Steven Thomas
@stryer.bsky.social
A(n) historian who is concerned for liberty.
They're stupid but they'll still reach people. Pull the plug on Russian internet access asap.
Brandy Zadrozny@brandyzadrozny.bsky.social · 12h agoGet in, folks: a new Russian disinfo campaign is targeting the midterms, specifically Democrats, in what seems to be the first attempt by the Kremlin-backed op to meddle in this year’s U.S. elections. They're faking celebrity videos attacking Dems and are...very stupid. www.ms.now/news/russia-...
Read their comments. They're insane, and it just shows that even if you get rid of Trump, the USA still has a massive problem that needs fixing. Education first and foremost.
George Takei@georgetakei.bsky.social · 4h agoShowing their true colors.
Oh FFS. Can't there just be one crypto billionaire who isn't a massive racist trying to destroy our civilisation? Share this, people need this context when discussing the donation. Heaven knows the media won't bring it up.
Luke Turner@luketurner.com · 2h agoAs Ben Delo's record £36m Reform donation is headline news, I can't emphasise enough that the media ought to be reporting on Delo's heinous funding of antisemitic conspiracy theorists in the High Court – anonymous contributors to the horrifying neo-Nazi account shown below. bsky.app/profile/luke...
🚨 NEW BLOGPOST 🚨 The last week has seen multiple incidents of masked mobs trying to subvert the power of the state. Their actions have been illegal and unpleasant. But the treatment has been weak. The police haven't dealt with it, and neither has govt. open.substack.com/pub/joxleywr...
Stop the Louts
The tools exist. The will, so far, doesn't.
open.substack.com
Did Kent Police ignore Dover blockade 999 call? We can reveal the story that undermines the public statement of Kent Police. 🧵
If I was the Prime Minister the Home Sec, the Chief Constables of Hampshire, Kent and the Met, and the head of MI5 would all be in pieces on the floor of my office. I would be pinning medals on RNLI volunteers and I would be at the Pakistan U19 game. Where is Andy Burnham?
NEW: London has among the lowest violent crime rates in England & Wales, tops a ranking of best cities, and pays more in tax than it gets back – but the public overestimate crime risk, underestimate its standing, and don't know it's a net fiscal contributor. Our latest Mistaken Britain study ⬇️
London misperceptions: public often wrong on capital's crime, quality of life, contribution to public finances and Muslim population | King's College London
A third believe there are "no-go" areas ruled by Sharia law
kcl.ac.uk
French EDF Energy in talks to buy British So Energy as UK supply market consolidates. EDF is owned by the French govt. UK profits exported to reduce French household energy bills. Nationalisation of energy would give UK govt more economic options.
French EDF Energy in talks to acquire smaller British rival So Energy
France's EDF Energy is reportedly in discussions to buy So Energy, the smaller British supplier whose Irish parent company has put it up for sale, in a deal that would add to a renewed wave of consoli...
euronews.com
La cheffe de l'AFD, Alice Weidel, est : -Patriote allemande mais vit et paie ses impôts en Suisse et soutient la Russie -Contre les LGBT mais vit avec sa femme. -Contre les migrants mais sa femme est du Sri Lanka. -Contre l'adoption par les couples LGBT mais a adopté 2 enfants. HYPOCRITE !!!!
Why do I get the feeling that they still won't.
Peter Geoghegan@petergeoghegan.bsky.social · 5d agoThe Channel 4 exposé "will make it even harder for Reform to attract donors, legal or otherwise. And it has given the Labour government the best excuse it ever needed to take money out of British politics." New by me on @zeteo.com UK zeteo.uk/p/anti-forei...
For those following the panic about the German election - in which an overtly neo-Nazi party declared an extremist group by Germany's intelligence service won big in an election in one of Germany's 16 federal states . . . here are some reasons not to panic:
The Southport riots in 2024 felt like rage spilling into our streets. The Dover and Portsmouth protests feel far more planned, far more organised. And, frankly, they scare me a hell of a lot more.
