Reminder: Reform UK want to import Heritage Foundation's Project 2025's blueprint to the UK. Some of the organisations that have advisory roles on Project 2025 are: Texas Public Policy Foundation, FreedomWorks, Claremont Institute, Alliance Defending Freedom and ALEC, all Koch Network.

Reform's Plans to Import Trump’s Authoritarian 'Project 2025' Blueprint to the UK

Far from defending British independence, Reform and its by-election candidate Matt Goodwin are taking blueprints - and cash - from a global network of American hardliners

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🔴 NEW - NatWest Accused of Using ‘Loopholes’ to Invest £17 Million in UK Coal Supplier Campaigners say it’s “deeply concerning” that a major British bank and former COP sponsor is supporting UK coal. 📝 @joeygrostern.bsky.social

NatWest Accused of Using ‘Loopholes’ to Invest £17 Million in UK Coal Supplier

NatWest has been slammed for investing at least £17 million in the UK’s biggest supplier of coal to the cement industry, despite pressure on banks to stop financing fossil fuels. According to document...

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Reform UK, Heritage Foundation, Koch Network. See it yet? If you think a version of Project 2025 isn't heading our way, then we're screwed even more than we already are. If you don't see it now, you never will. The UK needs to wake up, fast.

Saving Britain, Saving the West - Our Last Chance

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"Koch’s political operation is attempting to shape and help implement a U.S. AI technology agenda, which could ultimately profit Koch’s traditional oil and gas business." (from Dec 2025)

The Koch Network Is Pushing Trump to Accelerate AI, Documents Show

Right-wing political group Americans for Prosperity, backed by oil and gas billionaire Charles Koch, sees data centers as part of a larger pro-fossil fuel agenda.

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🔴 NEW 🔴 Zia Yusuf is making the trip to Trumpland tomorrow to address the Heritage Foundation - the group that wrote Trump's authoritarian, extreme second term agenda

Zia Yusuf Cosying Up to Group Behind ‘Authoritarian’ Project 2025 Agenda

Reform UK’s Zia Yusuf is set to speak tomorrow at the Heritage Foundation, the group behind the “extreme” ‘Project 2025’ playbook for Donald Trump’s second term. Yusuf, Reform’s home affairs spokesper...

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EXCLUSIVE: @bylinetimes.bsky.social exposes the Russian neo-Nazi network – promoted by Tommy Robinson – pushing 'White Lives Matter' propaganda to sow division and race war across the UK and Europe. Founded by a sanctioned oligarch close to Putin bylinetimes.com/2026/06/10/r...

Revealed: The Russian Neo-Nazi Network Pushing ‘White Lives Matter’ Division in Britain – Promoted by Tommy Robinson

As riots spread across Belfast, Tommy Robinson promoted a movement founded by a sanctioned Russian oligarch, which has pushed white supremacist propaganda about the death of Henry Nowak

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Politicians who fanned these flames should hang their heads in shame. Time and again we've seen this story play out. Single incidents used to fuel a far right narrative - and communities across the nation paying the price.

🧵 The Alliance for Responsible Citizenship is holding its yearly ARC Conference from 23-25 June 2026 at London's Olympia. Organisations like ARC are not what they appear to be. The utopia they promote is beneficial to them and the organisations they're tied to, not for you.

🧵 Nigel Farage has been linked to speaking at a Club for Growth event.

The Finance Guy@onefguy.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Farage and dark money ⚠️ alert ⚠️: the C4s are attacking. 501(c)(4) are US “social welfare” political advocacy nonprofits. Farage declared last Monday £28k "speaking engagement" (donation) from "The Club for Growth", an anti-regulation 🇺🇸 C4 vehicle with undisclosed funders.

Please take a minute to scroll through this—and share it. It's the story of our time. The Authoritarian Stack: How Tech Billionaires Are Building a Post-Democratic American—And Why Europe Is Next. www.authoritarian-stack.info

The Authoritarian Stack

How Tech Billionaires Are Building a Post-Democratic America — And Why Europe Is Next

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Pro-Israel lobby groups and individuals have donated to 13 out of Labour’s 25 cabinet members, Declassified has found. The list of recipients includes Yvette Cooper, Britain's home secretary who wants to proscribe Palestine Action as a terrorist group. www.declassifieduk.org/israel-lobby...

Israel lobby funded half of Keir Starmer’s cabinet

Exclusive: Labour’s top team has accepted hundreds of thousands of pounds from pro-Israel funders.

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World’s largest banks pledged $869bn to fossil fuel firms in 2024, new report finds Two-thirds of the biggest 65 banks increased financing by $162bn from 2023 to 2024, walking back climate promises Money over people, every single time.

World’s largest banks pledged $869bn to fossil fuel firms in 2024, new report finds

Two-thirds of the biggest 65 banks increased financing by $162bn from 2023 to 2024, walking back climate promises

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Hungary: Orbán Government Withdraws from ICC EU and Court Members Should Press Them to Reconsider, Support Justice Orban, of course, has links to the Heritage Foundation, the Koch-connected org behind Project2025.

Hungary: Orbán Government Withdraws from ICC

Hungary’s withdrawal from the International Criminal Court (ICC) is an insult to victims and survivors of the world’s worst crimes.

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Who’s funding Reform – and why? Nigel Farage says his party is a break from the political establishment. That claim doesn’t match up with its donors

These are the wealthy funders who’ve given Reform £5m

Nigel Farage says his party is a break from the political establishment. That claim doesn’t match up with its donors

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Trump Has Deployed More Troops in LA Than Syria and Iraq, Per US Counts The figures are a show of the administration’s willingness to use extreme military force on its own population.

