Marc Woodhurst

@marcwoodhurst.bsky.social

Musician and educator: lover of odd creatures, good ales, rare fruit and alphorns. Liberal, Anglican and internationalist. On the look out for hidden horns.

A dark blizzard of disinformation is warping the public’s perception of our great city. But we know the truth: our homicide rate is lower than every major US city, neighbourhood crimes are down and we’ve been ranked #1 city in the world 11 years in a row. My piece for The Times.

We must fight back against troll army’s lies about London

There is a dark blizzard of disinformation online, where our capital is described as a lawless dystopia in decline — this couldn’t be further from the truth

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On this day in 1925, a Czech Jewish girl was born. 0n the 26 Nov 1941 she was deported directly to Minsk with her parents. It is likely that she was murdered in the 1942 Minsk liquidation. Of the 1,000 people on Transport F, only 13 survived. Her name was Judita Vesselá

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“Some of the men congregated in the local pub, where locals were able to overhear some of the plans for the following day. HOPE not hate spoke to one person who was so disturbed by these plans that they contacted the Counter Terrorism Police.” hopenothate.org.uk/2026/09/07/e...

EXCLUSIVE: Did Kent Police ignore Dover blockade 999 call? – HOPE not hate

HOPE not hate can exclusively reveal that Kent Police were tipped off about the Patriot Platform mobilisation – and seemingly did not act.

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Tory MP Harriet Cross and Spectator's Noa Hoffman on BBC claim that banning illegal settlement trade will be both ineffective and attract backlash. Their position is based on the ahistorical clanger of conflating "symbolic" with "ineffective". Symbolic acts can be very effective, hence the backlash.

🚨 THIS IS BAD! 🚨 Palantir’s stated goal is to disrupt democracy by getting control of the systems in the name of technofascism. Their MO is wedging people into positions of power then shoehorning themselves into critical infrastructure. Now they control the grid. www.ft.com/content/f6a2...

Britain’s grid operator gave Palantir contract without inviting rival bids

Neso cited a legal exemption that removes the requirement to consider other suppliers if dependencies leave no alternative

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New PISA data out England is now top ten in all three areas (reading, maths, science) and the second highest performing country outside of east Asia (after Estonia). This is a huge public policy success.

The fastest way to destabilize a nation is to get people to stop trusting their neighbors. Stop trusting the people within arm's length of you. To stabilize a nation, start by working with those same neighbors and build mutual aid with them.

8/9 Blaming the firewall alone overlooks deeper structural forces. Across 57 nations and 1,300 governments, far-right parties entering office gained an average of six points in their next election. The true engine is the normalization of far-right ideas by media and centrist peers.

9/9 As analyst Gabriela Greilinger warned, debating political firewalls misses the real crisis: "Far-right politics already constantly take centre stage. There is no cordon around their ideas." Source: Jon Henley, The Guardian www.theguardian.com/world/2026/s...

Europe’s centre fears nationalist wave after AfD victory but only has itself to blame

Saxony-Anhalt win part of wider trend driven by mainstream policy failures and gradual normalisation of far right ideas

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They were driven there in hired buses. They wore uniforms & masks that were provided. They are following orders and they are being paid to do it. They aren't "protestors' they are mercenaries. Why is no one in the media asking who is paying for all this shit? morningstaronline.co.uk/article/patr...

Far right Patriot Platform block migrants in Portsmouth, no arrests made

ANTI-RACISM campaigners warned of “double standards” of policing today after far-right agitators blocked roads in Portsmouth attempting to intimidate arriving asylum-seekers.Hundreds of men wearing ba...

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I am bloody proud to be an #RNLI supporter and member! These brilliant men and women have quite enough to cope with without being harassed by the scum of the earth. Their only concern is to help people in danger at sea - not check passports first! Which is how it should be. Please RT if you agree🙏

Louis 〓〓@louishenwood.bsky.social · 4d ago

Over on X, the far-right British Patriots have launched a hate campaign against the RNLI They are recording RNLI volunteers in order to dox them, reveal their identities and publish details of where they and their families live These men are dangerous

Germans voted for the Far Right because their Media is controlled by Far Right Billionaires from Washington and Tel Aviv. And they are doing the same in every single country in the Western World.

2) and 3) are intimately linked, in that the BBC (the organisation that really matters in the modern environment) treats 'claims by rival parties' as the operating frame for how it covers everything. The failure from Labour and the Conservatives to say 'this stuff is bad' is really, really bad.

John Oxley@joxley.jmoxley.co.uk · 5d ago

So in one week: 1) Reform get stung for dodgy finances, and the regulators play pass the parcel about enforcement 2) Farage announces plans to largely dismantle independent scrutiny of govt, and barely any press discussion of it 3) Masked thugs blockade a port, with narry a word from senior govt

Turns out that if you are an old lady with a banner supporting Palestine, the government arrests you on charges of terrorism. If you are a masked white male thug bringing a national port to a standstill, the government does absolutely nothing, and the media covers it like some lads on a day out.

If MI5 and SO15 were aware of the operation being planned, then they clearly either chose not to inform Kent Police and withheld vital operational information needed for adequate policing.* OR If they were unaware, which indicates a massive intelligence failure, undermining UK national security.

So, don't share your darkest fears like a mantra. They disempower and deflate others AND you! The nihilism of presenting him as inevitable IS their strategy. I know we can beat Farage, because we ARE beatING him. His numbers are shrinking. Now is the time for shoulders to the wheel - not apathy. 3/3

🟡 From This Month’s Magazine Reform UK and Big Tech Palantir Co-Founder Peter Thiel’s ‘Political Pipeline’ Recruitment Project at the World-Renowned… By Byline Times raising The academic institution has nothing to say in response to a six-month investigation by Byline Times raising serious…

Reform UK and Big Tech Palantir Co-Founder Peter Thiel’s ‘Political Pipeline’ Recruitment Project at the World-Renowned University Revealed

The academic institution has nothing to say in response to a six-month investigation by Byline Times raising serious concerns about the safeguarding of students and hard-right and foreign influence at Cambridge…

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