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Professor Stephen Boyd Davis

@stepbd.bsky.social

Professor of Design Research

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β€˜Who will he blame for this?': Five Reform news stories uncovered | LBC
YouTube video by LBC β€˜Who will he blame for this?': Five Reform news stories uncovered | LBC

A shamefully valid exercise.

Henry Riley takes @mrjamesob.bsky.social through five poorly covered stories concerning Nigel Farage's Reform which the media would already have highlighted if it applied the same level of scrutiny to Farage’s party as it does to Labour.
youtu.be/2XkeIZJDwuA?...

12.02.2026 17:23 β€” πŸ‘ 244    πŸ” 88    πŸ’¬ 6    πŸ“Œ 5
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Sources tell Channel 4 News allegations against Dame Romeo were not dismissed Following days of political turmoil and speculation - Sir Chris Wormald is standing down as the head of the Civil Service - after just over a year in the post.

Report says that while Cab Office dismissed the claims against Romeo, the Foreign Office did not. Echoes of my experience in 2019, when Cabinet Office refused to address my ethical concerns about Brexit, but FCO took them seriously. Cab Office has become politicized. www.channel4.com/news/sources...

12.02.2026 20:46 β€” πŸ‘ 69    πŸ” 28    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0
Johnson partied as
pensioners died
alone. Why didn't
Johnson get this
pressure to resign.
Farage appointed a
Russian Agent as the
leader of Reform UK
in Wales. Why doesn't
Farage get this
pressure to resign
The answer is the
Tory Press.

Johnson partied as pensioners died alone. Why didn't Johnson get this pressure to resign. Farage appointed a Russian Agent as the leader of Reform UK in Wales. Why doesn't Farage get this pressure to resign The answer is the Tory Press.

Very good from @verybrexitproblems.bsky.social

12.02.2026 20:52 β€” πŸ‘ 1687    πŸ” 545    πŸ’¬ 40    πŸ“Œ 19
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Elon Musk posted about race almost every day in January Many social media posts by Tesla CEO on his platform are indiscernible from those of white supremacists, say experts

"Whites are a rapidly dying minority,”
Elon Musk posted on 22nd January. The radicalised and radicalising X owner posted about race on 26 days out of 31 in January, the Guardian reveals. His site also invariably protects unlawful racist posts in the UK

www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

12.02.2026 20:32 β€” πŸ‘ 113    πŸ” 42    πŸ’¬ 8    πŸ“Œ 7

Unacceptable.

12.02.2026 21:23 β€” πŸ‘ 22    πŸ” 4    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 1
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Left: President Trump claims to have stopped all wind farms in the USA

Right: As of February 2026, there are 1,378 wind farms in the US generating 158,109 MW, which provides 12% of US electricity consumption

12.02.2026 20:20 β€” πŸ‘ 119    πŸ” 38    πŸ’¬ 10    πŸ“Œ 0
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Elon Musk posted about race almost every day in January Many social media posts by Tesla CEO on his platform are indiscernible from those of white supremacists, say experts

The silence of US elites about this remains stunning & utterly damning.

12.02.2026 20:09 β€” πŸ‘ 871    πŸ” 276    πŸ’¬ 41    πŸ“Œ 32

Chris Mason failing to point out that Ratcliffe's immigration numbers were untruthful

11.02.2026 22:20 β€” πŸ‘ 924    πŸ” 210    πŸ’¬ 75    πŸ“Œ 22
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UK to ban political party donations from foreign-owned companies Government says new legislation will curb overseas interference in elections

Overseas tycoons such as Elon Musk would be barred from giving substantial donations to UK political parties under new legislation to block companies making gifts if they do not have British owners or make sufficient revenue in the country

www.ft.com/content/f4ed...

11.02.2026 22:37 β€” πŸ‘ 655    πŸ” 157    πŸ’¬ 45    πŸ“Œ 35

Radcliffe should remember we immigrants and children of immigrants are here because of British colonisation and make a huge contribution. He moved to Monaco to avoid Β£4bn tax. His club Man U owes everything to migrant players and migrant supporters. He’s an embarrassment to the club and game.