What Happened In Dover and Portsmouth Should Scare Us
Not because hundreds of men protested, but because they appeared disciplined, coordinated and ready to do it again.
bearlypolitics.co.uk
I'm not sure 2 years is enough... And I'll wager his views are identical to those in certain parties or engaging in road blocking antics.
Self-described 'racist monster' Thomas Webster jailed after BBC investigation
A former tax worker is sentenced to two years for inciting hatred online.
bbc.co.uk
Democracy must be stronger than to meekly give in and work with people and organisations actively seeking its destruction
Germany's AfD calls for parties to work with it after Saxony-Anhalt win
The far-right party is trying to form a government in the state after falling three seats short of a majority.
bbc.co.uk
Raise the Colours co-founder Ryan Bridge was at Reform UK’s national conference, where he was handed a microphone, praised by Farage, Braverman and offered legal help. Tonight, Thames Valley Police confirmed that Bridge has been charged with 14 offences #ReformCriminals
I clearly lack imagination because I can't picture the kind of voter who might vote Labour in the next election but not if they come out forcefully against black-uniformed balaclava wearing thugs blockading infrastructure. Who is this mystical beast, and are we sure s/he lives in a marginal?
Yesterday's Dover situation, ongoing scandals with Reform, and the rise of the international far right have prompted me to write a few things. Here's the first. I'm obviously not a journalist or politics expert. I'm a historian, which gives perspective, but I strongly feel *everyone* must speak up.
What Are Our Tough New Protest Laws For?
Dover exposes a contradiction in the way laws are being enforced
angryhistorseye.substack.com
One of the disturbing things I've read. Peter Thiel (Palantir & architect of project 2025) donated to Cambridge during Prof Orr's recruitment. Orr is Reform's head of policy & remains a Prof. He allegedly is running a RW cult & is funded by RW US think-tanks! Serious transparency & safeguarding🚩🚩🚩
James Orr: Reform UK's Religious Cambridge Professor’s Politics of Contradictions
Nigel Farage’s Head of Policy provides a veneer of respectability to a politics that seeks fewer restraints, fewer mediating institutions, and less liberal democracy
bylinetimes.com
Just when you already thought Orr was a wrongun… 21percent.org?p=4327
The Curious Case of James Orr - 21percent.org
James Orr is an Associate Professor at Cambridge's Faculty of Divinity and, since February 2026, Head of Policy at Reform UK. He has described Nigel Farage's party as an "insurgent right-wing force" a...
21percent.org
This was in the Byline Times article on him from a few weeks ago
So, if I understand Nigel Farage's argument correctly it is: "Everyone I trusted and elevated into a position of responsibility is constantly doing crimes that benefit me but of which I somehow have no knowledge. I am a man with the character, judgement, and intelligence to run the country." Ok.
Content warning: Multiple men violently assault a female protester at Reform's conference at the Birmingham NEC, to the visible delight of Nigel Farage.
All those British politicians like Badenoch and Farage who were such huge fans of Trump and Javier Milei should be asked repeatedly to state where they stand now... and what's changed
"Orr’s position of influence, as well as his public statements proposing to recruit Cambridge students, are testament to a violation of the student-teacher relationship...The University needs to understand their responsibility in instances like these." www.varsity.co.uk/comment/30532
Cambridge doesn’t need another Cofnas
Duncan Paterson argues that the recent appointment of James Orr, alongside his role as Professor in the Faculty of Divinity, as senior adviser to Reform UK must be condemned for what it is
varsity.co.uk
If you’d like to know more about James Orr, here’s this week’s @ftweekend Magazine cover story as.ft.com/r/2ba39ce2-9...
James Orr and the gospel of the new British right
Reform’s policy head is a Cambridge theologian with an enviable contact book and a belief in ‘faith, family and flag’
as.ft.com
James Orr in this excellent undercover sting of dodgy funding to Reform UK (expose Channel 4 news) describing the electoral commission officers in less than charitable terms. If you want to know who Orr is, my report for @bylinetimes.bsky.social gives context. bylinetimes.com/2025/08/26/j...
