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This is Wiley. He has never seen snow before and wants to make sure he gets a real good look at it. For science. 12/10 (IG: smileywileydog)

–Reform's Route to Power – Byline Times Shop The Scrutiny Gap and Reform UK’s Path to Power Reform UK’s rise is accelerating at the same moment rigorous investigation is retreating. Byline Times can fill that journalistic void – but only with yo...

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Revealed: Reform UK Matt Goodwin's Academic Ties to Rebranded Nazi Eugenics Front Reform's Gorton and Denton candidate, who has said that genetics will expose the "inherent differences between groups" has links to multiple organisations tied to discredited racist pseudoscience

🔴Revealed: Reform UK Matt Goodwin’s Academic Ties to Rebranded Nazi Eugenics Front

Reform’s Gorton and Denton candidate, who has said that genetics will expose the “inherent differences between groups” has links to multiple organisations tied to discredited racist pseudoscience

Reform promises agency to ensure illegal migrant removals The party's new home affairs spokesman Zia Yusuf says it would be a

This is stenography, not news reporting. The BBC ought to provide some context, such as putting the scale of the changes which Reform claim are possible into context. This omits the major policy of revoking ILR and deporting legal migrants at unprecedented scale.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

New Gorton and Denton by-election poll has the Greens in first place Zack Polanski's Greens are ahead of Reform UK in a new by-election poll for Gorton and Denton, with Labour trailing in third place

@zackpolanski.bsky.social's Greens are ahead of Reform UK in a new by-election poll for Gorton and Denton, with Labour trailing in third place

Fact Check:

Nigel Farage claims the FT ignored the Mandelson-Epstein scandal

it was on the front page for SIX days

(long before he appears to have even noticed it)

I happen to know someone who saw Farage at close quarters decades back. Fair to say his opinion of the man is not favourable. Journalists should be asking lots more questions than they are at the moment. About character. About honesty. And about where the money comes from.

cc @camraofficial.bsky.social

Britain Lost 14,000 Third Places. They Were Called Pubs. Is Your Local Next? How private equity reshaped the local and the postcode tool that shows the pubs most at risk.

Amazing analysis of pub closures in the UK, by @laurenleek.eu, and the corporate interests behind them. Some important political and policy implications open.substack.com/pub/laurenle...

Ban rule-breaking peers from the House of Lords. Lords found guilty of serious misconduct – like bullying or lobbying for cash – still get to make our laws. I just signed a petition to kick rule-breaking peers out of the Lords for good. Want to add...

Caught lobbying for cash or bullying in Parliament? You can still return to the House of Lords - for life.
No real consequences. No accountability.
Sign now to kick rule-breakers out for good.
you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/ba...

Nigel Farage says Sir Jim Ratcliffe’s immigration comments were ‘correct’, despite them being demonstrably incorrect and untrue.
But what would we expect from Reform, other than division, hate and lies?

Not sure if Man United owner Jim Ratcliffe will see this being as he literally migrated to Monaco to avoid paying tax in the UK, but we wanted to put this up outside the stadium anyway….

📍 Old Trafford, Matt Busby Way

‘Handmaid’s Tale future’: Reform’s Matt Goodwin sparks outcry with fertility comments Byelection candidate accused of indulging ‘alt right fantasy’ by suggesting women need ‘biological reality’ check

“I long for the days when a midlife crisis for men meant getting a motorbike and a leather jacket, not trying to get elected to indulge alt right fantasies about ensuring women were pregnant as soon as they were fertile and then didn’t go to university"

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

Nigel Farage Advisor Tied to Russian Oil Profits Via Orban-Backed Influence Operation The man in charge of developing Reform's plans for Government sits on the board of an organisation whose funding is tied to Russian oil money

🔴Nigel Farage Advisor Tied to Russian Oil Profits Via Orban-Backed Influence Operation

The man in charge of developing Reform’s plans for Government sits on the board of an organisation whose funding is tied to Russian oil money

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Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social on press failings around the Epstein files @democracynow.org

10th February 2021
A mural depicting the fictitious grocer's shop owned by miserly shopkeeper Arkwright, played by Ronnie Barker in the BBC sitcom 'Open All Hours'.
Picture from my new book 'Cambridge - Light & Shade'. Available at www.cambridgebooks.co.uk/cambridge-li... and all bookshops.

