Victoria Drummond
@victoriadrumm0nd.bsky.social
Reader, gardener, traveller, Glaswegian, pro European, socialist,
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Sometimes the dots just join themselves.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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Three more Farage bloc MEPs alleged to have followed Russian asset’s script
At least eight MEPs elected for Ukip or Brexit party now known to have been focus of efforts by jailed Nathan Gill
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December 7, 2025 at 5:37 PM
Sometimes the dots just join themselves.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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December 2, 2025 at 5:22 PM
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By Clay Bennett of the Chattanooga Times Free Press:
December 2, 2025 at 5:31 PM
By Clay Bennett of the Chattanooga Times Free Press:
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My great-uncle was born in the Russian Empire and wrote God Bless America
Rep. Kat Cammarck: "Today, one in six people in the US is foreign born. That quite frankly is not sustainable to maintain a culture that we are known for here in the United States."
December 2, 2025 at 5:18 PM
My great-uncle was born in the Russian Empire and wrote God Bless America
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One of the four elements of malignant narcissism is sadism.
December 2, 2025 at 2:26 PM
One of the four elements of malignant narcissism is sadism.
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December 2, 2025 at 8:48 AM
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Nigel Farage has spent £1m taking out adverts in the papers to distract from the Nathan Gill Russian bribe scandal.
We can't let him buy himself out of this. We need an investigation into Russian influence in our politics.
We can't let him buy himself out of this. We need an investigation into Russian influence in our politics.
November 27, 2025 at 12:30 PM
Nigel Farage has spent £1m taking out adverts in the papers to distract from the Nathan Gill Russian bribe scandal.
We can't let him buy himself out of this. We need an investigation into Russian influence in our politics.
We can't let him buy himself out of this. We need an investigation into Russian influence in our politics.
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The Conservative Party - standing up for the hard of thinking
November 28, 2025 at 2:34 PM
The Conservative Party - standing up for the hard of thinking
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Anyway from now on we can all legitimately call Reform the "Black Shirts" - given they're flogging them to their actual members.
What an own goal!
Geddit?
What an own goal!
Geddit?
It takes a special kind of right-wing British political party to literally sell black shirts.
Are you going to tell them?
Or shall I?
Are you going to tell them?
Or shall I?
November 28, 2025 at 5:18 PM
Anyway from now on we can all legitimately call Reform the "Black Shirts" - given they're flogging them to their actual members.
What an own goal!
Geddit?
What an own goal!
Geddit?
Runrig (on loch lomond)
Hootie and the Blowfish
The Proclaimers (opened by my then boyfriends band Vagrant at the barrowlands)
The Dixie Chicks. Twice.
Hootie and the Blowfish
The Proclaimers (opened by my then boyfriends band Vagrant at the barrowlands)
The Dixie Chicks. Twice.
Introduce yourself with 5 concerts you have seen
Genesis
Elbow
Kate Rusby
Oh My God! It's the Church
Gogol Bordello
Genesis
Elbow
Kate Rusby
Oh My God! It's the Church
Gogol Bordello
Introduce yourself with 5 concerts you have seen
Spirit
Meatloaf
Steve Miller Band
Blue Oyster Cult
Blondie
Spirit
Meatloaf
Steve Miller Band
Blue Oyster Cult
Blondie
November 27, 2025 at 11:11 PM
Runrig (on loch lomond)
Hootie and the Blowfish
The Proclaimers (opened by my then boyfriends band Vagrant at the barrowlands)
The Dixie Chicks. Twice.
Hootie and the Blowfish
The Proclaimers (opened by my then boyfriends band Vagrant at the barrowlands)
The Dixie Chicks. Twice.
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🚨BREXIT BUDGET🚨
Daisy Cooper MP: "There is a £90 billion hit to treasury income as a result of the Brexit deal."
"Brexit has been a disaster for our country. It has been a disaster for our economy."
Daisy Cooper MP: "There is a £90 billion hit to treasury income as a result of the Brexit deal."
