Crypto investor and former Tory donor Christopher Harborne has just given a record-breaking £9 million donation to Reform.
Nigel Farage has spent recent months publicly calling for deregulation of the crypto industry, telling an industry conference that "I am your champion"
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🚨No other country in the world set up an unlawful VIP lane to buy PPE during the pandemic.
£10billion+ of tax payers money wasted.
1million pallets of PPE incinerated.
🎥Watch the film here ⤵️
www.itv.com/watch/the-co...
28.11.2025 14:59 — 👍 64 🔁 39 💬 4 📌 2
📖 And why not treat yourself to the book that inspired the documentary ⤵️
bsky.app/profile/russ... @bylinetimes.bsky.social
28.11.2025 15:00 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
🚨No other country in the world set up an unlawful VIP lane to buy PPE during the pandemic.
£10billion+ of tax payers money wasted.
1million pallets of PPE incinerated.
🎥Watch the film here ⤵️
www.itv.com/watch/the-co...
28.11.2025 14:59 — 👍 64 🔁 39 💬 4 📌 2
Financier’s £8.5m flat frozen amid tax investigation over PPE deal
Tim Horlick bought the Pimlico property shortly after his company was awarded the now-contentious £255m contract by the government
🚨 Financier’s £8.5m flat frozen amid tax investigation over PPE deal
Horlick ‘bought an £8.5m London flat after supplying 50m faulty PPE masks during pandemic has had a criminal restraint order imposed on the property’ 💥
(Of course it was a VIP Lane deal 🤦🏻♂️🤦🏻♂️)
www.thetimes.com/uk/crime/art...
26.11.2025 18:49 — 👍 107 🔁 38 💬 4 📌 2
…And here’s how Michael Gove’s Spectator reported on Homelessness this Month.
(Gove is now a Judge for the Orwell Prize on “Reporting Homelessness” )
🤷♂️🤦🏻♂️
26.11.2025 07:06 — 👍 59 🔁 22 💬 2 📌 2
My latest report for @bylinetimes.bsky.social 👀⤵️
21.11.2025 16:56 — 👍 32 🔁 11 💬 0 📌 0
They missed opportunities to save lives….
But, didn’t miss opportunities for political friends to make £billions from VIP Lane PPE and Covid Testing deals..
Viplanebook.com
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20.11.2025 19:20 — 👍 31 🔁 14 💬 2 📌 0
My book viplanebook.com goes into detail about some of the horrendous decisions made by the previous government during the pandemic.
Time for some accountabilty?
@bylinetimes.bsky.social
20.11.2025 18:03 — 👍 50 🔁 20 💬 6 📌 1
‘Deeply shocking’: Nigel Farage faces fresh claims of racism and antisemitism at school
Bafta-winning director among contemporaries urging contrition and apology from Reform UK leader, who denies the allegations
🚨🚨 Huge revelations about Farage from those who knew him in his youth. On the record.
"He would be sort of singing these kind of ‘gas ’em all’ sort of songs”
“I have a very strong memory of him using the W-word...and the P-word for those of south Asian origin"
www.theguardian.com/politics/ng-...
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17.11.2025 16:29 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
🚨Since the pandemic 1million+ pallets of unused PPE have been incinerated costing the taxpayer £8.6billion!
Pallets would stretch from Lands End to John O'Groats - Up in smoke 🤯
My book VIP Lane exposes the shocking scandal. viplanebook.com
🎥ITV: The Covid Contracts
17.11.2025 16:29 — 👍 31 🔁 17 💬 2 📌 1
Thank you. 👍
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A huge thank you to everyone buying the book. It genuinely means a lot.
Please do also follow and subscribe to @bylinetimes.bsky.social and be the first to read any new investigations on the VIP Lane scandal 🙏
15.11.2025 19:42 — 👍 33 🔁 9 💬 3 📌 0
Thanks mate 🙏
Huge congratulations on the Wainwright prize too - well deserved.
15.11.2025 10:50 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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15.11.2025 07:56 — 👍 6 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
A really special moment seeing my book on display in my local book shop. Thank you Pickering Book Tree.
Made better by being surrounded by some incredible authors. Including my friend @guyshrubsole.bsky.social and his brilliant book Who owns England.
15.11.2025 07:55 — 👍 50 🔁 6 💬 4 📌 0
🗣️One week to go…
If you want to hear more about the VIP Lane scandal come join me in Pickering, North Yorkshire on the 21st November…
Tickets free. More info here:
@bylinetimes.bsky.social @yorkpress.bsky.social @yorkshirepost.co.uk
13.11.2025 16:43 — 👍 6 🔁 4 💬 1 📌 1
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🗣️One week to go…
If you want to hear more about the VIP Lane scandal come join me in Pickering, North Yorkshire on the 21st November…
Tickets free. More info here:
@bylinetimes.bsky.social @yorkpress.bsky.social @yorkshirepost.co.uk
13.11.2025 16:43 — 👍 6 🔁 4 💬 1 📌 1
ICYMI from last week ⤵️
13.11.2025 10:32 — 👍 19 🔁 11 💬 2 📌 0
A really interesting discussion with @carolecadwalla.bsky.social @sarahdonaldson.bsky.social about @thenerve.news.
Worth a listen ⤵️
12.11.2025 13:29 — 👍 18 🔁 7 💬 0 📌 0
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