Lorraine Rogerson
@lorrainerogerson.bsky.social
Trying to make it make sense.
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The only reason Gill stopped being the Reform UK leader in Wales was because he failed to win a seat in the 2021 Senedd election.
Zia Yusuf keeps trying to make this sound like this is ancient history, and Reform washed their hands of him, but nothing is further from the truth.
Zia Yusuf keeps trying to make this sound like this is ancient history, and Reform washed their hands of him, but nothing is further from the truth.
November 24, 2025 at 9:55 AM
The only reason Gill stopped being the Reform UK leader in Wales was because he failed to win a seat in the 2021 Senedd election.
Zia Yusuf keeps trying to make this sound like this is ancient history, and Reform washed their hands of him, but nothing is further from the truth.
Zia Yusuf keeps trying to make this sound like this is ancient history, and Reform washed their hands of him, but nothing is further from the truth.
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We talk of refusing unlawful orders, but really that's a very high bar. It's only for orders that are manifestly unlawful, something *obviously* illegal on the face of it. And the core example of that is refusing an order to wantonly murder noncombatants, which is exactly what they are doing.
Oddly enough, in media coverage of Dems' video warning against carrying out illegal orders, there's very little discussion of *whether it's actually reasonable to fear Trump is giving illegal commands or not.*
The evidence is strong that he is. Media should say so:
newrepublic.com/article/2035...
The evidence is strong that he is. Media should say so:
newrepublic.com/article/2035...
November 23, 2025 at 7:41 PM
We talk of refusing unlawful orders, but really that's a very high bar. It's only for orders that are manifestly unlawful, something *obviously* illegal on the face of it. And the core example of that is refusing an order to wantonly murder noncombatants, which is exactly what they are doing.
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🚨 BREAKING: Kent County Council is hurtling towards financial oblivion under Reform.
A shocking new council report reveals a projected budget black hole of £46.5 million for this year. The Reform Administration has completely lost control of our finances. 🔶
A shocking new council report reveals a projected budget black hole of £46.5 million for this year. The Reform Administration has completely lost control of our finances. 🔶
November 19, 2025 at 11:46 AM
🚨 BREAKING: Kent County Council is hurtling towards financial oblivion under Reform.
A shocking new council report reveals a projected budget black hole of £46.5 million for this year. The Reform Administration has completely lost control of our finances. 🔶
A shocking new council report reveals a projected budget black hole of £46.5 million for this year. The Reform Administration has completely lost control of our finances. 🔶
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The most ludicrous thing about this policy is that Farage is saying he would achieve it via UK-EU negotiations. The numbers are wrong, but it is a slogan
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Reform plans to strip EU citizens of benefit rights, says Farage
Leader Nigel Farage says his party would renegotiate the Brexit deal struck by the Tory government.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 18, 2025 at 7:00 PM
The most ludicrous thing about this policy is that Farage is saying he would achieve it via UK-EU negotiations. The numbers are wrong, but it is a slogan
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Trump defends Saudi crown prince over Khashoggi killing: says “things happen”
Here’s ‘those things:’
He was attacked, subdued, tied up, then murdered and sawed into little pieces. Right there, in the embassy they lured him to. apple.news/A6AWylCbYT9e...
Here’s ‘those things:’
He was attacked, subdued, tied up, then murdered and sawed into little pieces. Right there, in the embassy they lured him to. apple.news/A6AWylCbYT9e...
Trump defends Saudi crown prince over Khashoggi killing — The Washington Post
The de facto Saudi ruler was branded a pariah in 2018 after the killing of Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi. Now, U.S.-Saudi relations are approaching a high point.
apple.news
November 18, 2025 at 7:06 PM
Trump defends Saudi crown prince over Khashoggi killing: says “things happen”
Here’s ‘those things:’
He was attacked, subdued, tied up, then murdered and sawed into little pieces. Right there, in the embassy they lured him to. apple.news/A6AWylCbYT9e...
Here’s ‘those things:’
He was attacked, subdued, tied up, then murdered and sawed into little pieces. Right there, in the embassy they lured him to. apple.news/A6AWylCbYT9e...
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Coverage of the refugee proposals demonstrates why we have such a broken political system. Endless focus on left-wing anger and right-wing support. Basically nothing on whether the reforms will work. They will not, which is why we'll still be here having the same debate in three years.
