Annie
@aahobbs.bsky.social
So far I’m just reading all the interesting posts of the people Ive followed. Helps me make sense of this complicated, difficult world and also find the joy in it. Thank you for this. I aim to return the favour soon..
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Nigel Farage must never become Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.
December 9, 2025 at 11:28 AM
Nigel Farage must never become Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.
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Because of course Henry had got the full roll call from Dulwich College and of course Trevor Phillips couldn’t even be bothered to read the stories he’s writing about
On a purely factual point, Trevor Phillips’s column in the Times misrepresents our reporting in casting doubts on claims that there were more boys called Patel than Smith at Dulwich in 1980 (we did not report 1976 as the year it occurred). 1980 roll shows 13 Patels and 12 Smiths.
December 8, 2025 at 11:22 AM
Because of course Henry had got the full roll call from Dulwich College and of course Trevor Phillips couldn’t even be bothered to read the stories he’s writing about
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What's behind door No.8️⃣ of the The EightyPercentMental advent calendar? ❄️🌲⛄🎁🧑🏿🎄
It's car salesman and professional gobshite, Andy Elliott, kidnapping your children to make you more productive.... obviously.
Grind culture is toxic. Can we just agree to put it in the bin once and for all?
It's car salesman and professional gobshite, Andy Elliott, kidnapping your children to make you more productive.... obviously.
Grind culture is toxic. Can we just agree to put it in the bin once and for all?
December 8, 2025 at 11:32 AM
What's behind door No.8️⃣ of the The EightyPercentMental advent calendar? ❄️🌲⛄🎁🧑🏿🎄
It's car salesman and professional gobshite, Andy Elliott, kidnapping your children to make you more productive.... obviously.
Grind culture is toxic. Can we just agree to put it in the bin once and for all?
It's car salesman and professional gobshite, Andy Elliott, kidnapping your children to make you more productive.... obviously.
Grind culture is toxic. Can we just agree to put it in the bin once and for all?
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Trevor Phillips’ columns really need a fact checker. Prospect, with a budget rather smaller than the Times, would not have let me be this inaccurate.
On a purely factual point, Trevor Phillips’s column in the Times misrepresents our reporting in casting doubts on claims that there were more boys called Patel than Smith at Dulwich in 1980 (we did not report 1976 as the year it occurred). 1980 roll shows 13 Patels and 12 Smiths.
December 8, 2025 at 11:25 AM
Trevor Phillips’ columns really need a fact checker. Prospect, with a budget rather smaller than the Times, would not have let me be this inaccurate.
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Reform UK denies Nigel Farage broke electoral law.
It follows reports Nigel Farage has been referred to the police over claims he falsified election expenses
It follows reports Nigel Farage has been referred to the police over claims he falsified election expenses
Reform UK denies Nigel Farage broke electoral law
It follows reports Nigel Farage has been referred to the police over claims he falsified election expenses.
news.sky.com
December 8, 2025 at 5:13 AM
Reform UK denies Nigel Farage broke electoral law.
It follows reports Nigel Farage has been referred to the police over claims he falsified election expenses
It follows reports Nigel Farage has been referred to the police over claims he falsified election expenses
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How well did you know Steven Woolfe, the MEP now the subject of CPS interest over Russian Bribes, Nigel?
Oh yes, this well…
#ReformRussianBribes
Oh yes, this well…
#ReformRussianBribes
December 8, 2025 at 5:39 AM
How well did you know Steven Woolfe, the MEP now the subject of CPS interest over Russian Bribes, Nigel?
Oh yes, this well…
#ReformRussianBribes
Oh yes, this well…
#ReformRussianBribes
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Yinka Bankole was 12 when Farage spotted him in the playground:
“He towered over me. ‘Where are you from?’ he asked. Within seconds of offering my rather confused and sputtering answers, he had a clear response: ‘That’s the way back to Africa,’.”
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
“He towered over me. ‘Where are you from?’ he asked. Within seconds of offering my rather confused and sputtering answers, he had a clear response: ‘That’s the way back to Africa,’.”
