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Claire Jones

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Politics writer for West England Bylines and co-ordinator for the democracy campaign group, Compass Oxfordshire. Topics: democracy, electoral reform, far right ideologies, disinformation, Labour, etc. https://westenglandbylines.co.uk/author/clairejones/

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The octopus and the handmaid: Reform’s Epsteinian cultural agenda From Epstein’s web to Reform’s proposed raft of policy ideas, creeping misogyny now risks redefining women’s rights in Britain

For International Womens Day, Claire Jones exlores Reform's Epsteinian outlook and calls for women from across the political spectrum to come together to halt this poisonous backward slide on human rights -

westenglandbylines.co.uk/politics/hum...

08.03.2026 09:48 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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The octopus and the handmaid: Reform’s Epsteinian cultural agenda From Epstein’s web to Reform’s proposed raft of policy ideas, creeping misogyny now risks redefining women’s rights in Britain

For International Womens Day, Claire Jones exlores Reform's Epsteinian outlook and calls for women from across the political spectrum to come together to halt this poisonous backward slide on human rights -

westenglandbylines.co.uk/politics/hum...

08.03.2026 09:47 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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The octopus and the handmaid: Reform’s Epsteinian cultural agenda From Epstein’s web to Reform’s proposed raft of policy ideas, creeping misogyny now risks redefining women’s rights in Britain

For International Womens Day, Claire Jones exlores Reform's Epsteinian outlook and calls for women from across the political spectrum to come together to halt this poisonous backward slide on human rights -

westenglandbylines.co.uk/politics/hum...

08.03.2026 09:46 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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The octopus and the handmaid: Reform’s Epsteinian cultural agenda From Epstein’s web to Reform’s proposed raft of policy ideas, creeping misogyny now risks redefining women’s rights in Britain

For International Womens Day, Claire Jones exlores Reform's Epsteinian outlook and calls for women from across the political spectrum to come together to halt this poisonous backward slide on human rights -

westenglandbylines.co.uk/politics/hum...

08.03.2026 09:46 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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The octopus and the handmaid: Reform’s Epsteinian cultural agenda From Epstein’s web to Reform’s proposed raft of policy ideas, creeping misogyny now risks redefining women’s rights in Britain

For International Womens Day, Claire Jones exlores Reform's Epsteinian outlook and calls for women from across the political spectrum to come together to halt this poisonous backward slide on human rights -

westenglandbylines.co.uk/politics/hum...

08.03.2026 09:46 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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The octopus and the handmaid: Reform’s Epsteinian cultural agenda From Epstein’s web to Reform’s proposed raft of policy ideas, creeping misogyny now risks redefining women’s rights in Britain

For International Womens Day, Claire Jones exlores Reform's Epsteinian outlook and calls for women from across the political spectrum to come together to halt this poisonous backward slide on human rights -

westenglandbylines.co.uk/politics/hum...

08.03.2026 09:45 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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The octopus and the handmaid: Reform’s Epsteinian cultural agenda From Epstein’s web to Reform’s proposed raft of policy ideas, creeping misogyny now risks redefining women’s rights in Britain

For International Womens Day, Claire Jones exlores Reform's Epsteinian outlook and calls for women from across the political spectrum to come together to halt this poisonous backward slide on human rights -

westenglandbylines.co.uk/politics/hum...

08.03.2026 09:45 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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The octopus and the handmaid: Reform’s Epsteinian cultural agenda From Epstein’s web to Reform’s proposed raft of policy ideas, creeping misogyny now risks redefining women’s rights in Britain

For International Womens Day, Claire Jones exlores Reform's Epsteinian outlook and calls for women from across the political spectrum to come together to halt this poisonous backward slide on human rights -

westenglandbylines.co.uk/politics/hum...

08.03.2026 09:44 — 👍 3    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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Kristi Noem Is Leaving a Trail of Death Behind Her in ICE Jails Two more deaths in ICE custody were reported this week, including a refugee who died after an untreated toothache.

Two more deaths in ICE custody were reported this week, including a refugee who died after an untreated toothache.
buff.ly/V4e2eYc

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Did baby boomers eat all the pies? John Lanchester on the truth about the generation gap It’s a grim time to be in your 20s, no doubt, but don’t blame it all on older people: being chopped up into ever smaller rivalries only serves the market

“Brexit.. caused the biggest voluntary loss of rights in British history, and economically was somewhere on the spectrum between a mistake and a disaster… The old voted to jeopardise the economic prospects of the young.”

www.theguardian.com/inequality/2...

08.03.2026 08:01 — 👍 26    🔁 14    💬 4    📌 0

Agreed Inge. But knowledge is power. First we learn what we are up against. Then we fight back.

08.03.2026 09:42 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Yeo. Hard to get one's head round. But we have to - because it's back.

08.03.2026 08:52 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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The octopus and the handmaid: Reform’s Epsteinian cultural agenda From Epstein’s web to Reform’s proposed raft of policy ideas, creeping misogyny now risks redefining women’s rights in Britain

westenglandbylines.co.uk/politics/hum...