November 18, 2025 at 8:41 AM
Coverage of the refugee proposals demonstrates why we have such a broken political system. Endless focus on left-wing anger and right-wing support. Basically nothing on whether the reforms will work. They will not, which is why we'll still be here having the same debate in three years.
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"The UK is rash to imagine it can, in isolation, pick and choose its alliances around the globe. It is geographically part of Europe."
"More Europe, not less Europe, is in the best interests of all the peoples of the continent, including of course the UK and Scotland."
https://bit.ly/485lgN4
"More Europe, not less Europe, is in the best interests of all the peoples of the continent, including of course the UK and Scotland."
https://bit.ly/485lgN4
In this new Age of Empires, why UK must choose Europe over isolation
Most of the UK’s economic problems since Brexit would have been avoided if it had stayed in the European Single Market and Customs Union and it’s time to move closer to the EU, writes former Belgian P...
www.scotsman.com
November 16, 2025 at 6:44 PM
"The UK is rash to imagine it can, in isolation, pick and choose its alliances around the globe. It is geographically part of Europe."
"More Europe, not less Europe, is in the best interests of all the peoples of the continent, including of course the UK and Scotland."
https://bit.ly/485lgN4
"More Europe, not less Europe, is in the best interests of all the peoples of the continent, including of course the UK and Scotland."
https://bit.ly/485lgN4
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Almost without exception, such 'patriots' loathe everything that actually makes Britain a great country and long for a smaller country, with narrower horizons, and a meaner future, based on a version of the past that never existed.
November 16, 2025 at 7:30 AM
Almost without exception, such 'patriots' loathe everything that actually makes Britain a great country and long for a smaller country, with narrower horizons, and a meaner future, based on a version of the past that never existed.
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I used to live near the Coppermills water treatment plant that is apparently central to London's water supplies and frankly it is terrifying that an obviously ageing facility run by a failing company with poor access is so crucial www.ft.com/content/97e4...
Single fault at Thames Water works could imperil London’s supply
Coppermills plant, which serves up to 4mn people, underscores scale of the challenge for troubled utility
www.ft.com
November 14, 2025 at 5:50 PM
I used to live near the Coppermills water treatment plant that is apparently central to London's water supplies and frankly it is terrifying that an obviously ageing facility run by a failing company with poor access is so crucial www.ft.com/content/97e4...
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Forgive me if I'm wrong, I can't think of a single politician who campaigned hard for Brexit who has since come out and said that they think it was a mistake. Surely, in their heart of hearts, literally one or two of them must know that. So is it that they can't admit it to themselves or just to us?
November 14, 2025 at 5:29 PM
Forgive me if I'm wrong, I can't think of a single politician who campaigned hard for Brexit who has since come out and said that they think it was a mistake. Surely, in their heart of hearts, literally one or two of them must know that. So is it that they can't admit it to themselves or just to us?
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I spoke to Mr. Kingsbury for this week’s column:
“Every day there’s a new horror. And I don’t know how to process it unless I write.”
www.cjr.org/laurels-and-...
“Every day there’s a new horror. And I don’t know how to process it unless I write.”
www.cjr.org/laurels-and-...
November 14, 2025 at 12:04 PM
I spoke to Mr. Kingsbury for this week’s column:
“Every day there’s a new horror. And I don’t know how to process it unless I write.”
www.cjr.org/laurels-and-...
“Every day there’s a new horror. And I don’t know how to process it unless I write.”
www.cjr.org/laurels-and-...
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Two stories you may not have seen this week that would be a big deal in a normal country:
1) The ‘dossier’ detailing the BBC’s editing of the Trump speech literally edited Trump’s speech.
2) The NBER calculated that Brexit’s longer term damage to GDP was greater than originally forecast.
1) The ‘dossier’ detailing the BBC’s editing of the Trump speech literally edited Trump’s speech.
2) The NBER calculated that Brexit’s longer term damage to GDP was greater than originally forecast.
November 14, 2025 at 3:35 PM
Two stories you may not have seen this week that would be a big deal in a normal country:
1) The ‘dossier’ detailing the BBC’s editing of the Trump speech literally edited Trump’s speech.
2) The NBER calculated that Brexit’s longer term damage to GDP was greater than originally forecast.
1) The ‘dossier’ detailing the BBC’s editing of the Trump speech literally edited Trump’s speech.
2) The NBER calculated that Brexit’s longer term damage to GDP was greater than originally forecast.
