David Parkes

Given that the BBC endlessly gives platforms to lobbyists from the dark money junktanks without revealing their interests, shouldn't we be seeing such apologies every day?

Better still, how about not doing it? If they want to appear, we should know on whose behalf they are speaking.

Petition: Call a public inquiry into Russian influence on UK politics & democracy We are concerned about reported efforts from Russia to influence democracy in the US, UK, Europe and elsewhere. We believe we must establish the depth and breadth of possible Russian influence campaig...

Иigel Faяage would really hate it if you signed and shared this petition.

I suspect ьoяis Johиsoи would too.

Newmarket MP Matt Hancock gave a £37bn Covid testing contract to Jockey Club director Dido Harding, who subcontracted it to Grand National sponsor Randox, employer of Tory MP Owen Paterson, whose late wife chaired Aintree racecourse. That's how the Tories handled the pandemic.

I'll also send one of these and a print entirely for free to one person who reposts this.

I know people love this book and I will not let it be lost.

I will not let my ex-publishers, who ran off with £20,000+ of my combined earnings from it and six other books, win.

Many thanks for any shares.

A man I met high in the Peak District who, due to crimes he would not disclose to me, had been turned into two conjoined Sycamore trees by a coven of witches and condemned to spend eternity waving his useless branch hands at the cold, cruel sky.

THREAD. A collection of photographs of excellent trees I have met on walks.

You will find the captions to each photo in the alt text.

BBC News bulletins leading on the story of an Algerian man being mistakenly released by the prison service.

Funnily enough I don't remember these cases ever leading the bulletins when an average of ten prisoners were mistakenly released a month in the final year of the last Government

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For centuries we answered to the bell. Sound as community structure, the peel of bells across the fields for worship and warning, then the doorbell and the telephone. Now its a ping from our machines, we’re still still attuned to summons, shaped by sound - some by dog whistles

Just got tickets for the Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui.
A small-time crook with big boss ambitions.
Feeding on fear, Ui's influence gains dangerous momentum and his venom threatens to seep through the city – and beyond. This is a man on a mission for power. Will anyone stop him?

No sudden rupture is now required for the far right to take power in this country. For what we're seeing is a steady normalisation of extremists by the Conservative and Labour Parties, BBC, Telegraph, Mail and others. A shift once considered unthinkable beings to look acceptable, even inevitable.🧵

Love this book, so timely. An extraordinary true story of ex-servicemen fighting fascism in post-war Britain. By Daniel Sonabend

A timely reminder, from the market place the Leicester Plaque jtojhumanrights.org.uk/local-storie....
@spaincivilwartours.bsky.social

Rising Christian nationalism: a threat to us all Scenes on Saturday of Christian preachers denouncing ‘Secular Humanism’ from the main stage of Tommy Robinson’s radical right Unite the Kingdom rally in London may have been surprising to see on the s...

We need to be very clear about this.

Rising Christian nationalism is a threat to us all.

humanists.uk/2025/09/17/r...

The Nigel Farage who wrote this about Charlie Kirk's murder will be furious at the Nigel Farage who made Lucy Connolly a star of the Reform conference

What are the Boris Files and what do they reveal about former PM’s conduct? Leaked material from Johnson’s private office raises serious questions relating to his time in No 10 and since he resigned

EXCLUSIVE - Today the Guardian is publishing the Boris Files

A trove of leaked data from the office of Boris Johnson.

It reveals how Johnson is using the relationships forged in the UK’s highest elected office to facilitate his personal enrichment.

www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

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The Fake Patriotism of Nigel Farage Despite his claims to love this country, few politicians have done more to undermine its interests and assist its enemies than the leader of Reform

🔴The Fake Patriotism of Nigel Farage

Despite his claims to love this country, few politicians have done more to undermine its interests and assist its enemies than the leader of Reform

www.adambienkov.co.uk/p/the-fake-p...

Quisling

Nigel Farage looks uncomfortable as Jamie Raskin uses his opening statement to absolutely demolish him

Writers declare against Fascism. Pamphlet 1938

Delighted to see a Weird Walk sign on Saltersford Lane today, a pre conquest salters lane near Alton Staffordshire

The Davis Downside Dossier David Davis famously said there would be no downsides to Brexit only considerable upsides - so we started recording them.

I'm still stunned that @yorkshirebylines.co.uk put in the huge effort to collect all press-reported downsides of Brexit (David Davis had said there would be "none"!)...

...and has the sheer patience to collect 2,000 discrete incidences via media reports before giving up.

Bremainers Ask ....... Zoe Gardner - Bremain in Spain Bremain in Spain is campaigning for a strong & close relationship with the EU and to protect the rights of British migrants living in Spain.

Did Brexit cause the small boats?

Are any countries managing immigration well?

How do I stay calm when arguing with dickheads?

What can we all do to fight back against the hate?

Wonderful questions from the @bremaininspain.com community :) - my answers here www.bremaininspain.com/bremainers-a...

The UK electricity is already the most expensive in the world.
Price set to rise again in October as Ofgem's pricing formula lets companies rip people off.

Who protects the people?

As several have pointed out, this also applies to the massive (100,000 or so) Trans Pride event. Almost entirely blanked.

Is the BBC now the official mouthpiece for Reform? A study of the BBC’s Question Time has raised concerns about representation and political impartiality

Is the BBC Reform UK's mouthpiece? Yup.

"Researchers at Cardiff University have produced a detailed analysis of every episode of the BBC’s flagship Question Time programme broadcast between September 2014 and July 2023 to see if the broadcaster was balancing political viewpoints."

So National Front policies have been mainstreamed by a party with four MPs, thanks to a media that's more interested in sensationslism than actual news. Shame on all of them.

Noggin the Nog

I for one am tremendously enjoying King and Conqueror

Reform UK, which has a grand total of four MPs, was just given an uninterrupted platform for an hour and a half on the BBC and Sky News channels, in order to talk about its plans for mass deportations

When was the last time the Greens (with four MPs) or the Lib Dems (with 72) were given the same?

Government supporting four out of six of UK’s steel companies Intervention at Speciality Steel deepens taxpayer support for struggling but strategically important sector

Corporate welfare

UK public purse propping up four out of six of UK steel companies.

Profiteering by energy companies making many businesses unviable.

Neoliberals not complaining - Shareholders collect returns in energy/steel but public bears the cost.
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