"Reform policy creators are re-positioning society in ways that orientate male thinking towards a future ofj increased sexual abuse"

Claire Jones writes for West England Bylines to commemorate International Womens Day -

07.03.2026 17:08 — 👍 5    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0
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The octopus and the handmaid: Reform’s Epsteinian cultural agenda From Epstein’s web to Reform’s proposed raft of policy ideas, creeping misogyny now risks redefining women’s rights in Britain

@lgbtiscotland.bsky.social
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"Reform policy creators are re-positioning society in ways that orientate male thinking towards a future of increased sexual abuse"

Claire Jones writes for West England Bylines to commemorate International Womens Day -

07.03.2026 17:07 — 👍 5    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0
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The octopus and the handmaid: Reform’s Epsteinian cultural agenda From Epstein’s web to Reform’s proposed raft of policy ideas, creeping misogyny now risks redefining women’s rights in Britain

westenglandbylines.co.uk/politics/hum...

"Reform policy creators are re-positioning society in ways that orientate male thinking towards a future of increased sexual abuse"

Claire Jones writes for West England Bylines to commemorate International Womens Day -

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The octopus and the handmaid: Reform’s Epsteinian cultural agenda From Epstein’s web to Reform’s proposed raft of policy ideas, creeping misogyny now risks redefining women’s rights in Britain

westenglandbylines.co.uk/politics/hum...

"Reform policy creators are re-positioning society in ways that orientate male thinking towards a future of increased sexual abuse"

Claire Jones writes for West England Bylines to commemorate International Womens Day -

07.03.2026 17:05 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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The octopus and the handmaid: Reform’s Epsteinian cultural agenda From Epstein’s web to Reform’s proposed raft of policy ideas, creeping misogyny now risks redefining women’s rights in Britain

westenglandbylines.co.uk/politics/hum...

"Reform policy creators are re-positioning society in ways that orientate male thinking towards a future of increased sexual abuse"

Claire Jones writes for West England Bylines to commemorate International Womens Day -

07.03.2026 17:04 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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The octopus and the handmaid: Reform’s Epsteinian cultural agenda From Epstein’s web to Reform’s proposed raft of policy ideas, creeping misogyny now risks redefining women’s rights in Britain

westenglandbylines.co.uk/politics/hum...

"Reform policy creators are re-positioning society in ways that orientate male thinking towards a future ofj increased sexual abuse"

Claire Jones writes for West England Bylines to commemorate International Womens Day -

06.03.2026 23:50 — 👍 12    🔁 5    💬 0    📌 2

The name of Trump's latest military foray reminds us they are a bunch of small boys drunk on power.

‘Operation Epic Fury’ is the kind of name my lads would have given their garden war games with Lego helicopters & Playmobile warships.

Except they were 7yrs & didn't wipe out a classroom of kids.

03.03.2026 08:50 — 👍 16    🔁 6    💬 1    📌 1
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The political effects of X’s feed algorithm - Nature Among users initially on a chronological feed, 7 weeks of exposure to X’s algorithmic feed in 2023 shifted political attitudes and account-following behaviour in a more conservative direction compared...

Brainwashing, 2026 edition. This paper shows how X's algorithmic feed shifts people's views rightwards. It's a sophisticated, highly effective form of reorientation. And it is utterly chilling.
If you're still on that platform, unhook yourself now.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Yep. That's what I was afraid of.

23.02.2026 12:28 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I hate to have to ask but, frankly, what are the chances of women and girls not being subject to varying kinds of abuse at the detention centres, some of it along Epstein lines (see, e.g. growing allegations regarding Dilly's Blue Butterfly Zones)?

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Judges decry treatment of nursing and pregnant detainees in ICE custody The agency has declined to say whether a Biden-era policy largely barring detention for pregnant and nursing mothers remains in force.

NEW: Judges are asking increasingly pointed questions about why ICE is detaining pregnant/nursing mothers — and whether a 2021 policy sharply restricting the practice remains in force.

They’ve ordered many released, warning of threats to safety/health.

www.politico.com/news/2026/02...

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This is an incredible piece by @smencimer.bsky.social that really gets to the heart of—and the numbers that demonstrate—how terribly Trump is screwing over the communities that offered him the most support

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Farage vs Polanski: the new duopoly? The centre is giving way. Britain’s new fight could be a radical populist duel: Farage’s rage machine vs Polanski’s social justice crusade

Still way, way too high!

As the critical Gorton & Denton by election draws near, Claire Jones discusses a potential new 'Farage vs Polanski duopoly -

"Polanski will need to make the Reform curious think beyond their admiration for ‘9 jobs Nige’ westenglandbylines.co.uk/politics/far...

17.02.2026 10:24 — 👍 0    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
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America on the cusp: phones vs fascism We are watching a US inflexion point, where citizen action is confronting state violence and hardening authoritarianism. Where will it lead?

As the Trump regime massively ramps up its detention centres, Claire Jones explores the US's tense eyeball-to-eyeball confrontations between citizens and regime -

Full article in link:

westenglandbylines.co.uk/politics/ame...

17.02.2026 09:48 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Alice in Trumpland: the unhinging of politics Trump has pushed leadership and political reaction down a rabbit hole into a bewildering, menacing ‘wonderland’

A view from the UK -

17.02.2026 09:02 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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America on the cusp: phones vs fascism We are watching a US inflexion point, where citizen action is confronting state violence and hardening authoritarianism. Where will it lead?

As the Trump regime massively ramps up its detention centres, Claire Jones explores the US's tense eyeball-to-eyeball confrontations between citizens and regime -

Full article in link:

westenglandbylines.co.uk/politics/ame...

17.02.2026 08:46 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0