"Brexit has been a disaster for our country. It has been a disaster for our economy."
November 26, 2025 at 7:15 PM
🚨BREXIT BUDGET🚨
Daisy Cooper MP: "There is a £90 billion hit to treasury income as a result of the Brexit deal."
"Brexit has been a disaster for our country. It has been a disaster for our economy."
Daisy Cooper MP: "There is a £90 billion hit to treasury income as a result of the Brexit deal."
"Brexit has been a disaster for our country. It has been a disaster for our economy."
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The Trump administration effectively says that no one should ever work with Americans during wartime; that our promises mean nothing, our word is dust, and we will throw our allies under the bus the moment we want.
In any future armed conflict, who would ever trust us again?
In any future armed conflict, who would ever trust us again?
CIA statement about the Afghan man identified as the gunman who shot two National Guardsmen in Washington
November 27, 2025 at 6:44 PM
The Trump administration effectively says that no one should ever work with Americans during wartime; that our promises mean nothing, our word is dust, and we will throw our allies under the bus the moment we want.
In any future armed conflict, who would ever trust us again?
In any future armed conflict, who would ever trust us again?
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@tracyquannyc.bsky.social this is basically my dad’s trajectory (b. 1936 d. 2018).
November 27, 2025 at 10:09 PM
@tracyquannyc.bsky.social this is basically my dad’s trajectory (b. 1936 d. 2018).
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![Andy Field, 61, an NHS doctor who said he
knew Farage well because they took the
same train to school, has similarly clear
memories.
"When I became a prefect, he [Farage] said,
Tll show you how to do it,' claimed Field,.
"He took me for a walk up to the lower
school playground, where all the children
from about nine years old to 12 would be.
And he singled out, completely at random, a
kid of Asian extraction, and just put him in
detention for no reason whatsoever. I was
flabbergasted, absolutely stunned. I was just
disgusted, really. No rhyme or reason, just
purely based on the colour of his skin.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:5mqpgxjffcckasqv7h6g7itu/bafkreifwa2hlzevsllsekm44ne6yprkgrfhwryxxclupy3cz2qqj42sxma@jpeg)
November 18, 2025 at 3:30 PM
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Image from outside the Broadview, Illinois ICE detention center, taken September 26.
November 25, 2025 at 5:30 PM
Image from outside the Broadview, Illinois ICE detention center, taken September 26.
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I wish I didn’t have to share this. But the BBC has decided to censor my first Reith Lecture.
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
November 25, 2025 at 9:26 AM
I wish I didn’t have to share this. But the BBC has decided to censor my first Reith Lecture.
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
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Virgin on the ridiculous! Govt may let some British Overseas Territories keep secret the register of the real owners of companies widely used for tax evasion bit.ly/48jM38r
UK accused of caving-in to British Virgin Islands over access to companies register
Parliamentary group urges government to clamp down on overseas territories before flagship anti-corruption summit
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November 25, 2025 at 7:43 PM
Virgin on the ridiculous! Govt may let some British Overseas Territories keep secret the register of the real owners of companies widely used for tax evasion bit.ly/48jM38r
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Don’t believe Nigel Farage’s denials. He targeted me for being Jewish – and it hurt | Peter Ettedgui
Don’t believe Nigel Farage’s denials. He targeted me for being Jewish – and it hurt | Peter Ettedgui
Now that my former classmate has finally spoken about the allegations of his behaviour at school, I feel compelled to address his points directly, says Peter Ettedgui, a film director and producer
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November 25, 2025 at 8:09 PM
Don’t believe Nigel Farage’s denials. He targeted me for being Jewish – and it hurt | Peter Ettedgui
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Meanwhile... we could have seen this coming:
Medical bodies warn that hostility towards migrants is behind a 26% rise in departures that imperils NHS
> Overseas-trained doctors leaving the UK in record numbers
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
Medical bodies warn that hostility towards migrants is behind a 26% rise in departures that imperils NHS
> Overseas-trained doctors leaving the UK in record numbers
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
Overseas-trained doctors leaving the UK in record numbers
Medical bodies warn that hostility towards migrants is behind a 26% rise in departures last year that imperils NHS
www.theguardian.com
November 21, 2025 at 9:09 AM
Meanwhile... we could have seen this coming:
Medical bodies warn that hostility towards migrants is behind a 26% rise in departures that imperils NHS
> Overseas-trained doctors leaving the UK in record numbers
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
Medical bodies warn that hostility towards migrants is behind a 26% rise in departures that imperils NHS
> Overseas-trained doctors leaving the UK in record numbers
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
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Gove has been an extremely poisonous influence on our politics. Undermining expert consensus on Brexit [had enough of experts, etc] and lying his way through the whole process in the aftermath of the Referendum. A travesty that he is on this panel of judges assessing political writing.
