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Police investigate donations by Richard Tice company to Reform UK

Britain Means Business, owned by the party’s deputy leader Richard Tice, made two donations of £250,000 in the run-up to the 2024 general election.

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Opportunities for Americans to act to save themselves, and the rest of us from the excesses of the Trump régime- it’s now a moral duty- I recommend you read/share the suggestions of the winner of this year’s prestigious LSE essay competition Alex Minford: blogs.lse.ac.uk/usappblog/20...

Mark Carney has delivered one of the most important speeches of our era. There is a better future waiting for Britain if we dare to follow his example. inews.co.uk/opinion/trum...

The ‘uniparty’ is surely Reform and the Tories now

Note that these are the usually Atlanticist pro-American centre right parties. They have given up appeasing Trump.

OSINTtechnical@osinttechnical.bsky.social · 7mo ago

Appears that the most recent negotiated EU-US trade deal is dead, with Renew Europe and EPP party leadership rejecting the deal in light of Trump’s recent threats.

People fatally shot by UK police in 2024/25: 2 People fatally shot by US law enforcement in 2025: 1280

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Bylines Network@bylinesnetwork.co.uk · 8mo ago

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Thankfully Britain does not have a Bible Belt, but Reform are doing the bidding of their US paymasters anyway- get ready to see more stunts like Sarah Pochin hijacking à church this week- or Tommy Robinson’s Carol service (not even satire!) yorkshirebylines.co.uk/news/world/t...

The American Christian nationalist right is on the march to the UK, via Moscow

Current culture wars can be traced to an alliance between the Russian Orthodox Church, the radical right and Western evangelical Christians

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this is insane

Adam Bienkov@adambienkov.bsky.social · 8mo ago

New Home Office impact assessment finds that cutting skilled and social care visas will cost the UK up to £10 billion with a central estimate of -£5.4 billion. It would be good if this got even a fraction of the coverage devoted to the endless debate about boats, flags and Turkish barber shops

Quiet, Piggy.

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 A new report setting out how Scotland received almost £8 billion of European funding, helping create some 235,000 new jobs, serves as a “stark reminder” of what the country has “lost” because of Brexit. ⬇️ Lost opportunities and greater costs. https://bit.ly/4phsggz

New report a ‘stark reminder’ of impact of Brexit on Scotland, Forbes says

Deputy First Minister Kate Forbes spoke out as a new report was published into the impact of European Union funding for Scotland over 50 years.

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#Line-Of-Duty returning for SEVENTH Series 😳🤩😍 www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...

From shocking deaths to more wee donkeys: what we want from the return of Line of Duty

Jed Mercurio’s police drama is getting a comeback – which gives it the chance to be TV’s greatest cop show once more. Here’s what it needs to do

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Did the bombshell BBC memo misquote the misquote? on.ft.com/485zOMr Spoiler alert: it did. Panorama edited Trump to make him look bad. But Prescott edited Trump to make the BBC look bad.

Did the bombshell BBC memo misquote the misquote?

Wording used by Michael Prescott was itself an edit of Trump’s actual words

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This is how democracies fail. A sitting President is boosting calls for the arrest and execution of political opponents for urging the military to uphold the Constitution. Every alarm in the country should be going off.

then again, the price graph for tiny, tiny violins is absolutely mental

Gavin Jackson@gavinjackson.bsky.social · 9mo ago

Crypto got everything it wanted. Now it’s sinking economist.com/finance-and-...

Trump over on Truth Social is spending this morning calling for the arrest, expulsion and "DEATH" by execution of Democratic Congress members

The BBC is of immense importance: don’t let the bad guys win yorkshirebylines.co.uk/politics/wha...

What’s going on at the BBC? Is Auntie having a funny turn?