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Former Dulwich pupil says Farage told him: ‘That’s the way back to Africa’
Exclusive: Yinka Bankole says he felt compelled to speak out after Reform leader’s attempts to ‘dismiss’ hurt of alleged targets
www.theguardian.com
December 6, 2025 at 8:58 PM
Yinka Bankole was 12 when Farage spotted him in the playground:
“He towered over me. ‘Where are you from?’ he asked. Within seconds of offering my rather confused and sputtering answers, he had a clear response: ‘That’s the way back to Africa,’.”
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
“He towered over me. ‘Where are you from?’ he asked. Within seconds of offering my rather confused and sputtering answers, he had a clear response: ‘That’s the way back to Africa,’.”
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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Dear God, let this be the end of it.
Yinka Bankole should never have had to tolerate this. We have to be a better nation than this.
Farage must go.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Yinka Bankole should never have had to tolerate this. We have to be a better nation than this.
Farage must go.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
I’ll never forget the look of hatred Nigel Farage had for me at school, simply for existing
The Reform UK leader doubts people can recall their abuse from years ago. I’ve never forgotten his – it felt malicious
www.theguardian.com
December 5, 2025 at 6:28 PM
Dear God, let this be the end of it.
Yinka Bankole should never have had to tolerate this. We have to be a better nation than this.
Farage must go.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Yinka Bankole should never have had to tolerate this. We have to be a better nation than this.
Farage must go.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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Great work from Elliot today: I so wanted to speak to Yinka Bankole about his (brave!!) decision to go public about Farage's alleged racist attacks. When Elliot told me after we were on air he'd agreed, well I knew it was going to be an interesting morning! A privilege to be working on t'wireless x
December 6, 2025 at 10:46 AM
Great work from Elliot today: I so wanted to speak to Yinka Bankole about his (brave!!) decision to go public about Farage's alleged racist attacks. When Elliot told me after we were on air he'd agreed, well I knew it was going to be an interesting morning! A privilege to be working on t'wireless x
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Yinka Bankole alleges that a 17yr old Farage began a campaign of racial harassment against him when he was a 9yr Dulwich new boy
He explains that Farage’s angry outburst against BBC reporters and attempts to dismiss his victims’ experience, triggered him to speak out. @matthew-wright.bsky.social
He explains that Farage’s angry outburst against BBC reporters and attempts to dismiss his victims’ experience, triggered him to speak out. @matthew-wright.bsky.social
December 6, 2025 at 10:04 AM
Yinka Bankole alleges that a 17yr old Farage began a campaign of racial harassment against him when he was a 9yr Dulwich new boy
He explains that Farage’s angry outburst against BBC reporters and attempts to dismiss his victims’ experience, triggered him to speak out. @matthew-wright.bsky.social
He explains that Farage’s angry outburst against BBC reporters and attempts to dismiss his victims’ experience, triggered him to speak out. @matthew-wright.bsky.social
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EXCLUSIVE - Yinka Bankole compelled to speak out after Reform leader’s attempts to dismiss hurt of alleged targets
Yinka says 17yo Farage targeted him when he had just joined Dulwich at 9 and told him "that's the way back to Africa"
from Dan Boffey, @drblacklock.bsky.social and me
Yinka says 17yo Farage targeted him when he had just joined Dulwich at 9 and told him "that's the way back to Africa"
from Dan Boffey, @drblacklock.bsky.social and me
Former Dulwich college pupil alleges Farage told him ‘that’s the way back to Africa’
Exclusive: Yinka Bankole compelled to speak out after Reform leader’s attempts to dismiss hurt of alleged targets
www.theguardian.com
December 5, 2025 at 5:21 PM
EXCLUSIVE - Yinka Bankole compelled to speak out after Reform leader’s attempts to dismiss hurt of alleged targets
