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ray 鄺羡華 @raykwong.bsky.social · 1d

Good morning and happy Saturday to everyone. The same guy who told you COVID was a hoax just got his updated booster and didn't win the Nobel Peace Prize.

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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 1d

Did Farage ever sue the Mail on Sunday?

This threat was issued in June 2025, but I can find no further reference to events after that.

Zelenskyy: Farage is infected with the virus of putin

Farage on twitter threatening to sue the Mail on Sunday

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thommo79.bsky.social @thommo79.bsky.social · 21h

All the hate and division in this country is down to Farage, the man who gave us Brexit, also UKip, The Brexit party and now Reform UK all the while making himself richer.

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James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 3d

I sometimes worry I exaggerate the collective madness of our media but the people who cheered Brexit, Boris Johnson & Liz Truss's mini-budget are now applauding Kemi Badenoch's speech. 'Parallell universe' doesn't come close. I suppose her not falling over is a win of sorts for them at the moment.

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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 2d

Private Eye offers up an excellently scornful commentary on the relentless polling. It’s become ridiculous and has oversimplified our politics to dangerous levels of stupid and irresponsible.

SHOCK POLL:
NIGEL FARAGE WILL BE PM TOMORROW
IN an amazing poll conducted
by The Pointless Polling Company, it was revealed that voters' intentions
may well change over the next three and a half years and at present it's 100 percent impossible to guess what the next government might look like.
However, 99 percent of journalists
agree that it would be much more fun if we had an election tomorrow and everybody resigned and everything was chaos and Farage had a go at being PM, just for the hell of it, because it was so much fun when
Brexit happened and then the government kept falling every five minutes and we could write endless pieces about (cont. p94)

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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 2d

Lets make different political choices says Zack Polanski.

Like taxing billionaires instead of blaming poor people.

#bbcqt

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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 3d

What qualifies Kate Middleton to co author with Prof Robert Waldinger from Harvard Medical School on the subject of screentime and smartphones?

Her degree is in art history and her career was spent working for a clothing company.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Kate warns too much screen time damages family life

The Princess of Wales says that smartphones and digital devices are causing an

www.bbc.co.uk

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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 11d

“That Brexit has made control of immigration more difficult, damaged our economy and weakened opportunities for future generations should make people think twice before putting Brexit's chief proponent in charge of running the country”

Times letters: a lonely oasis of sanity in the far right storm.

Differing political definitions of patriotism

3 of the 6 letters (4th quoted in the post) criticising Phillips 😊

Sir, Melanie Phillips expresses a very specific and slightly odd definition of patriotism as "love for the Crown, the armed forces and the common law, and attachment to faith, family and flag" ("Sorry Keir, you don't understand patriotism",
, comment, Sep 30). Perhaps that is why she concludes that Nigel Farage offers “the only patriotic force on the horizon". Personally, I regard
someone who had a very direct hand in diminishing the United Kingdom's
GDP by 4 per cent — as a direct result of our leaving the European Union — as confirming Samuel
Johnson's much-quoted remark that
"Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel". Acts rather than words
still count for some of us.
Shaun Leavey
Sherborne, Dorset

Sir, Over thousands of years these islands have been invaded and occupied by various tribes, who, at any given moment, represented some kind of "Englishness".
"In 300 years'
time there might well be another kind of "Englishness", doubtless defending itself from the incursion of escapees from another foreign disaster, and claiming a threat to its purity". We were never pure, and attempts such as the present one to somehow freeze a manufactured notion of "Englishness" are doomed to failure.
Jerry Stuart
London SEI

Sir, There is a fundamental flaw in Melanie Phillips's article. She talks of British patriotism as "attachment to faith, family and flag".
°. She doesn't
indicate which faith she is referring to, but presumably means the Christian faith as the traditional faith in Britain. However, the faith of Jesus of Nazareth shares much more common ground with the values she seems to dismiss - decency, reasonableness and compassion - than it does with the militarism and flag-waving she seems to endorse. I surely cannot be the only person getting worried when the Christian faith is conscripted into the support of strident nationalism.
The Rev Paul Dowling

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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 18d

Donald Trump had all the world leaders at the UN who were forced to listen to him for an hour.

