Amy Mac
@amymc.bsky.social
Here for the latest news thats not curated by legacy media. Oh and the dog pics! 🐾
Ready to join the anti-populist army ;-)
#FBPE #FBPR WokeAF
Ready to join the anti-populist army ;-)
#FBPE #FBPR WokeAF
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Probably the most important but neglected scandal about Mandelson.
Epstein was close to Peter Thiel. Thiel had secret meetings with Cummings and Johnson before Palantir’s 100m contract
Mandelson’s Global Counsel was pitching Thiel’s Palantir to Starmer.
What a carousel of cronyism
Epstein was close to Peter Thiel. Thiel had secret meetings with Cummings and Johnson before Palantir’s 100m contract
Mandelson’s Global Counsel was pitching Thiel’s Palantir to Starmer.
What a carousel of cronyism
September 12, 2025 at 9:34 AM
Probably the most important but neglected scandal about Mandelson.
Epstein was close to Peter Thiel. Thiel had secret meetings with Cummings and Johnson before Palantir’s 100m contract
Mandelson’s Global Counsel was pitching Thiel’s Palantir to Starmer.
What a carousel of cronyism
Epstein was close to Peter Thiel. Thiel had secret meetings with Cummings and Johnson before Palantir’s 100m contract
Mandelson’s Global Counsel was pitching Thiel’s Palantir to Starmer.
What a carousel of cronyism
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🆕 Israel strikes Qatar; Russia goads Poland
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🗣️ Decoding Populism 🗣️
EXCLUSIVE: Huge research into populist methods, funding and voters, with @pimlicat.bsky.social, @sturdyalex.bsky.social and guest @liambyrnemp.bsky.social.
🍊 open.spotify.com/episode/0OXZ...
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🗣️ Decoding Populism 🗣️
EXCLUSIVE: Huge research into populist methods, funding and voters, with @pimlicat.bsky.social, @sturdyalex.bsky.social and guest @liambyrnemp.bsky.social.
🍊 open.spotify.com/episode/0OXZ...
🍏 podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/q...
Decoding Populism
Podcast Episode · Quiet Riot · 11/09/2025 · 1h 4m
podcasts.apple.com
September 11, 2025 at 12:25 PM
🆕 Israel strikes Qatar; Russia goads Poland
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🗣️ Decoding Populism 🗣️
EXCLUSIVE: Huge research into populist methods, funding and voters, with @pimlicat.bsky.social, @sturdyalex.bsky.social and guest @liambyrnemp.bsky.social.
🍊 open.spotify.com/episode/0OXZ...
🍏 podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/q...
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🗣️ Decoding Populism 🗣️
EXCLUSIVE: Huge research into populist methods, funding and voters, with @pimlicat.bsky.social, @sturdyalex.bsky.social and guest @liambyrnemp.bsky.social.
🍊 open.spotify.com/episode/0OXZ...
🍏 podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/q...
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“Who is paying for thousands of flags to go up everywhere? At the moment, we just don’t know. The law around what are called ‘non-political campaigners’ is a joke - especially outside regulated election periods. And so, as a country, we are extremely vulnerable.” @liambyrnemp.bsky.social
🆕 Israel strikes Qatar; Russia goads Poland
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🗣️ Decoding Populism 🗣️
EXCLUSIVE: Huge research into populist methods, funding and voters, with @pimlicat.bsky.social, @sturdyalex.bsky.social and guest @liambyrnemp.bsky.social.
🍊 open.spotify.com/episode/0OXZ...
🍏 podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/q...
+
🗣️ Decoding Populism 🗣️
EXCLUSIVE: Huge research into populist methods, funding and voters, with @pimlicat.bsky.social, @sturdyalex.bsky.social and guest @liambyrnemp.bsky.social.
🍊 open.spotify.com/episode/0OXZ...
🍏 podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/q...