Yinka says 17yo Farage targeted him when he had just joined Dulwich at 9 and told him "that's the way back to Africa"
from Dan Boffey, @drblacklock.bsky.social and me
Yinka says 17yo Farage targeted him when he had just joined Dulwich at 9 and told him "that's the way back to Africa"
from Dan Boffey, @drblacklock.bsky.social and me
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I’ll never forget the look of hatred Nigel Farage had for me at school, simply for existing
Yinka Bankole
Yinka Bankole
I’ll never forget the look of hatred Nigel Farage had for me at school, simply for existing
The Reform UK leader doubts people can recall their abuse from years ago. I’ve never forgotten his – it felt malicious
www.theguardian.com
December 6, 2025 at 6:28 AM
I’ll never forget the look of hatred Nigel Farage had for me at school, simply for existing
Yinka Bankole
Yinka Bankole
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All four public bodies linked to Tees Valley Mayor Ben Houchen have missed a key audit deadline, deepening scrutiny over governance | Peter Morris
Tees Valley misses latest government audit deadline
All four public bodies linked to Tees Valley Mayor Ben Houchen have missed a key audit deadline, deepening scrutiny over governance
northeastbylines.co.uk
December 6, 2025 at 6:51 AM
All four public bodies linked to Tees Valley Mayor Ben Houchen have missed a key audit deadline, deepening scrutiny over governance | Peter Morris
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Liz Truss “I don’t give a fuck! Why should I?”
This is in reference to her getting bashed repeatedly for fucking up the economy…
So basically she doesn’t give a fuck she cost the country billions and made us all poorer via loss in pensions or higher mortgages and rent.
She is a cretin
1/
This is in reference to her getting bashed repeatedly for fucking up the economy…
So basically she doesn’t give a fuck she cost the country billions and made us all poorer via loss in pensions or higher mortgages and rent.
She is a cretin
1/
December 6, 2025 at 9:59 AM
Liz Truss “I don’t give a fuck! Why should I?”
This is in reference to her getting bashed repeatedly for fucking up the economy…
So basically she doesn’t give a fuck she cost the country billions and made us all poorer via loss in pensions or higher mortgages and rent.
She is a cretin
1/
This is in reference to her getting bashed repeatedly for fucking up the economy…
So basically she doesn’t give a fuck she cost the country billions and made us all poorer via loss in pensions or higher mortgages and rent.
She is a cretin
1/
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*Sings* I protect the family
Ancient Animal Advent Day 6! 🪿
Ancient Animal Advent Day 6! 🪿
December 6, 2025 at 10:00 AM
*Sings* I protect the family
Ancient Animal Advent Day 6! 🪿
Ancient Animal Advent Day 6! 🪿
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My tribute to my dad, who passed away last month in the UK.
He was a proud Indian immigrant *and* a proud British citizen.
His life story is one long rebuttal to the nativists, bigots and xenophobes.
He was a proud Indian immigrant *and* a proud British citizen.
His life story is one long rebuttal to the nativists, bigots and xenophobes.
Mehdi Pays Tribute To His Late Father
YouTube video by Zeteo
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December 4, 2025 at 10:51 PM
My tribute to my dad, who passed away last month in the UK.
He was a proud Indian immigrant *and* a proud British citizen.
His life story is one long rebuttal to the nativists, bigots and xenophobes.
He was a proud Indian immigrant *and* a proud British citizen.
His life story is one long rebuttal to the nativists, bigots and xenophobes.
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We look at AI hallucinations—what are they, and are they solvable? Do we respond to the sycophancy of AI? Should there be rules around AI in weapons, and why is that even up for debate? @aiannucci.bsky.social is joined by Stewart Lee and Sarah Wynn-Williams.
opiniontoday.substack.com/i/180690998/...
opiniontoday.substack.com/i/180690998/...
December 5, 2025 at 12:28 AM
We look at AI hallucinations—what are they, and are they solvable? Do we respond to the sycophancy of AI? Should there be rules around AI in weapons, and why is that even up for debate? @aiannucci.bsky.social is joined by Stewart Lee and Sarah Wynn-Williams.
opiniontoday.substack.com/i/180690998/...
opiniontoday.substack.com/i/180690998/...