And what he ranted on about was the Nobel Peace Prize he never got, White Replacement theory, Green Energy is evil, 7 wars he made up and London has Sharia Law

What an embarrassment

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George Conway 👊🇺🇸🔥 @gtconway.bsky.social · 18d

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James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 19d

I generally rate Chris Mason but it would make things easier for all if Robbie Gibb - Brexiter & Theresa May’s director of comms at Number 10 - were not still a non-executive director of the BBC. Everything he touches turns to shit. Including, at the moment, a lot of the Beeb’s political journalism.

Henry Mance @henrymance.ft.com · 19d

There should be a high bar for politicians attacking the media, but maybe Ed Davey has half a point here?

For example, the first three paragraphs of this BBC story repeat Reform's £243bn figure without saying that the thinktank behind the estimate now disowns it. (This is mentioned in paragraph 35)

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Peter Geoghegan @petergeoghegan.bsky.social · 23d

The main story on BBC 6 Music News this morning is that a ‘boat carrying migrants is on its way to France’

Delivered in the same upbeat tone as England winning the women’s Euros.

The migration ‘debate’ in this country is unmoored from reality, and the media-political complex is feeding it

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Warren Oates @warrenoates1.bsky.social · 24d

A clear reminder that Farage and Reform are NOT on the side of the tens of millions of working people in this country, nor their families.

A vote for Reform is a vote to scap all these rights and more.

(Image posted by the Labour Party on Instagram today)

www.instagram.com/p/DOtnIaziETO/

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Judd Legum @juddlegum.bsky.social · 27d

Charlie Kirk was a champion of free speech and anyone who says otherwise will be fired

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 27d

The 400 richest Americans are now worth a record $6.6 trillion, after getting $1.2 trillion richer over the past year alone.

Meanwhile, the rest of the country is getting squeezed by tariffs and high prices for groceries, utilities, and health care.

The system is broken.

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Warren Oates @warrenoates1.bsky.social · 26d

More than £1.1 billion is to be invested in the UK's coastal towns and cities.

Consisting of £448m from the government and £700m private funding it will help businesses and academia develop real-life technology that reduces carbon emissions from shipping, which also supports coastal communities.

More than £1.1 billion investment to boost growth, jobs and skills in UK’s coastal towns and cities

Funding will help businesses and academia develop real-life technology that reduces carbon emissions from shipping.

www.gov.uk

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James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 27d

“I can either confront & own the consequences of every policy I’ve supported & every leader I’ve cheered for, or I can pretend they had nothing to do with me & become Nigel Farage’s slipper-warmer. No contest.”

Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 27d

"If you've had enough of politicians, if you don't trust Westminster, join us."

What a revolting, cynical statement for a man who was an MP of the party that ruled for 14 years until five minutes ago - and David Cameron's speech writer before that.

What contempt for voters. ~AA

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Pete Buttigieg @petebuttigieg.bsky.social · 26d

Right now there's a clear and obvious relationship between social media and anti-social behavior, and we cannot go on like this.

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David Zinn @davidzinn.bsky.social · Sep 12

The emergence of Ron and his ladybug staring contest:

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thommo79.bsky.social @thommo79.bsky.social · 29d

If you think that Starmer and Reeves are bad then you've forgotten the last 14yrs of the worst government in my lifetime.

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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 29d

The people marching in London today are very obviously the ideological descendants of the Mosleyite BUF fascists of the 1930s.

The mainstream news and media are too timid to point it out, but that's what they are - and we normalise it at our peril.

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Rural Freedom Network @ruralfreedomnet.bsky.social · Sep 12

Charlie Kirk’s death was honored while Dem former Minnesota House Speaker Melissa Hortman and her husband were killed in Brooklyn Park, and Senator John Hoffman and his wife were left injured just miles away (and not honored by Trumpstein). Selective mourning is how democracy erodes in plain sight.

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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · Sep 11

Lisa Murkowski is beyond pathetic.

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · Sep 12

“We got him!”

Really? That’s the line?

His father turned him in.

You received him.

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Reform Party UK Exposed @reformexposed.bsky.social · Sep 9

Reform UK Councillors

Mandy Clare arrested for assault and criminal damage

Sam Journet arrested for stalking and harassment

Daniel Taylor arrested for threatening to kill his wife

Andy Osborn police probe over malicious election comments

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