Bannon, Brexit, Johnson and Cambridge Analytica: the Daughter of Time Peter Jukes reports on more revelations about the transatlantic right-wing network, and why the Government is withholding key information on the former Prime Minister’s role

Now more details in the Epstein files reveal Bannon as part of a successful plot to topple Theresa May with Nigel Farage, Boris Johnson and Jacob Rees Mogg, here’s an article from the archive about Johnson and Bannon’s collaboration

bylinetimes.com/2023/04/24/b...

It’s his game

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Churchwarden linked to foreign-born billionaire is behind £200k Reform gift The man whose firm made the donations will not discuss where the money came from, nor his ties to wealthy Farage allies who may not hold citizenship

@gabrielpogrund.bsky.social: ‘EXCL: A churchwarden from Potters Bar who works for family of ultra-secretive Kazakhstan-born billionaire is man behind £200K of donations to Reform UK

John “Bill” Simpson would not discuss the source of funds when reached by phone last week’

‘It’s ridiculous’: publicans bemused by rise of single-file queues to get served Bar owners say they struggle to dissuade people from forming a line as behavioural experts point to post-pandemic ‘new norms’

‘It’s ridiculous’: publicans bemused by rise of single-file queues to get served

Reform UK council leader hit with third code of conduct probe The latest complaint against Councillor George Finch (Reform UK, Bedworth Central) relates to three separate posts shared on Facebook and X

Warwickshire County Council's Reform UK leader George Finch hit with third code of conduct probe

X Posts about London Crime - large growth in number of likes after monetisation introduced

Wowsers look at what happened to posts on Twitter/X about London crime after monetisation of posts was introduced…
economist.com/britain/2026...

I enjoyed reading this column, which somehow blames Keir Starmer for the result of an employment tribunal following laws passed under the Tory government regarding an incident and suspension that took place before the last election.

The Guardian view on deepening poverty in the UK: a catastrophic Tory legacy has cut millions adrift | Editorial Editorial: A new Joseph Rowntree report underlines the corrosive impact of years of anti-welfare rhetoric. A reframing of the debate is urgently needed

“No progress at all was made in reducing overall levels of relative hardship”

Misery caused by Tory austerity and failures of governance; prioritising ruinous ideology over social investment.
Reform wants voters to be angry, but plans more of exactly the same.

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Revealed: Reform UK Crypto Partner's Ties to Pro-Trump Big Tech and Kemi Badenoch Nigel Farage's cryptocurrency partner is tied to Trump-supporting tech firms and senior Conservative figures, reports Nafeez Ahmed

📌 ICYMI — Revealed: Reform UK Crypto Partner’s Ties to Pro-Trump Big Tech and Kemi Badenoch

Nigel Farage's cryptocurrency partner is tied to Trump-supporting tech firms…

https://bylinetimes.com/2026/01/26/revealed-reform-uk-crypto-partners-ties-to-pro-trump-big-tech-and-kemi-badenoch/

Maybe a 'Westminster source' will leak it to Kuenssberg and Peston.

Actually maybe not, they have already served their purpose for him.

I assumed he already was. Same money, similar (increasingly identical) grifters, same contempt for voters.

Infographic: Peter Thiel and detail of Palantir’s contracts with UK government departments, agencies and authorities. Where the amount is unknown, the contract has not been included in the overall £672m+ spend. The bulk of the contracts are post 2018, the Olympics contract dates back to 2012 and some work with unreleased dates could be earlier. Design: Lynsey Irvine

NEW Nerve investigation reveals extent of Palantir's enmeshment in UK state operations

Peter Thiel's surveillance company has deals with government bodies amounting to at least £670m – inc. £15m contract with nuclear weapons agency

By @carolecadwalla.bsky.social Charlie Young & Max Colbert

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