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Have written for the New Statesman about why, if he will not accept an apology, the BBC should welcome a Trump lawsuit. They should show guts and fight it because impartially matters and if they don't, they will have tacitly accepted a rewritten history.
www.newstatesman.com/politics/med...
www.newstatesman.com/politics/med...
Trump's attack can rescue the BBC
The BBC should use the threat of legal action to strike a blow for press freedom
www.newstatesman.com
November 13, 2025 at 2:26 PM
Have written for the New Statesman about why, if he will not accept an apology, the BBC should welcome a Trump lawsuit. They should show guts and fight it because impartially matters and if they don't, they will have tacitly accepted a rewritten history.
www.newstatesman.com/politics/med...
www.newstatesman.com/politics/med...
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As someone who lives on Universal Credit, it entrenches poverty. This is a welcome article.
Universal Credit was missing a crucial objective from its inception: to address poverty.
15 years on, it’s time we made Universal Credit the poverty-fighting system it could be, writes @iainkporter.bsky.social for @bigissue.com
https://bit.ly/4pc0PVB
15 years on, it’s time we made Universal Credit the poverty-fighting system it could be, writes @iainkporter.bsky.social for @bigissue.com
https://bit.ly/4pc0PVB
It's time we made universal credit the game changer it can be
In November 2010, the coalition government published its white paper detailing its plans for universal credit. How much has changed?
www.bigissue.com
November 13, 2025 at 4:27 PM
As someone who lives on Universal Credit, it entrenches poverty. This is a welcome article.
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Friendly reminder that dishwashers made after 1995 or so are so water and energy efficient that even if you ran them twice fully loaded it would still use less water than handwashing the same load.
So many "green" things feel like sacrifices. Dishwashers are not one of them.
So many "green" things feel like sacrifices. Dishwashers are not one of them.
November 12, 2025 at 5:03 AM
Friendly reminder that dishwashers made after 1995 or so are so water and energy efficient that even if you ran them twice fully loaded it would still use less water than handwashing the same load.
So many "green" things feel like sacrifices. Dishwashers are not one of them.
So many "green" things feel like sacrifices. Dishwashers are not one of them.
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Hang on. In reporting, Cllr Kemp is described as a Reform UK staffer (now ex-staffer). As her LinkedIn seems to attest.
So why hasn't she declared it on her register of interests?
It is a legal duty under the Localism Act. Failing to declare relevant financial interests is a criminal offence.
So why hasn't she declared it on her register of interests?
It is a legal duty under the Localism Act. Failing to declare relevant financial interests is a criminal offence.
![I Isabella Kemp being a Member of Kent County Council (KCC) (and if appropriate have been appointed by KCC to serve on the Kent and Medway Fire and Rescue Authority ( KMFRA)) have the following interests which I am required by law, as reflected in the KCC and KMFRA Codes of Conduct, to register:
1. Part A: Employment - 1. Any employment, office, trade, profession or vocation carried on for profit or gain
You Husband/wife/civil partner or a person with whom you are living as husband or wife or as if you
KCC member -
Sheerness Town Councillor -
2. Part B: Sponsorship - Any payment or provision of any other financial benefit (other than from the Kent County Council or the Kent and Medway Fire and Rescue Authority) made or provided within the relevant period[1] in respect of any expenses incurred by you in carrying out duties as a Member, or towards your election expenses. This includes any payment or financial benefit from a trade union within the meaning of the Trade Union and Labour Relations (Consolidation) Act 1992.
You Husband/wife/civil partner or a person with whom you are living as husband or wife or as if you
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November 6, 2025 at 4:47 PM
Hang on. In reporting, Cllr Kemp is described as a Reform UK staffer (now ex-staffer). As her LinkedIn seems to attest.
So why hasn't she declared it on her register of interests?
It is a legal duty under the Localism Act. Failing to declare relevant financial interests is a criminal offence.
So why hasn't she declared it on her register of interests?
It is a legal duty under the Localism Act. Failing to declare relevant financial interests is a criminal offence.
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It will be interesting to see how much notice (if at all) voters pay to these sorts of story ahead of next year's local elections - where Reform might be expected to make further gains. 🚒🔥🧑🚒
Kent fire authority 'in disarray' amid Reform UK video leak row
A firefighters union claims Reform UK suspending councillors is impacting the local fire authority.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 11, 2025 at 3:32 AM
It will be interesting to see how much notice (if at all) voters pay to these sorts of story ahead of next year's local elections - where Reform might be expected to make further gains. 🚒🔥🧑🚒
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Maybe they have all missed BBCQT, Politics Live, Daily Politics, and This Week for the last two decades, for which Farage has his own dressing room.
