Ryfford
@ryfford.bsky.social
British emigrant on a Greek island since before the madness happened. Cats, dogs, wife. Proud member, Guardian reading Wokerati. Grumpy curmudgeon. DMs = block. MAGA bimbos and Crypto touts, irrespective of cleavage pics or pouting = block. Atheist.
#trump A picture tells a thousand words. - Admin ExSquid
I love the MSM framing of the headline: 'Trump-linked oil firm prepare to drill'. The correct headline should be 'US invades sovereign country, Greenland'. That's what this is and some would call that an act of war. Greenland and allies should blow the hell out of them. F*ck the mango 💩 stain!
Most X accounts posting about Belfast and Southampton unrest were based outside UK
Most X accounts posting about Belfast and Southampton unrest were based outside UK
Exclusive: Analysis shows 55% of accounts were located overseas – and seven of 12 most-read posts came from US More than half the accounts that posted on Elon Musk’s X about the rioting in Belfast and the civil disorder in Southampton in June were based outside the UK, an analysis by the Guardian can reveal. Of the 8,672 accounts whose combined posts about the events exceeded 1,000 views, just 45.3% were shown as from the UK, according to the social media platform’s own location function. Continue reading...
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“Lowe's language is the language of expulsion… So while Lowe struts around his acres, people in Thetford are having their windows smashed and facing chants of "we want them out".” It’s Farage’s language too though. Two cheeks. Same arse. www.independent.co.uk/voices/ruper...
Rupert Lowe is becoming the most dangerous useful idiot in Britain
Nigel Farage has been given some brief breathing room in the race to the bottom of Britain’s far-right thanks to his nemesis, Rupert Lowe, writes David Aaronovitch
independent.co.uk
Trump has led the US to an historic defeat in Iran and now - finally! - people are starting to pay attention.
Trump Thought Opening the Strait of Hormuz Was Imminent. Iran Had Other Plans. — The Wall Street Journal
Tehran’s new demands for major concessions come days after the White House had signaled a deal to clear commercial passage was within reach
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Arron Banks ‘put free speech at risk’ by having reporter investigated
Arron Banks ‘put free speech at risk’ by having reporter investigated
Tory peer condemns businessman who told firm to look into The Sunday Times after Insight reports on Reform’s funding
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The RNC will tell the truth from time to time, only unintentionally. 😂
I am begging @lewisgoodall.com and other British journalists to understand that Europeans no longer consider intra-European migration to be migration. All the conversation about emergency brakes is about non-Europeans. Until the UK understands that, it can’t even start the conversation.
"Dear Diary Had a very productive week announcing big plans to introduce legislation about employing illegal workers, even though it already exists and deciding to sue the National Crime Agency for having the temerity to investigate my finances"
Climate denial is getting louder. Reality is getting harder to ignore. When parks are brown, rivers are shrinking and firefighters are battling blazes across the globe, governments must accelerate climate action, not slow it down.
This burning summer is the proof: the voices of climate denial aren’t just delusional, they’re deadly | Sadiq Khan
Look at our blazing forests and parched cities. Green policies aren’t a ‘luxury’, and we can’t burn more oil and gas. People need the truth, says London mayor Sadiq Khan
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“Large donations from corporations and rich individuals distort our politics in favour of the rich and powerful…Reform has received millions of pounds from crypto billionaires and fossil fuel interests…” bylinetimes.com/2026/08/07/r...
Reform UK Accounts Raise Fresh Questions About Origins of Richard Tice Donations
Newly published accounts reveal a pattern of loans being channelled through firms run by Nigel Farage's Deputy
bylinetimes.com
Italian researchers found that semi-transparent solar panels over olive groves increased olive yields by 12%, reduced water evaporation by 19%, generated clean electricity, and even improved olive oil quality. 🌿⚡🫒 #Agrivoltaics #RenewableEnergy #Sustainability #ClimateSolutions
Eh, no. The opposite is true. European governments were royally fed up of feeding the British euroskeptic crocodile. They wanted to tell Cameron to do one. Opt-out from ever-closer union was too much. An optout from the 4 freedoms would have destroyed the union. 1 H/T @dextercrisp.bsky.social
The News Agents@thenewsagents.co.uk · 3d ago"I don't think it was fully realised how clear and present the danger was of the UK leaving the EU." Nick Thomas_symonds, (former EU relations minister) and Lewis Goodall on whether the EU was "crazy" not to give the UK more when Brexit happened
Astonishing that there hasn't been a scintilla of learning in the Brit elite in eleven years: it's still 'the EU foolishly isolated itself from us. Now it lacks vim, vigour, pluck and stif upper lip, vital products only we can supply. It must repent and give us free SM access"
Niall Ó Conghaile@nialloconghaile.bsky.social · 3d agoEh, no. The opposite is true. European governments were royally fed up of feeding the British euroskeptic crocodile. They wanted to tell Cameron to do one. Opt-out from ever-closer union was too much. An optout from the 4 freedoms would have destroyed the union. 1 H/T @dextercrisp.bsky.social
there’s a lesson in there for the pro-EU movement. The rejoin debate will not win on rational figures alone. But on emotion as well. Do we belong in, will we stand together. Is our destiny tied to them - and do we want that?
2) Would it have changed the referendum result? Might I suggest a hard no on that. If you watch the UK migration debate what stands out is that no limit seems enough for those driving the debate. No argument (what about nurses? Researchers? Students? Agri workers?) of self harm affects the debate.
Nigel Farage trusts the markets, not the NHS. When you’re “gifted” £5m and earn more money through outside roles than doing your job as MP, you don’t have to worry about healthcare being free at the point of delivery.
Jared Kushner out strolling for property in Cuba.
Guilherme Briggs as Dracula
ALT: Guilherme Briggs as Dracula
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Since water services were sold off by Thatcher to be run for private profit, the water companies have: - amassed debts of over £50bn - paid £78bn to shareholders - raised their CEO pay to £1-3 million a year - lose 2.87bn litres of water a day through leaky pipes - polluted EVERY river
Your weekend reminder Nigel Farage wants to - leave the ECHR - repeal the Equality Act - Strip back workers rights - Lift restrictions on exploitative zero-hours contracts - repeal the Renters’ Rights Act which abolishes “no fault evictions” youtu.be/KxOQRt8PQys?...
If UK media actually explained Nigel Farage’s policies to the public no one would be supporting him
YouTube video by Peter Stefanovic
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