Pentagon Now Has More Troops in LA Than in Syria and Iraq Combined, According to Public Figures

The figures are a show of the administration’s willingness to use extreme military force on its own population.

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Jordan Peterson’s ARC Project Receives $500,000 from CEO of Disgraced Pharma Firm. The anti-climate network received the donation from the owner of a company fined $47 million by the Department of Justice

Jordan Peterson’s ARC Project Receives $500,000 from CEO of Disgraced Pharma Firm

The Alliance for Responsible Citizenship (ARC), the radical right-wing network fronted by Jordan Peterson, has accepted a large sum from a pharmaceutical executive whose firm was fined $47 million by ...

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EXACTLY the kind of language I would have used in a diplomatic cable to London, describing a democracy crackdown in a third country. Here, in the US.

Stan Oklobdzija@stano.bsky.social · last yr.

"Masked security forces captured an opposition leader in the coastal province of New Jersey as regime officials continue their months-long crack-down against pro-democracy elements in the embattled United States. The arrest comes as the regime issued calls for summary detentions without trial."

⚠️ ‘Resolute 1850’: Reform UK Ltd’s MAGA plan to turn Britain into Little America Right-wing US interests are pushing a plan to bend the UK to their will, ‘DOGE’-style – in Farage’s Reform UK they have an eager little helper By Ann Moody @annaubert.bsky.social

‘Resolute 1850’: Reform UK Ltd’s MAGA plan to turn Britain into Little America

Right-wing US interests are pushing a plan to bend the UK to their will, ‘DOGE’-style – in Farage’s Reform UK they have an eager little helper

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Mainstream radio presenters like Vanessa Feltz are perfectly happy to contribute, in their own small way, to the rise of the extreme far right. Her interview with me on LBC just now was chock full of lies. Calls herself a journalist. Really I wonder how they sleep at night.

U.S. President Donald Trump on Thursday signed an executive order calling for an end to taxpayer funding for NPR (National Public Radio) and PBS (Public Broadcasting Service), an escalation of his dangerous assault on public media that could shutter hundreds of local stations across the country.

'Democracy Is on Life Support': Trump Orders Defunding of NPR and PBS | Common Dreams

"All of us who care about an independent press, an informed populace, a responsive government, and a thriving democracy have a stake in the outcome of this fight," said one press freedom advocate.

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Thames Water’s Prospective New Owner Donated $1 Million to Trump’s Inauguration "Let’s not kid ourselves that this company will swoop in and clean up our rivers and lakes."

Thames Water’s Prospective New Owner Donated $1 Million to Trump’s Inauguration

The U.S. private equity firm KKR, which has been selected as the ‘preferred bidder’ for the takeover of Thames Water, gave a seven-figure sum to Donald Trump’s inauguration committee, DeSmog can repor...

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Trump 100 days: White House action plan makes Project 2025 look mild Donald Trump tried to distance himself from the radical rightwing blueprint for government during the campaign but its prescriptions are all over the administration’s agenda Heritage Foundation, Koch network

Trump 100 days: White House action plan makes Project 2025 look mild

Donald Trump tried to distance himself from the radical rightwing blueprint for government during the campaign but its prescriptions are all over the administration’s agenda

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Exclusive: Government hands private firms £3bn in bid to ‘stop the boats’

Exclusive: Government hands private firms £3bn in bid to ‘stop the boats’

Research reveals the business of Channel security is booming, as companies profit off asylum seekers’ desperation

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How Project 2025 became the blueprint for Donald Trump’s second term The Heritage Foundation, the right-wing Washington think tank which published Project 2025, has provided policy guidance for Republican presidents since the Reagan administration. Koch network

How Project 2025 became the blueprint for Donald Trump’s second term

Trump denied knowing much about the Heritage Foundation’s programme for power. But his first 100 days shows he is following its recommendations.

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‘100-year timeframe’: how Project 2025 is guiding Trump’s attack on government David A Graham’s latest book considers the vast far-right plan to change US politics – and why its architects are playing the long game

‘100-year timeframe’: how Project 2025 is guiding Trump’s attack on government

David A Graham’s latest book considers the vast far-right plan to change US politics – and why its architects are playing the long game

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There is nothing better than citizen investigations. This article exposes Tufton Street’s far reaching tentacles and their ties to the GWPF /2 #TruthToPower @stephencantellow.bsky.social @kentandsurreybylines.co.uk kentandsurreybylines.co.uk/politics/dem...

Hedge Fund Boss Paul Marshall Bet Big on Elon Musk Before Trump’s Election The UK media baron trebled his shareholding in Tesla, while his outlets pumped out pro-Musk content. Marshall is one of the directors for the Alliance for Responsible Citizenship.

Hedge Fund Boss Paul Marshall Bet Big on Elon Musk Before Trump’s Election

Right-wing media owner Paul Marshall bought a large stake in Elon Musk’s company Tesla prior to the U.S. presidential election, DeSmog can reveal. At the same time, Marshall’s outlets were regularly p...

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Right-wing push to dismantle the EU: Heritage Foundation’s private workshop After seizing control of the US government, the Heritage Foundation turns its attention to the EU Excellent as always from Ann Moody.

Right-wing push to dismantle the EU: Heritage Foundation’s private workshop

After seizing control of the US government, the Heritage Foundation turns its attention to the EU

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