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The story of Farage and Putin, told by British-Ukrainian soldier Shaun Pinner on a destroyed apartment block in Kyiv.
December 19, 2025 at 4:54 PM
The story of Farage and Putin, told by British-Ukrainian soldier Shaun Pinner on a destroyed apartment block in Kyiv.
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My lesson from 2025: Reform is much more vulnerable than it appears | Gaby Hinsliff
My lesson from 2025: Reform is much more vulnerable than it appears | Gaby Hinsliff
The party’s astonishingly speedy growth disguised shallow roots – and its success has brought a level of scrutiny for which it simply isn’t ready, says Guardian columnist Gaby Hinsliff
www.theguardian.com
December 19, 2025 at 7:06 AM
My lesson from 2025: Reform is much more vulnerable than it appears | Gaby Hinsliff
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Some thoughts on Bondi Beach, the sliding doors surreality of knowing my sister could have been there, and how it feels to be lighting candles tonight to celebrate our resilience
www.newstatesman.com/world/2025/1...
www.newstatesman.com/world/2025/1...
The Bondi Beach shooting was an attack on Jews
This Chanukah, I finally understand the meaning of resilience
www.newstatesman.com
December 14, 2025 at 4:04 PM
Some thoughts on Bondi Beach, the sliding doors surreality of knowing my sister could have been there, and how it feels to be lighting candles tonight to celebrate our resilience
www.newstatesman.com/world/2025/1...
www.newstatesman.com/world/2025/1...
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So I’ve joined my colleagues taking your calls for the annual Guardian charity telethon — if you call now on 02033534368 I can tell you more about it! www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
Guardian charity appeal donations top £200,000 before annual telethon
Milestone reached as journalists including Polly Toynbee and John Crace prepare for fundraising event on Saturday
www.theguardian.com
December 13, 2025 at 1:25 PM
So I’ve joined my colleagues taking your calls for the annual Guardian charity telethon — if you call now on 02033534368 I can tell you more about it! www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
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I wrote about Russia's greatest disinformation campaign, and then had some thoughts about Putin's useful idiots on the far left.
open.substack.com/pub/sianushk...
open.substack.com/pub/sianushk...
Russia's greatest disinfo campaign
They're not winning the war. And some other thoughts about where we are.
open.substack.com
December 13, 2025 at 12:39 PM
I wrote about Russia's greatest disinformation campaign, and then had some thoughts about Putin's useful idiots on the far left.
open.substack.com/pub/sianushk...
open.substack.com/pub/sianushk...
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'Him and his minions would be hanging outside Jewish prayers.'
'Banter doesn't exist if you're not friends with that person.'
Stefan Benarroch explains his interactions with Nigel Farage at school, and what he has made of the Reform leader’s response to the allegations.
@natashadevon.bsky.social
'Banter doesn't exist if you're not friends with that person.'
Stefan Benarroch explains his interactions with Nigel Farage at school, and what he has made of the Reform leader’s response to the allegations.
@natashadevon.bsky.social
December 6, 2025 at 7:25 PM
'Him and his minions would be hanging outside Jewish prayers.'
'Banter doesn't exist if you're not friends with that person.'
Stefan Benarroch explains his interactions with Nigel Farage at school, and what he has made of the Reform leader’s response to the allegations.
@natashadevon.bsky.social
'Banter doesn't exist if you're not friends with that person.'
Stefan Benarroch explains his interactions with Nigel Farage at school, and what he has made of the Reform leader’s response to the allegations.
@natashadevon.bsky.social
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Questions over Reform’s donations as watchdog urged to investigate crypto links
Questions over Reform’s donations as watchdog urged to investigate crypto links
Questions over Reform’s donations as watchdog urged to investigate crypto links
www.independent.co.uk
December 7, 2025 at 11:53 AM
Questions over Reform’s donations as watchdog urged to investigate crypto links
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Keir Starmer Observer interview with @rachelsylvester.bsky.social articulates opportunity for young people as his defining mission for his government
December 7, 2025 at 11:55 AM
Keir Starmer Observer interview with @rachelsylvester.bsky.social articulates opportunity for young people as his defining mission for his government
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Keir Starmer tells me the “hugely talented” Angela Rayner will be back in the cabinet. She is “the best social mobility story this country has ever seen” he says in our interview for @theobserveruk.bsky.social. Read the full piece here : observer.co.uk/news/nationa...
Keir Starmer: ‘The Greens are anti-Nato and think it’s all right to sell drugs. That’s nuts’ | The Observer
observer.co.uk
December 7, 2025 at 11:00 AM
Keir Starmer tells me the “hugely talented” Angela Rayner will be back in the cabinet. She is “the best social mobility story this country has ever seen” he says in our interview for @theobserveruk.bsky.social. Read the full piece here : observer.co.uk/news/nationa...
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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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This little boy was 9, Farage was 17. The epitome of a school bully.
"'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,’ with an accompanying hand gesture pointing towards a place far away."
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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 8:24 AM
This little boy was 9, Farage was 17. The epitome of a school bully.
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“Farage has suggested that it’s inconceivable that anyone could recall such events of more than four decades ago. I would simply ask: can a victim of such abuse ever forget?…I recognise his walk every time I see it on TV as that same walk that used to approach me”
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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 6, 2025 at 6:52 AM
“Farage has suggested that it’s inconceivable that anyone could recall such events of more than four decades ago. I would simply ask: can a victim of such abuse ever forget?…I recognise his walk every time I see it on TV as that same walk that used to approach me”
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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Labour MP’s video explaining UK debt with biscuits racks up 3.3m views
Labour MP’s video explaining UK debt with biscuits racks up 3.3m views
Glasgow South MP Gordon McKee leading trend as politicians find traditional ways to reach voters no longer work
www.theguardian.com
December 5, 2025 at 7:01 AM
Labour MP’s video explaining UK debt with biscuits racks up 3.3m views
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The point is THEY CANCELLED IT Nigel... FORTY FIVE YEARS AGO.... remember mate this is the sort of stuff you get angry about...
