, I imagine, had my colleagues; other-wise, we would have expressed ourselves even more strongly. But yesterday I was told by a senior boy, in terms of st that Farage was indeed to be selected; and today, of course, his appointment was announced in Assembly an announcement, I gather, which was met with disbelief and derision. To say that is too late to reverse this decision, or that Farage', acdir 3 will be restricted to particular areas of College te, or that he will be supervised within them, is futile. His appointment will have four immediate consequences. First, it will vastly increase his own confidence, and sense of self-justification. Secondly, he will have the privilege of listing his appointment as a profect at Dulwich College in his uni-versity and other applications. Thirdly, his peers, according to their own views, will either adopt him as an exemplar, or, as is much more likely, regard his appointment with disillusionment and cynicism when Ley observe that his notorious views and behaviour, well known to poth Master and members of the staff, are, as it would aptent, condoned by them. Fourthly, those members of the Common Room, such as myself, who believed that a firm daca fon had been reached through a democratic process, will be shock, saddened, angered, and disheartened. You will appreciate that I regard this as a very serious matter. i have often heard you tell our senior boys that they are the nation's future leaders. It is our collective responsibility to ensure that these lenders are enlightened and compassionate. As you know, the national and educational press has recently given much prominence to the growing concern at the exploitation of school pupils by extremists of all kinds. A school of the stature and high roputation of Dulwich College which openly con-domned the recent troubles in Brixton, and offered its facilities freely to the foreca of law and order, ought not to be seen laside or outside its confines to be giving its endorsement, expressly or by implication, to budding extremists of the opposite kind. A school which is proud of its selectiveness, conservatism, and discipline, cught not to allow these characteristics to degen erate into intolerance, political extremism, or bullying of the nastiest kind, in its pupils. The matter of the appointment of Farage as a prefect may be thought by some to be minuscule against these deep considerations. It is not so. I am by disposition, tolerant; and in politics, moderate. But as a member of the Common Room, I find it distasteful that a boy such as Farage should have bestowed upon him the prestige of office and authority: wore I a parent or a pupil, I would find it profoundly so. In view, as I am aware, of the wide concern within the College about this matter, I am sending a copy of this letter to the chairman of the Common Room. Yours very sincerely, David Emms, Esq., MA, The Master of Dulwich College.
October 1, 2025 at 9:00 AM