Meet James Purnell. Andy Burnham's chief of staff. In earlier incarnation, he supported the Iraq invasion; was chairman of Labour Friends of Israel; said that Winter Fuel Allowance and free bus passes should not be sacred; supported PFI, lie-detector tests for benefit claimants. What next?

Andy Burnham picks former Blair minister James Purnell as chief of staff

Decision is one of Makerfield MP’s most significant since his Westminster return as he builds his team for government

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Who is Katie Lam MP? Conservative MP attended JD Vance drinks party with GB News owner Paul Marshall, and worked for Cambridge Analytica linked Faculty, @docrussjackson reports open.substack.com/pub/counterd...

Who is Katie Lam MP?

Conservative MP attended JD Vance drinks party with GB News owner Paul Marshall, and worked for Cambridge Analytica linked Faculty, @docrussjackson reports

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Jacob Rees-Mogg here calling for Tories to stand down in Makerfield for Reform, and Reform to stand down in return in Aberdeen South. Does Kemi Badenoch approve this message? Why is JRM on Laura K anyway when he isn't an MP and already has a show on GB News?

Saul Staniforth@saulstaniforth.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Jacob Rees Mogg says the right needs to work together, and a vote for Restore in Makerfield will lead to Burnham winning (who he describes as a hard left semi-Corbynista!)

Network Mapping: Unravelling the #HARTleaks; Exposing how Conservative MPs embraced the covid disinformation ecosystem How conspiracy theorists and anti-vaxxers influenced the CRG, the Common Sense Group, 1922 Committee Chair, Education Select Committee Chair, two APPGs, Bills and Amendments ⬇️

Network Mapping: Unravelling the HARTleaks; Exposing how Conservative MPs embraced the covid disinformation ecosystem

How conspiracy theorists and anti-vaxxers influenced the CRG, the Common Sense Group, 1922 Committee Chair, Education Select Committee Chair, two APPGs, Bills and Ammendments

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For anyone keeping an eye on Letby stories, I think this is one of the best just now in that senior neonatologist, Prof. Paul Clarke has completely blown the work of Shoo Lee (leader of the Lucy Letby 'eXpErT pAnEl') out of the water, as reported by Liz Hull of The Mail.

New research cast doubts on evidence submitted to help free Lucy Letby

Lucy Letby's defence team say new medical evidence has been submitted to the Criminal Cases Review Commission in a bid to have her convictions quashed.

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Great work by @bylinetimes.bsky.social on business connections between #Palantir Peter Thiel & #Epstein as well as this nugget…. The Dep Chief Exec of NHSE joins Mandelson’s Global Counsel to lobby for #Palantir whilst chairing NHS Trusts …all completely legit 😉 bylinetimes.com/2026/02/04/j...

Everybody knows that Pupper just won Downhill Gold

This is an excellent video and really explains the errors and misdirection within the reports referred to as 'nEw eViDeNcE fRoM a PaNeL oF eXpErTs' that David Davis keeps going on about in the matter of Lucy Letby.

Dr Susan Oliver (PhD)@drsusanoliver.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Supporters of nurse serial killer, Lucy Letby, like to parrot the “expert” panel who declared she hadn’t committed any murders. But, as Cindy and I explain, the numerous errors in the panel’s reports mean their conclusions are invalid. youtu.be/-tSG9P_Qc40

You know that saying about a dog on a ski slope? I don't, but if Ed Leigh and Tim Warwood were commentating on this they'd have dropped an absolutely epic one without missing a beat

Doug Sloane@dougsloane.eurosky.social · 6mo ago

I changed the audio

I hate that I know this but: trending.knowyourmeme.com/editorials/g...

What Is The 'Nihilist Penguin' Meme? Why A Video Of A Penguin Walking Toward A Mountain From A Werner Herzog Film Is Going Viral Explained

A scene from <i>Encounters at the End of the World</i> featuring a lonely penguin has quickly become one of the year's biggest memes so far. Here's how the penguin memes began and what they're all abo...

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A bunch of trolls mocked a mildly cringe anti-radicalization video game, and Britain’s right-wing press joined in. But why did they all ignore the *actual* far-right extremists pushing Amelia memes? thedayofreckoning.substack.com/p/amelia-the...

Amelia: The far-right’s new waifu thirst trap mascot

Alt-right types mock a cringey online game and deny they're extremists... while posting racist memes exhorting men to do violence

thedayofreckoning.substack.com

Reform UK Review 2025 Nigel Farage's nephew Joseph was found guilty to upskirting a woman in a Co-op after placing a mobile phone “beneath clothing of another without consent”. People who committed the same offence were put on the sex offenders register. He was only fined for £576...