Farage accuses the BBC of bias on Europe, immigration, the environment, Gaza, and Trump - to a hall of toadies roaring their approval.
And in the blink of an eye, turns to his actual employer "a much perkier GB News," then remembers "although I have to declare an interest." ~AA
And in the blink of an eye, turns to his actual employer "a much perkier GB News," then remembers "although I have to declare an interest." ~AA
November 10, 2025 at 1:18 PM
Maybe they have all missed BBCQT, Politics Live, Daily Politics, and This Week for the last two decades, for which Farage has his own dressing room.
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Sky News just had Kelvin Mackenzie on, former editor of The Sun, one of the people at the centre of probably the most disgraceful front page in newspaper history, complaining about BBC journalists not being objective and 'fake news'. Astonishing. ~AA
November 10, 2025 at 10:53 AM
Sky News just had Kelvin Mackenzie on, former editor of The Sun, one of the people at the centre of probably the most disgraceful front page in newspaper history, complaining about BBC journalists not being objective and 'fake news'. Astonishing. ~AA
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The elimination of USAID was an unforgivable moral atrocity that should haunt Trump, Elon Musk and Marco Rubio for the rest of their days and beyond
One analytical model shows that, as of November 5th, the dismantling of U.S.A.I.D. has already caused the deaths of 600,000 people, two-thirds of them children. https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/jUzNSc
The Shutdown of U.S.A.I.D. Has Already Killed Hundreds of Thousands
The short documentary “Rovina’s Choice” tells the story of what goes when aid goes.
newyorkermag.visitlink.me
November 7, 2025 at 2:36 AM
The elimination of USAID was an unforgivable moral atrocity that should haunt Trump, Elon Musk and Marco Rubio for the rest of their days and beyond
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Reform voters favouring Sharia Law type punishment is the most fucking ironic thing this week.
November 7, 2025 at 12:44 PM
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For too long, growth-enhancing tax reforms have been prevented by the intense political heat that surrounds any such changes. This new report should help create space for this and future governments to make much-needed improvements www.instituteforgovernment.org.uk/comment/cros...
Cross-party agreement can create political space for tax reform | Institute for Government
It is time to take the political heat out of attempts to reform the tax system.
www.instituteforgovernment.org.uk
November 6, 2025 at 10:28 AM
For too long, growth-enhancing tax reforms have been prevented by the intense political heat that surrounds any such changes. This new report should help create space for this and future governments to make much-needed improvements www.instituteforgovernment.org.uk/comment/cros...
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Heartening to see the Conservative former secretary of state for Justice pointing out how very unfunded the prisons system is.
Rather a pity his timing wasn't a little better, because just a tenth of the money used on unnecessary pre election tax cuts could have made a huge difference
Rather a pity his timing wasn't a little better, because just a tenth of the money used on unnecessary pre election tax cuts could have made a huge difference
November 6, 2025 at 10:32 PM
Heartening to see the Conservative former secretary of state for Justice pointing out how very unfunded the prisons system is.
Rather a pity his timing wasn't a little better, because just a tenth of the money used on unnecessary pre election tax cuts could have made a huge difference
Rather a pity his timing wasn't a little better, because just a tenth of the money used on unnecessary pre election tax cuts could have made a huge difference
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"There is simply no sign of a fiscal catastrophe from the 'Boriswave'. Recent migrants are very likely to be employed, paying tax and seem to be contributing to British society..it will help, rather than hurt, Britain’s fiscal position."
Analysis by @lgilbert.co
ukandeu.ac.uk/lower-migrat...
Analysis by @lgilbert.co
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Lower migration is bad news for the UK economy - UK in a changing Europe
Lauren Gilbert argues that migrants to the UK are net fiscal contributors, adding much more to the economy than they take out, and that the recent collapse in immigration will harm the UK's economic p...
ukandeu.ac.uk
November 6, 2025 at 4:00 PM
"There is simply no sign of a fiscal catastrophe from the 'Boriswave'. Recent migrants are very likely to be employed, paying tax and seem to be contributing to British society..it will help, rather than hurt, Britain’s fiscal position."
Analysis by @lgilbert.co
ukandeu.ac.uk/lower-migrat...
Analysis by @lgilbert.co
ukandeu.ac.uk/lower-migrat...