Decoding Populism
Podcast Episode · Quiet Riot · 11/09/2025 · 1h 4m
podcasts.apple.com
September 11, 2025 at 12:35 PM
“Who is paying for thousands of flags to go up everywhere? At the moment, we just don’t know. The law around what are called ‘non-political campaigners’ is a joke - especially outside regulated election periods. And so, as a country, we are extremely vulnerable.” @liambyrnemp.bsky.social
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Nine years ago the godfather of Brexit, Lord Daniel Hannan, predicted life in Brexit Britain in June 2025. Roll the tape…
(VO by @gavinesler.bsky.social. Part 2 below👇)
(VO by @gavinesler.bsky.social. Part 2 below👇)
June 23, 2025 at 6:22 AM
Nine years ago the godfather of Brexit, Lord Daniel Hannan, predicted life in Brexit Britain in June 2025. Roll the tape…
(VO by @gavinesler.bsky.social. Part 2 below👇)
(VO by @gavinesler.bsky.social. Part 2 below👇)
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The verdict, nine years on: “an unambiguous stagnation in investment.”
“A large chunk of [tax rises] would not have been necessary if the UK had voted to remain in the EU or chosen a softer form of Brexit.” ~AA
www.thetimes.com/article/346e... #BrexitMemorial
“A large chunk of [tax rises] would not have been necessary if the UK had voted to remain in the EU or chosen a softer form of Brexit.” ~AA
www.thetimes.com/article/346e... #BrexitMemorial
Predictions of £40bn hit to public finances from Brexit ‘correct’
Office for Budget Responsibility’s forecast of a 4 per cent productivity loss from leaving the EU has been largely borne out, says top economist
www.thetimes.com
June 23, 2025 at 8:43 AM
The verdict, nine years on: “an unambiguous stagnation in investment.”
“A large chunk of [tax rises] would not have been necessary if the UK had voted to remain in the EU or chosen a softer form of Brexit.” ~AA
www.thetimes.com/article/346e... #BrexitMemorial
“A large chunk of [tax rises] would not have been necessary if the UK had voted to remain in the EU or chosen a softer form of Brexit.” ~AA
www.thetimes.com/article/346e... #BrexitMemorial
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All you need to know about Twitter
March 23, 2025 at 7:07 PM
All you need to know about Twitter
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French Senator Claude Malhuret:
"Washington has become Nero’s court, with an incendiary emperor, submissive courtiers and a jester high on ketamine... We were at war with a dictator, we are now at war with a dictator backed by a traitor."
"Washington has become Nero’s court, with an incendiary emperor, submissive courtiers and a jester high on ketamine... We were at war with a dictator, we are now at war with a dictator backed by a traitor."
March 5, 2025 at 3:47 PM
French Senator Claude Malhuret:
"Washington has become Nero’s court, with an incendiary emperor, submissive courtiers and a jester high on ketamine... We were at war with a dictator, we are now at war with a dictator backed by a traitor."
"Washington has become Nero’s court, with an incendiary emperor, submissive courtiers and a jester high on ketamine... We were at war with a dictator, we are now at war with a dictator backed by a traitor."
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🚨 NEW RESEARCH: This is what the Government's been missing in its plan for growth.A boost to UK GDP of up to 2.2%.How can they get it?With deep alignment with the EU on goods & services. Which would be firmly within Starmer’s Brexit ‘red lines’. 1/6
www.thetimes.com/article/8423...
www.thetimes.com/article/8423...
Research claims EU deal will fuel growth — and Labour is listening
A report says Britain can mend some of the economic damage of Brexit without crossing the red lines set by Keir Starmer
www.thetimes.com
February 9, 2025 at 12:15 AM
🚨 NEW RESEARCH: This is what the Government's been missing in its plan for growth.A boost to UK GDP of up to 2.2%.How can they get it?With deep alignment with the EU on goods & services. Which would be firmly within Starmer’s Brexit ‘red lines’. 1/6
www.thetimes.com/article/8423...
www.thetimes.com/article/8423...
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💥 THIS IS MASSIVE 💥
No other policy or infrastructure project estimates this level of GDP growth over the same time period.
