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@paulfulford.bsky.social

Ex-journo with a passion for wine, food and Birmingham City. Left-leaning.

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Farage can now be easily boxed in to a corner where his only ‘defence’ becomes: “Yes I spouted Kremlin propaganda & Putin worship but, unlike Nathan Gill, I didn’t need bribes to do it.”
It is, once again, a question of whether interviewers have the temerity to shut down his whining obfuscations.

22.11.2025 11:04 — 👍 5544    🔁 1694    💬 212    📌 58
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So the line is that he wasn't getting paid for any of this

22.11.2025 17:33 — 👍 1631    🔁 696    💬 151    📌 66
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Nigel Farage urged to root out Reform links to Russia after jailing of Nathan Gill Party’s former leader in Wales admitted taking payments to make statements in favour of Russia

"Nigel Farage urged to root out Reform links to Russia after jailing of Nathan Gill."

What a joke of a headline. The first person Farage would have to root out would be himself. Next would come Arron Banks for his Russian embassy visits and shilling for Putin.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

21.11.2025 21:48 — 👍 172    🔁 73    💬 14    📌 2
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Government, what are you waiting for?

Nathan Gill’s sentencing should be the final wake-up call for Britain to take the threat of Russian interference seriously, says @benbradshaw.bsky.social

21.11.2025 14:48 — 👍 153    🔁 59    💬 2    📌 1
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Nathan Gill, Voloshyn and the Kremlin’s European Network The sentencing of Reform UK's former leader in Wales to ten and a half years in prison should open the door to a broader investigation into the pro-Kremlin network that infiltrated European politics, ...

🔴Nathan Gill, Voloshyn and the Kremlin’s European Network

The sentencing of Reform UK’s former leader in Wales to ten and a half years in prison opens the door to a broader investigation into the pro-Kremlin network infiltrating European politics, reports Peter Jukes
bylinetimes.com/2025/11/21/n...

21.11.2025 13:28 — 👍 211    🔁 116    💬 5    📌 5
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Reform UK’s former Wales leader jailed for taking bribes for pro-Russia speeches Police say Nathan Gill received at least £40,000 while he was an MEP from Oleg Voloshyn, an alleged Russian asset

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

21.11.2025 13:32 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Bori johnson with his hand raised

Bori johnson with his hand raised

"Hands up if you caused 23,000 extra deaths by being a dithering incompetent twat"

20.11.2025 19:14 — 👍 543    🔁 127    💬 16    📌 4
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‘Too little, too late’: damning report condemns UK’s Covid response Report on handling of pandemic contains stinging criticism of ‘toxic and chaotic’ culture inside Boris Johnson’s No 10

www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

20.11.2025 16:27 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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Dinner with Mr Brexit: Bannon’s European Revolution – Planned with Farage, Backed by Epstein Nigel Farage was the figurehead and his partner Laure Ferrari started it. Steve Bannon and convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein were providing almost daily support

New #EpsteinFiles @bylinetimes.bsky.social investigation: how Steve Bannon’s planned “European revolution” ran through Nigel Farage’s network – with convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein quietly helping in the background. 🧵 1/12

19.11.2025 20:54 — 👍 292    🔁 267    💬 15    📌 35
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‘He used to say things like “Hitler was right”’: Farage faces more allegations of racist behaviour at school A former friend and others who were at Dulwich college with the now Reform UK leader speak of his behaviour

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

19.11.2025 19:18 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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Farage’s wholesale denial of detailed racism claims is ‘troubling’, says former extremism adviser Lord Walney expresses concern over Reform leader’s response as Labour calls on Farage to address ‘disturbing’ allegations

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

19.11.2025 11:42 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 1
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Ultra-processed food linked to harm in every major human organ, study finds World’s largest scientific review warns consumption of UPFs poses seismic threat to global health and wellbeing

www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

19.11.2025 08:02 — 👍 0    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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‘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

Some of the people in this article have shared their recollections with me before - but on condition of anonymity. Coming forward now is an act of patriotism. Farage’s claim that it never happened is the opposite.
(Note also the line about pronouncing his name.)
www.theguardian.com/politics/ng-...

18.11.2025 17:01 — 👍 1576    🔁 607    💬 118    📌 44

A fair point

18.11.2025 15:32 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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‘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

www.theguardian.com/politics/ng-...

18.11.2025 15:05 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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Public unaware of the health harms of air pollution, warns Royal College of Physicians News

A new poll commissioned by @rcphysicians.bsky.social shows that the majority of the British public aren't aware of the #Health harms of #AirPollution. We need to see a public awareness campaign from national government.

17.11.2025 17:00 — 👍 11    🔁 9    💬 0    📌 0
Graph showing decline since 2005

Graph showing decline since 2005

There were 93 homicides in London last year: population 9 million

In New York - population 8.5 million - there were
391.

London's homicide figure is 6 times lower than LA, 9 times lower than Miami, 17 times lower than Chicago.

And it's falling year on year despite the population increasing

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Council service cuts and maximum council tax rise 'inevitable', say opposition as budget approaches Cuts to services and the maximum rise in council tax are “inevitable” in Kent, it was warned earlier today.

Running KCC was easy as Reform members sat in Spoons, spouting the slogan “take back control over our borders, our money and our laws”

They promised to cut tax, cut waste & improve services

Since they got in KCC is a shit show Council Tax’s going up, services to be cut & £46 million over budget 🤷🏼‍♂️

13.11.2025 10:18 — 👍 32    🔁 11    💬 1    📌 2
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Glance down at the mud and you will sometimes see beauty.

13.11.2025 10:18 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Spotted in London...

11.11.2025 16:02 — 👍 460    🔁 125    💬 8    📌 3
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Rachel Reeves signals she will break manifesto pledge with Budget tax rises Chancellor hopes to win support from Labour MPs by lifting two-child benefit cap

"Research released this month by economists at the Bank of England, the Bundesbank, King’s College London and the universities of Stanford and Nottingham underscored the economic hit from leaving the EU. Brexit had reduced UK GDP by 6-8%"

on.ft.com/4p1NoHv

11.11.2025 07:08 — 👍 144    🔁 74    💬 7    📌 19
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BBC board member with Tory links ‘led charge’ in systemic bias claims, say insiders Sources say Robbie Gibb amplified criticisms of Trump, Gaza and trans rights coverage, and had ‘a lot of oxygen in the room’

BBC board member with Tory links ‘led charge’ in systemic bias claims, say insiders

11.11.2025 07:49 — 👍 108    🔁 33    💬 9    📌 7
World’s first trillionaire 
Elon Musk
Could have solved world hunger but funded fascists instead.
Bellend.

Tesla's flagship London dealership

World’s first trillionaire Elon Musk Could have solved world hunger but funded fascists instead. Bellend. Tesla's flagship London dealership

Lol

08.11.2025 12:18 — 👍 245    🔁 82    💬 2    📌 0
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Birmingham, you beauty.

08.11.2025 10:19 — 👍 31    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0

Aain the blessed Sam: "The tears of the world are a constant quality. For each one who begins to weep, somewhere else another stops. The same is true of the laugh."
I do hope that equilibrium is true.

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Priorities. [Cartoon by Michael de Adder]

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You're as hard as this quote from Samuel Beckett's Malone Dies: "Let us say before I go any further, that I forgive nobody. I wish them all an atrocious life in the fires of icy hell and in the execrable generations to come."

07.11.2025 18:27 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

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