Francis Chubb
@francischubb.bsky.social
Lawyer and Liberal Democrat 🔶 (pic is earlier guise, Berlin 1989. Because I’m an optimist really)
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Seven years ago yesterday, this ad ran during the Super Bowl.
'Democracy Dies in Darkness': Super Bowl commercial (2019)
YouTube video by Washington Post
www.youtube.com
February 4, 2026 at 2:28 PM
Seven years ago yesterday, this ad ran during the Super Bowl.
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Do you hear that, coming from Nigel Farage? An unfamiliar sound: silence.
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@theleaduk.bsky.social
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@theleaduk.bsky.social
Reform UK’s silence on Epstein speaks volumes
A politics that claims to defend women while refusing to confront the systems that harm them is not about protection. It's about strategy.
open.substack.com
February 3, 2026 at 2:11 PM
Do you hear that, coming from Nigel Farage? An unfamiliar sound: silence.
open.substack.com/pub/theleadu...
@theleaduk.bsky.social
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@theleaduk.bsky.social
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🚨🚨Given current situation and with the sharply deteriorating situation in #trumpland, I think it is unwise, imprudent and just a very bad idea for the EU to go ahead with plans to grant #US border authorities unprecedented access to Europeans’ data. 🧵
www.politico.eu/article/eu-m...
www.politico.eu/article/eu-m...
EU plan to share data with US border force sparks surveillance fears
Washington is demanding access to sensitive data as ICE heightens fears in Europe.
www.politico.eu
February 4, 2026 at 7:53 AM
🚨🚨Given current situation and with the sharply deteriorating situation in #trumpland, I think it is unwise, imprudent and just a very bad idea for the EU to go ahead with plans to grant #US border authorities unprecedented access to Europeans’ data. 🧵
www.politico.eu/article/eu-m...
www.politico.eu/article/eu-m...
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Anyone in UK please sign this petition
www.change.org/p/urge-natio...
www.change.org/p/urge-natio...
Sign the Petition
Urge national football teams to boycott the World Cup
www.change.org
January 24, 2026 at 9:38 PM
Anyone in UK please sign this petition
www.change.org/p/urge-natio...
www.change.org/p/urge-natio...
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Now the UK’s data watchdog has opened an investigation into Musk.
Coordinated with the French action?
Coordinated with the French action?
UK privacy watchdog opens inquiry into X over Grok AI sexual deepfakes
Information Commissioner’s Office to investigate whether Elon Musk’s companies have complied with data protection law
www.theguardian.com
February 3, 2026 at 12:36 PM
Now the UK’s data watchdog has opened an investigation into Musk.
Coordinated with the French action?
Coordinated with the French action?
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Tomorrow we are in the High Court suing Reform for breaching data processing rules. We think it's really quite important. 👇
Farage’s Reform is collecting your data: here’s why | Good Law Project
Reform is harvesting your data, and ignoring people when they get in touch – so we’re taking them to court
goodlaw.social
February 3, 2026 at 12:00 PM
Tomorrow we are in the High Court suing Reform for breaching data processing rules. We think it's really quite important. 👇
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February 3, 2026 at 1:21 PM
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Russia carried out a massive aerial assault on Ukraine, launching 450 one-way attack drones and 71 ballistic and cruise missiles. The strikes damaged energy infrastructure across the country. 1/
February 3, 2026 at 1:27 PM
Russia carried out a massive aerial assault on Ukraine, launching 450 one-way attack drones and 71 ballistic and cruise missiles. The strikes damaged energy infrastructure across the country. 1/
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The US could be solving this problem. We are letting Russia kill, injure, and harm people. Enabling massive human suffering — a cold winter without heat and water — is wrong in itself and will not lead to peace.
⚡️Ukraine warns its air defense systems are running out of missiles as Russia ramps up massive high-intensity strikes.
“Certain Systems Are Left Empty”: Ukrainian Official Warns of Critical Air Defense Missile Gaps
Ukraine is experiencing a critical missile shortage for its air defense systems, highlighting the need for urgent support against Russian attacks.
united24media.com
February 2, 2026 at 2:20 PM
The US could be solving this problem. We are letting Russia kill, injure, and harm people. Enabling massive human suffering — a cold winter without heat and water — is wrong in itself and will not lead to peace.
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Polish Foreign Minister Sikorski:
Russian aggression against Ukraine&Russia's hybrid war against Europe continue unabated.
Putin still believes he can win.
Any misunderstanding within the transatlantic family encourages him to explore our weaknesses and fosters the Kremlin's criminal endeavours.