This week's furore at the Beeb furthers the aims of right-wing think tanks for whom the existence of a national broadcaster is anathema

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Pinging Rachel Reeves and her immense intellectual abilities:

Institute for Policy Studies@ips-dc.org · 9mo ago

NEW: The first two years of Massachusetts' millionaire tax has raised $3 billion more than expected. And rather than driving the rich away, IPS researchers found that the number of millionaires has *increased.* Tax the rich. Greg Ryan in @bloomberg.com:

WTAF?

Bunny Stroganoff@bunnystroganoff.bsky.social · 9mo ago

Not much shocks me anymore, but this is utterly horrific.

⭕️ Councils are asset stripping the Counties they run👇🏼👇🏼 Leicestershire CC (Reform & Tory) wants to sell Beaumanor Hall, Grade II listed mansion for £500K Lancashire CC plans to close care homes & day centres saving £4.6 million.. Ironically a Councillor owns a private care company with his Mrs❗️🤨

Councillors suggest selling off historic Beaumanor hall - BBC News

Leicestershire County Council is considering the future of the loss making building Beaumanor Hall.

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📉 Based on the UK’s pre-referendum investment level of about £230 billion a year, the cumulative loss of investment by this year could be between £275 billion and £400 billion. https://bit.ly/4oCFB34

How Brexit impact on business investment left the UK lagging behind Europe | The National

Britain may have missed out on more than $520 billion in investment since 2016 referendum

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Reform UK Ltd gets 92% of its funding from climate change deniers and fossil fuel corporate interests, provoking negative reactions | Mark Cunliffe @markcunliffe.bsky.social @centralbylines.co.uk

A new survey reveals negative attitudes to Reform UK Ltd

Reform UK Ltd gets 92% of its funding from climate change deniers and fossil fuel corporate interests, provoking negative reactions

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For the rest of the world, the single case of Mike Johnson refusing to swear in Adelita Grijalva after her special election win, because Johnson knows her vote will tip the scales for the release of the Epstein files, is enough evidence by itself that the U.S. political system is broken and lawless.

Johnson sets record refusing to swear in Adelita Grijalva for 36 days after she won election | Arizona Mirror

Speaker Johnson sets record with 36-day Adelita Grijalva swearing in delay as lawsuit claims constitutional violations

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Absolutely amazing: they've got so much solar in Australia that they need more people to use more of it, so the gov't has instructed energy retailers to offer *at least three hours of free power* during the middle of the day. Meanwhile fossil-addled US struggles with an energy-price crisis ...

Energy retailers to be directed to offer free power three hours a day

Saying there is enough solar power for everyone in the daytime, Climate Change Minister Chris Bowen will direct retailers to provide three hours of free power every day to consumers.

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Farage's racism was noted when he was a nobody. But sure, he's not a racist. 'Farage, who earns his living as a City commodity-broker, is a man who often used words such as "n*gg*r" and "n*g-n*g" in the pub after committee meetings.' (Oct 1999) #politicslive www.theguardian.com/uk/1999/oct/...

Sarkozy (ex President of France) just got 5 years in prison for corruption and Le Pen will be panicking tonight ! Bolsonaro got a 27 yr jail term last week… the US could learn a thing or two here

www.theguardian.com/politics/202... This is war for me. Farage is attacking my family. My husband has settled status, his comments are disgusting I will campaign against Reform for being xenophobic against EU nationals and their families. Reform needs political annihilation!!!

Farage vows to scrap indefinite leave to remain, placing thousands at risk of deportation

Reform UK plans to force non-citizens to apply for visas with high salary thresholds and no access to NHS services

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Bylines Network citizen journalism: a new hope?

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Pam Jarvis@drpam.bsky.social · 11mo ago

Great article from @georgemonbiot.bsky.social in @theguardian.com today.

Please read and share widely. westcountryvoices.co.uk/trump-wants-...

Trump wants his mates to be able to make money from your medical treatment. Here's a tool that tells you what it would cost you

As Donald Trump arrived in the UK on a state visit, a new tool was launched to show exactly what NHS patients would pay if Britain adopted the kind of insurance-based system pushed by Trump and his co...

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