I’m a past winner of the Orwell Prize & won partly because I exposed Vote Leave’s unlawful activities.
Michael Gove was its co-convener & refused to answer a single q. He’s now a judge of the prize & our world is truly one that Orwell would recognise
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Michael Gove was its co-convener & refused to answer a single q. He’s now a judge of the prize & our world is truly one that Orwell would recognise
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Michael Gove Made Orwell Prize Judge Despite Record of Attacking Journalists and Dodging Scrutiny
Critics say "Orwell would have enjoyed the irony" of the former Conservative minister's appointment
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November 25, 2025 at 7:00 PM
Gove has been an extremely poisonous influence on our politics. Undermining expert consensus on Brexit [had enough of experts, etc] and lying his way through the whole process in the aftermath of the Referendum. A travesty that he is on this panel of judges assessing political writing.
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Ukraine relations get even more chaotic. Two factions - Kushner/Witkoff and Vance/Driscoll - are both freelancing to set US policy: cutting out the State Dept, pushing Ukraine to surrender, then leaking to press to claim they are official. Why? Putin is desperate and has called in his assets. A 🧵 1/
November 25, 2025 at 6:34 PM
Ukraine relations get even more chaotic. Two factions - Kushner/Witkoff and Vance/Driscoll - are both freelancing to set US policy: cutting out the State Dept, pushing Ukraine to surrender, then leaking to press to claim they are official. Why? Putin is desperate and has called in his assets. A 🧵 1/
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This is called “chain refoulment” and it’s illegal under both U.S. and international law. And the State Department and ICE know very well what Ghana is doing and simply don’t care.
ICE deported a woman who owned a home in the US for 30 years. A judge banned ICE from deporting her to Sierra Leone where she had been tortured, so it deported her to Ghana, which kidnapped her and sent her back Sierra Leone anyway. ICE is part of this illegal conspiracy.
November 25, 2025 at 7:30 PM
This is called “chain refoulment” and it’s illegal under both U.S. and international law. And the State Department and ICE know very well what Ghana is doing and simply don’t care.
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Three more school contemporaries who claim to have witnessed Nigel Farage’s alleged teenage racism have rejected the Reform UK leader’s suggestion that it was “banter”, describing it as targeted, persistent and nasty.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Three more ex-pupils at school with Nigel Farage reject ‘banter’ claims
Exclusive: Dulwich college contemporaries ‘rubbish’ Reform UK leader’s suggestion alleged racist taunts not intended to hurt
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November 25, 2025 at 9:13 PM
Three more school contemporaries who claim to have witnessed Nigel Farage’s alleged teenage racism have rejected the Reform UK leader’s suggestion that it was “banter”, describing it as targeted, persistent and nasty.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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Northumberland Reform councillor ordered to pay £38,000 debt to his own council
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Northumberland Reform councillor ordered to pay £38,000 debt to his own council
Barry Elliott, a Reform councillor in the Blyth ward of Newsham, appeared in court on Tuesday in relation to more than £38,000 worth of council tax and business rates owed to Northumberland County Cou...
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November 25, 2025 at 7:47 PM
Northumberland Reform councillor ordered to pay £38,000 debt to his own council
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