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Lucy Sullivan

@lucysullivan.bsky.social

Comic Artist/Writer (UK) • BARKING | SHELTER | BLACK HAMMER short | The Thing With Feathers [2025] | DOT Wild Fictions | Razorblades & more Rep’d by James at The BKS Coming soon- MOTHERS RUIN (Avery Hill) https://bio.site/LucySullivan

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Josiah Mortimer@josiahmortimer.bsky.social · 4d ago

I've been combing through Reform UK's latest party accounts. Reform UK took more in donations in 2025 than Labour and the Lib Dems combined...twice over. £31.9 million in donations in a non-GE year. It's staggering. They spent a lot (over £21m) but banked over £10m. Reform's war chest = £11.9m

REFORM UK Income and Expenditure Account for the year ended 31 December 2025 Notes 2025 2024 £ £ Income Donation income 2 22,872,257 5,861,950 Fundraising income 3 1,418,902 389,703 Merchandise sales 3 719,742 48,593 Membership fees 4 5,976,354 4,344,371 Notional income 144,880 - Investment income 5 96,750 1,874 Miscellaneous income 6 633,535 186,225 Total income 31,862,420 10,832,716 Staff costs 10 2,966,604 741,146 Depreciation 12 27,393 1,710 Premises costs 499,635 144,226 Office costs 8,944,096 2,601,650 Campaign cost 4,376,601 4,248,408 Fundraising costs 3,472,805 1,341,280 Notional expenditure 144,880 - Branch campaigning costs 736,958 - Financing charges 11 400,587 236,167 Total Expenditure 21,569,559 9,314,587 Surplus before taxation 10,292,861 1,518,129 Tax on surplus (98,296) - Surplus for the financial year 10,194,565 1,518,129
Farrukh@implausibleblog.bsky.social · last wk.

Zack Polanski, "I called this press conference.. Because of the shocking scenes of wildfires" "The amount that we hear about what Nigel Farage and Reform UK want to talk about and the little we hear about the climate and nature crisis, is pretty glaring"

Prof. Stefan Rahmstorf@rahmstorf.bsky.social · last wk.

“It’s time to make oil giants pay up to repair the climate breakdown they’re driving. Think how many fire and flood defences we could build, or how many solar panels we could install, if big oil paid their fair share in taxes.” www.theguardian.com/business/ng-...

Revealed: major oil firms make $93bn profits amid war and climate crisis

Iran conflict windfall over three months reignites calls for companies ‘cashing in on human misery’ to pay for environmental damage

theguardian.com

Peter du Toit@peterdutoit.com · 2w ago

As climate chaos spreads, remember, those who had the power to slam the brakes on the emissions trajectory, had the technology AND know-how to do this, but they chose not to. The blame for all the suffering and loss is on them and, in democracies, everyone who voted these people into power.

‘We can’t make it better again’: what Europe’s wildfires tell us about the climate crisis

In this week’s newsletter: As France and Spain battle huge fires in this summer of relentless heat, will it be enough to spur us to take action?

theguardian.com

Sarah Murphy@13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 2w ago

It just keeps on coming… Farage struck deal to return as leader long before Sunak called surprise 2024 vote, so his claim that he wasn’t involved in politics when he got his £5million “gift” is, of course, another grubby lie. The man is garbage. Grifting, lying, cheating garbage. (Sunday Times)

Farage struck deal to return as leader long before election Reform chief had insisted he was not involved in politics until Sunak called surprise 2024 vote Extracts; Nigel Farage struck a secret deal to return as Reform UK leader months before the general election. Farage negotiated the pact with Richard Tice, then the leader, in March and April 2024. George Cottrell, the convicted fraudster who had been secretly bankrolling Farage, supervised the discussions. Under the terms of the deal, Reform agreed to repay or write off more than £1 million in outstand ing loans it had taken from Tice's company upon Farage becoming leader. The deal was first presented by Farage and Cottrell to the party's treasurer in mid-May. Its existence undermines the Reform leader's claim that he had no intention until June 2024 of returning to politics. Farage has used this to defend his failure to declare donations made to him in the year before he was elected as an MP, which triggered two parliamentary investigations. Last night, Reform sources acknowledged the existence of the deal but insisted it had been drafted for if, not when, Farage became leader. Asked why he would have signed such an agreement if he had no intention of returning as leader, they said it kept his options open. They said Farage had assumed he would focus his energies on campaigning for Donald Trump in that year's US presidential election. Farage has claimed repeatedly that he did not need to declare a £5 million gift from the crypto--billionaire Christopher Harborne or in-kind benefits from Cottrell, as he was a media personality at the time. MPs must declare any benefit in any way connected to their "political activities" received in the 12 months before their election. He told the "anti-woke" Trigger-nometry podcast last month: "At that period of my life, from 2021 to the third of June 2024, I was a broadcaster… I was somebody that promoted financial market products, I was an influencer, I wasn't in politics."
Mitch Benn@mitchbenn.bsky.social · 2w ago

PLEASE SHARE THIS To the young person (longish dark hair, patterned waistcoat, chinos & DM boots) who left this scroll of papers on the Piccadilly Line train at South Kensington station at about 4.25pm today, I’ve handed it to the station staff at Hammersmith.

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Lucy Sullivan@lucysullivan.bsky.social · 4w ago

Had a heated debate with a friend about why the use of words such as ‘create’ in Ae-Ay usage normalises the idea that art & design are simple, easy concepts that anyone can achieve and pushes the enshitification of visual literacy. It was complicated & upsetting. I should’ve just shown him this 💅

Jason Koebler@jasonkoebler.bsky.social · last mo.

Thank you everyone who sent me horrible AI generated flyers from around the world at my request. I was fully overwhelmed with hundreds and hundreds of these. These are the worst I saw. The hall of shame. Please enjoy and/or numb your brain: www.404media.co/these-are-th...

Tanja Bueltmann@tanjabueltmann.net · 4w ago

Unless this “honesty” involves the recognition that immigrants are *not* the root cause of the UK’s problems *but* actually a part of the solution to them, this will be completely pointless. I cannot stress this enough. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Burnham to say UK must be honest about its challenges as he prepares to become PM

Labour leader will visit king to accept role on Monday and will start making cabinet appointments that afternoon

theguardian.com

Lucy Sullivan@lucysullivan.bsky.social · 4w ago

My new book MOTHERS RUIN continues on from events in SHELTER: Early Doors with Mammy Magee & her extraordinary girls. Catch up on the West London gossip only from me & shows or my website… lucysullivanuk.com/buy-comics

Panels taken from SHELTER: Early Doors by Lucy Sullivan (Self published) Images show a variety of characters & places in West London 1969 rendered with watercolour & carbon line art
Lucy Sullivan@lucysullivan.bsky.social · 4w ago

Summer has closed on MOTHERS RUIN my upcoming book set in West London 1970 continues the folk horror tale of Mammy Magee’s shelter. Chapter 2 - SAMRAD - sees lives collide, secrets uncovered & a hint of something summoned now Samhain approaches. Out Fall ‘26 with @averyhill.bsky.social

Thumbnails & script screenshots from MOTHERS RUIN. Coming Fall ‘27 from Avery Hill Published