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Elon Musk is boosting the British right - and this shows how Elon Musk is boosting the British right - and this shows how

Vital piece of investigative reporting from Sky. They've uncovered the X algorithm which feeds users extremist right wing material from the moment they join the site. It is a far-right radicalisation engine, by design.

news.sky.com/story/the-x-...

What if there was a consensus on the tax reforms the UK needs?

What if it was backed by policy experts from think tanks across the political spectrum, from the Adam Smith Institute to the Resolution Foundation?

The consensus is real. The question is: will anyone act on it?

The men who raised the flags Nigel Farage says this summer’s movement was led by ‘ordinary people’ expressing their patriotism. That’s not what we found

"it is striking how many of the key players we have looked into — the people who have gone out of their way to put up hundreds of flags — seem anything but ordinary."

manchestermill.co.uk/the-men-who-...

Wrong.

It’s his Kongresshalle.

Dominic Grieve’s response to Nigel Farage’s ‘let’s leave the ECHR’ stunt in parliament is spot on.

‘I think we were so desperate to get out of the EU that at the time we basically came up with a very bad deal.’

Former Tory Brexit minister David Jones, who has since defected to Reform UK

#Traitors

Pecksniff: Evidence of corruption in refugee hotel contracts must remain unpublished In which Mr Pecksniff lays before his readers for their approval certain observations and speculations reflecting on the political life

* Corruption Pecksniff can’t publish: Tory donor gets rich off asylum contract
* Polls show fears over immigration are media-driven, not real-life
* Tory HQ loses contact with 1 in 5 local parties

Read this and more in the latest diary ⤵️

@eastangliabylines.co.uk @pecksniffsdiary.bsky.social

Farage: epic grifter

Sadly, there's a lot to be said for Marina Hyde's analysis here. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Yes, it does make pissing into the bottle tricky.
But why piss in the bottle Carol?

‘Thick as Thieves’: Nathan Gill and Nigel Farage’s Putin Problem Far from being distant from the Reform UK Leader, insiders told Byline Times that the former MEP convicted of bribery was one of Farage’s closest aides, while we reveal how Gill worked on the Kremlin’...

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@bylinetimes.bsky.social can now reveal that, during the crucial period when convicted Reform leader Nathan Gill was most active, working directly with Russian President Vladimir Putin’s most senior ally in Ukraine, he was also one of Nigel Farage’s closest confidantes 1/12

Johnson’s cull of MPs prepared to tell the truth about Brexit consigned the Tories to the absurdity & irrelevance they currently enjoy. The media’s pitiful complicity in & failure to explain this lets Farage move in to the vacated space despite embodying the stupidity & bigotry that did for them.

The express poll asking whether reforms migrangt visa plan is racist is about 91% "no" so it REALLY needs your help - this is a direct link to poll

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Douglas Barrowman and Michelle Mone's company, PPE Medpro, has just been ordered to refund the Government £122m from a PPE contract.

There are two very odd things about PPE Medpro that may affect the odds of the Government ever getting that £122m...

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Pensioners aren’t out of work.

TV tonight: an essential record of the Covid contracts scandal An investigation into the extent of greed and deception in PPE provision. Plus: weird drama Coldwater goes off the rails. Here’s what to watch this evening

Proud to contribute frontline testimony to tonight's enraging @itvx.com documentary "The Covid Contracts: Follow the Money".

Boris Johnson's govt squandered £8.7 billion on unusable PPE, while grifters like Michelle Mone made millions.

Tonight, 10.15pm, ITV1.

www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...

Listen carefully to what Jimmy Kimmel said...

Welcome to Rip-Off Britain.

A country remade by privatisation.

Our latest project — Who Owns Britain? — explores how a radical experiment transformed our society and shapes your life.

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Appalled to see this image of Donald Trump and the convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein projected onto Windsor Castle.

Please... for the love of all that is good, do not share it on all your social media channels... because it simply wouldn't be done to remind the world of the association

At least they’ve got over the Mandelson/Epstein issue which ended on Thursday.

What is the EU's new border system EES - and how does it work? The EU's much-delayed Entry/Exit System will change the way UK passengers travel to 29 countries.

New EU border chaos is looming unless ministers act. We need:

Full use of the EU travel app for UK passengers
Fast-track lanes for families & disabled travellers
A clear national info campaign

12 October is weeks away – government must get a grip now

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Memorial re-worded ????

Andrea Jenkyns - The Musical!

I’m rather enjoying my misguided choir experience!

Someone needs to do the dirty work of fluffing Trump on UK’s behalf.

Who better than Mandelson?

Leaves more serious politicians free to deal with reality.

BBC Radio 4 Extra - Radio Active Radio Active is your local national radio station with Angus Deayton and Geoffrey Perkins.

Mason is Martin Brown from BBC’s Radioactive - the UK’s only local national radio station.

www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b...

Nigel Farage uses private company to pay less tax on GB News earnings Exclusive: Reform leader’s use of personal services firm is a practice criticised across the political spectrum

“Farage claimed last year to have “bought a house” in his constituency but the property is actually owned in the name of his partner, meaning he legally avoided higher-rate stamp duty on the purchase of an additional home – given he already owns other properties”

www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Oh well, that’s democracy for you!

They would be overwhelmingly outweighed by the more woke organisations though.

Very interesting. Imagine an amending chamber based on this. Some real experience and expertise.

(Don’t see why trades unions should get two goes via TUC.)