Far-right influencers are waking up to things like truth, fact-checking, and the gas-leak social network

Unelected peer Tobv Youngwent to Washington to urge for trade deals to exert foreign influence From campaigning for "Parliamentary Sovereignty" during Brexit to actively supporting foreign influence open.substack.com/pub/counterd...

Unelected peer Toby Young went to Washington to urge for trade deals to exert foreign influence

From campaigning for "Parliamentary Sovereignty" during Brexit to actively supporting foreign influence

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I am taking the opportunity to once again remind you of the time Naomi Wolf thought Apple invented time machines run by vaccines

Nathan Kalman-Lamb@nkalamb.bsky.social · 8mo ago

You’ll never guess who else experienced ‘racism’ on the job market despite their unimpeachable academic credentials.

Foreigners who move to Russia on false promises and end up having a total nightmare. youtu.be/DriMNklN5Io?...

British men are moving to Russia and having a total nightmare

YouTube video by Caolan Robertson

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Farage & Putin. www.youtube.com/shorts/WixMz...

The story of Farage and Putin, told by British-Ukrainian soldier Shaun Pinner.

YouTube video by Led By Donkeys

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Driver who killed man and hurt others in Christmas Day rampage guilty of murder far-rightcriminals.com/2025/12/19/d...

Start a fire, play with a fire, get burned. It's remarkable that it's taken this long, but it's pretty clear that the power of conspiracy is now tearing MAGA apart. open.substack.com/pub/thedayof...

The power of conspiracy is tearing MAGA apart

Charlie Kirk conspiracy theories are just the latest problem. And not the last one.

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Leaked chat logs showing coordinated efforts to weaponize COVID disinformation against the people. @karambales.bsky.social has been dutifully reporting about it here.

Karam Bales@karambales.bsky.social · 8mo ago

Together Declaration Report: Part One. Directors, Founders and Launch Initially founded to oppose vaccine mandates and passports, the campaiqn group brought together the anti-vax HART group and culture war characters from the RCP/Living Marxism clique open.substack.com/pub/counterd...

Together Declaration Report: Part Two, the company one keeps The wider disinformation space Together inhabits, conferences, Brigen, Malhotra and the conspiracy theorists dinner at the Carlton Club open.substack.com/pub/counterd...

Together Declaration Report: Part Two, the company one keeps

The wider disinformation space Together inhabits, conferences, Brigen, Malhotra and the conspiracy theorists dinner at the Carlton Club

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Pretty awkward for Gullis & Tice…

No surprise to anyone who reads this article on the stuffiest of stuffed shirts, Danny Kruger, to learn that he’s also a close associate of the U.K. anti-psychiatry hive. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

‘America is British’. Heaven is ‘a socialist state’. David Attenborough is ‘anti-human’ – the startling theories of Reform MP Danny Kruger

He was a Conservative party big-hitter who wrote speeches for David Cameron and worked with Boris Johnson before he suddenly jumped ship. He talks family, flags and why Nigel Farage is ‘top dog’

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Not surprised the NHS directed women to the non-evidence based Free Birth Society. Until recently, the NHS site posted a link to the Scientology drug treatment service, Narconon. www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

NHS directed pregnant women to controversial Free Birth Society via charity

Exclusive: NHS websites pointed women to factsheet featuring podcast by ‘dangerous’ influencers linked to baby deaths

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Fuck Farage. #BackTheBEEB

When a movement that claims they are in favour of informed consent and against coercive treatment find themselves in a carnal relationship with MAHA/MAGA, things can get awkward. Be careful what you wish for.

100%. These people are stars, who were often left hung to dry by their “leadership,” especially their president, a model of weakness and capitulation. sciencebasedmedicine.org/nocensorship/

An Open Letter to the President of Stanford, Jonathan Levin: Don’t Censor Drs. Scott Atlas, John Ioannidis, Sunetra Gupta, Marty Makary, Monica Gandhi, Jay Bhattacharya, and Vinay Prasad. Amplify Th...

I trust you'll have the intellectual integrity to play videos of these speakers. Anything less, would be misinformation and censorship.

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Mallory Harris, PhD@malar0ne.bsky.social · 9mo ago

Featuring @santiagokique.bsky.social, @noupside.bsky.social, Phil Pizzo, and @jakescottmd.bsky.social. While many have understandably been intimidated into silence, they are models of actual leadership & speaking truth to power.

Three people who’d be expected to be Your Party bigwigs have largely walked away from Corbyn’s project: former NE mayor Jamie Driscoll, former Labour MP Beth Winter, and former ANC MP Andrew Feinstein. I have some new intel on the fall-out, if you’re interested in that sort of thing… 🧵

Anti-psychiatry professors when confronted with the reality of mental illness: