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Steve Peers @stevepeers.bsky.social · 7h

Farage partner involved in fraud investigation
www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...

Nigel Farage’s partner embroiled in Brussels fraud investigation

Laure Ferrari’s Eurosceptic group was at the centre of fraud scandal that led to ongoing criminal case

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Peter Jukes @peterjukes.bsky.social · 18h

Britain’s Media Has Let Nigel Farage Reshape Political Journalism. Why? @jamesbloodworth.bsky.social subscribe.bylinetimes.com/edition/79/b...

Britain’s Media Has Let Nigel Farage Reshape Political Journalism. Why? – Byline Times Digital / Print Edition

The Reform UK Leader’s rise is not an aberration but the predictable consequence of an industry that has restructured itself around virality, writes James Bloodworth

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Marcus @gerowen.bsky.social · 21h

Headline: Hackers Dox Hundreds of #DHS, #ICE, #FBI, and #DOJ Officials

Subtitle: Scattered #LAPSUS$ Hunters—posted the apparent phone numbers and addresses of hundreds of government officials, including nearly 700 from DHS.

Source: www.404media.co/hackers-dox-...

#Security #Privacy

Hackers Dox Hundreds of DHS, ICE, FBI, and DOJ Officials

Scattered LAPSUS$ Hunters—one of the latest amalgamations of typically young, reckless, and English-speaking hackers—posted the apparent phone numbers and addresses of hundreds of government officials...

www.404media.co

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Alistair Barrie @alistairbarrie.com · 21h

Literally the rhetoric that saw Enoch Powell lose his job amidst overwhelming cross-party condemnation FIFTY-SEVEN years ago, and yet this expatriate immigrant gets to pontificate in a national newspaper from a country where strict Islamic law actually does remain in place.

Do better Britain. FFS.

Roland Smith @rolandmcs.bsky.social · 22h

Mind how you go...

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Tom Foale @tfoale.bsky.social · 22h

I have a suggestion. Create an online economic game based on the current UK economy that people can play with, based on system dynamics, with good visualisation. Offer a reward for the person that can best optimise the model economy for growth. It will PROVE that wealth redistribution works.

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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 23h

UK economic growth model is fatally flawed.

It assumes that rising inequalities and impoverishing the masses will lead to economic growth.

Squeezed low/middle income households lack resources, can't aid growth.

The next budget needs to be judged on how it helps the bottom 50% of people.

Rachel Reeves’ budget must reduce inequalities and increase spending capacity of the masses

This is how to secure sustained economic growth

leftfootforward.org

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Robin Ince @robinince.bsky.social · 22h

I know I’ve mentioned it before - but there is so often a coyness about talking about the predators close to the monarchy - Mountbatten, Laurens Van Der Post, Peter Ball, Jimmy Savile - such danger in deference

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The palace's decision to strip Andrew of his titles in direct response to Virginia's posthumous testimony is a long-overdue and heartbreakingly unfair confirmation that those in power believe her story to be credible. They always did. Fuck them for waiting until she was dead to say so.
It gives a whole new meaning to "don't ever trust a woman until she's dead and buried."
Thinking of her family and all survivors
today

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Mueller, She Wrote @muellershewrote.com · 1d

The trump regime is setting up official agency accounts here on BlueSky, and they’re dragging their MAGA trolls with them. Block liberally.

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Matt Steinglass @mattsteinglass.bsky.social · 22h

“The offensive has come at an enormous cost: our meta-estimate suggests over 100,000 Russian soldiers have died in the war this year.” The quiescence of Russian society in the face of the meaningless slaughter of their men is horrifying.

Russia's latest big Ukraine offensive gains next to nothing, again

Hundreds of thousands of Vladimir Putin's troops are losing their lives for barely any land

economist.com

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Tom Foale @tfoale.bsky.social · 1d

www.imperial.ac.uk/news/269913/...

Poorer health linked to more votes for Reform UK in England | Imperial News | Imperial College London

Poor health, particularly respiratory conditions, is linked to a higher proportion of votes for Reform UK in England.

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Reuters @reuters.com · 8d

'When authoritarians seize power, it is crucial to recognize courageous defenders of freedom who rise and resist,' the Norwegian Nobel Committee said as it announced Maria Corina Machado as the winner of the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize

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Anton Gerashchenko @antongerashchenko.bsky.social · 3d

I'd like to share a brilliant example of the asymmetrical warfare that has achieved astonishing results for Ukraine: about $12 billion destroyed Russian equipment.

Pavlo "Lasar" Yelizarov used to be a TV-show producer before the full-scale invasion. In February 2022, he started defending Ukraine.

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Daily Herald #FBPE #NAFO @dailyherald.bsky.social · 3d

The Conservatives failed to build the homes families in Britain desperately need.

Where the Tories blocked, this Labour Government is ripping away barriers to house building to put the key to home ownership in your hand.

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Tom Foale @tfoale.bsky.social · 3d

Tiny Tommeh Ten-Names?

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Adam Posen @adamposen.bsky.social · 9d

Global growth holds up despite policy headwinds and rising risks - New blog by Karen Dynan
Latest global economic propsects from @piie.com

www.piie.com/blogs/realti...

Global growth holds up despite policy headwinds and rising risks

The global economy is growing more strongly than expected this year, despite rising trade tensions and high uncertainty around US economic policy. Optimism about artificial intelligence (AI), particul...

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Tom Foale @tfoale.bsky.social · 3d

Remember, this is from a person who was dumb enough to join Reform, so I doubt their idea of “talented” aligns with anyone’s that is actually talented. It probably means “good at shouting at hotels”.
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Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 3d

Carole Malone, "Youu can't say what women's rights are because you're not a woman"

Zack Polanski, "You're not trans are you. We can all say you're not that thing so you can't have an opinion" 🔥

"You can still have an opinion from listening to people"

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Tom Foale @tfoale.bsky.social · 3d

You have to firstly educate and secondly use human nature. Read “Nudge” by Thaler and Sunstein and “Liars and Outliers” by Bruce Schneier. Make it in people’s self-interest to do what’s best for everyone.

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Tom Foale @tfoale.bsky.social · 3d

Even their own local party leaders are getting disillusioned.

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Brendan May @brendanmay.bsky.social · 3d

If you are watching the Reform Party controlled Councils with their endless mishaps, resignations, fallouts, scandals, mismanagement and sheer comedic idiocy, but still thinking of making these clowns a national government, representing the UK on the global stage, you are literally insane.

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Matt Burgess (WIRED) @mattburgess1.bsky.social · 4d

New from @agreenberg.bsky.social and me: For three years, security researchers pointed a satellite at the sky and found highly sensitive data being sent unencrypted

They found: calls and texts on T-Mobile’s network; military info from the US and Mexico; in-flight Wi-Fi browsing, and a lot more

Satellites Are Leaking the World’s Secrets: Calls, Texts, Military and Corporate Data

With just $800 in basic equipment, researchers found a stunning variety of data—including thousands of T-Mobile users’ calls and texts and even US military communications—sent by satellites unencrypte...

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Christine N HfE (no DMs) @christinevn-hfe.bsky.social · 3d

Please buy and read the Monthly Byline Times .Good journalists telling you the stories that MSM deliberately ignore! Owned by its subscribers not Fascist Billionaires!

Peter Jukes @peterjukes.bsky.social · 3d

The new edition of @bylinetimes.bsky.social goes to the printers tomorrow.

And we go where others fear to tread…

Subscribe by tonight and you’ll get it delivered to your door

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Tom Foale @tfoale.bsky.social · 3d

The myths? “Taxpayer’s money”, “national debt”, “balanced budget”, capitalism is bad, business is over-regulated, “there’s no such thing as society”, taxes are bad, the wealthy are wealth creators, and so on.

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Tom Foale @tfoale.bsky.social · 3d

I’m writing a book on rational government - based on very fundamental mathematical proofs, evidence and comparative economics. There are simple solutions - but first I have to destroy the over-simplistic mythologies that are political ideologies.

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Tom Foale @tfoale.bsky.social · 3d

Well, hopefully one day people will be educated enough that rational government becomes the popular choice - and it’s a fact that the more educated they are, the more people are likely to vote either Liberal or Green.

Reality has a well-known liberal bias - Stephen Colbert.

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