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If you enjoy a sideways look at the harrowing awfulness of it all, I cannot recommend this week's Strong Message Here highly enough.
December 4, 2025 at 6:47 PM
If you enjoy a sideways look at the harrowing awfulness of it all, I cannot recommend this week's Strong Message Here highly enough.
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Nigel Farage is a vile, thin skinned, little man.
December 5, 2025 at 12:21 PM
Nigel Farage is a vile, thin skinned, little man.
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🔴 Nigel Farage’s Reform is more reliant on super-rich backers than any major party in modern British political history
75% of *all* Reform donations *ever* have come from just three rich men
Is this what democracy looks like?
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democracyforsale.substack.com/p/75-of-refo...
75% of *all* Reform donations *ever* have come from just three rich men
Is this what democracy looks like?
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democracyforsale.substack.com/p/75-of-refo...
75% of Reform UK’s donations have come from just three rich men
Calls grow for donation caps as Democracy for Sale research reveals that three-quarters of Reform’s funding comes from a trio of wealthy donors
democracyforsale.substack.com
December 5, 2025 at 10:55 AM
🔴 Nigel Farage’s Reform is more reliant on super-rich backers than any major party in modern British political history
75% of *all* Reform donations *ever* have come from just three rich men
Is this what democracy looks like?
New on Democracy for Sale
democracyforsale.substack.com/p/75-of-refo...
75% of *all* Reform donations *ever* have come from just three rich men
Is this what democracy looks like?
New on Democracy for Sale
democracyforsale.substack.com/p/75-of-refo...
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Farage would’ve been on Hitler’s side.
Just think about that.
The man who was responsible for not only killing millions of Jews, political opponents, disabled people and homosexuals in Europe.
He is also responsible for killing millions of Brits during the blitz.
He is odds on to be British PM.
Just think about that.
The man who was responsible for not only killing millions of Jews, political opponents, disabled people and homosexuals in Europe.
He is also responsible for killing millions of Brits during the blitz.
He is odds on to be British PM.
December 5, 2025 at 8:35 AM
Farage would’ve been on Hitler’s side.
Just think about that.
The man who was responsible for not only killing millions of Jews, political opponents, disabled people and homosexuals in Europe.
He is also responsible for killing millions of Brits during the blitz.
He is odds on to be British PM.
Just think about that.
The man who was responsible for not only killing millions of Jews, political opponents, disabled people and homosexuals in Europe.
He is also responsible for killing millions of Brits during the blitz.
He is odds on to be British PM.
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Thai-based crypto investor Christopher Harborne, aka Chakrit Sakunkrit, hands unprecedented £9m to Reform UK, after party leader Nigel Farage backed his company and called for deregulation of crypto, telling an industry conference earlier this year “I am your champion.” @adambienkov.bsky.social
Crypto Investor Donates £9 Million to Reform UK as Nigel Farage Plugs His Company and Tells Industry 'I Am Your Champion'
The Reform leader recently used media interviews to back Christopher Harborne's company while promising to cut taxes and regulations on crypto firms
bylinetimes.com
December 4, 2025 at 1:25 PM
Thai-based crypto investor Christopher Harborne, aka Chakrit Sakunkrit, hands unprecedented £9m to Reform UK, after party leader Nigel Farage backed his company and called for deregulation of crypto, telling an industry conference earlier this year “I am your champion.” @adambienkov.bsky.social
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Because, you see, buying influence is only a worry if a Labour peer donates a couple of "freebie" outfits to close friends. When a man, whose business is literally DARK MONEY, single-handedly rescues a near-bankrupt far-right party, leading in the polls, he's doing it because he believes in Nige.
December 4, 2025 at 12:53 PM
Because, you see, buying influence is only a worry if a Labour peer donates a couple of "freebie" outfits to close friends. When a man, whose business is literally DARK MONEY, single-handedly rescues a near-bankrupt far-right party, leading in the polls, he's doing it because he believes in Nige.