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Love history of art, history, politics, books and beer. Quite like my family too.

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Worcestershir pays PwC ยฃ325,000 for new 'super council' plans - BBC News Consultants were asked to draw up proposals to merge the county's councils into one.

Next time you hear DOGE being mentioned, just realise that Reform UK up and down the country are hiring consultants on tax payerโ€™s money.

Reform UK Authority pays consultants PwC ยฃ325k for new 'super council' plans

www.bbc.com/news/article...

19.11.2025 07:34 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 106    ๐Ÿ” 91    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 11    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1

What about the Saxons?

14.11.2025 16:10 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Oh.

12.11.2025 15:37 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 321    ๐Ÿ” 84    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 24    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Check that your keyboard doesnโ€™t smell of hammers

08.11.2025 09:53 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 6    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Further proof that a rabid right wing press has just as much of a radicalising effect on the older generations. Uncritical youngsters grow into uncritical oldies

07.11.2025 20:00 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Richard Tice getting a very easy time on R4 Today. Justin Webb giving the journalistic equivalent of a back rub.

05.11.2025 08:51 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 4    ๐Ÿ” 3    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1
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Nigel Farage Says Minimum Wage Should Be Cut for Young People The Reform leader said cutting the minimum wage for young people would boost business, as he attacked plans to raise taxes on the wealthy

YOUNG PEOPLE. LISTEN UP.

Today Nigel Farage said the government should cut the minimum wage for young people

...to โ€œraise aspirationโ€ and โ€œboost business"

It's ยฃ10ph FFS!

Lower your pay so youโ€™ll dream bigger

DO YOU SEE IT NOW?

Spread far & wide.

bylinetimes.com/2025/11/03/n...

03.11.2025 14:03 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1633    ๐Ÿ” 953    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 123    ๐Ÿ“Œ 53

Reassuring to read about the philosophers Orr specialises in, as Farage could be described as a โ€˜right Kantโ€™ himself

30.10.2025 15:17 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Danny Kruger, MP
Reform UKโ€™s policy chief.

Eton
Oxford
Centre for Policy Studies
Conservative Policy Unit
Speech Writer for David Cameron
Only Connect
Legatum Institute
Conservative MP

And Reform UK complain about MPs with no experience of the โ€˜real worldโ€™?

29.10.2025 08:20 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 117    ๐Ÿ” 51    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 14    ๐Ÿ“Œ 2
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Wind power has cut ยฃ104bn from UK energy costs since 2010, study finds Reduction comes from energy generated from windfarms and lower cost of gas owing to lower demand

Just as an aside: tell EVERYONE you know about this.

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

28.10.2025 12:36 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 487    ๐Ÿ” 273    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 9    ๐Ÿ“Œ 15

Thank you to @mrjamesob.bsky.social for having me on, one of the v few people in the UK press to follow this story during what is now a decade of media apathy &/or complicity

22.10.2025 15:58 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1583    ๐Ÿ” 615    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 18    ๐Ÿ“Œ 19

Thatโ€™s a toe rag, not a tea towel

22.10.2025 14:59 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

There is no end to the โ€˜depthโ€™ of his thinking.

21.10.2025 17:43 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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NEW: Police knew a Kremlin spy ring recruited former leader of Reform Wales at least 3 years ago.

So why was Nathan Gill not charged till Feb this year?

Pls read part 2 of @thenerve.news special investigation into Nathan Gill. And please share!
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18.10.2025 08:53 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1654    ๐Ÿ” 1004    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 30    ๐Ÿ“Œ 64
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The glamorous TV host, the web of influence and a mysterious trip to Moscow โ€“ inside the downfall of Reformโ€™s disgraced MEP Ahead of a critical Welsh byelection for Reform next week, part two of our investigation into Nathan Gill uncovers the web of Russian influence that encircled him โ€“ and asks why it took so long to cha...

If you share this thread or images, please credit @thenerve_news.

We are only 3 weeks old (!!) & can only do this work with your support.

And if there was ever a story that proves why Britain needs fiercely independent news outlets, itโ€™s this.
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๐Ÿ™๐Ÿ™๐Ÿ™

www.thenerve.news/p/nathan-gil...

18.10.2025 08:53 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 584    ๐Ÿ” 266    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 11    ๐Ÿ“Œ 15
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Luckily, I canโ€™t think of any other authoritarian types with a love of outsized neo-classical architectureโ€ฆ

16.10.2025 17:10 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Luckily, I canโ€™t think of any other authoritarian types with a love of outsized neo-classical architectureโ€ฆ

16.10.2025 17:10 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

๐Ÿ‘‡when he says they are open for business, Farage means he'll take money from anyone. He was after all, paid by Russia between 2010-2017 to be on Russia Today.

12.10.2025 12:57 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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NEW: The British politician, his Russian intelligence handler & a Kremlin plot against the US & Ukraine.

My new piece about Nathan Gill and Nigel Farage for @thenerve_newsย in which we ask:

Why, even now, is no-one asking questions?

t.co/BUTtpK9C4S

12.10.2025 11:29 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2232    ๐Ÿ” 1495    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 68    ๐Ÿ“Œ 78

Martinโ€™s โ€˜analysisโ€™ is as authentic as his hair colour

01.10.2025 18:10 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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60-minute waiting time for non-EU passports at Schiphol Airport immigration! EU gates are empty. I will never forgive the liars Johnson, Farage, Gove, et al, for taking away my freedom.

01.10.2025 17:59 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 40    ๐Ÿ” 7    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Bet heโ€™s shit at Monopoly.

01.10.2025 07:23 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 7    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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For anyone who's published a book. (Source: www.alcs.co.uk/news/the-lat...)

30.09.2025 14:55 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 20    ๐Ÿ” 16    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 2

Is there a reason I ask that the Times are using a picture of asylum seekers in a boat to describe rules for migrants who came on legal routes such as skilled worker visas for doctors?

30.09.2025 06:08 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2338    ๐Ÿ” 627    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 35    ๐Ÿ“Œ 43

Put your hand together for our first act

28.09.2025 10:04 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Elephant in room is that weโ€™ve been invaded by ninjas

19.09.2025 18:30 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

For there to be no comment from the government on Musk's call for violence, let alone action against X, is unconscionable. An utter dereliction of its responsibility for national security and an affront to every member of an ethnic minority, who is being put at risk by this rhetoric.

14.09.2025 09:56 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1361    ๐Ÿ” 420    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 41    ๐Ÿ“Œ 16
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Sign the Petition Urge Nigel Farage to Release His Tax Returns

Urge Nigel Farage to Release His Tax Returns

Sign the Petition.

chng.it/wjQxX9DnWQ

11.09.2025 17:39 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 181    ๐Ÿ” 95    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 11    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1
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Search LibGen, the Pirated-Books Database That Meta Used to Train AI Millions of books and scientific papers are captured in the collectionโ€™s current iteration.

Just a reminder to check for your name in this list of books that OpenAI trained from. If your name is there, they probably owe you several thousand dollars.

OpenAI cried that if everyone eligible author files, the company will go bankrupt, so I'm alerting every author I have ever spoken to.

06.09.2025 06:31 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 11967    ๐Ÿ” 9867    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 226    ๐Ÿ“Œ 743

Oh.

05.09.2025 08:38 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1760    ๐Ÿ” 595    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 148    ๐Ÿ“Œ 25

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