11.02.2026 22:41 β€” πŸ‘ 1217    πŸ” 295    πŸ’¬ 41    πŸ“Œ 5

I've never known anyone who was obsessed with immigration who wasn't an out and out loser and an absolute racist bigot.

I'm saying it because it's simply not said enough.

11.02.2026 22:50 β€” πŸ‘ 1499    πŸ” 304    πŸ’¬ 40    πŸ“Œ 13
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"It is totally inappropriate and against the separations of powers for the DOJ to surveil us as we search the Epstein files. (US Attorney General) Bondi showed up today with a burn book that held a printed search history of exactly what emails I searched." - Rep. Pramila Jayapal (D-WA).

12.02.2026 00:43 β€” πŸ‘ 4701    πŸ” 1780    πŸ’¬ 139    πŸ“Œ 93

This is the second account - the first being in Chicago - of DHS agents mass detaining people and then *sorting them by race*.

12.02.2026 02:26 β€” πŸ‘ 15514    πŸ” 7633    πŸ’¬ 522    πŸ“Œ 291
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Throwback to Pam Bondi’s campaign ad for Florida AG:

β€œI’ll fight to put human trafficking monsters where they belong. Behind bars.”

The ad aged. The internet remembers.

12.02.2026 03:26 β€” πŸ‘ 11946    πŸ” 5230    πŸ’¬ 1105    πŸ“Œ 723

It's almost like being fabulously rich doesn't make you happy or well adjusted. It's almost like it makes you sad and lonely. And leaves you forever casting about for scapegoats to offset your deep self-loathing. Thank you Jim Ratcliffe and Elon Musk for these important life lessons.

12.02.2026 07:51 β€” πŸ‘ 1250    πŸ” 284    πŸ’¬ 84    πŸ“Œ 14

Jim Ratcliffe, himself a migrant to Monaco to avoid paying his fair share of UK tax, and who supported Brexit which has so damaged the British economy, is yet another millionaire oligarch backing the far right to further line his pockets

12.02.2026 08:12 β€” πŸ‘ 460    πŸ” 162    πŸ’¬ 20    πŸ“Œ 6
Screenshot of a home office tweet

Screenshot of a home office tweet

If the PM reckons Jim Ratcliffe should apologise for spreading this exact same lie, should the Home Office apologise too, or? 🀨

12.02.2026 09:29 β€” πŸ‘ 1182    πŸ” 436    πŸ’¬ 64    πŸ“Œ 32

This is really encouraging. It's not too late to stop this.

12.02.2026 11:49 β€” πŸ‘ 637    πŸ” 181    πŸ’¬ 14    πŸ“Œ 1

Not only is this what you would do if you were trying to kill a technology and a company developing it ….

it's what you would do if you were trying to kill *people*.

12.02.2026 17:19 β€” πŸ‘ 6494    πŸ” 2466    πŸ’¬ 376    πŸ“Œ 109
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β€˜America Must Save Britain’ – Byline Times Digital / Print Edition GB News’ new programme broadcast live from Washington DC features climate denial, vaccine misinformation, and non-stop praise for Donald Trump – with the channel’s co-owner telling β€˜MAGA’ politicians that the UK needs rescuing. Josiah Mortimer reports

🟩 Culture/Long Reads β€” β€˜America Must Save Britain’

GB News’ new programme broadcast live from Washington DC features climate denial, vaccine misinformation, and non-stop praise for Donald Trump…

πŸ”— https://subscribe.bylinetimes.com/edition/79/america-must-save-britain/

12.02.2026 15:56 β€” πŸ‘ 40    πŸ” 17    πŸ’¬ 10    πŸ“Œ 3
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How Israel used discriminatory laws to strip Palestinians of citizenship Critics say Israel's move to revoke the citizenship of two Palestinian citizens sets an 'alarming precedent'.