Russian aggression against Ukraine&Russia's hybrid war against Europe continue unabated.
Putin still believes he can win.
Any misunderstanding within the transatlantic family encourages him to explore our weaknesses and fosters the Kremlin's criminal endeavours.
February 2, 2026 at 2:21 PM
Polish Foreign Minister Sikorski:
Russian aggression against Ukraine&Russia's hybrid war against Europe continue unabated.
Putin still believes he can win.
Any misunderstanding within the transatlantic family encourages him to explore our weaknesses and fosters the Kremlin's criminal endeavours.
Russian aggression against Ukraine&Russia's hybrid war against Europe continue unabated.
Putin still believes he can win.
Any misunderstanding within the transatlantic family encourages him to explore our weaknesses and fosters the Kremlin's criminal endeavours.
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Explosive from @faisalislam.bsky.social about that call that did take place with Dimon and Darling.
February 2, 2026 at 2:21 PM
Explosive from @faisalislam.bsky.social about that call that did take place with Dimon and Darling.
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Whoa…talk about an Insiders’ Game
Explosive from @faisalislam.bsky.social about that call that did take place with Dimon and Darling.
February 2, 2026 at 2:24 PM
Whoa…talk about an Insiders’ Game
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In Springfield, Ohio, people are preparing in advance of a “large deportation” promised by the president. To all appearances, the city is two or three days from a federal ethnic cleansing, grounded in a hate campaign organized by the vice-president and American Nazis.
February 1, 2026 at 5:21 PM
In Springfield, Ohio, people are preparing in advance of a “large deportation” promised by the president. To all appearances, the city is two or three days from a federal ethnic cleansing, grounded in a hate campaign organized by the vice-president and American Nazis.
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Russia has shifted its attacks from energy infrastructure to Ukraine’s transportation arteries, striking highways and railways critical to both civilian travel and military logistics, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said on Monday.
www.ft.com/content/83ef...
www.ft.com/content/83ef...
Russia shifts focus to Ukraine’s transport routes
Deadly ‘double-tap’ strike on bus carrying Ukrainian miners highlights Moscow’s new tactic
www.ft.com
February 2, 2026 at 2:14 PM
Russia has shifted its attacks from energy infrastructure to Ukraine’s transportation arteries, striking highways and railways critical to both civilian travel and military logistics, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said on Monday.
www.ft.com/content/83ef...
www.ft.com/content/83ef...
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A Russian "double tap" drone attack that killed 12 people on a bus carrying workers home from their mining shift on Sunday marked “the single largest loss of life of DTEK employees since Russia’s full-scale invasion,” said its CEO Maxim Timchenko.
www.ft.com/content/83ef...
www.ft.com/content/83ef...
Russia shifts focus to Ukraine’s transport routes
Deadly ‘double-tap’ strike on bus carrying Ukrainian miners highlights Moscow’s new tactic
www.ft.com
February 2, 2026 at 2:16 PM
A Russian "double tap" drone attack that killed 12 people on a bus carrying workers home from their mining shift on Sunday marked “the single largest loss of life of DTEK employees since Russia’s full-scale invasion,” said its CEO Maxim Timchenko.
www.ft.com/content/83ef...
www.ft.com/content/83ef...
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I was a White House ethics lawyer.
I used to advise people not to even accept a free cup of coffee from someone who had interests before them. And staff followed those rules.
I can’t even find the words to describe the scale of Trump’s corruption here.
I used to advise people not to even accept a free cup of coffee from someone who had interests before them. And staff followed those rules.
I can’t even find the words to describe the scale of Trump’s corruption here.
Foreign countries are bribing our president to sell out the American people.
Trump family businesses made $187 MILLION from this deal, and just months later he gave the UAE some of our most top-secret AI tech.
They are selling our national security to the highest bidder.
Trump family businesses made $187 MILLION from this deal, and just months later he gave the UAE some of our most top-secret AI tech.
They are selling our national security to the highest bidder.
February 2, 2026 at 7:28 AM
I was a White House ethics lawyer.
I used to advise people not to even accept a free cup of coffee from someone who had interests before them. And staff followed those rules.
I can’t even find the words to describe the scale of Trump’s corruption here.
I used to advise people not to even accept a free cup of coffee from someone who had interests before them. And staff followed those rules.
I can’t even find the words to describe the scale of Trump’s corruption here.