It's within Gvt Red Lines.
It's popular with voters, especially Con -> Lab switchers in 2024.
Those who don't support beneficial alignment are the anti growth coalition.
No other policy or infrastructure project estimates this level of GDP growth over the same time period.
It's within Gvt Red Lines.
It's popular with voters, especially Con -> Lab switchers in 2024.
Those who don't support beneficial alignment are the anti growth coalition.
🚨 NEW RESEARCH: This is what the Government's been missing in its plan for growth.A boost to UK GDP of up to 2.2%.How can they get it?With deep alignment with the EU on goods & services. Which would be firmly within Starmer’s Brexit ‘red lines’. 1/6
www.thetimes.com/article/8423...
www.thetimes.com/article/8423...
Research claims EU deal will fuel growth — and Labour is listening
A report says Britain can mend some of the economic damage of Brexit without crossing the red lines set by Keir Starmer
www.thetimes.com
February 9, 2025 at 12:19 AM
💥 THIS IS MASSIVE 💥
No other policy or infrastructure project estimates this level of GDP growth over the same time period.
It's within Gvt Red Lines.
It's popular with voters, especially Con -> Lab switchers in 2024.
Those who don't support beneficial alignment are the anti growth coalition.
No other policy or infrastructure project estimates this level of GDP growth over the same time period.
It's within Gvt Red Lines.
It's popular with voters, especially Con -> Lab switchers in 2024.
Those who don't support beneficial alignment are the anti growth coalition.
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The lies, games and strategy of rich and powerful people. What I learnt at Citibank
www.youtube.com/watch?v=m6lO...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=m6lO...
The lies, games and strategy of rich and powerful people. What I learnt at Citibank
YouTube video by Garys Economics
www.youtube.com
January 30, 2025 at 6:38 PM
The lies, games and strategy of rich and powerful people. What I learnt at Citibank
www.youtube.com/watch?v=m6lO...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=m6lO...
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These Brexit Files are a damning indictment of Tory PMs and Westminster dysfunction
The Brexit report that names the guilty parties.. and why it will be so hard to rejoin
These Brexit Files are a damning indictment of Tory PMs and Westminster dysfunction
www.theneweuropean.co.uk
January 28, 2025 at 5:17 PM
These Brexit Files are a damning indictment of Tory PMs and Westminster dysfunction
Elon Musk is amplifying far-right figures, spreading harmful disinformation, and meddling in UK politics. Let’s stop billionaire interference—join me and sign this @hopenothate.org.uk petition today: secure.hopenothate.org.uk/page/163807/...
Stop Billionaires Meddling in UK Politics ❌
Foreign billionaires like Elon Musk shouldn’t have the power to shape our democracy. Let’s change the law.
secure.hopenothate.org.uk
January 8, 2025 at 9:41 PM
Elon Musk is amplifying far-right figures, spreading harmful disinformation, and meddling in UK politics. Let’s stop billionaire interference—join me and sign this @hopenothate.org.uk petition today: secure.hopenothate.org.uk/page/163807/...
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Tim Stanley, in what now appears to be a weekly slot on one or other BBC flagship politics programme, reels off a huge amount of absolute, provable nonsense about immigration.
And he does so completely unchallenged. Enough now. ~AA
A MEGA-THREAD 🧵1/
And he does so completely unchallenged. Enough now. ~AA
A MEGA-THREAD 🧵1/
November 28, 2024 at 5:07 PM
Please read & share 🙏🏼
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Why do so many feel like they've fallen behind?
It's not because of immigrants, trans people, the “deep state,” or any other bogeyman trotted out by the GOP.
It's because big corporations and billionaires have rigged markets and siphoned off most of the economy's gains
It's not because of immigrants, trans people, the “deep state,” or any other bogeyman trotted out by the GOP.
It's because big corporations and billionaires have rigged markets and siphoned off most of the economy's gains
November 22, 2024 at 4:30 AM
Why do so many feel like they've fallen behind?
It's not because of immigrants, trans people, the “deep state,” or any other bogeyman trotted out by the GOP.
It's because big corporations and billionaires have rigged markets and siphoned off most of the economy's gains
It's not because of immigrants, trans people, the “deep state,” or any other bogeyman trotted out by the GOP.
It's because big corporations and billionaires have rigged markets and siphoned off most of the economy's gains
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Kemi Badenoch at #PMQs: "We had a budget in March this year and tractors were not blockading the streets of Whitehall afterwards."
Here are the tractors blockading the streets of Whitehall in March this year. They were protesting - you really couldn't make this up - Badenoch's trade policies. 😂
Here are the tractors blockading the streets of Whitehall in March this year. They were protesting - you really couldn't make this up - Badenoch's trade policies. 😂
November 27, 2024 at 12:42 PM
Kemi Badenoch at #PMQs: "We had a budget in March this year and tractors were not blockading the streets of Whitehall afterwards."
Here are the tractors blockading the streets of Whitehall in March this year. They were protesting - you really couldn't make this up - Badenoch's trade policies. 😂
Here are the tractors blockading the streets of Whitehall in March this year. They were protesting - you really couldn't make this up - Badenoch's trade policies. 😂
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Dear Prime Minister and Chancellor, it seems you don't understand the reason that benefits cost so much.
Let me explain.
1. Wages are low and we pay firms to keep their wages low by adding in work benefits.
2. Rents are high and we pay landlords to keep rents high by giving them housing benefit.
1/3
Let me explain.
1. Wages are low and we pay firms to keep their wages low by adding in work benefits.
2. Rents are high and we pay landlords to keep rents high by giving them housing benefit.
1/3
November 24, 2024 at 8:18 AM
Dear Prime Minister and Chancellor, it seems you don't understand the reason that benefits cost so much.
Let me explain.
1. Wages are low and we pay firms to keep their wages low by adding in work benefits.
2. Rents are high and we pay landlords to keep rents high by giving them housing benefit.
1/3
Let me explain.
1. Wages are low and we pay firms to keep their wages low by adding in work benefits.
2. Rents are high and we pay landlords to keep rents high by giving them housing benefit.
1/3
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Block ‘em all.
Don’t engage, zero oxygen… just silently block and let them shout into a void of no interest.
Don’t engage, zero oxygen… just silently block and let them shout into a void of no interest.
👇🏼 I rest my case❗️🤷🏼♂️
Farage on #BlueSky brings the same toxic a/cs & Reform bots to support him as on X
One example from his👇🏼”followers”🥴
His first a/c was frozen by @bsky.app moderators I believe so he snuck back & his army of abusive, aggressive right wing a/cs are following to pollute BueSky 🤦🏼♂️
Farage on #BlueSky brings the same toxic a/cs & Reform bots to support him as on X
One example from his👇🏼”followers”🥴
His first a/c was frozen by @bsky.app moderators I believe so he snuck back & his army of abusive, aggressive right wing a/cs are following to pollute BueSky 🤦🏼♂️
November 24, 2024 at 12:54 PM
Block ‘em all.
Don’t engage, zero oxygen… just silently block and let them shout into a void of no interest.
Don’t engage, zero oxygen… just silently block and let them shout into a void of no interest.
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Left: Conservative MP Victoria Atkins, "Farmers feeling betrayed.. Labour is socialist.. I've never known farmers this angry"
Right: Sky New report the Save British Farming protest earlier this year, where farmers drove tractors into London protesting against the Conservative government's policies
Right: Sky New report the Save British Farming protest earlier this year, where farmers drove tractors into London protesting against the Conservative government's policies
November 19, 2024 at 2:11 PM
Left: Conservative MP Victoria Atkins, "Farmers feeling betrayed.. Labour is socialist.. I've never known farmers this angry"
Right: Sky New report the Save British Farming protest earlier this year, where farmers drove tractors into London protesting against the Conservative government's policies
Right: Sky New report the Save British Farming protest earlier this year, where farmers drove tractors into London protesting against the Conservative government's policies
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Big day for reasoned debate on farms/inheritance today - a debate undermined by @BBCNews repeatedly and wrongly reporting as fact that “farms worth more than £1m would have to pay inheritance tax”. This is just flatly wrong in vast vast majority of cases
November 19, 2024 at 9:28 AM
Big day for reasoned debate on farms/inheritance today - a debate undermined by @BBCNews repeatedly and wrongly reporting as fact that “farms worth more than £1m would have to pay inheritance tax”. This is just flatly wrong in vast vast majority of cases
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What gets to me most is that the UK government enabled foreign states to loot our essential infrastructure, milking it for profit and leaving it in ruins. Those states must think we're insane.
The Chinese government would never let us walk in and seize its assets. But we've let it do just that.
The Chinese government would never let us walk in and seize its assets. But we've let it do just that.
How privatisation works (and Thames Water is just the latest example).
1. A government takes a national asset built up with taxpayers' money and the work of public servants over many years, and hands it, for a fraction of its value, to a private company.
2. In doing so, it creates a monopoly.
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1. A government takes a national asset built up with taxpayers' money and the work of public servants over many years, and hands it, for a fraction of its value, to a private company.
2. In doing so, it creates a monopoly.
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November 19, 2024 at 10:22 AM
What gets to me most is that the UK government enabled foreign states to loot our essential infrastructure, milking it for profit and leaving it in ruins. Those states must think we're insane.
The Chinese government would never let us walk in and seize its assets. But we've let it do just that.
The Chinese government would never let us walk in and seize its assets. But we've let it do just that.
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I don’t understand why the government has not put out a stronger narrative about farmers and inheritance tax. They seem to be letting farmers have a free run at it.
November 19, 2024 at 11:07 AM
I don’t understand why the government has not put out a stronger narrative about farmers and inheritance tax. They seem to be letting farmers have a free run at it.
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Only the richest 4% of people pay Inheritance Tax.
Only the richest 1.5% of farmers will pay HALF Inheritance Tax spread over 10 years.
This is a protest funded by the obscenely wealthy who want to pay no tax at all.
Only the richest 1.5% of farmers will pay HALF Inheritance Tax spread over 10 years.
This is a protest funded by the obscenely wealthy who want to pay no tax at all.
November 17, 2024 at 4:34 PM
Only the richest 4% of people pay Inheritance Tax.
Only the richest 1.5% of farmers will pay HALF Inheritance Tax spread over 10 years.
This is a protest funded by the obscenely wealthy who want to pay no tax at all.
Only the richest 1.5% of farmers will pay HALF Inheritance Tax spread over 10 years.
This is a protest funded by the obscenely wealthy who want to pay no tax at all.
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Now that I've fled Leon's site for bluer skies, I'm sure I'll be called an #Ex-X, but personally, I'll always consider myself a #TwitterQuitter.
November 18, 2024 at 11:01 PM
Now that I've fled Leon's site for bluer skies, I'm sure I'll be called an #Ex-X, but personally, I'll always consider myself a #TwitterQuitter.
Yes please ⬇️
🔴Public Demands Starmer Resurrects Leveson Press Corruption Inquiry Amid Collapse in Trust in UK Media
The mother of late TV presenter Caroline Flack calls for Starmer to “find the courage” to take on newspaper owners and restart the inquiry
bylinetimes.com/2024/11/12/p...
The mother of late TV presenter Caroline Flack calls for Starmer to “find the courage” to take on newspaper owners and restart the inquiry
bylinetimes.com/2024/11/12/p...
Public Demands Starmer Resurrects Leveson Press Corruption Inquiry Amid Collapse in Trust in UK Media
The mother of late TV presenter Caroline Flack calls for Starmer to "find the courage" to restart it as exclusive new YouGov polling finds public wants reform
bylinetimes.com
November 18, 2024 at 9:25 PM
Yes please ⬇️