Critics say Israel's move to revoke the citizenship of two Palestinian citizens sets an 'alarming precedent'.

12.02.2026 16:00 β€” πŸ‘ 74    πŸ” 54    πŸ’¬ 6    πŸ“Œ 3

Day after Alex Pretti killing I complained to BBC about presentation of White House statements and evidence as equivalent. Duty of balance doesn’t extend to complicity with clear lies, I said. BBC could and should report WH making false statements as a *fact of the story*. Today I got response …

12.02.2026 15:34 β€” πŸ‘ 1007    πŸ” 282    πŸ’¬ 30    πŸ“Œ 15

Tesco makes nearly Β£4bn profit.

Nearly 50% of its workforce are on Universal Credit, receiving about Β£600m a year.

Why isn't Tesco paying?

12.02.2026 14:30 β€” πŸ‘ 332    πŸ” 134    πŸ’¬ 18    πŸ“Œ 9
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Epstein couldn't stop emailing people about eugenics In the latest files, the trafficker gives it a Silicon Valley–pilled name: "genetic altruism."

I parsed through some of the emails in the Epstein files, and it’s very clear that Epstein was a eugenicist weirdo. Something he very much had in common with the billionaire class Γ  la Elon Musk, Peter Thiel and Donald Trump. New for @motherjones.com.

www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

10.02.2026 20:47 β€” πŸ‘ 1403    πŸ” 533    πŸ’¬ 10    πŸ“Œ 52
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Left: Former Conservative Home Secretary now Reform UK supporter Suella Braverman says we need to leave the ECHR because the ECHR stopped the Rwanda plan

Right: BBC News, "The Conservative's Rwanda plan announced 18 months ago has been ruled unlawful by 5 Justices here at the UK's Supreme Court"

12.02.2026 16:41 β€” πŸ‘ 203    πŸ” 78    πŸ’¬ 18    πŸ“Œ 4
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MISLEADING: A new academic paper by @qmul.bsky.social has attracted significant media attention by claiming that EVs & heat pumps deliver no proven carbon savings in UK ahead of 2030 clean power target - and should therefore be postponed.

Here is why this paper should never have been published.🧡

12.02.2026 15:10 β€” πŸ‘ 91    πŸ” 40    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 5
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Honestly lads make your mind up - and stop trying to use tax to control women’s ovaries ….

12.02.2026 16:51 β€” πŸ‘ 76    πŸ” 22    πŸ’¬ 6    πŸ“Œ 0
His earlier comments to Sky News, external had drawn criticism from Manchester United fan groups. He said: "You can't have an economy with nine million people on benefits and huge levels of immigrants coming in.

"I mean, the UK has been colonised. It's costing too much money. The UK has been colonised by immigrants, really, hasn't it?"

He incorrectly claimed the population of the UK had risen by 12 million to 70 million people in the last five years. The Office for National Statistics estimates it has actually risen from 66.7 million to 69.4 million, an increase of less than three million.

His earlier comments to Sky News, external had drawn criticism from Manchester United fan groups. He said: "You can't have an economy with nine million people on benefits and huge levels of immigrants coming in. "I mean, the UK has been colonised. It's costing too much money. The UK has been colonised by immigrants, really, hasn't it?" He incorrectly claimed the population of the UK had risen by 12 million to 70 million people in the last five years. The Office for National Statistics estimates it has actually risen from 66.7 million to 69.4 million, an increase of less than three million.

Ratcliffe made an "incorrect claim" according to the BBC which is, as always, absolutely feeble when it comes speaking truth to power. No, he made it up you bunch of craven weasels.

12.02.2026 17:01 β€” πŸ‘ 238    πŸ” 61    πŸ’¬ 6    πŸ“Œ 0
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Farage's claims here are straightforward lies (and it's about time the media/press said so)

The correct figures are 160K (0.3%) and 900K (1.5%)

www.gbnews.com/news/video-n...

12.02.2026 17:02 β€” πŸ‘ 482    πŸ” 240    πŸ’¬ 32    πŸ“Œ 16

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