December 4, 2025 at 6:00 PM
The point is THEY CANCELLED IT Nigel... FORTY FIVE YEARS AGO.... remember mate this is the sort of stuff you get angry about...
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The Chancellor delivered a ‘tax & SAVE’ Budget
This Budget didn't just restore headroom (eroded by forecast deterioration &policy U-turns), it more than doubled it.
New welfare decisions (pink bars) represent a tiny fraction of spending decisions made this Parliament.
This Budget didn't just restore headroom (eroded by forecast deterioration &policy U-turns), it more than doubled it.
New welfare decisions (pink bars) represent a tiny fraction of spending decisions made this Parliament.
December 3, 2025 at 3:33 PM
The Chancellor delivered a ‘tax & SAVE’ Budget
This Budget didn't just restore headroom (eroded by forecast deterioration &policy U-turns), it more than doubled it.
New welfare decisions (pink bars) represent a tiny fraction of spending decisions made this Parliament.
This Budget didn't just restore headroom (eroded by forecast deterioration &policy U-turns), it more than doubled it.
New welfare decisions (pink bars) represent a tiny fraction of spending decisions made this Parliament.
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December 3, 2025 at 3:33 PM
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Pleased to discover that slightly misnaming the national chess championship you won as a school child is a much more serious offence than repeatedly racially abusing your fellow pupils and telling them they should go to the gas chamber
December 3, 2025 at 1:15 PM
Pleased to discover that slightly misnaming the national chess championship you won as a school child is a much more serious offence than repeatedly racially abusing your fellow pupils and telling them they should go to the gas chamber
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Truly shocking that Rachel Reeves had the audacity to call herself the U14 girls chess champions when she won the U14 girls chess championship but some bloke thought she was talking about something else.
December 3, 2025 at 12:41 PM
Truly shocking that Rachel Reeves had the audacity to call herself the U14 girls chess champions when she won the U14 girls chess championship but some bloke thought she was talking about something else.
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Clarity is kindness! As many others have already said, this is well worth a read. More case-making threads please from politicians of all parties. Let's debate substance.
Rightly lots of debates about growth this weekend - rightly because it was low productivity growth that saw wages entirely flatline during the 2010s.
December 1, 2025 at 9:52 AM
Clarity is kindness! As many others have already said, this is well worth a read. More case-making threads please from politicians of all parties. Let's debate substance.
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Excellent thread on what it takes to increase economic growth and what the govt are doing about it
Rightly lots of debates about growth this weekend - rightly because it was low productivity growth that saw wages entirely flatline during the 2010s.
December 1, 2025 at 12:48 PM
Excellent thread on what it takes to increase economic growth and what the govt are doing about it
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I wonder if it's time to retire the role of "political editor" altogether
Return most of the coverage to the Economics Editor, the Health Editor, the Home Affairs team & so on.
Leave the "who-said-what-to-whom" & "what-does-it-mean-for-the-polls" to others. The BBC doesn't need to foreground this.
Return most of the coverage to the Economics Editor, the Health Editor, the Home Affairs team & so on.
Leave the "who-said-what-to-whom" & "what-does-it-mean-for-the-polls" to others. The BBC doesn't need to foreground this.
Watched BBC 6 o clock news. Just a completely unserious broadcast. Chris Mason, acting like a children's entertainer, giving a prolonged impenetrable editorial. Not a whiff of informative content about the Budget or what it means for the country. Just playschool blah blah bollocks.
December 1, 2025 at 10:17 PM
I wonder if it's time to retire the role of "political editor" altogether
Return most of the coverage to the Economics Editor, the Health Editor, the Home Affairs team & so on.
Leave the "who-said-what-to-whom" & "what-does-it-mean-for-the-polls" to others. The BBC doesn't need to foreground this.
Return most of the coverage to the Economics Editor, the Health Editor, the Home Affairs team & so on.
Leave the "who-said-what-to-whom" & "what-does-it-mean-for-the-polls" to others. The BBC doesn't need to foreground this.
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Watched BBC 6 o clock news. Just a completely unserious broadcast. Chris Mason, acting like a children's entertainer, giving a prolonged impenetrable editorial. Not a whiff of informative content about the Budget or what it means for the country. Just playschool blah blah bollocks.
December 1, 2025 at 6:28 PM
Watched BBC 6 o clock news. Just a completely unserious broadcast. Chris Mason, acting like a children's entertainer, giving a prolonged impenetrable editorial. Not a whiff of informative content about the Budget or what it means for the country. Just playschool blah blah bollocks.
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The more I think about it, the more bizarre I find the accusation that the Chancellor deliberately exaggerated the dire state of the finances in order to justify tax rises. The extent to which there is 'exaggeration' means more for fiscal headroom, which is what everyone wanted her to pursue 1/
December 1, 2025 at 10:18 PM
The more I think about it, the more bizarre I find the accusation that the Chancellor deliberately exaggerated the dire state of the finances in order to justify tax rises. The extent to which there is 'exaggeration' means more for fiscal headroom, which is what everyone wanted her to pursue 1/
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🔥 Highly recommended that you all sign and share.
Link to the petition—> petition.parliament.uk/petitions/74...
Link to the petition—> petition.parliament.uk/petitions/74...
November 26, 2025 at 8:55 AM
🔥 Highly recommended that you all sign and share.
Link to the petition—> petition.parliament.uk/petitions/74...
Link to the petition—> petition.parliament.uk/petitions/74...