Annie
@seasideannie.bsky.social
Literature, theatre, cats, tennis and walking. Survived complications of heart surgery thanks to brilliant NHS staff and thankful for everyday,
Police Scotland assess Reform UK election spending ‘errors’ www.heraldscotland.com/news/2664733...
Reform UK admits ‘errors’ as police assess Holyrood election spending
Police Scotland is assessing whether Reform UK Holyrood candidates broke Holyrood election spending rules.
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On Question Time last night, I talked about the extractive economic model that has left Wales - and many other nations - impoverished *because they were so rich in resources*. You can see the problem simply by looking at the map: the infrastructure looks like a drainage system.
Trump’s a Russian asset, Farage’s party is a racist enterprise, Putin wanted Brexit & if you tried to make a list of all the UK politicians & pundits who’ve backed all three, you’d be here for hours.
NEW | On disappearing stories… MICHAEL GOVE, LOLA SALEM, AND A SUDDEN SILENCE Why did a series of newspaper stories vanish and why are right-wing organisations involved in a coordinated campaign to forget about one particular contributor? brokenbottleboy.substack.com/p/michael-go...
Michael Gove, Lola Salem, and a sudden silence
Why did a series of newspaper stories vanish and why are right-wing organisations involved in a coordinated campaign to forget about one particular contributor?
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Dear tv and radio producers. Thankyou for the invitation. But, no, I do not want to appear on your show to defend the idea that I am English, after 50 years of living and working here, because the increasingly feral right want to turn this into a "debate" and you cannot see how you're being played
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Dark Enlightenment: The US Far-Right War on British Institutions Help Byline Times Fund aN URGENT New INVESTIGATIVE SERIES #LightUpTheDark What is the Dark Enlightenment? The extraordinary anti-DEI me...
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The super-power of Nigel Farage ... "AbsenteeMan" meme via Stephen Fisher
Braverman blathering on about who can be English, Farage starting his me-me-me tour of the country telling audiences he’ll fix the country in 100 days or they’ll all sack themselves… apart from him… and Yusuf fanboying that racist thug who got refused bail… A moron festival. Come on, UK. Enough now.
Raymond Antrobus, Booker Prize 2026 judge, on how fiction can expand a reader – and why it's limiting to say who a book can (or can't) be for. This clip is provided courtesy of the Southbank Centre, and you can watch the full Booker Prize 2026 shortlist event here: www.youtube.com/live/flqqU7b...
📌 ICYMI — Rupert Murdoch Flew Kemi Badenoch and Her Deputy to Mediterranean for Summer Trips Worth £12,000 — @josiahmortimer.bsky.social The Conservative leader and Alex Burghart MP held "off-site meetings" with the billionaire media mogul in August
Rupert Murdoch Flew Kemi Badenoch and Her Deputy to Mediterranean for Summer Trips Worth £12,000
The Conservative leader and Alex Burghart MP held "off-site meetings" with the billionaire media mogul in August
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Something very strange and disturbing is happening in this country, of which Braverman is just the most pitiful example. iandunt.substack.com/p/the-return...
The return of race politics
Ethnic minority politicians on the right are engaged in depraved acts of self-hatred, in order to capture a movement which will never accept them
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I saw my neighbor talking to her cat. It was obvious the poor woman thought her cat could understand her. When I got home, I told my dog and we had a good laugh!!!
“The trouble with you, Spode, is that just because you have succeeded in inducing a handful of half-wits to disfigure the London scene by going about in black shorts, you think you’re someone. You hear them shouting “Heil, Spode!” and you imagine it is the Voice of the People.” Bertie Wooster
Ban us from your conference, this is what happens 😉
Byline Times@bylinetimes.bsky.social · 2mo agoOur undercover reporter, Chris Atkins, posed as a far-right journalist at the Reform Conference and got thrown out for asking difficult questions about Farage's corruption scandal @scatatkins.bsky.social
Arrest them all. Shut down the operation.
HOPE not hate@hopenothate.org.uk · 2mo ago🚨 BREAKING: Patriot Platform, a new far right group launched by Tommy Robinson’s right hand man Daniel Thomas (AKA Danny Tommo) has blockaded the port and several roads in Dover. The masked men are from subgroups of PP, including Sussex, Essex, and South East Patriots Here’s all you need to know.
I mean this is just an open invitation to get photoshopped into ridicule.
The journalists banned by Reform. Well, some of them. And the unravelling of Farage. podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/f...
Farage’s "party of free speech" banned the journalists
Podcast Episode · James O'Brien Daily · 3 September · 1hr 1min
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I had not some across this before, but if you want an example Nathan Cofnas’ scholarship, this is a doozy. Again I say, being sacked is not the problem; being recruited in the first place is what deserves scrutiny.