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It's rare to see how lobbyists operate. But the Epstein-Mandelson correspondence shows us what happens all the time: plutocrats and government ministers conspiring against the public interest. This is why all lobbying should be in the public domain, but despite Labour and Con promises, it's not. 🧵
February 2, 2026 at 8:20 AM
It's rare to see how lobbyists operate. But the Epstein-Mandelson correspondence shows us what happens all the time: plutocrats and government ministers conspiring against the public interest. This is why all lobbying should be in the public domain, but despite Labour and Con promises, it's not. 🧵
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Hannah’s infectious positivity making hope normal again.
The more I watch this from Hannah Spencer, two things happen:
1. The more I like it and her.
2. The more it makes me want to get out and do what she says by volunteering.
... I'm surprisingly moved by 2, as I can physically feel it breaking through the armour of scepticism I've built around myself.
1. The more I like it and her.
2. The more it makes me want to get out and do what she says by volunteering.
... I'm surprisingly moved by 2, as I can physically feel it breaking through the armour of scepticism I've built around myself.
February 2, 2026 at 7:46 AM
Hannah’s infectious positivity making hope normal again.
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Stick it on a billboard.
Bannon bragging he has control of the far right across Europe. Including Nigel Farage.
#EpsteinFiles
#EpsteinFiles
February 2, 2026 at 7:22 AM
Stick it on a billboard.
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"A president who doesn’t care about the law, who commands an obedient Congress and is supported by a radicalized base of tens of millions of people who believe his lies, represents a threat to the next election. I fear that millions of citizens are still too complacent."
Opinion | This Is Not a Drill
www.nytimes.com
February 1, 2026 at 9:41 PM
"A president who doesn’t care about the law, who commands an obedient Congress and is supported by a radicalized base of tens of millions of people who believe his lies, represents a threat to the next election. I fear that millions of citizens are still too complacent."
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Pregnant woman shot in the stomach with a rubber bullet at an anti ICE protest:
"She's losing her baby"
Come on America, don't normalise this type of violence
"She's losing her baby"
Come on America, don't normalise this type of violence
February 1, 2026 at 9:47 PM
Pregnant woman shot in the stomach with a rubber bullet at an anti ICE protest:
"She's losing her baby"
Come on America, don't normalise this type of violence
"She's losing her baby"
Come on America, don't normalise this type of violence
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Today Bulgaria marks Communist Regime Victims day. OTD in 1945, dozens of politicians and intellectuals were executed on death sentences handed by an ad hoc, extra-constitutional "People's Court". The court delivered ~10K sentences for fascism/Nazi collaboration. They deserved it, you'd think, but..
February 1, 2026 at 9:52 PM
Today Bulgaria marks Communist Regime Victims day. OTD in 1945, dozens of politicians and intellectuals were executed on death sentences handed by an ad hoc, extra-constitutional "People's Court". The court delivered ~10K sentences for fascism/Nazi collaboration. They deserved it, you'd think, but..
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Mandelson was a minister in 🇬🇧 Gov and he was advising a convicted 🇺🇸 US sex offender that a fellow 🇬🇧 cabinet minister, now dead Alistair Darling, should be “mildly threatened” not to tax banker’s bonuses.
Unthinkable that he can be a law maker.
Unthinkable that he can be a law maker.
Extraordinary: Mandelson told Epstein that JP Morgan should "threaten" then cabinet colleague and chancellor Alistair Darling over tax on bankers' bonuses. In plain language: "Minister conspired with US bank against own government".
More brilliant FT reporting
www.ft.com/content/91e8...
More brilliant FT reporting
www.ft.com/content/91e8...
Mandelson told Epstein JPMorgan should ‘threaten’ UK government over banker tax
Then business secretary advised sex offender on how Jamie Dimon should lobby chancellor
www.ft.com
February 1, 2026 at 6:52 PM
Mandelson was a minister in 🇬🇧 Gov and he was advising a convicted 🇺🇸 US sex offender that a fellow 🇬🇧 cabinet minister, now dead Alistair Darling, should be “mildly threatened” not to tax banker’s bonuses.
Unthinkable that he can be a law maker.
Unthinkable that he can be a law maker.
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While Labour drifts into Reform-lite rhetoric, the Lib Dems are the only ones having a grown-up conversation.
The best deterrent we could have is having a competent immigration system.
The best deterrent we could have is having a competent immigration system.
February 1, 2026 at 5:01 PM
While Labour drifts into Reform-lite rhetoric, the Lib Dems are the only ones having a grown-up conversation.
The best deterrent we could have is having a competent immigration system.
The best deterrent we could have is having a competent immigration system.